Delta Star, The (Newspaper) - January 13, 1938, Greenville, Mississippi This World of Ours Late Bulletins Quirks And Briefed tures Which Put the World on Your Front Porch p Trace Murders to Hooded Men PARIS Jan 12 UP The Suroto Nationale announced tonight that the murders Carlo and Nello Anti-Fascist Italian exiles have been traced to tho Fascist Cagoulards men by arrest of six of the alleged ers He Endangered Marine Traffic MIAMI Fla Jan 12 Roy 45 today had the dubious honor of being the first man arrested here or operating a motor boat while under the influence of He was arrested by Robert Miami's only policeman who charged Cornwell was zigzagging about Biscayne Bay endangering marine traffic That's Why He's Still Dictating Jan 12 UP Dictator Josef V Stalin presiding over delegates of the New Supreme Soviet elected a month ago in Russia's first secret ballot tonight placed two of his trusted lieutenants in-control of both houses of the parliament Andrew A Andreyev commissar of railroads and one of the Communist party's four secretaries was elected dent of the council of the union at a noisy meeting in the Grand Palace of the Kremlin where once the Czars were crowned It Couldn't Happen Anywhere Else ATLANTA Gn Inn 12 UP A gruesome story of con- ditions at Georgia's hospital for insane at details of patients murdering each revealed today in a letter from Arthur Lucas chairman of the Georgia state hoard of f welfare fo Gov E D Rivers The letter was written Nov 13 1837 and was revealed only today when Lucas sent copies fo all county ordinary judges Lucas termed conditions at the hospital which houses inmates unbelievable among civilized people Hold Marine for Investigation PEIPING Thursday Jan 14 UP The U S Embassy guard revealed today thai an American Marine is be- ing held in the brig in connection with the to 000 legation quarter robbery on Dec 21 Austria and Hungary Recognize Franco BUDAPEST Hungary Jan 11 UP Austria and Hungary decided to recognize Generalissimo Francisco Franco's as the legal government of Spain it was announced in a communique of the Rome protocol powers The action apparently was decided upon through he in- fluence of Count Galeazzo Ciano Italian Foreign Minister who is here lo promote new Danubian strength for the axis which is committed to a nationalist victory in Spain Measles Keeps Actress From Premier ATLANTA Ga Jan 12 glitter and glamour of a motion picture premiere was lost tonight for movie actress Evelyn Keyes Miss Keyes had the measles The actress a native Atlantan had come from wood with Cecil B DeMille to attend trie premiere of The Buccaneer in which she has a prominent part DeMille announced late torlay however lhat Miss Keyes would be unable to attend the premiere scheduled here night because of measles that kept her confined to her hotel suite Cap Sailed The Seas But Lake Ferguson Is First Choice PHYSICIANS FEAR FOR LIFE OF JUSTICE CARDOZO Condition Of Famed Court Jurist Not So Good Washington Jan 12 UP Grave fears were entertained tonight for the life of Justice Benjamin N of the Court after three nent specialists examined him nnd announced that his condition had not changed since this ing when it was reported not so good The liberal jurist 07 years old and considered by many to foe the greatest living master of the was too ill to receive dent and Mrs Roosevelt when they went to his bedside late day returned to the White House after leaving a bouquet of roses Cardozo was stricken with shingles a nervous ailment on December 10 but his condition on Page Eight Wea Hi or Local Maximum minimum 35 River 13.7 foiling Forecasts Fair cooler on coast Thursday Friday partly cloudy warmer Fair warmer National ATLANTA Jan 12 UP P M and highest Atlanta Birmingham Chicago Jackson Miss Memphis New Orleans Oklahoma City St Louis 12 if THE DEL ONE DAY AHEAD HERB'S WISHING MANGER POWELL AND NIGHT BASEBALL EVERY SUCCESS I the VOLUME 2 NUMBER GREENVILLE MISSISSIPPI THURSDAY JANUARY 13 1938 PRICE FIVE CENTS By Charles Lennman Capt C If face weatherbeaten from the winds of many climes He poked into the tropics sailed the Gulf and the Atlantic and many miles over the and tributaries over a period of 38 years But placid Lake Ferguson of the Greenville harbor takes the nod when it comes to preferences So fond is he of the lake Captain MeMurray with his wife has made his home on it as caretaker of the Greenville Yacht Club I've been around a he said but give me Greenville any day I like it and am going io here as long as they let me Assisting him in keeping in- tact the Yacht Club is bread husky German police dog who was raised on a bottle A of friends shortly after birth Gingerbread has been wilh Cap- tain and Mrs MeMurray over since Alter the retire Gingerbread lakes his place on the upper deck and keeps a sharp eye on the gangplank ft any one nears the gangplank bread walks back to the captain's room It anyone boards the plank is n bark and his master is out to investigate Captain MeMurray has been following river for 38 years and I'm not tired of it he said There's something about it lhat gets you and when it does there's nothing you can do about it Starting out from Vicksburg his native city as oiler Capl Continued on Page Eight jaycees Name Officers Tonight Officers will be elected il the annual meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce to be held tonight at at the Elks hall President R A Blackmail will make his report HOUSE BANS SLOT MACHINES GIRDS FOR PROBE Committee To Report day On State Land Office SALES TAX SPLIT MEASURE INTRODUCED Twenty-One Appropriation Bills Passed But With Paring Jackson Miss Jan 12 UP The house outlawed slot chines and other games of chance today quickly passed 21 bills with frequent ing and anticipated of Its committee report tomorrow on the State Land office Chairman Joe Owens Union County will call up the report citing charges of high crimes and misdemeanors in office a- veteran land commissioner R p Moore If adopted the re- port will go to the standing house for investigation of slate officers then to the lar senate committee groups would decide what action if any should be taken Filed with Gov White several months ago the land office re- port suggests abolishing of th elective commissioner complete revision of slate land laws and division of from sale of lands with counties and municipalities in which the lands lie ed presenting proof pf charges to the house including samples of allegedly fraudulent patents and those completely executed with deeds properly before the slate was even paid Besides banning slot machines games punch boards merchandise wheels similar devices with but two dissenting voles he house immediately voted out the privilege tax for the machines The house approved the adopted resolution extending un- lit March 1 the work of the joint committee investigating Con fin tied on Page DEPARTMENT OF LABOR ACTS Government Has Intervened To End Hostilities Unite Workers Washington Jan 12 UP John n Steelman chief of the department of labor's con- ciliation service announced night that the department had formerly intervened in an at- tempt to end the war between the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization As th first step federal con- are to end jurisdictional disputes between th two factions paving the way for a final and format truce which officials hope will reunite labor's rank and file under one standard Steelman confirmed reports of intervention when the United Press him concerning mors thai the government would intercede He said the peach has full approval of tary of labor Frances Perkins It is believed that President Roosevelt also sanctions Ihc move Although he has refused to intervene personally since the dispute began two years ago he recently received n full report from Miss Perkins on one of the most crucial phases of the rel involving the lumber try Sister Of Countian Flees Chinese Mission It Word has been received here that Miss Pearl Caldwell tist missionary to North China nnd sister of Mr U M Caldwell of Hollandale and her missionaries of the lu Mission have been to flee from PingEn to the coast of Province where rican war vessels are standing by ready to evacuate the nine lo a place of safely Among the nine besides Miss Caldwell are Dr and Mrs Yocum was bombarded by the recently it is deep into the of lung province Caldwell was home on a furlough two or years ago returning to about two years ago She has had nearly a quarter of a of foreign mission service She is also a sister of F S Caldwell of Jackson and Mrs J T of Blue Mountain And No One Was New Drive For W age Hour Measure Begun On FDR's Demand New To Be Reported Out By Southern Opposition Crumbling what is left of the automobile in Vivian Srevers Mr Melvin were ng when it was struck by a C and G train Memphis Episcopal Dean Completes Faith Fast 10th Day To Exist By Spiritual Means STATE FARM HEADS OPPOSE PRESENT FARM Southern Commissioners Of Agriculture Attack ciple Contained Therein Jackson Miss Jan 12 UP Southern Commissioners of Agriculture meeting here night adopted resolutions ex- pressing unanimous opposition to farm bills now in congress as affecting cotton and to the eral principles therein ed The formal resolution We feel thai the present bills do not make adequate provision for the protection of tho cotton farmers interest ami are totally inadequate to cope with the pre- sent distressing condition of cotlon producer are in favor of a satory tariff payment to give the cotton producer parity the to be supplemented by the pre- sent contemplated soil tion payments to that extent We recommend the con- gress provide funds for the fore- going from the receipts from impost duties nnd if it this be impracticable then for an ex- cess lax on cotton textiles and wool and mohair We recommend thai payments be made for the year 1938 on a base production of bales the same lo be MEMPHIS Tenn U UP Dean Israel U Noe of St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral completed ID of fasting by which he to prove he cnn exist entirely through tual means the Memphis said today Dean Noe has trikon no food and nol even 1 liny and sip of wine of the Episcopal communion since Jan the paper said Dean Noe believes he can entirety through bis relation lo an all-sufficient God He believes he can reach a state in which he takes his life energy directly from original sources without for food v A fury's Cathedral for 17 years refused lo comment on his fast lie in not jin the said does not waul publicity jmd does not people think He is following his own religious conclusions en- tirely The Deun Noe begun for his fast 10 years ago when he began eliminating certain foods from his diet On Dec 1936 he went on a diet of He gave up the ange juice 10 days ngo and since then has token no food and probably not even water except the tiny solid nnd liquid of the Episcopal communion service Several months after living on orange juice doctors examined him and reported he was in good physical condition However friends reported he hns lost weight since Jan 2 They said he attributed his poor con- dition to an attack of influenza The stated that Dean fast is an attempt lo INJURES BROTHER SISTER Miss Vivian Sievers And Brother Melvin Painfully Hurt At Crossing A crash a I the C G railroad cross In ij it Highway nl Elizabeth ed in multiple injuries for Miss Civian Sievers mid her brother Melvin Severs Wednesday nl Miss Sievers the more fully hurl was taken IQ King's Daughters Hospital and found en be suffering from lacerations on the chin a broken hand and bruises A her knocked out brother who was driving sustained a eye nnd bruised knees They were re- turning from Sliaw The car was demolished They were brought lo Greenville in the cab of the engine From his home last night Mr Sievers told Star was no flagman at the crossing He aid he was traveling between 40 and 50 when tlie crush Spokesman for C G Railroad said lhat flagmen not required nt highway inter- sections unless a switch is being made The automobile struck he seventh car from the caboose they said ALIEN SUSPECT on Eight Continued on Eight Runaway Sweethearts 14 And 13 Discovered In Florida These Are Bad On Says Captain Rusk Fogs and mists on Main strec are bad enough but fogs on thr river are worse Captain A S of the Steamer loll us lhat evary boat nnd tow on the river has been off Its dule for the past two be- cause of the fog We been operating by said the captain I couldn't see front the boot pilot house for chys much less the river beyond And I get near the bank the whistle and the echo tells me how close in f am We must have looker lous at the statement thai hs could pilot a boat lo land by m for he continued When you been on the river as long as I have and have come through as many fogs as I havo an echo tells you a lot of things She is a funny old river and has n lot of he ed But best trick I have heard of her playing lately was on Harry He went fishing for fish and whan he pulled up his net there was a water turkey The bird hod been fishing for fish loo Don't know who was the most surprised the turkey of the fisherman The we suggested he ot away The captain chuckled MIAMI Fla Jan 12 UP Two grade school sweethearts of Bremen Ind who rnn a way from homo to FCP what were at thf end of their mile trip night ant I in of nile Juvenile officer Paul Martens expected word from the parents ol he Edwina scr 13 and Lowell Mast 14 thai they would come to Florida to return the youngsters blonde student nnd bionda boy she hns been in love wilh since were in fifth grade told Wo are in love and just wanted lo together on i long trip T hey d isa ppe arc cl fro m P men hist Friday Their parents thought they hnd run off to fiet married because lie sweethearts had discussed it and had ten about it But the couple did not attempt to get married they told Martens They said they were certain they would be able to get a license Lowell and Edwina were not worried when police them this morning sleeping in the new family auto parked near the in Miami I The sweethearts had run nut started with only got this far by soiling the car radio horn sent covers and Edwina's over- night hag They had slept in the cnr ing the trip arid in Georgia ed up two and on ASK INCLUSION Of Gfeu Southern Bloc Continues Attack On Anti- Lynch WARN THREAT TO UNITY OF PARTY Socialists Swooped Down On Democratic Party Says Bailey Washington Jan 12 UP Southern pressing their filibuster today started a blistering attack on pins nnd labor lulling in northern cities and again warned the administration sectional lines drawn uver the measure would the democratic ty Senator Kenneth McKellar D Tenn renewed southern of- fensive with the charge that no attempt has ever been marte to punish Chicago police who shot and killed 11 union tors during the memorial day riots in that city last year Both Senator J Hamilton is ID ill and Senator William H Dietrich D 111 vigorously defended Chicago officials in con- with the killings de- the allegations as false and pointed out that a grand jury was summoned but decided that none of word fied McKellar asserted that cago officers ruthlessly shot down and killed several ers during the murch and that on Body Of Jewish Captain Found Aboard Yacht In Miami Jacksonville Fla Jan 32 UP The mysterious murder of a cruiser Captain and the subsequent flight of a Syrian wiio hnd entered tins country in the slain man's tonight fled federal and Florida police Federal here today ar- rested MOFOS Mohamad es is he arrived here by bus from Miami Hf was hold on suspicion in connection with the slaying of Capt Arthur Law- rence who found a- his launch er in Miami river Mohamad whom Lawrence brought to the United Stales from Havana was from the when the Captain was ted sliot to death hid police informed sonville they were sending for the Syrian with a warrant of- said the suspect would charges here if he was not to Miami Mohamad arrested here implication in death of Lawrence Me explained Unit he to Chicago with Lawr permission Production Credit To Meet January 22 The mceling of Greenville Association oo held nl Cily hall January 22 nt 10 o'clock in the morning K H announces for will be sed following a report on last year's activities will bo given WORK HERE FOR NEGROES OUTLINED Society of National Colored Council Speaks To White Leaders Plans to inaugurate a gram for colored Y M C A in Greenville wore out- lined to the white group day by Dr Channing Tobias colored of New York secretary Tor the national colored council Dr Tobias suggested hiring of a secretary the ing of a program and erection of n building for organization's activities Comments by several members of the while group concurred in the Will Percy urged selection of a man with wisdom vision and leadership otherwise the work will not he adequately done the results postponed ly If the foundation is properly laid we'll go said Frank England Colored Y M C A work is nol an lo general program but a fully integrated Dr Tobias said The negro a right to organize in- dependently but we believe ni the of ship between the races The first colored tion was founded in Washington in 1853 In a movement started in Charleston and since then we have had numerous branches 1 hove looked into the branch only er but from what I can see there are possibilities here He commended Julius wald racial differences and religious creeds in his philanthropies Dr L member of the colored group's board con- curred in Dr Tobias suggestion to hire a capable young man as secretary as the best way to consolidate interest in the work He pledged cooperation of the colored group Taylor president ot the Y M C A presented the speakers He said thai Washington Jan 12 OP Taking advantage of ling southern opposition the house labor committee today agreed to revise lation as demanded by dent Roosevelt and campaigned fnr passage at the present session committee voted 14 to 2 m u session to report out a without its form and without holding public hearings after canvassing on Mr Roosevelt's second ranking legislative proposal It was the first meeting of- the group since Dec 18 when the house torn by tic and republican opposition voted 210 lo 198 to return the original measure for Chairman Mary T Norton said that the which the senate proved providing a 40 cent hour minimum wage and a 40 hour maximum work week and enforcement by an independent five man would be used as a basis for the house This would leave three to the committee reports a It could accept the or insist oji its own ridden measure putting under Department of Labor of bring out a nev pio posal carrying only the title The committee will report a definitely this Mrs Koi ton said We do not expect to have public hearings because we do not believe anything new could be developed Questioned whether a flat had been discussed in view of support a mea sure by President William Green of the American Federation ol Labor she said The not be settle the question we plan to ask tha attorney general for an Despite menl to revive the controversial issue leaders indicated they would go slowly before bringing it up to permit hard arising out of special session flood fight to be mended bills and other measures will be moved ahead they said They believe that recent ments indicate a lessening of position and are confident of votes to enact ths if it reaches the floor President Roosevelt's pointed attack on southern opposition the successful campaign on a platform of former Rcp B Hill D Ala f I Continued on Page Eight THE DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND By DREW PEARSON And ROBERT S ALLEN WASHINGTON Barring some lywood is to be logged in Administration's drive against monopolies The decision to the big movie distributors and ers was no sudden one They have been under quiet by tho Justice Department for nearly a year Cause of the inquiry was complaints by independent theatre operators the big distributors were discriminating against them by refusing to them have first run pictures These new feature films are en to theatres owned and trolled by the big boys and the independents are left out on a limb In moving on the moguls the Justice Department reversed its previous policy ward them For many Department had on ment with Will Hays whereby complaints against the industry were referred to him for But when Bob Jackson made head of the vision he put nn end to this Under Jackson a complaint is handled on the basis for possible legal action There have no soft pedalling rie The suit against the movi ary and expenses for incidental satraps may introduce a new an- to securing services of a technique In tavy would approximate Of Judge ft annually He suggested the Milwaukee grand jury It white and colored groups raise was about to vote on indictments Page CON f i ii on
