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WEATHER Continued Fair and Warmer To day; Showers Tomorrow MARKETS Stocks Are Firm: Wheat Gains; Cotton Sags. VOLUME 2—NUMBER 147 FRANCE FOLLOWS BRITAIN ON SANCTIONS * * * * ★ ★ ' . Congress Adjournment Certain Tomorrow FRENCH CABINET RATIFIES LIFTING TRADE BARRIER LLOYD GEORGE CALLS BALDWIN GOVERNMENT ■COWARDS’ FOR MOVE PARIS. June 19 (TP) —The French cabinet followed in the footstep of Great Britain today and announced that it favors the immediate end of League of Nations sanctions against Italy. With Prance and Britain now lined up against continuing the sanctions, league officials believed the penalties will be wiped out at Geneva next week. However, in Great Britain the op position to the Baldwin government has launched a terrific campaign to make the cabinet again change its mind about the effectiveness of sanc tions. The labor party has issued a manifesto to the British people call ing upon them to resist with all their power the lifting of sanctions. Labor speakers will stump every town in Britain to try to arouse the people before next Tuesday when debate on foreign affairs is resumed in the house of commons. The British press was sharply divid ed on the momentous shift in Brit ish foreign policy. The conservative papers such as the Times and Morn ing Post declared that the cabinet had acted wisely. The opposition newspapers agreed 1 with David Lloyd George in calling •den’s speech a cowardly surrender to Premier Mussolini. The London Daily Mail believed that the hew British policy sounded the death knell not only of sanctions but of bha League of Nations. League May Follow GENEVA, June 19 (TP)—The pre diction that the League of Nations will hasten to go along with Great Britain in discarding antlltalian sanc tions was general in Geneva today. Most League Nations, an unofficial survey showed, have been anxious to drop the sanctions since Italian forces captured Addis Ababa and Emperor Halle Selassie fled. While some of the smaller nations banded in the league fear that the failure of the sanctions to check Italy’s cam paign in east Africa means that the peace congress is without a weapon to use in defense of its members, it is generally agreed that continuation of the economic penalties against Rome is useless. When British Foreign Minister Eden arrives in Geneva within a few days to ask withdrawal of the sanctions, he will be given a sympa thetic ear by France and a majority of the other nations who signed up for the sanctions drive. Eden faced a storm of ridicule in the house of commons at London yesterday when he announced that the sanctions would be dropped. Liberals and laborltes cried '‘shame” and called on him to resign as he addressed the commons in one of the noisiest ses sions on record. The session reached its peak when David Lloyd George, i liberal leader and former premier, rose and shouted: ‘The nations of the world trusted Britain a few months ago. Now they will never trust this crowd because of Its cowardly surrender to a ruthless dictator, Mussolini.” “There,” cried the red faced Welsh man, pointing a finger at Premier Baldwin and his ministers, ‘‘here sit the cowards.” MURDER THEORY IN TRIPLE DEATH MOTHER AND CHILDREN FOUND STRANGLED IN HOME PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 19 (TP) I The homicide bureau probed the vl- I olent death of a mother and her two children today In the belief that It was a triple murder. The bodies of Mrs. Martin Seely, wife of a Pitts burgh university professor,' and her two children were found Inside their locked home In the Squirrel Hill dis trict. All three had been strangled. The young wife also had ©een stabbed. Professor Seely was in Pottersville, N. J., when police Informed him of th? tragedy. The landlord, Charles Young, said he discovered the bodies late last night when he peered In a down stairs window of the home. The coro ner said the the mother and her two children had been dead from four to 12 hours when Young found them. § ft ir mi mOOft i1 11 (H ni f 5 PHONE 6183 “Gun Went Off” i I at : Mrs. Mildred Bolton Though she vehemently de nied that she either killed her husband or handled the gun with which he was shot, Mrs. Mildred Bolton, 35-year-old estranged wife of Joseph Bol ton ,a'Chicago insurance brok er, was held- for* questioning. Bolton was shot and killed in his office during a quarrel with with his wife, according to po lice. Mrs. Bolton asserts that her husband drew the gun during a quarrel and that it went off, adding, “I never - touched it." ’ ’ —Central Press.: LABOR HEAD TO BACK AGREEMENT lewis to Confer with MINE WORKERS ON NEW SETTLEMENT HAZELTON, Pa., June 19 (TP)— John S. Lewis arrived in Habelton today to help his United Mine Work ers make up their minds about the new wages and hours agreement with hard coal operators. The mine union president came from Pittsburgh where he has been leading a drive for industrial union ization of the steel Industry. In Hazelton, Lewis -will try to get the representatives of the hard coal min ers to approve the agreement he negotiated with operators in a long New York conference. The agreement makes no provisions for a wage in crease, but it does better the working and living conditions of anchracite miners. SINGER'S CAR KILLS GIRL TORRINGTON, Conn., June 19 : (TP)—A car driven by the noted con cert star, Mrs. Alma Gluck Zimbal -Ist, struck and killed a 13-year-old girl today. The victim was Anna Plsanti of Torrington. FACISTS ADAMANT IN FRANCE SOCIALISTS RECEIVE MILITANT REPLY TO DEMAND FOR DISSOLUTION OF BLACK SHIRT LEGION. PARIS, June 19 (TP)—French au thorities fear trouble when they at tempt to enforce Premier Blum’s new orders, dissolving all Fascist organiza tions in the country. Heads of the “Cross of Fire.” and similar armed groups were defiant when Blum charged them with in citing riots and plotting to overthrow the government. Without exception, the French Fascist leaders warned Blum that any attempts to enforce the dissolution order would be strenu ously fought. ARRESTS FOLLOW BLOODY BATTLE IN LABOR WAR STRIKE-BREAKERS CAST IN JAIL UPON REQUEST OF PICKET LEADERS KENT, Ohio. June 19 (TP).—More than a score of workers, brought into Kent in an attempt to break a strike at the Black and Decker Electric Company, are lodged in the Portage county jail at Ravenna today. The non-strikers were arrested on John Doe warrants after a long bat tle with strikers which brought shot guns, rifles, pistols and tear gas grenades into play. Six men were seriously wounded In the skkmish and more than a dozen others are suffering from riot injuries. The outbreak occurred when a truckload of non-strikers attempted to break through the picket lines and enter the factory grounds. Strikers maintain the outsiders opened fire first and swore out the John Doe war rants on charges of shooting with in tent to kill. The non-strikers gained the factory building and, were beseiged by en raged pickets who kept up a four hour gun fight witn those inside. The shooting died down when Sher iff E. L. Burr promised to serve the warrants sworn out by strike lead ers and, threatened to summon the national guard unless the pickets laid down their guns . As crowds about the Black and Decker plant swelled steadily w.V the arrival of w’orkers from other Kent factories, Sheriff Burr and h‘s deputies escorted the non-strikers from the besieged plant and rushed them to Ravenna. LINDBERGHLAW HAS FIRST VICTIM AS TRAP FALLS GOOCH IS REMINISCENT OVER PAST DEEDS AS NOOSE TIGHTENS McALESTER, Okla., June 19 (TP The federal government claimed the life today of the first kidnaper to be convicted under the new Lindbergh law. The convict, Arthur Gooch, was sentenced to death for kidnaping two officers of Paris, Texas, and taking them into Oklahoma. Gooch had a long criminal tecord when he was tried on the federal charges. His lawyers tried for more than a year to save him from the gallows. They argued death was too heavy a penalty, since the kidnap vic tims were almost unhurt. Until the last minute, the kidnaper believed that Mrs. Franklin Roose velt would come to his rescue. Pre vious appeals to the United States supreme court and to President Roose velt had failed. Gooch was led to the gallows this morning. He walked the 2QO yards from the prison walls to the gallows with little show of emotion. He said. “I wish my life could have turned out differently—but it didn’t, and it's too late now.’? BALDWIN GOVERNMENT ENDORSED BY VOTERS LONDON, June 19 (TP)—The vot ers in the Lewes division of Sussex endorsed the policies of the Baldwin government today In a by-election. The Conservative party candidate for the House of Commons, Rear-Ad miral Beamish won over his Laborite I opponent by a two to one mapority. The Lewes seat in Commons was va cated by Captain John Loder who succeeded to the Peerage as a result of the death of his father, Lord Wake hurst. Most outspoken was Colonel De La Rocque, the leader of the “Cross of Fire”, the largest and strongest of the Facist organizations. De La Roc que accused Blum of attempting to enforce a Socialist dictatorship and announced that he would appeal the decree to the Council of State. French financial circles were ner vous today as they awaited the ad dress of Blum’s new Finance Minister, Vincent Auriol. Auriol is due to ex plain the government financial policy and cutline the financial state of the country. SAVANNAH, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1936 (GOOD WILL JOHN WASHINGTON, June 19 (TP). Vice President Garner is rapidly I earning the title as the number i one good will diplomat from the United States. The state department announc- J ed today that “Cactus Jack” will I head the United States delegation I to Mexico for the formal open i ing of its section of the Inter i American highway. The ceremo | nies connected with the opening will take place at Neuvo Laredo from July 1 to 4. Last year, after congress ad journed, the vice president from j Uvalde, Texas, headed an Ameri i can good will mission to Japan and the Orient. He also represented the United States government at the inauguration of the first pres ident of the Philippine Islands. JUDGE RAINEY DIES SUDDENLY DAWSON HOME DEATH OF POLITICAL FIG URE IS BLOW TO GEORGIA (Special to The Daily Times) DAWSON, Ga., June 19 —Judge E. L. Rainey, 73, chairman of the Geor gia prison commission, editor of the Dawson News and one of the most widely known figures in the state, died suddenly at his home here early today. Members of the family said Judge Rainey had been in good health un til the time of his death, and Thurs day afternoon visited his farm in Tattnall county, coming home and retiring. He was found dead in bed shortly after midnight. Judge Rainey had been a member of the prison commission since 1913 when he was appointed by Governor Joe Brown. He was elected in 1914 for a term of six years and had been continuously re-elected since that time. For a number of years he served as chairman of the commis sion.’ * During his service as prison com missioner he was active in prison re form work and did a great deal to ward improving Georgia chain gang conditions. Before serving as prison commissioner. Judge Rainey was a member of the state legislature from 1902 to 1907, served as city commis sioner of Dawson . and was on the school board. Judge Rainey had been editor of the Dawson News for 53 years. Fu neral services probably will be held here Saturday . SUICIDE CRAZED COUPLE SMASH INTO WORKERS CLEVELAND, June 19 4TP) —Some- one shouted a warning, but it was too late. Pedestrians on the comer stood paralyzed as a speeding car smacked into 19 steel workers waiting to board a trolley. The men fell like ten pins as the car drove through the crowd. A white-faced man and a girl peered through the windshield—then the machine swerved sharply and sped ahead. A passerby got the license number. Ten minutes later, every squad car in Cleveland was on the lookout. The number was checked and police tore out for the home of the owner of the car. They found a garage, but the door w’as locked. The sound of a motor came from inside. Police broke down the door and dashed in. They dragged the man from under the wheel and pulled out the girl on the other side. Both of them wire almost unconscious from the carbon monoxide fumes. Police said they thought the couple had a suicide pact. MOTORCYCLE SPEEDSTER WINS WORLD-WIDE EVENT DOUGLAS, Isle of Man. June 19 (TP). —Britain’s ace motorcycle pilot James Guthrie, flashed to victory to day in the world's senior speed cham pionship. Guthrie covered a hazard ous 264-mfte course in three hours, four minutes. 43 seconds. His aver age speed was 85.4 miles an hour. Twenty riders competed in the an nual test held on Britain’s small is land in the Irish sea. Guthrie led throughout the race up hill, around tortuous curves, and down over -a lightning fast straight away. Stanley Woods finished second, a scant 18 seconds behind the win ner. DEMOCRATIC ARMY MOVES INTO CAMP AT PHILADELPHIA HUGE VANGUARD DELE GATES START PLANS GIGANTIC RALLY PHILADELPHIA, June 19 (TP) I The vanguard of an army of delegates to the Democratic National Conven tion streamed into a flag-bedecked Philadelphia today. Each new train that puffed into Broad Street station disgorged its i group of delegates and alternates to the political meeting which is rapidly j assuming the proportions of the gigan ■ tic Roosevelt rally it will be. Among the Democratic notables ex pected to reach the convention city today are Vice-President Garner, who is due to be renominated next week. The New Deal’s famous publicity ace, i Charley Michelson also is expected to i arrive in Philadelphia today. Postmaster-General James A. Far ley had expected to come to Philadel phia this morning. However, he put off his arrival in the convention city a day when the Louis-Schmeling fight at New York was postponed. Senator Robert A. Wagner of New York has completed his first draft of the platform to be offered the con vention. Senator A. W. Barkley of , Kentucky, who is slated to deliver the keynote speech, is also believed to have dotted the last “I” and crossed the last “T” of the address which is depended upon to start the conven thusiasm. FRENCH "FINANCE MINISTER FEARS FRANC INFLATION AURIOL PAINTS GLOOMY PICTURE OF NATION’S FINANCIAL STATUS PARIS, June 19 (TP)—The French minister of finance, Vincent Auriol, painted a gloomy picture of the gov ernment's finances today before an anxious chamber of deputies. Auriol said that the deflation pol icy of the Laval and Sarraut govern ments had failed and that the budget deficit was rapidly mounting. He re ported that the deficit had increased to more than $450,000,000 in the past five months. The French min ister estimated that near four billion dollars in gold had been exported from France or hoarded in the past year and a half. He told the deputies that they should be on guard against all exports to devalue the franc. While the chamber talked money, the streets of Paris echoed with shouts of defiance from the Fascist leagues. These political groups were ordered to disband by the Blum cabi net. The leagues headed by the large “Cross of Fire” organization said thye would fight the dissolution order in the courts. BANDITS ROB MESSENGER AND MAKE BIG CLEAN-UP FARMINGDALE, L. 1., June 19 (TP)—A trio of fast working bandits beat a messenger of the First Na tional bank of Farmingdale today and robbed him of $12,000. The messenger, Francis Gray, was walking from the post office to ths bank—a distance of only one block. One of the robbers slugged him with a gun and snatched his money pouch. Gray was dragged into the bandits’ car but was dumped into the street a short distance away as the car sped off- The money w’as a consignment of cash from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to the Farmingdale bank. G. O. P PRESIDENTIAL HOPE GOES TO WORK TOJEKA, Gans., June 19 (TP).— Governor Alf M. Landon settled down to work today as the chief ex ecutive of the state of Kansas after a busy week of conferences on na tional affairs. The governor is mapping out the social security plan whch he in tends to put before a special session of the Kcnsas legislature on July 7. He hopes to have his outline ready before he leaves Topeka for his va cation in Estes Park, Colo., next Wednesday. Republicans will scan the gover nor’s message carefully. They hope > it will contain an Indication of the social security policies London will carry with him if he goes into the j White House. 1 < PHONE 6183 Gallows Parts Them ► , r c y . * Fli i wiW’' ■ 'I I wwh Mrs. Idelia Gooch with her son, Arthur, inset. Arthur Gooch, Oklahoma butch er boy, was hanged in the pris on yard of the Oklahoma state penitentiary at McAlester this morning. Gooch was the first person in the United States to be sentenced to death under the Lindbergh law. He was convict ed of abducting two Paris, Tex as, omcers auu noiamg mem captive for 17 hours. The moth er ana son are snown aoove. There have been protests over this death sentence as Gooch did not physically harm any one. G.O.P. CAMPAIGNER IN NEEDED REST MANAGER HAMILTON PRE DICTS REPUBLICANS TO TAKE NEW YORK NEW ORK. June 19 (TP)—The “Do not disturb” sign hangs on the knob of Campaign Manager John Hamilton’s door today. Hamilton, number one campaigner for Republican Presidential nominee Alf Landon, is resting in some out of-the-way upstate New York hideout. The red-headed Kansan, when he left New York in the wake of a score of important conferences, said he in tended to take a much-needed rest and, at the same time, concentrate on the writing of a speech. The ad dress which will claim Hamilton’s at tention will be delivered in New York City on Monday and will constitute Hamilton’s opening gun in the Lan don campaign. Governor Langdon’s first lieutenant said he is confident that New York State will go Republican in Novem ber, regardless of whether or not Governor Herbert Lehman runs for re election. Lehman, a strong Demo catic votewagg ... er, has announced that he is retiring at the end of his present term. Rumors say the Roose velt forces may draft him for the re election ticket in the fear that the New Deal slate, without Lehman, might fail to carry President Roose velt’s home state. . ANXIOUS EARS AWAIT COUGHLIN THIRD PARTY CANDIDATE OF RADIO PRIEST EXPECTED TO BE NAMED IN TALK TONIGHT. DETROIT, June 19 (TP)—Repub- 1 lican ana Democratic leaders alike J were uneasy today as they awaited the radio announcement the Reverend Charles E. Coughlin is scheduled to make tonight. Father Coughlin several days ago hinted that he would come out in favor of a third-party Presidential candidate in tonight's speech. Although he has given, -no clue as to the identity of this candidate, gen eral opinion is that he will endorse Congressman William Lemke of North I Senate, House Reach Compromise On Much Argued Tax Measure WASHINGTON, June 19 (TP).— t Congress is putting the final touches to a session which appears certain to end some time tomorrow. Congressional adjournment was la belled a certainty when senate and house conferees who have wrangled for days over the new tax bill reached a compromise. The big $800,000,000 measure, ‘G’ MEN TO PROBE REIGN OF TERROR ON COTTON FARMS ARKANSAS SITE OF PROBE BY GOVERNMENT INTO ‘TENANT SLAVERY’ LITTLE ROCK, Ark., June 19 (TP) —Federal forces are ready to sift re ports of a reign of terror in the cot ton-farming region of East Arkansas. Special Assistant Attorney General Samule Whitaker has orders from Washington to question five alleged victims of Arkansas mob violence, Attorney General Cummings indicat ed the investigation will center around the little town of Earle, in Crittendon County. Whitaker has just finished a tw’O weeks’ survey of living conditions among the tenant sharecroppers. That investigation was started by rumors that wealthy planters were forcing tenant fanners into virtual slavery, and using terroristic methods to pre vent outside interference. The most recent charges of violence came from Frank Rawlinson, of Col umbus, S. C. Rawlinson said he was flogged when he entered the cotton country of Arkansas to make a social survey. A Presbyterian minister, a 23-year-old woman social worker and two sharecroppers made similar charges of brutal mistreatment while studying living conditions. The famous inventor of the mech anical cotton picker, John Rust, sent a message of protest to President Roosevelt. Rust wrote: “I have heard of men being beaten’and kiledl in be half of the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union. Now that these outlaws have turned to beating women, I can hold ihy peace no longer.” i DROUGHT TERROR BROKEN BY RAIN SOUTHERN FARMERS OF FER FERVENT HOPES FOR MORE DOWNFALL ATLANTA, June 19 (TP) —Farmers in four South Atlantic States looked out on their planted fields today with renewed hope. For the past three months, seven South Atlantic states have been in the grip of a severe drought. Day by day, the damage to the crops mounted in the millions. A brief thunder shower two weeks ago had little or no effect on the sun baked soil. But late last night, thundershowers and occasional hail struck four of the seven states. The rains were center ed in northern Georgia, eastern Tenn essee, and western and cetral North and South Carolina. Farmers in these sections believe that the rains will help save the remains of their plantings. The drought damage has been es timated as being about 25 per cent of all the planted crops. Cotton and truck farming were particularly hard hit. The damage to the cotton crop has been estimated as high as 30 per cent of last year’s yield. House wives in the southern states have been paying almost double for vege table greens for over two weeks. 1 Dakota. I G. O. P. leaders insist that a third Presidential candidate would harm their campaign cause less than the New Deal's re-election cances. Father Coughlin’s candidate, according to the G. O. P. view, would lure only a few votes from their ranks. How ever, the Republicans add, a strong candidate advanced by the radio priest would make deep inroads into the Democratic factions which are none too well pleased with the New Deal. Published every day excepting Saturdays. Five cents per copy Sundays. Delivered to your home fifteen WEEK DAYS cetits per week. PAY NO MORE TRANSRADIO PRESS i which threatened to prove a stum- ■ bling block which would keep con gress in session for days, seems ready for a speedy approval in the house and senate —possibly tonight and undoubtedly before recess time tomorrow. With its passage, adjourn ment gavels in both congressional chambers will crack down and the 74th congress will be history. Filibuster Fear Fades The threat of a senate filibuster against the new tax bill appears re mote. Senator H. Vandenberg, anti- New Deal leader in the senate, has announced that he will speak for [ only five minutes on the tax bill. Other addreses. both for and against the $800,000,000 measure, probably will be equally as brief.- i The house and senate already have i cleared the decks of the mass of leg- L'lation which was hanging fire when : congress recessed for the Republican I national - convention. • A- home stretch burst of speed which contrast ed sharply with the usual snail’s pace congressional tempo accounted for several important measures, includ -Bing the $2,376,000,000 first deficien cy bill, which contained the $1,425,- 000,000 relief appropriation. Senate Works Fast The deficiency measure shot through the senate in only an hour and a half. Less time was required for the senate to pass the Chain Store bill, which strips chain store systems of many advantages they held over independent merchants. Both measures are now ready for the president’s - signature—and appear due to get the White pjcaj’,_as fast as the pen’'can be dipped in the ink-well. loday’s senate session will bring a vote on. the ship subsidy bill. The new Gussy coal bill also may come up for a vote in the upper chamber, although Senator Rush Holt of West Virginia has threatened a filibuster if the measure is brought up. Holt is leader in the fight against the bill, which was framed by his West Virginia colleague and arch political foe, Senator M. M. Neely. The young senator’s opposition to the measure drew fire of John L. Ledwis, head of the United Mine Workers, who charged Holt with betraying the West Virginia coal miners who helped elect him. EX-COUNCILMAN IN LEGION PROBE NEW ARRESTS STIR INTER. EST IN “TERRORISTS” INVESTIGATION DETROIT, June 19 (TP)—Former councilman Jesse Pettijohn of subur ban Ecorse is under arrest today on charges of conspiracy in the Black Legion plot to murder the village may or. An Escorse steelworker, Lawrence Madden, faces similar charges. The two men are accused of taking part in the plans to slay Mayor William Voisine of Ecorse, whom the Black Legion is reported to have wanted “out of the way.” Police also revealed the arrest of William Moore in connection with the 1934 murder of factory worker John Bielak. Police Inspector John Navarre said, “The case looks like another Black Legion affair.” . WEAKER SEX? WIFE OF PRESIDENT IS SOUGHT AS RUNNING MATE FOR HUSBAND PHILADELPHIA, June 19 (TP)— The Women's League which wants a woman in the White House hinted strongly today that they would like to see Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt as Vice- President. The organization is known as the League for Wcman for President and other public offices, it didn’t come right out and say that they plan to nght for the nomination of Mrs. Roosevelt, but their founder and chairman, Miss Lillian Rock, said she th °^ ht it would be a “great idea.” Said Miss Reck:“We offered the heads of the Republican party the op- «’“»« T thini y fh ldn take advan tage of it. 1 think the Democrats will be wise g r il ” Miss Rock A L J U€ fa ? re<; the nomination of Alice Roosevelt Longworth for Vice- President at the Cleveland OOP convention. r ’