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WEATHER Fair Tonight and Tomorrow, Temperature Moderate. MARKETS Stocks Hold Steady, Cotton Up; Wheat Sags. 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 IF YOU FAIL TO RE- I OEIVE YOUR PAPER, | CALL CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 6183 -AND ONE WILL BE SENT IMMEDIATELY. au a n Wwmhi (flini cs Mother Held as Fagin ■ .if • 'I EfILJ 1 I 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 Published every day excepting Saturdays. Bj Five cents per copy Sundays. Delivered j to your home fifteen MF cetits per week, WEEK DAYS PAY NO MORE TRANSRADIO PRESS 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.