Pensacola News Journal from Pensacola, Florida • 1

TOTAL CIRCULATION OVKH 16f500 COMBINATION si CITX CIRCULATION OVER 10,500 COMBINATION 5 CENTS VOL. XXXIV. NO, 334. 12 PAGES PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, TUESDAY MORNIN APRIL 8,1330 PU 15 LI HE fcJR DAY By Arthur Brisbane I I I II III I I I III: III III II III TO TODAY i Desert and Ocean. Two Texas Girls.

Hits At Mellon Sues Rich Hubby SIDNEY J. CATTS -If Adam Could See. SAN AN SIMEON, Cat, April 7. you like to make several THREE SLAYLNGS ARE SOLVED IN ONE CONFESSION Negro Admits Killing Two Children And Burning Adult To Death Statistics On Primary Today Office at stake City commissioner. The candidates Adrian Lang-ford, incumbent, James White and Oliver Semmes.

Number of precincts Number of qualified voters about 5,000. Opening of polls 8 a. m. Closing of polls 6:12 p. official sunset.

jLm.ti-.: I 'V: I "i )' i minion dollars a year? Invent a tray 'to apply foreign language crcU to the photographic films of American talking-pictures. Silent pictures are obsolete, and America, that had 90 per cent of the foreign silent-picture business, tees its monopoly in danger. For-eiSjners will not listen to talking I pictures that they cannot under- -f ttand. and foreigners cannot make pictures that their own people y-tally like. ADOLPHE MENJOV, one of the most intelligent men in the nroving picture world, has just mad a picture In Paris in the French language.

Born in. this country, he speaks French as well as English. But actors able to combine American methods and a foreign tcrigue are few. i ILLINOIS VOTERS DECIDE HEATED BATTLE TODAY i Ruth McCormick Is Opposing Deneen For Nomination As Senator BOTH ARE CONFIDENT Both Parties Will Stage Primaries For Many Public Offices CHICAGO, April 7. P) The political fate of Senator Charles S.

Deneen and Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick was given into the hands of Illinois voters tonight. the nation's first major primary election of the Illinois electorate tomorrow will choose the Republican and Democratic candidates for United States senator, congressman, state treasurer and a miscellany of state and county offices. Submerging the rest In popular Interest was the bitter contest between the senior senator and the congresswoman. Both Scent Victory From each camp tonight emanated statements confident of. victory, and far Into the eve of battle rumbled the last echoes of radio appeals by the campaigners.

Senator Deneen and Mrs. McCormick i both made their final thrusts before Cook county audiences at Chicago theaters at noon and rested momentarily for their radio addresses tonight, Mrs. McCormick motoring to her farm estate in Ogle county where, with her girlhood chum, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, she" was await the verdict of the voters tomorrow. 1 As she departed for her home, Mrs.

McCoruilck expressed herself as "happy over the prospect of her nomination, and added a note? of 'arnlngilf there any nijxim to steal th electloittll' XkM, county Chicago), I shall be in the court the day after election and 'apply for the appointment of a special state's attorney and a special grand jury to prosecute all those engaged In this conspiracy." National Issues Fade Ttie national Issues world court, ostensibly the rbetween; the senator and congresswoman; prohibition, agriculture, the tariff, have faded almost to obscurity In the clash of: the two personalities the one a former governor, now senior senator who defeated Senator Med ill McCormick six years, ago and who led the "phalanx that crushed the Mayor Thompson-Crowe Republican machine In Cook county two years ago; the other the widow of 'the man' Deneen defeated, widow and daughter of Senators, first woman representative from Illinois and aspiring to be the first elected woman senator. Three others contest the Repub lican senatorial nomination, outstanding among them Newton Jen kins, who six years ago gathered a respectable minority vote in the triangular battle with Deneen and Me-' dill McCormick. In Jils final salvo tonight he charged Deneen and Mrs. McCormick with Ignoring economic Issues and prohibition, and "fighting a sham battle over the League of Nations---; Former Senator J. Hamilton Lewis who has not deemed it necessary to utter a single campaign address; is virtually assured his.

supporters say of the Democratic nomination and has pledged that his opponent wUI face a campaign on the prohibition issue. He opposed the dry act while in Congress. William Hardin Is Dead In Boston BOSTON, April 7. William P. G.

Harding, governor of the federal reserve bank of Boston since January. 1923. died today at the Algonquin club, where he bad made his home. Death was caused by heart trouble. He "formerly served as president of the federalreserve board.v ANNOUNCES FOR CONGRESS' POST Former Governor Says He Will Oppose Yon And Bayliss For Job ENTRANCE IS SURPRISE DeFuniak Man Had Denied Rumprs That He Would Put -Hat In Ring Sidney Johnston Catts, Florida's war 1 time yesterday focused his sight on -a Congressional seat and announced that he will ask the public to seat him.

Mr. Catts announced last night from DeFuniak Springs that his hat was in ring in the race for the post now held, by To Yon. He is the third man in the contest being opposed, by J. H. Bayliss and Mr.

Yon. rV--' The former "governor's announce ment was not expected and came as a surprise in political circles. He had refused to talk politically 'but had not denied -rumors that he would be in the race. Will Be Active The former Baptist minister said he would begin shortly on an ac tive campaign and expected to carry six counties Tn the third Con gressional district. He said he thought Congressman Yon to carry five and that Mayor Bayliss would be the third man, according to a message received here.

'i Congressman Yon recently visited his district and made his first cam paign speech with Mayor Bayliss at Wakulla. He visited Pensacola ana Tallahassee last week, but did not speak at either city. He is expected to return and begin a speaking tour early next Mayor Bayliss is also expected to begin anr.ctlve campaign at that time. Fireworks Expected TTioueh cltv and. count yuiomical races have been -unexpectedly nuiet.

the 'Congressional race Is expected, to be one of the most lively three-cornered campaigns to be staged in some time. All three candidates have expressed themselves as being con fident of victory and said they would be active from the platform. COOKING CLASS OPENS TODAY Mrs. Stafford To Conduct News- Journal School At Armory. Interested in cooking? If so.

be at the Armory on North Palafox street, adjacent to tne county court, house, today at 2:30 p. and for the aays ioi-lcwing. jtr Kate Stafford, recogruzca throughout America as one of the potmtrv'a foremost culinary aru- sans. will be in charge to give new points on the art. Her work here is Deing spousun-u nirs will be given away, there will be free baskets of food and aoove all a grand prize.

Turpentine Men To Be Organized Soon valdosta. GjL April Officers of the American Turpentine Farmers association here have announced that turpentine opera tors in Georgia and Florida will oe organized into a compact company by early June, i The announcement was made in connection with plans for a series of local meetings. throughout the turpentine Mass Of Clues In Insurance Plot BENTONVHJLE. Ark, April 7. (JP) a mass of clues were being followed tonight by county officers and insurance company investigators in their efforts to clear up the mysterious murder of William II.

Pear- man. 47. of Columbia. Mo, and the comDlicated fraud sdieme to.whlch they attributed the slaying. SEEKING NOMINATION FOR COMMISSION JOB Langford, Semmes, White Express Confidence In Election POLLS OPEN AT 8 A.

M. More Than 5,000 Qualified To Cast Ballots In City Primary Pensacola Democrats will go to the polls today to choose one of three candidates for nomination to the office of city commissioner for the next" three Indications are that between and 5.000 votes wili.be cast between 8 a. wnen the voting win begin In 17 city precincts, and 6:12 Pensacoilans may obtain results of the city primary at the News-Journal building this The figures will be flashed on the big screen in the vacant lot on the east side of the building as fast as they are received." The polls close at 6:12 m. and returns are expected to begin arriving within half an hour. Everybody Is Invited to be on hand.

WCOA officials -have announced that the city radio station 'will broadcast returns, beginning about tle same time. p. m-, official sunset, when the polls will closer Approximately persons, have qualified to vote by re-g-teterlng and paying their poll 4uet Csuipjixos QuUt but intensive" Lavs Jite-j conducted by all thre candidate -r. tu jslford, -j: uu V-t-v local busiWns 'jbiko. suit OUver J.

Semmes, at present member of the county school Only Mr. Semmes has made pub- paign with a talk last night at ijar- den and Reus streets. Both Mr. Langford and Mr. White have been a I Kiif V- tnarta lit lranc sivaT'c ays a-sa uu amh-m-v mv smw- in behalf of their campaigns at tallies' There has been a lack of sometimes seen In Pensacola political campaigns, All Confident All.

three candidates last night stated that they were confident, of success." "I believe that only one primary will be necessary, as I think I will poll enough votes to have a majority over the combined support given my two opponents. said Mr. Landlord. "I think I have proven my ease and It is now up to the voters," said Mr. Semmes "I am no knocker of the present form of government and in fact I helped to establish it." "I am counting on my friends tomorrow," said Mr.

White. "In my platform, which I made as concise as possible, I have endeavored to explain "my attitude on the management of the city's government." Ron Off May Be Necessary If one of the three candidates does not poll a majority of the votes cast, a run-off primary. will be necessary, when the two high men will again be candidates. Election officials last night- stated that it would be advisable for votcn to take their registration certificates and poll tax receipts ix 1928 and 1829 to the polls with them. In order to prevent any misunderstanding and delay.

F. F. Bingham, who was defeated for a city commission post by E. Harper In the last general election, has Indicated that he will oppose the successful Democratic nominee as an Independent candidate In the coming general election. Norris Would Probe Candidate Expenses WASHINGTON, April 7.

procedure wai initiated today by Bens tor Norris. Republican. Nebraska, in the Senate to hasten consideration of his resolution proposing a special committee of. Investigation into the campaign expenditures of the senatorial candidates. The Netrakan moved fsr the dls-charga of the elections comirJttce frca frartier consideration of the resoli: tica and gave notice he would ask: a rote on that motion tec-sorrow.

Ee explained later he had received complaints on campaign expenditures from Illinois, rcnnrjl-vanla, Nebraska and other sUus where Kxutorial contests are beirj THREl i It Mrs. Louise Voe Shelton, above, beautiful wife of John Malcolm Shelton, millionaire i rancher and oilman of Amarillo, has sued for divorce, charging cruelty. They married in 1928 after a brief courtship. CHARGE MELLON IS CONDUCTING WET CAMPAIGN i Republican Drys Senate Clash Oyer Probe Of i Enforcement Republican drys clashed today over the proposed Senate inves-tlgation of prohibition, enforcement and over two law enforcement chiefs Secretary Mellon ad Attorney General Mitchell. Senator Brdokhart, riepublcian, Iowa, accused Secretary Mellon Tin the Senate with conducting a cam paign against the dry law.

He gave notice he would demand a record vote on the resolution of Senator Norris, Republican, Nebraska, an other dry, for a Senate inquiry into Fes Defend Mellon Senator Fess, Republican. Ohio, In reply defended Mr. Mellon as a sincere law enforcement officer" and pleaded that the dry a unite for the -testinr hour" of prohibition. He opposed the Inquiry as harmful to enforcement. Attorney General Mitchell ap peared before the Senate Judiciary committee earlier In the day ana frowned upon the proposed inquiry.

He pictured an improvement during the last year in administration of the law. After hearing the attorney general before his committee. Senator Nor ris contended he had seen no improvement in enforcement and reiterated his belief that politics wa3 playing a part it. The committee took action, how ever, and the whole prohibition sit uation is still in its hands, so far as the Senate is concerned. The committee will not meet again un til next Monday.

Wet Campaign Charged Senator Brookhart contended that Mr. Mellon was conducting a campaign against prohibition through W. W. Atterbury, Republican National committeeman for Pennsylvania, and through the Union League club of New York, to which he said the secretary belonged. He cited fact that Mr.

Atterbury, who is also president of the Pennsylvania railroad, was a director of the association against the prohibition amendment. He recalled that thw Union League club had adopted 'resolution urging repeal of the eighteenth amendment. H. Turner rompany. C.

A. Ful-fhum, N. W. Williams and A. Struck.

The work will cost about Showers, locker rooms and other conveniences will be added for both men and women golfers. The number of golfers playing at the Osceola course has Increased considerably since "WUd Bill Mchlhorn, was appointed head, professional. He has able assistants In Tony Fenna and Bob FarreH. 3 I GETS LIFE SENTENCE Boy, Girl Murdered After Being Mutilated By Minnesota Fiend ST. PAUIi, Minn, April Three deaths, two of -them slayings of a boy and a girl, were listed as solved by police tonight as Andy Mann, 48-year rold negro, made a trjple confession today, pleaded guilty to one killing, and was.

sentenced, to life Imprisonment in the stateprison. Arrested Saturday night, less than 24 hours after the last of the three crimes was committed, Mann was returned here Sunday from Iowa, was indicted today, pleaded guilty, and immediately sentenced by Judge Hugo O. Hanft speedy handling of the. case is believed unsurpassed in the criminal annals of Minnesota. Sentenced For Tagae Murder Mann was sentenced for the murder of Earl Tague, 16-year old son of a tailor, who was attacked and slain Friday night in the negro's shack.

The boy's nude and mutilated body was thrown beside a embankment where It was found the following day. Taken from a freight train at Dubuque, Iowa, Mann readily admitted killing the boy and then startled police by confessing he had assaulted and 4 strangled Dorothy Aune, 12-year old Minneapolis school girl, ast August. He also said he had set fire to" a house In which a 65-year old negroT burned to death here March 30. Both tha33fc'2 ings were strikingly similar. Each body was mutilated and found abandoned near railroad trains.

That of Dorothy was wrapped in sacks and bound with wire and rope, while that of the Tague boy bore marks indicating he had been sim ilarly tied. Told Of Killings said Mann's confessions told in detail Itaw he had killed the children. The Aune girl was waylaid as she started for her mother and, 'dragged into an alley. Young Tague was enticed to the negro's shack by a promise that he would be told where to obtain a Job. Records were produced In' court to show that Mann, who said he was born In Hackensack, N.

had served -time in four prisons, including! a term, at Clinton, N. for. a statutory one at Trenton for: assaulting a woman, and two In Ohio lor burglary. Mann appeared unconcerned as he was brought Into court. BRITISH WANT INFO ON NAVIES Dissatisfaction Over Conference Is Seen In Parliament.

"LONDON, April 7. Dissatisfaction: in scattered sections of the House of Commons over the trend of Anglo-French security discussions In connection with the naval conference tonight resulted in a move to debase the whole question openly, and Prime Minister Mac-Donald was able check it only bytaking the floor rtlmself and pledging full information to party leaders any time they sought it. It; was the first attempt of the British Parliament to check Mr. free hand In the disarmament negotiations. Other activities of the naval conference took a back seat as God frey1 Locker-Lampson, under seere- tary of state for foreign affairs in the last Baldwin government, forced the issue in the commons The motion.

If it had been voted on and had resulted in the govern ment's defeat, would have constituted a vote-of censure and called for Mr. MacDonald's resignation. Coastal Waterway Work Is Approved "WASHINGTON, April Development of the intra -coastal waterway from Cape Fear, N. to Charleston, at a cost of 907,000 was approved today by, the House committee on rivers and har bors, The committee al30 approred e- velcpment of the St-Johns riyer below Jackssnville, Fla at a cost of Savannah river below Au gusta. Ga, Savannah harbor, Georgia, $237,000: a cut be tween Bailey's cut of the Satilla river and Dovers, Gs, $1000 and Bad: river.

Goorsli, tSQJXZ. SENATE PASSES BILL FOR FARM AID IN SOUTH Measure Gives $12,000,000 For Founding Rural 1 Communities WASHINGTON, April 7. -P Appropriation' of $12,000,000 for the establishment of rural communities in ten southern and southwestern states, to demonstrate benefits of planned settlements and supervised rural developments, would be authorized under a bill passed today by the Senate. The measure now goes to the House. The states in which the communities would.be established are Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana.

"Mississippi. North Carolina, South Carolina. Tennessee and Texas, i Would Provide Farms the bill, the Interior secretary, acting through the reclamation bureau, would acquire )and In each state, suitable for at last 200 farms" and farm workers allotments. Tha. Interior secretary through the' would carry out devel--opnitat.

settlement ahd supervisory wort. He would oiler the farms a a4 allot menu for. iale and specify fjr ivaymeiii.i the.purhase 'uttt extending lipto jtmi iThe secretary woidd be authorized to ad vance! as much as $3,000 for permanent Improvement on each farm, and as much as $1,000 on each farm worker's allotment. $2.04.09 for Stat "The bill-provides that not more than $2,000,000 of. the proposed appropriation be extended in -any one of the states named.

CATTURNS HIS' FACE TO LINKS See Contlnaed Pleasant Weather For This Area On Weather Map. Northwest Florida and South Generally fair Tuesday and Wednesday. East GU: Moderate shifting winds becoming northerly over storth portion and fair Tueaday. -With fall thif fine weather I'm going to have to follow the lead of scores of others and get out on the links." said the weather cat last night. -Weather this is not con ducive, to indoor sports, hence to the links with my golf outfit.

Someone has said that anyone who is human enjoys the game. I guess that's right too." Train Wrecks But y. Passengers Escape MORGAN CITy. La, April 7. (." Seventy-seven "passengers and the train crew escaped death or In-Jury today as a defective rail spilled five pullmana, the lounge car and chair car of Southern Pacific passenger train number 103 at Lake Bridge, 12 miles east of here.

The cars rolled over and piled up in a freakish style. Passengers held on to anything In sight. A hurried survey showed only minor hurts and bruises. street several feet on both the east and west sidesr thereby reducing the else of the parkway la the center. Garden street ras ealarjed' la a simSar man- Increased traffic along the thoroughfare was advanced as an argument for a Wider street.

The committee composed "of Mrs. Clyde White, chairman. Miss ELizabeth -Kellu sad Mia A charge that JSecretaryMellon is conducting a campaign against prohibition was made in the Senate yesterday by Senator. Brookhart above, Iowa Republican. NAVAL AVIATOR TAKES TO CHUTE AS PLANE FALLS Bancroft Is Uninjured As Result Of Experience In Midair "Steve.

"student -avia tor at the Pensacola Air station, joined the Caterpillar club yesterday when he went over 'the side of his Curtiss 'Hawk, plane high over the Bellview section. Fttlds Back The wing" of "Bancroft's plane folded back and broke off as the flier brought ship out of dive while he engaged in ma neuvers, spectators said. He took to the open airta few seconds later and floated-gently to earth in his para chute. The wing of the Hawk fell more than half a mile from the spot where the plane burled its nose, deep in the ground after a plunge from a height of nearly a The 'craft was a total wreck, it was Suffers No Injuries Bancroft suffered no injuries as the result of his experience. ANOTHER CHILD BITTEN BY DOG Officer Shoots Animal That Bit Tot On West Gregory Street Another instance in which a child was bitten by a dog was investigated early last night by city police.

A child of Buford Wilkinson, of 1013 West Gregory street, was bitten in the leg by a dog on North Spring street, police reports say. Officer Victor Cuilla answered a call to that vicinity. He found the dog after a short search and shot it. Its owner was not known last night. The child is under observation of Eight persons are taking the Pas teur treatment as the result of being bitten by a mad dog in the East Hill section of the city a few days ago.

None is in a serious condition. Still No Light On Killing Of Negro LOCUST GROVE, April 7. (jfj Puzzled officers today hoped that the coroner's inquest here tomorrow would throw light on the mystery; surrounding the death Saturday of J. H. Wilkins, negro pullman porter, whose body was found tied to a sapling with his knees touching the ground and his skull fractured.

Finding of a bundle of rags on the railroad right-of-way near Me-Donought, eight miles north of the spot where the negro was discovered, was reported by Henry county officials today, They did not give out any details connected with the find Religio us Fre edom Day Is Set Aside TALLAHASSEE. Vla April l'F) Governor' Doyle E. Carlton today called upon Florida to participate with the nation in observing next Sunday, April IS, as the anniversary of the bifthday of Ttomaa Jefferson and as "Religious Freedom Day" In a statement Issued here today, the governor asked ministers of the state to make Jefferson, the sufc ject of their sermons, and requested civic organizations, the schools and the irrea to engirt la tie'ebsemcce, WHAT MEN can Imagine, they can do. Find a way to replace American talking movie films with French. Italian and Chinese talk, and you will have wealth beyond Xhe dreams of varice, keep the world's picture industry in Amer-it a and earn the blessings Qeorge Eastman and all the higher film powers.

ITALY AND FRANCE, it is said, believe that all the London talk will end in nothing. They are expected to withdraw, leaving Japan, Britain and this country to agree on a three-power treaty. That will be a conservative treaty British imperial conservatism, Japanese Mikado government conservatism, American financial conservatism, the last most con servative of alL DO WE NEED such a treaty? Did anything make it necessary to take in partners? Was it necessary to drag in Japan? Will, it really be a three-power treaty or a treaty with Japan! and British Interested on the far, fide the Pacific, and we with our interests on this side, Britain and Japan automatically in sympathy? WHY' NOT a. North American "three-power treaty, made up Canada, the United States and Mejtfbo? Would not that kind of atreaty, with the interest of all tlirte powers concentrated on thU Ttit American continent, be the for us and all America? rvMR. RASKOB, ab? head of the -National Democratic Committee, actually hopes to see an end of-prohibition, which mean repeal of the eighteenth amendment.

Mr. Raskob will not see that repeal; his grandchildren will not see it, barring a revolution, which is not coming. MRS. BdOLE, W. C.

T. U. told it all when she said: "The eighteenth amendment will last as long at the ninteenth, which gives vote3 to She might have added that prohibition in some form will last as long as white men in the south want to keep gin from colored men, and farmers and industrialists in the north want to keep whisky from hired men, the southern white men, the northern industrialists and the farmers be-, ing, able to get what THEY want, of course. TWO INTERESTING American flights this week from Pacific to Atlantic Captain Hawks, in a glider, towed by a heavier-than-air plane, crossed, the continent hauled behind the engine. A.

W. Mooney, pilot and airplane builder, of Wichita, Kan, started in a tiny monoplane non-stop from ocean to ocean. Forced down after flying 3.000 miles, he holds the 100-horsepower record for that dis-tance. GERMANS, building solidly, plan a regular passenger trans-Atlantic service two to three days at first, shorter time later. Real flying will soon be here.

Your grandchildren will ask: did you once travel on the railroad?" THE GOVERNMENT has ordered 50 new attack-planes and 73 bombing-planes, total cost BOO. Washington wisely encourages private building, thus stimulating aviation generally. government also should have Its engineers at work on new flying ideas, ordering them to Investigate, encourage and If necessary i finance any good outside Ideas. Detectives Wait For McGurn Extradition i i MIAMI. April tffV-Ctt fcaio detectives sent here to return Jack" McGurn to that 'city to face charges today awaited script of extradition papers from 1.

Tallahassee before proceeding back 'to Chieago with the alleged right bind man of Scarf ace Jd Capone. ASK CITY TO ENLARGE MAIN BUSINESS STREET SEVEN BIDS SUBMITTED FOR WORK A COMMITTEE from the Pilot's club yesterday requested the city commission to enlarge both sides of Palafox street from Garden to "Wright streets. The request was turned over to City Engineer Frank Jarre tt, who will investigate the proposal and determine the cost for the'mork, if it is decided to authorize lt- The committee asked the to enlarg Pslaiox OEVEN bids were received yes-O terday by the eity commission for the contract of remodeling and enlarging the clubhouse at the Osceola municipal golf course. All wer taken under advisement and a contract will be awarded later. The loeit bidder was 5- A.

Gibson of Camp Walton. The second lowest was John Schackle. Other bidders were James W. Eey,.