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The South's Standard ewspaper The Daily Constitution Leads in Home Delivered, City, Trading Territory and Total Circulation Single Copies: Sally, Be; Sunday, 10a. Dally aad Weekly 20e: Monthly 60c VOL. No. 301. ONIT VOKXIKO HZWBPAPIB PUBLISHED 19 ATLANTA stereo at Atlanta Poatoffic Aa Second-Class MU Halter.

ATLANTA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 8,1 936. 17 JV (DIP BfflDffilj 111 nn "IT LfLJ CT3 yv iyj Mm 'Ruins of Tornado-Shattered Gainesville Are Swept Off the Streets 1 1 Persons Killed When Big Airliner Falls and Burns State and Nation Rush Plans To Aid In Bringing Order Weary Survivors Begin Ordeal of Burying '4r 4 A fee h. T--1 iff Atlantan's Brother Plane Crash Victim Nine of Eleven Passengers and Two Pilots Perish; Hostess on Ship Stumbles From Wreckage To Summon Help. Victims; Many Bodies Burned Beyond Recognition; Public Funeral Planned for Those Left Unidentified; 1,250 Persons Injured in Monday's Twin Tornado Holocaust. i "i '-1 WORKERS REMOVE VICTIMS' BODIES PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SENDS AID TO MAKE SURVEY OF WRECKED AREA Scouting Plane Locates Debris of Crash Scatter-ered Over Mountainside inWestern Pennsylvania 4 tszJS Will Be Given Report Tomorrow at Warm Springs Insurance Companies Assure City of Cash; Tragedy Stalks Streets as Relatives Watch Workers Seeking New Bodies.

v. Sss. By FRANK M. DRAKE, Staff Correspondent. GAINESVILLE, April 7.

As the toll of the dead, the injured and the damage to property continued to mount tonight, this stricken city went about the sorrowful work of burying its dead, began the almost superhuman task of digging itself out of its ruins and waited hopefully for messages from the outside world that succor was on its way. There were 185 known dead, more than injured and property damage estimated as high as $7,000,000. Heart-torn survivors of the tornado of yesterday claimed the bodies of their loved ones today and began the ordeal of burying them. A of dead remained unidentified and who they were mayjiever be learned as. many bodis are burned beyond recognition.

Mayor W. A. Palmour said that the By MAKKEN GRAHAM. UXIONTOYVN, April 7. Rescue crewa working in a driving snowstorm carried the bodies of 11 persona from the wreckage of a giant Transcontinental Western Air liner to an improvised morgue on western Pennsylvania's highest mountain peak tonight.

Through deep mud and thick underbrush the bodies some of them burned were transported over a narrow lumber road, hardly more than a traiL There a horse-drawn wagon and a truck formed the cortege which moved alowlj along the muddy, tortuous path to tht summit atop the mountain. The bodies were placed in the garage of a resort hotel there. Tomorrow they will be removed to Uniontown. The bodies of eight had been taken from the wrecked transport plane before the snowstorm began. Emergency I- I i i i I f'l i I ,11,1,1,1 mi r-iT T-r iSsy" jj.

Stanley Bayersdorfer, one of 11 persona who met death yesterday when a transcontinental airliner crashed in the Alleghany mountains near Uniontown, is a brother of Mrs. Donald Oberdorfer, wife of a prominent Atlanta insurance company official. First reports were that Bayersdorfer was one of the three survivors of the crash, but it was later learned he was among the dead brought to Uniontown. Mrs. Oberdorfer left at 6:20 last night by train for SteulMnville, Ohio.

Bayersdorfer was head of a large department store there. He was said to have been returning from a business trip to New York. TOWNSENDITES HIT SEN ATEPRD Directors ReorganizePlan on National Basis Highly, Clements Assailed. BALTIMORE, April 7. P) -directors of.

the Townsend plan reorganized the national movement. today and at the snme time challenged the congressional investigation of its affairs as being "unwarranted and unconstitutional." At the end of an all-day session here, the directors also issued a statement charging Robert Karl Clements, resigned national secretary, and George Highly, Los Angeles leader, with plotting to wrest control of the organization by threats. The statement claimed a detective in Los Angeles, named Don Wilke, was hired to frighten from the organization Walter Townsend, a brother of Dr. F. E.

Townsend, co-founder with Clements of the movement, in an attempt to gain control. Differences between Dr. Townsend and Clements over what were called efforts of the former to "democratize" the movement were detailed. At the meeting here. Dr.

Townsend again denied "rumors" that he planned to resign as national president and asserted he intended "to stay in of the Queen City; of north Georgia's mountains of gruesome reminders of Monday's terrific wind. The remnants of business houses, where commerce thrived, and homes, where families dwelt, in peace, being carried to the edge of town and dumped in a heap that will rest as a monument to beautiful Gainesville. And" when all the litter is cleared, the task of counting the dead will be completed. Four minutes of tornado-wind has tattered a city more than 100 years C)M into a crumbled nasx of bricks- and pKntered wood. Under- -neath all thit debris art the crushed, bodies of scores of Gainesville's citizens.

Kenneth Rogers' camera shows us in this scene feeing, loaded with the litter of the tornado. Hundreds of workers toil day and night trying to clear the business section and the residential area unidentified bodies would be Gainesville's Deaths Reach Total of 185 REHABL TATON Continued In Page 9, Column 1. EX-LAW PARTNER DEFEJDSRITTER Business Leaders Pledge $20 ,000 As Relief Fund Mounts to $45,000 Necessity of Prompt Response to Red Cross Plea for Aid Is Stressed; Donors Warned To Make Gifts Only Through Authorized Agents. Rapid Gains in N. J.

Made by Roosevelt held for a day or two and if not claimed would be. given public funerals. With more than 200 persons listed as "not located" tonight, the Red Cross prepared to open a missing persons bureau. It is feared that a large number of those not located have been killed. Fund Shortage Acute.

Every available relief agency, public and private, was on the job and although the manpow- BEGUN IN TUPELO Many Victims of Tornado-Ravaged City Buried With Aid of CCC Boys. A. L. Rankin, Florida At Moreton M. Rollestoh, is in charge of torney, Tells of Splitting Receivership Fees.

TUPELO, April 7.JP) Tupelo settled itself to a gigantic rehabilitation task tonight after burying many of its 192 storm-mangled dead in hurriedly prepared graves. CONSTITUTION OFFICE RECEIVING CHECKS For the convenience of the public The Constitution will receive donations for the Gainesville tornado sufferers. These contributions will be turned over to the Red Cross for immediate use in the stricken area. All checks should be made payable to the Red Cross. Already a large amount has been subscribed by Georgians but the need for further relief is still great and funds should be forthcoming immediately.

Continued in Page 10, Column 1. The work of interring those who perished in Sunday night's roaring, F.D.R. Allocates Funds To Aid Storm Victims death-dealing tornado fell to those the-relief fund drive. Atlanta business leaders met yesterday not only to insure prompt donations, but also to appoint a committee to assist other relief agencies in a quick rehabilitation' of the Gainesville storm Glenn, prominent Atlanta financier, appointed chairman of the committee, late yesterday offered the services of his associates to the Red Cross. All attending the meeting pledged themselves to get the largest donations possible.

May Stem Deaths. Although Mr. Rolleston, first relief worker to reach storm-torn Gainesville Monday, declared contributions thus far were "splendid," he nevertheless pointed out the necessity of many additional subscriptions, which may be used quickly. Many deaths and much suffering, he said, may be prevented by a hasty flow of funds to Gainesville. Business leaders pledging subscriptions to the storm sufferers yesterday were, in addition to Mx.

Glenn of the Trust Company of Georgia, J. D. Robinson, of the First National Bank; H. Continued in Page 10, Column 3. Continued in Page 8, Column S.

Roosevelt and Borah Leading in Wisconsin who escaped the fury of the black horror that smashed a path across GAINESVILLE, April 7. VP) The revised death list from the Gainesville tornado stood at 185. The death list was compiled by the Red Cross and. the. Associated Press.

It follows: Appleton, J. Anderson, Helena. Anderson, Mrs. Garland. Anderson, Bill.

Anderson. Jessie. Adams, P. E. Asperson, S.

W. Adams, Bobert. Burnett, John. Benson, Frank. Brown, Paul.

Barrett, Guy. Braselton. Marjorie. Bogart, Mrs. Joe.

Burnette, Mrs. Emery. Burts, Mrs. Lora and two children. Bolding, Mark.

Barker, Opal. Burnette, J. W. Burnette, Mrs. J.

W. Burnette boy, 3 years. Burnette girl 1 year. Burnette child, 7 months. Cor, Mrs.

Lena. Cannady, Panzy. Carter, Clyde. Cain, John (infant). Caily, Mrs.

Laura. Coyle, Frank. Cox, Bark Bert Cox, F. E. Cox, Mrs.

Cochran, Frank. DeLong, Dean. DeLong, Mrs. RusselL Dowdy, Mrs. Commera.

DeLong, Mrs. (about 55). DeLong, Gertrude. Evans, Mrs. Mary E.

Eades, Jessie. Ellis, Mrs. Clarence. Ellis, Clarence. the city a mile wide aad four miles long.

They were aided by a large NEW YORK, April 7. New Jersey, safely republican three months ago, today is exactly on the line, with half the voters favoring a republican for president, half favortng the reflection of Roosevelt. The American Institute of Public Opinion made this announcement here today on the basis returns in its current poll. The question flaked was: "If the presidential election were today, for which candidate would you rote?" In the election New Jersey gave Roosevelt 51 votes for each 49 marked for Hoover. Roosevelt's reoent rspid rise in New Jersey is clearly shown by the following table: Would Vote Would Vote for for a Roosevelt Republican January 4p 54 February 47 R3 March 44 5a April SO SO Two opposing opinions etist among experts to explain the sudden rush of New Jersey voters to Roosevelt: (1) That sentiment toward the President lias changed, and (21 that Republican Governor Harold Q.

Hoffmau'a actiona in the Lindbergh rase met with utrong disapproval at the time the polls were taken. Complete figures showing Roosevelt's present popular strength in eai-h of the 48 states will be published exclusively in The Atlanta Constitution next Sunday. corps of civilian conservation workers, who dug the graves and stood silently, by as grief-stricken relatives murmured prayers. WASHINGTON, April 7. VP) New testimony regarding cash payments to Federal Judge Halsted L.

Bitter, of Florida, aplit receivership fees, and only partial income tax reporting of such fees by a witness was received by the senate today in its impeachment trial of the southern jurist. The evidence came in further examination of the first of more than 50 witnesses, A. L. Bankin, West Palm Beach attorney and former law partner of the defendant. Late in the day Frank P.

Walsh, of defense counsel, started the cross-examination. Under questioning by Representative Ilobbs, democrat, Alabama, of the prosecution ataff of three, Rankin told of receiving $75,000 aa a receivership fee allowed by Ritter. He testified to keeping $45,000 of total fees of himself and dividing the remainder among other lawyers and the receiver. He also described payment of $4,500 to Ritter in discharge of a law partnership dissolution debt, denying the $4,500 came out of the receivership fees. Rankin, under Hobbs' questioning, again testified that he paid Ritter in Continued in Page 7, Column a.

Each of the city's 12 ministers, all of whom were rendered churchless by With ever-increasing appeals the storm-stricken families at Gainesville for relief, a group of Atlanta business leaders yesterday pledged themselves and their allies to subscriptions in excess of $20,000 to be forwarded immediately to the homeless and the suffering by the American Red Cross. Total contributions now amount to approximately $45,000, according to Mortimer H. Freeman who, with the storm, joined in the services, which were brief and simple and for the most part observed at graveside, The largest and probably the sim plest funeral was held 1 at Priceville, MILWAUKEE. April 7. VPh-Independent Wisconsin republicans pledged to support Senator William E.

Borah, of Idaho, in the national convention led the state executive committee's uninstructed slate in early returns tonight from the delegate election. On the democratic ticket, which appeared to have attracted a greater number of voters, the state conference-indorsed elate pledged to President Roosevelt seemed headed for victory by outdistancing its few opponents. The President received 18,123 votes in 242 of the state's 2,918 pre- small community west of Tupelo, where the Jim Burroughs family was MIAMI, April 7. VP) President Roosevelt tonight allocated to the Works Progress Administration for immediate emergency work in the southeastern tornado area. The President sent the order from the U.

S. S. Potomac as he turned for shore to land tomorrow from his fishing cruise. He sent the following message tonight to Marvin H. Mclntyre, a secretary, here: "I have been in close direct touch with the Red Cross, various relief administrations, emergency conservation officials and crmy officers in Washington.

"They report that all federal agencies are co-operating in prompt relief measures. I have allocated 2,500.000 to the Works Progress Administration for immediate work in the effected states." laid to rest. Burroughs, his wife and 11 chil dren. ranging in age from 4 months VOTE ANTICIPATED to -17 years, were killed when their bouse collapsed. Shortly after noon their bodies were lifted onto a single truck from an improved morgue and carried to a i oincts.

ON CITY MANAGER community burial plot. SLASHES AT TAX MEASURE Plan Is Termed a 'Gamble and 'Embarrassing Program to Business. 35-Foot-lxmg Grave. There's huge grave, 35 feet long The News at a Glance Continued In Page 10, Column 7. and seven feet wide, had been prepared.

One by one the bodies were lowered into the pit and arranged according to age. A few relatives and neighbors sobbed softly and turned Cobb Says: League Has Good Statistics IN THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION Clip thta aarh day a4 maka your rrapbeok a thnmhnatl history. Approval Given, Subject to Council, To Decide Issue at Fall Primary. April S. 19M.

ATLANTA f-p, ww GEORGIA The Weather I away. Similar scenes were enacted at the LOCAL. Br IRVIN S. COBB. city cemetery and at a dozen com munitv Dlots.

Georgia Partly cloudy Wednesday; slightly warmer in west Thursday, probably showers. WASHINGTON, April 7. VP) The Chamber of Commerce of the Services will be held for other of the dead tomorrow and still others SUN AND MOON FOR TODAY Sun rises 5 :16 a. m. sets 6 :04 p.m.

Moon rises 7 :59 p. m. sets 5 :49 a.m. Reports of Weather Bureau Stations. Continued in Page 8, Column 1.

II. g. Weather Bureau Keport. 53 Highest temperature Atlanta voters will probably decide whether they want to reorganize the administrative branch of the municipal government and substitute a city manager for the'present system in the fall primary on September 2. At the same time they will select nominees for 3S various city positions.

Members of the city democratic executive committee' in the first meeting of the year last night decided, that Councilman John A. White's proposed council-city manager plan of local 47 50 58 T. 3 54 41 United States Chamber of Commerce slashes at tax measure. Fag 1 General John J. Pershing cited for breaking epeed laws.

Page 2 FORKIGN. Zamora is ousted by Spanish eortes. 1 United States correspondent rides Italian bomber, describe fascist aerial attack. Page 3 SPORTS Chattanooga Lookouts arrive in Atlanta today. Page 16 Crackers lost to Phils.

Pge 16 Break o' Day. by Ralrh McOill. rage 16 Grant beats Allison for title. Page 17 Baer planning comeback. Page 17 FEATURES.

Lowest temperature Mean temperature Normal temperature Bainfall in past 12 hours, Excess since 1st of month, ins. 7. Excess since Jan. 1, ins IS. Total rainfall since Jan.

1, 32. Businesa leader pledge $20,000 aa relief fund mounts to $400O. rage 1 Georgia's two senators urge loans of for storm area. Page 10 Key considering special session to raise funds for tornado needy. Page 10 Insurance men open sessions here today; national officers will speak.

Page 3 Every WPA resource is offered Gainesville; snppliea are sent. Page 11 STATE. North Georgia rivers reach flood stage, overflow lowlands. Fafe 4 Two Cordele men killed in highway crash near VaUosta. Tage 4 Richard F.

Sams, Atlanta businessman, die at Clarke ton. Page 4 Catoosa democrats urge presidential Tote in Georgia. Page 4 Girl'a entry wina first priae at Albany cattle show. Page 4 DOMESTIC Gainesville digging oat of rains. Tag 1 Eleven persons killed in Pennsylvania plane crash.

Page I Rehabilitation begun in Tupelo Kr 7 a. m. N'n 7 p. m. Dry temperature 4 4 50 Wet bulb 47 45 4J Relative 96 74 56.

ATLANTA One year ago' today (Wednesday, April 10, 1935) High 50; low 42; clear. (Copyright. 1998, North Amerlcaa 'Wawe-ppr Atliaare, Int.) SANTA MONICA. April 7. At last we know wherein the League of Nations really functions.

It keeps a good set of statistics. It eaya that in the world are 24.000,000 unemployed, and of this total more than half are in the United States, Since we are spending more government funds to aid the idle than any country, can it be there are persona among us who prefer staying on relief projects to taking regular jobs? Next time I pass a public works undertaking, I'm going to put the question to some able-bodied party -who, ii he's following the frequent custom, will be whiling away the hours between meala by gently fanning himself with a shoveL A pick-handle, as Pre often observed on one road-digging operation that's being financed by Uncle Sam. comes in bandy for leaning-on purposes, but the shovel is preferable for fanning. Once in awhile it slips and gouges the earth slightly, but accidents will happen, and the foreman comes along and replaces the divots and then all is well again. This particular contract.

I believe. i to be finished in the spring pf 19S7. I wonder, will they get it done on time? United States, representing a portion of organised business, today5 bombarded the administration's $799,000,000 tax program as "embarrassing" -to business and a "gamble." In a last-minute appearance before the house and means committee closed its public hearings with the start of actual bill drafting scheduled for tomorrow, Fred H. Clausen, chairman of the chamber's committee on federal finances, led an organised assault against the plan. A heavy-set.

gTay-hai red manufacturer from Horicon, Clausen listed four other tax bills in the. last four years, and declared with slow emphasis: "Ton will pardon the expression if I say that yon are 'running ns ragged. Nothing that President Boosevelt had called upon business in his relief message to help reduce unemployment, Clansen urged the committee to "give business an opportunity" to meet the challenge of the President "which I hope is friendly." "This is period when the government cannot afford to gamble in this manner with its revenue," he said STATIONS I Temper tort Rain AND STATE Or I 12hrs. WEATHER IT pm. I High Ins.

ATLANTA, cloudy 50 I S3 T. Ansnt, cloudy 54 Sfl .20 Birmingham. clr R4 Boston, raining 38 44 Charleston, cloudy Ml Charlotte, cloudy 5K Chattanooga, pt. 42 Chicago, clear 2H 32 .01 Denver, pt. cldy.

I 62 4 .00 Galveston, pt. cldy. 82 S4 .00 Havre, cloudy 4 48 T. Helena, cloudy 48 52 T. Jacksonville, pt.

6S 8 .04 Kansas City, clear 44 4 .00 Macon, cloudy 54 Memphis, dear ,62 54 .00 Miami, clear 78 82 .00 Minneapolis, cloudy 24 24 .00 Mobile, cloudy 52 52 .80 Montgomery, cloudy 5 58 .10 New Driest, 5 5 .18 New clear 42 4 .04 Phoenix, clear I Tt SO .00 Pittsburgh, snowing 28 44 T. Raleigh, clear 5 68 .0 gas Francisco, clear 68 .00 St. Louis, clear 36 38 Savannah, clondy Ml 84 .08 Tampa, clear I 16 82 .00 Thnmasville, cloudy ...4 48 T2 1.38 Ticksburg. cloudy 62 Washington, clear I 50 I 52 .0 Page 6 Balpfe T. Joses Bohert Qiillra Hollywood Today jrertoB.

Editorial page. Pr. Brady Paal Uallo PItt Tea PaiiHi Pr. Lont Theater programs. governmental operation will be placed before the voters if city council and Mayor Key approve the program, which is now pending before the charter revision committee of city council.

White predicted overwhelming council support for the plan and that it will have a preferential place on the primary ballot. Aldermanic Vote As Before. In addition, the six aldermen to be nominated will be voted on by the entire electorate of the municipality as they have for many years in the past. The committee voted unanimously to support, the present system of nominations even though such a Tnte was not necessary. "We just want the people to know rage Page it Page IS Page IS V5 Radio programs.

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rage IS v9 4 Society. Page 13. 14, 13 Cnlberteon on bridge. Page 14 Caroline Chttfield. Page 14 ir Page 1 Mignon.

Page 14 My Day. Tage 14 Tarxan. Page 23 Former law partner defends Judges Bitter. Pace 1 Continued in Page Column 6. Continued in Paxa 8, Column T..