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I WEATHER Continued Fair With • Slight Breezes MARKETS t Stocks Gain; Wheat Up; Cotton Up VOLUME 2-NUMBER 168 BUREAU PROMISES COOLING RAINS IN STRICKEN AREAS WHOLE NATION AWAITS RELIEF FROM SWEL TERING HEAT CHICAGO, July 14 (TP)—The weather bureau promised a swel tering nation today that cooling rains will arrive within 24 hours. Rains fell early today in the Dakotas and Minnesota where the drought h “S been causing its worst damage. The downpours and cooling winds they bring are expected to spread along the Canadian boun dary to the eastern seaboard by night Points in the Ohio river valley and further south may get the welcome rains by tomorrow. Temperatures in the parched north west dropped 30 degrees after the downpour. How much good it will bring to farmers who have watched their crops dry up in the fields has not yet been estimated. The mercury dropped to 74 in New York today, but the humidity was so high that the city felt scant relief. However, rain is forecait in Manhat tan this afternoon or tonight. / Mercury Drops Other cities in the east welcomed lower temperatures. Washington and Portland. Maine, both reported 74 degrees. Newark, N. J., and Pitts burgh had 79 each, other tempera tures reported toere Hartford, Conn., 77; Boston, 75; Albany. 78; Syracuse, 83; Buffalo, 82; Philadelpha, 77; Cleveland, 84, and Burlington, Vt., 15. in Chicago, the mercury started at 81 this morning and zoomed upward. The windy city, like New York, suf fered from extreme humidity. Detroit turned in a 100-degree read ’ing. 500 persons already have died ' throughout Michigan from the muggy • heat. ' < Latest estimates on the number of heat deaths are that the total has almost reached 2,000 for the na tion. Crop experts say the destruc tion ultimately may pass the'bilhon dollar mark. Death Toll High Yesterday the middle west, tor tured by record high temperatures, . saw staggering death tolls chalked up * by the heat wave. Detroit was hard est hit. One hospital alone reported 25 deaths from prosjtapMpp * • W‘4’ igan's Wayne county authorities counted almost 100 victims. Munic ipal hospitals and infirmaries were taxed to capacity as ambulances rushed patients to medical aid. Nearly 120 deaths were reported in the Detroit area and almost as many more in other parts of Mich igan. Temperatures ranged from 111 ' in baginaw to 101 in Detroit. Heios of the great factories of Michigan are keeping careful watch over their employes. General Mo ur- executives told plant superinten dents to close up shop if they think ; heat conditions dangerous to work ers. Other companies are following silt. in the northwest, even up into the Canadian wheat country, unheard of • temperatures made veteran farmers groan. They look on helplessly 1 while vast fields scorch and wither ' under the tropical heat. In the east, " things were not as • bad, although electric fans were at a premium on the New York market. < Upstate New York reported high tern- ' peratures and an abnormal list of : deaths. New York city suffered— ' not as much from the heat—as the humidity. The mercury stayed at a J reasonable average of 77 in that 1 area, but the moist, sticky atmos- J phere made things uncomfortable. Today New Yorkers are resigned to more discomfort. Forecasters pre- ’ diet a rise in temperature with a alight possibility that thunder show ers late in the day may clear the at mosphere. Down south in Dixie it's hot, too. Georgia, Mississippi and Louisiana are sunbaked with occasional violent electric storms providing only tem porary relief. President Roosevelt picked the right spot for his vacation, it seems. The only section not oppressed by terrific heat is New England. Boston reports normal tempera tures, and further north in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont the weather la treating vacationers kindly RELIEF IN OHIO IN CHAOTIC STATE HOUSE MEMBERS BOOED BY JOBLESS AS THEY FUSS, BUT ACT NOT ■ —■■■■ I OOLUMBUE, Ohio, July 14 (TP) Pennsylvania put the skids to her relief crisis today, but in Ohio the ' situation is more middled than ever. At Columbus, 0., the hou.se mem bers quarreled, refused to suspend the rules and failed to consider ths emergency relief bill. The unemploy’d delegations in the galleries booed lustily and raised an uproar as as semblymen recessed until today. The special relief fund granted Cuyahoga county and Cleveland is ex hausted. The Ohio senate has pasted the relief bill, but house is not ex pected to approve it before Thursda' or Friday. Meantime, the unemployed leaders claim thousands of relief . clients will be without food and shel ■ ter- CX L' I PHONE 6183 Gets Buried Treasure vMV /''/• > '. Wj ‘ i Oft Eg H ' '' ' ** ' MK' ' - Mrs Louis Voss Together with her husband, Mrs. Louis Voss was named beneficiary of the $350,000 estate lef t bv the woman-hating Iwers brothers of Tipton, lowa, More than $200,000 of the for tune was found buried on the farm where the brothers lived. Eighteen other relatives of the Iwers are seeking to break the will. —Central Press. POWERS SETTLE IMPORTANT ISSUE OF DARDANELLES —. FUTURE MILITARY STATUS OF STRAITS SETTLED JOONTaEOX. Switzerland, July 14 | (TP) —Turkish officials announced today that almost all of the disputed points involved in the re fortification of the Dardentlies have been cleared up by the Lusanne powers. Turkey, Britain, France, Russia and other interested nations have been conferring for two weeks over the fu ture military status of the waterways leading to the Black Sea. Tjje fortifi cation of the straits had been planned by the Lausanne treaty The conference has already agreed to permit Turkey to arm the straits. The main dispute was over Turkey’s demand that the Straits be closed in time of war. It is understood that the conference now has agreed to a compromise. The plan reportedly pro vides that in the event of war where in Turkey was neutrrl, the Dardenel- | les would be closed to the warships of belligerant nations. However, xwar ships on business for the League of Nations might pass the formidable waterway:. A drafting committee will meet to night to frame the final terms on the agreement. Delegates at Montreux are hopeful that the final convention will be signed before the week is out. WILENTZ IS EXCUSED IN WENDELL CASE TRENTON, N. J., July 14 (TP).- Attocney General Wilentz was ex cused as a witness just after noon today after spending an hour before a federal grand 'jury which question ed him about the Wendel case. Wilentz is believed to have told the jury the entire story of the bizarre case that interrupted the execution of Bruno Hauptmann and brought kidnaping Indictments against Ellis Parker, Sr., and his son. Ellis Jr. ZIONCHECK TELLS WHO’S CRAZY NOW SEATTLE CONGRESSMAN IN PUBLIC APPEAL FOR RE ELECTION BLAMES WOES ON JIM FARLEY AND “G ’’MAN HOOVER. SEATTLE, July 14 (TP)—Congress man Marion A. Zloncheck—inventor of the “Zloncheck Zipper"—has "told all’’ at last! loncheck made his first public ap pearance since his recent hectic ex ploits last night when he addressee, a corwd of 2.500 on the subject: “Who's Crazy Now?” The ycung Congressman launched immediately into an explanation of his detention at a Washington men tai Institution and his subsequent es cape from a Maryland sanitarium. And the men he blamed for his pre dicament were—of all people—Demo cratic Chairman Jim Farley and J. Edgar Hoover head of the Justice Departmens Bureau of Investigation. “It was this way,” Zloncheck ex plained. as his audience gaped in astonishment. Farley and three Dis trict of Columbia commissioners plot ted the whole thing because of the SOLONS SETTLE RELIEF PROBLEM IN PENNSYLVANIA ASSEMBLY FINALLY COME TO AWAITED COM PROMISE HARRISBURG, Pa.. July 14 (TP) Weary legislators reached an agree ment in Pennsylvania's state senate early this morning after weeks of wrangLng over the $55,000,000 relief appropriation asked by Democratic Governor Earle. A compromise measure calling for $45,000,000 was approved by Repub lican senators who had been holding out for a $35,000,000 relief appropria tion. Before the compromise bill was ap proved hundreds of hunger marchers who have been without state relief or ders for a week herded oh the ltjp> of the state house and shouted for action • Boos and cheers of the marchers mingled with the senator s speeches as th? relief question was debated. Relief clients in the galleries listened to speeches from their own ranks while the senate forces met in cau casses. Outside the state house hundreds of restles, jostling marchers waved banners and shouted demands for help. ”We want food!” “We want clothes!” “We want relief!” boomed out from the throats of unemployed men and women on the streets. The chorus seeped through the walls of 1 ths senate chamber. Hunger marchers in the galleries took up the chanting refrain. Before the session convened hun dreds of jobless Pennsylvanians mass ed on the state house steps, speakers called on them to stay in Harrisburg until their demands were met. Just before adjournment, the senate finance commitee began reporting in revenue measures to raise funds for the relief bill. Philadelphia’s Mayor Wilson told the crowded galleries that 53 000,000 will be available imme diately. courTcommutes DEATH SENTENCES NEW JERSEY COMMISSION REVOKES SUPREME TRENTON, N. J„ July 14 (TP)— The New Jersey court of pardons to day commuted the death sentences of a 16-year-old boy and a 26-year-old man, who had been convicted of mur der in a $4 robbery. The sentence were commuted to life imprisonment. The boy, Jacob C-miengo, and his companion, George Hildebrand, were sentenced to death for the killing of a poultry farmer, Herman Eilers, in Burlington county. Cimiengo former ly was employed by the farmer. If Cimiengo had been executed he would have been the second youngest person ever executed in New Jersey. The youngest person ever killed in New Jersey was a negro boy. James Guild who was hanged for murder 1827. TALMADGECUTS AD VALOREM TAX CARRIES OUT CAMPAIGN PLEDGE OF McRAE SPEECH (Special to Savannah Daily Tinies) ATLANTA, July 14. —Governor Talmadge, carrying out a campaign pledge made at Mcßae July 4 today reduced the state’s ad valorem tax rate from four to three mills. This was the second tax cut made by the governor. The rate having been reduced from five to four mills in 1935. The cut was made under the state law which allows the governor to set a tax levy “sufficient to meet the annual wants” provided it does not exceed five mills. In announcing the cut. the gover nor said .13 mill of revenue would go to the state’s bonded indebtedness, while 2.87 mills would be given to the common schools and public institu tions. way I had exposed the dumb way capi tal affair*, were being managed.” “Farley and other high adminlstra tion officials,” the arm-waving Con l gressman went on “ordered Hoover to get me. It was easy to enlist Hoov er on their side because I had been showing up the G-men for weeks. I had told the nation that while G-men were killing seven gangsters, they lest four of their oun men and killed no body knows how many Innocent pri vate citizens. With Farley, the Dis trict Commissioners and Hoover plot ting against me. what could I do?” Zloncheck then abruptly swung into an attack on his predecessor in Con gress. “They call me crazy," he said, "but what about him? I can prove that ail the time he wrj in Congress he wua drawing veterans pension checks given on the bisis of total mental disability So —who’s crazynow?" SAVANNAH, GA., TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1936 BLAMES DROUGHT ON RADIO BROADCASTING MINNEAPOLIS, July 14 (TP) An amateur weather prophet ad vanced an entirely new explana tion today for the drought and heat wave. The prophet, Abraham Fagan, has an affadavit to prove that on April 22 he predicted there would be another drought and that the crop losses this summer would be the largest in history. Fagan offered the theory that radio is to blame. Radio waves cause the drought," he said. “There is only one way to stop the destruction. That te to stop all broadcasting.** FEDERAL JURY INDICTS GROUP IN MAIL FRAUD CASE INVESTIGATION OF SYNDI CATE ACTIVITIES RE SULTS IN ACTION (Special to Savannah Daily Times) GAINESVILLE. Ga., July 14.—A federal grand jury here today re turned an indictment for mail fraud and violation of the securities act against 24 person- in connection wiuh operation of a nation-wide investment syndicate which, government agent says brought losses of nearly $500,000 to Georgians and more than five m.l lion collars to investors throughout the coutny. 15 Counts in Indictment Seven mail fraud counts, seven se curities act violation counts and one conspiracy count were contained in the indictment. In addition to the individuals, five Illinois chartered corporations were named in the inaictment, two of the companies, Kopald Quinn Company and McCormick and Company had offices in Atlanta. • The stock would be sold for 50 per cent cash and the balance in 30 or 60 days before the second payment was paid, the indictment charged, the price of the stock would tumble wiping out the purchasers' equity and leaving him in debt more than the market value of his stock. The defendants then, the indict ment charged, would appropriate the money paid in by the customers to their own use. The other companies were Gould •nd Cbmpany, Frank Munch and Company and Robert Barr and Com pany. Cut of Staters Jhe individuals named in the in dictments and for the most part resi dents of Chicago, Detroit and Min neapolis follow: Joseph R. Mendelson, Leonard I. Suttsrman, Joseph N. Sherman, Henry Bernstein, M. Lewis Ehrenberg, Henry H. Kopald, M. Frank McCor mick, Samuel Philipson, Bfmhart J. Gould alias Jay Gould, alias B. Gold stein, Samuel Genis, Benjamin C. Waller, Robert Belmont, Harry K. Newberg, Anthony Leopold Novak, Samuel Sherman, Mejer Wolfson, Frank Berger, Joseph Ricebaum, al.as Joe Rice, Maurice L. Cheyenkus, Max Oxman, Albert) Trause, Theodore Sherman, William Mendelson and Al bert Darmand. The scheme alleged in’ ihe indict ment to have been employed by the defendants was operated on the suc cess of the defendants to manipulate the price of certain stocks by artificial means and manipulative devices, the inflated price being quoted to pros pective purchasers. POSSE CLOSES IN ON YOUNG NEGRO FACES POSSIBLE LYNCH ING AT HAND OF AN GRY MOB ANNISTON. Ala., July 14 (TP).— A young negro youth faced the twin peril of capture and lynching early today. A posse of more than 500 men and two companies of the Alabama na tional guard closed in on the negro in the woodlands near Anniston. The troops were ordered out by Adjutant General John C. Coleman to prevent the possibility of the posse taking the law into its own hands. The suspect is accused of mistreat ing a farm woman, Mrs. Joseph Hill and wounding her neighbor. J. A Hicks, when he rushed to the wom an's aid. Hicks told deputies that the negro carried a shotgun and a pistol and had threatened to kill any one who tried to seize him. Unoffi cial reports said one of the poss'men was wounded in an exchange of shots with the fugitive COMETISVISIBLE TO NAKED SIGHT BOSTON. July 14 (TP).—The most spectacular comet observed in many years—the Peltier 1936 A—is now vis ible to the naked eye. If you care to get a good look at the celestial visitor, just cast your eyes about midway between the pole star and the northeast horizon. The comet, named after the Ohio garage mechanic wh discovered it. is ap proximately 50.000.000 miles away. It is rushing towards the earth and on August 4 Harvard college observatory authorities say it will be a mere 16. 000.000 miles away—in the astron omers vie“just a stone’s throw” WALLACE TERMS FOOD SHORTAGE ALARMIST WORK AGRICULTURAL HEAD DIS CREDITS ALARMING RUMORS COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 14 (TP)—Secretary of Agriculture Wallace believes most of the talk about an American food shortage is the work of “alarmists and propa gandists.” Wallace is vacat.oning at Colorado Springs but is directing drought re lief by remote control from his Pike’s Peak headquarters. Last night h? launched a slam bang radio attack on those he claimed were respons.bl? for false stories of a serious food short age, caused by th? drought. The agriculture secretary maintain ed the country is much better sup plied with food and livestock than in 1934 when the laU ddtuslating drought occurred. H? asserted; “There is no likeli hood now of anything approaching a national food shortage.” Nevertheles, he warned his listeners, drought is a national problem. Th? government, he insisted must aid thousands of farmers, regardless of future weather conditions. Wallace said that th® drought and economic events of the past four years had convinced him that a sound national agriculture program is 'imperative. Wallace outlin?d the government's cattle buying campaign, promising that farmers unable to supply food for livsstock would find a bu'er in Uncle Sam. The cabinet officer in sisted that the buying program would handicap neither consumers nor *he farmers who took active part in the program. The secretary ended with the pre diction that it would be necessary to buy as much livestock as in 1934, when drought relief purchases To taled more than 8,000.000 head of cat tle. LEAKING GAS WELL MENACES CAPITOL OKLAHOME CITY IN PERIL WHEN PIPE LINE BREAKS OKLAHOMA OITY, Okla., July 44- (TP) —A leaking gas well that threat ened to demolish the Oklahoma state house was brought under control to day. A dozen fire companies and hun dreds of oil field workers were called out when a pipe line broke within 100 yards of the capital building. Thirty-eight million cubic feet of inflammable gas rushed through the hole. All electric lights were turned off and citizens warned not to strike matches or light fires. A singl? spark would have been enough to explode gas lines all over the city. Workers now have succeeded in packing the hole and confininz the danger to a city block. That area has been roped off and the wind is ex pected to remove the last traces of the menacing gas within a few hours. RESCUERS SEEK ’QUAKE VICTIMS CHILEAN TREMORS HIT NUMBER OF TOWNS SANTIAGO. Chile, July 14 (TP)— Rescue workers searched through ruins today in an effort to find pos sible victims of an earthquake that rocked northern Chile yesterday. Although no lives were officially re ported lost, it is feared th. t some persons may have been crushed be neath the tons of debris piled up by the quake. The coastal town of Taltal suffered the greatest damage. Copiago. An tofagasta and several smaller towns were also hard hit. GRILLING FAILS TO SHAKE GIRL WASHINGTON. July 14 (TP).—A 16-hour all-night grilling session fail ed to shake the story of Margaret Louise Beil today. Miss Bell claims that a henchman of “Lucky’’ Luciano convicted N?w York vice lord, came to Washington early Sunday and tried to mutil-te and murder her. Although police found her bound, gauged, and partially mutilated in the gas filled kitchen of her apart ment, they are frankly skeptical oi her story. They started questioning her at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. After frequently taking pen and pa per into the quiz room as though they had a confession of a hoax, they admitted early this morning that the girl stuck to her stcry. In fact, at 6 am. police questioners were all v.crn out and gave up for a time.! while the girl appeared as fresh as ever. Police are continuing the question ing this morning. They say that the girl h?s a reputation of perputrat ing hoaxes for publicity purposes in her hometown of Lakeland. Fla ! Washington detectives say that uu-1 less some break comes in the case I today, they will make it "closed be cause of insufficient evidence.’’ They will also order Miss Bell out of town because of a previous poliua record. • PHONE 6183 FRYING EGGS, SUNNY SIDE UP : ~ 'B.. • /io*’ » > wmV -A ■ “ .. ■ • Bettv Washan and Yvonne Armstrong It’s hot enough to fry eggs on the sidewalk. And that’s no idle gossip as you can see here. Betty Washan, left, and Yvonne Armstrong, yeomanettes at the Great Lakes Exposition in Cleve land, are doing their cooking in 97-degree heat. —Central Press. WRONG DECORATIONS! MORNING SUN, lowa. July 14 (TP). —A pretty young bride, Mrs. Henry Durrett, is spending her honeymoon in hospital ioe packs— all because somebody made a mis take with the wedding decorations. Mrs. Durrett and her husband were guests of honor at a gala reception which followed the wed ding ceremony. The reception hall was decorated with ferns and vines. v Two hours after she left the re ception, the bride was rushed to a hospital. Doctors found she was suffering from acute skin poison ing. Those beautiful vines with which the hall wa» trimmed turn ed out to be—poison ivy. ARMS SHOULDERED IN CELEBRATION OF FRENCH EVENT FALL OF BASTILLE HON ORED IN VARIOUS FASHIONS PARIS. July 14 (TP).—French troops shouldered arms today for glittering parades throughout France in celebration of the fall of the Bas tille—on July 14, 1789. In Paris the official parade was held under the menace of riots be tween Fascists and Communists. The government forbid the usual patriotic parades of civilians to forestall any possibility of street riots. However, thousands of mobile guards' stationed in the capital could not prevent Fas cist bands from singing the Mar seilles as they watched the troops click by. Nor could the police pre ' vent the Communists from singing the Internationale. Both groups—by the thousands —lifted their voices to celebrate in their own way the sur render of the Bastille prison fortress in the French revolution. The official parade winding up at the arch of Triumph was viewed by President Lebrun and Premier Blum. Premier Blum ordered the special guards to stay at their posts through out the day to keep the Paris crowds in order. Officials feared that the bitterness between the Fascists and Communists might blaze in furious rioting before the celebrations come to a close. ADVISES EATING SALT TO ESCAPE HEAT WAVE INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 14 (TP)—The Indianapolis health offi cer Dr. Herman Morgan, suggested today that eating small quantities of salt is the best way to escape the ; heat. Dr. Morgn says the plan is based on a principal long known in medi cal circles. Perspiration takes salt from the blood stream, Morgan ex plained, and if the individual re places the salt, the chances of heat prostration is lessened. GREAT BRITAIN ‘MUM’ ON HELIGOLAND RUMORS SAY ENGLAND WILL NOT PROTEST GER MANY’S REPORTED REFORTIFICATION OF ISLAND. NOTED NORTH SEA OUTPOST. LONDON, July 14 (TP)—lndica tions were current today that Great Britain will not protest Germany’s rumored refortification of the Island of Heligoland, the Reichs important North Sea outpost. Althougn a German refortification move would be a direct violation of the Versailles treaty. Britain apparent ly regards any official protest cf the ' Heligoland reports as futile. The ■ Britain Lion may remtmbsr that ’ Chancellor Adolf Hitler's remllitariza- 11 tion of the Rhineland Zone contalnued J ] despite the bittre protest* of nearly 11 KARRIS FURNISHES HIGHLIGHT WITH PLEA OF GUILTY CONFESSES TO PART IN HAMM KIDNAPPING PLOT ST. PAUL, Minn., July 14 (TP).—; Gangster Alvin Kaxpis confessed in Federal court today that he had a hand in the $106,000 kidnaping of the St. Paul brewer, William Hamm, Jr., in 193. The former public enemy number one pleaded guilty on a kidnaping charge and admitted that he helped plot the abduction. He refused to an swer whether he was the actual kid naper. Karpte went on trial along with two of his alleged henchmen. They were the former Bensenville, Hl., postmaster, Edmund Bartholmey, and a St. Paul nig'ht club operator, Jack Pfeiffer. The government claims the kidnap gang concealed Hamm at Barthol , mey's home while it collected the ran som. Os the seven persons indtoted for the Hamm kidnaping, four have been convicted and are in federalp risons. Karpis plea of guilty makes him elig ible for a life sentence. 1 And immediately after this trial, Karpis will be charged with con- > spiracy in another St. Paul kidnaping , —the snatching of Edward Bremer. HAMILTON MEETS LEADERS IN MAINE DISCUSS CAMPAIGN PLANS FOR G. 0. P. IN NEW ENGLAND STATES PORTLAND, Me., July 14 (TP)— Rapublican party leaders gathered in I Portland today to meet Governor Al fred M. Landon’s No. 1 man, John Hamilton. In company with Congress man Joseph W. Martin, Jr., and Miss Natalie Couch, the Republican chair man is off on a tour of the New England states. Starting in Maine and working south, Hamilton plans to confer with sectional leaders and workers in all six New England states. Martin is eastern campaign manager, while Miss Couch heads the committee’s women’s division. Before leaving New York for Port land. Chairman Hamilton labelled a* false the rumor that h? was anti semitic. He charged Democrats with bringing the religious issue into the presidential campaign and pointed out that he and Governor Landon openly fought the Ku Klux Klan n Kansas in 1924. Hamilton insist?d that both he and the Republican presidential candidate are still op posed to all religious and racial in tolerance . every other European nation. Addressing the House of Commons, Under-Eecretary for Foreign Affairs Lord Cranborne declared that If Heligoland is being refortified, it Is being done without the British gov ernment's permission. It was regard ed as sgnlficant, however, that Lord . Cranborne said nothing about any note to Hitler regarding the Bellgo land reports. . Heligoland ceded to Germany by 1 Britain in 1890, was dsmilitar.zed by 1 the Versailles treaty. If refortified It probably will be used again as g ba for German destroyer* and aircr WEEK MW pay no Published every day] cep ting Saturdays/w *v | cents per copy Delivered to your .howj ill teen cents per week, « TRANSRADIO PRESS A. F. L. CHIEMJ ? PLAN DISC® < FOR INSUjM P.EBEb UNIONS, HOW ARE LOYAL TO M COUNCIL MEET AOAB \\ V-HiM.TGV July twric.in I'l rat on of LIMB ovr'c it dear today that *** i:; unions backing .John L, 1 * >'i ddianep of the fcdcratHMa f poet the same treatment' executive I i deration President Williahw''dKk*f has ai n -'iiierd tbet any mhM* r.gainst the insurgents all the unions banded conir-ktec for in lustrial Prrvic'.i. Iy. it had been rUzSiM only the un ; ons actively th® C. I. O. movement migaM c p ined bv A. F. of L. aeßv Lewis head of the Workers, is trying to ■■ V motor and rubber battling for craft union system. Lcyal to Lewtafl Although th? A. F of L - s council sche-'uled hearings the 13 C. I. O uniorLs'p-e^^ft^^:- to explain th"tr stand. groups gave’ Another session of the cmitlff; be neard tomorrow and it » that th? council members v the Lewis question at Whe’h°r all the offending be suspended is still a qudffi| they are. the order will 1.000.000 members, or one-tftkJ . ■ > total membership of the The question of members of John Lewis’; wjMili* committee for industrial was placed squarely in the the American Federation executive council today. | The council, last week,J specific time for each mariß- Lewis’ committee to fend himself. These r•’ out today. Not one of the sociated with Lewis appear did the unions they represent any other representatives to, 4 their cause as members of the«- tion. Lewis’ committee and* the Ajht L. have split over t union organization policies iy the Lewis cammittea the orders of their parent The allotment of defense tisjßMßi a last minute effort on the the council to conciliate the disiwf 1 Violence In Ahtb&mtt BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July. 14 —Violence was brewing in thf and iron strike area of Alabai day with the death of a non miner. A sheriff’s posse followed hounds this morning over a tra by a sniper who shot down s Paul Hines while he was work! his garden. The slaying is ths since strike violence caused a out six week ago at the Red Mines of the Tennessee Coal. and Railroad Company wnrkinps3| Trouble broke out again I hail of bullets raked the of the company. Hines, 1 working on a small farm nearby Wft struck by a stray bullet. More than 2,500 strikers jobs shortly before President Jw L. Lewis of the United opened his campaign for of the steel industry. The demanded higher wages. FLOGGED WOMAN TO AID CROPPEM SOCIAL WORKER TO aJH PAIGN FOR TENANT 1 FARMERS NEW YORK. July 14 TP).-« Memphis woman social workers fl® 7 ' claimed she was beaten by farmers is m New York todayM campaign for aid to sharecroppers. The woman. Miss Willie So* pit den came from Washington, K’he’ she has been telling details bJ ’ brush vHth Arkansas vigilantes ' eral authorities. She told the visited a rural section near’ Ark., to investigate reports of gro sharecroppers’ death anr she was attacked and beaten b ers. During her New York sta Blagden will speak before the al committee for defense of ’ prisoners and other liberal so< to urge investigation of cc on share-crop farms of th west. MONARCHAW/ MEDALS TO D LONDON. July 14 (TP) ward solemnly awarded" medals today to the mt British hero and the wife . The wife of the late Cap Meynell received the V in her husband’s name, noil was honored for gallantry and devotion the Indian frontier in 1 The Albert Gold Mcti * fented by the king to th the . late Dr. Andre MelJy • tor gave up his life m B W Ethl.aptom A ihc Itaitou a-