Biloxi Daily Herald (Newspaper) - August 28, 1931, Biloxi, Mississippi you do not receive your Herald please phone 37Biloxi ' 90Gulfport before 6:30 HE S a vp in Daily Herald Before PRESS LEASED FRIDAY AUGUST 28, 1931 A 11 ANNUAL TOUR STARTED BY STATE Murphree Heads Pil grimage to East and Can ada Exhibiting Mississip pi's Aug. 28 train load of hustling men and comely wo men from started seventh annual tour yesterday at The train will return there Sept. 6 from a tour of the Eastern United States and the delegation is Dennis Democratic nominee for lieutenant Wearing a re splendid white suit and swinging a gold headed he announced that is the most famous train of its bind in the attention with him as the * out of the Pullmans when the train pulled in at sev o'clock this was tall bronzed Lee who owns a 22,000 acre plantation near Natchez He wore t ten gallon direct the crowd into the station dining room for breakfast was Dr. Frank K. - Jackson boys the steel rafters of terminal station ringing with airs from * Benjamin S. secretary of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and Luke secretary to Mayor James L. of were on hand as Tn the throng at the station were numerous former resi dents of breakfast the greeters had ready a fleet of motor cars for the tour of the SHOWS charge of a baggage car filled honey and other was J. C. Mississippi secretary of Here such placards as has the cotton plantation in the club boys have grown 200 bushels of corn to the and have the world's largest consolidated greeted the Holton said that al though proportion 1,750,000 bales of Mississippi cotton this year was r An sust government production trill fall greatly below that figure because of much wet weather in recent acreage was cut six per cent this he and food and feed crops are greatly The he will produce 40.000,-000 bushels of corn this year as compared with 19,000,000 last Washington the delegation expects to greeted by President tn New York Al Smith is to be their Calvin Coolidge is to meet them at J. W. Milner of Gulfport is aboard the Know Mississippi Better supplied with a quantity of Gulfport and Harrison county literature which he will distribute on the WAN TO GREAT States and France May Share in Lending to to Defies Senate Group In Cannon Case Second Two Refuses To Doubts Authority to Aug. 28(JP)Negotiations for a Franco-American credit to Great Britain were described today as having made substantial Estimates of the amount by financial writers ranged from to came from J. P. and Company that discussions had been held both her and in and that French and American banking interests would participate equally in a credit to the new national emergency of experts were that the credit would be used by the Bank of England to protect sterling exchange if but the possibility was recognized that in of recent improvement in sterling the British government might decide it needed no credit would be for one British treasury bills in proportion to amounts borrowed would be issued to bankers participating in the These bills having 60 or 90 days to could be sold at a similar to the treasury bills used in the United States As the bills mature new bills could be keeping the credit Senators From South Ready to Join In Cotton Aug. 28.(JP)Five Southern Senators were ready today to join Serial r of in t cotton situation with the farm Black and of Alabama of of and of South informed Senator George they would be here for the conferences which will open late today in office of Carl cotton member of the farm of South telegraphed that he also would try to be with the was indicated that the conferees would discuss the entire cotton sit with the as well as the plan Senator George proposed last week under which the board would guarantee a price for this year's crop stipulations that would discourage the production of cotton next Aug. 28.(JP)MLjs Ada L. of Richmond treasurer of the Democratic organization headed by Bishop James in 1928, today declined for a second time to answer questions before the Senate campaign funds she went on the stand Miss Burroughs said in a mild voice that she had a statement to She asked photographers not to take her picture and that was ordered by Chairman her prepared statement Miss Burroughs said of the or other called for by the committee's are now in my was Miss Burroughs to whom Bishop Cannon in a London statement last night said he had turned over some of the funds withdrawn by him from political accounts in several banks in 1928. decline to Miss Burroughs said when Nye called her attention to the recent order of the District of Columbia supreme court refusing to grant Bishop Cannon a writ of prohibition against the continuing its inquiry into his political TESTIMONY Senator Nye reminded Miss Burroughs that have given some testimony in your prepared New then asked her who were the other officers of the decline to give any she that a asked There was no asked other questions and finally got witness to say she a member of the Methodist don't want to answer any questions dealing with Bishop Cannon's handling of then I would like to ask you if you were treasurer of the Wagner decline to she is a matter of reminded it is a matter of advised you not to Wagner decline to David a son of the and attorneys for Cannon sat near the witness STATEMENT The statement of Miss Burroughs the chairman and members of the select committee on campaign United States to for my appearance today to testify before this committee under the terms of senate resolution 403, I with all due to refer the committee to a protest heretofore filed by me with this committee on May 6, 1931, and 1 hereby adopt said protest for the purposes of this in further deference to the committee and the I beg to state that none of the or other called for by the committee's are now in my the which were in my possession as treasurer of the headquarters committee were retained in my possession for the statutory period of two years from the time of the receipt of all moneys by said and were thereafter turned over and delivered to James and I have no knowledge as to their present the further information of the I beg to state that I never at any time had any connection with a committee designated in the committee's as on Temperance and as stated in my protest of May 7, 1931, that this committee is without authority or jurisdiction lo investigate inquire into any of the matters referred to in said of August 27, 1931, to or any matters relating to the private transactions of James or my connections and being so legally I again decline to give any testimony in this L. on page NOTE IS of Funds to Pay Debt Already Settled Intimated In Letter Read at Aug. 28. check for charged to the account of Claudius H. former Republican national committee chairman and given to the North Carolina Democratic state wide committee in 1928, was put in the record of the Senate campaigns funds committee Aug. 28.(5>)Bishop James turned to his low funds after the 192S campaign in which he collected more than personally as chairman of the letter addressed to friend - fellow by Bishop Cannon on January 26. 1929. soliciting funds to meet a of the Democratic was put before Ed win C. New York who gave Cannon at the hearing of the Senate campaign funds committee who had just testified that he gave Bishop Cannon after the 1928 election to pay ofi the jumped from his seat to look at the letter after Chairman Nye read is news to he Jameson made his paj ment in December and early in Jan uary after The Cannon letter of January 26 on stationary of the on page Sportsman in Lexington Monroe 80, owner of Calumet famous for its trotting died at his home on Versailles pike He had never recovered from a paralytic stroke suffered last May 5. Wright had been unconscious since stricken in May and his family was never able to tell him that his bay Calumet had won the greatest harness horse the Hambletonian stakes at N. August 14. horses were the of Dr. Wright's later years and he took particular pride in having bred the great Peter world's champion trotting He had numbers of other that made their names famous on the grand circuit in Mr. Wright started as a traveling salesman at the nge of 20 and in 1S92 organized the Baking Powder He sold it several years ago and was rated at more than a million dollars when he wife was with bim when death but his only Warren was in AHEAD OF Dignowity Says Work In Biloxi Channel Will Be Completed in About Three A. H. assistant U. S. Engineer for this was in Biloxi today inspecting the work on the new Biloxi The dredge is three days ahead of schedule and Captain Dignowity is very pleased with the progress being made and said the project which is about 10 percent would be finished in a over three owners have been asked not to anchor vessels ahead of the dredge in its immediate vicinity as this delays the The dredge is operating three shifts daily with the exception of Saturday and Work stops at noon Saturday and is not resumed until midnight dredge is now working along the front beach in the vicinity of Bellman About 50 are employed in the U. S. officials expect to with the property owners in the placing the fill where it is desired to fill in marshes and other lew small including are assisting in the Captain who is accompanied by E. J. came here aboard the inspection launch and while here conferred with Chamber of Commerce who are planning a mammoth observance in connection with the channel The celebration is tentatively set for early in May Call Session For Cotton fress BROKER IS Missing Since August 11, Appears at Police Station to Tell New Aug. 28. M. Rosenthal paid for his police said late being questioned several hours by Rosenthal is said to have told them that his release was effected only after the payment of York Aug. 28(P)Unkempt and Charles broker and heir to a large appeared at a police station in Bronx today and said he was blindfolded and held prisoner in a New York apartment for more than two who Aug. 11, said he was released today by his who tossed him unceremoniously out of an automobile in the then sped his absence his friend and Edward announced he had received letters demanding Traps set for the but they Efforts by relatives to communicate the captors through the columns of newspapers also were without said the entire period of his he was forced to wear smoked glasses with pieces of paper pasted on the He was bound Crowded In Buildings and On Chinese Aug. 28(JP)A boat tour of the native section of covered by flood of the Yangtse today disclosed vast areas of unbroken water where rickety buildings stood last of roof dwellers cling precariously to their insecure becoming daily more emaciated and The Yangtse river which cleanses the foreign quarters of the does not reach the native the green stagnant water emits an almost unbearable Associated Press correspondent visited a building whose upper floors housed at least 5.000 It was almost impossible to walk without treading upon bodies or The bottom floor of the building is submerged several other person appeared to be gravely ill. From every direction came moans of the aged and cries of Wuhan comprising the cities of Hanyang with a total population of about 1,500,000, contains only a small percentage of the flood The Chinese military here is predicting that between 2,000,000 and 4.000,000 Chinese probably will die before the year's Wuhan area is the center of the flood which extends for vast distances in every covering many thousands of square miles of what was once the fertile Yangtse ljI CLING of Pilot and Radio Operator Credited With Saving of One Passenger DRY AGENTS Influence of Charged With Possession of Forty SCHOOLS OPEN SEPT. A. L. May Announces Plans for Beginning of Biloxi High School 1931-32 Biloxi public schools will open the 1931-32 session September 7. September 3, all freshmen who elected courses last spring will meet at the high school at 8:30 to register and make their schedules for the After the freshmen are registered and schedules are made schedule will be operated during the when teachers will give the first year pupils information about high courses to be pursued and various other points of guidance that are necessary for them to have the right start for their high school No other pupils will report except the so the teachers will have all their time to devote to these September 4, at 8:30, all juniors and seniors who elected courses last will be registered and these students will make their schedules for the September 4, 1 all students entering from ac on page Aug. 28.UP)Chief of Police J. R. Farr of said today that J. P. Carter and C. federal prohibition agents from New Orleans well under the influence of when arrested in Milton county and charged with possession 40 gallons of whisky an automobile crash with Farr's federal men were indicted by the Milton county grand jury along with Chief Farr accompanied the federal men at the time of their and he is a liquor said the agents came from Louisiana to Atlanta as undercover He said they announced they were going into the liquor business as a means of checking prohibition law Farr and other Milton county officers denied an by Prohibition Administrator Tuttle of New Orleans that the arrest of the federal men was retaliatory The The officers demanded to know why the undercover men failed to arrest those from whom they purchased the SPEAKS AT C. White is Chairman of the Local Arrangements Committee for Approaching Biloxi and Treasurers of the United States will hold their annual meeting at the White House Hotel in Biloxi Sept. 8-10 This is the largest convention of state officials in the United auditor of is chairman of the local committee his associates are Sen. H. C. state C. assistant deputy Mayor and Mrs. Cunningham secretary of the convention met two years ago in San Francisco and one year ago in New York While Coast people are unable to show them big on Page UNDER With Assault and Robbery Connection With an Alleged Attack on Constable OF SENT Aug. 28. George secretary of the Mississippi Supervisors Association is sending out notice to the new boards of supervisors throughout the state announcing a meeting at Hotel Sept. 24, 25 and 26. Frazier of Madison president of the Association directed the secretary to send out the announcement to consider subjects that will effect new boards of supervisors taking office the coming legislative program will likely be discussed and number of Warren county newly elected supervisors will likely attend the County Mobs Make Efforts to Get Two Aug. 28.(JP) Two sought by mobs in Amite county yesterday were removed to safety by county one negro being held in a Louisiana jail after Emanual Jackson was yesterday just over the state line and taken to a Baton Rouge jail officers braved a mob to remove an unnamed negro to a jail believed to be the one at B. Tarvis arrested Jackson in East Feliciana Parish and was only 15 minutes ahead of a A deputy sheriff brought the negro to Baton Rouge for safe Jackson wap charged with slaying - S Bramlett said Jackson admitted the slaying saying he shot the planter after being beaten by Deputy Harvey said Jackson would be charged with The slaying occurred earlier this Travis returned to Amite county yesterday just in time to take charge of the unnamed negro had been arrested on a charge ol attempting to attack the wife of a farmer near A mob of three score farmers demanded that Travis surrender the negro but the sheriff defied them -nd the crowd did not attempt to take the prisoner by group of Wednesday was declared to have disarmed and robbed a Beat One constable of and seven slot machines which he had just taken in a of robbery and of resisting an officer in the discharge of duty have been filed in the county court at Gulfport against George Pete Tony Harry Tauzin and Covetta all of Biloxi in connection with the affair and they have been arrested and placed under bond pending trial second Monday in constable of Beat 1, was the officer upon whom the alleged assault was made by the above five named and he is said to have incurred the wrath of the defendants when on last Tuesday the night of the state-wide De he seized seven slot He it was under be the chief prosecuting witness against the quintet on the charges of robbery and resisting an against the five men were by District Attorney W. M. Colmer of v ho came to Gulfport and after investigation filed the charge in the county Harrison county deputy arrested the defendants yesterday and they immediately made bond for their appearance at the approaching term of county rumors concerning the incident leading up to the filing of the criminal charges were current in Biloxi but none of the defendants seen had any statements to make relative to the 7 according to was overpowered by the five his gun taken away from him and tb slot machines he had seized in the raid also taken along with in Aug. 28.UP) A skill and a radio - - today with lives of 12 persons as a Pan-American amphibian plane plunged into the sea Gloucester in a heavy Banwell of unnoticed as the transferred from the plane to a rubber life fishing schooner Nova entering the came upon the nine passengers and three of her of the bound They had been clinging rubber raft for than mi L. Elmore of the the plane down to the surface of water when fog set in. A wave struck one of the crushing within a few minutes n FOR cut on the jaw when he was thrown against the instrument board of the aided the passengers to the wings of the plane and dived into to get the rubber life W. Eston of North Abington radio opera on the took up the task of locating the raft as Elmore became launched the raft by the crew of the plane while the passengers were led During transfer of passengers Banwell was lost darkness the survivors were about to give up hope when the Nova Julia edged through the Captain Leo of the Nova Julia hove launched a and took passengers and The nine passengers were taken to Addison Gilbert hospital suffering from minor shock and said of the left with a weather report which fair passing N. a heavy fog bank came rolling in I tried to duck it but it was too thick and reaching to the There was only one thing to as we could see light out to sea and I believe the fog was thinner there and I headed fog became thicker and I decided to after ordering the radio antennae reeled pontoon was torn off by a swell just a second after the plane struck Ihe and up under the The John told me he had checked all the people out as they went and said he accounted for all of Do not recall seeing the man now reported missing but the steward said he had checked them all Halifax to Boston run was inaugurated this The plane was a twin-motored Heads British Labor Aug. 28. former foreign was elected leader of the British labor party today to succeed Ramsay will lead the Labor opposition in the coming special session of parliament against Prime Minister national TO RUSH TO Will Carry Cotton Measure To Austin For Governor Sterling Early Saturday FAVORS SPECIAL TERM FOR Governor Emphatic in Denunciation of Long's Plan to Prohibit the Planting of Aug. Governor Long said today ' phatic in deny A 2*.<JF~ Governor Theodore O. Bilbo nothing about any special legislative today but to say that a lame soston to consider state finances would not be held fore he quits office fa J The was of he would charter an airplane and lay the Louisiana for 3932 on the desk of Governor Ross S. Sterling of on houses of the legislature were virtually in suspension today as far as the cotton was concerned awaiting the legal delays necessary for the upper House to act on the to bar cotton raising bylaw provided the other states come in was passed by the House of Representatives yesterday by an unanimous vote with Representative Stanley of New alone on page BOMBS AT Chicago Show Houses Picture Union Operators Blamed for Aug. 28. whose owners recently substituted Eastern motion picture operators for those of the local were bombed shortly after WORK AT Aug. 28.(JP)Arrest ci two children at a liquor distillery reported here today by federal prohibition agents on their return from a raid near were one 8 and the 12. They were released later but a man who gave his name as Ben Cross and admitted he was their was He the children were at the THROWN IN ST. Hurt and Damage Estimated at Caused by Blast Which Shatters 100 Aug. 28.(JP)Explosion of a apparently thrown from a motor rocked the downtown district of St. Louis early shattered about 100 windows in the 100 block on North Seventh street and severely injured a William bomb was thrown in front of a cigar store and tearing a hole in the sidewalk a foot in Police sard a license in the shop owner as Henry 30, a was walking nearby when the explosion occur He was badly injured by flying handbook is located in the Title Guaranty which adjoins the Buder in which the St. Louis Times is Windows were shattered as high as the sixth blast was heard for several miles and attracted hundreds of Police had great difficulty at first in keeping the crowd out of falling Several panes in the American ti block were Guests in several downtown hotels were said the damage was about ON FOX Aug. 27. The funeral of Henderson 58. Marshall county dairy farmer of Mount who dropped dead while on a fox was held yesterday at Tenn. Jones collapsed while following the hounds and expired before friends in the case could summon medical of the bombs exploded at the rear of the Ridge and caused slight injuries to two small children who were thrown from their beds in a 35-apartment building across the The manager of the Harold L. estimated the damage at saying that a delicate sound machine near the stage had been the second the on the South more than a dozen windows were broken in the adjacent University of Chicago settlement showering sleeping occupants with shattered This theatre was owned by Aaron E. president of the Independent Theatre Owners who was negotiations with the local motion picture operators third house was the Ray where damage to the sound equipment on the stage and to the interior of the auditorium was estimated at by the after the assistants of State's Attorney John Swanson opened an ordering the arrests of three former State's Attorney Charles A. Bellows blamed the local motion picture union for the He said he would appear before Chief Justice John P. McGoorty with a petition asking that the bonds of Maloy and other of the now under indictment on charges of conspiracy to obtain money under false pretenses and conspiracy to do illegal acts injurious to public be He said the men had left the jurisdiction of the court and therefore were in a controversy between union operators and independent theatre owners the latter have failed to convince the union that it should abandon its demands that two instead of be employed at each the small The contending that the wage paid the second man represented the difference between their being able to operate at a profit or to suffer a have employed men brought from Eastern cities or local While the Eastern men belong to a it is not associated with the local operators from Eastern used by the independent were gathered in a loop hotel at the time of the Detectives were sent to the hotel to accompany them to their session f Governor P. plan is as wll as lie 1. idea is fanatic ami in the find I wouldn't even calling the legislature for Bilbo does call an extra first problem of the regular session in January will be the meeting a deficit in and Confederate It is understood that pressure from his and the own further political ambitions is causing him to give serious thought ta a special Finn in which he might effect remedial in the financial nnd educational ADVOCATES TERM Adam Haunch said here today openly that he would seek a special m e Lawrence T. Kennedy of member of the house group declared that the projected session would be futile because of lack of members of the house who have been defeated would be in no frame of mind to work any he institutions revealed by the of a new they will be able to borrow from banks enough money to them on until the January they will be forced to operate on greatly reduced found consolation in the sweeping defeat of factional as well as political incumbents and isn't a Bilbo it's a house he public mind today is such that we could put a Democratic president in without They want everybody or Certified Check Required in Payment of desiring to pay taxes on delinquent property between this and next Monday morning at 11 o'clock when the sale by the sheriff and tax collector of delinquent tax property in Harrison county will begin must present cash or a certified cashier's it was announced today by Sheriff and Tax Collector Jos. W. will probably be a considerable number property owners who will pay up their delinquent property tax tomorrow and the sheriff but he will insist upon the presentation of legal tender or a certified check from those desiring to avoid having their lands placed on the auction at the delinquent tax FOk Comes at Close of Hottest Day of Year in and Wife JAMES P. Aug. 28(JP)Rounding out a day crowded with official and social Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh were formally welcomed to Japan tonight in a banquet given by members of the banquet came at the end of the hottest day of the year in Tokyo and those it were attired informally because of the severity of the Both Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh appeared a little but the former showed enthusiasm when he spoke of aviation in his banquet was given under the auspices of the ministries of navy and at the Imperial Foreign dishes were Cameron American the communications minister and Lindbergh were the The speeches were broadcast in Japan and a hookup was arranged for their transmission to America for broadcast Lindbergh referred to his childhood dream of Japan as a fairyland and compliments Japan on the quality of its silk used in large number oi entertainments in honor of the resulted in some but both Japanese and Americans in charge of the festivities said the mixup was largest affair involved in the mixup was a Geisha party by the newspaper Nichi The party had to be called off. Nichi Nichi officials said the Colonel accepted their invitation with thanks in behalf of himself and Mrs. but at the last moment sent Buys Biloxi city bonds voted several weeks ago by the Bilon voters for the purchase of lands for the Home were sold late yesterday to the Bechtel Company of represented by J. R. vice president of the The city commissioners withheld the sale of these bonds after the other buyers at yesterday morning's meeting refused to bid less than 6 per cent whilo later in the day the Bechtel Company entered a bid ef 5 J per cent which is considered a very good
