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ENGLAND SEEKS
BIG OUTLAY FOR
FIGHTING CRAFT
huge expenditures are
ASKED FOR WAR
MACHINE
LONDON, July 9 (TP).—The Britr
ish governrrent asked the house ol
commons today to turn over an ad
ditional $99,000,000 to build up Brit
ain's war machine.
Supplementary estimates for the
army, navy and air force were sub
mitted to the house. More than
$55,000,000 of the huge appropriation
will be used to build the air force to
peak strength. The air force has al
ready received grants of about $400,•
000,000.
The navy has secured almost $450,-
000,000 for the expansion of its fleet.
The admiralty plans to add 15 vessels
to its 1,636 building program. These
warships include two cruisers, four
submarines and an aircraft carrier.
Old battleships will be equipped
with up-to-date guns. An admiralty
official stated that Britain would
stick to 14 inch guns regardless oi
the decision of the United States
navy to use some 16 inch cannons
on warships.
BERKELEY"FROWNS
ON NUDIST CAMP
CALIFORNIA CITY SAYS
“NlX’* TO COLONY
PROPOSAL
BERKELEY, Cal., July 9 (TP)—
There will be no nudist camp in the
city of Berkeley, and that’s final.
“Queen Tanya’’ Cubitt of the cele
brated San Diego camp was turned
down flatly by City Manager Hollis
Thompson, city health director, Dr.
Frank Kelly, and Mayor Edward
Ament.
“Queen Tanya,” who cut quite a
swath in New York under the name
of Florence Cubitt, was counting
pretty heavily on setting up a nudist
reservation at Berkeley in 1939. That
is the year of the San Francisco
World's fair.
Miss Cubitt’s manager, Jack Adams,
contended that the nudist .amp would
bring reams of publicity to the town.
Adams almost started a panic at
Newark, N. J., several months ago
when he announced that Misis Cubitt
would fly in from the west coast and
step from the airplane in nothing but
a pretty smile. The airlines forced her
to put on her coat. The girl went to
a New York hotel and used 2,000
oranges taking a daily dip in orange
juice. Anyway that’s the story her
publicity man told, range juice or no,
the Berkeley city fathers didn’t like
the idea of a nudist camp. City Man
ager Thompson looked through the
ordinances until h? found a law he
could use against the nudist queen.
Then the city officials gave “Queen
Tanya” Cubitt a unanimous “No.!”
Not In the News
THAT REMARKABLE group, the
newspaper • reporters whose duty it
i 3 to collect the news for dissemina
tion to the public, themselves are
often responsible for many good
stories that are never printed. In fact,
as a source of amusing anecdotes, the
reporters are practically unbeatable.
This is due largely to their eccentric
ities both real and imaginary, and
often to a strong desire to capitalize
on the atmosphee of romance and
glamor built up for the newspaper
man by the reading public.
Os course, to appreciate scone of
these anecdotes, you have to know
the person about whom the story Is
told. But here is a little incident
which we think you’ll enjoy even if
we don’t tell the reporter’s name.
* * *
THIS NEWSHOUND is connected
with a Chicago newspaper. He is a
fairly capable man, but is a sort who
thrives on stirring up a bit of ex
citement now and then, regardless of
where he may be. He occasionally is
sent to other cities to report news j
stories for his paper. And one of his 1
recent assignments was the inva.il- I
gation of the Black Legion in Detroit.
Perhaps/you will recall that early
In the investigation the police con
fiscated several uniforms used by
members of the Black Legion at their
secret sessions. These outfits con
sisted of a long black robe, a shawl
like cap and a hideous-looking mask
that you might select for a Hallow
e'en masquerade party.
But what you probably didn’t know
is that one of these uniforms was
stolen from the police station after
they had been seized. Strangely 1
enough the garb was reported miss- I
lng after a conference of officials
with newspaper men.
* * *
A NIGHT or two after the theft of
he unifonn a party was in progreso
in the hotel room of the Chicago re
d?v had Worked hard that
? a v.H hC ln need of some re
jaxation, so he decided to have some
hl7 o £r,,«! Burprise an o enjoyment of ;
his guests, some of whom were also
newspaper men, the reporter went tc ;
his suitcase and extracted, of
hings the missing uniform of the
Black Legion. How he had managed
to carry it to his room no one knew
be£em W of’ had U ’ and for the I
shJw V* h 8 gU€Sts he Put it on to ;
show them just how a Black Legion
r?d ,n hls full ™«alia But
before donning the robe, he some
hiT baSf P ?h a portabJe typewriter to
slilhthf k ; Th * n ’ bendln » forward
n ?;h.V aVe vu thf *** impersona
tlon of the Hunchback of Notre Dam,-.
Dracula and Frankenstein all in one
tnat ever was seen. In this character
h *JL roC “ ded to the lobby ot the hotel.
° bby thafc nl * ht was filled
with people who, If they weren’t dis
cussing the Black Legion investig*
tion, certainly had read all about it.
You well can imagine their surprise
when there appeared in their midst
this grotesque figure in one of the
LISTEN, FOLKS!
- TO WILLIAM RITT—
The radio business is the one ma
jor industry in which, due to its re
cent origination ana development, has
offered women as well as men an ex
cellent field in which to carve a ca
reer. And have the fair but not so
fragile ones taken advantage of this?
Give a look!
At this writing there are already
more than a dozen women managers
of radio stations. And some of these
stations are in pretty large owns, too
—such as WJAY, Clevleand; WCNW
and WMtB’Q, Brooklyn, and WNEW,
Newark, N. J.
In addition, there are many women
radio sales executives and commercial
department managers. The field of
radio script writing has also been in
vaded successfully by women and
soon, who knows, we may have wom
en gag thinker-uppers.
Women have been as important in
the field of radio entertainment as
men almost since radio’s inception.
Today the female song birds are on
an equal footing in popularity with
mere man. Offhand, can you name
as many male radio warblers as these
—Grace Moore, Kate Smith, Jessica
Dragonette, Ruth Etting, Gladys
Swarthout, Marion Talley, Ethel
Shutta?
Are there any male trios or quar
tets as well known as the Pick'etis or
the Boswell sisters?
Women are also forging to the front
in the field of radio dramatics led by
such stars as Irene Rich, Cornelia
Otis Skinner and others.
It is significant that the winner
in a wide-spread poll of popularity of
children’s programs was a woman —
“The Singing Lady,’* Mrs. Ireene
Wicker.
Comediennes are making their
brothers of the air look to their
laurels. Grade Allen, Mollie McGee,
Calara, Lu and Em, Portland Hoffa
and a number of others rank high in
this field.
Feminine commentato i on current
news and events are no longer a
novelty to the radio fan who lists
among his favorties Dorothy Thomp
son and Maybelle Jennings.
GANGSTERS ERASE
LIFE CAREER OF
ILLINOIS SOLON
JOHN BOLTON IS CHASED
AND SHOT DOWN BY
GUNMEN
CHICAGO July 9 (TP)—An auto
mobile chase and the roar of gang
sters’ guns brought death to Illinois
Representative John Bolton early to
day.
Witnesses told police of a mad
chase by two automobiles which trail
ed Bolton’s car. One of the pursuing
machines drew up alongside the leg
islator’s car. A hail of bullets and
shotgun blasts poured into Bolton’s
automobile. The killer sped on and
disappeared.
Executives seeking a motive for the
murder said it was probable' that Bol
ton was marked for death by gamb
lers. Last year the lawmaker spon- j
sored, a bill which licensed handbooks
in Chicago.
WORKMEN RUSHING
OLYMPIC STADIUM
NEW YORK, July 9 (TP)—Five
thousand, two hundred workmen, toil
ing in three shifts, are rushing the
new municipal stadium into readiness
today for the Olympic tryouts on
Saturday. This big WPA project will
open along with the 64 million dol
lar triborough bridge, to be dedicated
by President Roosevelt, Interior Sec
retary Ickes, Mayor LaGuardia and
Parks Commisioner Mo-res.
legion’s uniforms. Fearful of what
might happen next, some of the peo
ple fled from the lobby. But the more
courageuos held their ground.
And to each of those remaining the
hideous creature crept lamely to ask
ln a shrill but deadly serious tone:
“Is it true what they say about
Dixie?”
Camera Glimpses Into the Life of J. Pierpont Morgan, Financier
Attending cla*» day c*remonif» 1 ~ Y , . V v , — 77
at Harvard in 1934. [ f“J [ The 52.500.000 Morgan yacht, EQj lE,l E, “ rior Ycrlc. >'| hit ion, Junius Spencer Morgan, in 1934, ’|f
‘f* ’■
w
Horace Heidt
That dance program conducted by
Horace Heidt and his Brigadiers
over Columbia network, now
switches from Tuesday evenings,
late, to Monday evenings, early.
BIG EXPANSION IS
SLATED FOR ROME
VICOSE PLANT PLANS FOR
$2,300,000 ENLARGE
MENT
ROME, Ga., July 9. —Production
will be increased 50 per cent at the
Rome plant of the Tubize Chatillon
Corporation through a $2,000,000 ac>
dition to the viscose plant here, R.
C. Jones, local manager, has stated.
About 350 more workers will be added
; to 1,300 now employed here.
All that remains is approval by
two-thirds of Class A stockholders of
corporation, who will meet July 30 in
New Yor\ city to discuss the project.
Roland L. Taylor, chairman of board
of directors, which has indorsed the
expansion, will ask stckholders for
authority to borrow $2,800,000 —
$2,300,000 for Rome and $500,000 for
Hopewell, Va.
“A number of substantial holders
of Class A and preferred stocks have
already expressed their approval of
the proposals,” said Mr. Jone;, ‘ and
approval at July 30 meet is thought
to be assured. The company does not
have the cash necessary to make the
contemplated improvements, but offi
cials believe the future of the indus
try justifies borrowing the money for
the expansion.”
Plans call for an additional unit to
j the viscose plant and other improvc
; ments in existing machinery. The
j new unit will increase rayon produc-
I tion from 11,000,000 pounds annually
| to 16,000,000 pounds. Present price of
first-grade rayon is 55 cents. Viscose
chemical process turns out smooth
rayon cloth from the raw products—
cotton lentils mixed with wodo pulp.
This will be the second large addi
tion to the plant since its erection
here, $2,000,000 hiving been spent in
erecting plant additions two years
ago.
Work on latest improvement will
begin as soon as possible.
Besides the $2,300,000 viscose plant
addition, officials plan to install new
machinery in acetate plant to double
production by that process, which
now is on experimental basis.
Floor space and building specifica
tions not yet available. The report of
architects and engineers will be made
public after July 30 meeting.
Dr. Henry S. Tanner of Minne
apolis, started all this reducing busi
ness in the eighties by subsisting on
water for 40 days, He lost only 10 1-2
pounds.
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1936
FAMED INVENTOR
TO DEMONSTRATE
WEATHER DEVICE
DR. CHARLES BROOKS TO
MAKE ADVANCED
TESTS
LAKEHURST, N. J., July 9 (TP).
■ The New England inventor. Dr.
Charles Franklin Brooks will demon
strate his "radio meteorograph” to
day before United States naval offi
cials and a weather bureau expert
from Washington.
Dr. Brooks perfected his device at
the Blue Hills observatory at Bos
ton. The meteorograph is designed
to provide data on temperatures, pres
sure and humidity changes in the up
per air.
The Rockefellar foundation is pro
viding a special fund for promotion
of the device. The New England
council plans to have Dr. Brooks
issue a handbook on New England
climate, with information assembled
from the metorograph. The agricul
ture department will assign two men
to study Dr. Brooks long-range
weather forecasting. Weather experts
have obtained information on condi
tions in the upper layers of air by
the use of airplanes in the past. The
upper air conditions exert an impor
tant influence on weather conditions
near the earth.
INVENTORS AGAIN
SEEKING DEVICE
FOR MAKING RAIN
PRESIDENT OF CONVEN
TION WELCOMES ANY
SUGGESTION
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. July 9 (TP)
In the heart of Springfield today a
man sits in his hotel suite with a
mass of suggestions on how to cause
a rainstorm. The recommendations
and devices range from prayer to air
squadrons. The man is Albert G.
Burns of Oakland, Cal., who is pres
ident of the National Inventors Con
gress. Burns says a reward of $25,000
awaits the person who can make the
rain fall at will. A similar amount is
said to be available for some method
of preventing downpours.
Hundreds of strange gadgets will
be on exhibit in Springfield during
an inventors’ convention in Septem
ber, but the rain-making problem has
not been solved. Suggestions inclde
a refrigerating system for the upper
air, aerial bombs and the liberation
of chemicals from airplane:. Still
the $25,000 reward goes unclaimed
and the west suffers from a great
drought.
MARIETTA ROTARY
INSTALLS FRIDAY
MARIETTA, Ga., July 9.—State
Rotary officials will visit Marietta to
morrow night for'the annual installa
tion of officers at the Marietta Golf
club.
Visiting officers will include Jorl
Chandler Harris, Atlanta, district
governor for Georgia; Evelyn Harri:,
president, Atlanta Rotary, and Ira M
Daniell, president o fthe Cartersville
Rotary.
New' officers to be installed by the
Marietta club are James T. Anderson.
Jr., president to succeed Robert W.
Fowler: William Stephens, vice presi
dent, to succeed Judge J. J. Daniell,
and Glover Smith, secretary, succeed
ing Carl Calloway.
Principal speaker of the evening
will be Hubert Travis Quillian, field
representative and instructor of Eng
lish at Shorter college, Rome. A din
ner dance and an informal program
are planned.
As early as the twelfth centurF
there were three prominent pniversi
ties in Europe: Bologna for law Paris
for theology, and Salerno for medi
cine.
“Lipstick and rouge almost as vital
as food to housewife and working
girl “ a Maryland medico asserts. Os
course. If a woman is going to starve ;
to death she may as well do it at- i
tractively.
ADVENTURES OF JOE AND SUE
- By—
JOHN W. WESTON
When a human boing comes into
this world, whether a lad or a lass,
assisted by a quack or a midwife,
there is ever a family discussion, a
verbal outburst, like a convention of
old maids in an argument on birth
control.
The mother is full of both pride
and pain, and casts a wistful eye on
the new' arrival b:ing dangled aloft
to catch its breath.
Whereas Daddy, the forgotten part
of the family's progress, seeks solace
in his Scotch and Soda until the tail
feathers of the stork have faded in
the offing.
Where Traditions Reign
The traditions of Kelly’s Creek
strongly support the gossip that JOE
was born out of wedlock, and bap
tized in the water hole next to the
moonshine still.
Os his parentage JOE admits.
“My Dad was a sailor a-roving free,
At every port he’d a gal on his knee:
That he was -he early start of me
Whenever one questions my pedigree.”
He also remembers his old man
saying “We cum from monkeys."
But whenever the kids went to the
swimming hole and stripped, the evi
dence was lacking because the clues
were all cold.
JOE’S mother died after his toe
sucking days and there remained only
a boyhood remembrance of the old
orphanage with a big fence around
where prowling cats met, yowled,
clawed and spat.
Every day JOE got paddled for
doing something another fellow did
just to keep him in training w'hen a
proxy was needed.
In due time he became a recruit
of Uncle Sam’s army and threw out
his chest in a swaggering manner,
believing that he was going to wipe
CHICAGO ANSWERS
RELIEF PROBLEMS
BY FOOD ORDERS
PROPOSED TAX ORDIN
ANCE ONLY ANSWER
TO QUESTION
CHICAGO, July 9 (TP).—More
than 40,000 food orders were dropped
into mail boxes today for Chicago
families who are in desperate need
of relief.
The city council jammed through
an emergency ordinance calling for a
three-mill tax on real estate after a
day of riots and demonstrations by
jobless men. The relief clients hoot
ed and jeered in the council cham
bers while Aldermen sought means
of breaking a deadlock over relief
funds.
Corporation Council Barnet Hodes
expressed doubt today that the city’s
relief troubles are at an end. He
said the new city tax ordinance will
do little to settle the matter. Hodcs
expressed the opinion that the three
mill levy cannot be used legally for
relief.
BRITAIN PROMISES
TO RECALL SHIPS
MEDITERRANEAN FLEET
BE GREATLY REDUCED
LONDON. July 9 (TP).—The Brit
ish admiralty announced today that
the heavy concentration of warships
in the Mediterranean will be reduced
at once.
The admiralty added, however th
Britain will maintain a larger flee,
in the disputed waters than she did
before the Ethiopian war.
Observers predicted that the with
drawal of British vessels would go a
long way towards easing diplomatic
tension beeween London and Rome.
Italy is expected to withdraw some
of her troops in Libya, on the Egyp
tian border. The British foreign of
fice was hopeful that Premier Musso
lini would see fit to enter into the
present conference on the rearming
of the Dardanelles. Mussolini is ex
pected also to asume his full share of
responsibilities in the Locarno con
ference to be held on July 22.
out this whole cockeyed world, but
his plans fallrd completely.
Whilst mooching around one day
wondering what h s next move would
be, a Salvation Army lassie pinned
1 her angelic eye on him. he was just
beginning to observe petticoats and
could give them vigilant attent on
when the desire seized him.
The Blood and Fire enthusiast cap
tured her convert and admonished
him to follow the prayer service.
Jo? Meets Sue
At the first meeting a newer model
knelt beside him highly geared with
limitless speed and wearing a fresh
coat of paint, so JOE got her num
ber.
Radiating a friendly grin, there was
exhibited hi- mail order of new china
tusks, just cashed in.
“Hello punk!” she greeted.
His admiration loosened at once
and he calkd her SUE.
“Just where did y*r spring from?”
was the interrogative
“Not yer were born?”
“I don’t know, I just cum.”
“Who was yer old man?”
“I was too young to think.”
“Who was yer mother?”
“You find out.”
“Were both rocking in the same
ole boat, let’s chop them waves to
gether, what sez yer, honey?”
JOE went to work, JOE had to
work now, there were two to grab the
gravy bowl.
He opened’s a hambergsr joint, ice
cream and hard liquor with a side
line of suckers were his saleable as
sets.
By the time winter had moved
north, they began to think of shov
ing off in their open air chariot.
Aboard their Lizzy they could view
the glor.es of Uncle Sam’s domain
from merry Coney Island to the tower
ing Totem Poles of Alaska.
(More Tomorrow)
HATCHER HUGHES
PROTESTS MOVE
FOR CENSORSHIP
PROFESSOR ATTACKS PRO
POSED RADIO AC
TION
NEW YORK, July 9 (TP). —The
liberal professor and playwright,
Hatcher Hughes, protested sharply to
the federal communications commis
sion today against its proposed order
to censor foreign radio programs re
broadcast in the United States.
Columbia university's Prof. Hughes
charged the commission with “an un
warranted extension of already too
great powers of censorship.” “Why,’’
he asks, “must the commission issue
this order whch smacks f censorship.”
Hughes said the American Civil
Liberties Union, of which he is a
member, will continue to fight the
order and attempt to prevent its ex
ecution. The date of the order, orig
inally effective July 1, has been post
poned until August due to many pro
tests again it it.
IMPORTER’S HOME RAIDED
BY DARING SNEAK-THIEF
BALTIMORE, July 9 (TP)—Police
are hunting today for the daring
thief who walked into the home of a
Baltimore impoilor last night and es
caped with a loot of valuable jewels.
The thief was not seen by any of the
five members of the family who were
>me at the tie of the robbery. •
The importer, M. Jenkins Cromwell,
has not estimated the value of the
stolen articles, but the loot includes
a number of platinum and gold rings
and bracelets set with precious stones.
Police, so afar, have been unable to
find a single clue to the robbery.
White mousseline de soie with a
velvet dot pattern in sapphire, match
ing the velvet trimming, makes a de
licious evening dress, especially com
bined with a necklace of sapphire
beads with a big carved sapphire set
in diamonds, a star sapphire and
diamond bracelet, and a big star sap
phire ring.
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%
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PARALYSIS CASES
SCARCE IN STATE
ALABAMA OUTBREAK NO
CAUSE FOR FEAR HERE
HEALTH HEAD SAYS
ATLANTA, July 9.—Numerous re
quests for information about infantile
paralysis because of the epidemic
sweeping northern Alabama, yester
day caused Dr. T. F. Abercrombie, di
rector of the State Departmnet of
Public Health, to issue a statement
saying there is no need for alarm in
Georgia. He addad “should the dis
ease become prevalent in Georgia, the
people will be notified immediately.
Only sev:n cases have been report
ed in Georgia through July 7 for 1936,
the health officer pointed out. This
is half of the total number of cases
reported in the state last year on July
1. At that time cases of infantile
paralysis in Georgia amounted to 16.
The seven cases reported thus far for
this year, Dr. Abercrombie said, have
been sporadic and have occurre-d in
widely separated sections of the state.
In view of the outbreak in Ala
bama, Dr. Abercrombie warns par
ents to keep their children from sec
tions of the state in which the dis
ease is prevalent. He suggested that
public gatherings should be avoid ti
and parents should not send their
children to camps in the stricken Ala
baam area.
Family physicians should b? imme
diately consulted if children fall ill,
the health director advised. He ex
plained this precaution by saying very
little Is known about the early symp
toms of infantile paralysis. v -
RURAL CONTRACTS LET
CONSTRUCTION WORK
WASHINGTON. July 9 . (TP).—
The rural electrification administra
tion announced today that its larg
est contract for power line financing
had been awarded in Gage County,
Nebraska.
The contract calls for the construc
tion of 450 miles of electric distribu
tion lines to take current to farm
homes.
PAGE FIVE
Smashing Success Is
Scored By Jack Alley
And His Amateurs
SECOND BROADCAST TO
NIGHT AT 9 P. M.
Byck Electric Company, distribut J
ors of Leonard Electric Refrigerator! •
announced today that their firs!
broadcast, Jack Alley’s Amateur Hour
over WTOC last Thursday night
proved itself to be an outstanding
success.
Bob Crawford, who handles the
commercials for the show stated
that last week’s broadcast broke all
past records for mail response to a
single local program. Several talent
ed amateurs appeared on the broad
cast and were well received by the
studio and radio audiences. Nearl:
2,000 telegrams, cards and letter!
poured in expressing votes for the
auateurs and congratulations to Byck
Electric Company and Mr. Alley upon
the success of their new radio pro
gram.
The Broadcast will take place in
the ball room of the Hotel De Soto
tonight in order to accommodate the
many who were unable to obtain
seats in the studio last Thursday.
The public is invited to attend thie
very entertaining program, and ars'
requested to be in the ball room by
8:30 pm.
All amateur talent who wish to ap- 1
pear on these popular broadcasts or \
future programs are urged to register \
at Byck Electric Company, 137 Bull
street. Winners receive a three-day
engagement at the Savannah theater
and are eligible for placement in a
traveling unit. „* <
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