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Negroes Are He’d on Assault Charge
WOMEN AND SOLDIERS CHARGE
TWO MEN HELD THEM UP WITH
SHOTGUNS ON COMPRESS ROAD
Recorder H. Mercer Jordan held
James Simmons and Ahab Mack, ne
gro youths, for trial in Superior Court
on the charge of attempted criminal
assault and two charges of robbery by
force after a hearing in police court
this morning. The defendants did not
have counsel and pleaded not guilty.
Floyd J. Jones and Ernest R. Lewis,
members of the Eighth Infantry, U.
S. A., at Fort Screven and two young
white women of Savannah outlined
to the court the story of their moles
tation by two negroes while the four
were sitting in a parked car near
midnight on May 8. The automobile
was parked near the Compress road
in the western section of the county.
Officers Testify
Although almost the entire Chat
ham county police department took
part in the manhunt which was
opened after reports of the crimes
reached the city only County Officers
T. J. Dooley and Lee Ingram took
the stand to testify this morning.
After Officer Dooley’s testimony, Qf
ficer Ingram explained that he had
no additional evidence and he was
not called on for a statement.
Officer Dooley said first word of
the trouble was a telephone call to
county police headquarters at 11:55
o’clock on the night of May 8. He
said he went to the scene where he
found and interviewed Lewis The of
ficer said he was informed the men
later identified as Simmons and Mack
had approached the parked auto with
a sawed off shotgun. One of the ne
groes poked the gun in the car and
ordered the four persons outside.
First, the officer went on, the two
soldiers were relieved of what change
they had in their pockets. From one
was taken 50 cents and the other $2.
Then one negro held the two white
men and one of the women at bay
with the gun while the other negro
compelled one of the white women
to go off a short distance in the
woods with him.
Then this negro returned and tak
ing the shotgun from his companion
held off the two soldiers while the
first negro forcibly escorted the wom
an who had been lined up alongside
the two soldiers into the woods.
Officer Dooley told the court that
one of the women told him the nignt
of the attempted attack that both
she anu her companion had actually
I been rssaulted by the negro s. Hj
said that later both said the attempts
had been frustrated. The latter was
come out by testimony.
INFANT SWALLOWS
ACID IN CABINET
BUTLER CHILD REPORTED
“CHANCE FOR LIFE”
BY HOSPITAL \
Mary Alice Butler, aged 18 months,
who was taken to Telfair hospital
late yesterday afternoon after she had
drunk from a bottle of carbolic acid,
was reported almost out of danger to
ri y by hospital ataches.
Th! hospital also reported well on
the road to recovery Mrs. James
Mt’Xkm, 411 Tattnall stret, whom a
police report said was removed to the
ho.pltal after she was “supposed to
have taken some yellow oxide mer
cury tablets in an attempt to commit
suicide.” A Henderso nßrothers
ambulace carried Mrs. Murken to Tel
fair Police Officers Reid R. Lucas and
A. H. Hodges reported.
The BUtler child’s throat and neck
was badly burned by the acid. She
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sam
uel F. Butler who were moving yes
terday from their Baxley home to
2704 Barnard street. There was a
m:dicine cabinet on the floor of the
new home. The baby took a bottle of
the acid from this case and drank
from it. Mrs.F. 'I. Ray, 109 West
Victory Drive, rushed the child to
the hospital in her car.
CHAMBERGROUP
TO MEET JUNE 9
On June 9, there will be a meet
ing of the sectional associates of
Chamber of Commerce. The meeting
will begin at2:3O at the DeSoto hotel.
L. M. Shepptr, state superintend
ent of vocational education, will de
liver the principal address. Mr. Shep
per will speak on “Vocational Educa
tion.” Harry Brown, director of the
extension department of the Univer
sity of Georgia will speak on the
“Work of the County Agents.” C. J.
Arnett, Halcyondale, will speak on
“Livestock."
Judge A. B. Lovett, president of
the Georgia bar, will deliver an ad
dress at the dinner at night which
will conclude the meeting. Mayor
Thomas Gamble will deliver an ad
dress of welcome.
TRALALA-LA
LONDON, May 19 (TP)—Queen
Mary went walking among the tulips
of the Great Chelsea flower show to
dr .
The queen’s mother paid a private
vLlt to the annual show. She walked
on the arm of her royal son, the
Duke of Kent. The model gardens and
exhibits of flowers, covering more
than two acres of ground, brought
many an exclamation of pleasure
from the quene.
HODCARRIERS APPEASED
DENVER, Colo., May 19 (TP).—
The construction strike which crip
pled Denver’s building operations end
ed this morning when laborers were
ordered back to their Jobs.
The president of the Hodcarriers’
Union, Grover Thmopsn, called off
the strike following a conference with
contractors. He said all wage de
mands were granted.
One of the women testified this
morning she had been kissed and fon
dled by one of the defendants, both
of whom she identified in court as
being the pair that walked up out of
the darkness and held up the four
on the night of May 8. The other
woman testified very briefly of the
events in the case. This was largely
in answer to questions from the
bench. She nearly collapsed once
during the hearing.
A negro living at the five mile post
on the old Augusta road and another
whose address was listed as Rossignol
Hill, appeared as witnesses. They tes
tified that Mack, one of the defen
dants, had asked them if they did not
want to accompany him and Simmons
on an excursion on the night of May
8 in order to “hid up a car.” The
two said they declined
Simmons said he was nowhere near
the party of four white people on
that night. He said about that tima
he was cleaning a filling station for
a man and after finishing his work
he went home. Mack presented an
alibi too, saying he had come to this
particular filling station to buy some
liquor about the same time the quar
tet in the automobile were held up.
He said there was no available whis
ky and he went to his home
Defendants Ramble
Both of the negro defendants made
more or less rambling statements.
Just before Mack had apparently
neared the end of his story he stop
ped shrt, stared vacantly, and reeled
back and forth. It seemed he was
going to faint. However, he recov
ered but did not continue his testi
mony. All of the evidence of both
sides was practicaly completeby this
time and the Recorder ordered the
two defendants “back inside.”
There was only a sprinkling of spec
tators in the courtroom when the case
was called this morning after all
other cases on the docket had been
disposed of.
Mac kand Simmons were taken in
custody at their homes the day fol
lowing the attempted assault and
were placed in the Chatham county
jail on a commitment from t he Mu
nicipal court.
Spectators at the hearing this
morning had difficulty in identifying
-which o fthe defendants was in mind
as various witnesses testified. Some
witnesses knew the names of the
prisoners but not their faces, some
could recognize them but did not
know ther names
CRASH ON WAY
TO MINOR FIRE
COMPANY NO. 2 TRUCK
CRASHES INTO PARKED
AUTO ON STREET
Three fire engine companies called
to a minor blaze this morning put
out the fire with practically no loss
but one of the fire trucks consider
ably damaged a parked automobile
when it collided with the auto on the
way to the fire.
An alarm sent in from Box 54 at
10:39 o'clock this morning brought
out apparatus from Companies 1, 2
and 3. An oil stove in the home of
W. H. Wright at 509 Indian street was
ablae.
Making the run to the Indian street
address, a fire truck of Company No.
2, driven by Fireman Carl Richter
and traveling north on Barnard street,
swung west into Oglethorpe avenue.
As it made the turn the truck hit the
rear left fender of an automobile
owned by Joe Metzger, an employe
of the J. C. Lewis Motor Company.
The Metzger car, which was parked
on Oglethorpe avenue, was badly
damaged. After the collision the fire
truck was brought to a halt after it
had skidded and banged up against
a nearby tree. There was no one in
the Metzger machine and none of the
firemen aboard the truck were in
jured in the crash. Damage to the fire
truck was negligible, Fire Chief Wal
ter S. Blanton said. Damage to th:
Metzger car was not expected to ex
ced SIOO.
POLICE PLAN WAR ON
ONE-LIGHT DRIVERS
From now on the autoist who makes
his way along the Tybee road at night
with but one headlight burning is
going to find he is in for trouble.
Anyway, that’s what the officers o!
the county police department predict.
Numerous reports of the “one
eyed” drivers have been filtering into
the county police headquarters latly.
Officers have been given instruction
to improve the situation. For the last
day or so offending motorists have
been released with a warning. The of
ficers say that in the future those
lights are not in order will be dock
eted without delay.
MORTUARY
JAMES G. PARDUE
James G. Pardue, Sr., died at an
early hour today in a local hospital
after a short illness. Being a resident
for 60 years. Mr. Pardue is survived
by one son, J. G. Pardue, Jr.
Services will be held in the Laurel
Grove Cemetery tomorrow afternoon
with the services being conducted by
Rev John S. Wilder.
STORE BURLARIZED
R. G. Rollins, who conducts a
store at the seven-mile post on the
Ogeechee road, notified county police
headquart'rs this morning his store
had been burglarized of about sls
worth of groceries during the night.
Entrance was made by braeking a
glass window in the rear of the store.
FOOD INSPECTORS
BRAND CRAB MEAT
‘FILTHY PRODUCT’
FOOD ADMINISTRATION
CONTINUES SEIZURE
HERE AND BRUNSWICK
(Special to The Times)
ATLANTA, May 19—The Federal
government will continue to seize
polluted crab meat shipped in inter
state commerce from Savannah and
other Georgia points, John J. Mc-
Manus, chief of the Federal Food
Administration, said here today.
The federal official said that up to
date more than 1,600 pounds of crab
meat had been seized from Savannah
and an additional 900 pounds from
Brunswick.
“We have found that the crab meat
is a filthy product and unfit for hu
man consumption,” McManus said.
“It is packed on dirty tables by
people in dirty clothes and the flies
are allowed to swarm over the pro
duct as it is being packed. Since can
ned crab meat is eaten without being
cooked there is no protection for the
public against bacteria.”
McManus said the federal govern
ment under the food laws could do
nothing toward cleaning up the pack
ing plants, but he believed the state
authorities would do that.
“All we can do under the federal
law is seize the crab meat shipped in
interstate commerce at its destina
tion.”
According to the federal official
there has been no reports of persons
being poisoned by the meat outside
the state of Georgia.
The federa Haw gives the food ad
ministration the right to seize the
product and then go before the courts
with condemnation proceedings. Mc-
Manus said most of the Savannah
goods had been condemned.
WILSON APPOINTS
BOARD MEMBERS
/
SPORTS AND AGRICULTUR
AL COMMITTEES NAMED
FOR CHAMBER
Harvey H. Wilson, president of the
Chamber of Commsrce, following a
conference with J. N. Mcßride, chair
man of the agriculture committee, to
day announced the personnel of the
agriculture committee as follows:
J. N. Mcßride, chairman; J. F.
Jackson, V. W. Lewis, E. B. O’Kelley,
R. W. Cammack. J. C. Epting. A. J.
Nitzschke, R. Reed McNamara, A.
W. Solomon, Sr., J. L. Budreau, Hu
bert Keller, W. D- Garvin, Jr., R. E.
L. Snelson, C. B. Gnann. C. G.
Arnett, R. P. Cooper.
Mr. Wilson also announced the per
sonnel of the sports committee as rec
ommended by Raymond Demere,
chairman; H. L. Manley, Bruce
Sams. Lathrop Hopkins. B. O.
Sprague. G. F. Garis, Eddie Mazo,
Robert Tnompson, Ed Derst, W. D.
McMillan, Walter Campbell, Jake
Morrison, Dr. Carson Demmond,
George S. Clarke, T. M. Hoynes, Jr.,
Robert LaMotte, John Varnadoe, Otis
Stubbs. Jack Cope, Basil Abraham,
H. S. Bounds.
RECONSTRUCTION
IN NEW BOLIVIA
WAITS FOR TORO
WAR HERO IS STILL AT
POST ON PARAGUAYAN
FRONTIER
LA PAZ, Bolivia, May 19 (TP)—
Themen heading Bolivia’s new mili
tary dictatorship waite dtoday for the
arrival of Colonel Jose Toro before
taking any further steps in govern
ment reconstruction.
Toro, a hero of the Gran Chaco
war, is still at his field headquarters
on the Bolivian-Paraguayan frontier.
His orders, generally credited with the
bloodless revolution which toppled the
government of President Jose Sorzano,
are being carried out by Toro’s right
hand man. Colonel German Busch.
Busch led the Insurrection. Sorzano’s
resignation and set up the Bolivia
took the governmental change quietly.
One of the first acts of the new gov
ernment was a blanket pay raise with
threats of severe penalties against em
ployers who ignored the order. Indica
tions were that an attempt will be
made soon to boost the worth of
Bolivia’s devaluated currency.
The Junta in control of the gov
ernment has schedule da general elec
tion to be held VHthin the next few
weeks. With the army and the Boliv
ian Labor Federation backing the new
regime, it is virtually certain that
Toro will be given control of the
government on election day.
HEEDS HIS WIFE
MAYOR “BOSSY” GILLIS
DECIDES TO APPROVE
SCHOOL PLAN
NEWBURYPORT, Mass., May 19
(TP) —Mayor Andrew J. “Bossy"
Gillis Is back in step with the law
today.
The famous Newburyport executive
has approved the payment of $28,000
monthly to a Boston construction
company for the erection of a new
school. Bossy listened to the last min
ute pleadings of his wife and finally
agreed to back down on his stand
that he’d “rather go to jail’’ than ap
prove the palments. Had he refused
to sign the order, he would have been
held in contempt of court.
Mayor Gillis also listened to his
wife’s political advlc eduring his cam
paign and it turned out to be goode
She advised her fiery husband to stick
to the slogan “Silence is Golden" and
hold his tongue. Bossy did. The
result —he was elected.
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 19, tf36
DRUKMAN MURDER
DEVELOPING NEW
MYSTERY ANGLES
BROOKLYN OUTRAGE HAS
ASSUMED ASPECT OF A
POLITICAL ISSUE
NEW YORK, May 19 (TP)—More
spectular developments in the Samuel
Drukman murder case investigation
are expected in Brooklyn today.
Hints that the Drukman case is
due to crack wide open were made by
authorities after eight men, including
an assistant district attorney of
Kings County and a Brooklyn detec
tive, were Indicted by the special
grand jury probing the Drukman mur
der. v
The eight are accused of preventing
a thorough investigation of the case.
Indictments are believed to hinge on
the reports that bribery played a big
part in the murder case.
Drukman was found slain in March,
1935. Four men were arrested but
dismissed when a grand jury failed
to return indictments. Later, after the
Drukman case was made a political
issue, Governor Herbert Lehman ap
pointed a special district attorney,
who obtained the indictment of three
of the four original suspects. The
trio were convicted and senenced to
Sing Sing for long terms.
The assistant district attorney in
dicated yesterday is William Kleinman
who at present is on leave of absence.
The detective is Giuseppe Dardis.
whose work has earned him five
commendations.
‘VON HINDENBURG’
BEHIND SCHEDULE
SECOND CROSSING
GREAT ZEPPELIN BUFFET-
ED BY HIGH WINDS OFF
NEWFOUNDLAND
High winds and poor visibility de
layed the Dirigible “Hindenburg's”
second arrival in the United States
today. z
The giant Zeppelin, at last reports,
was nosing towards the eastern tip
of Newfoundland before turning south
and heading for its Lakehurst, New
Jersey, terminal.
One dispatch said the Zeppelin’s
speed had been cut to 33 miles per
hour, indicating that Captain Ernst
Lehmann, master of the airship, is
feeling his way in to the American
coast in almost one-third the rabe
of speed chalked up by the “Hinden
burg” in the dirigible’s first trip
across.
Lehmann complained that inade
quate weather reports had led the
Zeppelin into the stormy weather
area. Despite the winds, rain and
fog, however, the “Hindenburg” is
expected to land its 50 passengers at
Lakehurst either late today or early
tomorrow.
The “Hindenburg’s” second Ameri
can visit will be a brief affair, ac
cording to present plans. The blunt
nosed dirigible is scheduled to take
off for the return trip to Frankfort
in something like 12 hours after its
arrival at Lakehurst.
LABOR TROUBLES
BESET FISHERMEN
ALASKAN SALMON MEN TO
GET UNION’S AID IN
STRIKE TROUBLES
SAN FRANCISCO, May 19 (TP).—
The support of the powerful San
Francisco labor council is bolstering
the Alaska Cannery Workers Union
today.
The Union cannery workers are out
for the dismissal of 500 non-union
workers who are slated to sail for the
Alaskan salmon cannery grounds to
day. The non-unkxn workers have
the warning of union seamen that un
less they leave the two vessels sched
uled to clear San Francisco today,
they’l Ibe dragged off bodily. The
maritime federation of the Pacific
has ordered its members to refuse to
work on any vessel carrying non
union cannery workers.
Employers protested that the Alas
kan Cannery Workers Union is too
young an organization to deserve
recognition. The San Francisco La
bor council answ-ered that argument
by pledging its full support to the
canner’s drive. Twelve hundred mem
bers of the canery union whooped en
tusiastic acceptance to the Labor
Council’s offer of help at a mass
meeting held on the San Francisco
waterfront last night.
SELECT JURY TO
HEAR SENATOR’S
LOVE TROUBLES
MOUNT VERNON, Ohio, May 19
(TP) Completion of a jury which
will hear breach of promise charges
against former Senator Clarence C.
Dill, of Washington State, is expected
today.
Ten jurors, including eight women,
already have been tentatively selected.
The breach of promise suit was
brought against Dill and his sister
in-law, Mrs. Grace Dill of Fredericks
town, Ohio, by Mrs. Margie Heaton
Dill of Mount Vernon. The plaintiff
is the wife of Senator Dill’s nephew,
Clarence C. Dill.
In her complaint, the young wife
charged that Senator Dill and her
husband’s mother conspired to break
up her marriage. The Senator’s ne
phew and Dill were married the day
after they graduated from high
school.
TRAINING SCHOOL
PROGRAM TONIGHT
KATE BALDWIN KINDER
GARTEN KRADUATES
RECEIVE DIPLOMAS
The graduating exercises of the
Normal Training School of the Kate
Baldwin Free Kindergartens will take
place this evening at the East Side
Kindergarten.
Os particular interest is the fact
that this will be the last graduation
class for a long time, due to unavoid
able circumstanmes. It is hoped,
though, that within a few years, the
Training School, which has for so
lon gbeen a part of the cutural life
of the city, can renew its splendid
work.
.The annual dinner for the gradua
tion class was given last evening at
the Hotel De Soto, with Mrs. Fran
cis .Muir Turner presiding.
The graduates who were the guests
of honor were Miss Martha Cook,
Miss Alice Heyward. Miss Kathryn
Lane Miss Katherine Edwards, Miss
Katherine Lange and Miss Irene
Weathers.
H ARLEMPROPHET’S
FOLLOWERS FACING
FEDERAL TROUBLES
NEW YORK. May 19 (TP).—Sister
Love Light and three other disciples
of Father Divxine face ® court battle
today. They must answer complaints
that they failed to carry workmen’s
compensation insurance to cover em
ployes in their Harlem establishment.
The complaints were filed by the
State Department of Labor, whose
agents have been collecting stacks of
evidence among Father Divine’s re
ligious and commercial organization.
The negro evangelist practically
runs his section of Harlem. He owns
restaurants, garages, dress shops and
even coal companies. One disciple
named E. O Littlejohn has been run
ning the Father Divine Peace Mis
sion Coal Company. He is charged
in the labor department’s complaints
along with John Mark, who runs the
Father Divine Garage Rebecca Will
ing does business as Father Divine’s
Peace Mission Restaurant. Sister
Love Light runs a dress shop for
Father Divine All of them must face
the bar of justice in magistrate's
court on Thursday.
HIKERS AWAY
McFadden marchers up
WITH THE SUN FOR
LONG WALK
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y„ May 19
(TP).—The Cracked Wheat hikers of
the physical culturist, Bernarr Mac-
Fadden, stepped out smartly this
morning as the sun came up.
Nine hikers have dropped out since
the walkers left New York last Sat
urday morning. The reasons ran all
the way from illness to blisters and
just plain fatigue. Today’s scheduled
stop is Red Hook, 27 miles away from
Poughkeepsie. The eventual destina
tion is Dansville, N. Y.. 410 miles
from Manhattan. The hikers expect
to reach the upstate city about May
30, with most of them eatnig nothing
but cracked wheat and drinking wa
ter en route. One or two hikers in
sist on three square meals and one
girl is eating apples and nuts. Pub
lisher MacFadden, who runs the hike,
Is to return to the walkers early to
morrow. He flew to Chicago for a
speaking engagement, but promised to
hurry back and fall into line. The 65
walkers should reach the next stop—
Red Hook—about nightfall tonight.
QUESTION NEGRO
SUSPECT Y.W.C.A.
MURDER OUTRAGE
CHICAGO, May 19 (TP)—A young
negro sat beneath the harsh glare of
a police spotlight today while his
captors questioned him about the
murder of Mr.. Lillian Guild.
The negro admits he is guilty of a
crime similar to Mrs. Guild’s murder
in the Chicago Y. W. C. A. The sus
pect confessed to knocking a St.-
Luke’s hospital nurse unconscious
whne she discovered him in the hos
pital domitories. - ,
Mrs. Guild was beaten to death a
few days before the St. Luke’s hos
pital staff was terrorized by the
prowler.
haiTribbons?
WHISKER SITUATION BE
COMES ACUTE IN NEW
YORK BARBER STRIKE
NEW YORK, May 19 (TP)—The
clippers stopped buzzing and the bar
ber poles stopped turning in many a
barber shop of the Times Square area
t.cay. Headquarters of the union bar
bers in the city issue da strike call to
every member barber of Manhattan's
West side. They walked out to join
8.000 already on strike in ths Bronx.
This afternoon Vice President An
thony Merlino of the International
Barber s Union said, every shop will
be closed from 242nd street to 23rd
street, west of Fifth Avenue.
Merlino said the strike will be city
wide and 16,00 barbers in 10,000
shops will be out by early next week.
The barbers are demanding a higher
price scale to better their living con
ditions. Merlino said some barbers are
making as little as $5 a week. "Thev
have to depend on tips,” he said,
“and that must stop. We must git
good working conditions for every
barber and some day tipping can be
discouraged.”
JOSEPH BLUESTEIN
DIES JSUDDENLY
LOCAL GROCER SUCCUMBS
TO ILLNESS OF ONLY
FEW DAYS
Joseph Bluestein, died this morning
at his residence, 321 Jefferson street.
Mr. Bluestein has been Identified with
the grocery business in Savannah for
40 years and up until the time of his
j death operated a grocery store on the
ccrner of Jefferson streets.
Mr Bluestein died suddenly being
ill only a short time and his death
came as a shock to his many friends.
Mr. Bluestein is survived by four
daughters: Mrs. Teni Wolf, Palo Alto,
Cal.; Mrs. Annie Litman, Savannah;
Miss Norma Bluestein, and Miss Ida
BL.uestein, both of Savannah; two
ions, Ben Bluestein, and Sam Blue
stein, Darien: several nieces and
nephews and one granddaughter,
Helen Litman, Savannah.
Funeral services wil be held tomor
row morning at 11 o’clock at the resi
dence.
ARMSTRONGHOLDS
EXERCISES JUNE 4TH
The closing exercises of the Arm
strong Junior College will be hied,
June 4, at 11 a.m. in the Lawton Me
morial hall, it was announced today.
As there are no graduates the ex
ercises will simply bring the first
term of the junior college to a formal
close. An outside speaker will be
chosen for the occasion but as yet he
has not been named.
SCHOOLS MAY USE
MOVING PICTURES
Ormond B. Strong, ’ superintendent
of schools and the members of the
properties committee of the Board of
Education viewed a demonstration of
a 15 millimeter moving picture pro
jector at the Lucas theater this morn
ing. The board has had the matter of
purchasing one of these machines to
be used in the local system under
advisement and the demonstration
was made iri* order to determine if
the projector would be suitable for
the purposes of the local schools.
The 15 millimeter machine is of the
latest design and is equipped for
sound pictures. The machine if pur
chased will be used in as many courses
possible, there being films made on
history, science, geography, and prac
tically all of thtf coursss taught in
modern schools.
The properties committee will hold
a meeting at 12 noon on Thursday,
and will probably decide on the mat
ter at that time. The properties com
mittee is composed of the following:
B'. O. Sprague, chairman; Herbert
Kayton, Dr. Walter Wilson, Mrs. Ju
lian K. Quattlebaum, and Maj. Henry
Blun.
WIFE IS LOYAL
DEFENDS MATE ACCUSED
OF TRYING TO MUR
DER HER
STANGHAI, May 19 (TP)—The
pretty young wife of the American
Doctor John Colbert stoutdly defend
ed her husband today against charges
that he had tried to murder her.
The doctor is accused of attempt
ing to kill Mrs. Colbert by means of
subtle poisons. She is his fourth wife.
The United States district attorney
at Shanghai pressed the charges. He
said that a British doctor examined
Mrs. Colbert and found traces of pois
oning. Last September, Mrs. Colbert
was taken ill and went to bed, the
prosecutor said, suffering from the
poison injections.
Mrs. Colbert denied that her fa- |
mous doctor husband had maliciously
given her medical treatments. She
said she was not even ill last Septem
ber. She went to bed, she said, out
of sheer vanity to conceal her feet 1
which had “swollen up like piano 1
legs.’’ Mrs. Colbert swore that her I
husband was completely innocent.
TORNADO IN JERSEY
BELLEMEADE, N. J., May 19 (TP)
A freak tornado swooped down on
the farm of Alfred Huss today and
carried off one of his farm buildings.
The sudden wind fury was first
noticed when it blew a boy off his
bicycle. The twister veered into the
Huss farmyard. Eight fruit trees were
torn up A building 130 feet long,
filled with farm machinery, was lift
ed 50 feet in the air, carried for 150
feet and smashed against the ground.
COTTON
Spot Cotton Closing
Tone at 2 00 p. m., Steady.
Middling fair 12.51
Strict good middling 12.41
Good middling 12.31
Strict middling • 12.21
Middling 11.81
Strict lew middling 11.21 I
Low mied-.ng 10.56
Strict good ordinary 9.81
Goo I rr ' : nary 9.06
Ordinary • 8.31
Sales: 0.
Receipts—
Net receipts today 145
Stock on hand and on
shipboard today 173,903
Stock this day
last year 100,101
Total gross receipts
to date 308,241
Total Gross receipts
last year 113,060
Shipments—
Coastwise today 69
Foreign today 3,666
Foreign, season 172,754
Coastwise, season 28,433
Receipts today—
Bv rail 119
By truck 26 ,
NINA MDIVANI
GIVEN DIVORCE
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, May 19
(TP). —Princess Nina Mdivani won a
divorce today from her American hus
band, Charles Huberich. She sued on
the grounds of Incompatibility.
The princess is the sister of the
three famous Georgian princes who
were known as the “marylng Mdl
vanis.” The princess married the In
ternational law expert, Huberich, in
1925. For the past year they have
been estranged. The divorce was ar
ranged in a special private court In
the Netherlands as the princes:
wished to avoid the publicity which
had befalen her family in the past
year. One of her brothers, Prince
Alexis, was killed in an auto accident
in Spain son after he was divorced
from the Woolworth heiress, Barbara
Hutton. Later she lost a second
brother when Prince Sergi was killed
in a polo spill in Florida.
Princess Nina refused all comment
on rumors that she would remarry.
Her ex-husband said he will continue
to practice law. He formerly taught
in several Western universities.
MARKETS
k
NEW YORK, May 19—The stock
market turned! into lower price chan
nels today. The expected market
rally in response to the Supreme
Court’s invalidation of the Guffey
Coal Act failed to materialize.
Industrials dipped fractions to a
point. steels held steady.
Rails and utilities were easier.
The bond market was dull and nar
row.
Wheat declined more than a cent
a bushel. Cotton was slightly higher.
At 1:30 today prices were as fol
lows:
A?
Air Reduction ..4 60 1-8
Allied. Chem. ... 4 188
Am. Can j 127 1-2
Am. Loco 25 1-2
Am. Pow. & Light 10
Am. Rad | 19 5-8
Am. Sugar t ...... 54
Am. Tel 4 159
Am. Tob. B i , 911-2
Anaconda 32 7-8
Armour 11l • 4 7-8
Atchison 70
Aviation Corp , 5 1-4
• Atlan. Ref . 28
B
Bald. Loco 31-2
B & O .-. j 17
Bendex 27 1-4
Beth. Saeel j 49 1-8
Briggs ... • 46 1-2
C
Canad. Pacif < 12 1-4
Case 4 147
Cer-teed Pds » 13
Chrysler 1 93 1-8
Com. Solvents 171-2
Consol. Oil 121-4
Cur. Wright 61-4
Cur. Wright A 15
D
Del. Lack 15 3-4
Douglas 55
Du Pont • 141
Del. <fe Hud 39
E
Elec. Auto Lit 34 7-8
Elec. Pow. <fc Lit. 14
Erie 121-8
F
Fed. Motor 9 1-8
Firestone 27 3-4
G
General Elec 36 1-4
General Food 38 5-8
General Motors 611-8
Goodrich - 19 3-8
Goodyear ....’. 25
Grt. Wes. Sugr. 36
H
Houdaille Her 22 7-8
Howe Sound 52
Hupp 2 1-2
1 i
111. Cen 19 1-2
Int. Harves 81 5-8 '
Int. Nick 45 7-8
Int. Tel 13 1-4
J
Johns Manvll 92 1-2
K
Kelvinator 19 3-4
Kennecott 36
L
Lig. & My. B 108
Loews 46 3-8
M
Mack Tr 29 1-2
Marine Mid «... 87-8
Mid. Cont. Pet 19
Mont. Ward ......; 40 3-4
K
Nash 17 1-8
Nat. Bis 34
Nat. Distill. 28 7 8
Nat. Steel 59 3-4
N. Y. Cen ... 33 7 8
O
Otis SteeJ 14
P
Packard i 10 1-2
Paramount 85-8
Penn. RR : 29 3-8
Ply. Oi. 1 14 1-8
Pub. Ser 40 1-4
R
Radio 10 3-8
Radio B • 97
Rem. Rand 21 1-8
Rey. Tob. B 53 1 2
S
Sears Roe 66 1-8
Simmons Co 25 3-4
bocony 12 5-8 •
WE WANT FRIENDS ...
WE’D JUST LIKE TO HAVE YOU COME IN AND
SAY “HELLO” THIS’ IS A FRIENDLY TEXACO
STATION GIVE US A CHANCE TO SAY, “HOW
ARE YOU TODAY!”
TO ALL WHO WILL BE A REGULAR CUSTOMER
I WILL REMOVE ALL SMALL DENTS ON FENDERS
NOW IS THE TIME TO CHANGE TO NEW
TEXACO MOTOR OIL AND GET A MARFAK
LUBRICATION CARS CALLED FOR AND
DELIVERED.
<MIKE) TYSON SERVICE STATION
BULL AND VICTORY DRIVE DIAL 9659
Sou. RR 14 3-8
Stand. Oil Cal 37 7-8
Stand Oil NJ 57 7-8
Stand. Brands 15 3-8
Stcne & Web 16 1-2
Studebaker • 111-4
Swift 211-8
T
Texas Corp 32 1-8
U
Union Bag 401-2
Union Carbide 815-8
Unit Aircrft 22 1-8
United Corp g
Unit Gas. Imp 15 1-8
U. S. Rubber 29
U. S. Steel 56 1-4
V
Va. Car Chem 6
W
Warner Picts 9 1.2
Western Union 76 3-4
Westinghse 109 1-2
Wilson 8
Y
Yellow Truck 17 1-2
Youngstown 52
Z
Zenith Radio 18 1-4
Zonite Pds 6 1-2
NAVAL STORES
Turpentine
Noon
Today Yesterday
Tone Firm Firm
Regulars 35 3-4 35 3-4-36
Sales 291 285
Rosin
Tone Firm Firm
X 60 60
WW ....55 60
SG 45 45
N 42 1-2 40
M 37 1-2 35
K 32 1-2 30 -432 1-2
I 30 27 1-2-432 1-2
H 27 1-2 25 -432 1-2
G 27 1-2 425 -430
P 25 25
E 390 390
D 385 385
B 325 325 -330
Sales 393 523
Statement
Spirits Rosin
Stocks April 1 34,488 57,626
Receipts today 705 2,389
This day last year .. 885 2,827
Receipts for month 6,791 23,632
Receipts for month
last season ... 7,220 24,667
Seceipts for season .. 13,257 48,489
Receipts same date
last season .... 16,680 56,439
Shipments today .... 106 238
Shipments for month 6,944 17,777
Shipments for season 23,207 43.763
Shipments last
season 15,558 58,732
Stock today 27,538 62,352
Same day last
year 24,913 112,809
ALLEGED THIEF HELD
James Harmon, negro, was held for
city court on two charges of larceny
after arraignment in police court this
morning. Harmon was alleged to have
stolen two pair of shoes from the
sore of Max Lehwald at 120 East
Broughton street.
MURPHEY IMPROVES
The condition of William B. Mur
phey, president of the Citizens and
Southern bank, who is recovering
from an operation for appendicitis at
the Central of Georgia hospital, was
reported today as showing improve
ment.
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