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VOLUME 2—NUMBER 149
Gene Again
Takes Slam
At New Deal
GOVERNOR GIVE 3 STRONG
HINT OF SUPPORT
ING AL SMITH
(Special To The Timas)
ATLANTA, June 22. Governor
Talmadge today came out definitely
against the renomination of President
Roosevelt by the Democratic party
in convention at Philadelphia saying
It would be “the greatest mistake the
Democrats could make.’’ In the fol
lowing statement the governor out
lined his attitude: ‘‘l am a party man
but I am opposed to Roosevelt being
the nominee of the party. I believe
•the party will make the mistake of
its lite In renominating Roosevelt.
”1 am opposed to certain principles
of the New Deal, practically all of
them, and I was instrumental in
bringing court action in the name of
the state of Georgia which stopped
the operation of some of the New
Deal policies.
“I think I rendered a great service
to the people of America when |
took this action. I am a party man
and in the party to stay. I believe Al
Smith and his crowd would better
serve the people by working with me.
If my party needs me and calls me,
I can be in Philadelphia in three
hours.”
FLORIDA AGAIN
CASTS BALLOTS
IN FINAL VOTE
SECOND DEMOCRATIC PRI
MARY WILL BE HELD
IN STATE TOMORROW
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., June 22
(TP) —For the second time within a
month, Florida voters will troop to
the polls tomorrow to cast their bal
lots in the Democratic primary.
They won't have as much trouble
voting Tuesday, however, as they had
in the first primary. Three weeks
ago the ballots contained more than
100 names. This time only four can
didates are running for state office*.
The second Democratic primary
will be a nm-off election for the
candidacy for governor and congres
sional seats. Out of a field of 14 can
didates for governor only two are left.
Raleigh Petteway of Tampa and Fred
Cone of Lake City remain. Petteway
won the right to enter the run-off
with several votes to spare. Cone,
however, was hard pressed by two
other candidate*. Under the primary
laws, to be nominated a candidate
must have a majority of all the votes
cast.
Petteway is an avowed Townsendite.
He promises if elected to do all in his
power to further the Townsend plan,
for old-age pensions. Cone is believed
to have the backing of the present
governor, Dave Sholtz.
EXPERTS PONDER
NAVAL TREATY
PROPOSED RUSSO-BRITAIN
DIPLOMATS TO DIS
CUSS PACT
LONDON, June 22 (TP).—The po
litical experts of Soviet Russia and
Great Britain took a hand today in
the negotiations on the naval treaty
between the two countries.
The Russian ambassador, Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden and Brit
ain's first lord of the admiralty, Sir
Satnuel Hoare, were present at the
round table discussion. It was stated
that their confemece was purely a
matter of familiarizing themselves
with the work already done by tech
nical experts. They said the meeting
in no way implied any differences.
The naval experts on both sides have
reported that the negotiations are
progressing smoothly.
The proposed treaty is based on
the London naval pact recently
signed by Uncle Sam, Great Britain,
and Prance. Russia has found the
terms of this pact agreeable except
in one respect.
HAPPY MOTORING
CANDIDATES IN SEVEN
STATES PLEDGE CUT
IN GAS TAX .
NEW YORK. June 22 (TP)—The
American Petroleum Institute declar
ed today that long suffering motorists
of at least five states may benefit
from the coming political campaigns.
Reductions in gasoline taxes have
been promised by candidates in Illi
nois, Georgia, North Dakota, Tenn
essee and Pennsylvania. Now all the
drivers have to do is elect the men
who say they’ll cut the taxes.
In Tennessee, the A. P. I. pointed
out, two candidates for governor want
to reduce the 7 cents a gallon tax.
Another candidate is opposed to di
verting the revence from gas taxes
to anything but road building.
Three Pennsylvania candidates for
the legislature are on record as
against boosting the current 4 cent
tax. Both candidates for governor of
North Dakota are against Increases.
It’s the same story in Illinois and
Georgia.
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Seeks Convention Crown
r
Miss Mary Jane McCloskey of Overbrook, Pa., will vie with girls from the
other 47 states for the honor of being queen of the Democratic National
Convention. She was selected to represent her state by Gov. Earle.
f Central Press)
ARAB UPRISING IN FAR EAST
BRITISH REPULSE ATTACK AS DESERT NOMADS SPRING
AMBUSH ON TROOP MOVEMENT; FIVE ARE KILLED.
JERUSALEM, June 22 (TP)—
Mounted Arabs swooped down on a
British troop train today in a des
perate attempt to halt the movement
of soldiers.
The ‘ attackers wounded one ser
geant. Five Arabs were killed. The
ambush was made In a gully which
the train passed on its way from
Jerusalem to the sea. Heavy boulders
were rolled on to the track to block
the train. When the troop carrier
slowed down, the insurgents struck
from all sides. A fuslllage of grenades,
shotgun shell and rifle fire poured
down on the trapped train. The troops
swung into action and answered fire
from the car windows. When the at
tackers were beaten off, five of them
lay dead on the hills.
The attack was carried out as bold
ly as the ambush mads yesterday on
a squadron of soldiers. In that en-
PARKING PROBLEM SOLVED
NEW YORK, June 22 (TP).—
The parking meter was offered to
New Yorkers today—a solation to
the traffic problem. The New
York Merchants Association urged
meters be adopted at once, and
promised millions to the city in
revenue. Oklahoma City and Dal
las are using them, and the asso
ciation says the meters are down
right imperative.
The driver parks his car beside
the meter, drops in a nickel and
goes about his business. A flag
pops up from the machine to
show that the toll has been paid.
At the end of a fixed period, a
half hour or so, the flag goes
down. Then the car must be
moved, or another toll paid.
RAILROAD LOSES
IN FARE BATTLE
INJUNCTION IS GRANTED
GOVERNMENT AGAINST
LONG ISLAND SYSTEM
NEW YORK, June 22 (TP).—The
Long Island Railroad has just lost
another court battle in its attempt to
hold its passenger fares at three,
cents a mile.
The appellate division of the State
Supreme Court upheld an injunction
prohibiting the carrier from charging
more than two cents a mile. The
appellate court granted the Long Is
land permission to appeal the deci
sion to the court of Appeals.
The two cent fare in all coaches
was recently set for all railroads by
the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion.
36 VICTIMS STRICKEN
WITH FOOD POISONING
SAN FRANCISCO, Oal., June 22
(TP) —36 persons, including ten child
ren, are uhder hospital treatment this
morning for food poisoning. Author
ities think the tainted food came
from the same neighborhood. Eigh
teen were stricken after a dinner
party in Oakland. Three of them
are in a critical condition.
WIFE MURDER SUSPECT
PARKTON, Md„ June 22 (TP)
The mother of five children was held
by police today while they investi
gated the fatal shooting of her hus
band, Hollis Almony, in hl* Parkton
home. Police say Mrs. Mary Almony
has admitted shooting her husbnad
after he beat her and threatened to
burn down their home. A shotgun was
found in the dining room near the
body of the farmer.
YACHTSMAN DROWNED
SEATTLE, Wash., June 22 (TP)—
A prominent yachtsman and speed
boat enthusiast, Gordon Stewart, was
drowned in Lake Union today when a
speeding motor boat) capsized. Both
Stewart and his companion. Harold
Soden, were thrown out of the craft.
Soden wa* rescued unharmed. Efforts
to revive Stewart with a pulmotor
failed.
gagement two tommies were killed be
, fore bombing planes could relieve
them. The Palestine government met
the attacks with severe decrees. It
forbid the carrying of arms by civil
ians on the pain of five years im-
• prisonment;. Bomb throwers were held
liable under a death penalty. Arab
leaders defied the decrees. They or-
i dered the Arab civil disobedience
strike to be prosecuted with renewed
intensity. This strike was called at
the outbreak of the racial war to
compel Britain to halt Jewish immi
gration .
The mandatory government sternly
promised death or life imprisonment
today to anybody caugse throwing
explosives. The "iron decrees” were
issued to break up riotings in the
Holy Land capital. Persons in posses
sion of arms and bombs will be sen
tenced to five years to life.
TRIAL DATES OF
LEGION BE SET
ALLEGED TERRORISTS ON
LAST LAP OF EXTEN
SIVE PROBE
DETROIT, Mich., June 22 (TP)—
Prosecutor Duncan McCrea and At
torney General Chester O’Hara will
meet today to name the trial dates
for members of the Black Legion.
Thirty-nine men are under arrest,
facing charges that run from flogging
to murder. Fifteen are named in the
slaying of Charles Poole. Twelve more
are charged with conspiracy to kill
a Highland Park editor and Mayor
' Voisine of Ecorse. The others are
charged with crimes of violence in
three Michigan counties.
LABOR DEMANDS
MET BY OWNERS
FRENCH DEPARTMENT
: STORE STRIKES SETTLED
AFTER LONG DELAY
i
PARIS, June 22 (TP)—Big French
1 department stores are supposed to re
, open today for the first time in the
i two and a half long weeks of strike.
• The bigger stores have been in a
state of occupation by their determin
ed employes. The workers just camped
in the aisles and behind the counters
and stayed there.
The interior ministry got approval
from employes representatives and
announced that the strike is officially
ended. Strikers got all their demands,
including strike pay—in some in
stances—and wage hikes of nearly 25
r per cent.
AUTHORITIES ESTABLISH
SUICIDE CAUSE DEATH
MADISON, Me., June 22 (TP)
The homicide bureau is convinced
this morning that Mrs. Irving Jones
trussed her three young sons together,
shot them to death, and committed
suicide. The boys, two of whom were
twins, were found riddled with bul
lets near the Jones home. The moth
er lay nearby. Sh? had been shot to
death, at close range.
A rifle lay near her hands.
25 BULGARIANS DIE
IN ELECTRICAL STORM
SOFIA, June 22 (TP).—The wild
est electrical storm in recent history
is crashing over Bulgaria today.
Lightning bolts have killed at
least 52 people in the past three days.
The tremendous thunderstorm has
roled back and forth over the moun
tains and lighted the whole land with
electrical glares. Homes and build
ings have been destroyed. The ex
tent of the death toll in remote
; mountain districts has not been
learned because of the serious dam
age to communications.
SAVANNAH. GA.. MONDAY, JUNE 22. 1936
Utilities
Victors I n
Act Ruling
U. S. COURT SETS ASIDE
STAY BANNING ATTACK
ON THE MEASURE
WASHINGTON, June 22 (TP)
The U. S. court of appeal today set
aside a court stay wluch prevented
seven utility companies from attack
ing the Public Utilities Holding Com
pany act-
The order opens the fight on the
constitutionality of the holding com
pany act to plaintiffs other than the
Electric Bond and Share Company.
The federal government had at
tempted to center its defense of the
act on one case brought by the Elec
tric Bond and Share Company and
the District of Columbia supreme
court had granted the government’s
request. Today the court of appeals
in the same district overruled the
lower court and opened the field to
other test cases.
DEMOCRATIC EVE
IS SIGNAL G. 0. P.
OPENING BLASTS
♦
REPUBLICAN DINNER IS TO
BE PACKED AS HAM
ILTON SPEAKS
NEW YORK, June 22 (TP).—Re
publicans all over the country are
waiting for the opening gun in their
national campaign tonight. On the
very eve of the Democratic conven
tion in Philadelphia, the dynamic
young Republican chief, John Ham :
ilton, is going to fire away at the
New Deal.
There will be 3,500 Republicans at
the Astor hotel in New York City to
night when Hamilton rises to speak.
Millions of others will probably
tuue in their radios to listen. The
speech is going on the air at 9:30
p.m.
The Republican • candidate for gov
ernor of Illinois, C. Wayland Brooks,
will introduce Hamilton. Congress
man Joseph Martin of Massachusetts
also will speak.
The man Hamilton is trying to
elect president, Gov. Alf Landon of
Kansas, is getting ready to go on a
vacatton.'~"While Hamilton and other
lieutenants are stirring things up in
the East, the G. O. P. standard bear
er will be taking a brief rest in Colo
rado. Then Landon will don his war
paint and get right in the thick of
the political battle. He and his run
ning mate, Col. Frank Knox of Illi
nois, intend to make a good many
speeches between now and election
day.
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NEW SECRETARY
PROBABLY WILL APPOINT
PERSONAL AMBASSA
DOR TO HIGH POST
BERLIN, June 22 (TP)—Adolf Hit
ler will probably name his personal
ambassador today to succeed Ger
many’s secretary of state for foreign
affairs, Bernhard Wilhelm Von Bue
low. Von Buelow died Sunday of a
lung disorder. The diplomat was a
kingpin in the Buening and Strese
man governments.
His successor is almost sure to be
Joachim Von Ribbentrop. He is the
former champagne salesman whom
Adolf Hitler selected to play his
trump cards in the Rhineland dispute
and related questions.
CONVENTION FLASHES |
LEHMAN VS. AL
PHILADELPHIA, June 22. (TP).—
The man who now occupies the posi
tion Al Smith held so long does not
agree with Al about Roosevelt and
the New Deal. Gov. Herbert Lehman
of New York came out today in full
support of Franklin Roosevelt.
Lehman said the statement issued
yesterday by former Gov. Smith and
four dissenting party men “repre
sents the feeling of only a handful of
Democrats.”
“The rank and file of the party
and the majority of independents
are four square behind Roosevelt’s
policies,” Lehman said.
The governor's statement added
fresh impstus to the rumor that he
may still seek re-election in Novem
ber. Lehman has announced flatly
that he would not run again. Polit
ical dopesters say his name on the
ballot would assure a Roosevelt vic
tory in the Empire state.
DECIDES RADIO BEST
NEW BERN. N. C., June 22 (TP)
The 96-year-old Confederate veteran.
George Issac Hughes, is going to at
tend the Democratic national conven
tion by radio.
Hughes is the North Carolinian
who attracted the attention of med,
ical authorities the country over
when he became the proud father of
two children within the past two
years
North Carolina’s Senator Robert
Reynolds invited Hughes to Philadel
phia to attend the convention. Reyn
olds asked him to bring along his
husky, 18-months-old son, Franklin
Roosevelt Hughes.
Later Reynolds witdrew the invlta-
WHERE DEMOCRATS WILL NAME THEIR TICKET
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I Interior view of Convention hall in Philadelphia, scene of the 1936 Democratic convention. 1
ROOSEVELT HITS
AT STEEL FIRMS
DEMANDS ACTION AFTER
MAKING CHARGES OF
MONOPOLY
WASHINGTON, June 22 (TP)—
President, Roosevelt has demanded
action today against four big steel
firms whom he charge with monopoly.
U. S- Steel, Inland Steel, Jones and
Laughlin and Bethlehem Steel were
named in the order.
The president declared these four
companies are guilty of “collusive bid
ding” on PWA contracts." Mr. Roose- 1
velt ordered Attorney General Cum- |
mings into the case. He based his
charges on a report from the federal
trade commission. *
UNION HEAD PROMISES
SUPPORT TO ROOSEVELT
WASHINGTON, June 22 (TP).—
The mine union president, John
Lewis, assured President Roosevelt ■
again today that the union supports'
him for re-election.
Lewis made his statement after
conferring an hour with Mr. Roose
velt at the White House. The two
discussed the Guffey coal bill which
was killed in a senate filibuster last
Friday night.
tion explaining that it would be im
possible to care for the Confederate
veteran in the convention city as he
had planned. Just the same, said
Hughes, he's going to listen in on the
convention proceedings and be right
beside the loudspeaker when Presi
dent Roosevelt makes his acceptance
speech Saturday night.
“THREE BLIND MICE”
PHILADELPHIA. June 22 (TP)
The nursery tune, “Three Blind Mice”
—theme song of the Republican con
vention at Cleveland —appears due for
another good run at the Democratic
national convention.
The Republicans used th? words,
“Three Long Years” as a new lyric
for the old tune. The Democrats have
a different lyric. It goes like this:
“Three Blind Mice
“Alf, Knox and Hearst
They All Ran After the Worker's Vote
They stopped at nothing to make him
th? goat
They promised him jobs, but just to
promote
Alf, Knox and Hearst.”
FARLEY LAUDS KANSAS
PHILADELPHIA, June 22 (TP)
Jim Farley refused to be bothered to
day by the Al Smith telegram to
Democratic convention delegates.
With a wave of the hand, Farley
dismissed the subject by saying:
“There are plenty of talkative Demo
ertts around the country who will
take care of Al Smith.”
Farley was told that an alternate
in the New York delegation had wir
ed Smith to appear before the con-
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PHONE 6183
PLANE CRASHES NORMANDIE
MANEUVERS CAUSE CRACK UP OF BOMBER ONTO DECK
OF FRENCH LINER; LITTLE DAMAGE RESULTS.
SOUTHAMPTON, England A
British miliary-seaplane-made a re
markable forced landing today, smack
on the decks of the French liner
Normandie.
The Royal airforce plane was
swooping over the Southampton har
bor while the Normandie was dis
charging her passengers and cargo. A
giant derrick on the ship was lifting
an auto from the decks when the sea
plane cut down out of the sky. The
bombing plane struck the * derrick.
THUNDER RUMBLE
MUSIC TO FARMERS
WEATHER BUREAUS SAYS
LITTLE RAIN TO FOL
. LOW DISTURBANCE .
CHICAGO, June 22 (TP).—The
1 rumble of thunderstorms over most
.of the middlewest was sweet music
I today to the ears of drought-stricken
I farmers.
v
Weather bureaus report, however,
that very little rain will follow the
thunderstorms. Vast fields in the
central planis are a bleak picture of
heat-seared corn and wheat that has
become prematurely ripe. In many
sections of the southwest even drink
ing water is in great demand.
Meanwhile, Governor Welford of
North Dakota is on his way to Wash
ington today to confer with President
Roosevelt. The governor is expect
ed to ask that federal relief be ex
tended to the rich wheat belt of the
northwest.
The dry spell is causing sharp price
reactions on the nation’s great mar
ket centers. July futures on wheat
jumped eight cents in one week.
Corn soared from 61 to 66 cents and
oats from 25 to 29 cents.
RAINEY’S SON”
NAMED TO POST
ATLANTA. June 22 (Special to
Daily Times) —Governor Talmadge
today appointed Clement Evans
Rainey, manager of the Dawson News,
to succeed his father, the late Judge
E. L. Rainey, as a member *of the
State Prison Commission. Members
of the Commission are expected to
name Judge G. H. Jones, of Winder,
present vice chairman, chairman of
the Commission.
PAYROLLS UP
WASHINGTON, June 22 (TP)
Secretary of Labor Perkins announced
today that the nation’s employment
in May had reached the highest level
in the past six years. She said that
payrolls in May also reached a new
top for 1936 in spite of the usual sea
sonal decline. The weekly payrolls
in May this yetr exceeded the pay
rolls for May of last year by $36,000.-
000. In the same period, employment
rolls increased by 650,000.
Down came the auto with a crash.
The plane dropped, too, but made a
lucky landing on the forecastle deck.
The plane remained upright. The pi
lot was unhurt and his craft was not
seriously damaged.
The giant liner# suffered a few
bashed rails and dented decks.. Her
commander speedily finished the dis
charge of cargo and sailed off for
Havre, France.
The bombing plane remained
perched on her bow as she churned
out into the channel.
PARTY BOLTERS
NAMED ‘HAS-BEENS’
BY ‘GENIAL JIM’
FACTION HEADED BY AL
SMITH IS SUBJECT OF
’ WITHERING SCORN
PHILADELPHIA, June 22 (TP).—
Party leaders .turned a cold and
scornful eye today upon five outspok
en Democrats who threatened 'to bolt
unless Franklin Doosevelt is repudiat
ed. The critics—Al Smith, Bain
bridge Colby, Daniel Cohalan, Jim
Reed and Governor Joe Ely of Mas
sachusetts—dispatched their warn
ing to the assembling Democratic na
tional convention
“Tut-Tut”
The outward attitude of New Deal
ers toward the warning was summed
up in the two words: “Tut-Tut!”
Inwardly, it felt, some Democrats
are anxious and embarrassed. • The
five dissenters sent their challenge
in an open telegram to the whole
convention. Sooner oj • later, the
challenge must be dealt with. It is
this problem that concerns the
Democrats today.
Jim Farley filed an informal re
tort at once. The Democratic gen
eralissimo acidly pointed out that
Al Smith was brushed aside from
Franklin Roosevelt in 1932. That,
haid Farley, is the reason why the
former New York governor joined in
the attack. Another spokesman said:
"It is interesting to observe that all
of the five signers are ex-men.
'They all used to be something” He
pointed out that Colby used to be
secretary of state and that Jim Reed
I was a Missouri senator; that Daniel
Cohalan was a former New York Su
preme court justice, and Joseph Ely
used to be governor of massachusetts.
“These men are nothing today,” said
the spokesman, “because the parade
has passed them by.”
The scorching telegram began as
as appeal to the Democrats and end
ed in a warning. The signers stern
ly told convention delegates that un
less they repudiate Mr. Roosevelt,
“patriotic voters of all parties will
know to what standard they must
rally.” The signers left no doubt
that they meant to bolt the party
the minute President Roosevelt is re
nominated; that they will vote Re
publican in November.
Party leaders—threatened on the
one side by a third party and on the I
other by this new attack—tried hard
to say with conviction: ■ What of it?”
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Democrats
Storm Into
Quaker City
“FORWARD WITH ROOSE-
VELT” IS KEYNOTE AS
DELEGATES ARRIVE
PHILADELPHIA, June 22 (TP)—
The main army of delegates and visi
tors of the second big political circus
of the year is flocking into Philadel
phia today. And from all appearances,
ths Democratic party is being run
this year by women.
There is at least one woman to
every male visitor at the Democratic
national convention —probably more.
Actually, there are 219 women dele
gates and 302 women alternates. That
is a larger number than ever seen
at any political convention before—
but it doesn't half tell the story.
Many Women Present
Nearly every male delegate who
has a wife and daughter has been
forced to bring them along, judging
from the throngs in the hotel lobbies.
What is more, they’re making them
selves useful. AU the prettiest girls »
at the convention are being rounded
up and dressed in costumes like
Quaker maids. In every hotel lobby,
there is a bevy of Quaker maids sell
ing Democratic automobile tags read
ing “Forward With Roosevelt”—at
$1 per tag.
If it had not been for the tele
gram sent by five Democratic dis
senters, headed by Al Smith, the con
vention would be at a loss today for
any political subject to discus*. The
telegram created a general flurry yes
terday, but it was difficult to find
anyone today who believed it would
have any noticeable effect on the con
vention. .
Wisconsin Cheers Party
Then, too, the Democrats were fur
ther encouraged by the slap which
Wisconsin handed yesterday to th*
third party movement, which is put
ting up. Rep. WUliam Lemke ofNort
Dakota as its candidate, Lemke
hopes for the backing of the Cough
lin, Townsend and share-the-wealtb
followers, but the party was organized
too late to allow it to enter its name
on the ballot in any large number of
states. Wisconsin’s Farmer-Labor-Pro
gresive federation flatly rejected it
yesterday.
At Philadelphia, the whole affair
is to be more of a carnival than a
convention. All the business was care
fully cut-and-dried before hand. With
the suspense thus taken out of it,
the delegates seem to be looking for
ward more to the mummer's parade
next Wednesday night than to the
re-nomination of President Roosevelt.
LA FOLLETTEIN
IMPORTANT ROLE
FORCES OP FARMER-LABOR
MOVEMENT TO CONCEDE
TO HIS WISHES
OSHKOSH, Wis., June 22 (TP)—
The first annual convention of the
Farmer-Labor-Progressive federation
is in the embarrassing position to
day of bowing to a man who refused
federation membership.
He is Governor Philip LaFollette
of Wisconsin. The governor insisted
that the Socialist phrase “production
for use’’ be omitted from the party’s
platform. The delegates hastened to
strike it out.
The governor’s power was revealed
when the convention proceded to
nominate its candidate for governor.
Some delegates wanted LaFollette,
even though he declined to become
associated with the organization. The
party’s constitution prohibited that,
so the matter was settled by not en
dorsing any candidate for‘the office.
The state convention also vent on
record to table a resolution to sup
port the new' Union party and Rep
resentative William Lemke of North
Dakota. Delegates who opposed the
move shouted from the floor that the
third party was too hastily put to
gether.
TRAIN - BUS ACCIDENT
KILLS 12, MAIMS MANY
CHERBOURG, France, June 22
(TP) —Nine persons were killed and
12 seriously injured today when a
train crashed into a pair of crowded
motor busses at a railroad crossing.
Witnesses said the railroad watch
man lifted the barriers and permitted
the busses to go ahead, despite the
oncoming train.
HAIL THE KING
EDWARD OF ENGLAND TG
MARK 43RD BIRTHDAY
TOMORROW
LONDON, June 22 (TP)—King Ed
ward VIII will ride at the head of
his royal troops tomorrow when h<
celebrates his 43rd birthday in the
ancient ceremony of trooping the
colors.
The King’s birthday demonstration
will be held on the square of the
Horse Guards parade. This year the
colors of the first Grenadier Guards
will be trooped.
The bachelor King plans a quiet
time for the remainder of the day.
The most exciting event for his sub
jects is the publication of the King**
birthday honors—the first of King
Edward's reign. In this annual pub
lication the sovereign is accustomed
to i aise worthies to the peerage and
confer other honors.