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HOFFMAN READY
TO ANSWER QUIZ
JERSEY'S GOVERNOR RE
PLIES FRIDAY ON WEN
DEL KIDNAPING
TRENTON, N. J., May 1 (TP).—
Governor Harold G. Hoffman prom
laea to answer eleven questions re
lated to the Paul H. Wendel kidnap
ing case whei. he deliver# a radio
campaign speech tomorrow night.
The question# were asked Hoffman
by bls opponent for a Republican
convention delegate position, Frank
lin W. Fort. In return for the Jer
sey governor's promise to give frank
answers to the questions, Fort’s cam
paign managers promised to advertise
the governor’s address.
Fort's supporters asked the gover
nor to explain just how much he
knew about the Wendel kidnaping be
fore It became public knowledge. Wen
dt*. a disbarred attorney, was snatch
ed from in front of a Manhattan ho
tel. held prisoner for ten days In a
Brooklyn oeUar and forced toi Mgn a
worthless confession to the Lindbergh
murder. ’
tradetreaty makers
STUDY PLEA FOR APPLES
WASHINGTON, May 7 (TP)—Un
cle Sam s Trade -Beaty negotiators
have Senator Pope’s plea for more
consideration of apple exports in fut
ure trade agreements.
The Idaho Senator told State De
partment officials that at present at
least one-sixth of the nation’s apple
production is in excess of the domest
ic demand. New trade agreements,
Pope suggested, would do well to in
clude provisions which would boost
American apple exports.
The Idaho Senator praised the pro
visions of the new reciprocal tariff
agreement signed With France. His
plea for consideration of the apple
industry was pointed mainly at the
pending treaty with England.
COLORADO DRYS
WANT STATE ARID
DENVER, Colo., May 7 (TP) —The
Anti-Saloon League of Colorado is go
ing to wage a vigorous campaign to
tack a prohibition amendment to the
state constitution.
Dry forces in Colorado declared
the voters are flocking to their ban
ners. They say that the real test of
the prohibition group will come to
light when the league presents its
petition before the next general as
sembly.
One dry leader sal£ : “Three years
of repeal have done more to advance
our cause than we could do ourselves.
Our only task is to awaken the peo
ple to the evils in our midst.”
SEMINARY TO BE GIVEN
WILLIAM PENN RELICS
NEW YORK, May 7 (TP)—The
original carriage stone and hitching
post which once stood outside the
Philadelphia home of William Penn
will be presented to officers of the
Friends Seminary today.
The Quaker seminary will celebrate
its 150th anniversary this afternoon
with a pageant at the Stuyvesant
Square School.
Presentation of the William Penn
relics, which once fronted the Penn
home on Letitia Court, Philadelphia
will be made by a student at the
seminary. This student’s great-grand
father obtained possession of the car
riage stone and hitching post when
the Penn mansion was moved from its
original site to Fairmont Park, Phil
adelphia, in 1883 and was set up as
a museum.
“ONLY TWO GENIUSES”
CHICAGO, May 7 (TP).—The au
thor and Chicago University instruc
tor, Thornton Wilder, says the only
two geniuses of the American mo
tion picture industry are Charlie
Chaplin and Walt Disney. Wilder
spoke before Chicago members of
the national honorary society, Phi
Beta Kappa. He declared that Chap
lin, as a phantomime artist, and Dis
ney, as the creator of “Mickey
Mckise,” are the only one® who truly
sa M sfv American movie patrons.
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General Eleazar Lopez Contreras,
who has served as provisional
ehief executive of Venezuela
{since last December, remains in
administrative control of the
South American nation by action
of the national congress which
elected him president recently by
a vote of 132 to 1. He succeeds
.the late dictator, Juan Vincent
-■-TL Gomez.
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That's oil on the ground above, oil from a
quarter-of-a mile away. (The well can be seen
in the background.) The scene was taken near
Beaumont, Tex., following a nocturnal explo-
THIS IS WHERE KARPF WAS SEIZED BY G-MEN
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It was in front of this apartment building in
New Orleans that the lc»rg-hunted Alvin Karpis,
public enemy No. 1, was seized by federal agents
under the personal supervision of J. Edgar Hoo
ver, chief of the U. S. Department of Justice.
Karpis, together with Fred Hvnter, wanted in
CONFISCATED SLOT MACHINES
WHITE ELEPHANTS TO POLICE;
POSTERITY TO INHERIT THEM
(By Jack McQuade)
Savannah’s next capatin of police
is going to inherit somethng else be
sides the job of keeping the public
peace intact.
It will be the problem of just what
to do with some 30 odd slot machines
—or “one armed bandits” as the folks
down Florida way term them.
It was not quite three years ago
that the shadow of “the law” fell
across the doorways of a number of
Savannah business establishments.
The officers were ordered to sieze the
gambling slot machines therein. They
did. The whirling cylinders in the
gaily painted devices stopped forever
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America interest is focused again on lighter-than
air craft as Germany’s new giant Zeppelin, the
Hindenburg, makes its first round-trip flight from
Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst, N. J., with mail and
> sion of the (Menn H. McCarthy Longe No. 1
well which blew in a gaseer and lighted up the
area for 20 miles. \
—Central Press.
connection with a Garrettsville, 0. mail train rob
bery, and a girl known as <‘Ruth,” were grabbed
by G-men without any trouble as they emerged
from this apartment house. Karpis is being held
m St. Paul where he faces trial for the abduction
of William B. Hamm, Jr. —Central Press.
in machine after machine as the law
law took its course.
At police headquarters the slot ma
chines were stuffed into a store room
on the first floor of the “Red Build
ing” as the police structure just
across te sidewalk from the station
house is known to officers. Time
went by. The store room became
cluttered up with various other odds
end ends.
The gambling machines were more
or less forgotten until about a year
tgo. Then Capt. John J. Clancy de
cided the store room needed a clean
ing out to put it in ship-shape order.
He wanted to have the money vend-
passengers. A general view of the mammoth air
ship is shown above, with a picture of the dining
room and one of its four twelve-hundred horse
power engines. •
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1930
ing devices destroyed to get them out
of the way. When he asked for au
tority, however, he was informed it
was against the law to destroy the
30-odd “white elephants.” It seems
the police department can’t give ’em
away, can’t sell ’em and can’t destroy
’em.
“I suppose I'll just have to keep
those darn things and turn them off
over to my successor,” said the cap
tain today.
MEXICAN PRESIDENT RECOVERS
MEXICO CITY, May 7 (TP).—
Physician* of the president of Mexico,
Lazaro Cardenas, reported today that
the executive is making a fast recovery
from his recent operation.
President Cardenas was rushed to
a Mexico City hospital fr an erner
?cncy appendicitis operation. His doc
or* said the president’s excellent
physical condition is largely responsi
ble for hi* speedy recovery.
FIGURES IN WENDEL ABDUCTION
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Murray Bleefeld and His Wife.
Murray Bleefeld, reputedly one of the abductors of Paul
H. Wendel, is pictured with his wife, also linked in the abduc
tion, in the office of District Attorney Wiliam F. X. Geoghan in
Brooklyn, N. Y., following his surrender in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Bleefeld pleaded not guilty to the abduction and was held in $50,-
000 bail. He was sent to Queens county jail to keep him apart
from Harry Weiss, another of the abductors and “because he
feeds safer in jail,” according to Geoghan. Blee.feld named Ellis
Parker, Sr., as the prime mover in the plot to force Wendel to
confess to the Lindbergh kidnaping. '
—Central Press.
Hits Airing of Games
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Commissioner Landis
In a ruling at Chicago which
was seen as a forerunner of a
move to take the play-by-play
description of baseball off the
air, Commissioner Kenesaw M.
Landis, above, high czar of
baseball, ordered all clubs to
refrain from making additional
contracts with radio stati ns.
Landis’ ruling resulted from a
complaint by W. G. Branham,
president of the National Asso
ciation of Professimal Baseball
Clubs, a minor league group,
that the broadcasting of major
league games was cutting down
attendance at minor league ball
parks.
—Central Press.
Heads Ohio College
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Algo D. Henderson
Algo D. Henderson, who has
been acting head of Antioch
College at Yellow Springs, 0..
for the last three years, becomes
permanent president of the in
stitution following action of
board of directors accepting the
resignation of Dr. Arthur E.
Morgt»i. Dr. Morgan has been
on leave since he accepted the
post of TVA chairman under
he New Deal three years ago.
Central Puess.
ALLEN TO ADDRESS
CHEMISTS AT MEET
J. H. Allen, general manager of
the Union Bag and Paper Corpora
tion, will address the meeting of
chemists and chemical engineers to
be held at the Armstrong Junior col
lege tomorrow night at 8 o’clock. Mr.
Allen will speak on the future of the
pulp paper industry in the South.
F. M. Hawes, professor of chemistry
who was formerly a member of the
faculty of Georgia Tech, is in charge
of the meeting and has invited 60
people interested in chemistry to at
tend.
Entertainment will be furnished by
the student body. The girls of the
Domestic Science department will
ierve refreshments after the session.
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American Legion Post Busy;
New Quarters To Open In City
CHATHAM COUNTY VETS
WILL PLAY HOST AT
DANCE TOMORROW
Tomorrow night at 8:30 the Chat
ham American Legion Post will hold
a formal grand opening of its new
quarters at Bull and Broughton
streets .
The new Legion home occupies the
old offices of the Chamber of Com
merce which have been completely
renovated. A spacious dance floor
has been installed and the large rooms
adjoining have been tastefully fur
nished for reading and recreation.
The Legion quarters occupy the en
tire second floor whle the third floor
will soon be renovated to house the
Ladies Auxiliary. Mayor Thomas
Gamble and Capt. Charles D. Russell
will speak.
After the formalities of the opening
speeches and a short meeting the Le
gionnaires will have a gala dance in
celebration of their moving into the
new home. The quarters will be deco
rated in the colors of the Legion, blue
and gold. The dance will begin at 9
and will be a cabaret affair.
Major John Fawcett is the chair
man of the joint committee on ar
rangements and first Vice Comman
der, W. E. Sinclair is chairman of
the dance committee.
The Legion quarters will be open
to members from 11 a.m. until 12
midnight.
by Hig
THESE clock-watchers and
whistle-listeners make me sick—
always so anxious to stop work
ing. Yesterday, Julie fractured
her elbow trying to be the first
one into the elevator!
PAGE FIVE
SAVANNAH BOYS NAME
MORRIS HOROVITZ FOR
COMMANDER
Morris Horovitz has been nominat
ed for the office of commander of the
Savannah Post No. 135, American Le
gion it is reported by M. Z. Bower,
chairman of the nominating commit
tee for the selection of officers, at the
legion meeting last night at the Ho
tel Savannah. Sandford P. Butler,
commander, presided.
Charles L. Duke was named for the
post of first vice commander; Jesse
Usher, second vice commander; and
H. J. Oppenheim, sergeant-at-arms.
All of the selections were approved
by the post and these men will be
formally elected to the new positions
at the next meeting to be held in
June.
George T. Barnes, C. T. Morgan,
James Poe, Dr. G. E. Egloff, Julius
Kahn, and M. Z. Brower were elect
ed to the executive committee. The
executive committee is comprised of
12 members, the remaining six to be
chosen by the new commander after
his election in June.
A committee to make arrangements
for buying a new home for the post
was appointed at the meeting and is
composed of the following: Furman
King chairman: Julius Kahn, treas
urer; H. J. Oppenheim, secretary;
George T. Barnes, T. J. Atkinson, E.
E. Wood, R. P. Crowder, Dave Fried
man, C. T .Morgan, M. Z. Bnawer,
Jesse Usher, Charles L. Dikes, Arthur
F. Comer, Morris Horovitz, Dr. G. E.
Egloff. Canford P. Butler, A. C. Roil
son, Steve Kutchey, James Poe, Hy
man Perlman, W. B. Sutton, Paul
Cohen and Jack Moody.
A boat ride was planned for a fu
ture date for the purpose of raising
funds to defray the expenses of send
ing the band to the state convention
in Athens which will be held early
in June .
sewelTelected
EAGLES PRESIDENT
Dr. G. E. Sewell was elected worthy
president of Savannah Aerie No. 330
Fraternal Order of Eagles at its an
nual meeting last night at the Eagles
Hal on Drayton street. J. L. Cole is
the retiring president, and automati
cally becomes junior worthy vice pres
ident.
Nathan B. Marcus was elected
worthy vice president, and the follow
ing officers were also-chosen: R. M.
Sieg, worthy chaplain; C. F.
Schraupp, secretary; John Ohsiek,
Sr., treasurer; R. A. Robinson, worthy
conductor; M. J. Bettencourt, inside
guard; L. A. Harkness, outside guard;
Frank Dressier, W. J. Fitzpatrick, and
Leon S. Liebrles, trustees; and Dr.
Leonard J. Rabhan, physician.
The new officers will be installed
on June 3. The order announced
that a dance will be given tonight at
the hall.