Delta Democrat-Times, The (Newspaper) - August 21, 1939, Greenville, Mississippi Plenty of RESULTS In the Democrat THE Delta Weather Forecast Partly cloudy cal in south tion cooler in west and north tions tonight Tuesday generally fair VOLUME 43 GREENVILLE MISSISSIPPI MONDAY AUGUST 21 1939 NUMBER 297 New Indictments On Heels Of Long Shushan Charged With Dr Lorio Smith Four Others Dr Shaw Kills Self NEW 21 AP L Shushan powerful Louisiana politician and former close associate of Hucy P LOUR was indicted by the federal grand jury here today along with four other persons on charges of using to defraud In a ed Orleans Levee Board bond re- transaction in which he allegedly received Investment Firm Members Named with the for- mer president of the levee board whose name was stripped from airport two weeks ago were Robert J Newman and T Harris jr members of the prominent investment firm of Newman Harris Company Herbert W member of the levee board at the time of the transaction Henry J ler an accountant all of whom allegedly shared in tlie paid in the refunding Two other indictments were handed down today one naming Slate Senator A Lorio prominent Baton Rouge politician and former aid to Hucy P the other Dr James Monroe former head of Louisiana State University Lorio was ed with using the mails to defraud with income tax evasion Case Complicated The violent death of Dr 1 A Shaw key government witness and keeper of Louisiana's oil in- dustry secrets or decade gravely complicated the federal investigation of tangled state fairs but government prosecutors no letup director of the mineral division of Louisiana vation department and titular of the state's oil industry was found fatally wounded al his home hero last night A revolver lay He died on the alinn table al Baptist hospital 45 minutes later Coroner C Grenes Cole said it was suicide Quickly altering plans j CAN'T AIAKK LIVING SWALLOWS POISON I A mother who couldn't make a living for her three children I is in King's Daughters Hospital today in critical condition after police said she swallowed i son al her home Sunday ing i Mrs M L South DeLesseps was re- ported slightly better at the I this She was i taken to the hospital at I I a i m yesterday Assistant Chief C A said Mrs left a note to her children ing she was unable to make a living Her husband died one year ago yesterday G-MEN BRISTLING WITH SEEK LEPKE HIDEOUT Europe Enters Fateful It Peace Or Jersey Mountains Scene of Manhunt For Public Enemy i BOUND BROOK N J Aug 21 AP Auto loads of federal with machine guns the mountains near j today Police Chief William i Nash of Brook said I were looking for the hideout he fugitive racketeer Louis BRITAIN FIRM AS SMALL NATIONS ACT IN PEACE CONCERT Hungarian Envoy Makes Cryptic Statement on Aug 21 Britain reaffirmed her policy of resistance to aggress today as the government of Belgium in- a peace pica on behalf of the small neutral ers The foreign ministers of the Netherlands Luxembourg en Norway Finland and Denmark were called to Brussels to meet s soon as possible this week with represent a lives of Belgium to confer on the plea old King pold himself was reliably reported to have called the meeting Meanwhile a British spokesman referring to a statement of policy by Foreign Rather than fans a match al Now Lord Halifax July South Wales Mildred continued her round she hud disqualified herself at the second hole Here she is hitting a short iron nl the sixth attorneys began redrafting Jersey Chief Nash said two carloads of Federal Hurcau of slopped at his this morning said they had a tip on Lepke's and led off for nearby township in the i central Candidates In Home Stretch As Last Week Opens All Sections Of State To Be Visited By Conner And Johnson There are many places a son could hide out up the chief said Hie federal grand The prosecutors us a witness made the much more difficult but would no alter prosecution of for- mer Richard W and hotel owner Seymour I potent LOOK heirs who are flj U country PARKS IN RACE W Continued On B GOTHAM'S MILK SUPPLY DWINDLES Says in Announcement That Starling Will Not Run Again h LaGuardia Calls Farmers And Distributors For Parley NKW AUK 21 As a nil New York City's milk supply in half Mayor LaGuardia called farmers and distributor together today for a peace parley The conference which the in- hoped would develop a promise agreement In end the week-old dispute was preluded bv renewed violence upstate Men C Parks resident nf ville for the past years and prominently identified with Scout work and other civic ties today became the first in the fall campaign for city council Mr Parks will run from the Second Ward In making his announcement Mr he had been told by Starling prose n I councilman from the ward that he did not intend to run again 11 is statement j AI the request of my friends and neighbors in Ward Two I am announcing mv candidacy tor city councilman This is first public to which I have aspired in my lil HUMY JAWS OF WAR GOD BOOMS ARMS INDUSTRIES U S Aircraft Makers Arsenals Shipyards Do Rush Business Force In that statement Halifax said that the of force bars the way to of claims and thai in the nf fin HUT aggress Ion we are resolved to use al once whole of our strength in fulfillment of our pledges spokesman said Germany and had had ample to be familiar with this policy Independent BUDAPEST 21 AP Count Csaky Hungarian foreign Continued On Page 8 JACKSON Aug M AP gubernatorial will let all suctions of I stale share the political spotlight this as they sweep into the illume stretch the Aug uf auain this week 1 capital city will trad the spotlight t sippi Wednesday and Thursday Co MEDICAL FAKERS BESET GULLIBLE OF MISSISSIPPI Protection of Citizens Against Quacks and ies Man Sized Job JACKSON Miss 21 of Ill -i Ann 21 is snl will in ls the f nl Inr the il nut j will in j Hod 111 nine j I i Still 11110 by milk dumping and skull ing in clashes The growing milk shortage re- the usual supply available In the metropolitan area from 4 to quarts lloth sides gave assurances thai uf in If I md Hill T in Th luu i ill III cc jinny ind nid end in in plot llu m the past week yet rs oi the respective remained ever affairs 11 is only fair to arid that Mr Lyne Starling who has been needy ll as would ho I lived in plied adequately but hundreds f without bottled represents Ward Two floes not in- tend lo be a candidate for tin milk In more than 30 strikers were arrested In On- county fifty recruit after cans of milk were clumped bv strikers Al persons watched police and battle pickets at a milk plant A dozen pickets received head in- juries A deputy sheriff was knocked unconscious Kerosene was in is in Washington county to spoil in with other usances trucks were and valuer their cargoes recovered ed into ditches who worked for Mrs Hackett NEGRO ADMITS BURGLARY HERE Deputy tiday Kd Jin arrested Sunday confessed the house if Mrs 11 C Hackett cm ton late Saturday is in Washington county In rails train picking up milk near mond N Y All Around The Town By The Staff BELL AT Charles Hell will address the Kiwanis Club at their weekly tomorrow noon at Hotel Greenville said John Wells Mr Hell son of Judge nnd Percy Hell recently returned from Oxford England where he been a Rhodes Scholar for the past two years confessed the burglary THREE DIE IN JACKSON CRASH Miss Aug AP death toll of a Saturday night car crash oh U S Highway 80 oast of here was set at throe today as W J sole survivor was reported recovering at a local hospital Fatally injured when two cars collided head on were Hi ley Braxton of Hankin ty and Harry Cooper ami James Edgar Graves M both nf i West Hankin resident was reported resting fairly well today He suffered a double t the right arm a pelvis and loft hip and facial ALABAMA FARMS LEFT DEVASTATED Receding Flood Waters j Leave Desolate Scenes Ala Aug AP i lays iigo were a nf of lay lloud of Alabama rivers and in to the ihuiiM.nds nf In with the Cross ind combining Terming the South Alabama P O tension Chief completed ments for m of ol the in morrow to help i lo ind corn in the Hell a strip dark running across the stale i At peak ol the flood the Cross supei food ing nf stress on pret disease made j numerous rtf ripened up -nI week hut declined tu any Senator Pat I and Hugh hitc endorsers of Conner md during the minced I hey with but on fi to Doctor J Under- State Health Officer issued by the ol against cancer specialists Indian di- vine and oilier Duet or Underwood says and a full-time man exerts every to track down these II people only knew the harm these quacks do would floe them like a pestilence Doctor Underwood declares Instead innocent but ignorant victims trust them give tin lees and Hun when health and are gone go too lale to a reliable physician n err Spec in list Doctor Underwood cites the case of a cancer specialist who has flourished in an east Mississippi town for years He claims lo have a secret plaster the of which are Insl to hut himself This applies to all skin blemishes warts sores and occasionally cancer extracting from each patient His cess lies in the fact that the on Page K youth A Human Echo Who Can Duplicate Your Talk At Once PISH THAT DIDN'T GROW KANSAS CITY Aug 1 is a uf the fish that did not grow in j telling C E Powell and Jerry ever netted a four-pound pike i in Gull Lake was placed on a steel near the The peller cut the but left I the pike's jaws locked in a steel i safety pin 11 could open its j mouth about two inches no j more That was two years ago Last week Mrs II J more fishing in Gull Lake j j had a peculiar strike just feel i She reeled in a pike with a i steel pin in its jaws It was just skin and and weighed only about one and i half pounds She removed the rusty stringer and placed thr fish back in the water BURGLARS GET FROM SAFE OF MACHINE WORKS NAZIS WANTED TO GIVE BOOKS TO TAMPA UNIVERSITY Another Burglary by Police and Citizens Burglars sometime Saturday battered open the safe door i the office of Greenville and Works South Theobald and the C G and escaped with The intruder used a large sledge hammer to force their way into the safe The burglary was dis- covered Sunday morning and lice Officer Godwin an- swered a call to the plant geant Sam made an un- successful effort tn secure prints from articles found near the Police and neighbors early day frustrated a burglary of Market Theobald and Pecan Street A Mr Sullivan who lives on Pecan Street saw a ing the rear of the market at a m He grabbed shotgun and neighbors who called police As Officer drove a patrol car to the place the negro burglar leaped from a side window and escaped lie got nothing from the store Trade Agreement Between Russia many Stirs Statesmen of England France Troops Massed On Polish Border By Associated Press today faced a week which many believed would bring developments pointing Lho way to or war As it started statesmen were puzzled by sudden of a new trade agreement between Communist Russia Nazi Germany There was feverish activity and military ures for possible conflict Troops were massed on both sides of the and ders Political and economic sources in Berlin said the Soviet agreement probably would give Germany access to materials for strengthening the Reich's han 1 m Europe's power politics Moscow Hails Pact In Moscow the newspaper organ of the Communist aid the was expected o dispel iin atmosphere of political rein turns between the two countries Further Pravda aid it may become a serious tep in the direction of further of not only economic nit also political relations between the U S S R and Germany Meanwhile Great Britain and France attempting fo win Russia into a mutual assistance pact for which they have been negotiating ince April appeared no nearer agreement with Moscow Military staff talks among the three were resumed in the Soviet after a week-end recess Prime Minister Chamberlain re- from his vacation for a of cabinet ministers London tomorrow fo review the Day of Germany's press stated thai Germany's Day of Reckoning wilh Poland over the Danzig nation was approaching man patience was said to be fast dying under Polish lence Warsaw appeared calm in the crisis Poland was said lo have sent troop reinforcements to her Gorman and Slovak borders after Germany was reported tol have placed troops under full war equipment along the Slovak side of the Polish frontier The Polish moves were undertaken quietly the only public ment being that certain sive measures have been taken So Testifies President to Dies Committee But Consul Denies WASHINGTON Aug 21 AP John Harvey Sherman dent of Tampa Kla University told the Dies Commit lee today that a high German consular of- had offered to donate 10 his University's Library but that the offer was rejected The official whom named in testifying at the com- into un-American practices was Baron Edgar hurr Spiegel Von Und Ku General at New Orleans The Sherman this was a practice they to encourage the study of German in American colleges Adding that Von Und Zu had said such donations had been made to other tional institutions the President Me didn't say where I did not ask ORDERS HERE FOR COTTON PICKERS FOR DELTA N V Aug AIM Krancis admitted Hr holy a few lines of Ihc said He Hence loathed a and Magnet pick him up with the first re- cited with Of and blackest midnight bnrn in stygian cave Mongst horrid shapes and sights and sounds un- F professor uf it f twisters and even foreign Word Tor word the speech emerged a duel on the nf subject even the I can do this without looking boy the talk o j JIK long I can hear him with i lime m- words nf and his own Dr added To Magner lliu 1 Attention The buy lias such a great of attention lo the variation of sounds as they appear in speech that il is Dr Scofield declared talent sometimes i source of embarrassment 1 ost my girl that he We were dancing by pulling the Then began talking I just -i involving echoed Lack without meaning to plicated neurological terms IShe got so peeved that she u M II Workers Wanted Either Now Or Before September 1st Orders for cotton pickers tiad received by the special n picking division of the Mississippi Slat e Service at thu close of business Field Supervisor Robert I Hinds who is in charge the unit reports Mr Hinds lidded that the real flow uf labor will not begin until the latter part of this week A special division was i n the Greenville District uf he Slate Service last week to handle the transler of kers for orders received by the Greenville Greenwood inri City offices which can lot be filled firm the local labor supply The local of the sippi State Service in centers throughout the slate are registering all available cotton pickers for transportation to the Delta thai Mississippi workers may be used as far as j sible in supplying the extra labor i that is required Through the operation of these local and the special transfer unit at Greenville the flow of Mississippi cotton pickers intu the Delta can be handled effectively Make Contracts The cotton planters who place their orders wilh the service make their own contracts with the ers mid in m os I cases furnish transportation The Stale menl Service has the ity of locating the and having them ready to the time are needed While continued warm NEW ORLEANS Aug 21 AP Spiegel Von Und 7.11 German Consul General here today declared that he had answered the charges of John Harvey Sherman Tampa University President in a Mient issued April and e t rj lies tinners to that statement Consul The uses the name Von The Consul General said on April 13 following publication in a nationally syndicated ton column of tin Sherman es all I is that I paid an official visit to one of the heads of Tampa University gether with my then Consular Far Darker The Far Kastern picture ed to have darkened over the Japanese were ening to blockade Britain's Crown colony of Hongkong in south in Shanghai at the ter of the China coast Japanese relations were strained anew over the killing of two bers of a Al Tientsin in North China worst flood in city's tory crippled the Japanese nde of the British concession Meanwhile in Tokyo Uie at lampa Mr an American bunion Honda n Wronger policy toward Iho United States if an American arms embargo should be imposed against Japan to the secret report of the Dies Committee mentioned in the Washington HI that is I said is new io me There was no no mention even of endowing a chair for the teaching of German al 111 Uni- versity or til using lex t supplied by my government K very thing mentioned in this article is a wanton invention ex- cept that 1 did talk to a sity official 1 have stated but one tiling I do remember clearly is that was the first and only visit I ever paid lo a man in an official position in America where the exceeded the bounds of in attacking my government and its deeds I remember after we left Mr ger to me about the behaviour of the University of- FELTS WITHDRAWS FROM 2ND PRIMARY Will Not Oppose Scott Thompson For County Prosecutor Holland Kelts a I tor ley who was runner-up in the first primary race fur county today withdrew in favor of W S Thompson the loading candidate Mr Felt's statement just completed a survey nf my chances in the coming elec- tion I am finally convinced that majority nf voters uf windy is opening the Washington County W S ton very rapidly the majority of j Thompson as their next County thu call for the to report immediately and most of the larger planters are lo get the pickers in vacant ant houses and just as possible The of the season undoubtedly will not br until about Sept IS The employment office in is located al telephone 137 Mr E Jolly is district manager for the Prosecuting Attorney In the face of this fact I hat from a financial as well as menial and physical standpoint both for Mr Thompson and self that t should withdraw from the race I have been encouraged lo so do by quite n number of my friends I do not feel that I am T have endeavored in honorable way to the Leaders Drive For Funds In Hot Springs Taylor Pal Smith general secretary of the Washington County Y M C A is in Hot Springs this week conducting u financial campaign in behalf of Kanip Assisting him in thn work are Halph Schoonover and and Helen Lane who are doing secretarial work for the men in Kamp by Hot Springs individuals and tions has increased very much during the past year said Charles who is in charge of the Y during Mr Smith's absence ing the past camping season teen Hot Springs boys attended LITTLE ANNIE Continued On ID
