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VOLUME 2—NUMBER 138
BOMBING THREAT
BLAME IS PLACED
ON BUCK LEGION
CHICAGO PHONE CALLS
WARNS FIELD HOME
WILL BE DESTROYED
CHICAGO, June 9 (TP)— Chicago
claimed the Black Legion spotlight
today. Squads of detectives are try
ing to find the person who threatened
to bomb the palatial home of Stanley
Field, President of the Field Museum.
Officers revealed that a mysterious
voice caiied Field and warned that
the Bu :k Legion was going to bomb
his home. Detectives believed the call
may have been the work of a crank.
But they are making a thorough in
vestigation.
In Detroit, where the Black Legion
first was uncovered, six men face
court examination today for the flog
ging of an Ecorse mill hand, Robert
Penlan.
Senator Elmer Bensen of Minnesota
is conferring with the state's attorney
general trying to find evidence that
would justify a senatorial investiga
tion of the vigilante cult.
Thirteen other legionairres are held
without ball in a Detroit jail charged
with kidnaping and murdering Char
les Poole. Four others are due for
court examination today at neaby
Jackson, Mich. They likewise are
charged with a Black Legion flogging.
Probe Continues
DETROIT, June 9 (TP)—Michigan
authorities renewed their efforts to
day to link the Black Legion with a
federal offensee.
Twenty-nine members of the terror
cult already are under arrest and 13
face trial on charges of kidnaping and
murder.
Detroit officials asked the Depart
ment of Justice to take up the case
but the request was refused because
there was no indication that the
legionalres had crossed state lines.
Senator Benson of Minnesota is
trying to get a congressional investi
gation of the cult. Meanwhile he has
asked all state officials to find a case
which will permit the “G-Men” to
act.
* Michigan authorities can’t carry
their investigation outside the state”,
he explained. ‘ G-Men cant step in
until there is proof that the' legion
has committed some federal offense.
Therefore it’s up to congress to act.”
FARM TERRACES
BE BUILT AGAINST
DREADED EROSION
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL
TURE PROGRAM TO
AID SOUTHEAST
•
WASHINGTON, June 9 (TP).—
The department of agriculture an
nounced today that an Important
feature of its soil conservation pro
gram will be the construction of
more than 36,000 miles of farm ter
racing.
The building of the terraces will
help to protect about a half million
acres of erosion, the announcement
said. It will be confined mostly to
the southeast and wil be completed
within three years.
Enough terraces will have been
built by that time—if they were con
structed in a straight line—to have
a string of 14 of them running from
New York to Los Angeles,
BABSON HITS AT
NEW DEAL TACTICS
BOSTON, June 9 (TP)—The noted
economist, Roger Babson, declared
today that he is an optmist—at least
for the next two years.
Babson addressed the executives
club at the Boston Chamber of Com
merce. He said—“ New industries,
obsolenscense, idle funds and the law
of action and reaction make it inevit
able that we are entering upon an-'
other period of prosperity, even
though it may be short.”
"Someday” said Babson, "We have
to pay heavily for all these New Deal
•xperlments. Unless some revolution
ary new industry develops and sweeps
the nation, we must some day pay for
this nonsense either with much heav
ier taxes or with printing-press' cur
rency.”
Meanwhile, Babson said, credit in
flation is Inevitable. This, he add
ed, means a higher cost of living, in
creased labor troubles and further
political unrest.
COPSGETDOSE
OWN MEDICINE
BOSTON, June 9 (TP)—A score of
Boston police officers received a dose
of their own medicine today—and
they didn't like it.
They discovered that it is easier to
affix tags.to other people's cars than
It is to "fix” things when tags are
attached to their own autos.
These officers had been assigned
to traffic duty along the route of the
schoolboy parade yesterday. They had
parked their cars on various streets
near one of the stations. On their re
turn from their posts of duty they
found parking tags attached to their
cars
Officials of the traffic division de
clared the officers would receive the
same treatment as other traffic of
fenders.
iwniuwb inits
Slain By Student
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Chanes Wesuy . __y
Charles Wesley Phy, English
professor at Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, Pa., was shot to
death in a corridor of the in
stitution by a senior student,
Wesley Clow, of Pine Castle,
Fla. Clow committed suicide on
the scene. Police said Clow was
enraged by the professor’s re
fusal to permit him to take a
re-examination. —Central Press
PREMIER BLUM
SEEKS ‘WHIPHAND’
IN NEW STRIKES
SOCIALIST REGIME FACE
ADDITIONAL DISOR
DERS IN FRANCE
PARIS, June 9 (TP) —Premier
Blum worked frantically today to end
the strike of 150,000 coal miners in
northern France and to head off
walkouts by aris’ taxi-drivers.
Most of the million workers who
struck last week went back to work
after Blum forced employers to prom
ise a 40 hour week, insisted that
they couldn't live eVbn on the new
wages. They marched into the under
ground pits and announced that they
would neither come out nor work un
til the wages were boosted still high
er.
The taxi men threatened to strike
because they were not included in
the generous terms given other work
ers.
Blum hopes to settle the labor
troubles by pushing legislation
through parliament granting better
conditions to all workers.
LAST RITES FOR
WIDOW OF POET
DIES AFTER HOME SAVED
BY CONTRIBUTIONS
HEAFFORD JUNCTION, Wi s„
June 9 (TP) —Funeral arrangements
are being made today for the widow
of America’s noted children's poet,
Eugene Field.
Mrs. Julia Field died after a heart
attack at her Crystal Lakes fram
home in northern Wisconsin. Her
death came only a few weeks after
her brave battle to save the Field
estate from a sheriff's sale.
The world almost had forgotten
that the widow of Field was still liv
ing until a few weeks ago when it
was announced that thai home was
about to be foreclosed. Friends and
admirers of the poet flocked to the
rescue. Mrs. Field finally accepted
$3,000 from the college fraternity of
which her husband was a member.
The amount cleared the estate of all
mortgage ties.
COMMITTEEMAN’S SCALP
SOUGHT AT CAUCUS
CLEVELAND, June 9 (TP) —Sup-
porters of Frank F. Taggart for the
post of Ohio’s Republican national
committeeman say they will unseat
the present committeeman, Walter
Brown, at today's caucus.
Brown, who held a post in Hoover's
cabinet, has taken a prominent part
in Republican politics for years. The
contest over the national committee
post has caused an open break be
tween Brown and State Chairman Ed
D. Schorr. Schoor has come out flatly
for Taggart.
LEFT WINGS IN FRANCE PLAN REFORM
DRASTIC CHANGES IN NATIONAL DEFENSE FORCES
’ ORDERED BY CABINET DECREE.
PARIS. June 9 (TP)—The new left
wing government in France inaugurat
ed a sweeping reform of the na
tional defense forces today by a cabi
net decree.
The army, navy, and air forces
were united under a single authority.
The minister of defense, Edouard
Daladier will be responsible for all
thre’ fighting services. In the past
these departments have been under
U. S. LAND FORCES
ORDERED IN ZONE
AS CRISIS NEARS
ELECTION RESULTS IN
PANAMA BRINGS
MOB ACTION
PANAMA CITY, June 9 (TJ)
Violent protests against the an
nounced results of Anama's presi
dential election brought a state of
near martial law in Panama City to
day.
The election was held Sunday but
the results were delayed until Mon
day night when it announced that
former foreign secretary, Dr. J. D.
Arosemena had defeated Domingo
Diaz by less than 5,000 votes.
Diaz’s supporters insisted that he
had won. Mobs gathered in the
streets, shouting noisy threats. Police
broke up the gatherings and put
strict rules in effect to prevent trou
ble.
All members of the United States
army and navy and all canal zone
employes were ordered to remain in
the Canal Zone.
PRISON OF BURNS
LOCATED BY JAPS
BANDIT HIDE-AWAY OF
CAPTIVE MISSIONARY
IS FOUND
PEIPING, June 9 (TP)—The hide
out where the captive American mis
sionary, Father Joseph Burns, is being
held prisoner by Manchurian bandits
has been found.'
Father Burns is imprisoned in an
almost impregnable fortress on a
mounatin peak in southeastern Man
churia. The place is immune to sur
prise attacks. Steep, slippery paths
are the only approaches to the hide
out and these are patrolled by an un
known number of bandits.
Father Burns, a Roman Catholic
missionary from Merry Knoll, New
York, was seized last Feb. 5 near
Tanghua, east of Mukden.
Japanese officers have been sent
to attempt to obtain Father Burn’s
release but they hesitate to approach
the bandits for fear of endangering
his life. However, they continue to
watch the neighborhood prepared to
step in should the kidnapers try to
move him to gome other hideout.
Another missionary stationed at
Tunchua, Father John Comber, said
he has learned the captive priest is
in good health and in no danger.
LABOR LEADERS
IN NEW FLAREUP
GREEN AND LEWIS RE
SUME BATTLE OF WORDS
AND NOTES
WASHINGTON. June 9 (TP)
President William Green of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor will find a
defiant letter on his desk this morn
ing.
The letter is from Fiery John L.
Lewis of the United Mine Workers. It
is an answer to Green’s demand that
Lewis drop efforts to organize steel
workers. The letter says flatly that
Lewis will continue his efforts. Fur
thermore it includes a defi to the A.
F. of L. to expel the mine union.
Lewis and Green have been at odds
for months over th§ method in which
labor unions should be setup. Green
favors small units organized by crafts
and trade. Lewis wants one big union
ers in the industry regardless of their
for each industry to Include all work
particular trade.
ROOSEVELTOFF
ON DIXIE TOUR
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
TO OCCUPY TIME OF
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
WASHINGTON, June 9 (TP)
President Roosevelt is speeding south
ward today—en route for Little Rock.
Ark., and the first stop of his 4 000
speaking tour.
The pregident left Washington late
last night and is due in Little Rook
Wednesday. From Little Rock he will
go to Texas, visiting Houston, San
Antonio and other principal cities be
fore speaking at the Texas centennial
in Dallas, on Friday. After spending
Friday night with his son. Elliott, in
Fort Worth, the president will start
eastward. His return trip will be
broken for a speaking engagement at
Vincennes, Ind., Sunday and a visit
to Abraham Lincoln’s birthplace in
Hodgenville, Ky., Monday .
The president said his trip was
purely non-political and that his talks
will be entirely historical.
the administration of independnet
civil hads. Frequently clashes have
occurred between these leaders.
Meanwhile cabinet ministers settled
the coal mine strike; 200,000 miners
agreed to return to work on Thursday.
Employes in several munitions fac
tories and white collar workers in
Paris business houses are still on
strike- They demand the same con
cessions given industial workers in
Blum's peace settlement.
SAVANNAH, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1936
Prefers Home, Killed
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Donna Park and Irving La Zarr
Donna Park, ballerina of the
stage and Chicago opera, pre
ferred a home and babies to a
married stage career with her
admirer, Irving La Zarr, a danc
er. He didn’t, so she broke her
engagement, and fled from her
Los Angeles home to Phoenix,
Ariz. He pursued her, shot and
killed her and then committed
suicide.—Central Press
NEGRO DELEGATES
CARRY ON FIGHT
—.
SUPPOSED ANNIHILATION
G. O. P. PARTY HINGES
ON BATTLE
CLEVELAND, June 9 (TP)—Ne
groes who were denied seats as dele
gates to the Republican National Con
vention decided today to carry their
fight to the convention floor.
The negroes’ first will make an
appeal to the Credentials Committee.
They will charge that their claims
have been disregarded in order to
favor what they called "lily white”
delegations from southern states. If
their appeal fails, they expect to rush
the convention hall.
Speakers at the meeting indicated
that the negro voters might trun
against the Republicans unless the
delegates get their rights. Dr. Charles
Phillip of St. Louis said: "If negroes
are refused the right of representation
it means the death of the Republican
party.” In deep-throated voices his
audience chorused —"Yeah Man!”
DENIES SHE’S WED
NEW YORK, June 9 (TP)—The
radio songstress, Vaughn de Leath,
today denied reports that she is mar
ried to the orchestra director, Irwin
Rose. The pioneer singer of the air
ways told Transradio that this is the
third time she hag been erroneously
reported married to her orchestra di
rector. The last time she had to deny
reports of wedding bells was last Oc
tober when a gossip columnist got his
signals mixed.
HIGH SPOTS IN PAST CONVENTIONS
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CHICAGO IN 1860
By C. DAVID VORMELKER
Central Press Staff Writer
AMID GATHERING clouds poi
tending Civil war the Republican n?
tional convention was held in Ch
cago in May, 1860.
Abraham Lincoln of Illinois wa
given the nomination on May 18.
Only three ballots were taken. Th
voting was so swift that when th
end did come such a feeling of sus
pense and climax had been built up
that the delegates relieved themselve,-
with deafening applause.
On the first ballot 12 men were ii
the running. On the second there wer
eight. On the third ballot, through
the charges effected by the votes c
Jennsylvania, Vermont, Massachusett
and New Jersey, Lincoln had receive
-230 1-2 votes, which was 1 1-2 shor.
cf the 233 necessary for the nomina
lion.
Massachusetts Turns Scale (
Mr. Andrews of Massachusetts then I
arose and changed four Massachuset
votes, giving them to Lincoln anc' I
nominating him by a majority of I
2 1-2 votes.
When that occurred, state afte; I
state swung over to Lincoln, but the
noise was so deafening that the dele-
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WAR CLOUDS ARE
HANGING CLOSE
IN NORTH CHINA
INTERNAL DISSENSION
CHECKS TROOP MOVE
MENT AGAINST JAPS
NANKING, June 9 (TP)—South
ern troops continued their movement
into north China today, despite the
warning of General Kai-Shek that the
southern provinces cannot force war
against Japan.
General Kai-Shek declared yester
day that only the central government
at Nanking has the right to decide
on war. He insisted that anti-Japa
nese sentiment in Canton should not
be allowed to plunge the nation into
war.
Southern leaders answered with a
new demand that Nanking give per
mission for a military expedition to
resist Japanese invasion of north
Chinese territory.
Anti-Japanese sentiment was re
ported increasing in other sections.
Leaders in Shanghai are said to have
pledged support of the government if
it takes action against the increase
of Japanese troops in north China.
ESCAPED MANIACS
SOUGHT IN IOWA
SIX OTHERS RECAPTURED
WITHOUT FIGHT IN MIN
’ NESOTA
I
ST. PAUL, June 9 (TP).—The
hunt for 10 of the 16 insane crim
inals who escaped from a Minnesota
asylum swung into lowa today.
National guardsmen reported that
a car stolen by six of the fugitives
was found near the lowa state line.
They believed the criminals are head
ing for the dense forests and broken
country of the Ozark mountains of
Missouri.
Six of the men who originally
broke out of the asylum at St. Peter,
Minn., have been recaptured. The
madmen, all with long records of rob
bery and murder, gave up without a
fight.
More than 300 National guards
men and state police are searching
for the others in 16 Minnesota coun
ties. State officials indicated today
they will ask lowa authorities to call
out national guards to join in the
hunt
BLUMENSHINE GIRL
RETURNS TO HER HOME
WASHINGTON, June 9 (TP).—
A tired little girl of 14 ran into her
parents’ arms today after being rway
from home nine days.
The girl is Dorothy Blumenshlne
wh. vanished June 1 after a picnic
with several young friends. The dis
appearance sent more than 300 men
searching the woods for her around
Washington.
A newsman discovered the young
wanderer at Chicago. She was |>
turned immediately to her anxious
mother and father.
Sheriff Ralph Goar, who led the
search for Dorothy, left his office
immediately to question her about
the trip to Chicago. The parents
have not said why she left home.
SNIPING AND BOMBING
FLARES IN PALESTINE
JERUSALEM, June 9 (TP). —Arab
terrorists in the Holy Land defied
British troops today.
Sniping and bombing flared in
northern Palestine as young Arabs
fought to drive the Jews out of the
land. Two bombs exploded in the
shrine town of Bethlehem. Police pa
trols and a company of British troops
were fired on from ambush near
Jerusalem. In all cases the police
and soldiers beat off the attacks
without losing a man.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Nominated on third ballot, made
unanimous
Who Will Run With Landon?
Is Burning Question As G. O. P.
Convention Gets Underway
TO MAKE KEYNOTE SPEECH
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ti-ataJ>nd hi/ R. j Scott. Central Press Artist.
ONE KILLED, 14 HURT IN PLANE CRASH
AMERICAN DIES WHEN AIRLINER FALLS ON ROOF OF
HOUSE IN SWEDEN AFTER MOTORS GO BAD.
STOCKHOLM, June 9 (TP)—An
American passenger was killed and
14 other persons were injured today
when an airliner crashed onto the
roof of a house in Malmoe, Sweden.
The American victim was Lawrence
K. Desmond of Coiby, Pa. Several of
the other passengers were injured
seriously.
The plane was one of the Lappland
line's regular continental planes. It
FREIGHT TRAIN
TIES UP TRAFFIC
WRECKAGE IS CAUSED BY
BROKEN RUNNING
GEAR
COWENTON, Md„ June 9 (TP)—A
tangled mass of more than 25
freight; cars tied up westbound traf
fic on the Baltimore and Ohio rail-,
road for almost 13 hours today. The
easttound tracks are not yet open.
A fast freight train heading for
New York buckled in two last night
near Cowenton, Maryland, strewing
cars across both tracks for more than
half a mile. Tracks were ripped up
and power lines tom as the cars
plunged down a 42-foot embankment.
Officials blamed a broken running
gear for the crash.
Emergency train crews have been
working since early this morning to
clear the tracks. All passenger traffic
was routed over Pennsylvania lines.
Officials report that no one was killed
and they believe that none was in
jured.
SHREVEPORT IS HOST
TO CONFEDERATE VETS
SHREVEPORT, La., June 9 (TP).
From all over the Southland today
came the thinning ranks of Confed
erate veterans to hold their forty
sixth annual re union.
Shreveport is especially provd of
the veterans because of its own Civil
War record. It did not haul down
the Confederate flag until the war
was virtually ended.
Highlights of the four-day conv |.
tion will be the dedication of a
monument to the men who fought
and died for their cause.
had taken off from Stockholm only
a short time before the accident,
carrying 11 passengers and a crew
of four.
One of the motors went bad as the
ship neared Malone and the pilot at
tempted to make a forced landing.
The ship crashed into the roof of the
house was wrecked.
All of the passengers were thrown
out of the ship. Desmond fell to the
ground and was killed instantly.
ALABAMA VOTERS
GO TO POLLS
‘CATSUP BOTTLE’ EPISODE
IS ONE OF ISSUES
IN CAMPAIGN
MONTGOMERY, Ala., June 9
(TP).—Alabama voters will decide
today between rivals for nomination
as Democratic congresional candi
dates.
In the Birmingham district, Con
gressman George Huddleston is op
posed by Luther Patrick, a lawyer,
radio entertainer and poet. Their
bitter fight has been marked by
charges of fraud arguments over the
New Deal and a physical set-to be
tween the two men, in which Hud
dleston hit Patrick over the head
with a catsup bottle. Patrick charged
that Huddleston was lukewarm in
his support of the New Deal and had
voted against the “death sentence”
for utility holding companies.
In the Tennessee valley district,
John Sparkman, Huntsville lawyer,
and Robert Simpson, Jr., of Florence,
are fighting for the seat of Repre
s enative Carmichael, who did not run
for re-election.
ASSAILANTS OF JURIST
GIVEN SUSPENDED TERM
BALTIMORE. June 9 (TP)—The
couple who attacked Judge Albert
Owens of the Baltimore supreme
bench were paroled today after serv
ing 15 days of a four-month sen
tence .
Mr. and Mrg. William Sleitzer were
found guilty of attacking the Balti
more jurist in his home after they
cisagrced with the judge’s decision in
a case involving their daughter.
Judge Duke Bond paroled them to
day under a year s suspended sen
tence providing that they move to
New York where Sleitzer has been
promised a ioh
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GOVERNOR’S BOOM CON
TINUES TO GAIN.
CLEVELAND, June 9 (TP).—The
Republican national convention is
on!
Thousands of men and women, rep
resenting every state in the Union
and all Uncle Sam’s possessions,
leaned forward in their seats at the
Cleveland auditorium this morning
and heard the battery of loud speak
ers bellow—
“ The Republican national conven
tion of 1936 wil come to order.”
With the smack of the gavel, wield
ed by the Republican National Com
mittee’s President Henry P. Fletch
er, the G. O. P. party opened what
most Republicans tremed its most im
portant convention since the Civil
War. \
Landon Heavy Favorite
In every delegate’s mind ranged
the questions—“ Can the New Deal
be beaten?” "will the Republican
party'go liberal this year?” "wiU
Landon win on the first ballot?” and
■ "who will run with Landon?”
WOMEN’S RIGHTS?
CLEVELAND, June 9 (TP)
Women officials of the organiza
tion called —"The league for wom
en for president and other public
office”—sped to Cleveland today
to try to get the Republicans to
nominate a woman for vice presi
dent.
The league president, Miss Lil
lian Rock is heading the women's
movement for more political pow
er. The league will also try to get
the Democratic party to drop John
Nance Gamer in. the fall elections
and enter a woman for vice presi
dent.
The opening of the convention
found all but a few die-hards con
vinced that Governor Landon will be
the Republican standard bearer in
November, Most convention of Helals
think the Kansan will poll the neces
-. fary 502 votea. on the first, ballet
More conservative groups think it
will take a second, or even a third
ballot to wipe out the opposition con
fronting the gentleman from Topeka.
Every entrance to the audito
was blocked by milling throngs of
convention delegates and onlookers
who wedged their way slowly into
[the hall.
The auditorium filed 'rapidly.
Fletcher on Platform
’ As Fletcher mounted the platform,
dressed in a white Palrj Beach suit,
a storm of cheers went up. Time
r out was taken while Fletcher handled
the gavel for the benefit of newsreel
’ men.
As he did so outside the great au
ditorium a military band hired by
! the Landonites swung down’ the
' street blaring "Oh Sussanna."
■ Landon supporters staged the first
■ auditorium parade of the convention.
While platform officials were taking
their places, the Landonites, headed
'■ by a band, circled the convention
hall waving banners bearing Lan
don’s name and picture.
Republican governors and senators
took their seats on the platform just
i before the convention opened. One
| of the first notables to appear there
was Senator Vandenberg of Mich
, igan—himself a leadig “dark horse
1 candidate.”
OLD GEORGIA LAW MAY
PUT BAN ON BEER SALE
i
! MONTICELLO, Ga.. June 9 (TP),
i Jasper county has evoked a Georgia
law of 1883 to stop the sale of beer
in Monticello.
The 53-year-old enactment provid
ed that anyone wishing to sell beer
, in Monticejlo must obtain in writ
ing the consent of three-fourths of
the free land holders of the city. It
als provided for a tax of $5,000.
County officials announce that the
law will be rigidly enforced.
MAYCOMPROMISE
HOUSE - SENATE LEADERS
SEE AGREEMENT ON
REVENUE BILL
WASHINGTON, June 9 (TP)
Leadeig of the house-senate for con
ference said today v hat they expect
to reach a compromise on the $829,-
000 000 revenue bill.
The house conferees object to many
of the 289 amendments made by the
senate. The chief dispute, however,-
is over the President Roosevelt’s de
mand for a h»avy tax on the undis
tributed earnings of corporations. The
house bill, written in accordance with
the president's wishes, provided for a
-evy of 42 12 per cent. The senate
cut the tax to 7 per cent.
Mr. Roosevelt was understood to
have stood up for his original plan
at a confernece with Democratic con
ferees last n:ght. Both senators and
representatives agreed th. . their op
posing views probably can be recoj»-
ciled.