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Print All The Neics That's Fit To Print And Prints It First For Nearly A Century Has Set The Pace For Mississippi Journalism FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT JACKSON, SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1931 ESTABLISHED 1837 T7 1 niTnl ies Come From 7TT Miiisaps -By 1 0 7' 10 9 SEP SLAYER 1 TO AMY 77Tv To juejeu ft DOUBLE TRIANGLE" MURDER LOCKED IN APPEALS MADE FOR CALL OF GANG JUSTICE IS BLAMED FOR TEXAS DEATHS Purple Holds Maroons Through All But Final Minutes Of First Tilt ON STORM TAKES f' i wH Vs. A La A 7fi i I 1 A i i i -m Vi' v2 97 I v'' izf 1 ff 730g Fatal triangles are common enough, but it remained for Park Ridge, N. wnicn naon't nad a murder since isas, to evolve a slaying over a "double triangle." Though confessions which police declare they obtained from Mrs. Olga Ziegler (upper left) and George Flanard (right), employe of Otto Ziegler (upper center), the murder of the latter, a ilk merchant, is believed solved. Mrs.

Ziegler is said to have hired Flanard to shoot her husband to death because of his relations with other women, while Flanard is alleeed to have confessed that he would have killed Ziegler ziegier Decause or ziegiers reported love affair with Ruth Trudhomme (lower Flanard's fiancee. Barons Capture Dixie Title With "Victory In Final Game Of Series EXTRA SESSION County Boards of Supervis ors and Agricultural Body Meet Deficit BILBO RESPONSIVE TO WIDE APPEALS Additional Pressure Brought to Bear on Governor to Issue Call Various state and civic bodies last night were throwing their weight In the balance to influence Governor Bilbo to call a special session of the legislature to take care of economic ills. A crisis in taxes and state finances is the basis for pleas pour ing into executive chambers yesterday from farm and city. That they are stirring the gover nor with the idea that he may yet close his term of office with-a desperate effort to save his administration from going down as a total bank was indicated in a terse summing up of the situation by the governor. "Many agencies and delegations have petitioned for an extra session, and I have been seriously thinking over the matter," he said.

Mississippi agriculture formally put before the executive its petition for an extra session in the form of a resolution adopted at the quarterly meeting yesterday of the Bilbo-appointed Mississippi Agricultural Service (Continued on Page Eight) -4- SALVATION ARMY TALKS AID PLAN Southern Officials of Organization Convene in Meridian MERIDIAN, Sept. 25 (AP) Expansion to meet the needs and to start relief machinery sufficiently early to adequately handle the situations, were outstanding decisions at the fall and winter relief and employment conference of Salvation Army officials which has ended today in Meridian-Salvation Army officials attending were Major Arthur Fynn, representing the Salvation Army headquarters at Atlanta; Major C. J. Hickey, state director of Salvation Army work in Mississippi and Alabama, with headquarters in Birmingham; Captain and Mrs. William Ranger, financial secretary of the division, and Salvation Army officers of Meridian, Jackson, Hatties-burg, Gulfport, Mobile, Vicksburg, Laurel and Natchez.

IDENTIFY BODY OF MERIDIAN BURGLAR MERIDIAN, Sept. 25. (AP) A negro shot and killed by A. B. Jones as he was attempting to enter Mrs.

Jones' store on Poplar Springs road, Wednesday night was identified by county officers today as Curtis Johnson. Officers said Johnson had only recently been released from the county road where he had been serving a sentence for burglary. URY CUSS YOUNG WIDOW TELLS HORRID MURDER TALE Mrs. Benjamin Collins Sobs Out Version of Piracy Murder of Mate STRANGERS ENTERED BOAT. SAYS WOMAN Pale Little Woman Near Collapse as Murder Trial Gets Underway NEW YORK, Sept.

23 (AP) A pale young widow, who appeared to nearly collapse under the strain, today told publicly for the first time the strange story of the Long Island "pirate murder" of her husband, Benjamin P. Collings, Stamford. yachtsman, on the night of Sept. 9. The only witness of the day in a continued inquest before Coroner William B.

Gobson of Suffolk county at Huntington, Long Island, Mrs. Collings was on the stand for two hours and 15 minutes before her slain husband's father asked for an adjournment because she appeared exhausted. Tonight District Attorney Alexander G. Blue said the day's session had developed little new inf or mation. "Tomorrow we shall call Dr.

Otto H. Schultze, who performed the autopsy on Collings. We still lack any intimation of what analysis of Collings' vital organs showed. Although I have been quoted otherwise, I have not yet been informed if he died on board the Penguin from blows of his assailants or by drowning when thrown into the Long Island Sound." Mrs. Collings recounted the events of the night of Sept.

9. Mrs. Collins said all aboard the little cruiser had retired before 10 p. m. and were asleep when two strangers approached in a canoe, boarded the Penguin, forced her husband to surrender command and beat him unconscious.

Mrs. Collings disclosed -In her testimony that Barbara, their five-year-old daughter, saw and heard much of the tragedy and pleaded with the men to "leave my papa alone" as Collings was bound and struck with a milk bottJe. LONDON MOVES TO HALT SPECULATION Traders Must Use Cash Beginning Today Exchange Committee Rules LONDON, Sept. 25 (AP) The London stock exchange took drastic action today to curb speculative trading which has been a feature of the minor boom markets of the last two days. Starting tomorrow, all dealings in stocks and shares will be for cash only, as already is the case with British government securities.

Opinion in the financial district tonight was largely favorable toward the exchanges committee's action. Business wa3 brisk on the London exchange today but British funds were weak with quotations down 2 to 3 points, attributed to the weakness of sterling and continental selling for exchange into foreign issues whose interest is payable in dollars. -A- Miss. A 10; Miiisaps 7. Auburn 24; B'ham-Sou 6.

Union U. 20; Murray 2. Loyola 38; St. Edwards 6. St.

Louis 27; Millikan 0. corse town (Ky.) vittsnaerg iU. Transylvania Xavier 24. 13 COFER TO DIS PROH BT FOOTBALL RESULTS DEATH OF MARKS, Sept. 25.

(AP) Fate of Ellerson Cofer, Pine Valley fanner, charged by the state with participating in the murder of J. H. Pruitt, government witness in prohibition cases, rested with a jury in the Quitman cinty court here tonight. Arguments of counsel for defense and state were finished late today, at completion of which Judge W. A.

Alcorn, of Clarksdale, trial Judge, delivered the charge. Lester G. Fant of Clarksdale, United States district attomev and J. T. Smith of Cleveland, district attorney, spoke for the prosecution, and Ike Stone of Coffeeville, presented the defense arguments.

Cofer's case went to trial last Wednesday and a voluminous amount of evidence was submitted by both state and defense. Cofer is alleged to have been one of a number of persons who called Pruitt from his home In Quitman, in October, 1927. when the government witness was riddled with bullets. The defendant on the witness stand claimed he was at his Pine Valley home at thee time of the slaying. This was the fourth trial for the murder, two trials having resulted in convictions with the third a mistrial.

Supreme court reversals in two trials brought about the third trial. A federal charge of conspiracy against Cofer in connection with the killing is pending in federal court. Judge Alcorn after the Jury had received the case adjourned court until tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock. He said he believed the jurors should be given tonight to consider th evidence. Court attaches expressed belief that the Jury would be ready to report when court reconvenes as to guilt or innocence of the defendant whose four trials have cost Quitman county ten thousand dol lars.

WOMAN TO TESTIFY IN MURDER CHARGE Prosecution to Use Mrs. Patton in Case Against Alleges Teacher Mayor NEWKIRK, Okla Sept. 25. (AP) District Judge John Burger ruled today that the prosecution could use Mrs. Myrtle Patton.

as a witness in the murder trial of Earl Quinn, ex-convict, charged with the slaying of Jesse and Zexie Griffith, school teachers. The stare announced Mrs. Patton would be called to testify concerning an alleged attack upon her by Quinn near the spot where the teachers were slain on a highway while returning by motor to their school posts after spending last Christmas with their parents in Blackwell, Okla. The alleged assault on Mrs. Patton occurred las Thanksgiving day.

Mrs. J. F. Griffith, mother of the youn women, tookthe stand today and told of seeing 'them off early on the morning of the killings. In answer to defense questions as to the whereabouts of Amos Griffith, shell-shocked brother of the girls, during the Christmas holidays, the mother said he was not at home and that he lived "here and GIN 800 BALES CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Sept 25 About 800 bales of cotton have been ginned up to date by the two electric gins located here, and this together with a survey of the fields indicate the yield will fall short of anticipations.

ABE MARTIN Th blamdest sensation is havint a door knob come off in your hand. Sometimes it's purty hard fergive an ferget, but jest wait UU you try pay an' fergfc. WOK 1 After battling on even terms with for nearly the length of the game, Miiisaps last night saw victory snatched up by an Aggie substitute quarterback who rushed over a touchdown In the closing minutes of play, giving the Starkville clan a 10 to 7 decision over the Purple. It was the first night game ever played in the state by college teams and drew over 4,000 spectators, by far the largest crowd to see a sport eent on the Major campus. It was a heart-breaking game for the Purple to lose, for after the Maroons had scored a pair of safeties to amass a lead of four points, the Militants climbed into the lead with a swift passing attack and then resisted, for all but the last three minutes of the game, all Aggie efforts to dislodge the Major colors from the leading position.

Ralph Brown, a junior irom Houston, was the fellow who did the damage as the game was ebbing fast. His 20-yard spurt for the touchdown was a dashing piece of work which barely was successful, for the ball-toter almost slipped and stumbled before he was fairly started, then recovered, cut into a scat- (Contlnued on Page Eight) TAX OUESTION BREEDSFIGHT Hoover and Reed Clash as Experts Seek to Meet Detroit WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 AP The question of new taxes, that breeder of congressional conflict, has come to command increased attention in the administration. Tt was ud today between Presi Hoover and Senator Reed, as well as between the senator and his fellow Pennsylvanlan, Secretary Mellon. Over their charts and diagrams meanwhile, worked the government fiscal experts intent upon devising a way out of the financial doldrums for the treasury.

More and more there seems to be talk of how tax revenues should be increased now, instead of whether it should. That was the case today. Moreover, the sales tax idea dominated the dis cussion. Senator Reed, who seldom dif fers with the White House or the treasury on fiscal matters, emphasized his advocacy of a sales tax. Out in Burlinston.

Kansas, an other republican, Senator Capper, let a county lair crowd know he opposed such a tax. "Unthinkable," was the way Capper termed it, after calling secretary Mellon sponsor of the idea. Reed, surrounded bv newsnarjer men in the lobby of the executive offices this afternoon, counted off on his fingers in summary of the nation's financial situation: (Continued on Page Eight) MISSISSIPPI Saturday, partly cloudy, light scattered showers In east portion, slightly cooler in north and central portions. Sunday, cloudy. Moderate southwesterly winds on the coast.

Louisiana: Partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday, not quite so warm Saturday in extreme north portion. Alabama: Partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday. Arkansas: Generally fair Saturday and Sunday, cooler in south and east portions Saturday. Weather bureau records of temperatures and rainfall for the 24 hours ending 8 p. Friday in the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: High Low Rain Atlanta 90 74 .10 Birmingham 98 72 .00 Chicago 74 56 1.66 Chicago 74 56 1.66 Denver 76 56 .00 Jacksonville 94 74 .00 Memphis 94 76 .00 Meridian 94 74 .00 New Orleans 90 78 .00 New York 63 40 .00 Vicksburg 84 72 .00 Two Killers Confess to Carrying Out Gang Vengeance on Pals DOUBLE-CROSSING IS DESCRIBED AS MOTIVE Identify Body in St.

Louis Morgue Mystery as Woman in Shootings HOUSTON, Texas, Sept. 25 AP Much of the mystery clouding three murders here within the last month was cleared away tonight by confessions Houston police had obtained from two gangsters seeking vengeance upon former partners they believed had "double-crossed" them. Barney McGanegal, confessed bank robber and safe blower, named in the confession of Jack Jones as the "trigger man" in the killing of "John the Greek" Cherris the night of August 30, admitted to Detective Lieutenant M. W. Moore today the part he played in the affair.

(Continued on Page Eight) ALLEMOYLE FORGED DOWN American Fliers Land at Fairbanks on Flight to Tacoma FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 25. (AP) A heavy downpour of rain forced Cecil Allen and Don Moyle, California aviators, to land here at 4:35 p. (P. E.

S. (7:35 p. E. S. five hours and twenty minutes after they hopped off from Solomon Beach, near Nome on a projected non-stop flight to Tacoma, Wash.

The aviators had covered less than 500 mlies of the distance of more than 2,000 miles to the Puget Sound city when they encountered low visibility and set down their plane. It was their second failure to reach an announced destination this month. They- started from Samushiro Beach, Japan, September 7, in an attempt to fly non-stop to Seattle, 4,465 miles, but it ended in the art group of the Aleutian Islands, where several days later they were picked up by a Russian boat and taken to Miano Pilgano on the northeast Siberian coast. They flew to Nome last Sunday. When Moyle and Allen took off this morning at 11:15 a.m.

P.S,T, (2:15 p.m., E.S.T.) they said they "hoped to be in Tacoma by noon tomorrow." -A- VICKSBURG WINS FROM FLO SQUAD VICKSBURG, Sept. 25 (AP) vicksburg nign school openea its football season here today, defeat ing the D'Lo high school by a score of 15 to 0. Beasley and Hovious pered by a leg injury, turned in a Durg, eacn scorea a toucnaown. By Stansel Stansel was chairman of this group, which accumulated hi nearly a year's time the most complete data on modern highway conditions and conservative financing methods ever presented the legislature. The committee, which conducted this research work in the states leading in highway progress, also included Representatives L.

L. Posey of Jackson, C. D. S. Bragg of Columbus, John Satterfield of Claiborne, and Arthur V.

Smith of Pas-cagoula. Pointing out that Intermediate type paving is the state's greatest need at this time for relief "from dust and rpatter," Stansel warns against being carried away "with such bright prospects of early "We need relief quickly," he declares, "but we must build permanently, and therefore should keep high type construction always in (Continued on Page Two). 1 SCHOOL ROOF Two Critically Injured, 88 Others Slightly Hurt When Winds Hit Building RICHMOND, Sept. 15. (AP) Two children were injured critically and eighty-eight others suf fered bumps or slight bruises when a severe wind storm caused the roof of the grade school at Boston, near here, to collapse into the second floor today.

Janice Williams was believed by hospital authorities to have suffered injuries which will prove fatal. Billy Holder, 14; Lawrence Weller and Ruth Daughterty, all under fourteen years old, also were believed to be hurt seriously. Aaron Lindley, principal of the school, saw the wind storm approaching and sounded an alarm. The roof of the brick building collapsed, however, before many of the children could run to safety. Lindley was hurt about the head by falling debris.

First reports were that the new high school building, situates beside the grade school, had collapsed. The storm leveled telegraph and telephone wires and shut the town off from quick outside communica-ttion. Boston Is six miles south of Richmond. School and town authorities, aided by Richond officials, continued a check tonight of the children enrolled in the school to make certain that all had been found. CHOCTAW PARADE PLANNED TODAY Six Hundred Students Expected to Take Part in March Thru Jackson MISSISSIPPI COLLEGE, CLIN TON.

Sept. 25 At one-thirty Sat urday afternoon the Mississippi College students and officials plan to give Capitol street and Jackson their first real taste of college spirit with a parade of some six hundred students and supporters. Startinz at Poidexter park and winding its way through the throng of people gathered on all sides of the streets terminating at the entrance to the fair grounds. Led by the Indians' band, whicn was last j'ear appointed a unit of the National Guard and 155th Infantry band, the students will follow in order of their classes. Sev eral novel ideas and secrets will remain un-expressed until the starting hour.

Nolsemaklng will predominate in this parade even more than ever before, as the student body is showing more interest than usual in this phase of college activities. Splendid signs of the "Choctaw Spirit" is manifested in each pep meeting. The Choctaws have had several enthusiastic meetings each week and under the leadership of Lloyd Simmons, head cheer leader, the "pep" should be nothing" short of the best. The first year men have been unusually active among student activities this year and have the largest class in many years. SPANISH SAILORS ARRESTED ON SHIP Believe Men Held in Quarters Because of Protest Against Pay Increase FERROL, Spain, Sept.

25 AP All sailors with the exception of engineers aboard a Spanish battleship anchored in the harbor were arrested today in their own quarters. It was learned the men were arrested as a result of telegrams sent to the naval minister protesting against increases in salary granted to the engineers of the ship. Whether any disorders occurred could not be learned. A rtrong guard was posted over the sailors. without any suggestions from Mrs.

HOUSTON, Sept. 25. (AP) The Birmingham, Southern association Barons, tonight became the baseball champions of all Dixie, beating Houston of the Texas league six to three in the seventh and deciding game of the series. Bob Hasty, the big right hander had first rate support to defeat "Dizzy" Dean, 20-year old number 1 man of the Houston pitching staff, whose mates erred at the wrong time. The Barons got ten hits from Dean, three less than Hasty allowed, but they got them at critical times.

The young Texan was beaten in the ninth inning, three Birmingham runs being scored off his delivery. Hasty was relieved in the ninth, by Ray Caldwell. It was the third time in the 12 years of the series a Southern association team had emerged top side up. Fort Worth beat Memphis of the Southern last season. Dean's series record was not equal to his pre-hostilities predictions.

Dropping tonight's game, he lost two and won one. A new record was set in the sereis for attendance and gross receipts, the totals being 81,025 and $125,834.25. Dean started out -by bowling down the Birmingham big guns, Bancroft, French and Abernathy. Houston, in its half of the first, scored in the initial run, Smith coming home on Medwick's single. He came in sliding.

The Barons came back in their half of the second, Weis doubling and scoring later on Cortazzo's Gooch scored for the Barons In the seventh, his long drive fell just safe back of first base and he took two bases. He went to (Continued on Page Eight) construction in the ten-year period approach $100,000,000. In 'addition, he estimates, nearly $80,000,000 would be provided for county purposes in the ten year period. Although this could include maintenance activities also, a large portion of it would be expected to be used for construction. Under the Stansel program as now outlined Mississippi would have in the next five years more paving than 33 states of the nation had on their highway systems January 1, 1930.

At the end of ten years the state would be "far ahead of surrounding states because they must soon stop construction and pay up their heavy bond issues and otherborrowings." The Stansel bill was predicated upon the report of the especially created roads survey committee of the house of representatives in an effort to arrive at a system highway operations adequate to Mississippi peculiar needs, VICKSBURG GIRL DIES OF INJURY Manslaughter Charges Face Four Men in Port Gibson Accident VICKSBURG, Sept. 25. (AP) Miss Ethel Winston, 23, who was injured, in an auto-truck collision near Port Gibson, on last Monday night, died Jn a local hospital today. Miss Winston, with her mother, were returning to Vicksburg from Baton Rouge, when the accident occurred. The truck, which was alleged to have been in the accident with the Winston car, was stopped in Natchez Monday night, and the four men aboard were arrested.

The men and truck were returned to Port Gibson Tuesday, where the men have since been held in jail pending outcome of Miss Winston's injuries. Miss Winston is survived by her mother and one sister, both of this city. Mrs. Winston suffered only bruises In the accident. SOUTHWEST HAS DEFICIT M'COMB, Sept.

25 Failure of the state legislature to appropriate funds last year for its support resulted in a deficit of $702.51 in the 1931 budget of the Pike County A. H. S. and the Southwest Junior College, according to the trustees' report to the board of supervisors." next session can make It possible for the state to get to work in 1932 on building up its road system at the rate of $8,000,000 to $16,000,000 a year. Although Stansel makes no recommendation for the new legislature, his plan shows that Mississippi could provide $16,000,000 for highway construction in 1932 and 1933, and thereafter $8,000,000 to $10,000,000 a year.

Nothing like $180,000,000, of course, is proposed for the state highway construction system. The so-called Stansel bill, produced by the legislative highway committee of which he was chairman, contemplates $88,000,000 being made available for state construction through increase of the gasoline tax to six cents and through automobile privilege taxes. He now estimates that the Increase in federal aid that has come about since adoption of the bill would maj tb.e total or state Ten Year Highway Program Reviewed Approximately $180,000,000 may be made available for a mighty state and county highway program in Mississippi extending over the next ten years. This is an outlook pictured in a statement made public yesterday by Representative H. S.

Stansel of Ruleville that presents the first public information given as to how Mississippi can put in operation the roadbuilding and maintenance program adopted by the 1930 session of the legislature. More than 5.000 miles of the present system of state roads would be paved under a ten-year finance program explained by the chairman of the committee that produced Mississippi's first great plan of highway operations. ComiKg at a time when the public is wondering just what the state can do with the generally approved program that was left without necessary finance measures, the statement explains how action at the.