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WEATHER Fair Today; Ciody and Possible Showers Tomorrow MARKETS Stocks Steady in Short Day; Wheat Sags; Cotton Up VOLUME 2—NUMBER 154 ROOSEVELT DECLARES WAR AGAINST WANT GARNER IS NAMED BY ACCLAMATION OF WILD ASSEMBLY TEXAS GOVERNOR MAKES NOMINATING SPEECH; LONG DEMONSTRATION 1 _____ PHILADELPHIA, June 27 (TP)- The Democratic party completed its 1936 ticket today. John Nance Garner of Texas was nominated for vice president. The nominating session was an anti-cli max, after the uproar which greet ed the renomination of President Roosevelt yesterday. Only a handful of delegates were present when Gar ner’s fellow Texan, Gov. James Allred made his nominating speech. What the delegates lacked in numbers, how ever, they made up for in the volume of their wild cheers —punctuated with roof-raising Texas whoops. The dem onstration lasted 20 minutes. Garner was nominated by acclama tion in the last act of a convention which had been in session five days. The ticket of Roosevelt and Gar ner will beat the Republican ticket of Landon and Knox to the post for the race into the campaign. The president and vice president are to accept the nominations in a giant open-air rally tonight before a crowd expected to exceed 100,000. Landon will make his acceptance speech late in July. Governor Allred and the state dele gates who seconded Gamer's nomina tion praised the vice • president as “rugged, honest, leevl-headed and human.’’ "He has made himself President Roosevelt’s strong right arm,” Allred said, “in the great struggle against the adversities of the depression.” The Texas governor called the 12 years of the previous Republican rule the “F. F. F. administration.” “And by F. F. F.,” Allred shouted, ”1 meaft folly, futility and failure.” The Garner and Roosevelt acceptance speeches will be delivered at the sta dium of the University of Pennsyl vania. The ceremonies will start with entertainment at 5 o'clock. Mr. Roose velt is expected to appear on the plat form at 9 p.m., an dto Mart JO* minute speech an hour later. ■ ! fi Chairman Robinson banged out fi nal adjournment of the Democratic convention at 2:18 p.m. The delegates made a last rush for the exits, worn out by repeated dem onstrations of enthusiasm. A band clipped off the dying notes of “Happy Days.” The Democratic convention had parsed into history. GARNER ACCEPTS Vice-President Garner accepted re nomination tonight with a pledge to follow President Roosevelt’s leader ship in a struggle to carry out the aims of the New Deal. He said: “Vam a soldier, and my duty is to (CONTIUED ON PAGE 7) FOUR DROWNED IN PLANE CRASH GOOD-WILL CRAFT DIVES INTO LAKE CHAM PLAIN ES6EX, N. Y„ June 27 (TP).—A larg.e cabin biplane flying to Mont real from New York plunged into Lake Champlain this afternoon, drowning all of its four occupants. The plane was owned and piloted by Frank Saglimbene, a young Brooklyn flier. His passengers were Miss Katherine Zarling, Steve Kay and George W. Erickson all of Long Island. The four were carried to the bottom of the 300-foot lake in the cabin of the ship. The flight was Miss Zarllng’s first time in the air. The plane started out to take part in a mass good will flight to Canada. Later the mass flight was cancelled because of dangerous weather, sag limbene. however, was one of the pilots who had taken off before the sudden turn in air conditions. LANDON WORKING UPON HIS SPEECH ESTES PARK, Colo., June 27 (TP) Governor Landon is hard at work on his nomination acceptance speech to night. The Republican presidential nomi nee has finished his message to the special session cf the Kansas legisla ture which convenes on July 7. He announced tonight,—"From now on. the issues of the national campaign will get all the attention they need.” The governor’s message to the leg islature approves laws for social wel fare. Although confirming the fact that he favors such legislation, Lan don refused to state Just what speci fic measures he would apo.ove. STATE SENATOR DIES HUNTSVILLE, Ala., June 27 (TP). A leading figure in Alabama politics, State Senator Shelby Fletcher, died today from a heart attack. He was 67 years old. Savannah Daily Times She Won’t Talk MB jmß '* \ - WWfWRM Avonne Taylor (above), once a front-line ornament of the “Fol lies”, refused to tell why or where fore of her divorce from Carlyle Blackwell, former movie star. Miss Taylor was formerly married to . Tommy Manville, Jr., playboy as bestos heir. /'Central Press) PARCHED SECTION IS PROMISED AID BY GOVERNMENT DROUGHT AREA IS BEING LAID TO WASTE BY SCORCHING HEAT CHICAGO, June 27 (TP).—The federal government took steps today through four of its agencies to com bat drought conditions in the north central states. The drought condi tions there threaten to be worse than those of the famous drought of 1934. Resettlement, works orogress. the ahd the interstate commerce ' iMftfnissioh stepped in to- aid the be leaguered 'farmers whose property and livelihood are threatened with destruction by the alarming lack of rain. Works Progress Administrator Hop kins ordered his officials from the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Minne sota and other affected states to con fer with him at St. Paul next Tues day so that an immediate relief pro gram can be mapped out. AAA officials said a crop insurance plan would be offered to the farm ers to enable them to use benefit pay ment checks for living expenses. The Interstate Commerce Commis sion authorized emergency freight bates for the transfer to greener pas tures of starving livestock. Resettlement officials already are taking stock of conditions in the drought-stricken area and announced they will be ready to co-operate with the WPA in seeing that the farmers can get work which will provide liv ing expenses during the drought sea son at least. A relentless sun is cracking down on the wheat fields today from the Canadian line to Kansas. Experts say this year's harvest will be so small that prices will soar. They es timate a spring wheat crop of 150,- 000,000 bushels and a 500,000.000 bushel yield for winter -wheat. That, they explain, is Just about enough to meet acreage requirements on the now illegal control program—of the AAA. Corn.., peaches, flax and garden produce are suffering from the dry weather. In Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas, billions of grasshoppers, chinch bugs and bag worms are add ing to the damage. The drought area extends roughly from the eastern Rockies to the Alle gheny mountains. Portions east of the Mississippi have escaped the most severe weather. Most estimates say it will cost be tween $50,000,000 and $100,000,000 to dam streams and launch a program for the control of insect pests. The federal government is sending its men to confer with heads of suf fering states next week at St. Paul. WORLD ANXIETY FOR EXPLORER SIR HUBERT WILKINS MIS SING FOR EIGHT DAYS NEW YORK. June 27 (TP)—Great anxiety was felt throughout the sci entific world tonight for the safety of the explorer, Sir Hubert Wilkins. The arctic explorer has been miss ing for eight days on his ice-break ing vesle, the Wyatt Earp. On June 17, Sir Hubert sailed from New York to deliver the Wyatt Earp at Nor way. The vessel carried a crew of 10 and a wireless operator. No radio message has crackled through the air from the vessel although many wire less stations and shps have made strenuous efforts to contact her. PHONE 6183 TROPICAL STORM HITS TEXAS INCREASING IN FORCE AS IT MOVES INLAND BETWEEN MATAGORDA AND CORPUS CHRISTI; DAMAGE GREAT. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., June 27 C?iP) —The tropical storm tnat struck Cor pus Christi today is reported motring inland between Matagorda and Cor pus Christi. Reports reaching San Antonio said the storm is increasing in force. Tele phone and telegraph lines have been seriously damaged. The only means of communication is by moans of radio. The storm apparently is moving toward San Antonio. The wind is reported to have a velocity of nearly 70 miles an hour, and serious dam age has been reported along the path of the gale. ATTEMPT IS MADE TO SWAY JURY IN DRUCKMAN TRIAL PRESIDING JUDGE DISKEJ GARDS TAMPERING HOWEVER NEW YORK, June 27 (TP)—A new scandal broke out today as a Brook lyn jury convicted three prominent men of conspiracy to block Justice in the Samuel Druckman case. The Jury disagreed as to the guilt of two of the five conspiracy defendants. The new scandal grew out of an unsuccessful attempt to tamper with the jury. Judge Rogers ordered an immediate investigation. The Justice said, though, that he didn’t believe the tampering attempt had any effect on the conspiracy verdict. The attempt to influence the jury was made through a note sent one of the jurymen. The man had sent a suit to be cleaned. When it retjutn ed, the note, was in the pocket. The juror tore up the note in a fit of anger. Then he gathered the pieces and turned them over to the jury foreman, who informed Judge Rogers. Special Prosecutor Todd said the note expres'-'-d an opinion as or innocence of one of the deferidanfc. The men convicted were: former Assistant U. S. Attorney Henry Sing er: James J. Kleinman, step-tfather of Assistant District Attorney Klein man: and Jacob Silverman, a broker. The jury was discharged -when it re ported that it could not agree on the guilt or innocence of Assistant Dis trict Attorney Kleinman and Detec tive Giuseppe Dardis. The maximum penalty for those convicted is one year in jail and a SSOO fine. Sentence will be imposed next Tuesday. The Drukman conspiracy grew out of a racketeer murder. The conspira tors succeeded in blocking indictment of the slayers by one grand jury. Later the slayers were indicted by a special panel and sent to Sing Sing Prison. - - ■ SOCIALITE BATTLES TO SAVE SIGHT OF EYE STAMFORD, Conn., June 27 (TP) —Stamford Hospital surgeons battled today to save the sight of the New York social registrite, Barclay War burton. Warburton is threatened with loss of the sight of his left eye from burns suffered when some fireworks, sud denly exploded in his face. The ac cident occured on the summer estate of Harold Ross, Here And There As Convention Comes To End ) A REPUBLICAN TOO! PHILADELPHIA. June 27 (TP).— A woman—and a Republcan, at that —was the first person to reach Franklin Field to hear President Roosevelt’s acceptance speech to night. She is Mrs. Grace Wood, the wife of a Philadelphia policeman, , • * * FARLEY RE-ELECTED PHILADELPHIA, June 27 (TP).— The Democratic national committee stamped its “ok” on the party man agement of “Big Jim” Farley late to day. He was unanimously re elected as the committee chairman. The committee met two hours after final adjournment of the Democratic national convention. Chairman Far ley rose and gave an accounting of his work as its chief during the past four years. He said the party owed half a mil lion dollars in 1932. "That debt is wiped out now," Far ley said. The chairman added that the re ceipts from tonight’s “Nominator” parties throughout the United States would be “clear money” to carry on the coming campaign. The so-called nominators pay $1 each to attend parties at which President Roosevelts speech wil Ibe heard by radio. * • • WOMEN MAKING GOOD PHILADELPHIA, June 27 (TP). — Senator Hattie Caraway of Arkansas inised her voice to a note of pride today as she pointed to the women making good with the Roosevelt re gime. The woman senator from the Ozarks called these women “trail SAVANNAH, GA., SUNDAY, JUNE 28, 1936 A San Antonio radio station is at tempting to contact amateur radio operators in the affected area, in ord er to set up an emergency’ communica tions system. A driving rain and abnormally high tides accompany the hurricane-like winds and fear is felt for the safety of some of the coastal towns and cities which are cut off from com munication. Warnings have been issued in San .Antonio. Residents are taking all pos sible steps to prepare for the on slaught of the storm there sometime tonight. NAZI PARTY HAS MILLION MEMBERS GERMAN POLITICAL OR DER CLOSES DOORS TO NEW MEMBERS BERLIN, June 27 (TP).—The Nazi party in Germany now has an en rollment of 1,000,000 members and has closed its doors to new members. The minister of propaganda,' Paul Goebbels announced that the dictat ing party in Germany has stopped taking in new members. The party membership of 1,000,000 picked, men includes less than 10 per cent of the citizens of the Third Reich. Goebbels said that the present membership in the governing party can only be replenished through can didates from the new "Hitler youth” organization. These youths must be of age before they can join the Nazi ranks. While Hitler’s Nazi fololwers are limited, the party claims that the whole nation is enrolled under the leader’s banner through various sub sidiary organizations. LEHMAN CONFERS WITH ROOSEVELT POLITICAL FUTURE OP GOVERNOR PROBABLY DECIDED WASHINGTON, June 27 (TP)— President Roosevelt and New York’s Governor Lehman will have a private talk tonight on the president’s train (after the acceptance speech cere monies are completed in Philadelphia. The president s aides expect the governor to travel from Philadelphia to New York city on Mr. Roosevelt’s special. The talk probably will bring the final decision regarding Lehman’s political future. When asked yesterday if he might reconsider his decision to retire from public life, Lehman evaded a direct answer, saying he would see the president tonight. i Mr. Roosevelt has redrafted his 2,000-word acceptance speech. His spe cial train will leave Washington to night in time to reach Franklin field about 10 minutes before Vice presi dent Garner begins his address. Only the vice president, Postmaster Gen eral Farley, and the president’s son, James, will greet Mr. Roosevelt before he goes to the platform. After the speech the presidential party will entrain for the Roosevelt estate at Hyde Park, N. Y- blazers.” She named Labor Secre tary Frances Perkins; Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Roes, Miss Jane Hoey of the Social Security board and Miss Jo sephine Roche of the treasury depart ment. She named Ambassador Ruth Bryan Owen to Denmafk. Said Senator Hattie Caraway:—“l don’t want to draw invidious compari sons between men and women in gov eminent posts. Men have had long years of training, long years of com peting with each other. Women have only recently been forced out of their homes by economic difficulties into the wage-earning class. Natur ally, they have become interested po litically. “Now,” said Senator Car away, “men and women must work together on an intellectual plane— with mutual respect and mutual in terest—to safeguard the country and its citizens.” • • « TIRED STENOGRAPHER PHILADELPHIA, June 27 (TP)— The official stenographer for the Democratic Convention, Mrs. Fanny Sweeney, relaxed her fingers this afternoon after five hard day’s work. Then she fell to reminiscing. She said that she found President Roose velt and the late Woodrow Wilson the easiest speakers to understand. Mrs. Sweeney has taken down the speeches at 1,156 convention meetings during the past 22 years. She has copied the words of seven Presidents or former Presidents. She said the late evangelist Billy Sunday was the hardest speaker to understand be cause he leaped constantly from one part of the platform to another. Mrs. Sweeney finds women speakers hard DEMOCRATS STANDARD BEARERS AGAIN Huh Hmml & ' 1881 Vice President John Nance Garner President Franklin D. Roosevelt Vice president John Nance Garner, having nothing else to do (so he said) visits President Roosevelt at the White House, presumably to complete plans for attending the Democratic na tional convention in Philadelphia. Both the President and Garner acknowledged their renomi natios by the Democrats with acceptance speeches in Philadelphia’s Franklin Field last night. —Central Press ASSAULT WARRANT ORDERED SERVED UPON ZIONCHECKS OLD TROUBLE WITH LAND;. LADY CROPS UP ANEW WASHINGTON. June 27 (TP)—An assault warrant today was ordered served on the young wife of Marion. Zioncheck, the Washington state con gressman now undergoing mental treatment in a Maryland sanitorium. The warrant is several weeks old, but it has been held up pending disposi tion of lunacy charges against. the representative. United States District Attorney Leslie Garnett ordered it served this afternoon. . The warrant was sworn out for the Zionchecks at the insistence of Mrs. Pamela Schuyler Young from whom the Zionchecks sublet their apartment in Washington, Mrs. Young, an au thor, maintained that she was in jured in a stuffle wdth the Zion checks before the representative was arrested on lunacy charges.. The warrant against the represen tative cannot be served now, how ever, since he is outside the jurisdic tion of District of Columbia authori ties. Mrs. Zioncheck is expected to seek a continuance of the case on the grounds that her husband is a neces sary witness. • to follow; she said women usually talk ! too fast in public because of stage 5 fright. • * • WOMEN ON COMMITTEE 1 PHILADELPHIA, June 27 (TP) . Eight women were listed as vice chairwomen of the Democratic Na tional Committee today in an effort ’ to prevent a row between two. flemin ‘ ine factions. The women expected that only Miss i Mary W. Dewson of New York and . i Emma Guffey Miller of Pennsylvania would be appointed vice-chairmen. Pennsylvania women favored putting Mrs. Miller at the head of the list. i A strong faction, including commit teewoman C. G. Ryan of Nebraska, favored Miss Dewson. A compromise was effected. The final arrangement was to put Miss Dewson at the top of the list with committeewoman Harriman of Wash ington, D. C., in second place and Mrs. Miller fourth. Mrs. Harriman, who had been the official convention hostess said the appointments of the eight women didn't mean much. Said Mrs. Harriman: “Miss Dewson will really be the chief. The rest of us will be merely window-dressing.” GARNER LISTENS IN PHILADELPHIA, June 27 (TP).— Vice President Garner was seated in his room at the official Democratic headquarters hotel today—listening to the radio broadcast from conven tion hall—when he was renominated. Gamer was decked out in a white linen suit. When persons making nominating speeches rose to great heights in his praise he simply puffed PHONE 6183 LEAGUE OF NATIONS TOTTERS DIPLOMATS ALARMED BY DEFECTIONS IN UNITED FRONT AS WITHDRAWALS CONTINUE. GENEVA June-27 (TPj—Diplomats were alarmed tonight by the defec tions in the united front of the Lea gue of Nations. A hard blow was dealt the league when the little Central American Re public, of Nicaragua announced she POISON THEORY STARTLES POLICE NEW ANGLES ARISE IN ALLEGED MURDER RACKET SPRINGFIELD, Mass., June 27 (TP) —An expert’s report that a man supposedly killed by an automobile, actually had died of poison, started detectives to work on the Springfield Insurance murder racket with new enthusiasm today. The report was made by state toxicologist Boos after an autopsy on the body of Frank Krol. The toxicologist’s findings will be presented in full next week in the court of Judge Haas of Ludlow. Judge Haas started the inquiry by charging that at least 35 deaths in his dis trict needed investigation to deter mine whether the victims had not been murdered for their insurance. a little harder at his cigar. Garner is returning to Washington on Sunday, then will go to Texas to be present at the opening of a new highway. J Every time the vice president shows his face on the street, Texans congre-. gate and burst into applause. His hotel room is guarded by Policeman Tom Clifford, who was once British middleweight boxing champ. The former Texas cow hand was asked to comment on the rousing ac clamation which made him Presi-, dent Roosevelt’s running mate. “I never talk politics,” he said. INDIAN PRINCESS SINGS PHILADELPHIA, June 27 (TP).— A girl introduced as “the only real American at the Democratic conven tion, sang at Franklin Field tonight before President Roosevelt delivered his acceptance speech. She is Miss Lushanya Moble, a beautiful Chickasaw Indian princess from Oklahoma. Miss Mobley's In dian songs have made a hit all dur ing the convention. One delegate said her voice convinced him that the whites ought to give the country back to the Indians. The Indian princess was introduced to the convention under the auspices of Senator Robert R. Reynolds of North Carolina. Reynolds heard her sing in Germany and decided that her voice entitled her to encourage ment in the United States. Conven tion officials say Miss Mobley’s audi ence tonight was the largest ever as sembled in one spot. Franklin Field seats 125,000. More than 200,000 tickets are said to have been distrib uted. would quit the organization. Nicara gua, with Honduras and Guatamala makes three withdrawals from the league in a month. To top it off, Chile has insisted that the league be reformed so that members could not be drawn into local disputes. Chile and other South American coun tries have indicated that they will make a hard fight to ease their Europ ean responsibilties. Another jolt was given to the lea gue by Poland which issued an order Poland indicated that the economic seige would be raised even before the expected abandonment of sanctions by the league. The league council of 14 nations has referred the question of- sanctions to the league assembly. So far the council has also stud iously avoided discussion of annexa tion of Ethiopia. , • . . , PENSION QUESTION IN FINAL STAGES MANY RAILWAY EM PLOYES TO BE AFFECT ED BY DECISION WASHINGTON, June 27 (TP).— Thousands of aged railway workers are anxiously waiting tonight for the I final outcome of the long legal bat tle over rail retirement legislation. The railroad retirement board is holding up about 1,000 check? already addressed to rail workers following the district Supreme court’s decision holding the act unconstitutional. The board would have made the first pension payments July 1 to employes over 65 years of age. It was expected the case would be carried to the United States Supreme court. But justice department offi cials refused to make .an announce ment until the return of Attorney General Cummings. The high trib-, unal held the previous retirement act' unconstitutional. Congress passed a substitute. It is now making its way slowly through the courts. SEA FRUSTRATES RESCUE ATTEMPTS THIRTY-FOUR AMERICAN $ SEAMEN ON GROUND ED TANKER MANILA, June 27 (TP)—Thirty four American seamen are marooned tonight aboard a surf-pounded oil tanker which is aground on an island off the Japanese colony of Korea. High wind is reported blocking ef forts of three Japanese steamers to rescue the Americans. The tanker is the Magnolia. It ran < ashore on Mappi Island while enroute I from San Pedro to Darien, Man choukuo with a cargo of gasoline. 1 Radio advices said the gasoline tanks have begun to leak, causing a serious fire menace. WEEK DAYS OC PAY NO MORE Published every day ex cepting Saturdays. Five cents per copy Sundays. Delivered to your home fifteen cents per week. TRANSRADIO PRESS President Accepts His Nomination COMPARES PRESENT DAYS TO THOSE OF REVOLU TION IN RINGING SPEECH AT PHILADELPHIA. PHILADELPHIA, June 27 (TP).—A clarion call to war— what he called war not only against want and destitution and economic demoralization— but a war for the survival of democracy itself —was sounded by President Roosevelt tonight. His ringing speech was deliv ered to the Democratic conven tion in Philadelphia as he ac cepted his party’s renomination for the presidency. “In this world of ours, in other lands,” the President de clared, “there are some people who in times past have lived and fought for freedom, and seem to have grown too weary to carry on the fight. They have sold their heritage of freedom for the illusion of a living. They have yielded their dem ocracy. “I believe in my heart,” he assert ed, “that only our success can stir their ancient hope. They ought to know that here in America we are waging a great war. It is not alone a war against want and destitution and economic demoralization. It is a war for the suiwival of democarcy. We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for our selves and for the world.” Comparing present conditions to those which led to the American revolution President Roosevelt said! "That victor ygave the business of governing Into the hftndfijlf tbe.»ver-. age man, who won the right with his neighbors to make and order his own destiny through his own government." New Forces In Land “Since that struggle, however,” the President continued, “man's inventive genius released new forces in our land which re-ordered the lives of our people. The age of machinery, mass production, mass distribution —com- bined to bring forward a new civiliza tion, and with it a new problem for those who would remain free. “For out of this modern civiliza tion,” he said, “economic royalists carved new destinies. New kingdoms were built upon concentration of con trol over material things. Through new uses of corporations, banks and securities, new machinery of industry and agriculture, of labor and capital —all undreamed of by the fathers— the whole structure of modern life was impressed into this royal service. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 7) ITALY TO CLAIM WHOLE CONTROL TOTAL CONQUEST OF ETHI < OPIA IS PROMISED BY IL DUCE ADDIS ABABA. June 27 (TP)— iltaly claimed tonight to have extend ed her control over western Ethiopia where Haile Selassie’s retreating chief tains are reported to have set up a government. Italy’s claim of sovereignity over all Ethiopia may completely frustrate Haile Selassie's personal appeal to the league next week. Unless Selassie can prove that some Ethiopian gov ernment still exists the league will refuse to recognize him as emperor. With the establishment of the new Italian garrisons in western Ethiopia Italian government spokesman to night announced the complete occupa tion of Ethiopia. He challenged Haile Selassie to prove he now rules a sin gle inch' of Ethiopian territory. PWA TEST SUIT MARKED CLOSED UTILITIES COMPANY WITH DRAWS COURT ACTION WASHINGTON June 27 (TP)— The PWA reported today that the Oklahoma Utilities Company has withdrawn its long-pending suit to test the constitutionality of the PWA Municipal Powef Program. The suit sought to prevent the PWA from granting $150,000 to Hom iny, Oklahoma, for the construction of a municipal power plant. Because of the suit the allotment to the Okla homa city has been held up, along with half a hundred other similar PWA projects for two years. PWA officials said that construction of the Hominy power plant would be started soon as a result.