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About Savannah daily times. (Savannah, Ga.) 1936-???? | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1936)
WEATHER Probable Showers Today, Fair Tomorrow. MARKETS Stocks Steady in Dull Trading; Wheat, Cotton Firm. VOLUME 2—NUMBER 124 OFFICIALS MURDER BRINGS TENSION IN NORTHERN CHINA ASSASSINS BULLET CUTS DOWN GENERAL SIANG IN TIENTSIN TIENTSIN, May 23 (TP)—Tension tripped north China tonight over the assassination of a prominent Chinese official in the Japanese quarters of Tientsin. An assassin’s bullet cut down Wang Siang-Chew, who was in the retinue of the Chinese War Lord General Feng Yu-Siang. The murder ed man was the secretary to a gen eral on the war lord’s personal staff. First reports said that two generals had been murdered in the Japanese concession of the city. Chinese authorities suspected that Siang-Chen had been done away with by Japanese militarists. Strong meas ures were taken by Chinese officials to prevent friends of the murdered man from taking any reprisals against the Japanese. Such steps they feared, would flare up in an other dreaded “incident.” MAN’S LEG BROKEN WHEN RUN DOWN BY TAXICAB HERE POLICE CLAIM DRIVER UN DER INFLUENCE OF LI QUOR; FREED ON BOND W. T. Jones, age about 55, and re aiding at 123 West Gordon street was confined to Warren A. Candler hos pital last night with serious injuries after he had been knocked down by H. A. Tuten, age 29, of 137 1-2 Whit aker street, a Yellow Cab driver, ac cording to a police report made by Police Officers F. A. Lange and C. C. Carroll. At the hospital it was stated Jones had suffered a laceration of the scalp and his left leg had been broken be tween the ankle and the knee. The pedestrian was walking across Montgomery street at the Intersection of Taylor street when he was hit by the Yellow Oab being driven south on Montgomery by Mr. Tuten, the police report said. Police said Jones was well under the influence of liquor at the time and they reported a bot tle of liquor dropped from the man’s pocket and smashed on the pavement after he was struck by the cab. Tuten was taken to police head quarters where he was held until word, could be received from the hos pital' as to the probable outcome of the injuries of Jones. When it was learned the man was not in a critical condition bond was set at SSOO. in spring firing. JUNE BRIDE SEEKS AID IN FIGHT AGAINST MOSQUITOES NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., May 23 (TP) —A prospective June bride in north Jersey was assured positively today that she would have no mos quitos as uninvited guests at her out door wedding. The bride-to-be said she was filled with terror at the thought that the airy hordes of the Skeeter state might descend on her garden nup tials. She finally wrote the New Jersey agricultural experimental sta tion for information on how to stun or drive off the demons for four hours during the wedding. Dr. J. M. Ginsburg answered her letter with the recommendation that she spray her garden with a new in secticide he had developed. The doctor told the apprehensive girl—“J hope your married life will be as free of trouble as your wedding will be free of mosquitos.’’ LOCAL MINISTER TO ADDRESS CLASS The Rev. Arthur Jackson, D. D., pastor of the First Baptist Church has accepted an invitation to address the graduating class of the Dublin High School Sunday, May 31. The Rev. Jackson will preach at the com mencement exercises In the morning, returning from Dublin in time to fill his pulpit for the evening service. The morning sermon will be de livered by the Rev. H. J. Stokes of Louisville, pastor of the Louisville BapUst Church. BRIDGE DEDICATED QUINCY. Mass., May 23 (TP).— The new $2,500,000 bridge which con nects Quincy with the Massachu setts south shore was dedicated by Governor Curley this aftemono. The structure Is now a part of one V the most extensively traveled highways in the Bay State. The bridge is a massive structure more than 2,100 feet in length, with a draw of four leaves, each 144 feet long. Thisd raw can be ooened or dosed in 75 seconds and ,ln an emer gency can be operated by hand. TIMES WILL MAKE DAILY DELIVERY TO BEACH, FORT SCREVEN Fort Screven and Savannah Beach, beginning this morning, will have a daily delivery service of the Savannah Daily Times. Carriers will speed with the Daily Times from the, north end of the island and Fort Screven to the gay resort section every afternoon. Subscribers who are moving to tlie beach for the summer months can have their papers delivered al Tybce simply by telephoning 6183. § au aniial>B©ntlu(!limts Wife Slayer? ( i/ Bl Samuel Whittaker Facing murder charges for the alleged hotel “fake holdup’’ slaying of his wife, Samuel Whittaker, shown in court at Los Angeles, is reported to have commented, “It doesn’t matter a great deal if they sentence me to death. I’ve got heart dis ease which will take me off be fore they could hang me.” Whittaker is an ex-organist. Jams* Culver, a Kentucky transient, faces the same charges as Whittaker. —Central Press. AUTO ACCIDENTS HERE INJURE TWO MAN 65, HIT BY CAR, AN OTHER VICTIM OF TRUCK Two persons were injured .in the city in auto accidents yesterday. James H. Thompson, age 65, of 934 Wheaton street, sustained slight in juries when he was struck late this anoruXug by au automobile being driv en east on Wheaton street by F. C. Edmunds of 704 East 49th street, a police report said. The driver took the injured man to a physician's office and Mr. Thompson asked that no case be made, the report said. About the same time it was report ed to police headquarters Ben Single ton of Bradticket, S. C., was hit by a truck on the east side of the Bay street viaduct. A police report said the driver of the truck, who was un identified, ‘picked up the injured man and continued on its way to South Carolina. The machine bore a South Carolina license tag. WEATHER MAN STATES WARM TEMPERATURE IN CITY AREA SUNDAY Good news for those planning week end excursions wias handed out by the weather prophet yesterday in the shape of the official forecast which read “fair tonight and Sunday with moderate temperatures.” The weather man predicted mod erate easterly winds for today which meant .breezes ranging in velocity from about 12 to 15 miles an hour. High winds in this area caused the hoisting of small craft warnings Fri day morning but the winds abated and later in the day the warning flag wias hauled down. The minimum temperature yester day was 64 degrees at 6:30 o’clock in the morning but at mid-day the mer cury had climbed to the 80 mark and was still ascending. Similar tempera tures, perhaps even a liyje warmer, were looked for today. “MADAME” GUILLOTINE CLAIMS CHILD KILLER SCHWERIN, Germany, May 23 (TP). —An aged German clock re pairman was beheaded today for the murder of 12 boys. The condemned man was a hobo, Adolf Seefeld. In suthem Germany children knew the itinerant clock man as “Uncle Tlck-tock.” Before Seefeld walked to the chopping block he confessed that he had killed 12 of his children admirers. He had spent more than 20 years in mental institutions and prisons. "EARL OF PELHAM” GOES TO TOWER ROBERT E. S. LEE, DOCILE WHEN GIVEN THREE-YEAR PENITENTIARY TERM ON MAIL FRAUD CHARGES. (Special To The Daily Times) ATLANTA, Ga., May 23.—Devoid of the flashy showmanship which had marked his demeanor during the days of his drawn out trial, Robert E. S. Lee, the suave and over-courteous “Earl of Pelham,’ was docile when led from federal courtroom here Sat urday to Fulton tower in custody of United States marshals. Lee was sentenced Saturday to NEW GUFFEY ACT’S FATE RESTS IN HANDS OF LEWIS MILITANT HEAD UNITED MINE UNION CAN AS SUAGE SPLIT WASHINGTON, May 23 (TP).— The fate of the new Guffey coal con trol bill rests in the hands of John L. Lewis—militant head of the United Mine Workers Union—to night. The bill was introduced early this week to replace the Guffey coal law of last year which was declared un constitutional by the supreme court. The measure contains the price fix ing clauses of the original act—but deletes the labor provisions which were the basis of the court s majority opinion. Since the new Guffey bill has been introduced, the coal producers have split among themselves as to the merits of the bill. One group headed by Walter Carter, West Virginia coal producer, opposes any governmental interference in the industry. A larg er group favors the bill But congressional leaders are stay ing away from anything that has the elements of a fight. They feel that all controversial bills should be scrapped in the interests of early ad journment. Lewis, however, who has been silent on the new bill so far can change the picture. If he comes out in fa vor of the bill, congress, in all prob ability will act on it. If he opposes it or remains silent, leaders are in clined to forget about the whole mat ter. BANK OFFICIAL MAY ESCAPE J All DETROIT MAN SEES HOPE FREEDOM IN PLANNED APPEAL DETROIT. May 23 (TP) .—Herbert R. Wilkin, former officer of the Union Industrial Trust and Savings Bank of Flint, Mich., was given hope today of escape from a conviction on a bank charge. Wilkin was found guilty by a fed eral jrry on charges of having made false entries in the books f the Flint bank. Judge Patrik T. Stone fined him $5,000. Wilkin’s attorney claimed that the former banker “had no criminal in tentions—when he made the entries. Judge Stone agreed that it was evi dent the banker “had made a tech nical error,” and granted him 90 days to prepare an appeal. The judge said that if 90 days were not enough, he would be dis posed to grant more time and that he believed that an appeal would free Wilkin of the “stigma” and re sulting from the jury’s verdict. In a similar case tried a year ago, three officers of the First Nat |nal Bank of Detroit were found not guilty. SIX ARE ARRESTED AS BANK ROBBERS HOLDUP SUSPECTS TAKEN IN DETROIT; THREE OTHERS SOUGHT DETROIT, May 23 (TP)—Six per sons were arrested today in connec tion with the $64,000 Detroit bank robbery on May 1. Two men and four women are in custody, and police are searching for thre other men known to have been in the holdup gang. The men arrested are Ray McDowell and Rudolph Brandt. Among the women is Olive Evans, the mother of one of the bandits still at large. Ten dollars of the stolen money was found in Mrs. Evans possession. Police de clined to reveal the names of the other three women held. STEPHENSON ILL FORMER KLAN HEAD HAS NERVOUS BREAKDOWN; IN HOSPITAL MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., May 23 (TP) —The former head of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, D. C. Ste phenson, was taken to the hospital in the Indiana state prison today. Physicians refused to disclose the nature of Stephenson's ailment. Re ports came from the prison that the former klan official suffered a nerv ous breakdown. it was said that he had be®, injured in a dispute with a fellow prisoner- Stephenson is serving a life sen tence on conviction of murder. three years in the federal penitentiary and his co-defendant, William A. Smith, was sentenced to 18 months, following their convictions by a fed eral jury Friday on charges of mail fraud. Lee immediately filed a motion for a new trial. The motion was made returnable on July 25 before Judge William H. Barrett in Augusta. While Smith’s attorney filed notice of In tention <o appeal the case. SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, MAY 24, 1936 $40,000! Who Wouldn’t Smile! ML Mrs. Valerie Huff Vose, 21-year-old former Albertina Rasch dancer, of New York City (above), has been awarded $40,000 damages and annul ment of her marriage to C. Redfield Vose, wealthy broker. Vose married her after a Mexican divorce, which she contended was not legal in New York. (Central Press) PRINCIPALS IN SCHECHTER CASE AGAINST THE NRA NOW BITTER TOWARD BACKERS IN TRIAL BROOKLYN, N. Y., May (TP) Just one year ago next Wednesday the Schechter brothers, who used to sell poultry, were sitting on top of the world. They had handed the New Deal an awful wallop, and many persons appreciated it. Today the four brothers said they had nothing to celebrate this year. “Our business is gone,” they ex plained. “A mortgage is to be fore closed on our father’s home. Nobody will help us.” The Schechter brothers defeated RAILROADS UNITE FOR FARE FIGHT court Attack planned ON I. C. C. ORDER OF LOWER RATES WASHINGTON, May 23 (TP)— More than a score of eastern railroads united today in a court attack on the lower fares ordered by the interstate commerce commission. The two-cents-a-mile basic rate for coach fares and three cents for Pull man fares is scheduled to go Into ef fect on June 1. Today, 23 of the east ern raLroads asked the federal court to grant them a temporary injunction preventing the I. C. C. from pJltmg the rates into effect. The old a’.te is 3.6 cents a mils with a for Pullman fares. Attorneys lor the 23 carriers at tacked the rate reduction as uncon stitutional and unreasonable. They charegd that the commission's ciaim that railroad business would benefit by the reduction is only “only a sur mise or prootu-sy.” , HIKE SHORTENS mcfadden s bunion der- BYISTS PASS THE HALF WAY MARK LITTLE PALLS, N. Y., May 23 (TP)—Bernard McFaddens bunion derbyists passed the halfway mark to lay in their 410 mile hike. Wondering whether cracked wheat is all it’s cracked up to be. The group of health hikers have covered just 290 miles, mostly on a diet of cracked wheat and raisins. Today the ankle wobblers were weigh ed and measured. Out of 58 hikers still on the march, 50 had lost a grand total of 230 pounds, an average of four an da half pounds each'. Four of the hikers showed no change. The dietary rebel of the expedition, Theo dore Adler, gained two pounds, but then, he eats three square meals a day. Mailman M. C. Borror, who is tak ing a postman’s holiday, was the hero of the expedition thus far. He has lost nine pounds. The hikers are still jealous of the bicycle of John Lyons. Lyons is pedaling his way while the rest pound the roads. Some mut ineers are muttering darkly about motorcycles. WANTS TO LOSE JOB; BURNS DOWN SHOP BALTIMORE, May 23 (TP).—Po lice say Ralph Pelowitz contested to day that he tried to burn down his father’s printing shp because he was tired of his job. They are holding the 22-year-old Baltimorean on three charges of ar son. According to the police, h? h 3 set fire to the printing shop e ;h Saturday for the past three weeks so he wouldn't have to work there. .the NRA In the famous "sick chick en" case before the supreme court. Ip this fight, which cost them $20.- ' 000, they were backed by the Amer ican Liberty League. Since then every penny of the Schechters’ savings of $20,000 went into their wholesale poultry busi ness. The business dwindled. Now the house of their father, David Schechter .is going under the ham mer, and they are sad. One of them ; observed that “the Liberty League. I which patted us so hard on the back [ a year ago hasn’t helped us since.” VESSELS TIED UP BY LABOR STRIFF DISPUTES OVER WAGES AND DEMANDS HALTS SHIPS’ SAILINGS SAN FRANCISCO, May 23 (TP) Labor troubles have caused four ves sels to be tied up today at docks in San Francisco and San Pedro. The waterfront employers’ associa tion in San Francisco announced that the steamer “Lewis Luckenbach” has been tied up because the crew de mands a guarantee of transportation from ports where it may encounter labor disputes. The steamer “Jacob Luckenbach” is held at San Pedro because its crew from the gulf ports, is demanding the wages paid to western seamen. The American export freighters “ex ilone” and “Excelsior” also are tied up in San Pedro. The licensed per sonnel of the freighters is from the east coast and is demanding recogni tion of the west coast union. twoTarTkilled IN BELGIAN RIOT MEET DEATH IN SCUFFLE OVER ISSUES AT POLLS TODAY ANTWERP. May 23 (TP).—Two members of the Belgian Socialist par ty were killed today in a scuffle with Fascists over issues in tomorrow's national election. Two women belonging to the Fas cist party were nailing up posters when the Socialists came along and began to heckle them. A crowd gath ered around. Fists and brickbats flew. When police broke up the riot, the two Socialists were crumpled up on the pavement. Authorities termed the incident the first serious trouble in any elec tion campaign since the World war. Tomorrow, a new chamber of depu ties will be elected. The present leading parties, the Socialists and Catholics are expected to retain their strength in the government. HAILE SELASSIE SAILS FOR HAVEN IN ENGLAND HAIFA, Palestine. May 23 (TP) Emp;ror Halle Selassie sailed for Great Britain tonight aboard the 4,000-ton British cruiser Capetown. The emperor will disembark at Gi braltar and continue to London on a liner. He is accompaniedby a party of eight. The overthrown monarch of Ethi opia declined to say how long he plans to remain in England. NEW WTA HEAD NAMED WASHINGTON, May 23 (TP).— WPA Administrator Hopkins appoint ed Don G. Abel of Chehalis, Wash., today as the new WPA director in Washington state. Abel succeeds George Gannon, who was dismissed on charges of mixing his government business affairs with politics. TOWNSEND’S STAND BRINGS SPLIT IN PROBERS’ RANKS COMMITTEE COUNSEL DE SIRE PUT DOCTOR UN DER QUICK ARREST . WASHINGTON, May 23 (TP)— Dissension flared tonight in the ranks of the Bell congressional committee. The fight developed over the way the committee has handled Dr. Town send’s defiant walkout from a hear ing last Thursday. Transradio learned that committee counsel James R. Sullivan was all for immediate action. The minute the doctor left the room, Sullivan de manded that the committee take steps to get the proper papers and arrest the pension leader before he left Washington. Sullivan, it was further learned, an ticipated that the doctor might re fuse to answer questions or try to bolt the committee. The youthful prosecu tor told Transradio that he had pre pared briefs covering all the legal points in the case more than six weeks ago. Thus, he added, when the S2OO a month pension head left the room he was ready for action. All he had to do was reach in his brief case for all the precedents. Sullivan’s attitude, has been backed up by several members of the com mittee—chiefly Representative Hoff man of Michigan. Two members, how ever, are openly opposed to any ac tion. They are the Townsendite rep resentatives—Collins and Tolan of California. Candidacy Approved RIO VISTA, Cal., May 23 (TP).— Twelve hundred Townsendltes roared their unanimous approval this after noon of the candidacy of Sheridan Downey as congressman from the third California district. Downey is opposed by the anti-Townsend man, Representative Frank Buck. The followers of Dr. Francis Town send are seeking to sway the political balance in the state were the famous old age pension plan got its start. The vote for Candidate Downey to day was the second recent congres sional endorsement of the Townsend ites in the present campaign. WANT COUGHLIN MAN FOR SENATE PRIEST’S SECRETARY IS BOOMED TO DISPLACE DETROIT, May 23 (TP).—Peti tions are being circulated in Mich igan tonight boosting Father Cough lin’s secretary as a Democratic can didate to the U. S. senate. Louis 8., Ward is secretary to the “radio priest,” Father Charles E. Coughlin. Ward was formerly an executive of a Detroit advertising agency. He has been active in Washington on behalf of Father Covghlin for the past several months. About a year ago, it was rumored that Father Coughlin tried to secure Ward’s nomination to the Republican candidacy for the senate. According to reports. Coughlin wanted Ward to displace Senator James Couzens. Ward’s only comment on the Democratic petition is—“l’ve seen them, but I don’t know who is re sponsible for their circulation.” Asked if he would like to have the senato rial post, Ward countered with the question—“wouldn’t you?” ACT DISSOLUTION SOUGHT BY LABOR WASHINGTON, May 23 (TP) Railway labor organizations and many railway companies are uniting to force the natural death of the office of the Federl Transportation Coordinator. The office headed by Joseph East man expires on June 16. Railroad management objects to many phases of the national coordinating act. Lead ing rail executives threaten to hold back payment of their assessments to support the act if it is extended. Labor strenuously opposes continua tion of the federal authority which may merge more railroad systems. With the settlement of the recent wage dismissal dispute, labor’s inter est in the act has apparently ended. DILL WANTS NEW TRIAL MT. VERNON. Ihio, May 23 (TP) —An attorney for former Senator Clarence Dill and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Grace Dill, filed a motion today asking a new trial of the alienation of affections suit which went against them. A jury had held that they must pay $5,000 heart balm to Margie Dill, the former wife of Dill’s nephew. She had charged that they alienated the affections of her former husband. BUSINESS IN NATION SHOWS GROWING STRENGTH MAGAZINE INDEX REVEALS NEW YORK, May 23 (TP).—Busi ness showed growing strength in the United States during the last week in the face of political uncertainties, occording to the index of the maga zine, Business Week. Foreign busi ness indicators were less steady. The armament race is worrying European nations, the mage fine learned. English building picked up. but the British were worried by the prospect of devalved French cur rency. WORLD’S NAVAL CIRCLES STIRRED BY NEWS THAT UNITED STATES PLANS TO BUILD BIGGER NAVY BLOODY BATTLE CAUSED BY RAID ON NAZI FORCES AUSTRIAN POLICE STAGE VIENNA CLEAN-UP ON FOES VIENNA, May 23 (TP)—Austrian police are smashing down on secret Nazi clubs tonight. Raid after raid is being made to arrest persons who are believed responsible for the attack on the castle of Prince Von Starhemberg. Two Nazis were killed in the as sault on the Waxemberg castle of Von Starhemberg, who is the former leader of the Fatherland front army. Supposedly, the Nazis attempted to seize the stores of rifles, machine guns, and bullets piled up in the ar senal at the castle. The raiders climb ed over the castle walls. Police and Heimwehr guards were thickly posted inside the grounds on advance inform ation that the attack was coming. Guns flashed between the two forces. The Naziis broke and ran. One of the attackers was instantly killed. One died later in a hospital. Eight were captured. It was reported that the leader escaped over the nearby border of Czechoslavakia. This even ing Austrian authorities raided Nazi headquarters in Linez and other upper Austrian towns. They arrested eight more Nazis accused of the march on the Starhemberg castle. LEAPSTODAY j SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL TO JUMP FROM PLANE DESPITE COPS NEW YORK, May 23 (TP)—Six teen-year-old Winifred Bayer wants to take up parachuting as a career, be cause she thinks it’s “safe and sane.” Tlyj authorities kept a watchful eye on ‘'Winifred today, though, because they think a high school girl should stay on the ground. Tomorrow, says Winifred, she’s go -1 ing to make a 2.000-fdot parachute 1 jump regardless of the police. She plans to leap out into space over ! Hicksville, Long Island, at 4 p.m. She believes that ,if she lands on private _ property the police can’t do a thing about it. Her father, William Bayer, has given her permission to make ’ the flight. Two weeks ago Winifred was de nied official permission to jump over the Jamaica airport, and the girl ’ and her pilot were nearly killed when she tried to jump anyway. Her para ; chute became tangled. The pilot jerked Winifred into the cockpit. Her : head hit the control stick and the J plane dove 500 feet before It could be controlled. WATERWAYS PROJECT i SUBJECT OF MEETING HERE BY ENGINEERS The deepening of the intracoastal : waterway between Savannah and 1 Cape Fear will be the subject of considerable study with the meeting of the special waterway board tomor row in Savannah. The proposal to deepen ths line has been under care ful study for several months, and it is hoped that a favorable report will be made by the members of the board shortly. Lieut. Col. Carswell Garlington, U. ’ S. district engineer in Savannah; Capt. Frederick T. Bass of Charles ton, and Maj. Ralph Millis of Wil mington are the members of the board. A FREE THRILLER WHEELING, W. Vg., May 23 (TP). —A circus parade was turned into a riotous uproar to day when four horses pulling the lions cage ran away down the main street of Wheeling. The parade of Cole Brothers and Clyde Beatty circus was go ing along the main street when suddenly the horses started run ning top speed down a stepe hill. Beatty’s lions clawing furiously at the bars—threatening to crash through the cage. Screaming, pan ic stricken crowds rushed for cover. Just as the lions were about to tear their way out of the cage the cool headed driver saved the day by bringing the run-away horses under control. The parade resumed but with a few less onlookers. In France business was slack, while the nation waited to see what the new Socialist government will do. Soviet Russia is concerned largely with producing more gold and build ing more airplanes. In the United States, retail trad? i maintained a fair margin over a year ago. The oil industry was nerv ous because of Increased production and higher prices, and a price war was feared, the magazine said. The automotive and lumber industries showed substantial strength. Published every day excepting Saturdays. ■■ Five cents per copy Sundays. Delivered to your home fifteen Wf cents per week. WEEK DAYS PAY NO MORE TRANSRADIO PRESS BIG APPROPRIATION BILL NEEDS ONLY F. D. R.’S SIGNATURE TO BE LAW WASHINGTON, May 23 (TP) Naval circles throughout the world were stirred tonight by news that Uncle Sam’s big navy program is go ing ahead. House and Senate conferees met to day and agreed on fittal terms of the navy appropriation bill. The measure calls for more than half a billion dol lars to spend on ships, airplanes and naval equipment. Never in the history of the nation has such a sum been set aside, except in times of war. The measure will go to the House and Senate for acceptance of the con ference report, then be sent to Pres ident Roosevelt to be signed. It ]|>ro vides for 12 destroyers, six submarines, 333 airplanes and for construction of two huge battleships if a naval build ing race develops. The large appropriation is regarded as an outcome of the breakdown of naval limitation treaties and as a re sult of the warlike graundswells which are moving through the rorld. « The largest peace-time nt.y approp- J riation bill in history needed only the President’s signature tonight to be come law. The half billion dollar bill author izes the President to order construc tion of two new battleships if other parties to the London naval treaty start a building race. BURGLAR ROBS SAVANNAH HOME Clothing, silverware and an unde termined amount of money was stol en by a burglar who ransacked the home of Irving Gottlieb, 25 East 33rd street, in the absence of the family last night. When members of the household returned home shortly be fore 11 o’clock they found the place had been ransacked. Investigation by City Detectives Charles Kaminsky and W. H. Sapp showed the man had effected an en trance by removing a screen in a back window. Information given po lice was that the window itself was unlocked. Men and women’s cloth ing was removed as well as some sil ver and money. Late last night a check was being made to establish the amount of the loot. Irving Gtotte •- lieb is the owner of Gottlieb's Bakery at 1601 Bull street. IN TIGHT PLACE DETECTIVE SERGT. ELLIS HOWEVER SQUEEZES OUT WITH EVIDENCE There are times when Detectives Sergt. T. H. Ellis is called upon to take into custody a “tough customer” and at the moment wishes he was a much larger man- But last night the sergeant was sorry that he didn’t have the general proportions of a midget. It was because of a quantity of liquor which Sergt. Ellis and Detec tive S. W. Coursey siezed t. the home of Caesar Green, 623 West Anderson street, a negro. Detective Coursey grabbed the prisoner and held -him. Sergt. Ellis set forth to collect the evidence. He crawled on his stomach under Green’s house, which stood just about 18 inches from the ground. Puffing and blowing, the sergeant made his way to the cache of two ten-gallon kegs of liquor. He rolled them out and then went majnfully back to confiscate a hose, funnel and a quantity of empty bottles. Sergt. Ellis and Detectives Charles Kaminsky and * '. H. Sapp also ar rested Albert Lewis, negho, of 306 Lorch street on a dry charge yester day. They said they found 77 gallons of whisky in the man’s home at the address given. NEGRO MURDERED IN FREE-FOR-ALL FIGHT Willie Nelson, colored, was stabbed to death last night in a free for all fight at the home of Willie Grant in Mutual Quarters, a negro settlement in Millhaven. As a result of the fight, Nelson is dead, and Grant and his wife, Vir ginia. are in the Georgia Infirmary. Grant is seriously cut but his wife is only slightly wounded. DAMAGE SLIGHT IN HOUSE FIRE Slight damage was done to the ser vants’ quarters, a frame structure in the rear of the home of Miss Georgia E. Wood, 102 West 36th street, by a blaze of unknown origin yesterday afternoon. An alarm from Box 126 brought out Fire Companies No. 5 and 6 at 4:31 o'clock yesterday aft ernoon. The fire was located between the walls of the servant home. It was quickly extinguished. NABBED FOR SPEEDING C. A. Fountain, a taxi driver, will face Recorder H. Mercer Jordan in police court Tuesday morning on the charge of speeding at the rate of 40 miles an hour on Whitaker street from Jones to Hall streets. Police Officer S. G. Scott nabbed the speeder at 11:50 o'clock Friday night.
