GREENWOOD COMMONWEALTH VOLUME 18 NUMBER 307. Religious Persecution Of Evangelical Pastors Reported HITLER STARTS INQUISITION OF PREACHERS Rebellious Evangelical Pastors Are Being Arrested In Germany BERLIN (JP) Well-authenticated deports that rebellious evangelical church pastors are being arrested by secret police and subjected to an "inquisition" tonight intensified Germanys' increasingly bitter church controversy. Pastors known to be opposed to Reichbishop Ludwig Mueller's leadership of the official German Protestant church were asked three questions. These were. 1. What is your attitude toward Reichbishop Mueller? ' 2. What is your attitude regarding the Nazi government? 3. How do you reagard Ary-anism? Their answers were said to have been almost unanimously defiant that Mueller was not trustworthy, that his dictatorial position was not constitutional and that his "national synod" was illegal. CUBAN TARIFF REDUCTION BILL SIGNED BY FDR Substantial Reductions Are Made In Tariff By Cuba and U.S. WASHINGTON (JP)-. Now that the government has struck a bargain with Cuba in the opening of a "new tariff era," it is expected to press trade negotiations with certain Latin-American coffee countries. The state department hopes to " lose no time in extending the new reciprocal trade policy of the administration, which bore its first fruits in the proclamation of the Cuban-American treaty by President Roosevelt. The document, which goes into effect Sept. 3, was signed and sealed with ceremony yesterday. Battering large chunks out of the tariff barriers between the two nations, it grants Cuba subj stantial reductions on sugar, rum, cigars and cigar Totiacco, as well as seasonal cuts on winter vegetables. Cuba in turn gives the United States the benefit of tariff reductions on many products. Officials said American farmers and manufacturers stand to benefit and that both nations as a whole should gain from the increased trade. Among those cool to the treaty were producers of sugar products on the mainland and in the territories. "This gift to the Cubans would seem to be most generous," said Royal D. Mead, Waiington counsel for the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association. The rum club of the world already had protested tariff reductions on that liquor, saying they would give one American firm a monopoly. The reduction in the tariff on Cuban sugar was from 1 1-2 cents to 9-10 of a cent a pound. This was estimated in some quarters to be worth $23,000,000 a year to the Cuban sugar people, but some other sugar interest gave a higher estimate. The duty on Cuban rum was cut from $4 to f 2.50 per gallon and tobacco duties, including cigars, reduced from 20 to 12 1-2 per cent, with wrapper tobacco powered from $1.90 to $1.50 a pound. PREPARING FOR SNOW? LINCOLN, Nebr. (JP) Police do not know whether Joe Rickard of Agenda, Kas., or an unknown thief is the greatest believer in preparedness. Nebraska and Kansas are among the hardest hit by the drought, but Rickard reported to police that someone reached into his parked automobile and stole a raincoat. WW A First Air Mail Advertises City The embracing of Greenwood as a stop on the air mail route from Chicago to New Orleans and the announcement by the post office department that a special cachet would be provided for placing on the cover of all air mail dispatched on the first flight, which will be on September 1st., has caught the attention of stamp collectors all over the United States and parts of Canada, and Postmaster J. W. George reports more than two thousand envelopes received from collectors, to date, for cacheting and dispatch on the first flight, and they are continuing to arrive at the rate of one hundred to one hundred-fifty a day. The cachet to be placed on first-flight covers is affixed by means of rubber stamps and a distinctive colored ink, and will be placed on the face of the cover in addition to the air-mail stamps and postmark. The design of the cachet is to be representative of Greenwood and no doubt will be based upon the suggestions submitted by the local Chamber of Commerce. As soon as air mail has been dispatched to the first-flight plane in each direction on September 1st the cachet and pads will be returned to the post office department in Washington, consequently, in order to obtain an envelope bearing the special cachet it will be necessary that the letter be prepared and handed in at the local postoffice before the time for closing the air-mail pouches, and the letter must be addressed to a post office other than Greenwood and be for dispatch by the way of Memphis or Jackson. Individuals desiring to obtain envelopes bearing the cachet and sent on the first flight should address them to friends elsewhere and have these friends forward them back to Greenwood, or they may ad GERMANS SHOW LOYALTY FOR SAAR DISTRICT Two Hundred Special Trains Mobilize German' For Loy alty Mobilization BERLIN (JP) More than 200 special trains rolled - through Germany toward the Rhine today for a great mobilization of loyalty to the Saar territory tomorrow. This section, immensely wealthy in natural resources, votes Jan. 13, 1935, whether to return to German sovereignty, remain under the. mandat; of the League of Nations, or be attached to France. The mobilization recalls the celebration of the evacuation of the Rhineland four years ago, but this time it is on an infinitely bigger scale. Chancellor Hitler will speak. Celebrations in 1930 hailed the departure of the last French troops from Rhineland cities. Tomorrow's loyalty demonst-ation is designed to foreshadow the march of German sovereignty into the Saar, The Reich's ponderous propaganda machinery, vhich just a week ago overwhelmed the nation with suggestions, admonitions and commands to vote "yes" is hurling its whole weight into the task of concentrating the nation's emotion on the Saar. Millions who voted then in support of Hitler's assumption of presidential powers, will tomorrow t',.ink and feel the Saar. Literally hundreds of thousands of them are traveling in the general direction of the disputed section, by train, steamboat, automobile, bicycle and afoot. GREENWOOD, was nat raiMfflf iff dress them to themselves at Memphis or Jackson and write the postmaster at the office where sent requesting him to forward the letters to Greenwood. As a celebration of the event and in appreciation of the giving to Greenwood of this very benefr-cial and speedy means of communication, it would be very fitting for persons and firms in the city to write their friends and business connections personal, business and greeting letters for dispatch on the first airmail flight out of Greenwood. The air-mail postage being only six cents an ounce as compared with three cents for letters sent by ordinary mail, makes this mode of communicatior. very reasonable and within the leach of all. Persons and firms contemplating sending matter by air mail on the first flight strictly for the purpose of obtaining the envelope bearing the special cachet and those sending out matter strictly for the purpose of celebrating the event of the first flight should prepare and present the matter to the postmaster as soon as convenient before September 1st in order that the cachet may be placed thereon and other advance work be done before the day of dispatch, as the work will be somewhat slow and tedious, and the postmarking and routing will require considerable time also. If the greater portion of this matter may be prepared and deposited in the postoffice by the night of Aug. 30th, the local postal employees will be able to devote their time to the preparation and dispatch! of important air-mail letters and other last-minute matter deposited in the post office on the morning of September 1st, so that no such matter may fail to get off on the first flight. BUILDING FIRE AT UNIVERSITY Gordon Hall Is Swept By Blaze Of Unknown Origin OXFORD, Miss. W A $50,-000 fire swept Gordon Hall at the University of Mississippi this morning. The west and center wings of the large boy's dormitory were completely destroyed, but firemen hoped to save a portion of the east wing. The building was still burning at 10 a.m.; however, firemen had the blaze confined to Gordon Hall and said there was ' no danger of it spreading. ' The Hall was unoccupied duj ing the summer undergoing repairs and officials expressed the opinion that an electric wire started the blaze. The fire was discovered about dawn by Fred Wallace, manager of the University alumnus. The third floor was in flames when the Oxford fire department reached the scene. With two wings of the dormitory destroyed and the third badly damaged officials said that an entirely new building probably would be necessary. Gordon Hall was erected in 1908. School authorities said every room had been reserved for the approaching session and they faced a difficult housing problem on the eve of the 1934-35 session. Flames from the big building were visible for miles and hundreds of persons were drawn to the scene NEW YORK (JP) Tho Pilo Grounds, home of the New York Giants, is a good football stadium but a poor baseball field. Comparatively short drives settle for home runs in either the right or left field grandstand. LEFLORE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI. SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 25, 1934. MISS SHERRARD IS FATALLY HURT IN AUTO WRECK Car Collides With Truck Near Lake View, Mississippi MEMPHIS, Tenn. (JP) Miss Mary Lou Sherrard, 16, of Sher-ard, Miss., was fatally injured today in an automobile accident near Lake View, Miss., a few miles south of Memphis. Her sister, Beverly, 14, injured in the same accident, was brought to a hospital for treatment of a scalp wound. First reports indicated that the accident involved a collision of the car in which they were riding and a truck. It was understood that an aunt of the girls also was in the car. GERMANS EXPEL WOMAN WRITER Mrs. Sinclair Lewis Ordered To Leave Germany Within Twenty Four Hours BERLIN W) Mrs. Sinclair Lewis, who writes under her maiden name of Dorothy Thompson, today was ordered by the secret police to leave Germany within 24 hours. The banishment order against the wife of the Nobel prize winner was based on her alleged hostile attitude toward Germany. Mrs. Lewis recently has written many magazine articles on Germany and the Hitler movement. It was privately reported that an interview with ' Hitler which she published in a magazine before he came to power had much to do with the expulsion order. Although she has been here scarcely a week, she is leaving tonight by the North Express for Paris. Folowing the receipt of the ex pulsion order, Mrs. Lewis issued a statement in which she said she was informed that the order "was based chiefly upon an interview with Hitler which I had in 1931 and which, apart from quoting Hitler, was purely a personal imrpession of personality. "I should like to point out," she said, "that it was written sometime before Hitler became chancellor and when he did no., enjoy the support of more than 35 per cent of the German people, so that it is difficult to see how an adverse impression at that time could be inteipreced as an attaqlc on Germany." CONVICT SLAIN IN GUN BATTLE Dennis Morris Killed After Robbery of Small Town Merchant WATTS, Okla. (JP) Dennis Morris, escaped Oklahoma convict, was killed in a gun battle with Adair county officers near here today after Morris and two companions had shot and wounded H. V. Woldroop, Watts merchant, during a robbery of his store. No Cigarette Ads In College Paper ARKADELPHIA, Ark. (JP) Tobacco ads displaying comely maidens smoking cigarettes were consigned to the limbo of the taboo today, by order of Dr. J. R. Grant, president of Ouachita college, a Baptist institution. "We don't see how the 'Signal' can be published without the advertising revenue," mourned Editor Wilfred Lee and Business Manager Lawson Glover of the college publication. Said President Grant: "I much prefer that Ouachita college not have a college paper than it be supported by tobacco advertisements." BEAUTY REVUE NEXT THURSDAY Greenwood Business Firms Will Sponsor Revue To Pick Cotton Festival Attendants With thirty-five business firms in firponumoH iraHv r.nr(nt - ed in the Beauty Revue to beiment on of -today's;, robber wh( obuined staged at the Paramount theatre next Thursday night, interest in j the event is steadily increasing. iv i rj n nt ac n a i at narira i u m L.ii iv. . sentative of the Clarksdale Cot- ton Carnical, and is staging similar revues in other Delta) towns. The winners in Thursday night's revue will accompany Miss Nell Tyson, Greenwoods princess, to Clarksdale, where they will appear in the Festival parade September 20th. Mrs. Marshall spent two days in Greenwood, but owing to the hard rains during her visit here, she was unable to see all the Greenwood merchants. If J any merchant who has not been interviewed wishes to enter a representative, he is requested to call the Chamber of Commerce for information. In addition to the four maids who will be selected from among the young ladies sponsored by the business firms, there will be two little girls and two little boys, between the ages of four and six, selected as pages. Mothers wishing to enter children in the Kiddie Revue are requested to call the Chamber of Commerce for details. Those firms who have entered representatives are: Greenwood Floral Co., Mildred Moore; Biddle Floral Company, Katherine Woodell; Miss. Power & Light Co., Nan Dyer; Gulf Service Station, Frances Ball; Kash & Karry Kleaners, Sally Morgan Clements; Delta Chevro let, Josephine Ellington; Delta Steam Laundry, Virginia Howell;, John Quinn's Drug Store, Dorris j Henry; I T. : iAMnf-lM rMVTrW Martha Vardaman; Whittington Dry Goods Company, Millard Ruth Whittington; bervice Cleaners, Marian Majet; Jitney Jungle, Lucille Moore; The Triangle, Carolyn Terry; Piggly Wiggly, Mary Emily Wilson; D. & N. Auto Parts, Lady Jane Gray; Powder Puff Beauty Shoppe, Celeste Hall; Antoon's Department Store, Miriam Durrett; Mamelli Optical Shop, Evelyn Mamelli; Post Office Cafe, Mem-rie Gary; J. D. Lanham, Alyse Buckley; Lawrence Printing Co., Margurite Osborn; 444 Service Station, Winnie Gray Hemphill; Spurrier Studio, Lillian Rogan I White Rose Service Station, Elizabeth Coleman; F. Goodman's, Nan Barnett; E. K. My-rick, Blewitt Schlater; Barrett's i Drug Store, Mary Elizabeth Oliver; Jordan & Company, Lenore Kimbrough; D. C. Peteet & Bros., ' Josephine Ball; The Irving Hotel, Mary Ann Crowe; Stein Jewelry Co., Mary Frances Roe; Fashion Shop, Mary Clark; Madolyn Shop, Elizabeth Pillow; DeLoach's, Ann Simmons. FUN POTTSTOWN, Pa. OP A Reading company express train ground to a stop within 50 feet of three boys lying with their heads on the rails. The boys jumped up, thumbed their noses at the engineer and fled but not quite fast en?ugh. It was all a "joke", Donald Rogers, 15; Thomas Ibach, 18, and Charles James, 14, . told Squire Otto Moyer of Royers-ford. MORE FUN PIGGOTT, Ark. (JP) Three 15-year-old boys thought it lots of fun to put black pepper in a theatre's suction fan, but Magistrate W. K. Knight fined thn $16.80 cents each on charges of disorderly conduct. - Patrons were routed when theatre employes turned on the cooling system. in charge of the Revue. Mrs.!8' Iumber Jdea.'rs U1 make Housing Loans Are Explained In a page announcement in today's Commonwealth, Greenwood's three lumber companies, the Delta Lumber Co., Couty Webb Lumber Co., and Eagle Lumber and Supply Company, have prepared a concise and easily understandable resume of the government hcusing loans, for j "pairs and building of homes, 1 A reading of the announce- j-t i . , . . . , , " Commonwealth will be worth the while of all home owners or prospective home owners. Greenwood's three progres- i estimates and aid vomuaitj aim mu in maxim? !?"!.ff Jepa're a,nd bu,'dln oi nt ,aa lne ' RODEO COMING IN OCTOBER Junior Chamber of Commerce Will Sponsor Attraction For Greenwood The Junior Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a Rodeo, to be held in Greenwood four days, October 8, 9, 10, and 11. This is the first attraction of its kind ever held in the Delta, with one exception, the first Rodeo ever staged in Mississippi. . The outfit engaged for "this performance is Milt . Hinkle's i Texas Rangers and Days In! Mexico. Hinkle " has one of the best Rodeos in the country, and' is playing the Midsouth Fair in Memphis, The Michigan Sta Fair, and a number of other large fairs. He has an enormous troupe of cow boys and cow girls, hundreds of head of wild stock, including wild bulls and bucking horses, as well as beau-1 found by members of the Dan-tiful high school and . saddle. ish expedition headed by Prof, horses. IKnud Jessen, Copenhagen scien- The Rodeo will be DODularl v ' tist. The head is about three priced, and extensively advertis-jfeet ed. Four night performances and two matinees will be given. The proceeds accruing to the Junior f 1T U r'mm11VA Will h used for the building and equip ping of a permanent athletic field. BANKHEADASKS SPEAKERSHIP Alabama Representative Will Be Candidate To Succeed Rainey JASPER, Ala. (JP) Repre- nnouneed he would be a candidate for speaker of the house of representatives to succeed the late Henry T. Rainey of Illinois. He made the formal announce-mpnt-. jiftpr his return to his . nrna the funerai 0f speaker Rainey. KepreSentative Bankhead said he had been "given many assur ances of support" and added that he believed his chances for election were good. His announcement had been anticipated after the announcement in Mobile by Represeta-tive John McDuffie, candidate against Rainey, that he would support his Alabama colleague for the post. In the caucus which resulted in the nomination of Rainey, Bankhead withdrew as a candidate and supported McDuffie. Later, McDuffie threw his support to Bankhead for democratic floor leader but Bankhead was defeated for the place, 141 votes to 140, by Representative Joe Byrns of Tennessee, who had the Rainey support. Representative Bankhead has served continuously in the house since his election in 1916. He is chairman of the house rules committee. " . o COURSES TO BE WATERED CHICAGO (JP) Olympia Fields country club here is panning to install watering systems on courses number two and three, giving the club four completely watered golfing layouts. FILLING STATION ROBBED OF GAS Armed Robber Holds Up Evans Service Station And Takes Gasoline A filling station on Mississippi Avenue, operated by Roy Evans, was held up last night by i fiii vwwi;u Aire ganong of gas and a quart of 1 0jf 1 ke ma ,, ..n t Flmn.' gtation and ordered a quart of i oil and five gallons of gas. Af. ter servicing the car Mr. Evans was forced, at the point of a pistol, to enter his station while the robber drove out highway 49. Nothing of value other than the gas and oil was taken. O Revival Service Opens Sunday Night Rev. Roy ". . Blackwood of Choctaw county, will bejin a series of revival services Sunday night at the City Park assisted by a special quartet of his own party. Rev. Blackwood is a mani of fifteen years experience in gospel work and gospel singing. H iqsuartet is composed of splendid artists in this line of work. Come the first night and you will continue to come, Serviceif each evening at ri .45. Once in a lifetime will Green woou have j the opportunity to hear the full gospel message in seroion nnd song. "Come Thou With us and we Will do th?e Good." o GIANT ELK'S HEAD FOUND DUBLIN (JP) The head of a giant elk believed to have roam-1 ed Ireland some 20,000 years ago during the first part of the glacial period has been dug out of a i bog in County Dublin. It was long and in a good state of preservation. -O- COLD WEATHER IN MIDDLE WEST Near Freezing Temperatures And Snow Hits Heat Ridden States By The Associated Press Wjth the perspiration from record heat hardly dry on their brows, farmers in the midwest sliivcred in frost nipped fields today. Prophets saw a long and severe winter in the sudden plunge of temperature, but their views were without official confirmation. Meterologists said long range predicts were unscientific Records fell as the mercury sank to 28, four degrees below freezing temperature, in North l Dakota, 34 in Minnesota, 36, in Yellowstone Park and Iowa; 37 in Wisconsin, 39 in South Dakota, 40 in Michigan, Montana and Wyoming; 41 in Nebraska; 44 in Mossouri; 46 in Colorado; 52 in Kansas and Oklahoma, and 56 in Illinois. Only a few days back, temperatures rocketed to 110 degrees and over in several of these same states. Coal was fed to furnaces in basements where as recent as two weeks ago families congregated for relief from the stifl ing heat outside. The drought wa3 ended in southwest states by cooling rains which totaled up to 4.92 inches in sections of Texas. The cold came suddenly, driving thermometers down as much as 60 degrees. Snow flurries raged so furiously in Montana that a plane was grounded at Big Timber. But low temperatures were due for a short life in the north cen tral states, with moderate weath er promised for most sections for the week-end. O ATTENTION AUXILIARY AND LEGIONNAIRES Turn off highway at "Dangerous curve' for picnic tomorrow. Other road under construction. FIVE CENTS In Berlimi PENNSYLVANIA CONVICTS RIOT Prisoners Set Several Fires In-side Wall of Eastern State . Prison COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. (JP) State police and guards today crushed an outbreak at tho Eastern State penitentiary at Grateford after 200 convicts had rioted for more than three hours. The prisoners started fires in cell blocks and outbuildings, destroying a barn and damaging several other shacks. Forty state policemen, sijn-moned from barracks in eastern Pennsylvania, armed with machine guns and rifles, subdued them at noon without firing a shot. No one was seriously injured and none escaped. The convicts, after their destructive rampage, were cowed by the troopers after they had massed on a hill inside the wall and defied the guards to disarm them of the clubs, iron bars and other crude weapons they car- ried. The penitentiary houses about 1,600. A member of the board of trustees said the prisoa kitchen was ruined and thousands of dollars worth of new machinery in the industrial plant was wrecked. . None could say immediately what starte the outbreak, but reports filtering from behind the walls said the spark w set off in the penitentiary kitchen. After widespread daarage was caused by fire and otnerwise, about 200 convicts massed on a knoll east of the cell blocks and defied the guards. Intervention, by state police precluded further trouble and the convicts, gazing into machine gun nd rifle bar- -rels, submitted to orders. COLLEGEVILLE, Pa, (J About 200 convicts rioted at the new eastern state penitentiary, Graterford, today. ; They started several fires and destroyed one of the smaller structures inside the walL . The state policemen from every barracks in eastern Pennsylvania were rushed to the prison in response to a call sent out by Captain Elmer Leitheiser, assistant warden in charge. . Slightly more than 1,600 prisoners 'are confined at the institution. Citizens at Graterford said the penitentiary whistle blew first at 10 A. M. and later reports said this was about an hour after the trouble started. O Food Conservation Program Success Food conservation reached a high peak this wee kat the ERA canning center operated at the Central School. Under the efficient management of Mrs. Fred Vining and Mrs. E. B. Pentecost, 1011 cans and jars of vegetables and fruits were canned to be used for school lunches during the coming session. o WEATHER OUTLOOK Weather outlook for the period August 27 to September 1, inclusive. Central and East Gulf States: Partly cloudy to cloudy weather with occasional thundershowers on the coast and in eastern portion of district and more general showers in latter part of week. Seasonal temperatures will prevail. Southern Plains and West Gulf states: Generally fair first Dart of week. Partly cloudy, local thundershowers in north portion of district latter part of week. Temperatures near or above normal O THE WEATHER TEMPERATURE Maximum 94 degrees; minimum 72 degrees; rainfall, 0.11; river gauge 3.8, stationary. FOR MISSISSIPPI Partly cloudy to cloudy, probably thu.i-dershowers in north portion tonight and Sunday and in south portion Sunday; cooler in northwest portion tonight.
