The Clarksdale Press Register from Clarksdale, Mississippi • 1

tMLV DELTA'S STANDARD NEWSPAPER THE WEATHEE MISSISSIPPI: Fair, except clou-v near coast tonight; Saturday, n'ailner in the interior. AND DAILY NEWS Associated Press Service From All Parts of the World 28, No. 259 CLARKSDALE, FiHDAY AFTEUXOOX, SEPTEMBER 25, 6c A COP'S MEM TO STOP COUGffliN'S 1 i Tater Wall from Blasted Dam Bars Way of Fascists Near Alcazar GEORGIANS IN SENATE INQUIRY U. S. MARINES Georgia DemocraLo Bar 'JeffersonJan' Car, Destitute, Trying Films Again ANISH ENVOY WORLD'S PREMIUM LIST FOR DOG SHOW UNDER ORDERS TO "STAND BY" ROOSEVELT TO OPEN DRIVE ON MAJORTRONT' Six Speeches to be Delivered Next Week in Re-Election Campaign.

AGUE OF WAR WILL BE HUGE Mo- than $600 in Cish Prizes are to be Offered By Kennel Club. Japanese High Command Jin Declared to Already Battlefield for An- Orders Army Control of Shanghai Region. ber Great War. FLANS ARE SHAPED ttOPEAN policy TENTATIVE PLANS FOR TOURS FIXED MARTIAL LAW IS DECLARED IN CITY AFFAIR FLAYED FOR AUTUMN EVENT 4" Aggressive Offensive is many, Italy and Por p- ft i It I i sail Japanese and Chinese Authorities Are in Search cf Jap Assassin. Nationally-Known Judg.s Secured and Approved By American Club.

gal Attacked for Arm- Planned by President in Pivotal States. ot insurgents. 1 HYDE PARK, X. (Associated Prrss) Fascist urmu, march- Sept. 25.

(AF) it Associated Press CovrinM SHANGHAI, Sept. 25. (P) China's dictator, Chiang Kai-Shek, tonight wca against Toledo to rescue More than $600 in cas'i prizes will be offered in the premium list of the thir.i annual all breed dog show of the North Mississippi Kennel Club, scheduled for October 12 and 13 at Clarksdale. More than President Roosevelt said today that his first campaign swing into the urest probably would terminate at Denier, but that he might go to the west coast. irgents besieged at At-ir, approached the gov-ment defense line today fite a 10-foot wall of er loosed behind it.

Re- believed returning to his capital from southern China to take the troublesome Shanghai incident into his own hands. FEDERAL OFFICERS TO TAKE MARSHAL IN CROPPERS WAR came of insurgent ad 000 of the premium lists and i i i i i kes almost wimin view Toledo despite govern- VATIC AX CITY, Sept. 25. (AP) Prelates said today they "wouldn't be sur- Passing years have left her desti yt claims that it had cap- tute and suffering from nervous G. Eugene Ivey (left), manager of the Atlanta office of the Railway Audit and Inspection company, a detective agency, is shown refusing to tell the Lar-olleMe committee whether he destroyed records subpoenaed for the congressional investigation into alleged violations of rivil liberties in industrial strikes.

V. A. Hemphill (right), Atlan.a Investigator for the company, also is shown testifying before the committee in Washington. (Associated Press Phctcs) 4 Torriioj on the Ma- Va-Totedo road. exhaustion but plucky Elinor Fair (above), former film star, is trying to stage a come-back in the movies.

(Associated Press Photol LITTLE KOCK, Kept. -V. J. Ira Harrelson (above), Atlanta attorney seeking election to the United States senate, was told by Secretary of State John B. Wilson that his name cannot be listed on the official ballot as an "Independent Jeffersonian Democrat." Wilson said the law requires candidates to un either as outright independents 3r as the nominee of some recognized political party.

(Associated Press Photo) enxry Dianxs naveoeen mat -ed, inviting exhibitors frotn throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico Four nationally known judge.i have been approved by Hie Kennel CInb under who; rules the show will be It is particularly noted that nil four of these judges come from southern states. 8. L. Woolridgc, of Versaill.s, BALTIMORE, Sept. 25.

(1 Associated Press Copyright) I.BAO, Spain. Sept. Coahoma County IS OTUCK Initial Edition fP Kedi-ra! authorities moved today to arrest City Marshal Paul 1). 1'eacht-r of Karle. on charges violating anti-slavery statutes during the Last Arkansas cotton croppers strike last May.

A federal grand jury indicted the fit here yesterday on eight counts, accusing him of obtaining warship to Saint dc France) Defiant government anders, refusing to surrender northern coastal city despite ted threats of Fascist bom- Near Lyon After Halts on Tracks Grand Jury Will Convene Monday cf Spotlight Is Sent Out Today an. s.ul nee ut IMgoinar louny. labor for his farm through false ar- est of eight negroes. His bond was th planes, artillery a.id rifles, Deltans Depart to See Ole Miss and Tulane Tilt fixed at $5,000. Clarksdale High School Numerous are to be President Roosevelt had (12.29 percent of the total 149.

N'T bal- lots counted today in the Balti- more Sun's presidential poll of registered votes in Maryland. lu the election biisevelt' polled til .5 percent or' Mary-laud's total vote. I fli prised" if the Vatican were obliged to give Father Charles Coughlin a strong er "warning" than the one which appeared recently in the Observatore Romano. The prelates said the stea may be necessary if th priest continues his attacks on President Roosevelt. At Cincinnati last night the priest said the President is "anti-God." His'rict Attorney Fred A.

Isgrig id the indictment resulted from a Occupants of Automobile Leap from Danger Before Crash Occurs. Publication Distributed to. Many Readers. Investigated at Opening cf Court Here, editor of the "Chase''. magazine devoted exclusively sporting will -pass on th fox hounds.

W. K. Herrin, president of the Clarksdale club and an ardent breeder and cxhihi or of fox hounds has offered si specit.l prize of $30 cash for the best" t-i hound, which is, of course, in addition to the regular schedule of cash prizes offered by the clur He is predicting an entry of more than 100 fox hounds. well known Hugh Sealos of Birmingham and president of the Birmingham Kennel Club will judge all sporting dogs and spo.t-(Continued on page 3) series of investigations by "trained men" during which ''every rumor was run down and every witness First edition of the Spotlight, stu Coahoma countv grand jury will ilefenrting isocia.ists repuiseu sallies ill a lengthy en-nent which, ended witnout vie for cither side. Ima itself was calm as the lengthened from the surrende line imposed by Gen.

Emilio commander of the northern gent attackers. of the Fascist sional government at Burger, the bombaidmenf was posS questioned." dent publication of Bobo high 'Xo other case was found in convene in session Monday morning to investigate 15 cases docketed since the regular spring term of court. which a federal law was violated." he added. Two men narrowly escaped injury yesterday morning when the car in which they were riding was struek by a southbound Memphis passenger train on the V. M.V.

railroad. Keports said the car stalled on the track at Lyon in the path of the approaching train. The two men. from Kentucky, climbed from Clarksdalians Drive to Oxford or Grenada to Board Special Train. A number of Clarksdale fans left todav for Xew Orleans to witness the football g-irne tomorrow between Ole Miss and Tuiane.

Among those going were Mr. and Included in the information gath Three murder cases, all involving ered, Isgrig said, was a aigncd negroes, will ue pruned ny ine jui- staement by II. L. Mitchell, executive secretary of the Southern Ten- temporarily but could be rx ors. Countv Attorney I.eightoii S.

Mil (Cnntinued on page 3) the car before the train crashed into the automobile. ler sr.id 70 witnesses have been summoned to appear before the investi BOLIVAP. CAMPAIGN Mrs. Pat Peay, Mr. and Mrs.

Chaun-cev O. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Mark school, for was published today and distributed to about 700 readers. Kditcd by members of the jonrnnl-is'ii class cf Hobo high school, the Spotliglit is an attractive ei'it-enl-1'inii, funr p'ige paper, containing interesting school news, well written.

Peter Glenn, senior, is editor-in-chief, Gene Glenn is is advertising manager, and Ana Williams is circulation manager. Miss Nettie Rose, head of the English department of the school, end Miss Sue Ethridge are sponsors of the paper. A staff composed of members of the iournalism class will writo all The car was dragged several yards FOR SCOUTS BEGUN down the track by the train without any great damage. Geese Passage Over Delta is Autumn's Sign Xaine of the two men could not to begin soon), residents of the city ex-id doubt General Mola would out his threat to lay the in ruins from a combined air sea attack. 'ialist commanders pointed out Fascist troops were 25 milts and apparently net up such a bombardment an infantry attack.

fond shortage was officials as the city's mo--t nr. problem. be learned. Ham. Mr.

and Mrs. Shed Hill Rob-crson. J. Lake Roberson. W.

L. Matthews, Glenn dates, Billy Henderson, and Mis? Scrio. Local persons drove to either Oxford or (ireundn and caught the football special there. gating body of the county. Charges of shooting with intent 'o kill placed against Henry Stiles for firing several shots at J.

D. Lindsay, also of Winona, will be investigated. The shooting occurred on Issaquena avenue, because, Stiles told officers, Lindsay brought his wife to Clarksdale. District Attorney Creel; V. Kice md Mr.

Miller will erpre'sent the itatc. Circuit Judge William A. Alcorn HYDE PARK, N. Sept. 25.

(P) White House officials announced today President Roosevelt would make at least six speeches two major in four eastern states next week in inaugurating his campaign for re-election. The announcement was made after 27 party leaders and advisers had discussed with th-j President late yesterday a tentative October speaking drive that (Continued on page 3) Special to Clarksdale Register CLEVELAND, Sept. 25. Final plans were completed here last night fur the Cleveland District division of the annual finance campaign of the Delta Area Council, Boy Scouts of America. The drive will be under way next Tuesday, September 29.

The campaign to raise the Cleveland, Boyle, Shaw, and Shelby quota will be in charge of the leading business men of the city, directed hv Norwood Brown. copv for the paper, published bi "Give Us Our Coats and Our Blankets" Cry weekly. "The paper is printed by the Keg A large drove of geese over Clarksdale late yerrtt-driy afternoon, the first indie: tion that fall Is just around the proverbial corner. Persons who saw the -ese said about 200 were included in the drove that was iiig The Spotlight will appear on Associated Press Copyiiglit) UNGUAL Sept. 25.

lAi of JUDGE SLEDGE WHO MANAGED HARRISON DRIVE IS VISITOR Judge N. 11. Sledge, campaign for Senator Pat Harrison during the past senatorial campaign, was a visitor in Clarksdale a short time this morning. Enroute to his home in Como, he Fridavs. will preside over the session ourt.

smith for the winter LEGAL ACTION MAY BE TAKEN REGARDS months. 'The budget for the entire Delta Area Council is $10,000, which is a reduction of 2.000 over last year's figure. Bob Bobo, Clarksdale, council finance chairman, stated that the AMERICAN LEGION VETERANS DEPLOY HOMEWARD TODAY MCPHERSON TEMPLE STATE CLAMPS LID stopped at the federal building to visit with friends. Clarksdalians reached for coats and blankets last night as the thermometer dipped to 50 degrees the coldest night of the fall season. Continued cool weather is forecast for Clarksdale and vi-einitv by the weather man.

GOVERNMENT'S MEN WILL END AS TO "SEED LAW" budget is being reduced to a minimum, while at the same time allow LOS AXC.ELKS, Sept. 25 (P) Japanese marines seized polic-i rul of the Chinese Chapei dis of Shanghai today as Tokyo mment officials asserted "w3 proceed according to events lie-coated Japanese marines, ilit in to patrol streets of the skew section' of the interna-j! settlement after an three-- comrai Wednesday, i-d into the Chinese district pistols and rifles with fixed "Sets. raffle was limited on two ing the council to maintain its high BRAZIL SCHOOL TO tandards of training and service JACKSON, Sept. 25. Mississippi vosterdnv "cracked down" for the BE ERECTED SOON "first time under the recently passed A threat, of legal a 'tion was in the lir at Anoelus Temple today where Roberta Semple's charge of "dictatorship" nligined her against her molhnr, Kvnngelist Aimee Semple Mcriierson.

The question of lion- much author- 1ST FAIR PROVING SUCCESS IN DELTA COASTAL 'WAR' President Roosevelt to Discuss Situation with Maritime Group. DETROIT, Sspt. 25. (J1 John Vincent, elderly "major" in the Black Legion, -who said he still believed in night riding organization principles, testified in his own defense today as the trial of 12 men charged with lynching Charles Poole ncared a conclusion. tv shall be vested in Giles Knight, ki highways and even foreigners be evangelist's new business mali nger, preeipitateu ine miesi iuhu- Special to Clarksdale Register Sl'MXER, Sept.

25 R. II. Harrison, county superintendent of education, received a telegram today from Congressman Wall Doxey stat ing that the Brazil school building project had been approved in Wash ingtou by the Public Works Admin-istration. This school will receive an out CI.KYELAXD, Slept. 25.

American Legion's fast graying war veterans deployed homeward today, leaving their newly-elected national-commander. Harry W. Col-nery of Topeka, to promote their aims and ideals until the line forms next year on Xew York's Lexington avenue. A homo'ienoi us mass for the Legion's Eighteenth Annual Convention, but representing a wide diversity of political, economic and religious belief in private life, they heard Colmery conclude their convention yesterday with a declaration that the Legion should keep within the confines cf its own program. Said the stern-faced Kansas lawyer: "Our danger lien in our own niithv.

coupled with the fact that nent among those wlio guide tne lestin'us of the foursquare Gospel. state seed law, which went into el feet on July 1. A carload of oats, shipped from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and billed to a Jackson jobber, was ordered closed by the state department of agriculture, in Which administration of th" law is vested, and sale of the sta pie was suspended, pending compliance with the law by the shipper. The sacks of oats were unmarked in any wny ut all, state officials said yesterday, and in no way met Hie requirements cf the state seed lnw. riving to two golf eourso-.

li of the city, were stopped searched. iniy foreign residents of Slianj-'oiidemned th Japanese action ngly but the only was Mrs. McPhcrson declared Knight should have absolute authority CLEVELAND, Sept. 25. The Kirs-t Annual Bolivar County Fair, being held here all this week, has already established its success.

Exhibits from practically every town i-nd community in Bolivar county are on display at the National (iuard armory. First place in the big exhibit, th community booth, was won by Skene. Resettlement won second place and Boyle placed third. Almost in prizes was awarded to winners in 50 divisiVms. ithout being answerable to the of trustees, which consists ot If must protect our nationals.

iree Chinese suspecis. SHREVEPORT, Sept. 25. (.) Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad Company officials and transportation employes -were dead'ocked today while officials the derailment last night of a freight train at Shreveport. ViKter Aimee, her daughter, Koberta Sample, and her sun, liolf Mcl'her- kht into a Chinese court for right grant from the PWA in the amount of to match the in-urance funds of to be used in replacing the school build 10 n.

imiiiitry hearing in coiinectim the fatal shoiV'B of 'ine and the wounding of two SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 25. (JP) The government acted today in the Pacific coast maritime situation, which is rapidly approaching a crisis, to prevent a repetition of tin bloody clashes which resulted in the deaths of seven men in 1934. President Booseyelt announced that lie would discuss the longshoremen's situation Wednesday with the maritime commission. Judges for the fair are S.

Sioneville, W. Knight. Moor-head. Miss Mildred Oarrott, Humph pro hut no definite fats were ON TIME lused during the court session. rev Countv Home Demonstration Ill' suspects denied knowled'jv ing which was completely destroyed bv fire in February.

The total cost of the building completely furnished with modern school equipment will be $14,515.00. The plana and specifications were prepared by W. G. Eckles, director of school building Miss Semple, in a letter to her nother asserted she might begin nctiiiu "to protect the eorpora- io'i from those who seek to create i dictatoiship on Angelus Teni- "I do not believe that it is the 'nmjuiiKe of my daughter nud there nolhing in my heart but love for ier." coinnented Mrs. McPherson She nilded she has had a "fond The jobbers to whom the carload of oats was consigned culled the department yesterday when thev opened the car to find th produce not what they wanted.

They also reported to the department the shipper's failure to comply with the seed law. "We have ordered the sale of the oats from the car discontinued until the shipper shall have complied (Continued on page 3) ve have a tendency now nud then stick our nose into other people's business instead of keeping within the confines of the Legion "We have plenty big job to 'vithin those ten clauses as set out the uttack and police wei-Me to produce direct evidence Agent, and Mrs. Elizabeth Stamps Cleveland. The fair is being super vised bv Miss Lillian Heffner, Bol JOUET, 111.. (iP) Edward L.

Fox, 48, a farmer, made a special trip to town to pay a premium on his life insurance policy. Then he OWN WATCH DO state department of educa- ivar Ccuntv Home Demonstration Awn', ami W. E. Kennedy, boy' 411 Club agent. went home, began to pick seed corn, r.ervie and died of heart attack.

tion. in the preamble to your constitution (Continued on page at (Continued on page 3) DTote to a na Batter OUrktdale By th Ottjr Hon.jf Too much can not be written "Butcher, Baker and Candlestick Maker Protest Louisiana's Tax font the necessity of safi ping In Wis vicinity of tho test One group of merchants ndvoeat The Manhond Daily Progress said Fortunately no'" major accl-its have ODirred to ruin Jmost perfect record.t (Drive iilowly past school. "but if vou buy It In a can it Is taxable," "A loaf of bread is not taxable but a bun made from the same dough is taxable," said another. "We may instruct our clerks in 'he administration of the tax," a third complained, "but during crowded hours when It becomes necessary to employ extra help, the extra clerks will not know how to administer the collection of the tax- the state. Difficulties gradually would be Ironed out, they said.

Merchants complained generally lhat the law was ambiguous as to which sales were taxable and which exenmt. They asserted it almost would become a necessity for most of them to employ bookkeepers to compute taxes on customers and the amounts to be paid to city and "If you buy tomato juice In a bottle It is not taxable," oue said, ed complete repeal of the "luxury" tax claiming it would save the state money. "It will drive sufficient business from Louisiana to reduce seriously any amount which may be collected from this tax," this group declared. Manufacturers and distributors organized, sent petitions to the gov-rnor and legislators, appointed committees to deal with the situation and staged mass meetings In pro One report had It "on uiilm- Merchants nt Xew Orleans, where peachable authority" that a flat an additional, municipal two per two per cent, sales tax, a general cent "luxurj" tax, patterned tax similar to those In effector the state tax, Is also to go into in other states, would supplant the effect the first of October, stormed "luxury" tax. We are trying to see what can Lenders proposed march of probe done to clarify the law without test on the capitol at Baton Rouge, an extra session," Govcrnoro Rich- Representatives of the state su-ard W.

Loche said to these reports, pcrviaor of public accounts, whose Merchunts, jobbers and mannfac- business it will be to collect the tax turers condemned the law as "con-attempted, meanwhile, to explain fusing" and unworkabls, the law to bvuiaessmen throughout in a copyrighted story tnut naa learned from "an unimpeachable iouree" that a general sales tax 'vouUl be- substituted for the "luxury" tax. Specially taxed commodities such is gasoline, natural gas, sulphur and the like, would not be affected by the general tux the Progress said. This provision is embodied in the "luxury" tax. NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 25.

(P) i roicsts troiti the "butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker" grew todiv agninst Louisiana's two lercent "luxury sales tax" a levy all retail sales except those "uoro-sitles" for existence by the lawmakers. Reports circulated that the state legislature would be culled into spe-ial cession to iiniend the law before the "luxury" tux becomes effective Oct. 1. 4 watch carefully to see no children dash across street into the path of your Ir. (Tiaffle officers are main-lined at the high school.

cooperate with the officer enforcing traffic rules..