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VOLUME 2—NUMBER 134
HORROR STORIES
OF BLACK LEGION
DEVELOP SLOWLY
ACTIVITIES OF “TERROR
GANG” DISCLOSE UN
WANTON KILLINGS
DETROIT, June 4 (TP)—Author
ities of five Michigan cities took up
the cry 'echoing from Detroit today to
expose the Black Legion and bring its
lawless members to justice.
In Detroit, Circuit Judge James
Chenot opened a grand jury investi
gation of reported atrocities in Wayne
County. The confession of Dayton
Dean that he killed the W. P. work
er, Charles Poole, by legion orders
caused a sensation throughout the
state.
Salesman Held
Authorities at Royal Oak renewed
their investigation into causes of the
fire that destroyed the Rev. Charels
Coughlin's Shrine of the Little Flow
er. In Jackson, salesman Olenn
Finkel is held charged with threaten
ing a minister with death for refus
ing to take the legion oath.
Adj. Gen. John Bersey of the Mich
igan National Guard announced in
Lansing that he is ready to join in
any investigate Congress might au
thorize in the state. In Ecorse, Mich.,
police are holding gice men for quee
tionlng on alleged threats by the
lee ret society.
A mass meeting of Pontiac res
idents brought a resolution demand
ing prosecution of lawless legion
naires.. A grand jury investigation is
expected to get under way in that
city today.
Michigan's Attorney General David
Crowley appointed Circuit Judge
James Chenot to probe every act at
tributed to the night riders. One
of the most Important reports bear
ing scrutiny is the claim that one
third of Detroit’s police officers are
members of the fantastic society.
Suspicious SuMdes
Wayne County Prosecutor Duncan
McCrea said he has several “suspic
ious suicides” which need investiga
tion. McCrea failed to close the
state’s case against 12 accused mem
bers of the legion when his claim that
they be held for trial was refused.
The men are charged with slaying
WPA worker Charles Poole because
he “knew too much’ ’of Black Legion
affairs.
Meanwhile, charges in congress by
Representative Dickstein of New York
concering legion activities in Monroe,
Mich., brought sharp objections to
day. Dickstein said an army medical,
reserve corps captain, now with the
state militia cavalry was an organizer
of the society.
A flat denial of the charges was
issued by Major General James
Humphrey, commander of the!o7th
medical regiment in the State Nation
al Guard.
JAIL MURDER CASE
IN JURY’S HANDS
ALLEGED SLAYER OF RICH
ARD LOEB IS CONCED
ED CHANCE
JOLIET, Hl.. June 4 (TP).—The
case of Convict James Day, on trial
for the murder of Richard Loeb, goes
to the Jury today.
Day is charged with the slaying of
Loeb Inside Statesville prison last
January. Loeb was serving a life
term for the kidnaping and murder
of Little Bobby Franks in 1924.
An acquittal for Day would mean
probable freedom from prison where
he was sentenced on a robbery' con
viction. His attorneys say day has
been offered a job, which would en
title him to a parole.
ONEllOREllME!
HEAD OF INDEPENDENT
PARTY ANNOUNCES ,
CANDIDACY
BRIDGEPORT, Conn., June 4
(TP). —Nobody raised an eyebrow to
day when 72-year-old David Sherman
Beach announced he is a candidate
for the presidency of the United
States. Beach has been a candidate
for years and years—and years.
He is head of what he calls the
people’s National Independent party.
He has been a presidential candidate
exactly 16 times.
Beach has a platform, of course.
He wants to make the country oper
ate on a ’’centralized” basis, paying
dividends to each voter. His cabinet
would be composed of 60 officers.
Congress would have 343 Senators,
and all of them would be ministers.
The platform has been copyrighted.
SOME STUFF, EH?
AVON, Conn., June 4 (TP).—
Delatus Woodruff and his bride,
the former Emma Winters, are on
their honeymoon today, after elop
ing to Millertown, N. Y. The
couple's neighbors were just
shocked to pieces. It was Wood
ruff’s fourth marriage—and Mrs.
Winters’ second.
Woodruff is a wealthy farmer
and quite a character up in his
section near Avon, Connecticut.
He likes horses and buggies and
he almost always refused to ride
in an auto. The elopement was
the first time in a long time that
Delatus Woodruff had ever been
in a car.
Farmer Woodruff is 90-years
old. His bride is a blushing 65.
Snumuiiilifeffliiilucriiiirs
' Her Romance Ends
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Dorothy Sebastian
Another romance which thrilled
movie fans, that between Doro
thy Sebastian and William
Boyd, both film players, is dis
solved in the divorce court as
Miss Sebastian, shown in Los
Angeles court above, gained her
freedom from the actor. The
two were married in 1930.
—Central Press.
NOMINATION OF
LANDON IS SEEN
BY G. 0. P. HEADS
ONLY CONTEST PREDICTED
WILL BE THAT OF
RUNNING MATE
CLEVELAND, June 4 (TP)—The
forthcoming Republican National Con
vention took on the unusual aspect
today of promising to be chiefly a
contest for the G. O. P, vice-presi
dential nomination.
The vice-presidential post is usually
relegated to the background in the
drive for the big plum of the con
vention —the presidential nomination.
However, the number two position
came to the fore when all but a few
Republican leaders virtually acceeded
Governor Alf Landon’s nomination
for the Presidency on the first or sec
ond ballot.
The Landon drive was stepped up
two more notches when 25 Texas
delegates and 24 Indiana delegates
were pledged to the Kansas Gover
nor. Those new blocs of votes, com
bined with the support of Connec
ticut's delegation and the tacit en
dorsement of the powerful eastern
leader, J. Henry Roraback of Con
necticut, was believed to mean a
landslide Landon vote in the early
stages of the convention.
Turning towards the vice-presi
dency, political prophets appeared to
narrow the list down to Senator Ar
thur H. Vandenberg of Michigan and
Congressman James W. Wadsworth
of New York.
Landon is believed to favor Van
denberg as a running mate. Eastern
Republican forces, however, may in
sist that Wadsworth be named vice
presidential candidate in return for
the Landon support of the strong
eastern delegations.
WPA WORKERS WARNED
FOR REFUSING JOBS
EAST S?. LOUIS, June 4 (TP)
WPA workers in East St. Louis were
yarned- today against refusing Jobe
With private industry.
District Administrator Austin an
nounced that he would fire any man
who turned down a chance to get
back histoid job.
Tlie warning followed announce
ment that' the American Steel Foun
dry at East St. Louis would re-hire
500 mer on June 15. The plant has
been r closed since 1934.
ECHOES OF HAUPTMANN CASE RESOUND
AS PARKER EXTRADITION IS SOUGHT
MOUNT HOLLY, N. J., June 4
(IT). —Brooklyn prosecution authori
ties are expected to take steps today
to extradite Ellis Parker, Sr.
Parker, a rural detective with a
long record of successful sleuthing,
was arrested on a Brooklyn warrant
charging him with kidnaping and as
sault, the indictment grew out of the
Paul Wendel case which, early last
month, held up the execution of Brv
no Richard Hauptmann for three
days.
Wendel, a disbarred Trenton law
yer, maintained that he was kid
naped by Parker’s agents in New
York, taken to Brooklyn and held
there for ten days, under torture, un
til he signed a spurious confession to
the Lindbergh murder. Three men
are in custory on one indictment re
turned by the Brooklyn grand jury
who heard testimony in the case. A
fifth died late last month and a
FRENCH STRIKES
PLACED IN LAP
OF NEW PREMIER
SOCIALIST LEADER OF RE
PUBLIC IN SERIOUS
PREDICAMENT
PARIS, June 4 (TP) —A monster
strike of 400,000 French workers chal
lenged the new leftwing government
today as ft prepared to take the helm
of state.
Within a few hours, the Socialist
leader, Leon Blum, will become pre
mier. Into his official care, embolden
ed labor leaders have thrust strike
after strike throughout northern
France. Workers in scores of indus
tries from munitions to oil joined the
demand for higher wages and the
right to collective bargaining.
A threat to transportation menaced
Paris when workers in oil and gas
distributing plants signed up with the
siege strike movement. Authorites
feared that all motor transportaton
would stop when the present low sup
plies of fuel are exhausted.
French labor leaders frrnkly admit
ted that the strike movement was
out of control. Workers in almost 400
plants were inspired by promises of
the Socialist election victors to bring
back good times at once. Supplies of
steel, metals and chemicals have
stopped. Even newspapers failed to
apepar on the streets as distributors
went on strike.
The French financial world faced
anther crisis. The stock market
weakened and the gold-backed franc
declined. French bankers looked hope
fully to the new government to block
the strike movement and defend the
franc. When Blum assumes the pre
miership tonight, it ia expected he
will immeditely try to conciliate his
radical followers by eemrg?ncy legsla
ton. Paris circles believed it probable
that Blum would enact an emergency
40-hour week to break up the revolu
tionary siege movement.
SEVERE DROUGHT
THREATENS SOUTH
ALARMING SITUATION IS
CONFRONTING FARMING
LOCALITIES
ATLANTA, June 4 (TP)—The
South Atlantic States are still suf
fering from ravages of a- severe
drought today In spite of the general
rains in that section late yesterday
and last night.
Almost all the seven states in the
South Atlantic region received heavy
thundershowers yesterday. Weather
Bureau officials in Washington de
clared today,however, that showers
of this sort do not help the grounds
very much. Heavy rains resulting
from electric storms, they add, gen
erally run off the ground without
sinking in.
The agriculture department esti
mates that the crop damage in this
section has already reached the $30,-
000,000 mark. This estimate also in
cludes a 25 per cent destruction to
the cotton crop.
minesTnlpain
HIT BY STRIKES
WORKERS DEMAND PAY
CLAIMED LONG OVER
DUE
MADRID, June 4 (TP)—All mines
in the province of Austria's closed
down today with workers calling siege
strikes similar to the ones now grip
ping Paris.
The miners demand payment of
back wages which in some cases they
ray are five months overdue. Th?
miners described their walkout as a
“peaceful general strike.”
Workmen in Cadiz forced the shut
down of a dozen plants. Other parts
of Spain were swept by violence
which authorities attributed to rad
ical extremists. In Alora a group of
Communist laborers tried to s?ize the
lands qf a rich proprietor. Th? squat
ters were driven off in a gunbattle.
One Communist was killed. In Malaga
and Seville two prominent conserva
tive authorities were shot to death
by unknown assassins.
I sixth, Parker's son. is still a fugitive.
Parker was arrested as he stood on
the steps of the Mount Holly Elks
club. Taken before a justice of the
peace, he was permitted to sign his
i own $2,000 bail bond.
, The Burlington county detective’s
t arrest again puts the question of ex-
• tradition squarely up to Governor
s Harold G. Hoffman. Parker, at one
t time, was generally supposed to be
• working for the governor in Hoff-
• man’s own investigation of the Lind
bergh case.
The Jersey governor previously has
said that he would not permit Park
? er's extradition in order to—as he
i put it—"save the face of a discredit?
• ed Brooklyn district attorney.” At
) that time, he apparently referred to
i Brooklyn District Attorney William
F. X. Geoghan, who is under the
; fire of a special grand jury seeking
t his removal on charges of incompe
i tency.
SAVANNAH, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1936
BAGGAGE CAR PLUNGES OFF BRIDGE
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The baggage car in the Cimarron river.
Plunging off a bridge near Guthrie, Okla., the baggage car
of a crack Santa Fe train en route from Chicago to Galveston,
Tex., landed in the Cimarron river, as shown. One man was
killed and 20 other passengers in a train coach crawled to safety
as the car teetered on the bridge. —Central Press.
RECORD SAVES ESCAPED KILLER
LOUISIANA GOVERNOR REFUSES OHIO’S EXTRADITION
PLEA CLAIMING MAN HAS MADE GOOD.
BATON ROUGE, La., June 4 (TP)
A nine-year-record ’as an industrious
law-abiding citizen today saved a
Louisiana grocer from a life sentence
for murder. The grocer is John Az
zorello of Monroe. He escaped from
prison in Cuyahoga county, Ohio nine
years ago. He was serving a life sen
tence for murder. Recently Ohio au
thorities traced Azzorello to Monro?,
after a nine-year-search.
They asked Governor Leche to
g ant extradition papers so Azzorello
could be taken back, to Cleveland to
qerve out his life sentence.
HAPPY BIRTHDAYS!
KEYS QUADRUPLETS OF
OKLAHOMA MARK 21ST
NATAL DAY
HOLLIS, Okla., June 4 (TP).—The
town of Hollis is having the grandest
public birthday party in its history.
Its famous residents, the Keys quad
ruplets, are 21-years-old.
The four girls, Mary, Leota. Rober
ta and Mona, are said to be the first
quadruplets to come of voting age.
It doesn’t seem to bother them |i
the least. Today they talked bash
fully of marriage and the . time
when they might separate. Then they
hastily changed the subject.
Said Mary—“ We’ve been having
too much fun together and don’t in
tend to part if we can help it, Os
course, we go out with boy friends,
but as for marriage—well, that’s
something we’re not thinking of yet."
Every resident of Hollis was invit
ed to the Keys home for dinner to
night and for a piece of the four
birthday cakes graced with 84 can
dles.
WASHINGTON FLASHES
TO RETURN $50,000
WASHINGTON, June 4 (TP)—
Congressional leaders blinked in
astonishment today when they heard
that the Bell Investigating Committee
will return at least half of its $50,000
appropriation.
The Bell Committee received the
$50,000 for expenses when it opened
its probe of the Townsend Plan or
ganization. The inquiry was cut short
by the refusal of Dr. F. E. Townsend,
sponsor of the S2OO-A-Month Pension
Plan, and his aides to testify.
Chairman C. Jasper Bell of the
committee says not more than $25,000
will be needed to complete the re
port. The rest will be returned to
the treasury.
LABOR HOPES HIGH
WASHINGTON, June 4 (TP)—Lab
or leaders have high hopes today that
the Senate will pass the Government
Contractor's Bill before Congress ad
journs.
The bill was reported out of the
Senate Judiciary Committee after a
hard fight and is now ready for a
senate vote. The measure would com
pel contractors on government jobs
to pay prevailing wages, would for
bid the granting of contracts to sweat
shops and would ban child labor and
convict labor.
Contractors fought the bill on the
grounds that it set up an unconsti
tutional right for congress to place
restrictions on business and industry.
F. D. R. SIGNS NAVAL BILL
WASHINGTON. June 4 (TP).—
The largest peacetime naval svpply
bill in America’s history was signed
by President Roosevelt today. The
The governor checked Azzorello's
record. Today he announced that he
uould refuse the extradition request.
“Azzorello has been a law abiding,
useful and peaceful citizen,” said Gov
ernor Lechc. "Louisiana could use
more men like him.”
GENEVA MEETING
CLEARS WAY FOR
ITALIAN QUESTION
ARGENTINA’S DEMANDS
FOR SHOW-DOWN
REACHES CLIMAX
GENEVA, June 4 (TP)—League of
Nations officials cleared the path
today to meet Argentina's demand
that the full league assembly convene
this month. Argentina asked the full
league to take up the Ethiopian ques
tion without further delay.
President Benes of the league as
sembly took the Argentine request
up with League Secretary General
Avenol by long distance telephone.
It is believed that they agreed to
summon the assembly in extraordin
ary session on June 30. Argentina in
sisted that the full membership of the
league should come to grips with the
crucial Ethiopian situation.
League officials thought that the
council meeting set for June 16
would be postpone duntil the meeting
of the assembly. The general im
pression in Geneva was that the 14
council nations would be relieved to
see the entire assembly decide wheth
er penalties should be continued
against Italy.
appropriation for the navy totals
more than $500,000,000.
MORGENTHAU HAPPY
WASHINGTON, June 4 (TP)—
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen
thau declared today that John Public
<ias lost his fear of inflation and
wants to put his cash into long term
bonds.
The beaming secretary based his
contention cm the success in dispos
igg of the June 15 financing. Morgen
thau stated that the public exchang
ed $960,000,000 in treasury notes for
the bonds and notes in his latest bil
lion dollar securities offering. Os this
total the public turned in treasury
paper for $890,000,000 in long term
bonds. Only $70,000,000 were swap
ped for five-year notes.
FEAR TAX BILL DELAY
WASHINGTON, June 4 (TP).—
The death of Speaker of the House
Byrns and the recess of both cham
bers of Congress today is expected to
further delay passage of the $829,-
000.000 tax bill in the senate.
The bill appears on the verge of
passage, although there is still plenty
of debate expected before a final
vote is taken. Heading the battle
against the bill as reported by the
senate finance committee, is Ala
bama's Senator Black, who, at last
night’s extra session, bitterly de
nounced the committee’s bill. Black
pleaded with members of the upper
chamber to support the president in
his requests for higher levies on sur
plus corporate funds.
Senator King, acting head of the
senate finance committee, was confi
dent at last night s recess time that
the bill would pass today .despite
Black’s attack.
iOUTH SERIOUSLY
HURT BY HIT-RUN
DRIVER AT TYBEE
WOMAN ARRESTED LATER
ACCUSED OF OPERATING
ACCIDENT VEHICLE
D. L. Curry, Jr., age 16, of Tybee
L-Mnd is in Warren A. Candler hos
pital with a fractured skull after he
v.as run down about 9:30 o’clock last
night on the island by a hit-and-run
driver. Later a young woman who
gave her name and address to au
thorities as Miss Gene Meyers, 117
Lincoln stret, Savannah, was ar
rested at Savannah by city police as
the drive? of the automobile which
was said to have fled from the scene
of the accident.
The physician attending the Curry
boy said the young man had sus
tained a severe fracture an inch above
the left ear. He stated it was too early
yet to predict the outcome of the in
jury.
Hildreth. Investigates
Chief of Police A. L. Hildreth of
Tybee investigated the accident. He
was informed Curry was walking
along Butler avenue between Eighth
and Ninth streets toward his home
at Lovell station when he was struck
by a light colored roadster going in
the same direction. The chief said he
was told the woman who gave her
name later as Miss Meyers was driv
ing the machine and that in the
auto was a man whose name was re
ported to authorities as “Jimmy Doug
las.” Officers said they understood
Douglas resided also at the apartment
house at 117 Lincoln street.
A woman, thought to have been
the wife of Douglas and a child, were
also in the roadster, Chief Hildreth
said he was told. According to this of
ficer the machine halted momen
tarily after young Curry had been
knocked down and then continued on
its way without attempting to give
asistance to the stricken boy.
Woman Finds Victim
A woman whose name was not
learned came by just after the ac
cident and picked up the victim and
carried him in an automobile to the
post hospital at Fort Screven. He was
later removed from there to the Sa
vannah hospital.
Tybee police, as soon as word
reached them of the injury to Curry,
telephoned police authorities here and
asked them to be on the look-out for
the missing automobile. County po
lice set about a vigilant patrol of the
i Tybee rood -bufr-the- car sought had
apparently already passed. Chief
Hildreth said Sergt. R. P. Crowdre
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 8)
CHINOJAPCRISIS
IS NEARING BREAK
EASTERN WAR SITUATION
FLAMES ANEW AS
CHINA MOVES
SHANGHAI, June 4 (TP).—-Con
flicting reports were the rule today
as foreign news correspondents at
tempted to straighten out the mud
dled Chinese situation.
Japanese sources insist that a
strong south China army is advanc
ing on a rebel force which has set
up its own government in Fukien
province. Other reports, also credit
ed to Japanese sources, said the Can
ton government army in south China
was invading Hunan province with
the idea of clashing with the Nan
king government.
Nanking authorities branded both
reports false. Several reliable sour
ces agreed that Canton troops ware
on the move, but apparently only in
a maneuver to concentrate man-pow
er on the border between south China
and Nanking territory.
The troops movements were report
ed only a few hours after the once
powerful Canton government appeal
ed to Nanking officials to declare
war on Japan and end what it term
ed Japanese aggression in north
China. Nanking has yet to make a
reply to the south Chnia appeal.
LION OF JUDAH SEEKS BRITAIN’S AID
IN REDRESS AGAINST ITALIAN FOE
LONDON, June 4 (TP)—The sad
little emperor in exile, Haile Selassie,
bsgan readjusting himself today to
his new life in a friendly but foreign
land. London gave Selassie a noisy
welcome. The public-at-large is hearti
ly in sympathy with the striking lit
tle man who has been dumped—like
a homeless waif—on the British door
step.
Diplomats Uneasy
Diplomats covered their uneasiness
with miles and wired home for in
structions. They asked their state de
partments—“snail I attend the recep
tion tomorrow for the Ethiopian em
peror?”
The lion of Judah waved his ap
preciation to the cheering throngs
and stepped aside to allow his daugh
ter, Sahia, to spsak for him. Said
she, in broken English—“ Because you
have received us so kindly, it gives us
courage to do what we came for.”
The Princess Sahia failed to say
exactly what that was. The emperor
has been offered $5,000 a week to
appear at a theater on the Strand,
and Hollywood is said to have made
rome attractive offers. Dr. Warnes
Azaj Martin, the Ethiopian minister
to London, stepped into the breach
at this point. Selassie is expected to
appear for British aid in regaining
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Miss Dorothy Kimberly
As queen of the Rhododen
dron Festival at Asheville, N.
C., Miss Dorothy Kimberly will
reign over the five-day fete and
then be crowned on the night
of June 18th, climaxing the fes
tival. —Central Press.
RESTORATION OF
AUSTRIAN CROWN
SOUGHT BY ITALY
IL DUCE AND NEW CHAN
CELLOR MEET TO DIS
CUSS PROBLEM
ROME, June 4 (TP) —The eyes of
Europe turned towards the Italian vil
lage of Viareggio today.
The town is the meeitng place of
Premier Mussolini and Chancellor
Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria. The
subject, according to general opinion,
is 1 the possibility of the restoration of
the Austrian crown-
The rumors of a return of the
house of Hapsburg sprang up when
Mussolini chose Viareggio as the meet
ing place. The Austrian empress,
Zita, mother of the pretender to the
Austrian throne, Archduke Otto,
maintains a villa at Viareggio and
some reports have it that Otto, him
self, will fly to Viareggio for the
meeting.
Mussolini has long been regarded as
sympathetic to a return of the Aus
trian crown. Schuschnigg, according
to reports, may offer his people a
monarchy to patch up the gaps in
loyalty to his government, caused by
the recent orders to disband the
“Heimwehr,” which was fiercely roy
alist.
France is reported worried over
the possible developments growing
out of the conference between Schus
chnigg and Mussolini. Many French
leaders fear that the return of the
Hapsburg thront would lead to closer
bonds betwen Austria and Germany
and revive the drive for an alliance
such as existed between the two na
tions before the war.
SECOND DIVORCE SOUGHT
CHICAGO. June 4 (TP)—A form
er wife of film player Johnny Weis
muller took her second marriage into
divorce court today. She is Bobbe
Amst, a one time dancer. She asked
that her marriage with a Chicago
atotmey, Robert Cavenaugh, be dis
solved. ... .
After Miss Arnst divorced Weis
muller, the screen Tarzan married the
i'iery Lupe Velez.
his lost kingdom. Said Minister Mar
ton—“His majesty has commanded
me to tell you that he is very grate
ful for your warm welcome. Thanks
very much.”
Appeals for Help
Emperor Selassie appealed to the
world today for help in regaining
Ethiopia from the Italian conquerors.
At the sama time the fallen monarch
gave his first formal explanation d!
why he fled his kingdom to seek
redress in te captiials of Europe.
The emperor declared—“We have
never desired war. It was thrust upon
us. With our people unarmed and
unprepared, we resisted for seven long
months. Our subjects were poisoned,
burned and decimated by gasses
against which they had absolutely
no mean, o' protection. Returning
with us to Addis Ababa our troops
passed through devastated fields and
ruined villages, covered with bodies
of aged and of women and chil
dren—massacred behind our lines by
pitiless aviation of the enemy.
"In the face of such horrors,” Se
lassie continued, "we had to choose
either the complete annihilation of
our people or to terminate their suf
frelngs and to come in person to
Europe to app:al to the sentiment
and justice of all psople.”
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PCOSEVELT TO ATTEND
RITES FOR SPEAKER OF
HOUSE TOMORROW
WASHINGTON, June 4 (TP)
—The Alabama Congressman,
William Bankhead, was elected
Speaker of the House today to
succeed Tennessee’s Joseph
Byrns, who died early this mom
ing.
The House elected Majority
leader Bankhead on a motion
from Chairman O’Connor of the
Rules Committee.
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WASHINGTON, June 4 (TP)—
Congressional Isaders recessed both
houses of congress shortly after they
convened today out of respect for the
late speaker of the \ouse, Joseph W.
Byrns. “Uncle Joe” as the speaker
was generally known, died suddenly
at his hotel apartment shortly after
midnight last night. His death came
from a cerebral hemorrhage that is
thought to have been aggravated by
overwork in the rush to get a con
gressional adjournment.
Seeking Successor
House parliamentarians are wo:k
ing feverishly this morning to find
away to carry on house business un
til the end of th? session. This is
the first-time that a rpsaker has died
during a session of congress.
ROOSEVELT TO ATTEND
BOTH FUNERAL RITES
WASHINGTON, June 4 (TP).
President Roosevelt announced to
day he will attend the state fu
neral for Speaker Byrns in the
House of Representatives tomor
row. He also plans to go to Nash
ville for the home funeral services
of Byrns.
The president also ordered all
flags on government buildings to
be flown at half mast in memory
of the late speaker of the House.
The chief executive wil not go to
his office today and has cancelled
all appointments as. well as the
regular cabinet meetings.
It is believed two courses are o?pn
—eith’.c a new speaker or a speaker
pro tern to finish out the session can
be elected by the house.
IM both "cases, tmrhohse meffiber
ship will have to vot? on the man
selected for the position. The nkh
in. selecting th? new speaker is neces
sary to get the bills already passed
by the house and senate to the
White House. AU measures approved
by the house have to be sign'd by
a speaker—and that man must be
elected by a popular vote of the
house.
In the meantime, the house wiU
be convened today for a brief session ‘
during which the death of itn speak
er will be officially announced. South
Trimble, clerk of the house, has the
authority to call that body into ses
sion and to order. But that is about
all he can do.
calling an early party caucus—prob-
Bankhead Favored
Majority Leader Bankhead is be
lieved to be the leading candidate to
succeed Jyrns. He was a close friend
of the speaker, and as majority leader
is the ranking Democrat of the house
membership. The majority party,
however, may give the honor of run
ning the house for the remaining few
days to some other Democrat who has
served for many years s.nd then elect
a new speaker at the beginning of
the new session next year.
Represenative Sabath of lUinois is
the ranking member of the house in
polntof service and should the speak
ership be. awarded as an honor he
may be in line for the position.
Observers do not believe the speak
er’s death will have any effect on
pending legislation. They point out
that the house has fanished with all
important “must bills" and now only
a few measures and conference re
ports remain for its consideration.
Byrn’s death, however, is believed
to have ended all hopes for adjourn
ment by Saturday night. With con
gress in recess today, it will be im
possible to finish the tax bill by that
time.
Definite funeral plans for Speaker
Byrns have not yet been announced,
it is considered likely that the late
speaker will have formal funeral serv
ices on the floor of the house. Then
the body will be taken to his home
in Nashville, Tenn., to be buried in
the district he represented in con
gress for so many years.
COLLECTION WILLED
TAUNTON, Mass., June 4 (TP)—
The late Henry H. Rogers willed his
extensive collection of ship models
to the United States Naval Academy
at Annapolis. The wealthy Standarc
Oil executive also provided for the
maintenance and exhibition of the
cojlection. A couy of his will has
just been filed for probate at Taur
ton.
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