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VOLUME 2—NUMBER 156
GOVERNMENT AID
SPEEDING TOWARD
STRICKEN AREAS
PEACE-TIME ARMY MOBIL
IZED TO HELP PLIGHT
DROUGHT VICTIMS
WASHINGTON, June 30 (TP).—
Government agencies were mobilized
—full force—today in efforts to aid
farmers whose crops have been ruin
ed by more than a month of hot, dry
weather.
In St. Paul federal officials and
governors of central states are con
ferring on emergency measures.
In Washington, President Roose
velt received drought-relief recom
mendations from a six-man board
which had studied the situation.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace is
making a personal tour of the strick
en area.
Heavy rains fell in southwest Tex
as, bring some relief. Weather offi
cials measured a four-inch downpour.
Showers whipped acros the central
states, but the rainfall was not suffi
cient to bring lasting benefit to
ground that is parched as if in a
giant oven. Wyoming, the Dakotas
and other northwestern states got
no rain. that area the situation
is most critical.
Some observers predicted that the
drought might prove to be the worst
in modern farming history. Already
thousands of acres of grain are
ruined.
Grasshoppers have come in great,
invading armies to Nebraska and ad
joining states. The Insects thrive in
arid weather and eat away what
green foliage has managed to sur
vive the heat-waves.
Temperatures averaging 90 degrees
were recorded Monday from the
Ohio river to Montana. In Kansas
City the thermometer reached 107
as hot breezes moved to the eastward
from the plains.
englisiTmonarch
LIKES NEW BOAT
TORPEDO CRAFT ADMIRED
BY KING EDWARD ON
FIRST TEST
PORTSMOUTH, Eng., June 30
(TP)—King Edward was splashed
with salt spray today—and seemed to
like it. He took a ride in a new
British naval torpedo boat.
The British admiralty claims the
small war craft is the most efficient
submarine chaser yet devised. Thir
teen of the tcrpedo boats can be built
at a smaller cost than one destroyer.
Their top speed of 60 miles an hour
and their small dimensions make
them almost impossible targets for
shells or bombs. Each boat carries
two torpedos and two depth bombs.
The deck bristles with machine guns.
A crew of five men can handle the
armcred craft.
King Edward boarded the torpedo
boat at Portsmouth. For a half hour
he stood on htr decks, with the waves
ctas.iing into hex bows. The little
man-of-war raced off spithead. The
King stoed beside the captain and
watched a torpedo fired off at an in
visible enemy.
RESETTLEMENT PROJECT
BEGINS IN ARKANSAS
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. June 30 (TP)
The Rural Resettlement Administra
tion is laying its plans for the de
velopment of Its most recent pur
chase.
The property involves 6,000 acres
of farm land, near Pine Bluff, Ark.
It was acquired at a cost of almost
1200,000.
At Little Rock, Regional Director
T. Roy Reid announces that the
tract wil be split up into farms for
the resettlement of 100 families.
HALIFAX IS PLANNING
4-DAY WATER RODEO
HALIFAX, N. S., June 30 (TP) —
Halifax is rounding oub plans for its
annual Deep Sea Rodeo and Acquatic
carnival—a picturesque, thrill-packed
event held each summer in the North
ern seas.
The four-day fete which gets under
way Aug. 3, will be studded with
breath-taking water races, fishing con
tests and a Venetian night parade.
The races will include whaleboat,
dory, scull, sail, canoe, war canoe
and motorboat racing.
ONLY 160,000?
FRENCH GOVERNMENT
GIVE FIGURE FOR NUM
BER OF STRIKERS
PARIS, June 30 (TP) The
French government announced today
that the number of strikers through
out the country has been reduced to
160,000.
The cabinet was confident that the
largest strike—in the steel region in
northeastern France —would be set
tled today. Officials have made little
progress in attempts to settle the ho
, tel strike on the Riviera and the
strike of shipyard workers at St.
Nazaire.
S auannSl)W®ftilii&iies
PHONE 6183
Check for $150,000
Ann Cooper Hewitt
Ann Cooper Hewitt, San Fan
cisco heiress who filed a $500,-
000 sterilization suit against
her mother several months ago,
is pictured looking over a check
for $150,000 given to her in set
tlement of a claim against her
mother. The surety company
bonding the mother as Hewitt's
guardian made the settlement
as a result of the heiress ’ action
for an accounting of the $lO,-
000,000 estate left by /ne late
Peter Cooper Hewitt.
—Central Press.
STEEL INDUSTRY
IS FACED WITH
GENERAL STRIKE
REPLY OF CAPITALISTS TO
LABOR PRESAGES
WALKOUT
PITTSBURGH, June 30 (TP).—
Labor leaders were bitter today in
their replies to the warning that ef
forts to unionize the steel industry
may lead to a general strike.
The strike warning was sounded
by Attorney Earl F. Reed, counsel for
the Wheeling Steel corporation. The
Wheeling Company’s plant at Ports
mouth, Ohio, was closed by a strike
several weeks ago.
Reed maintained that radicals are
responsible for the Portsmouth trou
ble. He Insisted that trained agita
tors are to be sent In other commu
nities, with a general strike as their
ultimate objective.
Union chiefs denounced Reed’s
Communist warning as a "Red Her
ring.” They claimed Reed’s charges
were made in a fight to preserve the
steel corporation’s company unions.
Capitol on Alert
WASHINGTON, June 30 (TP).—
The department of labor’s ace trou
,ble shooter—Assistant Secretary Ed
ward McGrady—said today that his
department is keeping a flose watch
on the threatened labor war between
union leaders and large steel com
pany owners.
Dep nent of labor men in the
Pittsburgh and Ohio steel centers
are sending daily reports direct to
McGrady in Washington. The New
Deal’s • chief labor arbiter and his
staff of highly trained conciliators
are standing by ready to lend their
‘good offices” for the settlement' of
any trouble that might break.
The tension in the steel industry
developed when owners of the huge
steel plants defied John L. Lewis and
his union committee in its effort to
organize steel workers. Steel com
pany owners charged that the union
ists planned to call strikes.
The Lewis committee has said it
will pay no heed to the opposition of
the owners in its efforts to bring the
half milion steel workers into the
union group.
SUBSIDY BILL SIGNED
WASHINGTON, June 30 (TP)—
President Roosevelt signed the Cope
land ship subsidy bill today. The
measure provides federal aid to the
merchant marine by means of out
right instead of the present system of
awards for carrying mail.
LABOR BOARD STAGGERING AFTER
DECISION HANDED DOWN BY COURT
CINCINNATI, June 30 (TP)—The
U. S. circuit court of appeals shot a
hole in the Wagner labor act today.
The court ruled that the national la
bor relations board has no authority
to regulate an interstate concern.
The decision came on a petition re
questing the enforcement of an order
issued to the Fruehauf Trailer Com
pany. The Fruehauf Company at
tacked the constitutionality of the
Wagner act in an appeal fw>m toe
order.
Today’s decision made no mention
of constitutionality. The N. L. R. B.
had ordered the Fruehauf company to
BYRD PIGEON-HOLES McCARL’S OFFER
OF AID IN NEW DEAL SPENDING PROBE
WASHINGTON, June 30 (TP)—
Senator Harry Byrd today politely
pigeonholed an offer from Comptrol
ler General McCarl to aid in a probe
of New Deal spending. Byrd is chair
man of a committee to investigate
reorganization of government bureaus
for economy. He informed McCarl,
who goes into retirement tonight that
the investigating committee won’t in
quire into the New Deals financial
affairs until the Brookings Instituton
has finished a survey of the situation.
The Brookings report won’t be ready
for weeks. McCarl had offered to give
Byrd’s committee his ideas on govern
ment spending.
The Comptoller General will turn
DEFENDANTS IN
DRUCKMAN CASE
GET ONE YEAR
EXECUTION OF SENTENCE
IS DEFERRED UNTIL
JULY 12
BROOKLYN, N. Y., June 30 (TP)
Supreme Court Justice Rqgers today
sentenced all three men convicted in
the Drukman conspiracy trial to one
year in jail. On request of counsel,
Justice Rogers deferred execution of
the sentences until Jul y!2.
Attorneys for the defendants—
James Kleinman, Henry Singer and
Jacob Silverman—announced they
would appeal. These three, and Wil
liam Kleinman and Giuseppe Dardis
are charged with conspiring to shield
the slayers of Samuel Drukman.
Drukman’s slayers were convicted and
sentenced to 20 years. The jury failed
to agree on the conspiracy charges
against William Kleinman and Giu
seppe Dardis. Special Prosecutor Todd
said both men will be retried imme
diately.
PREMIERNAMED
AS LEAGUE HEAD
VAN ZEELAND IS CHOSEN
AT GENEVA CON
FERENCE
GENEVA, June 30 (TP)—Premier
Van Zeeland of Belgium was elected
president of the League of Nations as
sembly today.
The momentoue league mealing was
started off by Britain's foreign secre
tary reading the resignation of Dr.
Benes of Czechoslavakia as president.
The deposed ruler of Ethiopia, Haile
Selassie, sat quietly in the peace
chamber as the session started.
When Selassie entered the building
he was cheered by a huge throng of
people. The diplomats who must de
cide the fate of his litle kingdom took
no part in the demonstration.
The Switzerland delegation led a
fight in the league councils to pre
vent Selassie from making a speech.
But the president of the Irish Free
state, Eamon de Valera, supported
the emperor’s wish to make a supreme
appeal to the assembly. It is under
stood that Selassie intends to ad
dress the peace makers in the native
Amharic language.
The impression prevails that the
emperor’s appeal for further help
against Italy will fall on deaf ears.
The league members are preparing to
drop the penalties they had voted
against Italy.
DEATH OF HUEY LONG
FORMS CAMPAIGN ISSUE
McGEHEE, Ark., June 0 (TP).—
The death of Huey Long forma the
basis of the campaign being waged by
an opponent of Joe T. Robeson for
his seat in the United States senate.
W. F. Denman, former law partner
of Long’s, wants a complete senato
rial investigation into the slaying of
the Kingfish at Baton Rouge last
year. Denman criticizes Robinson
for his failure to seek toe investiga
tion, and asks Arkansas voters for
their support against the Democratic
party leader.
GEORGIA POLICE SEEK
BANDIT TERRORISTS
MOLANTA, Ga., June 30 (TP).—
Police are seeking four negro ban
dit-terrorists today following a series
of bold early morning hok’Xps. The
bandits forced white couples to leave
their residences and walk to vacant
lots where they robbed them.
Then forcing the victims to lie
face downward while they effected
their escape.
reinstate several employes which the
board said had been discharged for
union activities.
The court held that the Trailer
company’s business was not interstate
commerce, and that therefore, the na
tional labor relations board was act
ing without authority when it issued
the order.
The labor relations board had at
tempted to exercise control over dis
missal of employes by hte Freuhauf
company, which questioned the con
stitutionality of the national labor re
lations act in appealing from the
board's ruling.
SAVANNAH, GA., TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1936
over his office at midnight to Rich
ard N. Elliott, his assistant. Elliott will
serve untl a new man is appointed.
McCarl’s partng shots at the New
Deal got .io formal reply today des
pite the strong hints of the Neb
raskan that he might go stumping for
Gov. Landon of Kansas. McCarl
charged that President Roosevelt has
set up a "blank check” system with
the treasury.
McCarl will leave office today. He
has served as Comptroller General
since 1921, when the office was es
tablished. His retirement is requir
ed by regulations which forbid re
appointment of any Comptroller Gen
eral.
CAPITOL GASPS
SIGH OF RELIEF
AS ‘ZIONY’ GOES
CHAPTER IN CONGRESS
MAN'S CAREER MARKED
TEMPORARILY CLOSED
CHICAGO June 30 (TP)—A fast
express is bearing Congressman Ma
rion A. Zioncheck towards Chicago
today.
Zioncheck, whose hectic career at
Washington was temporarily ended
early today when he boarded a west
bound train, plans to transfer to a
plane at Chicago for a flight to his
home town, Seattle. Reports from
the Pacific coast city say Zioncheck’s
mother is seriously ill—presumably
because of worry at her son’s plight.
District of Columbia police, Mary
land authorities and capitol officials
heaved a sigh of relief today when
Zioncheck, jaunty in a new white
linen suit, stepped aboard the Chi
cago train. His departure wrote
"finis” to an amazing series of
events that added years to a score of
officials.
The serjeant-at-arms of the House
of Representatives, Kenneth Romney,
arranged for Zioncheck’s trip home.
Romney went to the aid of the Se
attle congressman wen "Ziony” was
found in his offices, nearly 24 hours
after he escaped from a Maryland
sanitarium. Zioncheck explained he
had hitch-hiked from the Maryland
institution, complaining that he was
11- at the sanitarium.
It was Romney who posted $25 bail
for Zioncheck when an old assault
warrant was served on the congress
man. Romney also arranged for cap!
tol guard, Wiliam Bishop, a close
friend of Zioncheck, to accompany
the young congressman to Seattle.
Zioncheck was strangely uncommu
nicative during his last few hours
in Washington. His only word to
newsmen was a typewritten state
ment which maintained he had been
denied fair play.
The congressman’s pretty bride,
Rubye Niz Zioncheck, was conspicu
ous by her absence when Zioncheck
left the capital. Mrs.
signed the papers committing her
husband to the sanitarium and then
dropped out of sight. Last reports
said she was staying with friends,
either in Maryland or Virginia.
‘TERRORIST’ FACES
LIFE SENTENCE
MANDATORY JUDGMENT
FOR TRIGGER-MAN OF
BLACK LEGION
DETROIT, June 30 (TP)—The
Black Legion triggerman, Dayton
Dean, faces life imprisonment today.
Dean pleaded guilty to the murder
of WPA worker Charles Poole. Ac
cording to Mghigan law, his plea
makes life imprisonment mandatory.
Dean was the first of the secret
society’s members to confess startling
activities of the night riders. His
testimony caused the arrest of 36 oth
er men, many of them political and
social leaders in Michigan commun
ities. Dean is one of 13 men involved
in the Poole slaying.
BRITISHSOLDIERS
KILL 64 ARABS
JERUSALEM, June 30 (TP)—The
Palestine government announced to
day that 64 Arabs have been killed
in the past six days.
The Arabs fell in pitched battles
with British soldiers along the rail
roads and highways in northern
Palestine.
Thirteen British warships dropped
anchor today in the port of Haifa.
Authorities said that the fleets visit
was merely a routine naval call.
GERMAN KIDNAPPER IS
GIVEN DEATH VERDICT
BONN, Germany, June 30 (TP) —
A German citizen, Hans Edward
Giese, was sentenced to death today
for the kidnaping of the young son
of a German merchant.
Giese was accused of snatching the
12- boy and threatening to
kill him unless the merchant paid a
large sum. The prosecutor demanded
the death penalty to prevent what he
called "an outbreak of Lindbergh kid
napings in Germany.”
Proud Daughter, Wife and Mother
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This most interesting picture made at Franklin Field, Philadelphia, shows, left to right, Mrs. Anna Roose
velt Boettiger, daughter of the President; Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the First Lady, and Mrs. Sarah D.
Roosevelt, the chief executive’s mother, as they listened to the President during the notification ceremonies
which closed the Democratic Party’s stay in the “Quaker City.” (Central Press)
MURPHY IS SEEN
CANDIDATE FOR
MICHIGAN RACE
CANDIDACY WOULD HELP
NATIONAL TICKET IN
NOVEMBER
DETROIT, June 30. —The report
that Frank Murphy, high commis
sioner of the Philippines, will run for
governor in Michigan was common to
day as President Roosevelt’s special
train puffed into Washington from
Hyde Park.
When Murphy left Manila, weeks
ago, the report sprang up that he
yvould be drafted for the Michigan
gubernatorial candidacy. The high
commissioner denied the rumor and
said he was returning to Washington
only to report on the Filipino situa
tion.
Yesterday. Murphy held a long con
ference ith the president. Mr. R<josf-~
velt is understood to have persuaded
the high commissioner a former may
or of Detroit, to run for the state of
fice.
Murphy’s candidacy probably would
bring the support of the Rev. Charles
E. Coughlin, backer of the Lemke
Union party movement. Father Cough
lin and Murphy are close friends, and
the radio priest has yet to announce
support of a gubernatorial candidate
in his home state. Father Coughlin’s
endorsement of Murphy, some new
dealers believe, would cut down the
danger of Democratic presidential
vote losses to toe third party in
Michigan.
Governor Henry Homer of Illinois,
another visitor at Hyde Park, assured
President Roosevelt that his state
would be in the Democratic column
next November, despite the fact that
the G. O. P. vice presidential candi
date, Colonel Frank Knox, is from
Chicago.
PANGBORN PLANS
FOR OCEAN HOP
MAY CHANGE NAME OF
'FLYING WING’ TO TEX
AS SKY RANGER’
DALLAS, Texas, June 30 (TP)
Speed Pilot Clyde Pangbom plans to
change the name of his stubby sub
stratosphere racing plane.
Pangbom and his co-pilot, Monty
Mason, are in Dallas preparing for a
flight to New York and Paris in their
“Flying Wing.” Pangbom hopes to
set a non-stop record for a Paris-to-
Dallas hop this summer in the plane,
especially constructed for high alti
tude flying.
On Thursday, unless Pangborn
changes his plans, the “Flying Wing"
will be FJchrlstened the “Texas Cen
tennial Sky Ranger” in honor of the
big Texas celebration which is in full
swing.
KIDNAPPER WILL
FACE SENTENCE
CONFESSED ABDUCTOR OF
WILLIAM HAMM EN
TERS GUILTY PLEA
ST. PAUL, June 30 (TP).—The
confessed kidnaper Charles Fitzger
ald of Los Angeles faces sentence
on July 7 for his part in the abduc
tion of the St. Paul Brewer, William
Hamm.
Fitzgerald pleaded guilty when ar
raigned In federal court on charges
of taking part in the SIOO,OOO kidnap
ing of 1933. He is the fourth of
seven men indicted for the crime to
plead guilty.
Three other men facing trial on
Hamm charges are Alvin Karpls,
John Peifer of St. Paul, and the for
mer post master of Bensonville, 111.,
Edmund Bartholmey.
HAS JIM FARLEY RESIGNED?
PARAMOUNT QUESTION FACES COUNTRY AT LARGE AS
POLITICIANS PONDER RESULTS.
WASHINGTON, June 30 (TP)—
White House reporters are on toe
alert today for an announcement
from President Roosevelt on whether
Postmaster General James Farley has
resigned.
Farley is expected to give up his
postmastership to devote all his time
to management of Mr. Roosevelt’s re
, election campaign. The postmaster
has refused throughout to comment.
IHe told Transradio that any an-
I nouncement of his intentions would
SELASSIE TO MAKE
EMBITTERED PLEA
AS LAST RESORT
EXPEbRTS FIGURE DEATH
KNELL TO BE TOLLED
IN LEAGUE APPEAL
GENEVA, June 30 (TP).—The
League of Nations meets today to
sound the death-knell of Emperor
Halle Selasle’s hopes.
Before the session which meet to
day is adjourned, League sanctions
against Italy are scheduled to be
scrapped. Furthermore, the league is
expected to recognize Ethiopia as an
Italian possession and take the nec
essary steps to toss Ethiopia out of
the league.
Selassie, in a last desperate at
tempt to swing league support his
way, will mount toe speaker’s plat
form at Geneva to plead his cause.
He is fighting wh>i nearly everyone
agrees is a hopeless battle. Great
Britain and France, to all accounts,
i have lined up solid support in their
! drive to drop anti-Italian sanctions
■ and strip Ethiopia of her league
membership.
Selas ie ij(robably will use some
stinging adjectives when he remincV.
the league that it was Great Britain
which pledged 100 per cent support
of Ethiopia’s resistance to the Italian
invasion. The deposed African mon
arch is expected to accuse Great
Britain of “double-crossing” Ethiopia
by egging. Selassie on to fight and
then withdrawing all but tacit sup-
' port of the Ethiopian cause.
One complexion which may be
slightly pink when Selassie makes
his last appeal will be that of British
Foreign Secretary Eden. It was Eden
who fought to the last ditch for anti-
Italian sanctions and who sent up
loud cries for League support of
Ethiopia. Now Eden’s government
has reversed its stand and the young
foreign secretary is leader in the
campaign to end the sanctions and
recognize Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia.
AUTOMOBILE LEADERS
PREDICT ROSY OUTLOOK
DETROIT, Mich., June 30 (TP)—
Leaders of the automobile industry
predict today that the end of 1936
will find them completely out of the
! depression.
They based their optimism on busi
ness of the past six months. Already
the motor factories have turned out
2,500,000 trucks and passenger cars—
more Lnan it did in all of 1931. Auto
makers figure America will buy nearly
5,000,000 cars before the year ends.
GUNMAN HIDES IN STORE
MURDERS N. Y. DRUGGIST
NEW YORK. June 30 (TP) —A 55-
year-old queens druggist, Samuel
Trager, was shot four times and
killed today by an unknown gunman
who hid in the drugstore. The killer
shot Trager three times as the drug
gist climbed his cellar stairs.
Police said the motive was revenge.
Trager was instrumental in securing
convictions for two holdup men who
robbed him a year ago.
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come from the White Hpuse. Some ob
- servers believe he will ask a leave of
absence from his cabinet post during
toe campaign. The first assistant post
master general, W. W. Howes, is be
lieved to be next in line for the post
office job. If Howes is placed in
charge, Farley would be in lirie for
reappointment in case of Mr. Roose
velt’s re-election, although official
sources have consistently dclined to
tend any foundation for speculations
along this line.
|IL DUCE HANDS
BITTER DISH TO
LEAGUE PLATTER
LEAGUE DELEGATES OCCU
PY ENTIRE TIME WITH
ITALIAN MATTERS
GENEVA, June 30 (TP).—The
League of Nations assembly was
called to order today in an atmos
phere of gloom and defeat.
The delegations are to discuss two
major topics—the withdrawal of
sanctions against Italy, and proposals
for complete reorganization of League
machinery. Both of the subjects rise
out of a defeat.
League sanctions failed to halt
Premier Mussolini in his conquest of
Ethiopia. Already Great Britain,
France and many smaller nations
have agreed to drop the anti-Italian
penalties. '
The first business will be election
of a new president. This post is ex
pected to go to Premier Van Zeeland
of Belgium. The delegate from Ar
gentina is scheduled to make the
first speech on the sanctions ques
tion. From that point, the discus
sions will become general, with dele
gates from all parts of the world
giving their ideas on ways to streng
then the league machinery—and
thereby make the league a real weap
on for. world peace.
INDUSTRY AGREES
ON BLANKET WAGE
LABOR LEADERS CALL OFF
THREATENED STRIKE
SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 30 (TP)
—Union leaders announced a con
ciliation today between the Bendix
Corporation and 2 500 employes of
toe company’s plant in South Bend.
The employes’ representatives re
cently threatened to call a strike
when company officials refused to
satisfy demands for a wage boost of
10 cents an hour.
Today labor heads announced that
the president of the corporation Vin
cent Bendix, has greed to give blan
ket wage increases to all employes,
effective September 1. The workers
voted to remain at their jobs while
other difficulties are settled in future
conferences.
STRIKE IS SETTLED
AT ELECTRIC COMPANY
KENT, Ohio, June 30 (TP). —The
stormy strike of 450 workers at the
Black and Decker Electric Company
was settled today.
An agreement was made between
the company and strike leaders, giv
ing the workers an increase In wages,
shorter hours and the right to bar
gain collectively. The strike had
been in efect since May 3.
Forty guards are under indictment
for the shooting of six men during I
toe many outbreaks whch marked '
the walkout.
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LEHMAN ACCEDES
TO PARTY’S WHIMS;
PLANS RUN AGAIN
PUBLIC PRESSURE CAUSES
GOVERNOR TO CHANGE
HIS MIND
ALBANY, N. Y„ June 30 (TP)—
Governor Herbert Lehman bowed to
the compelling pressure of the Demo
cratic party today and announced
that he will run for re-election.
The Governor s statement was is
sued at noon in a news conference
in his executive chambers. Lehman’s
decision came after a remarkable
party campaign to draft him as a
candidate. On May 20 he announced
he would not run again. He said he
wished to retire from the burdens of
public office.. \
Roosevelt Victory
The final push that brought today’s
announcement is believed to have
been delivered Sunday morning when
Lehman had breakfast at Hyde Park
with his friend, President Roosevelt.
The Governor said frankly that it
was party prssure which forced him
into the poltical arena for another
campaign.
“I anounced on May 20 that I
would not be a candidate for elec
tion,’’ he said. "I did so with an hon
est desire to be relieved of the cares
and responsibilities of the Governor
ship in order to return to private life
and enjoyment of my family. My de
cision was reached after long and
careful deliberation. I considered it
final.”
Then the Governor came to the
point. Said he: "Since then I have
been deeply touched and stirred by
the many expressions of confidence
and friendship that have come to me
from all parts of the country. I shall
always be grateful for them.”
He referred particularly to the
mighty demonstration handed him at
Philadelphia by the Democratic Na
tional Convention.
Resistance Fails
The Governor continue: "Regard
less of personal considerations how
ever compelling, I feel that I can no
longer resist the pleas of my party—
both in the state and in the nation
—or of those with whom I have work
ed in constant association for many
years, and with whom I have 'waged
the fight for equal opportunity and
social security. i
“If my party in this state chooses
1(0 renominate me, and the people of
the state call me for service, I prob
ably will accept the call, and in the
cqovug i’vo’ >ears”wiii. dwvete
wholeheartedly to toe interests of the
people of the state.”
Lehman s phenomenal vote-getting
ability is considered vital to the cam
paign of President Roosevelt in New
York State. His decision to run was
hailed by Democrats as a major cam
paign break in their favor —and a
hard blow against the hopes of the
, Republicans.
OPEN REBELLION
FLARES IN SPAIN
CONSERVATIVES EXPECT.
ED STAGE MILITANT
UPRISING
MADRID, June 30 (TP)—Alarm
ing reports were spread today that
Spanish conservative parties are plan
ning an armed uprising. The cabinet
was called into extraordianry session.
Conservatives claim that a large
part of the Spanish army supports
their ambition to wreck the leftwing
government. The cabinet decided that
the army was loyal and concluded
that reports that It would help stag*
an uprising were pure
Emergency orders have been issued to
guard against the threatened out
breaks .
POLICESEEKING
PAROLED CONVICT
IS THE SOLUTION IN BRICK
MURDER OF HOSTESS
CHICAGO, June 30 (TP) A pa-
role violator of Waupun Prison Wis
is being sought today for questioning
In the murder of the night club host
ess. Mrs. Florence Thompson Castle.
He is James Britt of Stevens Point.
Wis., who police said was frequently
seen with the victim of the crime”.
They said they have reason to be
lieve her assailant was known to her
and that he made up in blackfa<v io
disguise himself.
TAXI, MISTER?
DALLAS CAB DRIVERS TO
BEGIN THIRD
STRIKE
Texas ’ June 30 <TP)_
taXi <srivers went on strike
again today, it was the third time in
f-ve weeks that the cabbies have
parked their autos and refused to
' <Qo?’.. They are with their
take on cab fares.
empl °y ers recently raised the
th£ S B th P so that drlvers get on€ ’
F fl rh rtf h fu money they took in-
E ach . of the strikes has sent offi
tini in! th? Dallas centennial exposi
n^>vi lnt ° w ’ orried conferences. In both
previous strikes, attendance at the
taJi droppcd ? ike ft Plummet until the
, taxis were rolling again.