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VOLUME 2—NUMBER 111
“G” MEN MOVE TO WIPE OUT GANGLAND
Italians Prepare To Exploit
Conquered African Dominion;
Await Only Word From Duce
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ROME, May 8 (TP).—ltaly waited impatiently today for
Premier Mussolini’s official announcement concerning the Fascist
naticn’s future course in Ethiopia.
The Black Shirt dictator has set tomorrow night as the time
for what is expected to be an important announcement. After a
session of the Fascist Grand Council, Mussolini will step out onto
a balcony of the Plazzo Venezia and tell Italy and the world what
he plans to do with the conquered African nation.
Few believe that Mussolini will stop short of proclaiming
the official annexation of Ethiopia as a part of Italy and the
establishment of an Italian empire to replace the Italian king
dom. Hopeful French and British suggestions that Italy assume a
mere protectorate over Ethiopia met with scornful criticism in
the Italian capital today.
Italian bankers said today that the
government might form a company to
develop the resources of Ethiopia.
They jaid that it was improbable
that the government would seek direct
loans abroad to build up the conquer
ed land. A colonial company, alon?
the lines of the old East India Com
pany is planned.
This company would offer its se
curity abroad, to get money to fi
nance its work.
Word from Addis Ababa says that
foreign ministers in Ethiopia will be
permitted to stay in Ethiopia, at least
for the time. In the "Mt, it has
b:*.i customary for a conquering na-
ANTHRACITE MEN
JUBILANT OVER
NEW CONTRACTS
WIN 7-HOUR DAY AND 5-
DAY WEEK; NO SAL
ARY CUTS
NEW YRK, May 8 (TP).—Anthra
cite coal miners were jubilant today
as they looked over the terms of
their new contracts.
The new two-year agreement- ar
rang’d after lengthy negotlaffltTOT»- f
tween mine union chiefs and anthra
cite operators at New York, call for
a seven-hour day and a five-day wesk.
Dally wage rates are held at the same
level As paid the miners for a fort”,
eight-hour week.
The thirty-five hour week demands
proved the biggest bone of conten
tion in the negotiations of new con
tracts and the final result of the New
York conference is labelled a union
victory. Mine leaders maintained ths
shorter week was necessary to re-em
ploy some of the 30,000 anthracite
miners reported still out of work.
Although the new contracts are
subj ct to ratification by both the
miners and mine operators, few doub
that the-’ woll go through. The agree
ment ends the threat of a strike
which. If it had been called, would
have taken more than 100,000 hard
coal miners out of the pits.
HUGHES~SETS MONDAY
FOR AIR RECORD DASH
CHICAGO, May 8 (TP).—Speed
Flier Howard Hughes plans to make
his airplane dash from Chicago to
New York on Monday.
The Movie producer hoped to at
tempt a new record yesterday, but
business held him in Detroit. He
said today that he will spend the
week-end tuning up his specially
made plane which already has hung
tp new marks to New York from the
west coast and Miami.
AUTO MANUFACTURERS
REPORT BIGGEST BOOM
SINCE 1929 PEAK DAYS
NEW YORK, May 8 (TP).—Auto
mobile manufacturers reported their
business booming today They said
they shipped more cars and trucks
during the month of April than they
have in any month since May, 1929.
The report of the Auto Manufactur
ers’ Association set the car and truck
shipments last month at 388,000.
April shplments represent a 19 per
cent Increase over the preceding
month and a 26 per cent increase
over April of last year
JAPANESE WARSHIPS
ON WAY FOR U. S. VISIT
BALTIMORE, May 8 (TP).—Two
Japanese warships are on their way
to Baltimore today for a five-day visit.
The training ships—the Yakumo
and the Iwate—are scheduled to ar
rive at Baltimore on Aug. 18 after a
stop at Seattle, Washington and Hav
ana The shps, under the command
of Vice Admiral Zengo Yoshida, will
go from Baltimore to New York and
then back to Japan byway of Hono
lulu.
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tion to request the withdrawal of all
foreign envoys until organization of
the new government is complete.
Seyoum Surrenders
ASMARA, Eritrea, May 8 (TP).—
Italian military authorities announced
today that Prince Seyoum, one of
Emperor Haile Selassie’s strongest
aides, has ."rrendared to the B'lar':
Shirts.
It was Seyoum who led the north
em Ethiopian army in the battles
which for weeks htld up the Italian
adva..ce.
HAIFA, Palestine, May 8 (TP).—
Emperor Haile Selassie reached Haifa
today aboard a British The
Ethiopian monarch’s entourage in
cluded 100 metal boxes, believed to
contain a fortune In gold.
Full military honors were accorded
the fleeing King by a British mill
tar- detachment which greeted him.
The Ethiopian Empress, obviously ill,
walked down the gangplank of the
worship on the arm of her court phy
sician.
AMARILLOVISITED
BY A $500,000 FIRE
BLAST PRECEDED BLAZE
IN TEXAS CITY FIRE
MEN ARE TOLD
ARMARILLO. Texas. May 8 (TP).
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figfctWg' reports that an rxplo-ic/j
canned a disastrous fire which swept
the heart of Armarillo’s industrial
district.
Property worth $500,000 was de
stroyed in the flaihes which consum
ed two big buildings and threatened
to level the entire Texas city until a
shift in the wind lessened the danger
of a holocaust.
The blaze was discovered in a sash
and door plant and quickly jumoad
to a warehouse In which federal re
lief supplies were stored. One fire
man, Austin Williams, was killed when
he was buried by a fallin? wall. Sev
eral others were injured or overcome
by the thick smoke that billowed from
the burning buildings.
Witnesses said a dull, booming ex
plosion thundered out a minute be
fore flames leaped from virtually every
window and door of the woodworking
plant. Police discounted rumors that
a bomb had started the conflagra
tion.
Federal relief officials placed their
loss in supplies at more than $150,-
000. No needy families in Amarillo
will suffer by the blaze, they added.
The fire was labelled the worst in
Amarillo’s history, and the first in
which a city fireman had been killed.
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When Mussolini announced that
“Ethiopia is Italian/’ the credit for
the victory went to Marshal Pietro
Badoglio. This latest picture of the
Italian commander was taken short
ly before the final victorious drive
on Addis Ababa.
(Central Press)
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At the lower right is a map of the projected flight of the new giant
Zeppelin Hindenburg on her first trip to North America. The ship
will fly over New York, Philadelphia and Washington, and will moor at
the air base at Lakehurst, N. J. The new ship is shown at the upper right. |
WORRIED BRITAIN DEMANDS TO KNOW
GERMAN FEUHRER’S STAND ON PEACE
“VON HINDENBURG” WILL SOAR
OVER GOTHAM SPIRES TONIGHT
PEPPERMINT‘BOMB’
MAILER IS NABBED
HARVARD FRESHMAN AD
MITS MAILING MACHINE
TO CURLEY
BOSTON, May 8 (TP) —A 19-
year-old Harvard freshman has
confessed today that Governor
Curley’s latest “bomb” had no
political implications. It just
started from a campus grudge.
Governor Curley received his
third fake bomb last night. This
one was filled with peppermint
candy, a broken alarm clock and
some odds and ends. There was
also a notation, “Your Time Has
Come, Brave Man!”
The police went loking for the
fake “bomb” sender, since there
was a return address on the
package. They found George
David, Harvard freshman of Buf
falo, N. Y. Just when they were
ready to arrest him, anoher Har
vard student, Leonard Farmer of
Amherst, Mass., confessed that
he put Davis’ name on the pack
age. Young Farme rsaid Davis
Jiad played a practical joke on
Trim, and that he just wanted to
get even. State police intimated
they were inclined to regard the
affair as a boyish prank. College
authorities will take it up next
Tuesday, and they may see it in
a different light.
Farmer said that sending the
peppermint bomb seemed like a
good idea at the time.
RUMANIANS ARE AROUSED
OVER POWER OF MA
DAM* LUSPECU
BUCHREST, May 8 (TP)—Political
passion is running high among stu
dents in Rumania today over the pol
itical staus of King Carols friend,
Madame Luspecu.
Rightwing students in high schools
and universities throughout the coun
try went on strike to protest the pow
er which they say the red-eaded wo
man wields in affairs of state. The
Rumanian government has arrested
a dozen young leaders of student pro
test.
Today the scholars came right
back with the announcement that
they will boycott all lectures at high
schools and colleges in Rumania un
fl their friends are released.
Bucharest ’University student® par
aded through the streets demanding
that King Carol break away from
the influence of Madame Luspecu.
They demonstration was broken up
by police.
SAVANNAH, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1936
NEW YORK, May 8 (TP)—Offic
ers in the pilot house of the giant
Dirigible “Von Hindenburg” hope to
bring their big Zeppelin over New
York’s skyscrapers some time tonight.
Despite a storm which threatened,
for a while, to cut down the huge
airship’s speed, the “Von Hinden
burg” is averaging better than 80-
miles an hour pow. Dr. Hugo Eckener
and Capt. Ernst Lehman, command
ers of the Dirigible, reported that it
is possible that the biggest airship
afloat will reach its Lakehurst, N. J.,
mooring mast early tomorrow morn
ing.
The “Von Hindenburg’s” passengers
and crew will be given a royal wel
come when the big Zeppelin noses
towards the ground at Lakehurst.
Federal officials, including many per
sonages high in the ranks of the
naval and army air force, will be on
hand to greet Dr. Eckener and Leh
man. Thousands of sight-seers are
also expected to crown the sidelines
of the flying field when the “Von
Hindenburg” comes in.
OFF CAPE RACE
The great Zeppelin is nearing
American waters today on her flight
from Germany to New York.
At 8 : 00 a. m., E.D.T., the airship
was 250-miles southeast of Cape
Race, Newfoundland. Her command
er reported by wirerp that the ocean
beneath was studdeef with giant ice
bergs., The weather! was fair but
chilly.
TEXTILE “NRA” BILL
W 0 R K IS SPEEDED
MOVE MADE TO PUSH ACT
THROUGH CONGRESS BE
FORE ADJOURNMENT
WASHINGTON, May 8 (TP).
Chairmen Connery of the House labor
committee made it clear today that
he plans to try to push the Ellen bog.
en textile bill through Congress be
fore adjournment. The Massachu
setts congressman said he would ask
the rules commitee for an immediate
rule to bring the measure onto tb-e
house floor.
The Ellenbogen bill would set up
a “little NRA” to regulate working
hours, wages, and trade practices in
the textile industry, it has drawn
both support and opposition already.
Representative Keller of Illinois said
the legislation is imperative to avoid
chaos in the textile Industry, Repre
sentative Hartpey of New Jersey says
the proposal is unconstitutional.
Vice President Francis Gon”an of
the United Textile Workers he
would do everything in his power to
put out of office “any man who does
not definitely support the bill”
At the left (top) is Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander, and under him Capt»
Ernst Lehmann, executive officer. In the center, below, is an air view of
Lakehurst, with the Navy dirigible Akron just out of the hangar, taken
when that airship made her first trip east. (Central 1 ress)
UGH!
TUSOOLA, 111., May 8 (TP).—
The driver of an automobile
'hich crashed into another car
insisted that he wasn't intoxi
cated.
Hubert Price admitted in court
that his car rammed into an
other. But he said he wag per
fectly sober when it happened.
Said Price:
“I suppose I acted groggy after
the accident, but I was really
sick. The shock caused me to
swallow my chewing tobacco.”
The judge sympathized with
Price, bub’ordered him to pay a
SIOO fine.
POOR BOX ROBBERS
FOILED BY PRIEST
PORT CHESTER, N. Y., May 8
(TP)—An inventive priest is credited
today with the capture of two men
whom police accuse of robbing church
poor-boxes.
The priest, the Reverend John Gad
zicki, of the Sacret Heart of Jesus
Church, grew suspicious when the
poor-box contributions dwindled
steadily. Suspecting that greedy fin
gers were dipping into the charity
funds. Father Gadzicki rigged up an
electical arrangement, fixed to ring
an alarm when anyone tampered
with the poor-box.
When the alarm rang, the priest
grabbed a toy pistol, and ran to the
church in time to surprise Julius T&g
llagambe and Americo Gazzagli at the
poor-box. Both young prowlers were
held at the pc a t of the toy pistol
until police ar. ,ved.
HOFFMAN ON AIR
JERSEY GOVERNOR TO AN
SWER WENDEL SNATCH
QUESTIONS TONIGHT
TRENTON, N. J., May 8 (TP).—
Republican primary voters in Jersey
will tune in their radios tonight to
hear Governor Harold Hoffman an
swer questions hurled at him by his
political foes. The New Jersey ex
ecutive will speak over station WOR
it 9:30 pm.
Hoffman has promised to reply to
a series of questions advanced by his
opponent for the position of delegate
at large to the Republican national
convention. Franklin Fort. The ques
tions deal with the kidnaping of Paul
Wendel and ask the governor to ex
plain his part in the weird case.
Brooklyn authorities hint that Gov
ernor Hoffman knew of and did noth
ing to hinder the kidnaping of Wen
del which resulted in the disbarred
attorney’s spurious confession to the
Lindbergh murder.
Hoffman has said that he would
not permit the extradition of Ellis
Parker, Burlington county detec
tive, to Brooklyn if authorities inves
tigating the Wendel case indict the
county detective. Parker is accused
by Brooklyn authorities of planning
the Wendel kidnaping.
WANTS TO KNOW
IF RUSSIA MAY
BE CONSIDERED
FULL QUESTIONNAIRE SUB
MITTED CHANCELLOR
BY GOVERNMENT
BERLIN, May 8 (TP).-The
British government wants to
know whether Chancellor Hitler
of Germany bars Soviet Russia
from his proposals for tiew Eu
ropean peace pacts.
The British have sent Hitler
detailed questions on just how
far he will go toward making
international peace placis. The
questionnaire was sent from
London after Hitler proposed
complete revision of peace trea
ties between European powers.
Britain and France considered
that the chancellor’s sugges
tions were too vague a».id asked
clarification of many points.
The Britishr questionnaire was
published today.
Hitler failed to mention Russia
at all when he offered his new peace
plans. The German leader made the
peace offers at the time that he sent
his troops to the Rhine zone.
The British note suggested that
peace in Europe would be more se
cure if Hitler agrees to include Rus
sia, Latvia and Estqpia in the pro
posed peace pacts. Many experts
have accused Germany of ambitions
to expand toward the east. The Brit
ish questionnaire also asked Hitler
for a clear declaration that the new
treaties would be genuine. He was in
violation of the Locarno and Versai
lles treaties, signed by Germany, when
he remilitarized the Rhineland.
World diplomats await Hitler’s ans
wers with bated breath. France, Brit
ain and Belgium, along with the rest
of Europe, are vitally concerned.
The German leader is expected to
deliberate carefully and long on his
reply it was reported today that he
will take tahe British questions with
nim to liis Bavarian Mountain re
treat for several weeks of study. Hit
ler has gone to the quiet Bavarian
section before when he was faced
•Mtli a problem of tremendous weight.
TWO SUITS FILED
Two suits involving $15,000 in in
aJJcL? laims were file d In Federal
ru’t V hls > mo ™ nR on transfers from
City Court. The Cortez Cigar Com
hs*l3 in both of the suits
d -ltendants being the Fidelity-
Ptonix Fire Insurance Company of
New York, and the Hartford Fire In
surance Company. Beth insurance
companies have refused to accept 11a
bility for a fire on December 21, 1935,
in which a plant of the cigar comoanv
at Key West, Fla., was destroyed.
Capture Os Stoll Kidnaper
To Make Slate Clean Os U. S.
Prominent Public Enemies
(By Transradio Press.)
With three leading public enemies safely behind bars today,
federal agents set out to wipe the slate clean with the capture of
The • as H. Robinson, Jr.
Rob nson is the young man who kidnaped Mrs. Alice Speed
Stoll of Louisville, Ky., in October, 1934. The capture of Alvin
Karpis, William Mahan and Harry Campbell leaves Robinson
the holder of the dangerous title: “Public Enemy No. 1/*
Karpis and his side-kick, Campbell, are in St. Paul to await
trial on charges of kidnaping the wealthy brewer-banker, Ed
ward G. Bremer. Mahan is under the guard of a federal mar
shal at Seattle. He is in Tacoma, where he must face charges
of kidnap.Vig nine-year-old George Weyerhauser last May.
Mahan probably will be arranged
before Federal Judge E. E. Cushman
this morning. Federal agents expect
the alleged Weyerhavser kidnaper to
plead guilty. If this occurs, Judge
Cushman will immediately sentence
the captured fugitive
Although they bore the uncompli
mentary titles of the “three toughest
criminals in America,” Karpis, Ma
han and Campbell were captured
without a shot being fired.
Karpis flung his hands toward the
sky when s “G” men, led by J. Edgar
Hoover ,head of the justice depart
ment’ sbureau of investigation, step
ped up to him in New Orleans. Camp
bell .surrendered without a murmum
when federal agents, again led by
Hoover, raided a Toledo apartment.
Mahan followed suit in San Francis
co when a squad of agents tracked
him down in the west coast city after
a long hunt.
Silent About Mahan
Sew details of the Mahan capture
wtf*ie given out by Hoover’s office. It
wu.) announced that some of the bills
handed over in the $200,000 ransom
payment w’hich freed the Weyerhau
ser boy wer found on Mahan. “G”
men said an effort had been made
to change the serial numbers on the
bills Mahan was immediately rushed
to a chartered plane which headed
for the state of Washington. At Se
attle, the prisoner was given over to
the custody of U. S. Marshal Chitty.
With police interest focussed on
Robinson, it was recalled that the
young man, an apt female imperson
ator, fled with the $50,000 ransom
paid for Mrs. Stoll’s release at In
dianapolis, although reported seen in
virtual..ly every part of the country
since his escape, Robinson has evad
ed police traps set for hmi.
“G” men are confident that, soon
er or later, Robinson will join the
others as an ex-public enemy.
“It may be today and it may be a
year from today,” said one agent,
“but they all get their’s when the
time comes.”
Mother Pleads
DAVIDSON, Okla., May 8 (TP).—
The name Hamm came up again to
day in the career of Gangster Alvin
Karpis.
The desperado is held in St. Paul
on charges of kidnaping William
Hamm, Jr., and holding him for
SIOO,OOO ransom.
From Davidson, came a mother’s
plea today for the return of a wom
an found with Karpis when G-men
captured him in New Orleans- last
F. D. R.’s Secretary?
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Stanley H. High
Stanley H. High, former edi
tor of the Christian Herald, is
being mentioned for the post of
private secretary to President
Roosevelt to succeed the late
Louis McHenry Howe. High,
41 years old and founder of
‘Good Neighbor League,” has
had a desk in the Democratic
national headquarters in Wash
»'gton and is said to have con
tributed editorial assistance to
the last two speeches broadcast
by President Roosevelt.
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week. The woman’s name is Mrs.
John Hamm She says the girl, who
federal men know as Ruth Robinson,
is her daughter. s
The woman was released after
hours of questioning' by the federal
men. She has not said whether she
will return to her Oklahoma Home.
Mahan Be Arraigned
TACOMA, Wash., May 8 (TP).—
“Scarface Bill’’ Mahan awaits ar
raignment today on an indictment
that charges him with the kidnaping
of George Weyerha euser. The fugi
tive was hustled back to TtZoma by
G-men a few hours after his capture
Thursday in San Francisco. The
agents found $7,000 of the Weyer
haeuser ransom money in Mahan’s
pockets. They said an attempt had
been made to alter the serial num
bers.
Harmon and Margaret Waley and
their confederate got $200,000 from
little George Weyerhaeuser’s family.
The Waleys are serving long prison
terms. The department of Justice
means to help prove that Mahan was
the “brains” of the “snatching” and
to insist that he be put behnd bars
for life.
TRIBUNAL DECIDE
ON DICTATORSHIP
FIGHT SATURDAY
SIX JUDGES RULE WHETH-
ER DANIEL GETS STATE
FUNDS
(Special to The Daily Times)
ATLANTA, May B—A six-judge
tribunal is expected Saturday to de
cide on whether Atlanta banks shall
pay over to De Facto State Treasurer
J. T Daniel seme three million dol
lars of state funds now held in their
vaults.
The judges have been called into
consultation Saturday morning and
the decision is expected to be han
ded down during the . afternoon
Judges who heard the case appealed
from the Fulton Superior court are
Judges Gordon Knox, of Hariehurst;
M. D. Dickerson, of Douglas; Eschol
Graham, Mcßae; John Rourke, Sa
vanah ,and Supreme Court Justices
Marcus W Beck and Johns B. Hutche
son.
Hearing on an injunction granted
by Judge Claude Porter at Rome re
straining Daniel from disbursing oil
and gas tax money other than as pre
scribed by law is scheduled for Mon
day week. An appeal on the deci
sion of Judge Lee Wyatt, of Troup
Superior dismissing injunction pro
ceedings filed by a Steve Nance, pres
ident of the Georgia Federation of
Labor, against Daniel is also expect
e dto be heard by the State Court of
Appeals Monday, May 18.
Cops Think Woman
Sold Blessings
NEW YORK, May 8 (TP). —Break-
l;~t detectives are shuffling throigrh
a mass of papers today in an effort
to learn the details of Miss Mary
Berd’s lucrative donations business.
Miss Bird, according to authorities,
was arrested when she offered the
’blessing of a rabbi, described as her
employer, to a Jewish mother for S2OO.
Police say a glance at Miss Berd’s
accounts Indicate that the so-called
I a ??A s * cr - tary has handled more than
$2,000,000 during the past ten years.
Authorities believe most of this money
was given Miss Berd by impoverished
Jewish people- in return for blessings
from the rabbi.
The woman, released on bail after
arraignment on grand larceny charges
denied indignantly that her work was
outside the law She maintained the
money she received was turned <M< .
to needy families and Jewish charities.
VOLIVASEER of ZION,
PREDICTS ON ETHIOPIA
ZION, Illinois, May 8 (TP>.—The
famous religious overseer of Zion,
Wilbur Glenn Voliva, today forecasts
events of the next few months in the
light of Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia.
His source of inofrmation, he said,
was the scriptures. ,
The man who claims the world is
flit predicts that the League of Na
tions will shortly be re-modeled be
cause of its failure in the crisis. V>-
iva thinks Mussolini will dictate
terms of thenew covenant.
Voliva says he knew Ethiopia
would be defeated. He cites the
thirtieth chapter of Ezekiel, verses
four, five and six:
It says—“ And great pain shau M
in Ethiopia”