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VOLUME 2—NUMBER 119
NEW DEAL STAGGERS UNDER ANOTHER BLOW
w.
Leland Harvey Escapes Gang Again
BREAKS AWAY
FROM A TROUP
COUNTY GANG
ESCAPE ARTIST AND WIL
LIAMS, BANK ROBBER,
OVERPOWER GUARD
(Special to The Daily Times)
LAGRANGE, Ga., May 18.—Leland
Harvey, notorious prison escape ar
tist, made good his often repeated
threat that ‘no jail could hold him”
again today when he and Robert
Williams, a bank robber, overpowered
a Troup county convict camp guard,
took his pistol and escaped in a coun
ty truck carrying the guard with
them.
Nearly a mile away from the escape
scene they released the guard, Ral
eigh Wright.
This was the sixth time Harvey has
escaped from Georgia prisons, accord
ing to records of the state prison
commission.
Harvey was serving three to five
years for assault with intent to mur
der growing out of an attempt to
shoot his way to freedom while being
taken t o Rome, Ga., several months
ago and Aubrey Smith to stand trial
for robbery of the National City Bank
of Rome in 134.
Harvey and Smith, who were par
doned from prison sentences totaling
more than 100 years by Governor
Talmadge in April, 1934, were con
victed of the bank robbery charge and
sentenced to serve eight to 10 years.
Harvey was taken back to Troup
county to finish the three to five
year sentence while Smith is still in
the Floyd county jail at Rome.
Williams serving 13 to 15 years for
robbery of the Lutherville Banking in
Merlweather, was also a notorious es-'
cape Artist, having made two breaks
from the Troup county gang and
another from the Merlweather coun
ty jail in Greenville in March, 1934.
In the Greenville break Williams
and five other prisoners kinaped
Sheriff C. H. Collier, carrying him
five miles outside the town before
releasing him.
Williams was captured several days
later in Atlanta.
According to officials of the Troup
county convict camp, Harvey and
Williams were working on a gang on
Stovall road at the time of the es
cape. Only one guard was present,
and the pair rushed him taking the
pistol.
They then forced the guard and
two trusties who were driving a truck
into the vehicle and drove several
hundred yards away. There they
forced the trusties to change clothes
with them, and continued on their
way carrying the guard. A mile fur
ther on they released the guard.
The point where the escape was
made is several miles from the con
vict camp proper. Harvey used truck
tools to break chains on his legs.
Williams did not have chains.
MINNESOTA CLAIMED
SAFE FOR COL. KNOX
CHICAGO, May 18 (TP)—A boost
er of Colonel Frank Knox today
claimed Minnesota for the Chicago
publisher in the Republican presiden
tial race.
A former assistant U. S. attorney*
general, Monte Apel, of St. Paul, made
the forecast. Apel said a survey he
made through rural Minnesota con
vinced him that the state’s 22 con
vention votes will go for Knox.
Officially, the Minnesota Republic
an delegation will go to Cleveland
without instruction.
GAS STRIKE ENDED
BUT DRIVERS WALKOUT
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 18 (TP)—
A threatened city-wide strike of gaso
line station workers was ended today
but the walkout of drivers for a
huge grocery chain continued. Police
escorted trucks of the Great Atlantic
Jk Pacific Tea Company through pick
et piles at all warehouses. There has
been no violence in the strike thus
far.
The gas station srike was killed be
fore it got a good start. Companies
agreed to sign new agreements with
their station
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Mrs. Catherine Hodana (right) shown with Lottie Reblinaki, 11 (left),
and her two daughters, Mary, 11, and Irene, 9, in Chicago court, where
she was accused of sending the youngsters out to steal from stores. The
bundle at the right, according to police, is filled with stolen merchandise.
(Central Prest)
Bolivia Emerges From Chaco
War As Socialistic Country
In A Bloodless Revolution
LAPAZ, May 18 (TP)—A new Soc
ialistic nation clamored for attention
today. Bolivia, still suffering from
the privations brought on by the
Chaco war, is in the hands of a
Junta which took ’command after a
bloodies revolution overthrew the gov
ernment of President Jose Luis Sor
zano.
Army men staged the political coup
which brought the downfall of Sor
zano. They recruited a huge following
when they preferred Socialistic pol
icies as a cure for the unemployment
wave which swept Bolivia after the
end of the Gran Chaco war.
Strangely enough, Paragrau, the
other half of the fruitless jungle war,
became a Socialistic state several
weeks ago. The Bolivian government
shift makes the two countries political
twins, even though Bolivians and
Paraguayans were at each others
throats only a short time ago.
In charge of the Bolivian Provl-
BRITAIN PONDERS
BIGGER NAVY PLAN
VIEW STATE DEPARTMENT
ASKED ON INCREASE
IN TONNAGE
WASHINGTON, May 18 (TP)
The British government asked the
state department today for its views
on British plans io increase their
tonnage in naval cruisers and des
troyers.
The British embassy announced
that the admiralty intends to con
vert three of its eight-inch gun class
cruisers to six-inchers and thus in
crease her cruisers beyond the treaty
limits. Britain also revealed that she
plans to exceed the 150,000-ton limit
for destroyers by some 40,000 tons.
Both the increases are allowable,
through certain clauses of the 1930
London Naval agreement. The new
London Sea-Power Treaty does not
become effective until 1937—and
Great Britain is working to beat the
deadline.
QUADS TO CELEBRATE
LANSING, Mich., May 18 (TP).—
Four bright-eyed little girls will cele
brate their sixth birthday tomorrow.
They are the Morlok quadruplets.
Their mother, Mrs. Carl Morlok,
has planned a big party for her fa
mous youngsters. Visitors will have
a hard time telling which is which.
The quads, whose names are Helen,
Wilma, Edna and Sarah, look just
alike Each has light, bobbed hair.
There is hardly a fraction of an inch
difference in their heights
sional Government is Colonel Ger
man Busch, Chief of Staff of Presi
dent Sorzano's army. Busch announc
ed that general elections will be held
soon to choose the new president. In
tlhe meantime the military leader
anounced, existing treaties with all
other nations will continue Infull ef
fect.
Slated to take the Bolivian Presi
dency with the forthcoming elections
is Colonel David Toro, one of Boliiv
ia’s war heroes and allegedly the
guilding star behind the revolt.
President Sorzano resigned when a
group of military leaders called on
him and warned him that unless he
handed over his portfolio a bitter rev
olution would follow. Sorzano’s down
fall is generally attributed to the
Bolivian President’s failure to provide
jobs for soldiers returning from the
Gran Chaco front.
Order Reigns
Complete order was maintained In
Bolivia today by the new revolution
ary government-
Army officers and members of the
Socialist party ousted the govern
ment of President Jose Luis Sorzano
without firing a single shot. The tem
porary head ,of the revolutionists is
the army chief of staff, Colonel Ger
man Busch. The new administration
demanded that Socialistic reforms be
put into effect, at once.
The government which was faced
with a general strike by the labor fed
eration, promptly ordered the strike
suspended.
The pew Bolivian regime has
pledged Itself to end the economic de
pression which has paralyzed the na
tion ever since the destructive Gran
Chaoo war with Paraguay.
ESCAPED CONVICT
EVADES POSSE
LEADER IN OUTBREAK
OUTWITS BLOODHOUNDS
IN DESPERATE DASH
cALESTER, Okla., May 18 /TP).—
One of three fugitive convicts from
McAlester state penitentiary escaped
capture today after bloodhounds twice
forced him to change his hideout.
The convict is Claude Beavers lead
er of the prison riot in whoh a guard
and a prisoner were killed. Five of the
eight convicts who escaped have been
captured.
Leaders of the hunt for the remain
ing three convicts at large said their
bloodhounds trailed Beavens to two
different spots in the Kiamichi moun
tains. Each time members of the
posse saw Beavers run Into the shel
ter of heavy underbrush, too far away
to be brought down by rifle fire.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, MAY 18, 1936
SENATE FINANCE
GROUP WORKS ON
HOUSE TAX BILL
EFFORTS UNDERWAY TO
REDRAFT FEW PHASES
OF MEASURE
WASHINGTON. May 18 (TP).—
Hopeful efforts to redraft certain
phases of the House tax bill started
again today in the senate finance
committee. Right off, there was a
clash of opinions on a plan to in
crease the tax on individual incomes
—as a compromise to eliminate the
heavy tax on undistributed corporate
earnings. President Roosevelt is re
ported to have told Chairman Har
rison that he doesn’t want the fi
nance committee to write in any taxes
that would be construed as general
tax increases. The proposed boost in
income taxes probably would be re
garded In such a light.
That throws the fight back on the
issue of the tax for undistributed
corporation earnings. Enemies of this
plan charge that it would work to
the advantage of big corporations and
to the d etrlment of little ones by
gobbling reserves they need for ex«
pansion.
Senate leaders are afraid the wran
gle will continue until June 8- -the
tentative date for adjournment of
Congress. If that happens, the ses
sion may last until July—since June
Is jam-up with the two national con
ventions.
ANOTHER BATTLE
WON BY SHERIFF
IN JERSEY FIGHT
REPUBLICAN FRIEND OF
DEMOCRATS SCORES
POINT IN RAID
OCEAN GATE, N. J., May 18 (TP)
—Sheriff Walt Applegate’s friends are
claiming another round in the battle
of Applegate versus the Ocean Coun
ty Republican organization today.
Sheriff Walt is a Republican, but
the County G. O. P. organization de
clared war on him years ago. Sheriff
Walt runs on the Democratic ticket
and has been retuned to office several
times—much to the annoyance of the
Republican county leaders.
Their annoyance at Sheriff Walt’s
re-election, however, couldn’t match
the kulvering indignation they suffer
ed when the Sheriff raided a meeting
of the Thomas A. Mathis Republican
Club of Ocean County. Mathis, who
is New Jersey’s Secretary of State, Is
said to be one of Sheriff Walt’s par
ticular political foes.
Sheriff Walt, accompanied by a
deputy, walked into the club meeting
held at the Ocean Gate Borough Hall
and hurled charges of possessing and
distritbuting beer without a license.
Before you could say Sheriff Walt
Applegate, the county official had ar
rested Ocean Gates Police Commis
sioner and Borough Council Presi
dent, Cha’rles Guttentag: Fire Chief
Wallace Burnett and a third organiza
tion Republican.
A Justice of the Peace —who may or
may not be a close friend of Apple
gate—held the trip in SI,OOO bail each
for a grand jury hearing.
The organization Republicans put
up the bail and walked off, splutter
ing. Sheriff Walt, protesting loudly
that there was nothing political about
the raid, also walked off —smiling.
‘VON HINDENBURG’
BUCKS SEA WINDS
DUE IN LAKEHURST TO
MORROW; SAILS HOME
WEDNESDAY
NEW YORK, May 18 (TP)—The
Zeppelin “Hindenburg” encountered
heavy weather today as it pointed
westward on its second crossisng to
the United States.
Rainstorms and a shrieking wind
buffeted the giant airship out over
the Atlantic during the night. Despite
the fact that ships beneath the dirig
ible were tossing in high-crested seas,
the Z:ppelin made steady progress
with only a slight motion to tell her
passengers that the elements were
acting u poutside.
The “Hindenburg” is due at Lake
hurst, N. J., tomorrow. Because of
unsatisfactory weather conditions on
the northern transatlantic route, the
Zeppelin is traveling the southern air
line to avoid cold weather and fog.
The big dirigible is slated to leave
Lakehurst' for the return to Frank
fort Wednesday night. •
ECONOMY OF
ABUNDANCE!
CHICAGO, May 18 (TP)—More
than 60 baby sea horses are starv
ing; in the Shedd Aquarium today
l because no food can be found
small enough for them to eat.
The "colts’* of the sea horse
tribe are only a quarter of an inch
long. They were born during the
shipment of 125 sea horses from
the Bahamas. The keepers say
the graceful little fish can be fed
only with food of microscopic site.
The aquarium director, Dr. Wal
ter Shute, said the baby sea horses
face inevitable death by starva
tion. He explained their natural
food is in the oceans, too far away
to be obtained in time.
ANOTHER PUBLIC
ENEMY CAPTURED
IN “G” MEN NET
NOTORIOUS BANK ROBBER.
AVERY SIMONS, NETTED
IN LOS ANGELES
WASHINGTON, May 18 (TP)—
, G-men continued their fast and furi
ous campaign against the public
enemy today with the arrest in Los
Angeles of the notorious bank rob
ber, Avery Simons.
The announcement was made in
Washington by chief of the bureau of
investigation, J. Edgar Hoover.
Hoover said that Simons had been
indicted for the robbery of the Cale
donia National bank of Danville,
Vermont, in June 1934; that he had
been identified as one of three men
who robbed the First National bank
at Landon, Vermont, in September.
1834, and that he was one of the
five men who robbed the First Na
tional bank at Mooresville, N. C., in
November, 1934. The G-man chief
said that Simons also was connected
with the million dollar robbery of
the Lincoln, Nebraska, national bank
last September.
Simons, Hoover declared, has asso
ciated with the big bank robbers of
the era, such as Edward Bentz and
Edward Doll. Simons was among
those modern bandits who introduced
carefully planned modern methods
into the bank robbery business.
Between robberies, Hoover revealed,
Simons had spent his time on a cat
tle ranch he owned in Bolivia. His
capture ended a several year search
bj’ the G-men in which they followed
leads in every state in the Union. So
elusive was Simons that 68 foreign
nations were co-operating in the
search for him, Hoover said.
BORAH VS. LANDON
AT JERSEY POLLS
VOTING TOMORROW FIRST
DIRECT FORMAL TEST
BETWEEN ASPIRANTS
TRENTON, N J., May 18 (TP).—;
Republican primaries will be voted
tomorrow when New Jersey citizen,
troop to the polls. It will be the first
direct, formal test between Senator
Borah and Alfred M. Landon for pres
idential preference. Thirty-two votes
are at stake in the Republican prima
ries. In the Democratic balloting, 32
prospective delegates are already
pledged to President Roosevelt.
Backers of Kansas’ Governor Lan
don are confident that their man will
win. They point «out that Senator
Borah has yet to show a real indica
tion of power in the East. Others
who are keeping a finger on the pulse
of the whole Republican campaign,
however, are worried lest Senator
Borah refuse to support the Kansan
later on. Col Henry Breckenridge,
the New York attorney, again Is of
fering his name to Democrats who
want to protest against the New Deal.
In the Senatorial and Congression
al rases, a heavy vote is expected.
Right behind the Borah-Landon
contest is the fight between Governor
Harold Hoffman and former Repre
sentative Franklin Fort. The cele
brated issue of the Bruno Hauptmann-
Lindbergh case has been erected by
Mr. Fort. He says he entered the
race for delegate-at-large to the Re
publican convention in order to give
voters a chance to protest against
Gov. Hoffman’s activities in the fa
mous case.
FOREIGN TRADE WEEK
INAUGURATED BY U. S.
WASHINGTON, May 18 (TP)
Uncle Sam’s State Department will
inaugurate Foreign Trade Week today
by signing one new agreement and
proclaiming two others. At the same
time, Henry G. Grady. Chief of the
Division of Trade Agreements, will
speak in New York City.
The new Finnish-United States
Trade Treaty will be signed at the
, State Department.
ROBINSON CHECKS INTO ‘PEN’
WK
LA an XJnli
188-
W MB - -
Robinson is at left, with dark jacket.
Hunted for 19 months, seized unexpectedly and convicted
and sentenced to life imprisonment for the abduction of Mrs.
Alice Speed Stoll of Louisville, Ky?,-Thomas H. Robinson; Jr.,
has been “checked in*’ at the Atlanta penitentiary. In this photo,
Robinson i» shown (left, with light trousers and dark jacket) ma
nacled to a guard, and preceded by another with a machine gun,
walking from the railroad station to the penitentiary in Atlanta.
—Central Press.
JEALOUSY FLARES IN NAVY
CIRCLES AS FIGHT STAGED
OVER ADMIRAL SELECTION
WASHINGTON, May 18 (TP).—
Jealousy among naval officers came
out into the open today as Congress
moved to make Dr. George W. Calver
—the capitol physician—a rear ad
miral
Dr. Calver was detached from the
Navy in 1927 to look after the health
of Congressmen apd Senators. Ever
EXPORT SUBSIDY
PLANS ATTACKED
CHIEF OF STATE DEPART
MENT SAYS MOVE IN
VOLVES BAD TACTICS
NEW YORK, May 18 (TP)—-Henry
Gracy, chief of the State Depart
ment’s Division of Foreign Trade
Agreemnets, attacked export subsidy
plans today. Grady adressed the
World Trade Luncheon of the For
eign Trade Council as a part of For
eigne Trade Week.
Grady said that all export subsidy
plans Involve two disastrous prin
ciples—first, they mean that Ameri
can consumers subsidize consumers
in foreign nations, and second, they
mean “dumping” on the part of
American exporters. This, he added,
will lead to retaliation measures from
other countries which will completely
block foreign trade. Said Grady:
“Such a plan is the very acme of
futility.”
Grady then pointed out that “im
ports,” no less than exports, are an
index of a nation’s prosperity.
He defended the admlnstration’s
foreign trade agrement policy as the
only sane way to bring about profit
able imports and exports.
Father Runs Amuck
DRUNK HUSBAND SHOOTS
WIFE AND DAUGHTER;
BOTH NEAR DEATH
LORAIN, Ohio, May 18 (TP).—
Tony Walach came home in an ugly
mood. He had been drinking heavily
There were sharp, angry words and
suddenly the double roar of firearms.
Tony backed out the front door, leav
ing his wife and daughter critically
wounded.
Walach was captured by police
shortly afterward. They eaid he was
hurrying down to buy some more
liquor. His wife and daughter are
hear death. ’ ' I
since, he has had an office and a
staff in the capitol building
In 1933 Congress made Dr. Calver
completely independent of the naval
high command and raised him from a
commander to a captain. This was
done over the protests of naval offi
cers who objected to the independence
granted Dr. Calver and the sudden
promotion.
An obscure clause in the 1937 naval
appropriations bill raises Dr. Calver
still further —it makes his a rear ad
miral. This rtatise was added in the
s enate. The navy bill is now in con
ference
• Navy officers—long jealous of the
treatment Congress has given Dr.
Calver—secretly opened fire on this
clavse in the bill. They, got some of
their friends in the House to an
nounce opposition to this proposal.
In spite of this fight, Congressional
leaders maintain they are not going
to take orders from Navy men
GOVERNOR’S MOVE
ENDS BOAT STRIKE
BREMERTON, Wash.,*May 18 (TP)
Governor Martin stepped in today and
ended the ferryboat strike that would
have marooned scores of navy yard
workers in their Seattle homes. The
governor ordered an arbitration com
mission to convene.
The streamlined ferry boat, Kala
kala, which plies between Bremer- '
ton and Seattle started moving. It
was tied up Saturday when the strike
began. Union ferry boatmen called
the walkout, protesting what they said
waa violation of an agreement which
ended a previous strike.
ETHIOWAOERO
BACK TO HARLEM
NEW YORK, May 18 (TP)—The
Negro airman hero of Ethiopia, Col. 1
John Robinson of Chicago, arrives
back in the United States this eve
ning aboard the Europa.
Robinson, who carried the personal '
and military dispatches of Emperor <
Haile Selassie, will be met at the
pier by a throng of negro greeters. 1
They plan to parade him uptown for
a special reception end a banquet to- I
night. Later, Robinon will entrain for <
Chicago. From there he will go to {
the Tuskegee institute in Alabama. '
He has taken a job as director of I
one of the first negro aviation schools i
iin the U. S. $ I
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Resettlement
Act Ruled Out
By U. S. Court
SUIT NEW JERSEY TOWN
SHIP BRINGS FEDERAL
SET-UP DOWN
WASHINGTON, D. C., May
18 (TP).—The U. S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Co
lumbia ruled today that Uncla
Sam’s resettlement administra
tion is unconstitutional.
The court blow to the New
Deal agency headed by Rexford
Tugwell declared that the gov
ernment has no business—with
in the law—to regulate housing
and to resettle any of the na
tion’s population.
The Appeals Court overruled
a lower court decision in hold
ing the Resettlement Adminis
trative Act invalid. The case
was a test of the agency’s pow
er brought by a New Jersey
township. The administration
bad planned a model community
in Franklin township. Oppo
nents of the resettlement plan
promptly filed suit to prevent
the new housing.
GUFFEY ACT IS
RULED INVALID
WASHINGTON, May 18 (TF)
The United States supreme court
decided against the government in
the Guffey coal ca«e today, but it
did not determine the validity ol
the price fixing provisions in the
famous New Deal act. The Guffey
coal measure was designed to fix
hours and wages, establish prices,
ind regulate marketing in the bi
tuminous industry.
In its decision today the high
court said “if there be in the
act provisions other than those we
have considered that may stand
independently, the question of their
validity is left for future determi
nation, when, if ever, that quee
tion shall be presented for consid
eration.”
Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania,
the author of the act, announced
that he will introduce a new bill
right away to replace the invali
dated act. Guffey said his new
measure will circumvent the errors
in the original act pointed out by
decision of the high court.
i _■ .
Three of the five judges ruled that
the act was unconstitutional because
ib invaded state rights and improper
ly delegated power to the president.
The decision was handed down In a
case testing the validity of the fed
eral resettlement administration. The
$900,000,000 resettlement program un
der the direction of Rexford Tugwell
was ruled out by the court. The court
held that the government had no
right to conduct and resettlement un
der the existing law. The c'ourt said
Tug well’s administration was Invalid
for the same reasons that caused the
legal downfall of the N.R.A. and
the A.A.A.
The resettlement case Involved
plans for a model housing community
in Somerset county, N. J. Two of,the
justices dissented from the majority
opinion in the ruling on the whole
relief act. They held that the court
should nob have passed on validity
of the whole relief act. However, they
concurred in thfe resettlement opinion.
.The court considered the questions
involved in the Guffey act under the
following heads:
1. The right of stockholders to
maintain suits of this character.
2. Whether the suits were prema
turely brought.
3. Whether the exaction of 15 per
cent on the sale price with its draw
back allowance of 13 1-2 per cent is
a tax or a penalty.
4. The purpose of the act as set
forth in the authority vested in con
gress by the constitution to effectuate
them.
5. Whether the labor provision of
the act can be upheld as an exercise
of the power to regulate interstate
commerce.
6. Whether the act involves an un
lawful delegation of power.
7. The constitutionality of the
price-fixing provision, and the question
of severability—that is to say, wheth
er, if either the group of labors pro
visions or the group of price-fixing
provisions be found constitutionally
invalid, the other can stand M sepa
rable.