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VOLUME 2—NUMBER 169
GAMBLE CHARGED WITH COMMUNISTIC ACTIVITIES
Talmadge Fires Hot Shot at Russell on Convention ‘Walkout’
‘GENE’ BEARS DOWN
IN SECOND SPEECH
AT CARTERSVILLE
« LAMBASTS ‘ DICK" WITH
FACTS GLEANED FROM
RECORD
•
(Speeiai to Savannah Daily Times)
CARTERSVILLE. Ga, July. 15.
Governor Talmadge cam-? Into north
Georgia today, and in the second
speech in hie campaign for the Unit
ed State* senate directed a bitter
counter attack at his opponent, Sen
ator Richard B. Russell.
The governor asked “his people” to
•end him to Washington to 'protect
the president from such men as Wai--
lare, Tugwell, Frankfurter and Icke».”
Charles D. Redwine, the Talmadge
candidate for governor, spoke from,
the same platform, pledging to sup
port the same type of economical
government ‘ Talmadge has given the
state.”
The governor as he warmed up to
his attack on Senator Russell ac
cused his opponent of "running out”
on the Philadelphia Democratic con
vention and betraying the South by
failing to support the two-thirds rule
for nominating presidents.
“Did/ Jim FarKy pop the whip over
h m ahd tell him to run home and
pretend his brother was hurt?” Tal
madge asked.
Talmadge also accV-'i Russell of
holding up Georgia road funds and
financing his previous senatorial cam
paign through a five-year contract for
school books which he pushed
through.
Te preaent junior United States sen
ator was bitterly flayed for voting
for the National Recovery Act, Agri
cultural Adjustment Act and Bank
head bill since declared unconstitu
tional.
Th? governor also attacked Senator
Ru’utll for • passing the state ap
prepriation b-11 of $3,500,000 in 1927
when he knew the bill far exceeded
the state revenue.”
Defending his stand in opposition
to a national Income tax Talmadge
declared such a tax should be left to
state governments, and t / amount
of federal income tax d by Geor
gians would be sufficient to operate
their own state government without
any other levies whatsoever,
FEDERAL AGENTS
SEEK OPERATORS
I INDICTMENTS STARTED IN
GAINESVILLE, GA.
I CHICAGO. July 15 (TPk—Federal
■ agents and postal authorities launch-
E ad a drive today to round up opera-
| tors of five derunct state brokerage
I house* accused of defrauding inves-
| tors of $10,000,000.
Three men already are under ar
rest as the remit of 15 months inves
tigation by the federal securities and
exchange commission.
The indictments were placed
against the men in Gainesville, Ga„
where they are ordered for arraign
ment on July 28 The alleged ring
which is said to include 24 persons,
is accused of bucket shop operations
and high pressure salesmanship by
telephone and mall.
The S. E. C. said its investigators
revealed the group sold 300,000.000
•hares of a certain stock when only
500.000 shares really were issued. Feo
tral agents said the men operated in
Atlanta. New Orleans. Houston, De
troit and other large cities with gen
eral headquarters in Chicago.
REV. CADMAN IS
LAID TO REST
CLERGYMAN BURIED IN
CEMETERY AT KENSI
CO, NEW YORK
BROOKLYN. N. Y., July 1 S(TP)_
The clergyman whose radio sermons
inspired a coast-tv-coast congregation
was laid at rest today.
Funeral services for the Rev. Dr.
B. Parkes Cadman were conducted
this morning at 11 o'clock, Eastern
daylight time, at the Central Congre
gational church in Brooklyn.
Dr. Cadman, who died Sunday in
Plattsburg. N. Y., had been pastor of
the Central church since 1901. His
close friend, Bishop Francis J. Mc-
Connell of the Methodist Episcopal
c’. '-Tch, preskied at the services.
Dr. Cadman was buried in Kenslco
cemetery at Kenslco, N. Y. The fu
neral cortege to the cemetery was es
eor tad by Motorcycle Patrolman
Henry Moeller, Sunday, es
corted Dr. Cadmangjfrom the Brook
lyn church to the ffibadcastlng studio
k where the pastor »>,**red his week
ly radio H
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PHONE 6183
| Mystery Death
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Police of Sanford, Maine, fished the
i oody of Lawrence Cordeau, 38
(above), from Loon Lake and found
his jaw had been fractured with a
jingle blow. Cordeau disappeared
while on a moonlight fishing trip.
(Central Press)
ALLEGED COHORTS
OF ALVIN KARPIS
STANDING TRIAL
I SENTENCE OF GANG LEAD.
ER IS DEFERRED UN
TIL LATER
ST. PAUL, Minn , July 15 (TP)
Two alleged accomplices of gang lead
er Alvin Karpis, went on trial today
on kidnaping charges.
The prisoners are the former Post
: master of Bensenville. 111., Edumnd
Bartholmey. and a St. Paul night
club operator, John Pfeiffer. They
are accused of taking an active part
in the SIOO,OOO kidnaping of William
Hamm. Jr., in 1933.
II Karpis saved the government law
yers a lot of work yestercay when he
pleaded guilty to complicity in the
kidnaping. He refused however, to
admit that he was one of the actual
kidnapers.
Federal Attorney George Sullivah
said sentence of Karpis would be de
ferred until the trial of the two other
suspects is completed.
Sullivan believes Karpis was the
driver of the car in which Hamm was
taken away from St. Paul and held for
four days. Pfeiffer is charged with be
ing the "finger man” in the case and
Bartholmey with furnishing th® gang’s
hideout.
PEACE REIGNS ON
CHAMPS ELYSEES
COMPARATIVE QUIET AFT
ER BASTILLE DAY
• RIOT
i .
PARIS. July 15 (TP) —Peace reign
ed again on the famed champs
1 elysees today. Police and troops were
withdrawn from the board central
boulevard, when there was no indica
tion that the bastille day riot in which
more than 50 were injured would
flare up a second time.
The street-fighting started when
1 hundreds of Fascists and Liberals
clashed after a speech by Socialist
Premier Leon Blum. All France at
. the Lme was in the midst of the
celebration of bastille day. Police-were
ready for the outburst, seeing that
political free-for-alls have been the
usual thing on the so-called "French
Fourth of July.” Gendarmes leaped
, into the battle with batons swing
ing and many a Fascist and Liberal
1 has a black eye to remind him of his
bastille day celebration.
EUROPEAN PLANE CRASHES, KILLS EIGHT
SEVEN MEET DEATH WHEN GIANT MACHINE STRIKES
MOUNTAIN IN HEAVY FOG; SEAPLANE
TAKES PLUNGE INTO SEA.
LONDON. July 14 (TP).—Eight
persons were killed today in two air
plane crashes in Europe.
For seven people in Yugoslavia, a
new airliQer turned into a fiery
tomb. The plane had just soared up
in a fog on a roatine flight to Jvbl-
Jeika when it met disaster Five
minutes from Belgrade the fog shut
down and tie airliner smashed into
a low mountain. The crumpled liner
I HUNGER MARCHERS
VICTORIOUS WITH
RELIEF DEMANDS
.BROUGHT ABOUT COMPRO
MISE IN STATE LEGIS
LATURE
HARRISBURG, Pa.. July 15 (TP)
Hunger marchers from all over Penn
sylvania are wearing grins today as
they srream out of Harrisburg and
h?ad for home.
They have reason, to be happy.
Their immediate relief needs were
met by the state legislature in a com
promise $45,000.00 appropriation vot
ed by the state senate. The com
promise climaxed a bitter struggle be
tween Democrats, led by Governor
George H. Earle and the Republican
senate majority.
Relief officers have ordered double
rations for the jobless to compensate
for the week in which no state re
lief was available because of the dead
lock. Th? privations of that one week
prompted the hunger march which
ended at the state house in Harris
burg. While senators wrangled over
the relief question, more than 2.000
unemployed Pennsylvanians milled
around the capitol with their loud de- ‘
mands for action.
The demonstrators leaving Harris- |
burg may smile but they are not 1
wholly satisfied. They want to know
how long the $45,000,000 emergency ’
fund is supposed to last. The relief
clients maintain that the fund cannot
be stretched out until February, 1937,
as indicated, and still provide a de
cent standard of living. A decent llv- |
' :ng standard was set at the cost of |
' 64 cents a day per person by the
marchers.
1 State Relief Administrator De
Schweinitz advised a gathering of the
i Jobless to battle any attempts to place
■j a time restriction on the $45,000,000 j
I fund.
COOL AIR GREETS
STRICKEN AREAS
■ AS RAIN FALLS
LONG AWAITED EVENT IS
BLESSING TO DROUGHT
SECTIONS
I CHICAGO, July 15 (TP)—The heat
wave that has gripped most of the I
North American continent appears
Just about burned out today.
Scattered showers are moving into |
the midwest from the Dakotas and
minnesota. A blast of cool air is rush- 1
Ing down from the Hudson Bay coun- 1
try and bringing relief to millions of
sweltering residents in Canada and
the United States.
Showers are forecast today for Mis
souri, Kansas. Kentucky. Indiana.
Oklahoma Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio
and parts of Michigan. lowa may not |
get rain, but it will get the comfort
ing winds that accompany the nearby
downpours. The merucry in Chicago '
dropped away down to 80 degrees this
morning.
Cities in the east likewise reported I
lower temperatures today. Newark. N. :
J., registered 74 Philadelphia 78, Pitts
( burgh 73, Erie’, Pa.. 74. Buffalo 79.
Syracuse and Albany, 69 Boston 72.
Hartford. Conn.. 76 Washington 71,
[ Cincinnati 86. Cleveland 77, Colum
bus 78, and New York City chalked
up a 74.
Canada Hard Hit
The Canadian province of Ontario
obtained relief from the sizzling tern
-1 peratures last night when th® ther
mometer plummetted to 66. Cool
winds checked the rapidly rising death
toll to 550. No rain is in sight
for several days, however, and crops
•re near a total failure.
Midwestern temperatures dropped
slightly this morning but real relief
may not come until the rains and
■ cool breezes arrive.
The Under secretary of Agriculture.
Rexford Tugwell is enroute to the
• drought centers o< the northwest today
• to study the drought problem at first
) hand. Tugwell will gather material
i for the government’s use in helping
■ ‘ farmers who have Icat more than '
$400,000,000 in ruined crops and live-
■ 1 stock.
. I
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burst in flames. All seven occupants
were trapped in the fire.
The second disaster occurred ofl
the British naval base of Malta Pilot
Officer Carstairs was killed when his
seaplane plunged into the sea within
sight of land. His companion. Flight
1 Lieutenant George Green struggled
free of the sinking ship. Rescuers
picked him up—half drowned and
badly hurt.
SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY. JULY 15. 1936
French Suffragettes Wage Battle for Vote
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JwSMHrwli U “
Tied to each other with heavy chains, these Paris suffragettes stood at the beginning of Rue Royale, in Place
de la Concorde, stopping the street tra.fi?? as they demonstrated for the right of suffrage. Their signs
read. “French women ought to vote!” (Central Press)
A REAL RATTLE:
ROCHESTER, Ind., July 15
(TP) —The rattling in an automo
bile may mean just that to most
drivers, but to Dee Shuman any
future rattles will call for prompt
investigation.
Shuman wondered about the
‘'rattle” in his car for several days.
It was a peculiar noise, but it oc
curred only when he drove the car
Today he thought he located
over bumpy roads.
the noise right under the seat
cushions. Sure enough, the rat
tle wa« there—and vePy mueh
alive. The rattle was on the tail of
a rattlesnake.
GOVERNOR NICE
HAS CLOSE CALL
BOAT COLLISION
MAKYLAND’S EXECUTIVE
AND FRIENDS ESCAPE
INJURIES IN WRECK
BALTIMORE, July 15 (TP)—Gover
nor Harry Nice of Maryland, a score
of state officials and 250 pa-senge r s
are safely* back in Baltimore after
a steamship collision in the Chesa
peake Bay endangered their lives
today.
The party was made up of mem
bers of the Automobile Trade Associa
tion of Maryland and their guests,
returning to Baltimore from a cruise
to Old Point Comfort, Virginia
aoard the steamship State of Vir
ginia. The passenger vessel and a
freighter, the Golden Harvest of San
Francisco, collided off Seven Foot
Knoll near the entrance to Baltimore
Harbor. Distress calls were radioed
and the coast guard cutter Apache
was rushed from Baltimore to the
scene of the collision. The governor
and the passengers were transferred
to the freighter and from there to a
passing ferry boat which brought them
back to Baltimore.
The coast guard cutter Apache Is
standing by although owners of th»
State of Virginia say she is not sink
ing.
OHIO Is FACING
RELIEF MUDDLE
HOUSE ASSEMBLY UNABLE
TO AGREE ON APPRO
PRIATION
COLUMBUS. Ohio. July 15 <TP)—
Relief in Ohio's Cleveland and Cuya
hoga counties was reported in a hope
less muddle today.
Failure of the state I'/cuag of repre
sentatives to pass the senate's $1,500,-
000 emergency relief appropriation
brought to a crisis in at least two
counties. The last of Cleveland's re
lief funds will b? exhausted tonight.
R'lief organization authorities had
depended on the houre to approve the
senate bill and the sudden turn of
events caught them totally unpre
pared .
N:edy Ohioans recently stormed the
state senate galleries at Columbus
with their demands for immediate
passage of the stopgap appropriation
measure. Although the bll went
through the s c nate. its sponsors were
able to rather only .72 votes tn the
house Ninety votes are necessary for
passage of the bill.
With th? senate relief bill crushed,
legislators are expected to draw up a
substitute emergency measure inshore
order z
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CONTINUES
PROBE INTO FARNSWORTH’S ACTIVITIES
WASHINGTON. July 15 (TP).— (
Reports from the department of jus- >
tice today indicated that the G Men
do not consider the arrest of former t
Lieutenant Commander Farnsworth
as closing the nation s most sensa
tional spy case since the World war.
••G”-Men Silent
Although J-Edaar Hoover's 1
of investigation Is maintaining its
traditional silence, information is
available to the effect that G-men
are checking other possible leaks of
national defense secrets. In fact,
one report is current to the effect
that at least three other people are
facing arrest along with Farnsworth
It is not known, however, whether
these persons are implicated with
Farnsworth or whether they have en
gage in separate spy activities.
Farnsworth, In the meantime, is:
tossing restlessly on a cot in the dis
trict jail His request that he be
sent to the municipal hospital for
treatment has been denied, at least'
temporarily. He is, however, being
treated by physicians.
The former brilliant naval officer 1
is in Jail pending his inability to j
raise SIO,OOO which was set for his
appearance ir oonaictlon with a
charge that he sold navy secrets to
the Japanese government. As yet.
Farnsworth hasn’t secured an attor
ney.
U. S. ACTION SEEN
IN WENDELL CASE
FEDERAL GRAND JURY
MAY TAKE HAND
KIDNAPING PROBE
NEWARK. N. J„ July 15 (TP)—
Federal action on the kidnaping
charges of Paul H. Wendel may be
taken within the next 24 Tours.
A federal grand jury investigation;
of the disbarred lawyer’s story is cer-1
tain if the United States Attorney i
General’s office approves its legality. •
Intimation of the federal jury's inter
est in the case came w’hen Jersey At
torney-GeneraJ Wilentz testified be
fore a federal jury at Newark. Wen-1
del himself suggestedfederal interven
tion when Governor Harold G. Hoff
man refused to peamit the extradition
to New York of Detective Ellis H
Parker, Sr., and hs son, Ellis. Jr., un- '
der a Brooklyn indictment.
Wendel entered the Lingbergh baby
slaying case shortly before Bruni |
Richard Hauptmann was executed. I
The former Trenton lawyer claimed J
he was kicnapped and tortured to i
force a confession of the Lindbergn 1
murder. Wendel implicate Detective i
Parker and his son. as the men who
plotted the whole thing.
LLOYDS SLASHES
WAR RISK RATES
LONDON. July 15 (TP)—The dan
ger of war breaking out in the Medi
terranean has almost blown over in
the opinion of the hard headed busi
ness m?n who manage the insurance
firm of Lloyd-
Lloyds toda ~ lashed war risk rates
in the Me±te: nean from 10 3 8 per
cent to 2 212 per cent. The drastir
"duction followed the withdrawal of ’
he British fl et concentration in wa- ,
ters flanking Italy. The war risk rate
jumped last winter when Br tish and
Italian relations were on tenther
nooks.
Farnsworth's former wife, who lives
in Washington, declared today that
she will not visit him in jail. She said
that they hadn’t lived together for
1 eight years, and had been divorced
for three.
Said Mrs. Farnsworth—“l am sick
and tired of it all. I’ve nothing to
do with the whole business.” She
-•her e.xpxained —
want the names of her four, children
to be dragged into the case.
Uncle Sam's diplomatic experts are
scanning records in the case of the
former naval officer, John Semer
Farnsworth, today.
The state department, according to
reliable reports, is considering the
advisability of giving the imperial
Japanese government official notice
of Farnswqrth’s arrest on espionage
charges. ,
Lost Rank In 1927
The former lieutenant-commander
who was stripped of his rank in 1927,
was accused of giving Japanese spies
secret naval information. His arrest,
which burst on the capital like a
( bombshell, marked the first time an
1 American naval officer had been
faced with the grave charges. The
seizure of the ex-officer followed jus
tice department investigation which
stretched over more than a year.
Specifically, Farnsworth is charged
with handing over to a Japanese spy
a secret naval manual entitled: "The
service of information and security.”
The former lieutenant-commander,
according to first reports, is accused
of borrowing the book from an active
officer and making photostatic repro
ductions of its contents. These pho
tostats allegedly were sold to Japa
nese agents on May 15. .
Arraigned before a federal commis
sion at Washington, Farnsworth
pleaded “not guilty.” Later, after
he was jailed in default of SIO,OOO
bond, the Annapolis graduate labelled
the charges “baloney,” He maintain
ed some naval paper? had been stolen
! from his home several years ago, but
insisted that they were obsolete. He
also admitted dealing with Chinese
! and Japanese authorities in an at
tempt to sell a plane of his own de
sign. but said neither deal' had any
connection with naval secrets.
Records proved that Farnsworth
was court-martialed in 1927 on
' charges of “scandalous conduct.” At
that time he was found guilty of bor
rowing money from an enlisted man
against naval regulations and later
attempting to force the enlisted man
to perjure himself.
Sources close to the state depart
ment said an official representation
to Japanese Ambassador Saito is
probable. The Japanese embassy al
ready has denied all knowledge of |
the charges against Farnsworth.
BREAKS TUBE DEADLY CHOLERA GERMS
DRUNKEN BRITISH SOLDIER FORCES WAY INTO LAB
ORATORY; ACT CAUSES PANIC THROUGHOUT
CITY OF ALEXANDRIA.
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt. July 15 (TP)
—A drunken British sailor smashed a
test tube full of deadly cholera germs
to:ay and spread alarm throughout
Alexandria. Government authorities
ordered the immediate protective in
oculation of 300 persons who had
come into contact with the sailor and
took extensive precautions against tTe
outbreak of an epidemic.
Cholera can kill its victims within
a few hours. The virulent germs were
released after the drunken seaman
had broken into the Bacteriological
Laboratory of the Harbor Adiminstra-
PHONE 6183
LOCAL EDUCATOR COMPLAINS MAYOR
CONDONES SOCIAL EQUALITY MEETINGS
BY REFUSAL TO HEAR PLEA OF WHITES
MISS ELEANOR WORRILL DUDLEY CALLS NEGRO LA
BOR HALL PUBLIC NUISANCE; ASSERTS GAMBLE
REFUSES TC EVEN CHECK COMPLAINTS. *
Is Mayor Thomas Gamble in sympathy with the Communis
tic party?
The possibility of such views being entertained by the Mayor
of Savannah were very apparent in an interview given the Sa
vannah Daily Times today by Miss Eleanor Worrill Dudley.
Miss Dudley declared periodical speeches of a Communistic
nature, speeches which preached the social equality of the white
and black race, are beipg made at an East Bay street negro labor
hall with the tacit permission of Mayor Gamble.
PENSION DISCIPLES
TO SELECT CHOICE
FOR PRESIDENT
TOWNSEND SYMPATHIZ
ERS GATHER AT AN.
NUAL CONVENTION
CLEVELAND, July 15 (TP)—About
10,000 disciples of the Townsend old
age pension plan are waiting for the
gavel co sound the opening of their
annual convention in Cleveland to
day.
The session will be the Townsend
group's second annual convention and
it is attracting elderly folks—and a
fair-sized sprinkling -of middle-aged
and young people—from all over the
nation.
Dr. Francis E. Townsend, the Cali
fornia physician who helped origi
nal® the S2OO-a month pension plan,
will preside over the meeting. He is
looked upon as the number one mkn
of the convention—the person who
will steer the delegates to the im
portant decisions to be made at the
Cleveland parley.
Candidate a Problem
Chief of these decisions is the prob
lem of whether the Townsendites
should put their own presidential can
didate in the 1936 campaign race. Dr.
Townsend has ma'le several cryptic
statements on this score in recent
weeks, but, as the convention pre
pared to come to order, It was gen
erally agreed that the Townsendites
will decide to hold off their presi
dential asnirations until the 1940 cam
paign .
Another question due for discussion
at the Cleveland convention is the
Townsend group's position regarding
Congressman William Lemke's new
Union party. Father Charles E. Cough
lin and his national union for so
cial justice already has swung to
Lemke's support. Dr. Townsend, has
appeared to veer away from outspok
en support of the Lemke drive appar
ently h'.eding the warnings given him
by several lieutenants who have en
tered congressional campaigns on Re
publican and Democratic tickets.
Dissension Rumored
Considerable dissension between
leaders of the Towns?nd movement
were rumored on the eve of the or
ganizations convention. The gray
haired leader of the organization,
however, denied that there was any
serious splits between sectional lead
ers.
Those attending the Townsend con
vention are eager to hear .Dr. Town
send's explanation of what he meant
when he threatened a “peaceful up
rising” unless the next congress
adopted the S2OO a month pension
plan. The threat was included in a
speech Dr. Townsend delivered in
California. At that time he said:
"If the president and congress re
fuse to incorporate the pension plan
in the nation’s law during the next ,
term, I will lead a peaceful uprising
to oust the president and all eon- i
gress.”
Townsend bowed today to the plan i
which would distribute part of his (
personal power in the pension move
ment among a national "advisory
board ”
, tion. Public health officials did ev-
I erything in their power to prevent
panic. They grabbed hypodermic need
' less and injected cholera anti-toxin
in the arms of laboratory workers, the
Egyptian police who arrested the sail
or and part of the crew from the
cruiser "London.” If no cholera
i cases develop by tomorrow health of
■ flcials think the bacilli will have been
killed by exposure to the air. If the
deadly diieas? develops then the whole
population of Alexandria—more than
573.0C® people—will be inoculated
againat it.
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TRANSRADIO PRESS
Miss Dudley conducts * studio for
the correction of voice and hearing
defects at 410 East Bay street. The
negro labor hall- to which she refers
is that of the Savannah union of the
International Longshoremen’s Asso
ciation. It is located several doors
west of Miss Dudley’s studio.
Flatly Accuses Gamble
The presence of the labor hall act
ually constitutes a public nuisance,
she maintains. White women passers
by and tourists directed to historic
points of interest on Bay street have
frequently been embarrassed by the
careless use of obscene language and
profanity employed outside the labor
hall by loitering negro longshoremen.
Miss Dudley said.
She made the flat charge that
Mayor Gamble s lack of action was
due the fact that he had been in
timidated by a few Yankee labor lead
ers whom, she said, did not represent
the true sentiment-of Savannah labor.
"I have called upon Mayor Gamble
several times,” Miss Dudley contin
ued, “and. tPld. him of-ihe distressing
and highly objectionable features of
this negro meeting place.”
‘T asked the Mayor to close the
place. The only answer the Mayor
gave me was that he could not dis
criminate against color.
“At the meetings in this labor hall
the union organisers, those earpet
bagger whites of the present genera
tion. tell the negro longshoremen that
they are as good as any white man
living. They tell them that the day
is coming when the negroes are go
ing to be working on the decks and
the white men down in the ship holds.
“I have asked the Mayor to send
an officer to attend these meetings
and learn for hlfnself just what goes
on there but he has refused.
' The bluff on Bay street is a fav
orite promenade of tourists on after
noons and evenings in the summer.
The Chamber of Commerce sends
many of them there to view the old
fort just beyond East Broad street and
the old harbor light. It is a shame
that these visitors are often shocked
by the language which comes to their
ears in passing the longshoremen's
hall.
"I do not know which is the worse,
whether it is the disgraceful remarks
so often heard outside the labor hall
or the talks of white and black social
eqcality which Mayor Gamble toler
ates inside the meeting place."
KNITTING WORKERS
READY TO STRIKE
5,000 TO LEAVE MACHINES
IF WAGE INCREASE IS
NOT GRANTED
BROOKLYN, N. Y., July 15 (TP)—
More than 5.000 workers stand ready
to strike today if their demands are
I not met by knit goods manufacturer*
in the New York area.
The president of the Knit Goods
Workers Union. Louis Nelson, explain
ed the purpose and procedure of the
strike to a large union meeting in
Brooklyn last night and was given a
vote of confidence.
Today marks the expiration of the
working agreement between the union
and employers. In negotiating a new
agreement union leaders are insisting
on a 25 per cent wage increase and
the continuance of a 35-hour w-eek.
Nelson said failure to meet these de
mands would be the signal for a gen
eral walkout.
GARNER STATES CHOICE
TEXAS GOVERNORSHIP
UVALDE. Tex.. July 15 (TP)—- Vice
President John Gamer is keeping
quiet these days on national political
issues, but where Texas is involved—
well, that’s a different matter.
Gamer went on record today a*
favoring re-election of Governor
James Allred. The announcement
came as a surprise for Garner has
made it a point to avoid political
statements.
The Vice President explained: "X
have never talked about national af
fairs—l leave that to the bxsa. But
I still vote in Texas.”