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VOLUME 2—NUMBER 128
PARTY LEADERS
IN HOT BATTLE
OVER TAX BILL
ENACTMENT IS SUBJECT
OF MAJOR FIGHT IN
COMMITTEE
i»
WASHINGTON, May 28 (TP)
The Senate Finance committee
reached an impasse this after
noon on the tax bill and ad
journed without reaching a set
tlement. The postponement
threatens to prevent Congress
from adjourning by June 6. How
ever, Democrats on the commit
tee are meeting among them
selves this afternoon in hopes of
breaking the deadlock on the
revenue controversy.
WASHINGTON, May 28 (TP)
Administration forces and an insur
tent group in the mate finance com
mittee will come to grips today in
vhat is xepected to be a knock-down
tnd-drag-out battle over the new tax
MU.
Vote Stern Today
Today’s session of the committee is
dat'd to bring a vote on whether the
tommittee should accept its tentative
•ompromis? tax bill, or whether Presi
dent Roosevelt’s corporate tax recom
mendations should be injected into
the bill. The president urged adoption
of stiff corporate surplus taxes in an
effort to boost the bill’s revenue to
tal nearer the $800,000,000, the White
House asks for the coming fiscal year.
Republicans have been joined by
•everal Democratic insurgents in op
posing the recommendations voiced by
Preaident Roosevelt at Tuesdaj night’s
White House conference. The com
bined group hopes to beat administra
tion forces today when the president’s
supporters in the committee call for
a revision of the corporate surplus
tax specificsilons in the measure.
Two New Plans
The president's requests are con
tained in two n:w plans, submitted
by Marriner S. Eccles, chairm.: n of
the Federal Reserve boad, and Sena
tor Black of Alabama. In place of
the committee’s tentative proposal to
apply a flat 18 per cent corporation
income tax and a 7 p:r cent tax on
corporation earnings, the Eccles plan
would call for corporate surplus taxes
running from 25 to 40 per c:nt, in
Addition to 12 1-2 to 151-2 per cent
torporation income taxes. The Blick
plan is similar to the Eccles plan,
calling for corporate surplus taxes
running from 15 to 40 per cent, and
a corporate income tax of from 12 1-2
to 15 per ©ent.
Both plana, according to early pre
dictions, are due to be scrapped to
day. However, those who oppose the
president’s tax recomm ndations fear
that the Eccles and Black plans will
lead to other similar proposals which
may get the committee’s final nod.
MURDER SOLVED
BY DETECTIVES
CONFESSION “BREAKS”
MYSTERY SLAYING OF
METROPOLITAN HEAD
NEW YORK May 28 (TP)—De
tectives labelled the murder of the
Manhattan executive, Edgar Eckert,
iolvtd today.
Eckert. an executive of a large N w
York clothing house, was found dead
in a subway station washroom In
vestigation proved he had been
choked and robbed.
Det'.ctlves announced that the
young suspect who was picked up in
New York Tuesday night gave infer
motion which led to the arrest of
two other young men in Boston. The
suspects were found living in a hobo
•amp on Boston common.
Ail three, according to authorities,
have confessed to Eckert’s slaying.
The two suspects arrested in Bos
ton were 36-year-old Philip Gold
berger and Thomas West, alias Ed
ward Vest! .Wkst, who is 21, gave his
adoress as Bayonne, N. J. The New
Y<rk suspect, another 21-year-old
youth, is Barney Omilaniwicz. He was
one of dozens of subway stragglers
picked up by police in their attempts
to run down the slayers of tibe New
York marchant.
OPTIMBfiC!
PURCHASING AGENTS SEE
PROSPERITY RAPIDLY
RETURNING
NEW ORLEANS, May 28 (TP)—
Delegates to the national convention
of purchasing agents flocked out of
New Orleans today with optimistic re
marks on the return of prospertiy.
The newly-elected president of the
•gents’ association, C. A. Kelly of
California, bold delegates to the or
ganization’s annual meeting that it
will take just four years to put the
country on a higher level than the
1929 boom level-
Said Kelly: "I base my optimism
on the normal renewal of the nation's
purchasing power. Th? law of supply
and demand is once again ruling the
economic lief of the nation—as U did
in the good old
The association selected Pittsburgh
•a its next convention city.
$ n u a n n tiboil tiii y ®inics
Court Rulings Hit
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Sidney Hillman
The U. S. Supreme Court was
branded as anti-labor and * ‘ San
ta Claus to the open shoppers’’
in the report of the general ex
ecutive board to the eleventh
biennial convention of the
Amalgamated Clothing Work
ers of America in Cleveland.
Above, Sidney Hillman, presi
dent of the group, is shown ad
dressing the delegates.
Central Press.
CONTEMPT RULING
FOR AGED LEADER
OF PENSION CLUB
DEFIANCE OF TOWNSEND
SERVES AS SPUR TO
PROBERS
WASHINGTON, May 28 (TP)
Members of the Bell Investigating
Committee will march into the House
of Representatives today with a res
olution calling for the citation of Dr.
F. E. Townsend for contempt.
Included with the sponsor of the
S2OO-A-Month Old Age Pension Plan
in the contempt resolution are two
of Dr. Townsend's aides, the Rever
end Clinton Wunder of New York
and Jack Kiefer of Chicago. The two
Townsend lieutenants were charged
with falling to answer a House sub
poena. Dr. Townsend drew the fire
of the Bell Investigation Committee
when he walked out of a hearing
room, vowing never to return unless
under arrest.
The contempt resolution will be
given precedence over other House
business and may bring an immediate
vote. If passed by the House, the call
for Dr. Townsend's arrest on con
tempt charges will be turned ever to
the U. S. District Attorney at Wash
ington.
The Bell Committee snapped out of
a deadlock and voted 6 to 2 for the
contempt resolution after Sheridan
Downey, Townsends counsel, defied
the committee to proceed as it had
threatened. Downey maintained that
what he termed “The Unholy Record ’
of the Bell Committee’s investigation
would—to quote Downey—“ Act as a
shield that will protect us from all
your attacks."
TRUCK TERMINALS
SCENE OF STRIKE
BY FREIGHT LABOR
CHICAGO, May 28 (TP)—Labor
leaders announced today that a call
for a strike affecting 3,000 workers in
Chicago's freight depots and trucking
terminals will go out before nightfall.
Walkouts already have been declar
ed at five truck terminals, following
demands for increased wages and
union recognition. President Thomas
Brennan, of the warehouse, storage,
terminal handlers, checkers and clerks
union, said the strike will be extndea
to 55 other terminals today.
U. S. WOMEN VOTERS TURN DEAF EARS
ON POLITICAL MUD-SLINGING-WHISPERS
NEW YORK. May 28 (TP)—Wom
en voters in the United States have
the plea of fiv? women suffrage lead
ers to turn a deaf ear to mud-sling
ing and whispering campaigns which
may feature the forthcoming political
campaign.
The fiv? feminists who addressed
the women's electorate over the radio
included Carrie Chapman Catt, presi
dent of the National American Wom
en Sus frags Association: Alice Stone
Blackwell, a daughter of Lucy Stone,
LUXURY LINER MAINTAINING PACE
IN ENGLISH TRANS-OCEANIC QUEST
MAJOR WATERWAYS SUPREMACY
ABOARD THE LINER QUEEN
..IARY, At Sea. May 28 (TP)—The
..harp prow of th: huge British liner.
I Queen Mary” cut through the swells
: of th- Atlantic today in t-he ship’s
i first dash for American waters.
With her powerful engines singing
a roaring song which brought smiles
to th? faces of her engineers, the
“Quern Mary” is clipping off knots
at a spe:d that bid fair to bring the
lin:r into New York harbor with a
I new transatlantic record to her credit.
The “Queen Mary ’ cleared Cher
bourg. France, soon after midnight
last night, European time. After a
brief wait outside the French sea
port’s crowded harbor, th? big liner s
propellers churned and the 80,773-
ton vessel moved out into the At
lantic.
The “Queen Mary” must averag?
better than 30.35 knots p;r hour to
beat the record time forth? trans
atlantic crossing, now held by the
French liner “Normandie.” During
the crossing of the English channel,
from Southampton to Cherbourg, th?
British ship averaged 27.66 knots—
an unusual speed for the channel
crossing.
EXTREME PENALTY
ASKED IN SLAYING
DEAD ‘G’ MAN’S FRIENDS
WANT CROUCH TO DIE
FOR MURDER
CHICAGO, May 28 (TP)—Federal
agents are making doubly sure today
that the confessed slayer of one of
their companions obtains the extreme
punishment of th? law.
The slaycT is Harlan Crouch. He
admitted that he shot Federal Alco
hol Tax Agent John Foster two
weeks ago in a running gunfight.
Crouch was captured while he was
sleeping in an Indianapolis rooming
house.
A few hours after his capture, the
Indianapolis bootlegger was arraigned
before a federal commissioner at
Hammond, Ind.
Today, Federal Alcohol Tax Super
visor E. C. Yellowly announced he
would ask for a special grand jury to
consider the Crouch case. James Ja
cobs, a companion of the confessed
slayer, who was seized shortly after
the shooting, also will be judged by
the special grand jury.
Conviction of Crouch under federal
law means death.
JURYSELECTION
TO BE COMPLETED
LOEB SLAYER’S TRIAL TO
PROCEED WITH
QUESTIONING
JOILET, 111., May 28 (TP)—Attor
neys figuring in the murder trial of
convict James Day prepared to com
plete selection of a jury today.
Eigr.t jurors already are listed on
the panel. Convict Day is the con
fessed slayer of his prison mate.
Richad Loeb, at the Statesville Pen
itentiary last January.
Loeb was serving a life sentence
for the 1924 kidnaping and murder of
little Bobby Franks.
Attorneys for both sides indicated
the jury would be completed some
time this morning.
NAUGHTYNAUGHTS
TOO MANY ZEROS HOLDS
WOMAN ON CHARGE
OF FORGERY
NEW YORK, May 28 (TP)—A mat
ter of three little naughts is the main I
point in an indictment holding a
young widow, Mrs. Hazel Short, to
day.
Mrs. Short was indicted by the New
York County grand jury after it
heard charges that she added the
three little naughts to a check for
$l5O, making the sum $150,000.
The complaint against the widow
was brought by the President of t're
Los Angeles Security National Bank, j
George M. Wallace. He said he gave
Mrs. Short the $l5O check last month
in Los Angeles. When the widow
presented the $150,000 check at a New
York bank, a hurry-call to the Los
Angeles bank brought instructions to
withhold paynwnt.
Police said c«iy an optimistic forg
er indeed would dare present a $150,-
000 check and expect to be paid as
fast as the teller could count it out.
Mrs. Georg® Gelhorn and Miss Ger
trude Ely, League of Women Voters’
officials, fnd the president of Mills
colleg:, Mrs. Aurelia Reinlurdt.
Mrs. Rflnhardit spoke from Califor
nia, Mrs. Catt from N:w York, Mrs.
Gelhorn from St. Lo .is, Miss Black
well from Boston, and Miss Ely from
Philadelphia.
All five stressed th~ need of care
ful judgment in th? November ballot
ing. Women voters wer» urged to let
no campaign bickering becloud the
real issues at stake.
SAVANNAH, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1936
BORAH TO MAKE
BITTER ATTACK
IN TALK TONIGHT
IDAHO SOLON DEPLORES
EXISTING G. 0. P.
SITUATION
WASHINGTON, May 28 (TP)
Idahos Senator William E. Borah
will step before a microphone tonight
to fire his parting shot in the pre
convention Republican Presidential
campaign.
Supporters of the Idaho Liberal
hope that Borah will live up to ru
mors that he is ready to “blow the
lid off" the G. O. P. situation. Reports
that Borah’s address would center on
a bitter attack cn Governor Alf Lan
don appear only partially true. The
Idaho Senator has indicated that he
will not mention Landon by name, but
will rip into the conservative, monied
interests which, he maintains, will
doom Republican hopes if they get
control of the Cleveland convention.
Although Borah has carefully skirt
ed any mention of Landon in his
campaign addresses, he is generally re
garded to believe that the Kansas
Governor at least is not militantly
antagonistic to the party faclons
which Borah is fighting tooth and
nail.
Tonight’s speech will be Borah’s
last before he heads for Cleveland
and his struggle to grasp a slice of
authority at the G. O. P. national
parley.
HAILE SELASSIE
SOUGHT AS GUEST
GIBRALTAR, May 28 (TP)—The
British naval base at Gibraltar laid
out the welcome mat today for the
self-exiled rul.r of Ethiopia.
Emperor Haile Selassie is expected
to arrive from Palestine tomorrow cn
the British cruiser Capetown. The
governor of Malta, General Harring
ton, has asked the emperor to be his
guest during the two-day layover ab
the port. However, Selassie may re
main on the cruiser until he trans
fers to the Orient line steamer, Ox
ford. tor the remainder of the voyage
to Loftddn.
When the greying monarch leaves
Gibraltar he will travel as a private
citizen. It is understood that no of
ficial welcome will b? given him by
the British government.
dionnedayi
WORLD-WIDE ATTENTION
FOCUSED ON SECOND
BIRTHDAY
CALLANDER, Ontario, May 28
(TP).—Five young Canadian ladies
will celebrate their birthday today.
The darling Dionnes—Marie, An
nette, Cecile, Emelie and Yvone—are
just two years old todey and very
pleased with the world, thank you.
The quintuplets have a right to
be pleased with the old world that
was astounded by their arrival on
May 28, 1934. Since that fateful
dawn when Dr. Alan Roy Dafoe
brought the bouquet of babies into
the world, the quins have piled up a
bank account of about a quarter of
a million dollars.
The quins have brought prosperity
to their home town of Callandar, On
tario, and well deserve fame to Dr.
Dafoe. They’ve been the subject of
parliamentary debates which preced
ed the setting up of the Dominion
guardianship which protects their in
terests.
And best of all, every one of the
quintuplets is a healthy, normal child
without a bit of that curse which so
often accompanies fame—a swelled
head.
Gifts from all parts of the world
are waiting to be unwrapped at to
day’s birthday party. Visitors who
have trekked hundreds of miles to
be on hand will be at Callandar to
acid their voices to the “Happy
Birthday” greetings for the five lit
tle Dionnes.
TURNER AT WICHITA
WICHITA, Kan., May 28 (TP).—
Speed Flier Colonel Roscoe Turner
landed at Wichita today 55 minutes
behind Howard Hughes’ West-to-East
airplane record. Turner refueled
and zoomed away on his dash from
Glendale, Cal., to Providence, R. I.
WASHINGTON FLASHES
RELIEF BILL BATTLE
WASHINGTON, May 28 (TP)
Senate lines were tightly drawn to
day for consideration of the first de
ficiency bill which contains one of
President Roosevelt’s 'must' require
ments—the $1,425,000,000 relief bill
The Senate Appropriations Commit
tee has okayed the big measure and
is expected to report it out to the
Senate. Although anti-administration
leaders in the upper chamber art
prepared for a hot fight over some
provisions of the bill, its passage be
for the end of the week Is predicted
by Senate Leader Joe Robinson.
BONDS TO BE FLOATED
WASHINGTON. May 28 (TFj—
A drive to minimise speculation
marks preparations for Uncle Sam’a
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A crowded cell of women prisoners—their “crime,” a petition against the mayor.
Because they went from door to door in Monessen, Pa., seeking signers fo»’ petitions con
demning Mayor James C. Gold for closing their school, 147 members ad sympathizers of Jeho
vah’s Witnesses, a religious sect, were penned in a jail built to accommodate only 84 persons.
Following one night’s stay in their cramped quarters, the 147 persons were fined $5 each and as
sessed costs by Mayor Gold. The mayor based his fine on prohibiting soliciting on Sunday. The
prisoners offered no defense—except one man did read the first few paragraphs of the bill of
rights in the U. S. Constitution. Photo above shows some of the wosjen crowded in one cell.
—Central Press.
SHOWDOWN SEEN
IN CONTROVERSY
OF LABOR HEADS
MILITANT LEADERS DIS
AGREE ON MAJOR ISSUES
OF UNIONIZATION
WASHINGTON, May 28 (TP)-
The controversy between two of the
nation’s biggest labor leaders headed
straight for a»show-down today.
William Green, President of the
American Federation of Labor, hurl
ed an ultimatum at John L. Lewis,
resigned A. F. of L. vice-president
and head of the powerful United Min
ers of America.
Green warned Lewis that either he
must disband his insurgent committee
favoring industrial unionization or
face the consequences. Green pre
fers craft unionization over Lewis’
industrial union plan.
Labor leaders held their breath
while awaiting Lewis’ reply. It was
not long in coming.
“Green," said Lewis, “issued a
similar order not long ago. We kept
our Industrial Unionization Commit
tee intact despite the ultimatum.
Nothing happened. We intend to
do the same thing now. It’s Green’s
move."
CCC STRIKE LEADERS
RELEASED FROM CAMP
FOR BALKING WORK
MANAHAWKIN, N. J., May 28
(TP). —Thirty-two young Civilian
Conservation Corps workers are out
of their CCC jobs today because of
their part in a brief strike at the
Manahawkin conservation camp.
Officers said about 300 workers
balked at resuming their usual tasks
after they returned from forest fire,
lines on which they worked earlier
this week. The strikers complained
that they had rut been given enough
rest after their fire-fighting ordeal.
When the threat of expulsion sent
all but 32 back to their jobs, com
manding officers loaded the alleged
ringleaders aboard busses and order
ed them home.
biggest peace time bond flotation to
day.
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen
thau has announced that on June 15,
the United States will offer two bil
lion dollars in securities to investors.
The huge financing, Secretary Mcr
genthu said, is necessary for payment
of the veterans’ bonus and the re
financing of notes which fall due on
June 15 and August 1.
Treasury department officials fol
lowed up the first announcement
with the warning that those who bid
on large blocs of securities will be re
quired to put up 10 per cent in cash
as a deposit, in lieu of the five per
cent generally asked. This step was
taken, it was explained, to prevent
speculators frem acquiring securities
at the expense of legitimate investors
by "padding” their bids.
PAGE ‘POP EYE!’
CHICAGO, May 28 (TP)
Charges that -her grocer-husband
had a habit of throwing vege
tables at her brought freedom to
Mrs. Margaret Sphalle today.
The young wife told the judge
that her husband hurled a gallon
of stewed tomatoes at her. Then,
she said, he tossed two gallons of
spinach.
Said Mrs. Spitalle: "He never
missed, your honor. When he
reached for the vegetable soup, I
left kind of sudden.”
The judge awarded the divorce
decree.
VIOLENT CLASHES
IN RACIAL WAR
SITUATION ALARMING IN
JERUSALEM AS NA
TIVES BATTLE
JERUSALEM, May 28 (TP)—ln
dications that martial law will be
proclaimed in Palestine unless rioting
ends soon gathered strength today.
Fierce fighting between Arabs and
Jews in Jerusalem, and a dozen other
Palestine cities flared persistently
through the night, while British
troops and police fought desperately
to bring an end to the disorder.
Six thousand British Tommies are
stationed in Palestine today, and the
British battleship Barham is anchor
ed in the harbor of Haifa, ready to
land its crew if necessary.
Latest reports said that more than
50 persons, both Arabs and Jews,
nave been killed since the rioting be
gan. Injuries total more than 350 and
arrested more than 1,200. The crops
of scores of farms tilled by Jewish
settlers have been burned, homes and
stores have been bombed and many
Jewish families have been forced to
flee in the threat of roaming bands
of Arabs who are protesting sale of
land to Jewish emigrants.
One of the farms damaged by the
rioters was the place owned by Felix
Warburg. New York philanthropist.
Orange groves and a packing hcuse
on the Warburg estate were destroyed
by flames set by Arab terrorists.
CONGRATULATIONS FROM PUBLISHERS
ADD TO KING DIXON’S GROWING LIST
Many prominent newspapermen in
the city of Washington, correspond
ents from both national end foreign
newspapers, and many members of
the National Press club and Capitol
Hill prsss galleries extended to Pub
lisher King Dixon and his staff on
the newest daily in G orgia their
felicitations on the event.
Said Paul Wooton, CG.rc.pond.nt
for the fan»:d New Orl an. Times
Picayune, of th' South, and head of
the large McGraw Hill magazine edi
torial force in this city:
STATE OFFICIALS
ASK FEDERAL AID
IN ‘LEGION’ FIGHT
PROVE ‘TERRORIST’ GANG
TO BE NATIONAL
ORGANIZATION
DETROIT, May 28 (TP).—Mich
igan officials hope to receive an an
swer today from their requests for
federal aid in the Investigation of
the “Black Legion.”
Wayne County Prosecutor McCra*
asked Attorney General Homer S
Cummings for department of justice
help when McCrae indicated that the
job of runing down “Black Legion”
leaders was too big a task for any
one state. McCrae based the con
tention that justice departmen*
agents were authorized to act on his
theory that “Black Legion” killers
transported their victims over state
lines.
McCrae maintained that the hood
ed clan is established in 15 states
including New York. The Detroit
official is believed to have based hi«
statements on information furnished
by a former member of the clan
known only as “Mister X” to protect
him from possible clan vengeance.
Detroit police are searching for
another dozen “Black Legion” mem
bers believed to have been implicated
in the slaying of Charles Poole,
whose death resulted in the first dis
covery of the “Black Legion’s” exis
tence. A preliminary hearing for
the 12 arrested men was postponed
one week to permit prosecution au
thorities to gather more evidence.
Michigan authorities are watch
ing with interest the progress of an
appeal made by Congressman Samuel
Dickstein, head of the House com
mittee to investigate unAmerican ac
tivities. Dickstein asked for the au
thority to probe the “Black Legion”
and numerous other secret societies
accused of using terrorism to further
their ends. A decision on Dickstein’s
resolution is expected before the end
of the week.
BISHOP PERRY SAILS
NEW YORK, May 28 (TP)—The
Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal
Church, the Right Reverend James
De Wolf Perry, Bishop of Long Is
land, is booked to sail for Europe to
day aboard the liner “Berengaria.”
Mrs. Perry will accompany the
Bishop on the voyage. Bishop Perry
plans to visit • several Episcopal
Churches on the continent while Mrs.
Perry visits friends in England.
“Journalistic end.avor is always
heartening to a newspaper man and
none is more so than the ssuanc? of
a new publication to serve actual
needs of a thriving community.
Everything seems right for the Ven
ture, the staff appointin'nts, and the
publisher of th? newest member to
cur fourth estat?’.”
Speaking for the pedantics, in th:
-ity of Washington, president oi
George Washington university, Dr.
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TACK INDUSTRIALISM
NEW YORK, May 28 (TP)—The
great steel industry raised its voice
in a critical, if not concerted, cry
against the Roosevelt administration
today. A handful of big steel men
ros? before the American iron and
steel institute for a business review,
a policy round-up and a criticism of
the government’s activities in busi
ness.
Bethlehem Staci's President Eugene
Grace was first. As president of the
institute he left off wiht an attack on
the New Deal for what he said are
“menacing attempts to exercise po
litical control of our economic and
personal lives.” Republic steel’s T.
M. Gridl-r urged freedom from "arti
fiical restraint” that he said the gov
ernment has brought to bear. Chair
man Ernest T. Weir of National Steel
urged steel men to maintain a sound
commercial policy as a matter of pub
lic interest-
President Charles Hook of the
American Rolling Mills sent his
speech to the institute meting. He
said the steel industry has done its
full share towards reducing relief
rolls by putting men to work. U. S.
Steel's W. A. Irvin said the steel in
dustry is looking up, fast. He said
stel men would like to be relieved of
the uncertainties of objectionable leg
islation still pending in Washington.
Executive Secretary W. S. Tower
cheerfully summed up for the insti
tute. He said statistics from institute
members show that. Steel men have
maintained the wages and hours level
set up after NRA was scrapped; and
that undercover price concessions,
secret rebates and other undesirable
practices have been eliminated.
I FARLEY’S ATTACK
CAUSES FUROR
BOOMERANG IS RESULT OF
COMMITTEEMAN’S REF
ERENCE TO LANDON
CHICAGO, May 28 (TP)—Repub
lican leaders declared today that Jim
Farley’s pointed reference to Gov. '
, Landon as a “prarie state
'is proving a boomerang.
Farley spoke on Landon as a ‘typ
ical prairie state governor” in sup
porting his argument that the Konsas
executive is not qualified to deal with
national and international problems.
Republicans made capital of the re
mark. They interpreted it as an ef
fort by Farley to disparage the prarie
state—Kansas, Nebraska, th? Dakotas,
i lowa, etc.
Today, Harrison Spangler, director
of the Republican national commit
tee’s western division, announced that
the "Prairie state” remark has won
the Republicans thousands of new
supporters in the mid-west. He
claimed that voters were “fighting
mad” end that 400 new Republican
clubs have been formed just because
of Farley’s remark.
“The mid west produced Abraham
Lincoln,” said Spangler. "It doesn't
want any city slicker politicians from
New York's Bronx.
LEGS AND ATTIRE
OF HIKERS IN TOWN
ARE ALDERMAN’S BANE
YONKERS, N. Y., May 28 (TP)
Those who disagree with Aiderman
William Slater's crusade against girls
wearing shorts through Yonkers will
get together tonight to discuss the
why’s and wherefore’s of the situa
tion.
Aiderman Slater has been carrying
on a one-man campaign against girl
■hikers in abreviated costumes ever
since the summer season began. Yon
kers forms a bottle neck through
which hikers must pass to reach parks
and picnic grounds further up the
Hudson and the Aiderman has been
kept busy enforcing the ordinances
which forbid the summer costumes.
Now a Yonkers Citizens Protective
Committee has come forward with the
complaint that Aiderman Slater is
making the town ridiculous with the
methods of his crusade. The com
mittee will go before the Lincoln Park
Civic Association tonight with a plea
for a different method of keeping too
scanty atti— off the streets of simon
pure Yonk?
FOUR MURDERERS
PACE DEATH CELLS
OSSINING, N. Y„ May 28 (TP).—
Four men, two of them little more
than boys, paced their cells in death
row today and hoped the governor
world move to save them before they
walk the last mile today.
The doomed men are Vincent D-
Martino, Frank Russo, Charles Kro
powitz and George Rosenberg. Kro
powitz and Rosenberg are 22 years
old. All four are to die for the hold
up murder in Brooklyn of Thom s
Gaughan.
GORE GETS CABINET POST
LONDON, May 28 (TP)—William
Ormsby-Gore was appointed today to
tee Cabinet Post of Colonial Secre
tary. He succeeds J. H. Thomas, who
recently resigned.
The new secretary is a conservative
He has formerly served as under
secretary for colonies, and was Post
master General in the national gov
ernment.