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WEATHER Fair Tc».iight and Tomorrow; No Change in *3mp2rature. MARKETS Leaders Decline; Wheat Drops; Cotton Mixed. VOLUME 2—NUMBER 111 “G” MEN MOVE TO WIPE OUT GANGLAND Italians Prepare To Exploit Conquered African Dominion; Await Only Word From Duce f 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. IF YOU FAIL TO RE CEIVE YOUR PAPER, CALL CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 6183 —AND ONE WILL BE SENT IMMEDIATELY. § nuannWOfflflilii Tinies 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). . aif iciaL. 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 $150,- 000. No needy families in Amarillo will suffer by the blaze, they added. The fire was labelled the worst in Amarillo’s history, and the first in which a city fireman had been killed. Conqueror! Tirr ’* T_SiMgWt. s jg' «gx >: "’•'J : ? -XQr I ' ' z l , «: j&*> s ■■ ■ ■ jW > l ‘®rag!r w&sh ; ; /' 5" 'W* ■ <—■ I • I■ .#? ’* |i " « aso' ' ■ - W 1 JJiff..™ L7 J .’$ / ■■. , 1 i f : ? .. fl.' f- \ ' I' 'djf s ' j.. ■’’■■ ■ " 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) Where the Giant Hindenburg Will Say Hello to America! —————————— y • yorks<X ft g graft PHiLAOELpH/Afr f ■ /W // As - - --- --W 'I H ‘V- * u 'AS|iINGTONj3 O \ 4]H 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? ||k i?: K WBSh 1 ■ rV' ' I# 7 ’ 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. '—Central Press. Published every day excepting Saturdays. Five cents per copy <■ Sundays. Delivered ggg j to your home fifteen cents per week. WEEK DAYS PAY NO MORE TRANSRADIO PRESS 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”