Clarion-Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi • Page 1

For Nearly A Century lias Set The Pace For Mississippi Journalism to Prints All The AWs That's Fit To Print And Prints It First FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS JACKSON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1936 ESTABLISHED 1837 Mm Ml re The Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round By DKEYP PEARSON and EOBEKT S. ALLEN Authors of Washington Mer-ry-Go-Round" and "More Blerry-Go-Round" affling Murder Solons Sharpen Knives, Whittle On White Plans Case Seen After Probe Unfolded rm ji I Senate Votes to Put Industrial Plan Under Tax Commission The "school bloc" in the state senate which functioned so effectively during the regular sesson of the legislature last spring, drew out its long knife yesterday afternoon ana started whittling on Governor White's industrial program. It was obvious that the "block." led by Senator Mack Young, of Aberdeen, had no intention of cn'y-ting the governor's program to shreds, cut instead merely wisned to demonstrate to him and his legislative leaders just how sharp the knife is. be that as it may. the brandishing of the "knife" shocked the administration forces in the senate and caused them to "retreat in great disorder" and force an overnight recess immediately following first blow celievered on the first test vote on tne industrial bill.

Consideration of the measure was begun in a sort of matter-of-fact way by the senate at its afternoon session and several corrective amendments brought in by the finance commitee were adopted without record votes. When the committee had perfected its bill. Senator Young sent up an amendment to the title of ine bJl which would strike out the to the state industrial corn-Following is the roll call on the Young; amendment: For the amendment Barnett, Bulloch, Burgtn, Bush (2nd), Bush (16th), Cassels, Drre, Hardee, Harper, Hollis. Mc-Keigney, Massey, Pennington, Pittman, Prisock, Rice, Rilchey, Ross, Simpson, Weems, Williams, Winn and Young-. Total 23.

Against the amendment Ar-rington. Burns, Cook, Cooper, Culkin, Herring, Holloway, Knox, Kyle, Lake. Lambright, McCauley, Roberts. Simmons, Smith, Stubblefield. SulMan, Terry, Trim, Vick, and Watson.

Total 21. Absent and not voting: Allen, Capers, Hardin, McKay and Shook. Senator Herringing changed his vote from "nay" to "aye for the purpose of entering a motion to reconsider the vote by which the amendment was adopted. mission to be created under the act and vest its administration in the state tax commission. Even then the administration's hh command in the senate failed tc see the hand-writing on the wall, although senator John Culkin.

of Vicksburg, staunch White leader and president pro tern of the senate, felt impelled to take the floor in opposition to the Young amendment. The debate lasted for ten minutes and frequently waxed humorous as sally after sally was aimed at Senator Culkin under the guise of Then the vote on the amendment was ordered and Senator Young's plan was substituted for the govcr-nu's by a vote of 23 to 21. Senator G. B. Herring, of Canton, who had voted against the amendment on the call of the roll, changed his vole to J3iye" when he realized that the amendment had been adopted and promptly entered a motion to reconsider.

Force Adjournment No wishing to invite any further tiouble during the afternoon and plainly stunned by tne surprising strength showed by the "school bloc the administration lorces, led by Senator w. B. Roberts, of Rosedale. chairman of the finance committee, who is in charge of the bill on the fiOor, forced an immediate ana confused adjournment for the day. The school bloc resisted the revels motion half-heartedly, but it carried by two votes and the administration "bloc" retired from the battlefield to reform its forces and solidify its support of the governor's program overnight The issue iil come to a head again this morning when the motion to reconsider is called up for disposition and the indications last were that the Young amendment wld be reconsidered and probably voted down.

Governor white was informed of the unexpected jolt given his program by the senate within a few minutes after the roll call. His immediate comment was that he will veto the bill if the Young amendment is permitted to stand the final enactment of the measure. Eighteen of the senators who voted for the Young amendment were members of the group of 21 senators who earlier in the afternoon signed their names as authors of a resolution urging tne governor to submit to the legislature the question of making an additional appropriation of $2,000,000 for the public schools for the current bien-nium. Since the signers of the school resolution were the same senators who voted the first body blow to me industrial bill, there seemed to be (Continued oa Page JV 3 2 KILLED AS TRAIN DERAILS Engineer, Substitute Fireman Die in Wreck Near State Line VICTIMS RESIDENTS OF WATER VALLEY Walter Hartwell, George Bumgardner Claimed As Engine Leaves Tracks WATER VALLEY, Sept. 15.

Two railroad engineers, Walter Hartwell and George Baumgard-ner, both residents of Water Valley, were killed today in the derailment of a Valley Route freight train a few miles north of the Mississippi-Tennessee line. The train, Freight No. 75, southbound from Jackson, Tenn was derailed about two miles south of Toone, Term. The engine and several cars left the rails and overturned, piling up a great mass of wreckage. Definite cause of the derailment was not known here tonight.

Although an engineer, Baum-gardner was serving as fireman for Hartwell on the run. Funeral arrangements were incomplete here tonight. The bodies of the two men were brought' here late today. Conductor j. H.

Wheeler of Jackson and his brakeman escaped injury. Both victims were pinned under the overturned locomotive. RANKIN RAID NETS ARREST Constable White Confiscates 40 Pints In First East Jackson Raid East Jackson, sore spot of Rankin county's law enforcement officers, saw its first whiskey raid since Governor Hugh White four days ago delivered a "dry" ultimatum to Sheriff Tom Spann. Constable Johnny White confiscated about 40 pints of government taxed whiskey and gin near the first place across the Pearl River bridge and arrested Earl Smith, as proprietor. The affidavit, the constable said, charged Smith with possessing whiskey and the case will be tried before Justice of the Peace J.

T. Neely in Rankin county. Sheriff Tom Spann could not be reached again last night but it was reported that everything was quie; cn the East Jackson front. The raid made yesterday evening by Constable White was the first and only confiscation of whiskey since the governor's order. According to reports, Constable White found the whiskey near the place on the banks of Pearl River.

Although there were no raids over the wet area it was understood that Sheriff Spann and a scuad of deputies made the rounds of all wet spots and warned proprietors not to reopen. A detail of deputies is assisting Constable white in patrolling the area, it was reported. flierTawait plane repair Richman and Merrill Get Ship Out of Bog In Newfoundland MTJSGRAVE HARBOR, Newfoundland, Sept. 15. (Canadian Press) Harry Richman and Dick Merrill today got their airplane out of the bog in which they were forced to land at the completion yesterday of their round-trip Atlantic crossing.

The fliers Richman, the crooner, and Merrill, his pilot on the two ocean crossings awaited the arrival of repair men with Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who were trying to reach them by plane from New York. (Rickenbacker and his party, bringing supplies and spare parts, searched fruitlessly in their craft along the island's northeast coast without sighting the stranded (Continued oa rage Eight), KIN OF JACKSON MAN REPORTED SAFE IN NORWAY Apprised of the safebeing of his sister and her family from an Associated Press message from London direct to the Clarion-Ledger, Barney Wold, manager of the local Montgomery-Ward store, yesterday expressed joy and thankfulness at their having escaped injury or death in the avalanche at Loen, Norway, Sunday. Mrs. Tia Wold Loen, her husband and two children, are all residents of the little Norway resort town which was swept from the map when a giant rock crashed into the lakeland sent a tidal wave over the city. LOEN, Norway, Sept.

14 (IP) Survivors of Sunday's tragic avalanche and flood in the beautiful Lake Loen Valley tonight prepared to flee the district, fearing new catastrophes. Masses of rock, loosened by Sunday's death-dealing slide, hung precariously from ledges on the Rogne Mountains. Sounds like thunder from time to time warned survivors that small landslides were still being felt. Nineteen bodies of the tragedy's victims were temporarily laid out in a small schoolhouse. but 74 persons, including 30 children were still unreported.

The avalanche, which roared down upon the lake and' drove its waters into a tidal wave, almost wiped out two villages Bodal and NesdaL STORM BLOWS ACROSS GULF Worst Tropical Hurricane Of Year Seen Southeast of Florida JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 15 (IP) The year's worst tropical storm, described by the weather bureau here as "of great magnitude and hurricane intensity," menaced shippinc 1,000 miles east of Florida tonight. Forecasters said the hurricane was central 350 to 400 miles south of and was moving slowly north northwestward of northwestward attended by gales and squalls over a large area and by winds of hurricane force near the center. The storm first was reported east of the Leeward islands late last week. It has been mwing in a general north north westward direction.

Tonight it was fully miles due east of the Florida east coast. The weather bureau advised all vessels to use caution "against dangerous conditions." Coastwise shipping moves much closer to the Florida shoreline, than the storms present path but at least one vessel felt the hurricane's fury. Two Norwegian steamers rolled in a strong south gale about 500 miles northeast of Puerto Rico tonight, waiting until weather conditions would permit one to tow the other into port for repairs. One was the S. S.

Torvanger, whicn weathered a tropical hurricane last night but came out with a smashed rudder and bad leaks. The other was the S. S. Nora-vind which raced to the aid of the disabled ship after learning of its plight by radio. The coast guard cutter Unalga was on its way back to Its base at San Juan, Puerto Rico, afr aeterrrilning that the Tarvanger was In no Immediate danges ana the Noravind could give any assistance needed.

A third ship, which gave only its radio call letters but which could not be identified by records at coast guard headquarters here, also started for th scene early this morning but apparently resumed course when the Noravind reported it was standing bv the rudderless Torvanger ATTACK PUZZLES LAUREL POLICE LAUREL, Sept. 15 Attacked by an unidentified assailant while asleep at her home in Pine street, Miss Josie Little, 36-year old WPA worker, suffered a possible fractured skull. Helen Little, a sister of the injured woman who was sleeping in the same room, was aroused by a disturbance in time to see "a man dressed in white" escape through a window, she told police. She found her sister unconscious and bleeding from a blow on the head. Police said entrance was gained through the window by pulling down the screen and that the intruder escaped the same way.

Motive for the attack puzzled officers. ARTHUR C. CR0WDER, FORMER MAYOR, IS DEAD Arthur C. 69, former mayor of Jackson, died of a heart attack at Birmingham last night, according to a telegram received here by his brother-in-law, John W. Saunders.

Mr. Crowder was Jackson's final aldermanic mayor and retired without seeking re-election when the commission form of city government was installed here. His name is on many of the public buildings of the city today, which stand as monuments to his administration. After leaving Jackson, he was manager of the Prudential Life agency at Birmingham, a post he filled with remarkable success before turning it over recently to his son, Arthur Crowder, Jr. Until three years ago, the Crowder agency was in charge of both Alabama and Mississippi.

Funeral services at Birmingham Thursday morning at 10 o'clock will be attended by Mrs. R. L. Saunders and Mrs. Clifford Pullen of Jackson, mother and sister of the widow, Mrs.

Mattee Saunders Crowder. Mr. Crowder, a native of Alabama, came to Jackson in young manhood and was an outstanding local figure from the start of his career here. He married in Jackson and made his home at North State and George streets, selling the residence to the St. Andrews Episcopal church when he left the city, the residence is now the church rectory.

He was president of chamber of commerce in Jackson, president of the baseball association here, member of the -Elks club, Kappa Alpha fraternity and an alumnus of Auburn. He was a member of the Episcopal church. Mrs. R. L.

Saunders and Mrs. Clifford Pullen, mother and sister of the widow, left -last night for Birmingham, and "John W. Saunders will motor over there today to attend funeral services Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. YODTH ADMITS TEMPLEPLOT 16-Year Old Atlantan Wrote Extortion Letter To Mother Of Movie Star ATLANTA, Sept. 15 (IP) A mild mannered youth who said he spent six of his 16 years in a reform school calmly told federal authorities today of sending a $25,000 extortion letter to the mother of Shirley Temple.

The youth, booked as Frank Edward Stephens, was arrested by federal bureau of investigation authorities. He was released on his own recognizance following a hearing before United States Commissioner E. S. Griffith. Stephens, taken into custody at a restaurant where he worked part-time, signed his own bond of $500.

The commissioner said it would stand pending investigation of the boys story that he was on parole from the Alabama Boys' Industrial School at Birmingham. Officials of the Alabama Institution said available records did not list the name given by the boy. "Get the money if you want to keeD Shirley." read the extortion note which the boy said he wrote with his left hand and maneo to the mother of the child movie star on August 1. ABE MARTIN Business is a great deal like several people I have known fer thirty years alius feelin poorly. Silence can't be misquoted, but if fan be misinterpreted.

President's Life Aboard the "Potomac" is No House-Party; All is Quiet, Serene, Quite Isolated From Outside World; Ship Picked for Safety From Fire, Attack; Not For Swank; Roosevelt Forgets Cares; Keeps to Fish, Stamps, Fiction. WASHINGTON, Sept. 15. When the President makes his appearance on the main deck of his yacht the Potomac, it is like Santa Claus coming out of the chimney. The Potomac has two stacks, but only one of them carries the exhaust from the engines.

The other is a dummy in which an elevator has been installed. The President enters the elevator from the main -deck. Then a steel door in the stack swings open and the elevator discharges its passengers on the boat deck. In other respects, however, the Potomac Is not superior to tne Sequoia. Her sped is no greater 12 knots an hour and she takes just as long 8 hours to get down the river to 'the bay.

The Potomac's quarters were built for seamen and they are less spacious below than the Sequoia's. The President's guests are quartered at the water-line, which means that the port holes must be kept closed while the ship is cruising. Air is Introduced trough ventilator tubes. There is nothing "steerage" about the cabins. Their equipment includes bright bed-spreads with window curtains to match, stainless steel bathrooms, and a Filipino boy to serve breakfast in the morning.

There are accommodations for five guests at most. This is in addition to the President's regular staff, always in attendance. The staff consists of Captain Paul Bas-tedo. Naval Aide; Gus Gennench, bodyguard; George Fox, pharmacist, who acts as personal physician pro tern; and the usual quota of Secret Service men. The staff Is quartered forward, the guests aft.

The crew of 30 men, six of whom are Filipinos, are huddled together on canvas racks, three deep, down in the forward quarter, where the ship's hull narrows to the bow. No House Party Life on boajd the Potomac Is no house-party. The tempo is in tune with the movements of the Filipino (Continued on Page Nine) s- 62 OFFICERS ARE EXECUTED Loyalists Kill Leaders Of Revolting Segment Inside Garrison SAINT JEAN DE LUZ, France. Sept. 15 (IP) Spanish government firing' squads tonight snuffed out attempted revolt of the Bilbao garrison.

Sixty-two officers who tried to lead their men to join Fascist armies were shot by militiamen in the courtyards of the Bilbao military prison, it was learned through diplomatic dispatches. Four hundred soldiers, 200 civil guards and 200 assault guards attempted to break through lines to join the Fascists. Almost all of their commissioned end non commissioned officers were convicted of treason by summary courts martial and shot. WEATHER MISSISSIPPI Wednesday: partly cloudy, probably showers in southeast portion. Thursday: Unsettled, scattered showers in southeast sections of state.

Louisiana: Mostly cloudy, showers in south portion Wednesday and probably Thursday. Alabama: Partly cloudy, probably local showers in south portion Wednesday and Thursday. Extreme northwest Florida: probably scattered showers Wednesday and Thursday. Weather bureau records of temperature and rainfall for the 24 hours ending 8 p.m. in the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: High Low Rain JACKSON 88 73 Atlanta 82 72 Birmingham 83 70 Jacksonville 85 74 Little Rock 92 74 Memphis 92 74 Meridian 90 70 Mobile 93 74 .12 New Orleans 78 76 2.06 Vicksburg 83 70 Sc.

Louis 30 0.6 rise Memphis 34 1.8 0.5 fall Helen, 44 3.1 0.9 iall Arkansas City ..42 0.3 rise Vicksburg 43 0.2 fall NatcheL 46 l.J 0.2 fall Baton Rouge ..35 2.9 0.2 rise Donaldsonyille ..28 2.9 0.2 rise Reserve 22 :.5 0.1 rise New Orleans ...17 1.5 0.2 rise OHIO RIVER Cairo 40 7.0 O.lfalJ INSURANCE SAID SAFE Statement Emerges From Conference of Leaders With Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 (IP) A statement that holders of American life insurance policies "possess the safest of all possible securities" emerged today from a conference between President Roosevelt and life insurance ex ecutives, who had been invited to the White House. The statement was handed to newspaper men by Charles F. Williams, president of the Western and Southerr. Life Insurance company, Cincinnati, after he returned to his hotel.

He said it was approved by the entire group of executives who had conferred with the chief executive. Williams also told reporters crop insurance was discussed but no conclusions were reached. A few minutes earlier the life insurance men, representing half a dozen major companies, had filed cut of the White House asserting that the d-scussions were strictly and had hinged on cooperating with the federal social security program. Those who talked at the White House at all, did so reluctantly. Frederick H.

Ecker, chairman of the board of the Itetropoiitan Life Insurance company, and others insisted there had been no mention of a speech by Col. Frank Knox iJept. 5 in which the Republican vice presidential nominee said that "today no life insurance policy is secure; no savings account is safe." Later, at his press conference, the president also denied the Knox statement had been discussed. He said he had talked with the insurance men about a program of mutual assistance. Asked for comment on the Knox assertion, the chief executive first declined, and then added in Latin: Res ipsa loquitur," meaning "The thing speaks for itself." ABERDEEN MAN GROUND TO DEATH IN DAD'S COTTON GIN ABERDEEN, Sept.

15 (IP) Rufus Gamer, 23, was ground to death today in a cotton gin owned by his father, M. M. Garner. The youth was on the concrete floor under the gin cleaning the machinery when it was put in operation. The machine caught the sleeve of his shirt and dragged him under the saws.

Gamer had cautioned another worker a short time before of the danger of the gin saws. He ls survived by his widow and a son. KEUNG PROBF BEING BLOCKED 19th Route Army Men Defy Chinese and Investigation SHANGHAI, Sept. 15. (P Defiant members of the old "19th Route" army, valiant defenders of Shanghai four years ago, tonight were reported blocking both Japanese and Chinese attempts to investigate the mob killing of a Japanese national at Pakhoa, While China's foreign minister and Japan's ambassador conferred at Nanking on this and a preceding, similar incident, one native newspaper reported the veterans of the Shanghai siege already had clashed with a Japanese naval landing party.

Other sources termed this report "premature." A half dozen Japanese warships stood off the troubled south China sector, determined at all odds "to protect Japanese interests." Shigeru Kawagoe, Japan's ambassador to China, Indicated his country's concern over the incidents. He said they were regarded not as isolated or spontaneous outbursts but as the fruit of virulent anti-Japanese sentiment deliberately fomented throughout China. CLEVELAND, Sept. 15 Bolivar county, scene of several gruesome murder mysteries in the last few years, today faced the most baffling on record in the last few years, in torture-slaying of Allen Simms, 66, farmer, whose body was found in a barn on his place between Cleveland and Pace, according to Sheriff Jim Smith of Cleveland. Sheriff Smith and Deputy Sheriff Abe Crouch of Cleveland, who have been assigned to the case, declared late today that "sensational disclosures" may be expected within the next 24 hours.

Triangular shaped bruises and cuts on Simms' body indicated that he may have been tortured before he was either strangled to death or s.ain with a blow upon the head, according to authorities. Theie were also knife-like wounds on his back in the region of the kidneys, neck, arms and legs, which were apparently done by a blunt instrument, knife or kitchen utensil. Physicians said it is possible that Simms did not come to his death either as a result of strangulation or a blow, but that he may have been victim of a heart attack as a result of shock or excitement in connection with possible knife thrusts or blows he received Sunday night. Members of the Simms family re-reported that they left Simms at home alone to attend church. On their return they found the old man dead in the barn, they said.

Deputy Sheriff Crouch said he believes Simms was slain in his bed at home and the body removed to the barn. He said he had been told that Simms slept on his stomach, vhich would account for the theory that he was jabbed in the back with an instrument as he lay in bed. He said there were thirty perforations on Simms' body made by an instrument for which he is now searching, that Simms was killed in the barn and that he was tortured. Nothing was taken from the Simms' house. feel certain there will be an arrest or several arrests within a short time." The sheriffs department today summoned members of the Simms' family to Cleveland and questioned them regarding the crime.

None of the family was able to throw any additional light on the murder mystery. Members of the sheriff's department said Simms might have been held or choked into unconsciousness at the same time he was tortured as there were marks on his neck. MAINE VOTES INTERPRETED Democrats and Republicans Both Claim Gains In Pivotal State PORTLAND, Sept. 15 (IP) Maine stood strongly enlisted in the Republican column tonight but interpretation of its vote, ranging from a 40,000 majority for gubernatorial candidate Lewis C. Barrows down to a 5,003 vote lead for Senator Wallace H.

White, varied in the natioa's political camps. "The Maine election has proved that the people of this country are aroused to their danger ana determined to preserve their system of WASHINGTON. Sept. 15 (IP) President Ro3sevelt confined his comment on the Maine election today to a remark that he was a good guesser. He said of the five contests he was very close on one.

awfully close on three and way out of the way on on, congressional race. He said he put down his guesses on paper before hand, but that no one would be permitted to see them. life and government," commented Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas, Republican presidential candidate. "Maine continues Republican by a majority of 50,000 Dupont-Morgan dollars," said James M.

Farley, the Democratic National Chairman. "Maine remains Republican in a local election by a reduced majority." Compilation of the vote was virtually complete tonight with no chance that belated returns from isolated precincts could change the result. All but 6 of the 633 precincts were counted. The tabulation showed: For U. S.

senator: Gov. Louis J. Erann D) 152.902: Senate? Wallace H. White (R) 157,937. For governor: p.

Harold Dubord (D) 129.084: Secretary of State Lewis O. Barrows, 172,170. Three Republican congressmen (Continued on Page Eight) House Votes Saturday Ad journment, Refuses to Take Up Bill The second setback to the administration came in the house last night when that body, after a rough and tumble scrap for more than an hour, refused by a decisive vote to suspend its rules for immediate consideration of the industrial bill. The White forces fumbled the ball at the night session by shoving an adjournment resolution ahead of the industrial bill. The question of adjournment got the house membership "riled" and by the time it had fixed Saturday noon for quitting time.

It was in no mood to begin the long and tedious consideration of the governors industrial program. A motion to suspend the rules, which was essential before the bill could be considered on the same by the committee on ways and legislative day it was reported out means, lost on a record vote of 73 to 56, with 11 members absent and not voting. Under the rules of the house a motion to suspend the rules requires a two-thirds majority of the membership present and voting. With 129 votes on the floor last night, the motion needed 86 to carry and it failed by 13 votes. Upon failure of the house to suspend the rules and proceed to consider the bill, Speaker Wright referred the bill to the committee on engrossed bills.

This means that it will be on the calendar for consideration today and likely will be taxen up at the morning session. Administration leaders in the legislature were frankly worried last night over the fate of the industrial legislation, as they watched the "school bloc" which showed its hand in the house with much the same force as it was revealed in the senate during the afternoon brush aside the main purpose of the session and insist that provision should be made for the school children of the state before the state undertakes to do something for industries of the north and east. Day's Outlook Clouded Both the house and senate meet at ten o'clock this morning- and no leader appeared last night to venture a prediction of what the day may bring forth. During the debate last night on a concurrent resolution offered by Representative Hilton Waits, of Washington county, the school people in the house talked loudest and longest against fixing the date for sine die adjournment. A motion by Representative Sam Lumpkin, of Lee-Itawamba counties, to lay the Waits resolution on the table, failed to carry, however, by a vote of 76 to 54, and then the house without further ado passed the resolution which sets Saturday noon as the adjournment hour.

The vote on the resolution was 113 to 14. The resolution was held in the house, however, on a motion to reconsider, which may be called up for disposition today. The resolution requires the concurrence of the senate before the adjournment date is definitely fixed. A counterpart of the senate resolution urging the governor to sub- (Continued on Page Eight) GAS TAX PROBERS TO FILE REPORT Chairman of Legislature Committee Points To Saving On Refunds The joint legislative committee which, has conducted an investigation of gasoline tax collection, evasions and refunds for the past several months, will make its report to the' legislature today. Members of the committee, headed by Senaor Stewart Watson, chairman, approved the final draft of the voluminous report last night.

Senator Watson said the report would not be made public until it has been filed with the clerks of the house and senate. Unless the legislature authorizes a continuation of the gasoline tax investigation, the inquiry will be terminated with adjournment of the extraordinary session. Senator Watson said last night that as a result of the investigation the state saved $254,234 in refunds on gasoline during the past 4 and one-half months. Senator Watson said the state paid out $395,520 in gasoline tax refunds, from May, 193 through September, while only in refunds was paid from until September 15 of this year..