WEATHER Generally Fair tonight; Friday partly cloudy; local thundershowers in the coast. VOL. 12, NO. 110 RAGE COOLS AND QUEST DROPPED WITHOUT CLASH Deear- ong the to- THIEF nan ave her be no Vanderbilt arr ved At- Former Publisher Then Finds His Pistol Unloaded CARTOONIST CAUSE OF SEPARATION OF COUPLE Attorney Reveals Details Of Reno Marital Rift RENO, Nevada, June -Cornelius Vanderbilt, was "sorry" today. that he had nothing to say" concerning the latest episode in his stormy reer- reported his wife over alleged attentions paid her by Peter Arno, noted cartoonist here for divorce.
Neither would Mrs. Vanderbilt or Arno comment on reports Vanderbit had gone gunning for Arno but had changed his mind before reaching the Arno residence and returned to his own home. Chief of Police J. M. Kirkley said night Arno come to him Tuesday asking protection from bad, Vanderbilt, who, he said, had threatened to do him "bodily harm." Chief Advices Punch Kirkley said he had told Arno he was "big enough to take care of himself," and that if anyone was bothering him "to go punch him on the jaw." Arno made no mention, Kirkley said, of any attempt by Vanderbilt to shoot him.
This also was confirmed by Clyde D. Souter, Arno's attorney, who said that "if any such statement has been made by anyone it is absolutely untrue, and not founded in fact. No such occurrence took place at any time or place." The only mention of difficulties in the Vanderbilt household was by Vanderbilt's own attorney, Samuel Platt. who issued a statement in which laid "Vanderbilt for some time has been incensed over attentions that Arno has been paying Mrs. Vanderbilt." "It has been going on for some time and he could not help but notice evidences of affection on the part of Arno," Platt continued.
Couple Arrive Together "Sunday night, or early Monday morning, a car drove up in front of the Vanderbilt home. Mrs. Vanderbilt alighted and started for the house and Arno alighted and walked toward his home, which is in the same vicinity. "Vanderbilt saw it and he became so incensed that he got his gun and started for the Arno home. About half way over he came to his senses, and returned home.
He later found the gun was unloaded. "Mrs. Vanderbilt has left the house and it is being occupied by Mr. Vanderbilt." The Vanderbilts married here in 1927 shortly after he had divorced his first wife and the present Mrs. Vanderbilt likewise had obtained a decree.
They have been in Reno several weeks, supposedly coming here for some motion work in which Vanderbilt interested. Arno came here early in May, and has already fulfilled his divorce residence requirement. His attorney declined to reveal when his divorce complaint would be filed. ANOTHER SLASH MADE IN DEFICIT Total Still Remains Above Billion Mark, However WASHINGTON. June federal deficit was reduced by $82,662,000 today by income tax payments and collections on the foreign debt.
The red ink figure, however, still exceeded the billion dollar mark, standing at the close of business June 16 at $1,017,241,877. The preceding day's figure was 063. Income tax collections totaled $29.368,152 as compared with 129,000 on the corresponding day during payments for the first and as compared with collections the preceding day of $11,948,411. Payments on the foreign debt exceeded $111,000,000 of which over $93,000,000 was applied to operating expenses. Income tax collections for the month totalled $75,897,122.93 as compared with $186.173,071 on the corresponding date in June last year.
If June tax collections equal previous estimates more than 000,000 must be tabulated before the end of the financial year June 30. Treasury officials had not modifled recent opinions that the end deficit would probably low the official estimate of 000. Latest figures on govermental receipts for the fiscal year totalled $3,046,265,131 while expenditures aggregated $4,063,507,008. Customs receipts for the fiscal year to date came to $364,369,031 as compared with $549,973,286 last (Continued on Page Eight) The Selma SELMA, THURSDAY GETS $125 IN BOLD Goes Gunning BIG DRY OFFENSIVE WILL OPEN IN JULY LEADER CHOSEN FOR MOTOR CARAVAN OF WORLD PEACE BODY Miss Dorothy Cook, above, of Washington, D. will be at the wheel of the leading car when a motor caravan of members of the Women's International League for Freedom and Peace leaves California this month President Hoover.
The caravan will President Hooevr. The caravan will by prominent women of each state along the route. The same petitions are to be laid before the 1932 International Disarmament Conference in Geneva. HOOVER STARTS RETURN TO DESK A5 TOUR CLOSES President Appreciative Welcome Given Him BY ROBERT S. PICKENS Associated Press Staff Writer EN ROUTE WITH PRESIDENT HOOVER to Washington, June (P)-President Hoover was on his way back to the White House today, "appreciative" of the welcome by the people of the central states." In the last three days he has spoken as many times to vast audiences in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois and he has been the central figure in receptions at the capital cities of all three- states.
In the central states President Hoover laid down his program and upon it he is determined to stand. Confidants of Mr. Hoover asserted he will stand on the issues he has defined in this region and remain henceforth in his post at the White House. He no speaking engagements next two months has, (Continued on Page Eight) SENATOR WALSH ASKS QUESTIONS: Hoover In Tight Corner As Result Of Speech WASHINGTON, June, questions as to President Hoover's knowledge of Warren G. Harding's "dim realization" that some of his trusted friends had betrayed him, have been directed at chief executive by Senator Walsh of Montana.
Walsh was the Democratic, prosecutor in the Senate investigation that disclosed the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil lease scandals of the Harding administration, in. which Hoover was secretary of commerce. In a statement through the Democratic national committee, Walsh in referring to Hoover's dedication of the Harding Memorial said: "That was an interesting bit of history introduced Tuesday by President Hoover into his speech at Marion, Ohio, namely that the realization by President Harding that he had been betrayed 'by a few of the men whom he had was a contributing cause of his death." Coming from the reliable source from which "the fact is now given to public, a number of questions are prompted," said. faithruiness of which particular friend or friends, afterwards shown in the courts of the land to have betrayed the country as well-to use the language of the orator at Marion--did President Harding have, knowledge Fall, Daugherty, Forbes or Miller?" Fall was secretary of the interior, and was convicted of accepting a $100,000 bribe from Edward L. Doheny.
Daugherty handed in his (Continued on Page Eight) Times Established 1827 AFTERNOON, JUNE 18, 1931 DAYLIGHT For Suitor SHOALS PARLEY GIVEN APPROVAL OF LOWER HOUSE House In Uproar Over Plan Of President Hoover PLEA FOR ROOSEVELT MARKS HEATED DEBATE Senator Faulk Explains Rap At Extravagant Educators MONTGOMERY, June debate of more than an hour in which the Lauderdale representatives split, the house, by a vote of 44 to 38 today adopted the Reeder resolution authorizing the governor to appoint a commission of three to confer with a similar Tennessee commission ond the disposition of Muscle Shoals. The resolution by Representative Reeder of Lauderdale, would permit Governor B. M. Miller to carry out the suggestions made by President Hoover for a commission from Alabama and Tennessee, a representative of the national farm organizations and army engineer to draw up plans for disposing of the huge nitrate plants at Muscle Shoals. During the debate, in which 1t was charged that the power companies sponsored the resolution, Rep.
McDonald of Lauderdale, was interrupted by applause as he said, "Get Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York, and Newton D. Baker of Ohio and we'll sweep the country." The resolution was immediately sent to the senate for concurrence. The senate rules committee already has postponed a similar indefinitely, was introduced in that chamber several weeks ago. House In Uproar Calling up the resolution threw the house into an uproar as Representatives from the district rose to oppose it and plunged into discussions of national politics.
Representative Amzi Barber of Jefferson, attacked the resolution as making no provision for the commission to discuss plans of disposing of surplus electric energy and moved to have 500 copies of the resolution, President Hoover's veto message on the Norris act last March and the bill for disposal of Muscle Shoals by Senator Hugh Black of Alabama, printed. Rep. Barber also moved that the resolution be made a special order for Tuesday. Upon motion by Rep. Reeder of Lauderdale, the Barber motions were tabled.
Representative Reeder in speaking to the resolution, said "It is not a state proposition, but a national proposition." Thousands of Jobs The representative said 10,000 men would be employed in the plant, and additional thousands in Jefferson county coal mines and in quarrying limestone, if the project were placed in operation. "May God hasten the day when cheap fertilizer at Muscle Shoals will be the key to loosen the fetters of debt that bind the feet of the farmers of the south," Rep. Reeder said in closing. Opposing the resolution, Rep. McDonald of Lauderdale said.
"There is not a farmer in Alabama that will live to see a sack of fertilizer come from that nitrate plant. Rap at Hoover "Do we want to yield to Herbert Hoover? No. I say let us yield to white men. Rep. McDonald said during the war he worked as a master mechanic in construction of the big nitrate plants.
"I helped with the victory. and my colleague. never raised his voice," Rep. McDonald said. "The plant was built for war purposes, yet they talk about fertilizer.
We'll never get anything until we get a Democratic president and a Democratic congress. Get Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York and Newton D. Baker of Ohio. and we'll sweep the country." Rep.
McDonald was interrupted by a burst of applause from the floor of the house and gallery. Rep. McDonald then attacked Edward A. O'Neil, of Florence, president of the American Farm BuFederation who he called "a reau traitor to the farmers," adding "the companies Hoover in the power chair and they are behind this resolution." Variations in wishes of delegations from the Muscle Shoals district were discussed by Rep. Tidwell of Morgan.
"I am against this resolution." said Rep. Tidwell, "because it will further the final settlement of the Muscle Shoals question." Senator Faulk of Geneva, speaking on a point of personal privilege explained to the Senate his statement of yesterday before the finance and taxation committee that "all educators are fools in spending money." The statement was made by Senator Faulk in urging a favorable report for his bill to reorganize the state tax commission, providing for the election of three members. (Continued on Page Eight) TODAY'S MARKET Selma Middling 1 1-16 Established 1890 Full Associated Press Report ROBBERY Of His Wife These Girls Selected National Beauty Laurels 3 NORTHERN Dixie, famed for its beautiful women, upheld the honor when its representatives won the two highest places in the national judging at. the international beauty contest at Galveston, Tex. Anne Lee, Patterson, right, blond, blue-eyed and 18, representing northern Kentucky, was selected d.
"Miss United States," and Leno Thomas, left, "Miss Memphis," was runner-up. DUKE GRID STAR SLAYER OF TYUS SHOT IN EFFORT FREED OF BLAME TO FLEE POLICE BY JURORS HERE Youth Badly Wounded In Es- Zimmerman Is Acquitted Of cape From Scene Of Wreck Murder Charge In Case CHARLOTTE, N. June (P)-Lowell Mason, Duke University football star and member of a well known Charlotte family, was shot and wounded here early today by Police Captain Alex West as he sought to flee after being arrested for drunkenness following an automobile wreck. Mason was taken to a hospital with a wound in his pelvis and leg. Physicians did not indicate the seriousness of the wound, pending an internal examination.
Police said the shooting oceurred after Mason and two companions had been taken to headquarters. Mason was said to have leaped out of the police car and fled down a side street. Ed Pittman, chief of police, said Captain West was behind some buildings as Mason passed and hearing brother officers crying "stop him," fired twice. Mason was arrested when the car in which he was riding with J. R.
Wilkes, of Charlotte and F. T. Dellinger of Cherryville, N. North Carolina State College students, crashed into a milk truck. Dellinger was convicted this morning in city recorder's court of drunkenness.
Wilkes is scheduled to be tried tomorrow for driving while intoxicated. Police insisted the shooting was accidental. Captain West said he intended to fire into the ground in the darkness to frighten the fleeing youth into surrender and maintained a ricocheting bullet was responsible. Attack On Consulate Protests Conviction Of Negro Assaulters LEIPSIC, Germany, June -An attack on the American consulate by a mob of Communist youths over the impending execution of eight negroes in the United States. The marauders hurled stones at the building and broke a number of windows.
An emergency squad of police was summoned but arrived too late to catch the boys, though extending their search far into the night An office building' housing the American consulate in Dresden was stoned last week and several windovs shattered. Messages hurled through the windows indicated the youths were protesting the death sentences of eight negroes convicted of attacks on two white girls at Ala. I Scottsboro, 10 PAGES TODAY ry. HERE SAFE OPENED AT DAY TIRE STORE NEAR NOON HOUR KIDNAPING PLOT FOILED AS COPS ESCORT 'VICTIM' 350 New Agents To Graduate On Fifteenth Of Month MAJOR VIOLATORS GOAL OF ENFORCEMENT ARMY Largest Prohi Force In History Now Assured BY JOHN F. CHESTER WASHINGTON, June 18-(P) -The zero hour for the biggest sustained offensive in prohibition history against leaders of the illicit liquor industry was set for July 15 today by Federal officials.
Exactly 15 days before that date, prohibition Director Woodcock said, a corps of 350 new dry agents wiil be concentrated in a dozen, cities spread from coast to coast for a an intensive weeks training course. Added to the present force of more than 1,500 to make it the biggest and best trained federal dry army in history, he said, they will be instructed specifically to concentrate on the large scale commercial violators and the higher-ups of the liquor gangs, leaving the speakeasy and small-time bootlegger principally to local enforcement. Woodcock acknowledged that for the past two or three months his office had been "bending every effort" toward the date when these new men, selected from among thousands of applicants, could be thrown into the field. Better Cases Objective "If We don't make more and better cases with our force increased by nearly a third," he said, "then something is wrong with our force. I There is no, denying that our effort will be stronger.
The results should speak for themselves." The Federal dry chief made clear, however, that the new offensive should not be considered as a "drive" in the sense on that is would be a spectacular effort confined to any one period, He stressed his idea of keeping a steady pressure" against the men he seeks to convict. Already 10 of the new agents authorized by congress have been thrown against the Volstead law breakers. Woodcock held out tor this number against the criticism of the Wickersham commission and its recommendation President Hoover and to congress that his figure be doubled. Dry Forces "Inadequate" The commission asserted in its conclusions and recommendations that "there is yet no adequate observance or enforcement," criticized the dry army as "inadequate." As plans went forward in the prohibition bureau for the marshalling of the augmented dry forces, Woodcock said he believed the preparatory work had been SO well done that not a day would be lost after the dote the salaries can beginJuly 1. The concentration of men for training in the impromptu school rooms that will spring up quietly on that day will be roughly as follows: Thirteen in Boston; 62 in New York, 50 in Philadelphia, 28 in Richmond, 26 in New Orleans, 28 in Cincinnati, 55 in Chicago, 28 in St.
Paul, 20 in Kansas City, 11 in Denver, 14 San Francisco, and 14 in Seattie. A corps of 24 instructors, gatherhere by Woodcock, was nearing the end of its own course of training today and will move soon to these cities to await the coming of the new men. NEGRO ESCAPES AFTER JAIL RAID Prisoner Seized By Two Men Reported At Liberty HUNTSVILLE, June 18-(AP) -Police today were investigating reports that Thomas Jasper, 35-year-jin old negro farm hand removed from the city jail early Tuesday by two white men following his conviction of disturbing a young white girl, escaped from his captors and was In hiding here. Chief of Police 11. C.
Blakemore said he received reports that the negro broke away from the men as they were leaving thejail when they were seen by Mrs. Julia Brand. Mrs. Brand said negro fled in one direction and the men in another, as she approached with her husband's breakfast. A report was received by police today that the negro was seen near his home last night and Blakemore summoned members of his family for questioning.
Jasper was convicted Monday in city court on a charge of entering bedroom of a young white girl, the daughter of a tenant farmer near here, and fined $100. He was 10 begin working out the fine Tuesday. Intruder Left Alone After Request For Phone Book SHORT INTERVAL USED TO SECURE CASH HAUL Numbers Wanted Supplied But No Calls Made Tip Allows Officers To Set Trap For Abductors THREE PLOTTERS NABBED RED-HANDED BY POLICE State Troopers Accompany Doctor On Fake Call POTTSTOWN, June 18-- When gansters kidnaped Dr. J. Elmer Porter, 66, president of the Security Trust Company, state police went alongdisguised as luggage.
Dr. Porter, who Is a physicianbanker, drove his automobile to an appointed place last night where he was to "treat" a patient in response to a mysterious telephone State police had already obtained information from an unnamed source that the call was to be the starting point of a kidnaping and two of them concealed themselves in the rear of the doctor's car. Arriving at the place, Edward Kitchell and Harry McKay, described as Philadelphia gangsters, climbed into the car and directer Dr Porter to drive to a lonely part of the city. Bulge Fools Kidnapers They glanced in the rear of the car but concluded the bulge was baggage and paid no heed. state police remained hidden until the gangsters directed Dr.
Porter to stop at place where another automobile was waiting. In le it was Foster Weand, also of Philadelphia. The officers then shook off the appearance of baggage and arrested all three. Weand was said to have had letters in his possession indicating the physician was to be held for $15,000 ransom, the amount to be paid by his brother, Samuel, a druggist. Weand formerly lived in Pottstown.
SPANISH PRINCE PLOTS TO SEIZE REINS IN NATION Son Of Pretender Seeks Overthrow Of Republicans MADRID, June reports that a military movement was underway to overthrow the Republican government and Crown Prince Jaime de Bourbon king of Spain were being tracek down today. A number of newspapers, including Heraldo, said General Martinez Anido, military governor of BarceIona under the monarchy, was on his way to the province of Navarre to organize an army which would march on Madrid and place Don Jaime, son of the late pretender, on the throne. General Anido, who was vice premier in the cabinet of General Primo de Rivera and long a captain general. in the army, was forced to resign his post when King Alfonso gave way to the republic. His official acts later were scrutinized by the provisional government with an eye to prosecution.
Prince Jaime, whose headquarters are in Paris. was roundly cheer- (Continued on Page Eight) EIGHT STRIKERS HURT IN BATTLE Pickets Injured In Clash With Mine Guards ST. CLAIRSVILLE, June 18- (P)-Eight men were injured today a battle between mine guards and pickets of the National Miners' union at the Florence mine of the Youghpiogheny and Ohio Coal Company. The fight started after 300 pickets had attempted to march to the mine but were dispersed by tear gas bombs thrown by Deputy Sheriffs. The trouble at Florence was the most serious of a number of orders in the coal strike region day.
At the attacked Blaine mine a pickets deputy sheriff was by two but he arrested them. When the 300 pickets approached the Florence mine, Deputy Sheriffs halted them about a quarter of a mile from the workings and told them disperse. they refused to do so, tear gas was used. About fifteen of the pickets skirted the spot by going over a hill, and through a woods. They approached the mine from the rear where company guards met them.
A pitched battle occurred, and eight of the pickets were injured. Selma police were working Thursday on Slender clues by which they hope to solve bold daylight robbery of the Day Tire Company early Wednesday afternoon when well-dressed white man walked into the tire company's store on Broad street, ostensibly to consult a telephone directory, and walked out ten minutes later with $125.00 from the safe. The man is described as blonde, well dressed in a light suit, and of pleasing personality. The most outstanding mark of identification, according to Wallace Day, who talked with the stranger, were unusually large skin pores. The stranger appeared suddenly on the sidewalk in front of the Day Tire Company shortly after neon Wednesday and accosted a negro mechanic who referred him to Mr.
Day, standing near the store door. In response to Mr. Day's inquiry as to what he wanted, the stranger replied that he did not want anything but would like to consult "somebody's telephone Man Left Alone Mr. Day pointed to a counter near the front door where a telephone book lay and returned to the sidewalk, leaving the man alone in the store. Earle Day, head of the firm, entered the shop on his return from dinner ten minutes later to find the man standing at the far end of the counter, and not far from the open safe doors.
The stranger appeared slightly nervous and said that he wanted to find the number of the "national bank." Mr. Day replied that there were two national banks, naming them with their telephone numbers. No Calls Made The stranger left the store without calling either number, and disappeared. Within a few minutes the theft was discovered. The hurried manner in which the thief worked caused him to overlook a ten, a five and two one dollar bills in the cash drawer.
The safe doors were closed, but combination was not on when the man entered the store, employees stated. NEA J. Burns Zimmerman, well known Burnsville resident, was freed of the charge of murdering Walter G. Tyus by a jury in circuit court Wednesday afternoon. A verdict of "not guilty" was brought in at 6 o'clock after the jury had had the case for thirty minutes.
Charles A. McKinnon, insurance agent, was foreman of the jury. The case consumed all of Wednesday. When court reconvened after the mid day adjournment Dr. W.
W. Burns, defense witness testified that Mr. Zimmerman received a blow on the back of his left hand, inflicted by a blunt instrument. A group of witnesses testified to the character of Mr. Zimmerman.
These were J. A. Minter, Frank Moseley and R. M. Rountree, members of the Board of Revenue, Pettus Randall, N.
S. Stanfill, chief of police of Selma, Judge W. M. Vaughan, (Continued on Page Eight) First Cotton Bloom Race Is Decided By Margin Of Half Hour The honor of displaying the first open cotton bloom of the season almost resulted in a tie between Thomas McHugh, Orrville planter, and J. C.
Cox, local manager of the Standard Oil Company, Thursday morning when Mr. Mclugh displayed a bloom at the Times-Journal office a half-hour earlier than Mr. Cox. Mr. McHugh's bloom came from his farm near Orrville, while the bloom displayed by Mr.
Cox came from a small acreage within the city limits tended by a tenant. The Cox plot covers 20 acres, and the cotton stand is knee-high. No fertilizer was used on it this year. The first bloom of this season are two weeks later, than the first of 1930, which was shown at the TimesJournal office on June 5 by W. C.
Givhan, of Blalock, member of the Board of Directors of the Dallas County Farm Bureau, Cotton is around three weeks late, according to John Blake, farm agent, and badly in need of rain. There are a good many more boll weevils this year than last, but cotton has a better stand, Mr. Blake says. Corn crops are suffering heavily from the drought. Arthur Cosby, negro, who operates a farm on the J.
H. Hollingshead place at Collerine brought a cotton bloom to Selma also on Thursday. Cosby found the first bloom in his field on June 16, he reported THREE KILLED IN CAROLINA CRASH Four Others Hurt As Truck And Auto Collide SUMTER, S. June 18-(P) Three persons were killed and four others seriously injured in a truckautomobile crash near Summerton, 20 miles south of here early today. All were strangers to that section and none was immediately identified.
All of the dead and injured were men. One man was killed instantly. On his person were two identification cards. One bore the name Tuttlerow, in care of the Salvation Army at Greensboro, N. the other card was a Baltimore driver's license on which the name could not be read.
Two others were rushed to a Sumter hospital and died in a few minutes. Efforts were being made to identity them. Lieutenant T. Hutto of the South Carolina highway patrol, gave the names of the injured as L. W.
(Continued on Page Hight) Three Road Projects Under Way In Etowah GADSDEN, June 18-(P)- Three highway projects in Etowah county, when completed, are expected to open up new avenues of trade for Gadsden, Attalla and Alabama City. Grading on the lower half of the six mile stretch of the AttallaSteele section of. the ChattanoogaBirmingham highway has been completed and work is being rushed to a finish, County convicts are furnishing the labor. In addition, all footings for concrete piers on the Wills creek and Canoe creek bridges have been poured lifting the piers above danger from backwater. A chert surface is being spread over eight miles of the Cedar Bend road leading from McCartney's ferry to the Cedar Bend school house.
Weather permitting, work on thin project is expected to be completed. in two more months. The county also is reconstructing the Estes road linking Gadsden with Centre and affording an Improves route into Cherokee county..
