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VOLUME 2—NUMBER 127
NRA ‘UNDOERS’
AT CRUCIAL STAGE
AS FRIENDS QUIT
SCHECHTER BROTHERS RE
MAIN GRIM AS FRIENDS
DESERT THEM
BROOKLYN. N. Y., May 27 (TP)
One year ago today the four Schech
ter brothers from Brooklyn came
chortling out of the U. S. Supreme
Court building in Washington with
the scalp of the blue. Their victory
over the NRA In the famous Sick
Chicken Case will get only a passing
look from Joseph, Aaron, Martin, Alex
and Papa David Schechter, today.
They all have more important things
to think about. The Schechter poultry
business is bankrupt and Papa
Schechter’s home is about to be gob
bled up in a mortgage foreclosure.
The youngest Schechter brother,
Aaron, was downcast as could be to
day. ' Yes”, he said, “all those men
who backed us up in our fight against
the NRA were pretty excited last year.
They sent us nice letters and some of
them sent us a few dollars. Where
ire they now? We’re bankrupt, all
Hght. Right against the wall.”
Somebody asked Papa Schechter
yhat he thought about the whole at
air “Makes no difference,” said he,
T am a Democrat, as usual. I am for
Vfr. Roosevelt and I am a Democrat,
lure.”
NEW ‘FODDER’ FOR
JURISTS’ HEARINGS
BAR ASSOCIATION PROM
ISES MORE EVIDENCE OF
MISCONDUCT TRIAL
CHICAGO, May 27 (TP)—Officials
of the Chicago Bar Association ex
tended their hearings today to in
clude still more judges accused of
Judicial misconduct.
Eight Chicago Judges charged with
political electioneering were question
ed by the Bar Association officials re
garding their actlvtea dur ng the re
cent Illinois primaries. The officials
refused to discuss the outcome of the
hearings.
They declared, however, that other
Judges would be summoned before
their committee on professional eth
ics in the near future. 41 of Chi
cago's 47 Judges threaten to break
all contacts with the association if
the hearings continue. They insist
that the dignity of their Judicial rank
is lowered by investigations of law
yers who practice in their courts.
FIORENZA’S FATE
IN JURY’S HANDS
ALLEGED SLAYER OF MRS.
TITTERTON AWAITS
VERDICT
NEW YORK, May 27 (TP).—A
general sessions court jury is expect
ed to begin deliberations on the fate
of John Fiorenza some time today.
Fiorenza Is the young upholsterer’s
clerk who is charged with the mur
der of Mrs. Nancy Evans Titterton.
Mrs. Titterton, the wife of a radio
executive, was found slain in her
Beekman Place apartment on Good
Friday.
Prosecution attorneys centered
their case on the argument that Fio
renza was sane at the time of the
slaying. Defense attorneys, arguing
against the worth of the confession
Fiorenza allegedly made upon his ar
rest, introduced alienists who testi
fied that the defendant was insane.
Both sides have summed up their
cases and Judge Charles C. Nott is
expected to charge the jury when
court reopens today.
INSANITYDEFENSE
WINS ACQUITTAL
WOMAN, ALLEGED HATCH
ET KILLER, RELEASED
BY MARYLAND JURY
CHESTERTOWN. Md„ May 27
(TP) —Murder charges against Mrs.
Thelma Buxton were erased from the
books today.
Mrs. Buxton, the wife of a Wash
ington college chemistry professor,
was accused of the hatchet slajing
of her mother-in-law at Chestertown
last September. Her trial was twice
postponed because of Mrs. Buxton's
illness.
Defense attorneys based their case
on an insanity plea. The accused
woman’s husband testified that he
had prevented his wife from taking
her own life before the slaying oc
curred .
A Jury which heard the case re
quired more than seven hours to re
turn a verdict. The Jurors finally
ruled that Mrs. Buxton was insan?
at the tlm" of the murder and added
their opinion that the college profes
sor’s wife is still mentally unbalanced.
KIMBAL NAMED HEAD
Oscar A. Kimbal, well known Sa
vannah plumber, was re elected piesi
dent of the Georgia State Association
of Master Plumbars at the annual
convention concluded yesterday in
Valdosta.
Two other Savannahians were
•leebed to office. Hugh Cokman was
Chosen vice president and S. N. Boyd
Was named secretary and treasurer.
S nuoiuWOffliii lij Simes
Legal Wheels Moving
In State Indictments
Os Black Legion Gang
DETROIT, Mich., May 27 (TP).—,
Developments in the Michigan
"Black Legion’ ’case moved with be
wildering speed today as state au
thorities sent out a call for a thor
ough investigation.
Jury Probe Ordered
Attorney General David Crowley
declared a grand jury will start im
mediately to sift the activities of the
hooded riders in every comer of the
state. At the same time, Prosecutor
Duncan McCrea flatly denied he was
a member of the fantastic secret so
ciety.
McCrea threatened to start a
1100.000 libel suit against a Detroit
newspaper for publishing a ’ Legion’’
facci mi 1 e application apparently
signed by him. The prosecutor ex
plained he signed- many applications
to join political organizations during
his campaign two years ago.
Twelve confessed members of the
“Black Legion” appeared in a De
troit court today to tell their stories
concerning the death of WPA Work
er Charles Poole. It was an inves
tigation of Pooles death that dis
closed the "Black Legion,” which is
believed to have tenacles of power in
every state of the Union and to in
clude 6,000,000 members.
The courtroom was jammed with 1
deputy sheriffs who are guarding the
defendants against any possiblt at
tacks on onlookers.
The 12 are named by police as the
self-appointed "executioners’’ of
JERSEY’S FOREST
FIRES BELIEVED
UNDER CONTROL
WIDE AREA STATE LAYS
CHARRED, BLACKENED
BY FLAMES
TUCKERTON, N. J., May 27 (TP)
More than 100 square miles of South
Jersey pine forest lay charred and
blackened under today’s dawn.
Flames which swept the area, tak
ing five lines and menacing a dozen
towns and villages, burned them
selves out after a long battle in
which hundreds civilian conservation
workers, soldiers, forest wardens and
volunteers took part.
Except for a minor blaze near War
ren Grove, the forest fire appeared
over. Labelled the worst forest
blaze in New Jersey’s hstory, the
fire piled up an enormous property
damage and played havoc among the
plentiful wild game of the area.
Three of the fire victms, John La
Faile, Edward Sullivan and Stanley
Carr, were OCC worke?s. The other
two were residents of the vicinity
who joined volunteer fire patrols
when the flames threatened their
homes. Nine others are suffering
from serious burns at the Camp Dix
army hospital and at a Lakewood,
New Jersey, hospital.
NEW TRIAL SOUGHT
IN FLOGGING CASE
“OUTSIDE INFLUENCE” IS
SUE TO BE DETERM
INED IN PLEA
BARTOW, Fla.. May 27 (TP).—
Counsel for five former Tampa po
licemen will go before a Bartow
court today and plead for a new
trial in the long-standing Tampa
flogging case.
A six-man jury last Saturday
found the policemen guilty of kid
naping Eugene Poulnot, a labor agi
tator, in the triple-flogging that
brought the death of one man. The
defendants face prison terms of from
two to ten years each.
Chief Defense Attorney Pat Whit
aker announced that he would base
his new trial plea on the contention
that the Jury had formed an opinion
before any defense arguments were
offered. Whitaker maintained that
he had proof that outside influence
was brought to bear on the jury,
thereby making a fair trial impos
sible.
“QUEEN MARY” READY FOR MAIDEN
VOYAGE WITH RECORD TRIP AS GOAL
BULLETIN.
SOUTHAMPTON, England,
May 27 (TP)—The giant liner,
Queen Mary, has started her
maiden cruise to New York. The
challenger to the Lormandie’s
trans-Atlantic speed record left
the docks at Southampton at
noon. Seven tugs are moving
her out of the harbor.
SOUTHAMPTON. England May 27
(TP). —A sea of humanity flowed
into Southampton today as the hour
approached for the first sailing of
John Bull’s new super-liner, the
“Queen Mary,”
Before the hoarse blast of the 80.-
773-ton vessel announces that she is
ready to slip her cables and head
for open water, more than a half
million people from all sections of
the British empire are expected to
be on hand to cheer the ocean Go
liath’s departure.
A total of 2,650 passengers will be
aboard the "Queen Mary” when the
Poole, who was slain by the "Black
Legion” early this month. Poole’s
death and the subsequent police ex
amination uncovered the hooded clan
and started a probe which has turned
up new, startling evidence of the or
ganization’s power in rapid-fire sash
ion.
Latest developments in the "Black
Legion” investigation include hints
that the "Black Legion” cairied a
woman’s auxiliary which aided in the
hooded clan's grim work. Another
unofficial theory was that the
“Black Legion” was responsible for
the fire which destroyed the Re l ,
Charles E. Coughlin’s Shrine of the
Little Flower at Royal Oak, Mich.
in March.
The "Black Legion” probe has
spread to all corners of and into
Ohio, where the mystic band is also
believed to have built up a powerful
organization. At Lima, Ohio, V. F«
Effinger, reputed head of the order,
was quoted as claiming a national
membership of more than 5,000,000.
Effinger denied that the slaying of
Poole, or other killings traced by
Michigan authorities to the "Black
Legion" actually were connected with
the clan.
More indictments are expected at
Langsing, Mich., where five men, in
cluding prison guard, Ray Ernest, al
ready are charged with kidnaping
and flogging a relief worker who
tried to withdraw from the organiza
tion.
AIR BRAVERY
AVIATOR TELLS PROBERS
HOW HE STEERED PLANE
TO GROUND
CHICAGO, May 27 (TP).—Pilot
Edward Coates told investigators in
a matter of fact way today of how
he landed a giant transport airplane
90 seconds after it caught fire.
Coates took off in an American
Airlines plane with one passenger
and a government mail courier on a
scheduled run to Detroit. At a 200-
foot altitude, the pilot said, he dis
covered smoke seeping through the
floor. With a warning shout to his
passengers, Coates dropped the plane
toward the field.
All three men climbed out of the
flaming liner before it came to a
complete stop. A few second later,
one of the gasoline tanks exploded,
splattering burning gas through the
ship. The plane was a skeleton of
twisted metal within a few minutes.
Coates was the only one suffering
from serious burns. Hospital au
thorities said today thet he would
recover.
ANThSTRIKEVOTE
TAKEN BY LABOR
TYPEWRITER COMPANY TO
ALLOW EMPLOYES CAST
THEIR BALLOTS
SYRACUSE, N. Y., May 27 (TP)
Officials of the Remington-Rand
Company were confident today that
noon would s:e enough anti-strike
ballots cast by employes to permit
reopening the company’s Syracuse
plant.
Company heads maintain that a
vast majority of their workers are
against the strike call which affected
six of the firm's factories. Plants af
fected by the walkout order Included
factories in Syracuse, Hion and
Tonawanda. N. Y.; Middletown, Con
necticut, and Marietta and Norwood,
Ohio.
Labor leaders called the strike in
a drive for higher wages and the re
employment of a score of workers al
legedly discharged for radical activi
ties. The workers’ ballot was con
ducted by city officials heeded by
Mayor Rolland Marvin of Syracuse.
Later returns, as reported by Mayor
Marvin, showed that 396 workers
voted against a strike, while only five
balloted in favor of the walkout.
Rmington-Rand officials announced
that when 500 workers had voted
against th? strike order, preparations
will be made to reopen the plant.
liner edges out from her pier, turns
in the Solent river and points to
ward the English Channel and her
first port of call, Cherbourg, France
Every step of the sailing, from the
arrival of the first passengers aboard
the special boat trains heading for
Southampton from London, to the
roar of the liner’s huge engines will
be broadcast throughout the world.
The “Queen Mary” is slated to
make a fovr-day crossing to New
York. Those who built the gigantic
liner hope that her maiden voyage
will see all records for the crossing
broken. The present record is held
by the "Queen Mary’s” only rival in
size, the French liner “Normandie”
which raced across the Atlantic at
an average speed of 30.35 knots an
hour. Speed tests staged by tha
"Queen Mary” demonstratde she can
reach a top speed of 32.84 knots—
but that pace was set only in brief
spurts.
The sailing hour is set ft* 4:30
p.m. London time, or 11:30 son.
Eastern Daylight Time.
SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1936
*'Lucky” Poses
This rare picture of Charles
(Lucky) Luciano, New York’s vice
overk-rd was snapped as he was
entering the prison van from the
court where he was standing trial.
Ten of his alleged henchmen were
tried with him.
(Central Press)
LABOR MILITANT
AGAINST DEMANDS
OF FEDERATION
WASHINGTON IS SCENE OF
ULTIMATUM ISSUED
TO LEWIS
WASHINGTON. May 27 (TP).—
Organized labor leaders in Washing
ton were unanimous in their refusal
to discuss the American Federation
of Labor's , ultimatum to President
John Lewis of the United Mine Work
ers.
The American Federation of Labor
has ordered Lewis to disband his
committee for industrial organization
which is seeking to start one union
for each mass production industry.
The ultimatum is supposed to expire
June 3.
Members of Lewis’ committee re
fused to comment as did the militant
mine leader. United Mine Worker
officials pointed out that Lewis has
routine worries of his own union to
day.
The United Mine Workers execu
tive committee is meeting in Wash
ington today. No major problems are
scheduled for discussion, but mine
leaders say Lewis has to iron out a
lot of routine local matters. It Is be
lieved that the committee will not
make any public announcement on
the A. F. O. L. ultimatum.
FLAMES STILL ROARING
WOOD RIVER JUNCTION, R. 1.,
May 27 (TP) —A forest fire that
swept uncontrolled for hours through
heavy pine timberlands in the town
of Richmond is still blazing today over
a smaller area.
The fire has devastated an area
two-miles square and threatened many
farm homes. More than 500 firemen.
CCC boys and volunteer workers are
battling the blaze. Rangers said it
was one of the most serious in years
in the south country.
WASHINGTON FLASHES
WASHINGTON, May 27 (TP)
The Senate Finance Committee went
back to tinkering with corporation
levies in their tax planning today in
response to Presidential demands.
The White House conference with
Mr. Roosevelt re opened discussion of
the tax bill —just when the important
.measure appeared ready for debate
in the senate. Yet' Senate Majority
Leader Robinson was quick to deny
today that the President's demand for
a return to his original tax plan would
keep Congress in session beyond June
6.
Reports said the President once
more pushed his original corporate
tax program before the visiting com
mitteemen. This, he said, is what
he wants for a tax bill. If a straight
corporation tax is retained, then the
President wants a high super-tax on
undistributed corporation earnings.
No hard and fast method of raising
the needed revenue was pressed for
ward. But there was no discussion
about anything but corporation taxes.
The sweeping Presidential proposals
dealt an unexpected blow to commit
teemen who hoped to get their revised
tax bill onto the floor right away.
FLORIDA CANAL NOT ‘DEAD’
WASHINGTON. May 27 (TP)—
Notice that President Roosevelt is far
from abandoning his fight for the
Florida ship canal and the Passam
aquoddy Dam project lies in a new
resolution passed by the Senate Com
merce Committee.
The committee, by a 12 to 5 vote,
okayed a proposal which would give
President Roosevelt authority to allo
cate $19,000,000 from relief funds for
SCORES OF TEXAS
TOWNS MENACED
BY RISING WATERS
RICH WHEAT BELT IS
SOAKED HEAVY RAINS;
FARMS HARD HIT
DALLAS, May 27 (TP). —Scores of
Texas communities are besieged by
flood water today as heavy rains
continue to fall over vast areas of the
state.
In Houston, the level of the Buf
falo bayou rose 13 feet above normal
after a deluge of more than 14
inches. Merchants moved their stock
to higher ground when the weathe
bureau warned that more rain is on
the way.
The rich wheat belt in the Texas
panhandle is soaked, but grain ex
perts at Amarillo declared the rain
fall came too late to aid the crop.
They predicted that not one field in
20 will have a crop worth harvesting
this fall.
More than 100 farm families in
lowland districts over most of the
state prepared to evacuate as waters
crept over their fields. The level of
the Colorado river at Austin is seven
feet above normal. The water has
cut off traffic over a score of bridges.
UTILITY MAGNATE
TO FACE ICKES
IN POWER TRIAL
FORMER MEMBER OF RE
SERVE BOARD TO
TESTIFY
SAN ANTONIO, Tex., May 27 (TP)
—The resigned Federal Reserve Board
member, R. W. Morrison, is under
subpoena today to testify in a case
against Interior Secretary Harold
Ickes involving $50,000,000 in PWA
power project!.
The plaintiff is the Community
Public Service Company of Texas,
which seeks to enjoin use of Public
Works funds on two southwest river
poer projects. The projects Include
one for $20,000,000 on the Colorado
River and another for $30,000,000 on
the Brazos River in Texas.
Morrison, who is a former utility
magnate, received the legal order to
appear before a U. S. Commissioner
for a hearing. The Public Service
Company attorneys are attacking the
validity of federal loans for power
and reclamation projects. They asked
to have Morrison testify in San An
tonio concerning his dealings with
Ickes.
Morrison has tendered his resigna
tion as a member of the Federal Re
serve Board. The resignation is now
before President Roosevelt for ap
proval.
TIRE PLANT WORKERS
FACE COURT TODAY AS
STRIKE AFTERMATH
AKRON, Ohio. May 27 (TP)—
Twenty-nine Goodyear Tire and Rub
ber Company employes are slated for
arraignment in court today on riot
ing charges.
Company officials maintain the
work e rs held one of the Goodyear
plants for 12 hours last week during
a “sit down” strike. The strikers, ac
cording to company complaints, herd
ed plant foremen and non-striking
workers into a “’bull-pen” and stood
guard over them during the strike.
The Akron central labor union
termed the arrest of the 29 workers
an attempt to intimidate strikers. Th?
labor heads sad arrest of the strikers
was deliberately held up until late
Saturday night. Then, the labor of
ficials charged, the men were placed
under heavy bond which was virtually
impossible to procure at that time.
work on the canal and the ’Quoddy”
projects. The resolution also would
permit the President to appoint two
new boards of review to survey the
two projects, the President's actions
to depend on their opinions.
WPA CASH SPEEDED
WASHINGTON, May 27 (TP)
Speed was the order of the day as far
as Senate action on the administra
tion’s $1,425,000,000 WPA appropria
tion is concerned.
The full Senate Appropriations
Committee met this morning to con
sider a sub committee report. Al
though the contents of this report has
been kept secret, it is understood to
approve the administration’s plan to
make Relief Chief Hopkins the sole
distributor of the new fund. Barring
unforseen committee debate, leaders
expect to send the deficiency approp
riations bill—which includes the
WPA money—to the senate late today
or early tomorrow.
BAKER AND McCABE OUSTED
WASHINGTON, May 27 (TP)
The Commerce Department dismissed
Virgil Baker and Joseph McCabe from
the Steamboat Inspection Service to
day. Several months ago, the two
men were suspended from duty at San
Juan, Puerto Rico. They were charged
with receiving certain gratuities from
steamboat companies. A Jury exoner
ated from after a long trial.
The Commerce Department, how
ever. undertook its own investigation.
As a result of this inquiry, the de
partment announced today they were
dismissing the men from the service
in view of all the fact the« had col
lected.
Wants "Phobic Chains” Broken
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Prof. William Ellery Leonard, 60-year-old poet and member of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin faculty, and his third wife (both above) are at
parting of the ways. The bride, who was one of his students and is
thirty years his junior, could not cope with Dr. Leonard’s fear of distance,
which has kept him a prisoner within five blocks of his home for years.
(Central Press)
1492 NOT 1929?
CHICAGO, May 27 (TP)
Some of the students aft Chicago
university insist that the late
lamented depression was all the
fault of just one man—Chris
topher Columbus.
The members of the interna
tional house at the university are
going to try to settle the matter
with a debate tonight.
One side will hold that Colum
bus was too curious about who
the other half of the world lived.
They say if he had been more con
tent to stay at home, there would
have been no Pilgrims, no pioneers,
and no economic tailspin in 1929.
The subject of the debate is
announced as, “Resolved—that we
deplore the international incident
>f 1492.”
CRISIS REACHED
IN RACIAL WAR
JEW-ARAB SITUATION BE
COMES ALARMING IN
FAR EAST
JERUSALEM, May 27 (TP)—Panic
stricken residents of Palestine cities
waited anxiously today for the arriv
al of British reinforcements from
Cairo.
The British troops are enroute to
Palestine in what was described by
authorities as a routine movement.
However, it is generally understood
that rush orders to move the Egyptian
forces to Palestine came after Arab
uprisings grew steadily more fierce.
Strong detachments of police and
British soldiers kept the situation fair
ly well in hand at Jerusalem, although
the general strike still raged in that
city. In other Palestine towns, how
ever, the Arabian rioters were report
ed attacking Jewish settlers, bombing
their homes and stores and sniping
at farm workers from the hills.
One of the worst clashes occured
at Nablus, where troops fired volley
after volley at Arab insurgents. At
Gaza, British troops clashed with
rioters and scattered them after a
pitched battle in which several Arabs
were wounded.
OFFICIALSBITTER
ADVISED BY GOVERNOR TO
DRIVE OUT RELIEF
LOAFERS
LANSING, Mich., May 27 (TP)—
Officials of a uozen Michigan town
ships returned from a conference to
day, determined to follow some hard
boiled advice on relief problems.
The men di-cussed the relief sit
uation in their towns with Governor
Frank Fitzgerald at the state capital.
The Governor warned them to clear
the relief rolls of “able-bodied drones’’.
Public money, Fitzgerald said, should
be reserved for the needy.
Said Fitzgerald: “It’s up to you
community leaders to take the clock
watching loafers off the relief rolls
and put them back to work. You’ll
have to drive them to it or they’ll
stay where they are forever."
SHORT-COMINGS OF SILK STOCKINGS
DELAYS SAILING OF OCEAN LINER
NEW YORK. May 27 (TP).—The
American export liner "Exchorda”
is bound for the Mediterranean today
with Mrs. Lillian Molony aboard.
Adorning Mrs. Molony’s shapely
shins are a pair of brand new silk
stockings. Around those stocking?
revolves the story of the “Exchor
da s’’ delayed sailing that came near
bringing apoplexy to some of the
liner’s shorter-tempered officers.
Mrs. Molony and her mother, Mrs.
Catherine Real, boarded the "Ex
chorda" at Jersey City several min
utes before sailing time. Then Mrs.
Molony decided £he needed a new
pair of stockings. Her car, manned
by her chauffeur, was still on the
pier, so Mrs. Molony took the wheel,
left her chauffeur with her mother
and drove off, in search of stockings.
TOWNSEND AIDES
TO OBEY SUMMONS
IN BELL HEARING
CONGRESSIONAL COMMIT
TEE SURE THAT AIDES
WILL TESTIFY
WASHINGTON, May 27 (TP)
Members of the Bell Congressional
Committee are hopeful that two of Dr.
F. E. Townsend's lieutenants will ap
pear before their group today, despite
Townsend’s orders to ignore congress
ional subpoenas.
The two officers of Townsend’s
S2OO-a month Old Age Pension organ
ization who have indicated that they
will answer the subpoenas are Captain
Charles Hawkes, Massachusetts Town
send manager, and Alfred Wright,
Ohio manager for the Pension Plan
organization.
- Word that Wright and . Hawkes
would appear came soon after two
other Townsend leaders, Jack Kiefer
of Chicago, and Dr. Clinton Wunder
of New York, failed to put in an ap
pearance before the Bell House Com
mittee investigating the Townsend
Plan.
Chairman C. Jasper Bell refused to
say whether Kiefer and Dr. Wunder
will be included in the contempt pro
ceedings expected to be brought
against Dr. Townsend. A drive for a
contempt citation against Townsend
was started when the Pension Plan
sponsor walked out of a hearing and
ordered his subordinates to refuse to
testify before the Bell Committee.
LEHMAN IS DEAF
TO GEOGHAN QUIZ
NEW YORK GOVERNOR NOT
TO PROBE CHARGES ON
OFFICIAL
NEW YORK, May 27 (TP)—A
Brooklyn special grand jury has Gov
ernor Herbert Lehman’s second re
fusal to make immediate investigaton
of charges against District Attorney
William F. g. Geoghan.
The jury, through Foreman Horace
Daugherty, made its first recommend
ation that Geoghan be removed for
inefficiency in a letter sent Lehman
last week. The Governor refused to
take immediate steps, explaining he
intended to wait until the special
grand jury finished its deliberation
of a murder case in which Geoghan
was superceded as prosecutor by a
special district attorney appointed by
the Governor.
The grand Jurors sent a second let
ter to Albany, urging the Governor
to reconsider his first stand. In a sec
ond reply, Lehman flatly refused to
alter his decision. The New York
Governor explained that in his opin
ion, both good government and just
ice would best be served by delaying
any inquiry until after the trial. Sev
eral persons, Including one of Geog
han's assistants, are under indictment
on bribery and conspiracy charges
growing out of the murder case.
Sailing time came, but no Mrs. Mo
lony. Mrs. Real pleaded with ship’ s
officers for a few minutes delay be
fore casting off. Time went by and
still no Mrs. Molony. The officers
consulted their watches, and paced
the deck restlessly.
Finally, when steamship officials
had decided to give the sailing or
der, a truck rumbled around the cor
ner of the pier. On the seat beside
the driver was Mrs. Molony, the new
stockings clutched tightly in her
hand.
“I ran out of gas," she explained
breathlessly, as she scurried up the
gangplank.
The ’ Exchorda,” her whistle
sounded resentful at all this delay
over a pair of stockings, cast °ff and
started for Europe,
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in diverse fields of activity
joined here today in extending
congratulations to Savannah’s
new evening and Sunday daily
newspaper, The Savannah Daily
Times, and to its publisher, Mr.
King Dixon.
Finley Felicitate*
Among the first in the nation's fi
nancial capital to extend his beet
wishes was Dr. John Finley, associate
editor of the New York Times and
president of the English spaeking
union. Dr. Finley, nationally promi
nent author and educator said today,
“I am always pleased to learn of the
entrance of a new journal into the
daily field. Newspapers are adequate
barometers of our economic trend
and it is, therefore, encouraging new*
to learn that Mr. Dixon has chosen
this time to start publication of a
new daily newspaper. I hope that It
enjoys all possible success and pros
perity.”
Another prominent newspaperman
to extend congratulations was Harry
-H. Nason, Jr., managing editor of the
crusading New York Evening Post of
which Mr. J. David Stern is publish
er. “The advent of a new daily in the
city of Savannah should be welcomed
as a sign of economic and educational
progress. The Daily. Times should
serve as another Important medium
of public opinion. There is always
room for an alert, aggressive newspa
per. Savannah readers will clos.ly
watch the policies of The Times and
publisher. Mr. Dixon may be relied
upon to make those policies public
spirited and community-minded.”
Earl Pearson, general manager of
the advertising federation of Amer
ica s-id: “All best wishes to Pub
lisher Dixon and his new newspaper.
It is a worthy undertaking. Savan
nah should be proud of so enterpris
ing a newspaperman as Mr. Dixon
who is helping to pilot the way to
a new era in American prosperity.”
Sees City Benefited
Gilbert T. Hodges, member of' the
executive board of the New .York
Sun, stated: "Mr, Dixon", and Yhe
Times have a responsibility to the
city of Savannah which I feel cer
tain they will shoulder to the utmost
possible benefit to their readers. It is
the newspapers of the state—those
strong forc:s for editorial and educa
tional work among the people—which
determine the course of events in our
nation. Savannah is the home of good
clean and progressive journalism and
I am glad to have an opportunity to
send our best wishes to Mr. Dixon on
his admirable new enterprise.”
Speaking through its president
Mrs. Thomas J. Vivian, the congrs^?’ 5 *
of states society, of which the sock
of Georgia women of New York ?
member, said: “I am happy to
my own congratulations as well
to speak for our many Georgia mem
bers in congratulating The Savan
nah Times on its enterance Into the
daily evening field. It is nice to know
that the ‘Cracker’ state is still pro
ducing its own editoria leaders such ,
as Mr. King Dixon among the jour- j
nalists of the nation. I know that our 1
‘expatriate’ Georgia members will be
delighted to her the news.”
Stockbridge Sends Congratulations
Frank Parker Stockbridge, editorial
consultant of the American Press,
and widely known as a veteran news
paperman and author said: “I take
delight in extending congratulations
to The Savannah Times, its aggres
sive publisher, Mr. King Dixon and
to his colleagues in their new ven
ture. At no other time in our Jour
nalistic history is editorial intergrity
and aggressiven'ss more required than
during thes? complex times. It is in
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JEWISHALLIANCE
PLANS FOR JUBILEE
COMMITTEE IN CHARGE TO
MEET TOMORROW
NIGHT
Plans for the program of the sec
ond annual summer jubilee will be
presented at a meeting of the com
mittee in charge of arrangements at
the Jewish Educational Alliance to
morrow evening. Th? meeting will be
called to order promptly at 8 o’clock
by Bernard B. Elchholz, general chair
man.
It is anticipated that the jubilee
will take place at Tybee on Thurs
day, June 25, will be one of the larg
est Jewish gatherings in South Geor
gia in recent years. Last year more
than two thousand persons attended
the affair and it is expected that a
considerably larger number will par
ticipate this year.
The jubilee is sponsored jointly by
the Men’s and Women’s clubs of th?
Alliance and invitations to take part
in the gala event will be extended to
all members of the Iccal Jewish com
munity and surrounding territory.
Th? jubilee will take the form of an
all-day outing at Savannah
and will be followed by a dance at
the Tybrisa pier during the evening
An all-day program is being arranged
for the entertainment of thos* at
tending the event.