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zs. GREENWOOD COMMONWEALTH VOLUME 20 NUMHER 205. GREENWOOD, LEFLORE COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 28, 1935. FIVE CENTS IU1 0 BS la InlUuv IL UUL nnniuuiuuLUiUHuimjinuiiULB miiiiuiiiiiiiiuiiiiiuiimiiiiuiiiiiia irniimunmniiimnitimiitiiiitMi Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniim ussolini's Forces Ethiopians Back Toward Addis Ababa Street Commissioner OVERTON BILL TORNADOES HIT IN TWO STATES SMITH FIGHTS FUTURE MARKET GEORGIA MOB SHOOTS NEGRO ALVINKARP1S PRICE GOES UP Announces Platform during the summer months. "I propose to pass an ordinance making it unlawful for mosquitoes to run at large in the City of Greenwood and to enough oil in the catch basins to make sure that they do not.

"I propose to drain the sidewalks so that those who are forced to use them upon occasion of rainy weather will not be forced to buy boots', and it is my intention to secure the vote of the taller men for re-election by trimming the trees along the sidewalks, so that persons mors than five feet tall may walk the streets without peril to their eyesight. "I propose to bring the blessings of gas and street lights to the North Greenwood area. It will be one of rr.y acts to end the fifteen year old litigation between men concerning the North Greenwood reservations. No man will be permitted to participate in the negotiations or represent either city or the owners of the rights. I intend to have the women on both sides consider the matter, and I can safely promise that at least our negotiations can end no worse than they have in the past.

"Oh yes, being street icmmis-sioner is an easy job. I expect such an easy time of it that I'm Mrs. Sumter Gillespie, street commissioner for a day, who will direct the affairs of the city on Saturday, insofar as they huve to do with the manifold duties of the street department, today outlined her policies. "Being commissioner of the streets is a very simple matter," said Mrs. Gillespie, in speaking of her platform.

"I'll just publish a notice in the Commonwealth asking the co-operation of everybody in keeping the streets clean. Immediately everybody will quit sweeping trash into the gutters after the wagons- have made their rounds, and all householders will at once put their garbaga into the proper receptacles. All trash cans will be fitted witih tops and no more grass of tree limbs will be piled in the streets. Oh! the job will be very easy. "But I inteni to introduce several innovations.

The drive) of my garbage trucks will be instructed to knock firmly but quietly at every back door, and inquire from the lady of the house if there is anything that can be done for her. The drivers will be instructed to wring chicken necks, if needed, and to lay carpets, collect ashes from the stove, and perform any other odd jo'bs which may be wanted. "As a means of solving the unemployment problem, I'm sure this method will apeal, and that) the householders will appreciate the service. Only a few hundred extra men will be needed. "I propose to stabilize the river banks, and to plant all of the present unsightly banks with flowers and vines, so that visitors to the city can realize the beauties of the Yazoo river in fact as well as in poetry and song.

"I propose to put nothing bat smokeless garbage in the incinerator in order that no citizen will be subjected to that nuisance Senator Says Market Is Good 1'oker Game With Cards Stacked. WASHINGTON, April 20 W) The cotton futures market was described today by Chairman Smith (D-SC) of the Senate Agriculture Committee, as "a good poker game with the cards stacked," for the "boys running it." Smith was discussing before his committeC) now inveiitigating cot- ton price fluctuations, "Unless the futures market rep. resents and reflects the real value Lof cotton you have a confusion that plays into the conditions of uncer- tainty," he declared. You have a futures prices for strict middling seventh-eights in, the same market you have a spot price, for the same glass, and you have another price in the country markets. "Therefore, we have got to find out what the futures market actually Asserting the confusion was "worse than confounding" to the public, Smith declared "there was not much confusion in the minds of the boys running it." It was a good poker game with the cards stacked," he said.

The Chairman reiterated the purpose of the investigation, was to uncover "the elements of demoralization and confusion in the minds of the public" and to find out whv the futures market "is dead." WASHINGTON, April 28 (IP) A call for a government-business alliance to solve the unemployment problem and a senator's efforts to change the administration's taX plan topped the capital's news today. Harper Sibley, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, sounded the call in a speech prepared for 'delivery to the Chamber's 24th annual convention. Resources were at hand to put the jobless millions to work, he said, and the real issue was whe- ITALIAN ARMY DRIVES ETHIOPS Northern Army Sweeping Steadily Toward Capital. Is ROME, April 28 Italy's victorious Northern army drove directly south today toward Anko-ber, mid-way point between Dessye and Addis Ababa, on the third day of its major advance aganist Ethiopia's capitol. The advance guard was believed to be already at least half way.

down the imperial highway to Addis Ababa. Three separate columns, two on foot and one aboard motor trucks, participated in the climactic movement of the six-month-long fascist campaign of conquest. Italian dispatches reported two columns of native Eritrean Askari advanced far ahead of the main motorized column of 15,000 Italian white soldiers, protecting both flanks and clearing the countryside of roving Ethiopian bands. Direct advice from the main unit, which rumbled out of Dessye, former headquarters of Emperor Haile Selassie, at dawn Sunday, said it reached a point 62 miles to the South yesterday after its advance guard encountered brief resistance. Outposts fought a minor skirmish with several hundred native irregulars, the dispatches said, killing 14 Ethiopians and wounding many other with machine gun fire before the irregulars fled to the hills.

The main column proceeded on its course. One of the Askari columns re. ported to the high command, under Marshal Pietro Badoglio, that it moving rapidly to the south on a short cut, off the imperial highway. BAPTISTS HOLD JOINTMEETING Northern and Southern Churches Will Convene At St. Louis ST.

LOUIS, April 28 (P) The world's most prominent Baptist leaders are expected to assemble here next month when, for the second lime since 1845, northern and southern Baptists will hold joint conventions in the municipal auditorium. Convention officials estimate about 15,000 delegates and visitors will be here during the joint meetings May 18 and 19. Each' will conduct its own busi-1 ness sessions. Dr. John H.

Sampey, of Louis-; ville, will preside over the southern organization's meetings. Dr. James H. Franklin of Chester, is head of the northern group, Among the Baptist notables expected from abroad is Dr. II.

Rushbrooke of London, England, secretary of the Baptist world al-! liance. He and Dr. George W. I Truett of Dallas, president of the alliance, will report on1 Baptist affairs in other natiors. Largest Diamond Cut In Three Pieces NEW YORK, April 28 OP) The eyes of Lazare Kaplan, diamond-cutter, shone with happy tears today as he told how he performed the biggest job of his career the first cleaving of the Jonker diamond.

The 726-carat gem which was yesterday the world's largest and finest uncut diamond is now in three pieces. Later these will be split, into twelve, which the owner hopes to see sold in a $2,000,000 necklace. It was Kaplan's task to tap the uncut jewel, which Jacobus Jonker found in a south African mine, with a brass hammer and sever it. for the first time an operation so delicate that ever the owner Hary Winston, wouldn't look on. The diamond fell apart perfect- TO REACH HOUSE AT EARLY DATE Executive Session of Honxe Committee Will Held Thursday WASHINGTON, April 28 (IP) The house flood eontrol committee scheduled' today an executive hearing Thursday on the compensation section of the Overtoil flood control bill.

Committee members indicated the measure might reach the house floor next week. The committee asked Major General E. M. Markham, chief of army engineers, to explain the war department's position on a provision in the bill to limit the cost of flowage rights in the Eu-dora and Morgunza floodways on the lower Mississippi river to $20,000,000. Markham changed his re-om-mendatdons from last year, it was explained, and some members Voiced a desire to hear an explanation.

Committee members indicated there was no serious disagreement over the measure, designed to complete the work begun in 1928 for control of floods on the Mississippi from Memphis south to the gulf of Mexico. The failure ot tne committee to hold open hearings on the measure, passed last week by ihe senate, was said by members to indicate general approval the bill. Hearings were held last year on a bill by Representative John McClellan (D-Ark), which embodied practically all the Overton bill features with respect to the floodways. The only material change was the section which provided levee districts or other government subdivisions must agree upon the cost of flowage rights for 70 per cent of the affected area, with a cost limitation of $20,000,000. After 75 per eent of the floodway area rights have been obtained, the war department then would be authorized to condemn the other.

NEW KING RULES OVER IN EGYPT Crown Prince Farouk Is Described As Perfectly Educated Boy LONDON, Apr. 28 () Egypt's new king is the 16-year-old Crown Prince Farouk, whose teachers have described him as the "perfectly educated boy." The death of his father, King Fuad came on the eve of the prince's planned departure for Cairo from Kenry House, Kingston Hill, which he has been studying for entrance to the royal military academy at Woolwich. The six foot prince will rule under a regency until he is 19 years old, his father having left a sealed envelope which will be opened to disclose his choice for regents. Good looking, affable, and unusually mature in appearance, Farouk has been carefully educated from childhood in keeping with his father's maxim: "It is nothing to be a prince, but it is some-V, thing to be useful." The prince has been a resident of England since last October, living in a large stone mansion with a personal staff. Farouk was not immediately informed of his father's death, pending the receipt of official word from Cairo.

0 THE WEATHER TEMPERATURE Maximum 87 degrees; minimum 65 degrees; rainfall 0.15; river gauge 22.41, fall 1.00. FOR MISSISSIPPI Probably thundershowerg tonight and Keen Interest Is Shown On Ladies Day, May 2nd Louisiana and Texas Towns Report Heavy Windstorms ROCKDALE, April 28 JP) Two persons were killed by a tornado which ripped through a farming section six miles northwest of Rockdale during a heavy rain and hajl storm early today. A negro woman by' the name of Sullivan and her grown son, living on the Sims ranch north-1 west or uocKuaie, were Kiiiua oy luiuutfu nuiua iugiug 2 Three houses on the ranch were demolished and several others blown from foundations. Tin. moo-it, u'ae 'fnllii1 ili.Qfl 1 in a field some distance from the house.

The woman died in the wreckage ol their dwelling. Several other persons living on the ranch were injured and there were repots of injuies in outlying places. Another twister struck Cuero, about 125 miles south of Rockdale, injuring six persons. Sev eral houses were blown from their foundations. The Cuero home of Louis Lin-do was demolished, caching fire.

Lindo and his five children were scratched and bruised. General rains, worth millions of dollars to Texas ranchers and farmers, drenched the state except in the extreme southwest and along the Mexican border. The most prolonged spring drought in many years was definitely alleviated for most of the state and parched crops wera assured of moistiiire. Planting delayed by the severe dry weather can start now. CUERO, April 28 (iP) Six persons were injured, none seriously, early today when a tornado struck a section of Cuero.

Several houses were "blown from their foundations, roofs were stripped and the city was liuered The home of Louis Lindo was demolished, catching fire alter it was hlmvn Hmvn T.imln five children suffered scratches and minor injuries. Crops were not, damaged ously by the wind and were bene fitted by a half inch rain. JENNINGS, April 28 Trees were uprooted, and electric poles were blown down, ci'tting off power here for several hours in a heavy windstorm that struck Jennings and vicinity this non-ing. A heavy rain accompanied the winds. Reports received from nearby Elton said that some damage was caused by high winds there which blew down several small build- mgs arm uiuuuteu wtta, Name Hostesses For Ladies Day The following ladies have been appointed to act as hostesses to out-of-town women shoppers on Ladies' Day May 2.

They are asked to meet in the Chamber of Commerce tomorrow (Wednesday morning) at 10 o'clock, when their duties will be outlined to them. Chairman: Mrs. R. J. Pettey.

Committee members: Mesdames E. E. Vaughn, C. E. Couty, Hugh Sutherland, Harrison Curtis, Hanks Flanagan, Willard Harding, D.

D. Wicr, Lucille Reddock, G. C. Roberts, Kirby Henderson, Jeff Wilson, Whitty Wall, H. T.

Odom, Fred Witty, M. F. Pierce, Frank Short, C. C. Smith, W.

G. Stuart, Thomas P. Crymes, Harry Mar-chand, V. H. Hughes, Flowers Hamrick, Edgar Lawrence, Ira Bright, John Parish, Tom Stan-! difer, Watt Smylie, Millard Wei ler, A.

H. Bell, Sam Osborn, Alfred Stoner, R. F. Friermood, Riley Moore, R. M.

Banister, J. H. Gardner, W. H. Holloway, Anne Lemons, T.

N. Powell, and Misses Flora Reiman and Kate Wilson. The above ladies will greet out-of-town shoppers when they arrive, furnish them with shoppers' guides, give general information, and acquaint them with the facilities offered by Headquarters. i I Additional $2,000 Offered for Arrest of-Public Enemy No. 1 WASHINGTON, April 2S (IP) The price on the head of Alvin Karpis went up to $7,000 today as the postoffice inspection service disclosed an undercover search for the man now rated as "Public Enemy No.

1." The inspection iervice offered $2,000 for information resulting in the arrest and conviction of Karpis and another $2,000 for information leading to the arrem and conviction of his companion, Harry Campbell. Attorney General Cummings offered $5,000 for Karpis leads and $2,500 for Campbell tips last week. The inspection service said today it has been working closely with the federal bureau of investigation since Karpis and Campbell were named as leaders of a gang which recently robbed a train at Garrettsville, Ohio. The bureau of investigation wants Karpis and Campbell for the kidnaping of Edward G. Bremer, St Paul, banker on January 17, 1934.

Karpis is also charged with the earlier kidnaping of Wililam A. Hamm, St. Paul Brewer. GEORGIA WILL HOLD PRIMARY FOR PRESIDENT Roosevelt Signs Necessary Papers for Entry Into Primary WASHINGTON, April 28 President Roosevelt today signed the necessary papers for entry in the Georgia democratic presiden tial primary. Senator Russell of Georgia, and Marion H.

Aller, Roosevelt manager in Georgia, asked the president to place his name formally in the race. The state democratic executive committee controlled by Governor Eugene Talmadge, anti-new dealer, named a primary date for early in June with a stipulation of a $10,000 fee for presidential candidates. "We haven't got all the money yet," said after his white house call, "but I think we will get it all right." Government Steamer At Local Landing The United States" steamer "Control" brought reminiscences today of the vanished days when the Y'azoo river was a highway of commerce. The "Control" is making an inspection tour of the Yazoo river. It left Vicksburg Sunday for an up the river trip, and is the first steamboat to tie up at Greenwood in several years.

Capt. P. B. Portwood, the last of the Yazoo river pilots, who steered the tortuous bends of the Y'azoo and the Tallahatchie rivers with cargo carrying steamers, piloted the "Control" on its trip in the upper river. Jaycees-Welfare League Meet Tonight There will be a joint meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Welfare League in the Chamber of Commerce aul ditorium tonight at 7:15.

Every member of both organizations is urged to attend as this is a very important meeting. 0 NOT A MOVING PICTURE CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. A collision with an elephant on a North Georgia highway gave Hoyt Zilen, TVA employe, a swt and a sudden stop. I The pachydern ambled along the I highway with the amazed Zilen' following cautiously until circus men claimed the animal, a wanderer from their caravan. Accused of Attempted Assault, Lint Shaw I Mobbed Before Trial ROYSTON, April 2S(IP) Lint Shaw, buriy negro farmer once saved from lynching through the plea of an aged judge, was shot to death by a mob of forty men eight hours before he was to have gone to trial on a charge of attempting criminal assault today.

His body was found at dawn, tied to a pine tree in a creek bottom near Colbert, his home. Pierced by shotgun, pistol and rifle bullets, he died at" the scene where two white girls reportta he attempted to attack thm after their motor car broke down April 10. Two bullet wounds the negro received after stabbing two officers in resisting arrest had not yet healed. The mob, climaxing a series of demonstrations against the 45-year-old negro which oncd required the intervention of national guardsmen, broke into Roy-ston's one-story jail about midnight, cornered night chief of police, W. A.

Dickerson and smashed a lock on the prisoner's cell. "I couldn't see exactly what, happened," Dickerson said. just told me they wanted the negro. He didn't ay a word when they dragged him out." flowlines, cctton ropes used for guiding work animals in the fields, were cut up to tie the negro to the tree. The jail here was the third in which he had been held since he was identified by the girls a.

the man who pursued them with a knife and threw one into a gulley. The assailant was frightened away by their screams. First he was taken to jail at Daniels-ville, Ga. Enroute he stabbed the officers and was shot twice in return. A mob of 100 men foimed there and battered some bricks from the jail in 'an attempt to reach him.

Superior Judge Berry T. Moseley, 74, left a sickbed to warn the throng against a lynching, and deterred the leaders -until a national guard unit, rushed to that city from tornado emergency duty at Gainesville, took the negro in custody. "Stop violating the law by breaking into jail," warned the judge. At Judge Moseley's suggestion, Sheriff T. L.

Henley deputized several members of the crowd to help keep order. From Danielsville Shaw was taken to Atlanta, both to save him from further mob outbreaks and to give him medical attention. He was returned to Danielsville last night to await trial before Judge Moseley, but a threatening crowd caused Sheriff Henley to move him to this city. Inflamed citizens learned of the transfer and followed. Several hours after the lynching Shaw still was bound to the tree as throngs assembled on the nearby highway.

Police Chief E. A. Elder of Colbert, one of the officers stabbed by Shaw, said some townspeople heard the lynching party pass early today. "I was told that about ten or so cars passed through at high speed," Elder said. Elder, knifed in the chest, was to-eated for several days in an Athens hospital and sent 'lome to recuperate.

Sheriff Hensley left his home at Danielsville to seek a trace of the lynching party. Dickerson said all of the men were strangers to him. BELLING THE CAT AGAIN KENTON, O. () 'Let's bell the cats," said Kenton sportsmen. So the Hardin County More Game association sent the state legisla-j ture a resolution urging that every cat in Ohio be compelled to! wear a bell.

The tinkle, the reso-, lution set forth, would reduce ma-1 terially inroads on all forms of 1 young wild life. in approaching the problem, having three telephones installed for the day for the accommodation of those who want special favors or to -register complaints, and I'm already practicing doing without sleep in order that nobody will be delayed at any hour in reaching me. "In the meantime, and pending my induction into office I'm asking everybody, even the men, to nssist in cleaning up the city, so thati on May 2, we will present to our visitors a real spotless town, one that they will praise arid that we will be proud of. forty-two stores on that day, and the courtesies, souvenirs, and gifts which have been arranged for women shoppers. Greenwood merchants wish it understood, however, that these same courtesies and bargains are open to Greenwood women that are being offered out-of-town women shoppers.

They feel that inasmuch as Greenwood women have arranged this great shopping event, they are equally entitled to participate in the special shopping inducements offered out-of-town women shoppers. The Shopper's Guide is supplemented by a complete program for the day, wherein mention is made" of the garden tour, traffic management by the Pep Squad, hostesses, and headquarters inth Rose Community Building. If the weather is favorable, it is expected that the largest crowd of women shoppers ever seen in Greenwood, will be present that day. Congress Cut Up Licensed To Wed WASHINGTON April 28 Representativa Marion Zioncheck of Washington, who clashed recently with capital police, took out a license today to wed Miss Rubye Louise Nix, 21, of Texark-ana, Texas, but failed to find the minister he hoped would marry them. Friends believed he might change plans and go to Erkton, for the ceremony.

Officials at the DistricfW Columbia marriage license bureau said Zioncheck had selected the Rev. Thomas L. Aaron, a district minister whose name was first on a list presented to him there. Later he called the bureau, re-i ported he had failed to find thej minister and was advised he would have to obtain a new license if he wished to select? another. the "American principle of economic freedom" would be main tained or would be "circumscribed by government controls." "Our ills are not to be cured by the flaying of business by the politician or condemnation of politics by the business man," he said.

While the house neared the end of general debate on the bill intended to raise $800,000,000 through revising the corporate tax structure and through other revenue devices, Senator King (D- Utan) drafted substitute for the whole program. He would seek to raise $1,000,000,000 by increasing the rates in the present income tax and corporation levj scnenuies. The house debate was brisk yesterday. Rep. Snell (R-NY), minority leader, opposed what he called "new taxes on our people to further encourage this shame ful extravagance of political boon doggling." From Rep.

Fuller (D Ark) came the reply that criti cism of the bill "is the same old story of entrenched wealth seeking to avoid taxation." A gathering of house Republicans decided last night that their protests would be concentrated in a virtual mass vote of opposition on the roll call. Snell acknowledged, however, the Republicans had no hope of beating the bill. Other Washington developments: The AAA and Tariff Commis sion worked today to supply the senate data on big AAA and tar- iff beneficiaries. The senate passed the Vandenberg resolution calling for names of all those who received $10,000 or more from the AAA. To it the Democrats added a demand for names of larger concerns enjoying benefits from the tariff.

The National Academy of Science heard of a method of turning platinum into gold. Dr. E. O. Lawrence and Dr.

J. M. Cork of the University of California performed the feat. Stewart housing ad- Women throughout the Delta, and surrounding trade territory, are expressing their keen interest in Greenwood's Ladies' Day set for next Saturday. Five thousand letters signed by Greenwood women are being sent to friends in neighboring towns, telling of the shopping party planned by Greenwood women and the Chamber of Commerce.

Towns to which these letters have been sent include: Grenada, Winona, Carrollton, Vaiden, Kilmichael, Cleveland, Boyle, Moorhead, In-dianola, Shelby, Shaw, Drew, Ruleville, Doddsville, Durant, Charleston, Coffeeville, Water Valley, Sunflower, Blaine, Glen-dora, Sumner, Webb, Tutwiler, Canton, Clarksdale, Leland, Rose-dale, Greenville, Tchula, Lexington, Belzoni, Midnight, Louise, Silver City, Cruger, Yazoo City, and Hollandale. A Shopper's Guide is being included with the letters, setting forth the bargains offered" by FUGITIVE MOTORISTS HIT. SAN FRANCISCO (P) The net has been tightened around auto-ists who dodge damage suits arising from accidents by fleeing to another state. Laws in 42 states now permit service of processes on the head of the motor vehicle department as the offender's "true attorney." The defendant is notified by registered mail and judgment may be taken unless he fights the case. SALT LAKE CITY As John Castle stepped from his automobile a beggar asked for a dime and was refused.

"You'll be sorry," he warned. Castle laughed. A little later he found a window of his car smashed and a suitcase missing. ministrator, announced that the long-expected comeback in the building industry was "under way.".