Morning Call, The (Newspaper) - January 26, 1929, Laurel, Mississippi ONE DAY IS anton of Texas Has Tilt Renamed Probe Head CLAIM LATTER PROMISED FAVOR Elliott Indiana is of Slap cUpon Chin H WASHINGTON Jan v were pushed into the V wings on Capitol Hill today when Representative Elliott R of In- 1 a volume of records at Representative Blanton D just back from Texas Blanton tok the 10 pounds of de- bate on he chin The Texan struggling in the of other a few choice swear words This all happened in the lobby but the trouble started on the floor of the house where Elanton charged Elliott with failing to make good on two new postoffice buildings which he claimed had been promised him for his district f1 when he agreed to vote last year for the Omnibus public building Elliott who is chairman of the committee on public buildings and grounds shot up from his chair and flatly denied that he had made such promise He You are stretching this matter far Blanton who tips the beam at around 200 pounds raised his voice in reiteration of his charge moving the while toward Elliott t who is no He said he insert in the congressional promise from Elliott he said was made during a colloquy measure this point Representative York chairman of the rules committee demanded e know whether Blanton meant ti say that Elliott had promised him that two buildings would be given his he voted for the Omnibus Blanton fes that is the way things are done here Elliott 1 never made any such ment I have no authority from house such a That ended on tae floor but a few moments later liott and Blanton each carrying iYv a bundle of congressional records and hunting for the colloquy to which Blanton had referred sat down together in the lobby I was sitting opposite them at i- I was afraid that they might get into said Representative R of Illinois He I wasn't disappointed You can't lie about me that c suddenly exclaimed Elliott You can't lie about VIOLA DANA SUES FOR DIVORCE Z Clarence Edward Case an at- torney in the murder who has been chairman of a joint investigating committee of Jersey legislature Mayor Frank J Hague of Jersey City is to ba by the committee under a new statute providing six months jail term should he again refuse to testify f M a n tic Continues Taking of Toil ton retorted With that and references to each other Williams few the wo Representative Ar D of Illinois tive Combs of Missouri and pried several other congressmen the Texan aged to let go of his volume of a way that earned il to Elliott's face if Blanton caused a flurry in the house several years ago when threatened Representative D of New York and one I1 time Blanton and Representative exchange of blows Racer is Killed in South this BUENOS AIRES Jan The world famous veteran automobile racer Paris Giannini and his Dino Papini were killed afternoon during the Gran io National event when their car overturned on curve in the course It was stated that the steering of the car broke while the racers were negotiating a i aw curve Giannini's number in the wa's 13 TEN DESTROYERS ARE DISPATCHED Search For Boats Believed NEW YORK Jan on land and sea took their toll day Two more vessels each about tons and carrying a total crew of sixty men were crippled by south Atlantic gales A third ship helpless off the Connecticut coast with a broken propeller was towed into New Haven after transferring her sengers Twenty lives are believed to have been lost off the New land banks on a steam trawler which is three days overdue at New London and is still Relief vessels from American ports are rushin to the rescue of the stricken ships near disaster in the north Atlantic was averted when the steamer City of Lowell went to tho of the liner Georgia helpless off the Connecticut coast with a broken propeller and towed her into port at New Haven after transferring passengers Fear twenty lives have been lost was expressed at New don today when no word came from tho steam trawler The Seiner and three days overdue from the New land banks with a cod the vessel is believed to have en victim of the raging north At- gales of the past few days Six destroyers were ordered out to search for the missing ship from the naval base and in addition teen fishing vessels set out to brave the raging gale In the hope of locating their unfortunate com- The shin left maintained radio communications with its home base all day and then dropped from sight In this city the storm which came in the form of a hail of sleet and snow accompanied by biting winds did much damage Italian Official 1 i Eulogizes Fried WASHINGTON J an Bringing Survivors to New York This V Afternoon MUSSOLINI AND MARCONI EULOGY Specjal Receptions Prepared in Honor -y Copyright 1929 by sal Service i- The following message was radioed to Universal Service at the command of Benito Mussolini for transmission to Capt George Fried and the crew of the S S of Italy's gratitude for the of 35 Italian lives 1 aboard the sinking i liner Florida l- ROME Jan Cap- tain Fried and the crew of the v steamship America is ed the admiration of the ian nation Knowing what marine heroism Italy is able to appreciate deed In expressing my tion for your ability ness and courage and ing you and your companions for saving the crew of the Florida I the timent of all Italy NEW YORK Jan mo Marconi renowned radio in- ventor today transmitted through the air his congratulations to Cap- tain George Fried and the radio operators of the America and Florida The famous Italian tist Please convey my most sincere congratulations to Captain Fried and the wireless operators for most gallant rescue of my on Florida You will un- I am also proud of im- portant part wireless has again uru her husband Maurice Lefty Flynn with habitual drunkenness over a of three Viola Dana movie star has brought suit for in Los Angeles Miss Dana end Flynn a former Yale player were married In s i 1925 played in the rescue of life at sea GUGLIELMO f s NEW YORK Jan a grateful nation prepared to do them homage Captain Fried and the gallant men of the America are due in the harbor at two o- clock tomorrow afternoon Owing to the stormy seas thru which they are bringing of the Florida the United States hner may be a little late but it is expected all will be ashore before nightfall All that New York can do foi the most renowned is in store for the principals in exploit to embellish the glorious annals of the American merchant marine Tributes will be well to Captain Giuseppo Favaloro and the crew of the Florida On Monday the reception will be held at city hall at noon WASHINGTON Jan to honor on behalf of a proud tion Captain George Fried and his heroic of the snip America were speeded by both branches of congress and the 1 Get Man Though Distant He is Arrested NEW YORK Jan weapon for the abatement of crime and apprehension of the crew during a terrific Virginia Capes was under in senate and house the same time gold 8 Senator Copeland D of New York introduced a resolution that criminal was added to the armory of thief catchers today when a radioed photograph resulted in the from Honolulu of a Filipino wanted in New York foi forgery and swindling The American Express company cooperated with the New York police to effect the ar- rest of Constantino He is now on his way back to this city with New York detectives having been arrested in his berth aboard a steamer just as the ship passed Diamond Head at the en- trance to Honolulu harbor His identity was established through the radioed photograph and a chase of miles was ended had been December 20 But it was not un til the New York detectives cabl today that they had positively identified and were re- turning with him for New York that the radioed photograph was positively established as a new weapon against the criminal The Filipino had jumped bail while indictment proceedings for swindling were pending against him in Brooklyn At the Dollar Steamship line offices he i alleged to have later obtained transportation and in Am Express company traveler checks with a fraudulent draft The transportation was two roum the world tickets valued a Many Declare Should Have Been Draw Least i FURIOUS BATTLE Drives of Christner Had Opponent Busy All Time By DAMON RUNYON NEW YOKK Jan to be a lot of undue ment a heavyweight light that took place nt Madison Garden this evening Eighteen thousand citizens ed through the slush of Eighth avenue and paid a large sum oi money into the Garden box office to see a 35 year old worked from Akron Ohio heave a reputedly wicked right hand wallop at Josef Paul of Boston Mass otherwise Jack Sharkey It had been bruited about the large city that tho worker Meyer Wilson Christner by name could heave that right hand wallop very hard indeed and at the close of ten rounds the citizenry were prepared to admit that the rumor had sure sis for fact Sharkey was kept busy all ning yanking his chin out of the way of the heaves and so ent was Meyer Wilson Christner in his heaving that some of the agitated clients say boo to the decision in favor ot the Boston man Judge Tommy Shortell saw it as a draw Judge George Kelly and Referee Jack Dunning gave It to Sharkey My operative on rounds the Jack who was scorning the runs sists and for me gave Stribling is Great NEW ORLEANS La Jan 25 Stribling won on a Knockout tonight over Ralph the round of their scheduled ten round bout i ambling knocked Smith live times in tue stanza and the referee stopped the light English Society Wow to m Jan 111 me jl Here w Son of the South Haf Given Up Political U PAYING Oscar W is Followed by Activity r u ui ty Over u men women anu uio to be starving 111 the 01 unti ciety women 01 paying t ib a weeK lor mint at nign class beauty parlors is well wny me it is be- Northwest Frigid and Parts in a Deluge CHICAGO Jan cold lung Chicago tonight Zero came as a climax to two [ays of raging storm featured by ram snow and sleet temperature dropped 24 de- grees in six hours The unusual cold extended over most of the northwest and far to the south below the river Eight deaths were at- to the storm and cold in ho northwest Chicago's streets ered and n raging wind tore Sharkey five heats three and two even through the streets an electrical Thomas 0 contractor ost his life when his automobile was blown in front of a street car were unable to keep their feet on icy corners Women and children were assisted by traffic officers Many hugged the side of buildings until strong gusts of wind abated Railroad transportation was de- moralized in parts of Wisconsin and Michigan where from two to six feet of snow has fallen Motor But there was nothing about the row it seemed to me that fied all the excitement The worker was as a stolid looking man of maturity and plenty of what poses in the sour science loi They called him out Christner It seems he has tagged many chins including that of Knute the melancholic dane He tagged chin cral times nd the citizens gasped and shrieked expecting the roof to cave in But nothing happened except that Sharkey at most blew toupee off with a countering right astonished me at intervals V standing up and blazing away punch for punch against the mored dynamite of duke He had old KO a ill from body belts at the final bell and more people of the ed tenth arc starving have no work to do Iho London society women have no work to do But they arc starving at an initial cost ot fU per starvation treatment The gossip columns in the smart weeklies say that dieting is going out of Today smart young people eat com- lor their overeating by going onco a week to one of these popular starvation cure ments and there having something dono to their permits them to cat heartily once more for another Bigger and better luncheons is tho slogan for Mayfair this year It may be the slogan for the Wales coalfields as well but in Mayfair slogans como the dead coalfields they do not WASHINGTON Jan Underwood ot is dead and the last of tne democratic old guard is gone senate adjourned ately upon convening today as a tribute 10 tne 01 me sold survivor of the democratic -J era wno dominated the convention at Baltimore in which nominated Woodrow lor president Iho one time Lnd senator from who was a candidate for the democratic presidential nomination at 11 o'clock this morning in tne Woodlawn a part of the old ton estate set in tho rolling hills ui historic Fairfax county ginla where he had retired from public lite southern legislator years experience in congress a paralytic stroke He appeared to be l covering until pneumonia set In Under- -in days ago Iho announcement of wood's death was made busses were abandoned In Missouri and southern Ilm ois tho precipitation came 3 ine form of rain and streams were running bank full tonight with many families being forced from their homes to face near zero Montana and the Dakotas held tho low temperature records ing from 20 to 6 below zero Luxuries continue to come high It costs a lot more to get a divorce than it did before the war thcr Jeffries and Johnson at Reno With Rickard as Their Referee by this latest By JACK LAWRENCE Copyright 1829 by N Y American and Universal Service Inc hardly five years Why shouldn't he be as good as HONORED IN ROME I- -1 ROME Jan papal of state today announced L he creation of a long list of new anights of the order of Malta were a number of prominent Americans Former Judge Morgan ff t en of New York and James Far- rell head States Steel were the grand order of Malta while Mrs Brien and Mrs Farrell were made have read with deep feelings of admiration and gratitude the by Captain Fried of the rescue of the Italian boat Flori a feeling of admiration for the bravery of the American ors and a feeling of gratitude for their generous impulse and their noble achievement As representative of the Italian government In this I wish to express to Captain Fried Chief Officer Manning and the crew of the gratitude is stronger and than the gratitude of a mother for him who saved the life of her No gratitude is stronger and er than the gratitude of the Italian nation for the gallant Americana who assisted her sons lost In the fury of the ocean and saved their i y i d Servce nc to honor NEW YORK Jan other rin at Reno u other George ir fries entered the ring at Reno on 4 mo a two to one on uy representing the tc over Jack Johnson I have There was some heard to the effect that the pay proper tribute w UP how tain Fried medal awarded by a brave of the of fleers ana of the British steamer anti- in a thrilling exploit three i Fold odds switched i crew noe years ago calls YORK from another cas r frcehter the S S Capo Vado Intercepted tonight Radio Marine corporation freighter cave U position as lau Hude longitude which It some distance southeast of and the colored man ruled favorite before they squared off There Is not however an lota of ringside evidence to substantiate this While Jeffries was ably a hollow shell of the great fighter he once had been he ed good and with the exception of a few who were on the inside everybody thought he was as good as ever Behind him was a past and a record to this day by any heavyweight that ever lived Sharkey Jim Cor- bett and Bob Fitzsimmons were numbered among weights he had demolished And he had been A lot of things can happen to a prize fighter In five years of ncss and it looked after a few rounds of that Reno battle had seen fought as though all of them had happened to Jeff But even when Johnson was stabbing him with a relentless and unerring left and obviously had the fight won Storm Breaks Up Will Be Warmer With the backbone of the storm broken before reaching thit far south Mississippi is again the object of good fortune since the stormy weather will have subsided very materially before reaching this section While cold will prevail until Saturday with temperature 18 to 21 in the north and 21 to 23 in the southern portions day morning the rainy period will be missed fair and clearing er being predicted for this section Coast fogs to be until Saturday and perhaps Sunday with continued clear and a rising of temperature Such arc the encouraging advance weather reports late Friday and Friday midnight This is the second storm Mississippi has ed through its geographical tion the storms having had their run before reaching this section I'm the Master Will Do Said Fiery Count BERLIN Jan am the master and I will do the The dashing Count Bosdari who arrived In Berlin day with his fiancee Hardhead In a burst of ment thus greeted an inquiry ad- dressed to the American actress as to whether the couple to marry In Berlin Count Anthony and Miss head left London lost night and were reported as planning to mar ry in the German capital The former continued after having an- himself as the I'm sick of all tho newspaper men and I would ably have to go to Timbuktu in order to get away from them A few minutes later when he had down somewhat the fiery Italian count announced of- We are getting married in tondon In two or three weeks Wo would have been married two weeks ago if I hadn't been so busy Is here making a ing test for a British movietone company of which I am the aging director M senato by his former colleague Senator J Alabama Leaders on both sides of tho aisle paid spontaneous Si uto to nis and his public career and then all out of tho silent chamber passing of Underwood ed memory back to the time when ho first come into national as a candidate lor cratic nomination before tha It stirring speech of William in which he ed F Ryan August most tmd J Morgan and declared that any man whu their support should draw fropi the Now Bryan is dead Ryan Belmont and Morgan So aru Champ Clark whoso ambitions for the presidency were and Wilson who gained the as a result of tho commoner's fiery appeal Iho old urban leaders of racy too have passed T F Murphy of New York and cr Sullivan of Chicago and Tom Taggart of Indiana is a fragile old man retired from politics Judson Harmon of Ohio a T didato for president John W Kern of Indiana chairman of the JJ lutions committee Alton B cr chairman and the gigantic James of Kentucky have been gathered to their fathers t Tho managers of the leading candidates William F McCombs for Wilson Gum Shoe BUI Stono of Missouri for Clark and ator John H Bankhead of bama are all dead 2 Agents Held for Gralt the seasoned fans CHICAGO Jan aces of the E C staff of prohibition gents wire Don't let that you Jim tonight while three others were Corbett made a monkey out of under Investigation on extortion him for 23 rounds at Wand and then Jeffries him Sentiments of this sort the odds in the er's favor To the very last there were ardent In that crowd who believed that Jeffries would finally come through with tho big slam that would flatten the colored man They were waiting for that ruinous left hook to the charges filed today Tho agents arrested were Chas White and Clarence and aro charged with for protection of Hack Cedar er of a parlor in way Federal authorities tonight said that Cedar had boasted his joint Is a hangout for the federal sniffers Both the agents arrested later made bonds of and gained Quake Kills 35 Homeless Great Suffering WASHINGTON Jan and cots from army stores in the Panama Canal zone aro being rushed by the navy department tonight to tho homeless of the earthquake which destroyed moit of the city of Venezuela The Inhabitants arc at the mercy of the tropical rain and sun according to despatches reach ing the state department from the American charge at acas the capital While the dead numbered 35 more than 800 were Injured The American Red Cross today f for relief work HANGED I Sacramento Cal Jan Kuryla 41 Amador county derer was hanged at Folsom on today In the first California ex- of 1029 He went to the gallows for the shooting of Elmer Guerard Central mine f AUl MAU p y Senator James A Reed of Missouri who placed Clark in is living and ho Cli from public life on March 4 Underwood reached tho pinnacle of his strength in the on tho forty sixth ballot votes But ho saw his if cause was hopeless and withdrew in favor of Wilson Once more In 1923 was a candidate for tho But he did not get far in the con- vention at San Francisco which nominated James M Cox after a duel between A Mitchell Continued to back page Players of Golf Buffer From SAN ANTONIO Jan jitter cold wind that swept across the Brackenridge nark course da pave the 150 golfers chasing 4 pries ot the Texas c more worry than their game r Only a few good 5 scores were turned in Moro f ed In cards of ninety than finished under that figure Horton Smith iv3 Ed Dudley of Los the honors for the first Each turned in a card of 69 Walsh playing in the some somo turned in a score of 70 Ing for second honors Wililams of Others who finished enty bracket were Henry Bridgeport Conn Tommy our Washington D C ard of Lima Farther down the two's were two tournament purchase Texas open id demolished And made bonds of and gained Guerard Central mine tha 1027 Texas open In retirement for Continued to back paje their release foreman Albangh
