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GROUND BROKEN FOR NEXT FAIR NEW YORK CEREMONY MARKS OPENING OF WORLD EVENT NEW YORK, June 28 (TP)—New York’s world’s fair of 1939 officially breaks out of the ‘ blue print” stage next Monday at noon. At that time, officials of the city and the fair com mittee will meet a (Flushing Mead ows Park on Long Island. Some burly workman will grab a slecge hammer and pound a stake into the ground. The stake will mark the axis of the future fairrland which is scheduled to throw open its gates three years from now. Grover Whalen will be on and. He’s president of the world s fair corpora tion. After the stake has been driven Whalen will sign the official contract with the city of New York. Park Com missioner Moses and Comptroller Tay lor will do the honors for the city. NORMAN THOMAS TO FIGHT SPLIT NEW YORK, June 26 (TP)—Nor man Thomas will come In from his Long Island home tomorrow to at tend the state convention of the So cialist party. The grey-haired presidential nom inee of the left-wing Socialists is ex pected to help lauch a vigorous cam paign to bolster, support and offset the drive of right-wing elements— which split the party in its national convention. GIANT ZEPPELIN HEADS FOR FRIEDRICHSHAFEN NEW YORK, June 26 (TP)—The rising sun picked out the silvery Zep pelin Hindenburg as it droned across Ireland this morning (London Time). The big airship was on her course and speeding for Friedrichshafen and the end of her third eastward voy age across the Atlantic. Intermittent dispatches from the Hindenburg car ried no comment on an absurd report that ran around the world last night. The report said the Zep had come to disaster of fthe northeastern Unit ed States coast. Prompt work by radio quashed the rumor. The Hinden burg will moor toda. at Friedrich shafen, where Germany is staging a whopping reception for fighter Max Schmeling, one of the Zeppelin's 46 passengers. SONGBIRD Sharri Kaye, beautiful and talented young woman who has registered with Tybrisa patrons as a singer with Henry Bia-gini and his versatile dance band. For the Dance Floor * _ r /W 50c the Pound BURNS & HARMON I SOUTHERN SAVINGS I AND LOAN COMPANY I PAYS 4 Per Cent on I TIME CERTIFICATES AND I 3 Per Cent on I SAVINGS DEPOSITS Assets Over $900,000 An Institution for Savers and Home Owners ; I 19 Bay Street, East Phone 2-2114 Lightning Strikes Twice —Here’s the Proof IS?' ; w*-- 7’. Mfr Struck by two successive bolts of lightning within the space of a minute, the Sakson farmhouse at Harri son, N. J., stands incontrovertible witness to the fallacy of the old belief that lightning never strikes twice in the same place. Julius Sakson. the owner, was killed. (Central Pres? FISHING IS LURE FOR G. 0. P. HEAD “DO NOT DISTURB” SIGN GRACES LANDON’S CAMP ESTES PARK, Colo., June 26 (TP) Governor Alf Landon put on an old flannel shirt today, donned his vavo rite fishing hat and headed for a stream swarming with trout. The Kansas executive gave orders at the McGraw ranch where he and his family are vacationing that he doesn’t want to be disturbed. Said Landon:—"l want to lead a flannel shirt life for the next nine days.” The governor and Mrs. Landon smiled appreciation when the valley in which the ranch house snuggles was renamed “Landon valley.” Mrs. Landon said she would get in plenty of horse back riding down that valley before she and the children return to Kansas. A staff of Landon’s campaign aides is expected to arrive on the ranch to day. The Republican presidential nominee said, however, that they have their work al cut out for them. He is going to take a rest. WALMSLEY LIVES UP TO BARGAIN PROMISE TO RESIGN AS MAYOR OF NEW OR LEANS MADE GOOD NEW ORLEANS, June 26 (TP).— Mayor Semmes Walmsley prepared today to complete his bargain with his political enemies, the Huey Long forces, by stepping out of office. The New Orleans mayor became a bitter foe of the Long administration after the late Senator all but stripped the Crescent City of self government- Walmsley offered to resign in favor of a Long man if self government were restored. The state administration immedi ately accepted conservation commis sioner Col. Robert Maestri who was selected to take Walmsleys place. The mayor says he will hand Maestri the keys to the city hall next Tuesday. NOMINATES PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT r I W ' ||X > W i\ il i IHBB HHHm JOHN E. MACK John E. Mack of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., former New York State Supreme Court justice, nominates President Roosevelt for the presidency at the Democratic National Convention in Phila delphia. Mack, a life-long friend of the President, is among pos sibilities for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in New York. —Central Press. LIBERALS RALLY TO AID KAPLAN PRINCIPAL IN “ONE-MAN” DEMONSTRATION DE FENDED BY PARTY NEW YORK, June 26 (TP)—Liber al organizations rallied today to the defense of Philip Kaplan—who stag ed a one-man demonstration against high school graduation exercises. Kaplan denounced the high school principal, Dr. Henry Hein, because the school held up diplomas that be longed to two pupils who engaged in a “peace strike.” Dr. Hein said the diplomas would not have been award ed to the two children, anyway. He said they were withheld for other reasons. Kaplan shouted his protest and was dragged from the hall by police. He was badly bruised and his face was rut when he appeared in court. The International Labor Defense and the American Civil Liberties Union back ed Kaplan today and announced their intentions of swearing out assault warrants for the policeman who ar rested him. “REDS” TO FAVOR TRADE UNIONISM COMMUNIST CONVENTION SWIVGS INTO ACTION FAVORING LABOR NEW YORK, June 26 (TP). —The Communist party swung its ninth convention today solidly behind the fight for trade unionism in the steel industry. At the same time, Commu nist leaders are preparing speeches for today’s sesion—backing unioniza tion drives among automobile and rubber workers. The mob riot at Gadsden, Ala. stirred the delegates deeply, and a resolution probably will be offered today in condemnation of the affair. Union men have already dispatched petitions asking White House intervention to punish the mobsters who maltreated the union rubber organizers in Alabama. The Communist convention is the first in the history of the party to which newsmen have been formally invited. General Secretary Earl Browder has drafted proposals which probably will be adopted and laid in the platform to support him and James Ford as candidates for presi dent and vice president of the United States. A country weekly offered $1 for the biggest potato brought to the office. The editor now has 20 bush els of potatoes to keep the wolf away. SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1936 TURKEY PLANS TO REFORTIFY FORT ACTION IN FAR EAST HAS LEAGUE OF NATIONS ALARMED MONTREUX, Switzerland, June 26 (TP) —The problem over ’ Turkey’s proposed refortification of the Dar denelles gave way today to the more urgent business of the League of Na tions qt Switzerland. * The Dardenelles conference ad journed to permit the representatives of major nations to attend the cru cial meetings at Geneva. The diplo mats left technical experts behind to continue discussion on the Dar denelles question. Turkey has demanded that she be allowed to rearm the waterways lead ing into the Black Sea. Russia has supported the view but wishes to have with Turkey alone, the sole right for unrestricted passage of warships along the straits. Britain, Japan and oth er powers insist that they have free access to the Black Sea. FARMERS MEET TO STUDY PROBLEMS WALLA WALLA, Wash., June 26 I (TP)—Farmers and farm experts I from 11 western states open a con ference today to thresh out their problems and chart their course for the coming months. 133 delegates trooped into Walla Walla and registered for the Western Regional Conference of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Before the conference breaks up Saturday, the farmers will have had plenty of shop talk and a description of the federal aid fiffgred by the Soil Conservation Program. Director George Farrell of the western region is coming cp to explain it. WOMEN ENEMIES OF NEW DEAL PLAN WAR NEW YORK, June 26 (TP).—Fem inine enemies of the New Deal from 25 eastern and central states will meet in Toledo, Ohio next week to plan their campaign for the Grand Old Party. Six New York and Connecticut women leaders organized the meet. They said the delegates at the ses tons next Tuesday and Wednesday will represent 1,500,000 American women from both Republican and Democratic parties. The spokesman, Mrs. Mabel Eichel of Wilton, Conn., said the delegates will be prepared to start a campaign for a nation-wide women’s coalition to fight the New Deal. BANKER NOT ALARMED OVER NATIONAL DEBT CHICAGO, June 26 (TP) —A prom inent Chicago banker, Mark Brown, refuses to become alarmed over the national debt. Brown is vice president of the Har- Whistling Kettle 59c W Fj BARGAINS when the water tehrt . GARDEN HOSE 25 foot lengths of all- q DIC pi ATI* rubber hose complete 1 llu T lu/A lIL with couplings. 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V I burned out Guaranteed 18,- i bulbs. 25 to 75 >jV V s 000 miles. WTtbt. PAGE FIVE tional committee is to confer with State party leaders at the home of state G. O. P. Committee Chairman Henry Jeffers. One Republican put it this way. He said tht aGov. Hoffman is miffed because his invitation to Hamiltons big dinner in Manhattan Tuesday failed to arrive until Tuesday after nono. The governor didnt accept it,