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Fori Over A Century Prints All The Nctcs That's Fit To Print And Prints It First Has Set The Pace For Mississippi Journalism FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS JACKSON, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14, 1940 ESTABLISHED 1837 T7 Tlie Daily Washington Merrf y-Go-Round By )REW PEARSON and bJOBERT S. ALLEN Authors' "Washington Merry Go Round" and "More Mrry-Go-Round tt -A- ir it it i WW -n rvv i illMl If MiJ Mm ic ic it J- If Follows Stat inaugural onuson Pilot's Skill Saves Lives ernne vr ff? VA Pi Reins Of Capital To Change Hands Monday, Tuesday Cells Ml 'Is t'i Five passengers and the crew of three escaped death or serious injury when a big United Air Lines plane en route from New York to San Francisco made a forced landing on a narrow strip of thick ice on the Rock river near Moline, 111. Four passengers and two of the pilots sustained minor injuries. The damaged ship is shown after it skidded across the ice and crashed -into a concrete retaining wall on the river bank. City Bedecked for Tuesday; Plans Completed by Hederman, Speed Plans for the inauguration of Paul Johnson as governor of Mississippi an event for which he has waited a life time were announced complete yesterday by the committees in charge.

After checking over the program for the day, R. M. Hederman, and Leland Speed, co-chairmen of the Chamber of Commerce's inaugural committee, announced that virtually every detail is complete and that nothing remains except for the clock to strike the hour. The capital, already partly decked in holiday attire with flags and bunting and with huge pictures of the new chief executive, will finish its costuming Monday to present gala spectacle as the state comes to the hour for changing administrations. Both the capitols and the his toric executive mansion broke out their flags yesterday as decorators started their task of robing the stately buildings; for the occasion.

Business houses along Capitol street and in. other downtown areas followed suit and by nightfall the city had given itself over to antici pation of the big event scheduled for Tuesday. While the Capital City thus bus ied itself with last-minute details news came from various sections of the state of tremendous crowds that will gather here to see the state's 46th. chief executive take the formal oath and to witness the parade and the social events that are a part of every inaugural. From Hattiesburg, home town of the new governor, came word that the city will shut up shop for the day and most of its citizens will make the trip to Jackson to attend the inauguration.

Two special trains will be operr ated from Hattiesburg to 1 accommodate the crowds and railroad officials said yesterday they would likely operate several other spe- (Continued On Page Eleven) STATE WPA GETS ALMOST $500,000 Appropriation is for Adult Education Work, Nursery Schools WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 Mississippi will receive almost a half-million dollars from the works progress administration for carrying on general adult education work and nursery schools in the state. Senator Theo. G. Bilbo of Mississippi revealed today.

The senator said he had been notified by President Roosevelt that a project, calling for an allotment of $479,861, for this purpose was approved. FIRE DAMAGES OLD CASTLE BELFAST, Jan. 13. (P) Fire early today severely damaged one wing of Baronscourt, 300-year-old castle on the estate of the Duke of Abercorn, governor of Northern Ireland. Idea For? FDR's Famous Peace idea xui via Rraintmster Berle; Experts Expect Defeat When Weather Despite Soviet Errors; Liberal harm Credit Policy Due As Wall Ace Puts Own Man At Head Cf Agency; Committee rrobine Labor Board Has Scrap Over Questioning Meth od.

Jan. 13 Frl- TTilkUiAAAf vately prpid is Assistant Secretary of Sthte Berle that ''he is both an original'" Roosevelt braintruster and a gooU friend of All Lancton s. Tr, fant the is so good a friend of i nHnn I that he has sometimes ilandon's ideas into the Whits Houlse. Only a few of Berle rinp fHprtds know it, but one of these ideas- brought Roosevelt con siderable as a peace auvo- cate last (summer. This is the in-kMp storva kas scheduled to speak at "Mftfr, naiine last May.

but his young son! Jack developed double matnirnt.i.. and the speech was rnripH JLandon had intended nrnnn.eiinp' that the European pow ers, then drifting closer and closer to war, a conference in an effort to' aTi ert the conflict. A -few da'-ys later, in a letter to Berle on another subject, Landon outlined his plan and asked the hrflintnistei-'S opinion Of it. Alf heard no rrfcore about it until three weeks latefi, when Roosevelt issued an appeal to Europe to hold a peace paries Landon said nothing at the time, but dining at Berle's Washington home last Iroonth, he asked: "Did you show liny letter to the President?" "I certaiiily did," Berle replied. "Think anything as good as that could comt to my desk ana I wouldn't sbfJw it to him?" "That's very interesting.

I thought recognized some of my rather phrases in the President's message." "I thought you would," grinned Berle. "Vfhy do you say they were rough? We thought they were very good." Mrs. Austin Vermont's Mrs. Warren Austin, wife of tJie able assistant Republican floor deader of the Senate, has a sfood joeon Robert of the i Democrat'0 National Committee. Th-3 Auxins and the Roberts both live in th Mayflower hotel, where Chip Robvrt also maintains an of- (Contfnued On Page Nine) faSSget in fdr hair Dixie Solons' Economy Enthusiasm Cooled By Parity Designs WASHINGTON, Jan.

13 HV-The souths5 cotton farmer became a disturbing factor in the congressional drive this week to keep appropriations within President Roosevelt's budget estimates. Thp situation was that agriculture accounted for about half the net production which the president or au governmental expenditures. TIfie absence of any provision for parity payments to farmers tempered the enthusiasm of economy-mjJided southern congressmen overan estimated cut of $675,000,000 In the coming year's federal out-lalv. lEasine' the sitnat inn ir enma ejl tent. President Roosevelt indicated! willingness to consider the parity paymerit.

question later in the session if agricultural prices did I (Continued On Page 12) WEATHER MISSISSIPPI Sunday, occasional rains and much colder. Monday, fair, slishtly warmer 1b northwest. LOUISIANA Sunday, mostly clnuriv an4 nn.ii 'jr, ram in extreme east portion. Monday, ialr, warmpr in rvtroma ir) vhu wide uu rAirrine norin portions. ARKANSAS Sunday, cloudy and much colder Monday, fair and slightly warmer.

Jackson Atlanta Birmingham hicago Denver Jacksonville Little Rock Memphis Meridian Miami Mobile New Orleans New York Vicksburs .66 .44 ..57 ..34 .23 .61 .45 51 42 46 26 15 58 33 35 49 67 55 51 37 -42 ..02 .19 .36 1.06 .36 .64 81 63 ......68 42 65 .02 .04 KIVER BULLETIN', STAGES IN MISSISSIPPI Flood Pres. FEET 24-nour Chanre 0.1 rise Stare St. Louis 30 Stare 5.4 0.2 0.4 0.8 5.2 0 6 3.3 2.8 2 8 1.0 1.0 Mempius 34 Helena 44 Arkansas City 42 Vicksburg 43 Katchez 48 Angola 45 Baton Roujte 35 Donaldsonville 28 Reserve 22 New Orleans 17 OHIO Calm ....40 0.6 0.3 0.6 0 6 0.5 0.2 0.0 0.2 0.3 0.3 rise rise fall fall fall fall rise rise rise 74T 0.3 rise 2 Con HOLD-UP MEN ELUDE POLICE Attala Kidnap Banditry Suspects Are All Ex-Convicts After a widespread hunt early- last night in Jackson by city police and throughout Hinds county by sheriff's deputies, local law enforcement agencies reported they were certain the three local men suspected in the Kosciusko holdup were not in Jackson. Marshal W. C.

McCullough of McCool said last night "no clues" had been uncovered in the search for the three ex-convicts wanted for a robbery-with-firearms Friday night. The marshal said, however, that Attala county officers had received word the fleeing trio had been "sighted" near Jackson. Hinds county officers and Jackson police joined the state highway patrol and Attala County Sheriff Everett Bailey yesterday in a search for three ex-convicts wanted for the kidnap-robbery-assault of William Kimbrough, respected negro merchant in McCool. Sheriff Bailey said the suspects were: Roy Livingston, sent to the penitentiary March 22, 1933, under a one-year sentence for robbery, and later involved with Carl Bailey as a witness in the stabbing of young (Continued On Page 12) Dempsey And Old Manager Reunited In Fight Contract NEW YORK, Jan. 13.

(JP) Jack Dempsey and the man who managed him to the world's heavyweight championship, Jack Kearns, today joined in their frist business pact since Dempsey quit fighting as articles were signed for a 12-round fight at Detroit between Red Bur-man and Bob Pastor. The agreement for a March 14 bout was put into writing at a turkey and champagne luncheon with all its attendant fanfare in one of Dempsey's mid-town restaurants a year to the day after Burman beat Welshman Tommy Farr here. Pastor was guaranteed $10,000 or an option of 30 per cent and Bur-man was given a guarantee of or an option of 20 per cent. LONG'S MANAGER PREDICTS NEW ORLEANS. Jan.

13. Governor Earl K. Long's campaign managers predicted today that Long would make a "touchdown" in the first primary Tuesday and decide the election then in the five-man gubernatorial race. draught that is being set before the reople of Mississippi on the trays of the impending senatorial and congressional primaries, slated for the hot summer months. First there was ihe hand-shaking incident up in Washington the othe day, when Mississippi's two senators, Pat Harrison and "The Man" Bilbo, tucked their respective prides in the pockets of their morning coats or was it the pockets of their striped trousers? and the press associations and Washington correspondents rushed to their wires with the news that the Bilbo-Harrison feud is over, or apparently so.

Ordinarily there would be no on Page Twelve), Men Are In Hinds ace State Trail Is Guarded by National Guard Troops PRENTISS. Jan. 13 LTV A effer- son Davis county jury returned a verdict of "guilty as charged" tonight against two negroes tried for the slaying of a white peace omcer and they were sentenced to De hanged February 23. The jury deliberated 45 min utes. The negroes, Hilton Forten- berry and erome Franklin, were broucht to trial yesterday for the fatal shooting of Farmer Marshal C.

Sanford here New Year's day. About 75 national guardsmen under command of Major T. B. Birdsong surrounded the court house. There was no demonstration at' the verdict.

Judge J. C. S. Ivcrs of Poplar- ville pronounced sentence after polling the jury, chiefly farmers. Closing arguments Degan laio today as rain beat steadily on the windows of the courthouse.

Sanford was shot adn killed when he sought to stop a car believed running liquor in "dry" Mississippi. E. Currie of HattlesburR, attorney lor Franklin, pleaded "no one knows better than that this is a white man's country, and that it's going to stay. that way. But the enly way we can keep lt a white man's country is to be fair and just, and sometimes even a little charitable." He asked the jurors not to take advantage of his client because the latter was a negro.

Currie admitted that Franklia ownea the car, gun and whiskey in the case, but argued that he was too busy driving to do any shoot ing, reviewing testimony that sound of the shots was followed immediately by the noise of a. racing motor. G. M. Miloy of Prentiss, one of two court-appointed attorneys for Fortcnberry, centered his attack on Willie Barnes, young negro who turned state's evidence in the case.

Milov hcarced the liquor running episode was enstigated by author ities who wished to arrest the neg. roes, saying "this is the most deplorable part of the case." PRENTISS, Jan. 13 UFh-Peace officers testimony that Hilton Fortcnberry, negro, fired the shot that killed former Marshal J. C. Sanford here New Year's day concluded the state's evidence today in trial of Fortenberry and Jerome Franklin, another negro, on murder charges.

Testimony opened today under bayonets of national guardsmen, sent here by Governor Hugh White to insure against a threat of "lynch and is expected to be concluded tonight. Yesterday was spent picking a jury. Sheriff S. G. Magee testified that Franklin, caught" soon after the slaying which came when officers tried to stop a car in search of con traband liquor, told him Fortenberry (Continued On Page Eleven) Three Convicts Slug Pen Agent In Prison Breali BUFFALO.

N. Jan. 13 WV-Three life term convicts slugged W. R. Crane, penitentiary agent, and escaped today as they were being transferred to the state prison at Hunts ville.

The trio, Robert Lacy Cash, J. W. Mann and Andrew Nelson-threw the unconscious Crane into a ditch, drove his car to Buffalo and seized another automobile at a service station. They were last seen speeding through Teague. WIDOW OF MADISON LEGISLATOR IS ELECTED Canton, Jan.

13. Mrs. Charles Mansell, widow of the late Madison County Representative Charlie Mansell was elected here today in a special vote to fill the vacated seat in the Mississippi legislature. Mrs. Mansell had a 66 majority of about 60 votes over her four opponents on the face of nearly complete returns.

Only one box with about 20 or 30 votes remained out. Pratt Lutz, with 523 votes, ran a close second trailed by Maurice R. Black, Clint Dorroh and Alf Muckie, J4. 'IT'S A LIE' INSIST REDS Reports of German Aid, Finnish Victories Derided By Soviets MOSCOW, Jan. 13.

(P) The Soviet Russian army command declared tonight that "animal fear before the prospect of a military bloc between Germany and the U. S. S. had inspired what it described as foreign reports that Germany military instructors were reorganizing the Red army. It said the report was a "stupid, extraordinary lie." The long statement asserted- also that only 900 Russian soldiers had lost their lives in the Finnish campaign and these casualties were "due to the sudden cold which set in, rather than to the action of Finnish troops." On the other hand, the war review issued by the Leningrad area military headquarters through Tass, official Soviet news agency, declared Finnish.

troops have lost not less than 2,000 killed and wounded. It declared, further, that "foreign gossipers carefully pass in silence" that fact that "members of the Finnish Schutz corps brutally killed their wounded" so (Continued on Page Fifteen) Margaret Mitchell Has Operation She Put Off For Film ATLANTA, Jan. 13. (JP) Diminutive Margaret Mitchell underwent today an operation for adbominal adhesions which she had deferred for months so she could attend the world premiere screening last Dec. 15 of her Civil war novel, "Gone With The Wind." Her condition was termed satisfactory tonight.

Murphree Wiil Take Oath Monday for Third Time as Lt. Governor Mississippi has reached the point for "changing the horses," as it were, and tomorrow a new team will be harnessed to the rig of state and the government will move along again under new power. AH state officials, newly elected and those who were reelected in the primaries last summer, are required to take the oath of office tomorrow the day before the new governor, Paul Johnson is sworn in as the 46th governor of the state. But many of the officials have already filed their ormal oaths with the secretary of state and there will be no formal swearing in for them tomorrow. Only a comparatively few of them will actually take the oath on the same day they are inducted into their respective offices.

The inauguration of the new lieutenant-governor, however, will be attended by the usual ceremony in the senate chamber at the New Capitol. Dennis Murphree, the "Tiew first mate of the state government, will take the qath tomorrow afternoon for the third time as lieutenant governor. It will be the seventh time he has taken an oath as an official in the state government. The ceremony also will mark the first time in the history of the state that the same man has been sworn in as lieutenant governor for a third term. No governor has ever served for three terms, although several of them have served two terms.

The inauguration of the new lieutenant governor will take place at two o'clock. Chief Justice Sydney Smith will administer the oath. The senate wil lreconvene tomorrow a day ahead of the house for the ceremony and members of the senate who have served through the years with Governor Murphree will have prominent places on' the program. Lieutenant Governor J. B.

Snider, who succeeded Murphree four years ago, will turn the same gavel back to him today with a brief talk which will serve as his introductory to the senate. Senator Winter, of Grenada, will make a brief speech and Senator W. B. Roberts, a veteran of twenty years in the legislature, who is president pro tern of the present senate, will address the senate also. Mr.

Murphree comes back to the familiar halls of the capitol to begin a tenure of office which completed, will give him 24 years in the public service of the state. He served three terms in the house of representatives and became lieutenant governor the first time in 1924. Upon the death of Governor Henry L. Whitefield, he became the acting governor and served about 16 months in that office. He was elected lieutenant governor again in 1931 and again in 1939.

MRS. KELLY IMPROVES INDIANOLA, Jan. 11 Friends and relatives of Mrs. W. W.

Kelly will be glad to know she is well on the way to recovery in the Methodist Hospital at Memphis, Tenn. Doctors of the hospital report that she may leave the hospital in a very few days. 20 others, including nine women, were reported injured from the 40 bombs rained on the city by the raiders. Finnish officials said that at least 400 Soviet planes, the same number that participated in far-ranging attacks yesterday, took part in today's raids throughout Finland. Slelsinki escaped yesterday's raids but this was a perfect bombing day, with high clouds which permitted the Soviet fliers to disappear at will and dodge defensive fire.

The Finnish high command in (Continued. On Page Eleven) 14 i I .4 FINNISH AID TO BE TALKED Roosevelt Confers With Democratic Congressional Leaders Monday WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. vP Assurances came from the white house today that the question of possible financial aid to Finland would be threshed out on Monday when President Roosevelt confers with democratic congressional leaders." At the same time, there were reports on capitol hill that the treasury would advise that from the purely fiscal standpoint, there were no objections to a loan. The opinion of Secretary Morgenthau and of Jesse Jones, federal loan administrator, have been asked by the senate banking committee.

The white, house made known that Mr. Roosevelt would seek to clarify the Finnish question after (Continued On Page 12) ARKANSAS DOCTOR ADMITS CHARGES Former Official Confesses Giving Doctors Degree for $800 in 1928 LITTLE ROCK, Jan. 13 (IP) A former official of a Kansas City medical school now serving a U. S. prison sentence testified today in the federal district court trial of Norman Baker and four others on a charge of using the mails to defraud that he issued one of the defendants, Dr.

O. L. Beat-ty, a diploma in 1928 upon payment of $800. While Date Alexander, the white-thatched convict brought here from a penitentiary at Springfield, testified, Dr. Beatty, slight, bait chief of staff at the Baker hospital in Eureka Springs, stared intently at him.

The trial of Baker, Dr. Beatty and three associates in connection with the advertising of a claimed cancer cure at Baker hospital in Eureka Springs and Muscatine, was recessed until Monday. Alexander, identifying himself as a former secretary of the Kansas City College of Medicine and Surgery and an assistant secretary of its successor, the American Medical university, testified that Dr. Beatty paid him $800 for a diploma from the latter institution. Asked if Dr.

Beatty had attended Kansas City College of Medicine and Surgery in the years listed fa-ter in his application for a state license, Alexander said "no sir." HUGH CRAFT LAUREL, Jan. 12. Hugh Craft, 39, former business man of this city, died suddenly in Atlanta, Ga. The body was brought here for burial today. The deceased was a half brother of Mrs.

W. A. Skasres of I Laurel, WHITE PARDONS FOUR CONVICT) SERVANTS AT-THEMANSION -1 Four negro convicts, three of them convicted of murder and one of manslaughter, who have served Gfovernor and Mrs. "White as servants at the executive mansion, were pardoned yesterday by the govern nor. The pardons, filed with the secretary of state, are effective Monday, the last day of the governor's term of office.

All of the servants left the mansion with the Whites last Wednesday, when the mansion, was turned over to Governor Johnson and his family, Those who received pardons as a reward or their service the governor were: Lethe Dell Suber, Sunflower county, serving a life term for murder. Robert Dunn, Tunica county serving a life term for murder. David Butler, Sunflower county, serving a life term for murder. Philistine Harris, Pike' county, serving a 7-year term for manslaughter The Suber and Harris women served as cook and housemaid, respectively, while the two men, Butler and Dunn, were yard boys at the The pardons were issued by the retiring governor in accordance with an old custom in Mississippi of rewarding mansion servants with pardons for their service to the chief executive. CAPTURED GERMAN SHIP CREW HELD Nazi Sailors Attempt to Sink Vessel, Account Reveals Bermuda, Jan 13- (JP) How the crew of the captured German liner Dusseldorf tried to sink her with a time bomb while a British prize-crew- was aboard was told today by an authoritative source.

The prize of war, captured off Chile .15, arrived here yesterday under British nationality and renamed the "Poland" in honor of Commander John R. Poland of H. M. S. Despatch, which seized her.

This is the story related by the informant. At the time of the capture the Nazi crew was transferred to the Despatch and the prize crew put aboard. As the Duesseldorf proceeded, the German captain was overheard to remark in German to one of his crew: "They won't get far." A British officer reported to Commander Poland who at once suspected a time bomb had been planted. Commander Poland ordered the German crew back on board their ship and told them to find the bomb or they would be left to blow up, They found the bomb. Harrison, Bilbo, White Stir Political Stew As Campaign Year Dawning Soviet Bombs Threaten United States Legation In New Helsinki Raids HELSINKI, Jan.

13 Russian bombs fell close to the United States legation in suburban Gran- kulla today when Red army war-planes engaged in their first raid of 1940 on Helsinki. The Grankulla district, where many foreigners took up temporary residence after the Soviet invasion was jolted severely by the detonating bombs. Twelve 300-pound bombs fell in the Espoo district close by Grankulla, but no deaths were reported there. In Helsinki, however, two men ana one woman were on a death list made public late tonight and By JAMES B. GIBSON Politics, long the hand-maiden of legislative sessions in Mississippi and Washington has emerged like a timid actor from the wings of the stage and starts speaking its piece as the new administration is poised for the quad, rennial hop-off.

As is often the case, the opening scene of the drama that is about to begin has more pronounced national than state and local aspects, even though there is much in it to. attract and hold the interest of Mississippians who believe in drinking copiously from the political cup at any season. Simultaneous meetings of the state legislature and Congress have served to stimulate the limn; jjujijj jjjJJ.j'jaHiiiiUllJ ii li.lhl U.C-mJuUiLi.