Tallahassee Democrat from Tallahassee, Florida • Page 1

-The Weather FLORIDA: Rain this ifterncon and tonight, probably ending Tuesday morning Extreme Northwest Florida-. Clouiiv. probably occasional rain tonight; Tuesday partly cloudv. THE MOCRAT The Tides High tides Tuesday In Apalachee bay vtll be 9 nl 3 30 m. Low tides at 9 a ro ana 9:30 m.

DAILY DE VOLUME XXII, NUMBER 87 FULL LEASED WIRE ASSOCIATED PRESS TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 9, 1936 KEA FEATURE SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS Former Governor Sidney Catts Is Dead Edward's Pilot She Nearly Laughed Herself to Death EDEN PROMISES! FRENCH SUPPORT! IF ATTACK MADE CAPITOL IN STIR AS BOTH HOUSES RUSH TAX BILLS Solons Want to Return To Homes in Time For Election War Time Leader of Florida Was Long a Powerful Factor In Every Political Campaign Secretary Says Britain Would Be Forced to Go To Neighbors' Aid LONDON, March 9 (AP) Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden Old Black Stump Speech Pulled For Catts and Never Failed Him Was Elected in 1917 On Prohibition Ticket, warned Germany today that any attack upon France or Belgium in I herveri Until 1991 violation of the Locarno treaty; would force Great Britain to go WASHINGTON, March 9 API Fresh signs that the election- minded congress will hurry home I after action on President Roose-: vtit's tax program developed to-: day on both sides of the capitol. Speaker Byrns predicted that! tax legislation at this session i would be limited to the points mentioned by the president a new levy on undistributed corpor-; ate earnings, processing taxes and a "windfall" tax to recapture re-; turned or unpaid assessments, made under the outlawed AAA to the assistance of those two nations. At the same time, he hold the house of commons that he was thankful to say there was no rea 1 1 ear nr.x jo" -v. a( w.ivww. v.v -at son to suppose that "the present1 German action implies a threat of hostilities." 1 1 saaagy program.

Tax Measures Limited black stump with tears of rep-entence in my eyes." His contemporaries said this speech and others much like it never failed to move the audience. It also got the votes, they added. Covered Territory Catts was an active campaigner. He covered much territory on horseback, by buggy or afoot. Those who tell of his car.paigns say he usually had visited every farm and every small town "out where they never heard of electric lights" before the state as a whole knew there was a campaign underway.

He talked farming with the farmers and often pitched in to Sidney Catts, war-time governor of Florida, died this morning at 2 o'clock at DeFuniak Spring. He was 72 years of age. The man who once was loved, feared and hated as no other man has been in the history of Florida, who divided the people of the state into his warm friends and his bitter enemies, who went armed with big black pistols and threatened to use his favorite shotgun, "Old Betsy," on the cattle dippers, who scored the powers at Washington in burning backwoods phrases, who swept himself into the governor's mansion in Tallahassee on the strength of word magic and personality had withered to a shell of his former Envy of all British aviators Under this schedule any further Flight Lieut Fielden. above. revision of the structure would be for he is pilot to their king, Ed- PARIS.

March 9 French officials declared today that a war with Germany to oust Hitler's troops from the Rhineland was impossible and that Great Britain's apparent sympathy with the reichsfuehrer's peace offers block- ed the French demands for "justice." 1 meets wara tui. Chosen from a list of postponed until congress Ck. i i more than 80 of England's crack flyers, Fielden was at the controls on many of the long journeys Edward took while Prince of Wales, ia ny nerst" 10 death- but attractive Teresa Hawkins. 18. of Colfax, a.

gradually slowed down to a giggle. The wan -n10-. Physicians now having served six years for his monarch. hTr in r( lne malady which seized her in a Fairmont theater, causing her to laugh uncontrollably for 148 hours Six hours before the seizure, attributed to a nervous i fbSS 38 graduated from business college help with their chores so they it was a tired old man, again after the elections. A controversy before the senate commerce committee disclosed that advocates of ship subsidy legislation are far from agreement.

This gave rise to belief in some quarters that the subject might be put on next year's calendar. Investigation continued to be a major capital topic. Senator Borah (R-Ida introduced a resolution calling on the communications commission to explain mass "seizures" of telegrams for the senate lobby committee. The partially blind and weary in mind and body, who breathed his last BERLIN. March 9 Heavily armed forces of French and German troops faced each other across the Rhine today as the nazi foreign office balked at League of Nations efforts to uphold the Locarno treaty.

Thousands of French troops continued to take strategic positions on the left bank of the Dempsey Tot Under Guard After Threat (By The Associated Press) Sidney Catts, Florida's wartime governor, died in DeFuniak Springs today but his "old black stump" campaign speech lives on wherever state politics are talked in reminiscent mood. It was typical of the campaign and administration methods of the Alabama planter who became a circuit-rider preacher, a "cracker" politician, a noted orator of the back-woods type, a shrewd merchant and one of Florida's most colorful governors. In Revival Style He made the speech many times during his horse-and-buggy campaign trips punctuated by rallies of the camp-meeting revival style. He was credited with being the first to use the sound wagon in Florida political campaigns but that was after he had been governor. Now almost all candidates in this state use the wagons.

It was the preacher as much as the politician who pleaded with the rural voters to help "old one-eyed Catts save the poor farmer, the working man. the widows and the orphans." With ever-increasing fervor he told his hearers of his constant recourse to for guidance. It Never Failed He described how he was "inspired" to leave his bed at night, go into the woods, get down on his knees, "place by arms about an old black stump" and pray for enlightenment. Sometimes, he declared in trembling tones, "an angel" comforted him: sometimes he was desolate and then I knew old Catts had done wrong and I kissed the old Flashes Of Life Rhine, fortifying their steel and SENATE READY TO HEAR CASE AGAINSTRITTER Notifies House Managers May Be Received Tomorrow nouse accounts committee approved a request for $50,000 to Officers Believe Crank To Blame for Fears Of Parents finance investigation of the today. Born in Alabama Sidney Johnston Catts was born July 31.

1863 on his father's plantation in Dallas county, Alabama, near Pleasant Hill, the son of Samuel Catts, native of Virginia and Adeline Rebecca Smyly Catts. He was a first cousin of William Bloxham, twice governor of Florida. At the age of three he lost the sight of one eye when a pair of scissors with which he was cutting pictures from a newspaper slipped. His education was in a small rural school at Selma, Ala, Howard college, the Alabama Polytechnic institute and Cumberland university. He was ordained as a would have tune to attend his speech-making and, usually, provide him with bed and food for the night.

He kissed babies and talked religion with the women folk. If as usually happened the farmer or the widow complained of high taxes, Catts replied, "You just write old Catts about it at Tallahassee and he will fix it so you won't lose your land Many Floridians will tell you today that he did fix it. Was Positive Governor Dining his days as governor, Catts frequently took a hand in such matters as helping a farmer collect a personal debt or telling a sheriff somewhere to "lay off" this or that man who failed to pay his taxes. All who knew the war-time governor not all of them liked him by any means usually agree that "when Catts was governor he was governor and nobody told him what to do or how to do it." (By The Associated Press) Urge Comfort GREENVILLE. Comfort rather than style for men is the prescription of Drs Irving Barksdale and Baylis Earle.

for the hot summer months. Wgn men woke said, as they endorsed hot-weather attire consisting of duck trousers, sleeveless shirt, and pith helmet. concrete frontier posts with heavy artillery and barbed wire. On the right bank the nazi troopers who marched in Saturday as Adolf Hitler denounced the mutual security treaty maintained their military encampments. A foreign office spokesman in facisea lankly" Germany's irritation at the manner in which she had been notified of the special league council session Friday to consider French and Belgian protests to reoccupation of the Rhineland.

WASHINGTON March 9 (AP) The senate today adopted a resolution to inform the house it would be ready to receive tomorrow the managers it appointed to prosecute the impeachment, trial of Federal Judge Halsted Rit-ter of the southern district, of ATLANTIC CITY, March 9 (AP) Officers investigated today an anonymous "tip" purporting to -a plot to Jacfc Dempsey's 19-months-Oid daughter, Joan Hannah. Whether the "tip" was accurate, the officers were unprepared to say. Acting Captain of Detectives James Farley asserted, "it ir probably the work of a crank." The child, however, was placed under guard at a hotel here where she is staying with her mother. Jack Receives Post Cards Farley said that "rumors to the Townsend and other old age pension movements. Quiet Around Court The supreme court's regular decision day produced no ruling on New Deal enactments but the court did agree to review the case of Arthur Cutten, Chicago grain dealer, whose trading privileges the government is seeking to revoke.

A contest against the abrogation of gold payment cfauses in fovernment obligations was pressed before the court of claims by Robert A Taft, son of the former president and a republican presidential possibility. Other developments: Senator Vandenberg R-Mich again attacked the Florida ship minister the Baptist church in Policemen's Troubles HIGH POINT, It's crwtlv 1885 and held pastorates at Fort Deposit and Tuskegee. when policemen fail to appear in'Flor1tla In November, 1886 he married municipal court here to testify as This is a formahtv to bp di-witnesses. Four of them failed to pense4 with before judge Rijter show up in a liquor law case, and is notified of the filing" "of the Judge Lewis Teague fined them'charees in thp BRUSSELS Belgium joined with France in a league protest against the German move requesting quick consideration of the international problem by the league council. Alice May Campbell of Montgomery, Ala.

descendant of Lord Colin Campbell of Indian revolt 4iu auu gJ'-tril fame. $5 each. an opportunity to reply. Ater effect" that Dempsey and a friend has received post cards from an Ran Against Heflin His first venture into politics They Loved Or Despised was an unsuccessful campaign for congress against Tom Heflin. GENEVA League officials called a council meeting for Friday, mvitmg Belgium, not a member of the council, and Germany, not a member of the League, to sit in on the discussion.

later United States senator. Happy to Announce OKLAHOMA CITY The s'ork was just a couple of wing-flaps in the offing and Hughes couldn't remember where he had made a hospital reservation for his wife. me a hospital, quick." he that a trial date is set. Suggests Rule Change Judge Ritter is charged with "high crimes and misdemeanors" in allowing excessive fees in receivership cases to a former law partner. After the resolution of Chairman Ashurst of the judiciary committee had been adopted.

Senator During these years Catts con wnier warning ox a kidnaping plot against Joan were being investigated. "As soon as we heard about it," Farley said, "we detailed a couple of our men to the President hotel, where the little girl is staying with her mother." "As far as we Ye been able to WILL USE CADDY IN IDENTIFYING SLAYERSUSPECT Youth Saw Man With Mother Near Where She Was Found Dead Uncle Sidney canal and the Passamoquoddy tidal power projects as "economically unjustified." Congress was asked to put the government in the road building business on a bigger scale than ever before. Secretary Ickes reported congress would have to appropriate more money to carry out all pend tinued to operate the family plantation until, discouraged by the yelled to a policeman, who flagged loss of production under the boE weevil scourge, he moved to DeFuniak Springs. Fla, to become pastor of the Baptist church. After Stories Illustrate How War Governor Inspired Opposite Emotions una out.

Farley added, "there's nothing to the report. It is prob ihomas D-Utah) asked if it would not be wise for the senate to consider changine its rules of ing public works projects. a taxi. Two got in. When ihey reached a hospital three got cut.

Mother, father and son are doing well. service of three years he re signed to enter the insurance busi MARKETJS SURE Livestock Men Lay Flans For Federal Funds CHARLESTON. Va. March 9 conduct in impeachment trials in ness, in which he was engaged Jajc ees Hold (AP) A 14-year-old caddv in- when he first became a candidate for governor. iormed state troopers today he Spirited Mee could identify a man he saw with Mrs Dorothy Reedy near the spot where the attractive young mother Who'll Be Next BOISE.

Idaho With Walter Johnson's re-enactment of the dollar-throwing affair just a fortnight in the books here's a new "champion." view of the criticism which followed the 1933 trial of Federal Judge Harold Louderback of California. "If the standards of qualification for federal judges are set so high, the standards for trials of judges should be set even higher," With no set program arranged was criminally assaulted and slain Tallahassee Jaycees at their regu ably the work of a crank." Federal Men Investigating While Farley was reluctant to discuss the case further, he said he had heard "rumors" that federal men were investigating. From other sources it was learned that two department of justice agents had been sent to this city at the instance of local police and were making a searching inquiry into the origins of the alleged plot. Mrs Dempsey. the former Hannah Williams, Broadway show girl, and Joan have been at the hotel since Friday.

Dempsey, it was Robert Hoffman, who works at They tell these stories, where political veterans meet to talk over campaigns that are past, to illustrate the blind loyalty and the bitter enmity that Sidney Catts inspired: When Catts apparently had secured democratic nomination for governor a Quincy citizen was denouncing him on a street corner, and declaring that he would not vote for him in the general election. "But didn't you say a few weeks ago you would vote for a yellow Building and loadine pens for a livestock auction market, as well as the necessary land on which to construct their. hae been assured the Leoli county agricultural bureau, its secretary. Nels Hansen, said today. urattsman Ralph Cromwell Jar Monday meeting, turned their attention to business matters and discussed several problems of civic the Kanawha country club 10 pooh-poohed the "Big Tram's' Rappahannock heave of 317 feet importance.

miles from the city, discovered the mutilated body of the 24-year-old woman in a woods near the club and started flexing his biceps A campaign to obtain a better ine cnaiienger's best flina mpas and more complete mail delivery yesterday. It was due to a vision or dream that Sidney Catts decided to run for governor, he afterwards said. Although his wife raised objections, the vision of his mother, he declared urged him to enter the campaign and assured him he would be elected. Entered Governor's Race Soon the people of Florida villages and towns came to know the fiery-tongued back woods orator. With a start of his peaking tour many months before tne primary, Catts, entered almos every voting precinct to rally the voters and regale them with flaming denunciations of existing leaders and urea 458 feet as hundreds Early this morning he told Lieu for Tallahassee wa unanimously approved by the members and The entire project will not cost over $4,000, Hansen said, and application for WPA funds already is being made by the group of farmers and livestock owners of the county.

tenant James FiUinger that i nomas said. Cites Complaints It was recalled that after the Louderback trial there were complaints that some senators voted without full knowledge of the testimony because they could not be in the senate all the time while the testimony was being taken. Ashurst replied that the senate had adopted a resolution giv cneered. Modern Western President William Hopkins named aoout li clock Saturday night he passed a car parked near the Julius Parker, chairman. Law dog, if nominated by the democratic party?" One of his listeners asked.

learned, has established temporary residence here for the duration of rence Salley-and Ed Bell to con Denver Two youngsters woods and saw Mrs Reedy and a fer with Postmaster Frank Coch the service employes' strike in New man. "Yes. I did. and 111 stick to it." ran on the matter. about 13 sipped soda at Mrs Edgar Gallagher's fountain and whiled the time of day with talk about was the reply.

"But that's just as The members also discussed the Boy Will Meet Man Fillinger said he intends to have ing it tne option of taking the York. SfrU-e Causes Move It is understood that Dempsey wanted to spare his wife the ef possibilities of the club entering a evidence itself as in the past, or the boy meet Charles Reedy. 43- far as I'll go!" Friends Were Loyal The other side of the picture: safe crackers 'n things." "Would you like to see how safe works?" she asked. team in tne diamondball associa appointing a committee of 12 to year-old automobile mechanic, de conditions and touching pleas in behUf of the mothers and children and downtrodden masses. His Cooperating with the farmers in the project are county commis-r'mers and other public officials, the Leon county agricultural agent and other state extension workers, the Seaboard railroad, and federal agencies.

The pian is to procure a 99-year lease by the county on land abutting the railroad tracks, obtain second-hand lumber from various sources, employ WPA labor. tion this year and Theodore Bre ao it. tained for questioning after his A fisherman, on one of his in vard was appointed to represent fort of walking up and down the steps at the New York hotel where they had been residing dur iney would. She worked the dial, opened the doors and left to frequent trips into Pensacola for the organization at the diamond tie saad there was a division of opinion on the constitutionality of that resolution and although he personally believed the senate serve a customer. When she re ing the present tie-up of elevator ball meeting Friday night.

Fred Lowry attended the meet oratory by turns melted, inspired, inflamed his hearers. At times hL language was surprisingly strong and he was denounced as a mountebank by many of the con service. The former champion has turned the two boys were gone So was $125. ing and appealed to the club for Deen commuting to New York could make its own rules there where he has business interest and build the plant at small cost were others who took the opposite its cooperation in obtaining a record breaking crowd for the Tallahassee Capital's opening base Star Witness The Denipseys have refused to view. The senate would have to insofar as actual outlay of cash servative citizens.

It was then that Sidney Catts began to align the people of Florida, into his MINNEAPOLIS Mrs Charles supplies, learned of the indictment of Catts on counterfeiting charges. On his return to the isolated fishing camp on the Gulf coast, he carried the news to the neighbors. "They've got Uncle Sidney charged with making money," he sid to a fellow fisherman. "Well," the neighbor drawled, "I'd just as soon take one of Uncle Sid's bills as one of Uncle Sam's." is concerned. decide the issue itself, he said.

discuss the threats and in Washington the department of justice oau game here April 15. Lowry wife's death. Reedy, who is held without charges, told Fillinger he knew nothing about the slaying but said there had been a quarrel Saturday evening "because she didn't have supper ready." The lieutenant said Reedy told him the slain woman was his common law wife. Fillinger said Mrs Reedy's home was in Hagans. Va, and she has a small child living there.

Woman Was Assaulted Coroner James Roberts said the young woman had been as Tubman, suing for $4,000 because she alleged Mr and Mrs Adolph friends and his enemies. Soon no Hansen said the project most certainly will be completed before declined comment. presicent of the Capitals asked President Hopkins to appoint one SECOND RABID DOG one could be found who was Justers dog Fritz bit her, sub It was learned that Demnsev re. neutral about Catts. member to act as the club's rep next fall.

It is the plan then for the county organization to conduct IS KILLED IN CITY poenaea Fritz to show the court ceived the post card In New York resentative on a committee from ne was vicious. The result of the first Catts warning him that the writer had an local civic organizations, for uut Fritz, sleepy and affable, campaign was long in doubt. His Ford Thompson today reported overheard "two Polish gentlemen" planning to kidnap Joan. A card bearing similar warning was re tne opening game. Hopkins said he would name the representative won his own case.

"Why. he doesn't look vicious at all." said another rabid dog has been killed in the city. opponent, Knott received 21,720 first choice votes and 8,449 regular auction sales of cattle, hogs, mules, and other livestock, bringing buyers here where the stock can be graded, judged, weighed, bought, paid for and shipped all at one location. second choice votes, a total of A call came several days aeo Nobody Interested (By The Associated Press) Sidney Catts said in 1935 "nobody is interested in old Catts Judge Leonard Keyes. He directed a verdict in favor of the saulted before her tLath and her ceived by a friend of Dempsey here.

The cards bore Atlantic! at, a later meeting. A heated discussion on the pos-sibilities of the local club becom 169. Catts received 30,092 first from a negro on Copeland street body dragged 60 fee. over rocks defendants. choice and 3,337 second choice uity postmarks.

and when officials arrived to shoot the animal the negro was ing aiiinated with the national votes, a total of 33,429. Dempsey, it was learned, im WPA Worker is Drowned His statement was contained in Junior chamber of commerce was He Ptt Teeth in It CHICAGO Two voune men holding the dog at bay with a pitchfork. a penciled note he sent to Henry and hidden hi thick underbrush. Pieces of the clothing of the mod-ishly dressed victim were scattered about the place. Later a hat matching the clothine Election Was Contested With an apparent slim margin mediately sent a personal bodyguard from New York to be near his wife and child.

peld up Michael Lozzio. Michael 5 Wrenn, Tallahassee newspaper man, in replying to a request for Thompson later sent the heari for Catts, the election was contested in the state supreme court. to Jacksonville and reports came had no money. Annoyed, one hit him. Later Michael felt for his COCOA, March 9 (AP) Clarence Stanley MaGee, 38, of Day-tona Beach, fell from a houseboat and was drowned in Lake Poinsett three miles west of herp.

discovered on a Charleston street. neia out tne motion was defeated by a close margin. Julian Alford. program chairman for the next meeting, said Jimmy Hamilton, Lance Richbourg and Dutch Hoffman of the Nashville Volunteers would be the a new picture of the former governor and a story of his life. back from health authorities at.

Comeback FAIRMONT, Minn William Troopers discovere'" a whiskv $50 set of bridge work. It. was the state laboratory saying the The validity of some of the votes cast for Catts was denied and the ensuing litigation proved of tiurn- I have neither the time nor the missing. Unable to find it in a Witt, veteran harness oiler, offpr. dog was rabid.

desire to have a picture made," prt rvrrtnf Via Vin.ta js careful search of the vicinity, he bottle near the body and ordered it tested for fingerprints. They also said they would check tire-prints on the road with the treads This is the second case of rabies in interest throughout the state. Sunday. MaGee was connected with the WPA office at Daytona Beach. guests of the club at that time, automobile and tractor.

8 Catts wrote, "and as for my life, nobody is interested in old Catts reported among stray dogs in the After lengthy headings the su appealed to the police and prepared for a soup diet. during the last two week. preme court r- -in? demo now." flf those (Coouea oft p. ltt).