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192 8 PAGES MONROE, LOUISIANA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1936 PRICE FIVE CENTS 16 RUSSIANS SLAIN BY FIRING SQUAD USUAL PERIOD OF72HOURSOF GRACE DENIED CONSPIRATORS Death Comet Little More Than Day After Conviction TROTZKY TO Represented At Chief Promoter, Am Stili Alive' MOSCOW, Aug. before a firing ended today the careers of 16 confessed conspirators, many of them once high in the ranks of Bolshevik leadership). They had been convicted a little over 24 hours before the deeth sentences were carried out secretly. A terse statement announced the executions after the central executive committee of the Soviet Union declined an appeal for mercy. It was believed the execution took piece at Detention prison, near the foreign office in the heart of Moacow.

Executions of this kind generally art believed to carried out individually, with each prisoner shot in the heck. All had confessed their participation In the plot to which the exiled Leon Trotzky, former minister of war and one-time revolutionary zealot, was linked as leader. The communique announcing the fulfilment of sentence, "The highest measure of social before a firing squad," stated: presidium of the central executive committee declined to appeal for mercy of the persons (the 16 conspirators herewith named) condemned by the military collegium of the U. 8. S.

It, August 24. sentence in regard to all has been carried out" The Soviet officials did not state where or how the execution! were performed, a customary procedure. Th communique also did not explain why file action was so sudden. A pre- (Contteced on Third By) DERN ILLNESS MUSES ALARM Sacrafary Of War Suffering From Heart Complication WASHINGTON, Aug. fldals at Walter Bleed hospital today expressed anxiety over the condition of Secreary H.

Dem, who has been ill here for more then a month with a heart growing out of an influenza attack. Attending physicians, headed by the army surgeon general, reported that the war secretary passed his second successive unsatisfactory night last night and they described his condition as somewhat alarming. After passing a night Sunday, Dem was reported yesterday to have shown slight improvement during the day. Another set-back came last night, however. Up until last week-end, Dem was reported to have ah own gradual but steady improvement and almost daily conferred by telephone with his subordinates in the war department and attended to official correspondence from his hospital bed.

The 64-year-old war secretary was stricken ill with influenza last spring while making an inspection trip by boat of the southern intracoastal waterway. He was removed from the DOG LIFEGUARD DIES SAVING MAN ATLANTIC COT, Aug a five-year-old had praiiced around the lifeguard stand at the foot of tieme avenue since he was a wobbly pup. When he was a baby, his master Lifeguard Joseph Broome, would take him out for ride in the lifeboat because he emitted such pitiful howls when left behind. grew up to be big help. After he learned to swim, he followed behind when his master and other rowed out on a rescue.

Sometimes he beat them to the scene, and many a ducking he took when startled bathers reached out and grabbed his small body. had a way of knowing where victims might be found. It saved his master much fruitless diving. He seemed also to know whsn children were venturing out too far and liked nothing better than to swim out and drive them shoreward with shepherding barks. He had already been out on two rescue tripe yesterday when his master and Frank Powderly dashed out to rescue a heavy-set man.

After they dragged the man into the boat they saw gasping in the water. The man was able to walk away after they got to shore, but was near death, his heart beating but faintly. Hundreds of bathers gathered around as beach surgeons tried to aave the mascot. For 15 minutes they worked on and then pronounced him dead. The strain on his heart had been too great PRESIDENT TO START DROUTH TOUR TONIGHT Holds Strits Of Confer Bifort Beginning Trip TALKS WITH GLASS Will Mitt Tugwtll, Rtstt fitment Head, In Middle West WASHINGTON, Aug.

After a conference with the president, Senator Carter Glass of Virginia said today tie would vote for Mr. Roosevelt next November, but was undecided whether he would speak In the campaign. 'POPPY LADY' WILL HELP WAR ORPHANS BUCK LEGION INDICTED LIST BROUGHT TO 24 light Of 22 Already Billed Faced By New Chargee (Continue Third ud DETECTIVE AGENCY SEEKS INJUNCTION WASHINGTON, officers of a private detective agency sought court action today to keep their records from a senate committee. Justice Proctor in United States district court had before him a for an order restraining the officials of the Railway Audit and Inspection company from testifying before the senate labor investigating committee. The suit was filed Friday morning, as the committee headed by Chairman LeFollette, progressive, Wisconsin, sat in impatient silence awaiting the witnesses.

The action was started by L. Bice, vice-president and manager of the company, himself uader subpoena. DETROIT. Aug. Charges of death resulting from political activities of the Black Legion in suburban Highland Park brought to 24 today the number of persons indicted by a one-man grand jury investigating the terrorist society.

Eight of 22 persons indicted last Friday on charges of criminal syndicalism in an alleged conspiracy to seize arsenals and government buildings, were renamed Monday, five for reported plots to kill Martin H. Zink, Highland Park city commissioner, and Arthur L. Kingsley, publisher of a weekly newspaper in the suburb. The five named by Circuit Judge James E. Chenot included M.

Ray Markland, former Highland Park mayor, and Arthur F. Lupp. reputed state commander of the hooded band, both already faring charges of a separate plot against Kingsley; Isaac (Pegleg) White, retired Detroit police officer; Frank Howard, suspended Highland Park captain, and Charles C. Baker, Highland Park policeman. A blackjack assault on George Washer, employe of the suburb, in 1933, waa charged to Ellsworth Shinabery, William Ray and Roy Hepner, already indicted for criminal syndicalism; and Clarence Prince and (Conttoned aa Thlrd Pago LAKE CHARLES WINS IN DEMOLAY MEET LAKE CHARLES, Aug.

25 Charles DeMolay degree team won first place over the New Orleans teem at the annual convention of the order here today. Out-of-town delegates registered for the meeting here included: New Orleans: J. C. Modenbach, Elias Hau, Roger Wilder. Del win Laguene.

G. C. Daul, Dan Rowe, J. T. Owens, Bill Welman, Al Barnes, Harold R.

Tiefle, William Mattern, Albert Jung, William Gerber, Joe Preia, C. A Hecker. R. B. Ricks, E.

C. Roehl, Claude Meyer, Edwin Backes. A. J. Mavice, Herbert Laborde, Alfred J.

George Hen thorn, Fritz end George Preehter, Jr. Alexandria: Tom Durham, Brandom Durham, Nicholas Lymberio, Billy Sykes, Leon Bialy, Charles M. Horton. Leocard Levy, Herman Duncan, Charles Chapman, SeLser Pickett, Cecil Rans bottom and Lee Harris. Baton Rouge: Woodrow Beard, Johnny Graves and Harold Miller.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25-0P)-Pres- ident Roosevelt plunged into a series of today prior to his departure from the capital for a fortnights tour of the drouth-shriveled crop lands. One of the scheduled parleys was to be with Senator Carter Glass, Virginia Democrat, who has been critical of some New Deal policies. The invitation prompted some discussion among observers as to what part Glass would play in the election campaign. Mr.

Roosevelt, accompanied by aides, including Secretary Wallace end Harry L. Hopkins, works program administrator, will leave the capital at night. In the middle west the group will be met by Rexford G. Tugwell, resettlement administrator. During the trip Mr.

Roosevelt win confer with officials and governors of 16 drouth-affected states, including Governor All M. Landon of Kansas, Republican presidential nominee. Aides said Mr. Roosevelt would make no speeches before audiences during the trip, but might broadcast his impressions of the survey. As the president cleared his desk in preparation for the long journey, several federal agencies continued to work on plans to alleviate drouth devastation and to study long range measures to offset damage.

Agriculture department officials were busy with details of a com-loan (Continued on Third Fate) ICKES' FOSTER SON ACQUITTED Found Not Guilty Of Driving Automobile While Intoxicated WOBURN, Aug. Judge Arthur E. Er.o of Lowell today acquitted Robert H. Ickea, 22, foster son of Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes, of driving while under the influence of liquor. Young Ickes, employed on a public works administration project, pleaded innocent to the charge and declared he had had one bottle of beer several hours prior to his arrest the night of August 10.

Two policemen, including Sergeant Charles Harrold, who arrested Ickea, testified he showed no signs of being intoxicated after his car bumped another machine in parking. Harrold said only after questioning Ickes about his license and registration did he smell his breath and believe he might have been drinking. He also asserted he had not seen Ickes operate his automobile, except to draw it closer to the curb after the bumper of his car caught in the fender of another parked automobile John C. Callahan, of Woburn, who drove car home on the orders Moina Michael (right) of Athens, who originated days for war veterans, is the inspiration for an- otoer movement to aid World war sufferers. Steffen (left), Attend sculptor, is working on a eSLitSJ? be sold by the American Ugion to establish a Michael photo) by a plaster model of bust.

Press Savage Dog Will Keep ANNULMENT Mail Away WEDDING ASKED WASHINGTON, Aug. postoffice department reckoned today that section 936 of its laws and has saved of pairs of pants. reads the terse paragraph, not required to deliver mail at where vicious dogs are The division of postoffice service is particularly proud of this section. Letter carriers look upon it as of the blessings of their job. be surprised how many people who get letters keep dogs," said A.

M. Thomas, assistant superintendent of the division. think of the everyone has a dog out Section 936, Thomas recalled, is a very old into the postal book as an emergency measure by a thoughtful congress back when a pair of mailman's trousers went unscarred about as long as a flag on a bullet- swept battle field. Determined to carry his mail at any (Continued on Third Page) ELECTION TODAY IN MISSISSIPPI Harrison And Conner Predict Victory By 50,000 Back (Continued on Third SUMMER REVEALS EMPLOYMENT GAIN RETURNING NEGRO NEW RLEANS, Aug. New Ot-ians detectives were en route to Birmingham, Ala, today to return an unnamed negro for questioning connection with slaying of Frank 57.

killed a hold-up here on WASHINGTON, Aug. slight increase in industrial ment between June and July, scribed as being contrary to the usual mid-summer decline, waa reported today by the bureau of labor stetis- tics. The gain of approximately 2,000 workers was caused, the bureau said, entirely by a pick-up in employment in 52 of 90 manufacturing industries surveyed. Employment in non-manufacturing industries fell off, the bureau said, although an upward trend I was noticed nine of 16 individual industries The bureau said a comparison with July, 1935, nearly 1,060.000 more workers were employed last i month than in July. 1935.

and the pay were wuk greater JACKSON, Aug. will decide today whether Senator Pat Harrison, chairman of the senate finance committee, will be returned to congress. Harrison is opposed by former Governor Sennett Conner, whose candidacy was supported by Harrison's colleague, Senator Theo G. Bilbo. Voting will continue from 7 a.m., central standard time, in communities of 1,000 population and over and 8 a m.

in smaller communities until 6 m. A vote of 200.000 is expected. Harrison closed his campaign in his home section, on the gulf coast, and Conner wound up his at Jackson, Both claimed victory by a majority of 50.000. During the campaign, Harrison pointed to his record of four terms in the upper chamber and his high place in the councils of President Roosevelt Bilbo and Conner vigorously attacked him as a servant of the Conner, afso, pledged allegiance to the president The three principal figures in the 'Continued on Third pggti JOHN KLORER, JR, ILL NEW ORLEANS. Aug.

D. Klorer. Jr. publisher of the Hammond Daily Preaa, Hammond, La waa in a critical condition in Baptist hospital today following an operation for a ruptured appendix. pre- fiioiiftjiaui fatal JuuuiuAiflfc Mother Decides Handsomest Thing Nat Good Enough For Girl CHICAGO, Aug.

Mary Belle Spencer, mother of her 16-year- well please" namesake, who last Thursday eloped with a 21- year-old suitor, today planned to do as she darned well pleased herself and seek an annulment of her daughter marriage, the Daily Times said The woman attorney, mother of Mary Spencer 2nd, and a younger daughter, Victoria, who were the center of frequent court actions because of refusal of the parents to lend the children to school, yesterday pronounced parental blessing on the match, but today had apparently changed her mind, said. The elopement and marriage of Mary Belle and James Edward Wright, Chicago athlete, was disclosed yesterday by Spencer, who said she was She said her daughter had always done as she pleased, and if she wanted Wright, whom Spencer described as handsomest thing the sun ever shone on," let her have him. shall file a petition for annulment of Mary Belle's marriage with circuit court," tha Times quoted Mrs. Spencer. "The annulment will be based on Mary minority, I am doing this for her own good and at the urgent insistence of her father.

Dr. Richard Vance Spencer When we learned of Mary Belle's elopement, we told ourselves we must be reconciled. yesterday I called upon his parents. I found them not precisely cordial. The boy a father seemed to be concerned about the matter of ha iContinuM on Third WOMAN CONFESSES SLAYING DAUGHTER SEATTLE, Aug Ester Hilda Olson, 33, sat unperturbed in the county jail today after police said admitted killing her 16-year-old daughter out of kindness because had no pre'ty clothes, no mce home Deputy Sheriff O.

K. Bodia quoted the woman as confessing she killed her daughter, Rose, on her birthday last Thursday with an ax ami butcher knife, and I had to live like Bodia Mrs. Olson told him been on relief, getting a month. What chance did Rose have to be anybody or have anything? I had been run rung around too much and she had just home from a birthday party that night and had gone to bed. she had gone to bed I ate a grapefruit with a lot of sugar on it and I got a funny feeling and funny ideas came into my head I grabbed an ax and hit her the and rhea I saw her suffering had I dsdn know what to do.

I took the fafiiiI tSA QA JM Shifty Eyes Revealed By Fast Photo CHICAGO, Aug. camera which takes movies of human in action unreeled a surprise discovery has a shifty look. The of individual apparently take turns looking at things, Dr. Brant Clark of Ijm o- ular research student at University of I Southern California and inventor of the camera, explained. The made so swiftly that other eyes cannot detect it, he said, Thw waa a direct contradiction of the general accepted theory of why we can look at a thing with two eyes and see only one image The theory was that we sre "right- eyed or just at we are or The dominant eye, the theory held fixed itself on an image first, and the other eye followed a split second later.

Contending there was neur dog. ical evidence to aupport this theory, rconttnuad on Tbir-t MARRIAGE NOT TEACHER BAR Johs Will Be Safe Regardless Of Marital Status BATON ROUGE. Ls Aug 25 women tea.her* need not fear marriage will cost thanr jobs, a ruling by the attorney-gm- offlce now holds. The ruling, by Assist ant Attorney-General P. Gard ner, yesterday, holds that once a woman teacher begins service under the state tenure act or the Orleans parish act, she can not be discharged for getting married.

Gardiner ruling was in answer to a query from A J. Tate, secretary of the Orleans parish school board, who pointed out a boerd rule made a woman teacher automatically vacate her position when she mauried. Under the Gardiner held dismissal is possible only after hearings on specific charges for "dishonesty, wilful neglect or The were passed at the 1336 session of the legislature. In other rulings, the attorney-gen- Last-Minute Briefs SMITH REAPPOINTED WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 fV- President Roosevelt today reappointed Edwin Smith of Massachusetts foi another term on the national labor felattams board DIES IN GREECE COLUMBUS.

Aug 25 -UP) were informed by cablegram today of the death Greece of Evelyn Talantis, 14, who here recently Imr Mr. aftd V. Talantis, to gpettd a yrar in that country. she apparently contracted infantile paralysis before leaving hare. Eight fasea of the have reported here but no resulted REHEARING DENIED WASHINGTON.

Aug The national labor board today dented rehearing on its order for Beck and licensed of Brothers Steamship company, Tampa Oceen Steamship company, and Lykes Brothers Ripley Steamship company, tn elect for collective bargaining purposes WIDOW SOUGHT JACKSON, Aug 25 -UP) Relatives of Alfred Smith, prominent Meridian man who died suddenly last Saturday night of a heart attack, today continued their frantic efforts to locate wud Traveling "amne where in south with a party of Mrs. Smith has not yet heard of her DRAGGED TO SAFETY MEMPHIS, Tenrv. Aug 25 A. Boler of Hollywood. waa dragged to safety early today when fire destroyed home in which staying A defective was believe responsible for the fire SMUGGLING POUND Aug 25 Ru- for long time couldn explain why many women Were wearing dresses of the finest silk arcrat came out when a load of "hay" overturned on a road many of silk, were disclosed fled.

Arad, and tn Japan. cm (CeniteiMd Thirl FLOODS IN KOREA TAKE LIVES OF 403 StOVU Korea. 25 -The Korean government announced today that 403 died duxmg recent in the central part of the county and that persons muring. The announcement 4 563 persons i injured mi nearly 7 000 ultimai im DEFENSE JAPANS AIM TOKYO. Aug UP 'Perfection of national defense the Hat of major national policies for the 19374938 4 year, the cabinet off announced today, indicating army md navy appropriations.

TOWNSEND ISSIT, I SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 25 Tha Town old age pension movement met test of in state of Origin today a d-endorse i the 20 congressional djtricts, with manager for organization, predicting primary victories at least 13. NEW MAGAZINE OUT NEW ORLEANS Aug 25 -UP Firit uurue of the Louisiana progress dmimstrati new monthly magaatM, Work made Jta appearance today. The di is trated, 18-page publication, carried on various Louisiana WPA projects. NEW PURGE BEGI MADRID. Aug V.

The Spanish Sociaist government arrested the aged Father Fernandez Montana, who fmn.vtered to the former royal family, a new purge of Fascia, Madrid today ARMY SERVICE HIKED BERLIN. Aug, -Ger- nuny, extending compulsory military training period from one to two yean, today prepared capitulation of her complete armed an Third ELECTION STRIKE THREAT AVERTED NATCHEZ. A i 25 threatened strike of election which would have kept Adams county vo' ng closed in con- greaaiona! pnrnary, did not materialize The 20 managers, at of them women, previously declared they would sot work for $1. Each which the county board of supervisors is allowed by law to pay them. The went to their however, 'h the xsurance of that A'ould be found to the pay.

Zfaft JUi Jtyk MISTREATMENT OF PRISONERS IN TANGLE IN SPAIN ALLEGED Matttr Subjtct Of mimitations Btfwtta Fra net, Britain GERMAN MOVE STIRS Ftort Aroused By Baiting Military Strvict To Two Ytort ROME. Aug. SMtee- for the Italian preaa waitetry tonight Italy ronriden to- tematbwial neutrality accord now tn effect, Diplnmnttc propnaala designed to check brutality of Spein'a fierce chdl war wore ranortod day to subject of cnmmunics- tlona between France and Great Britain. The foreign committee af tte Brltiah cabinet waa believed to have taken the proposals under consideration originated among diplomats accredited Madrid row at Hendeye, France, under leadership of the Argentine envoy to Stem. the war atarted in Spain, there have been frequent of the treatment of and ctvttiani by both Socialist government and Fascist It la of international rulee of war which the proposals are gned to check.

the war itself. Civil burned on in Spain toward their ultimate Fawiat or Soeial- a European atmosphere auddenfy brenthteee by ffasi-decreed expansion of the German army. Not connected directly the cftvtt war between Spain Socialist government, supported by and military who carry file banner of Fascism, Adolf Hitter's doubling of universal military term In reich aervtd, evert he tern, to throw the whole international can- Thirg TOWNSEND SAYS FUND SPENT AS HE THINKS FIT I IWift'i Travtl Monty Taktn From Ptnsion Group's Trtatury CLEVELAND, Aug. 33-uPV-Dr. Townserd was expected to testify further today concerning financial of pension movement, after asserting hie right to he sew fit.

The 79-year-old of Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd also testified night at a deposition hearing that ha wife's travel came from tha general account. There itarit ha to be a resolution for expenditure of Dr. Townsend in to a question by Attorney Ben f. Sacharow asking if of provai vs required. am the president of the O.

A. R. P. he I have to do te to order the money drawn from tha account I merely toU tha treasurer what to it followed demand of by what authority Dr. To nsend turned over 9500 of the movements funds to Visual Education, a Baltimore stereopticon project, after ordering National urer Baxter Rankm to gtUT' about it.

doctor the stUT order waa given because of oppoaitiaa of R. who later ragigned aa nat.or.at secretary. Sacharow is attorney for tha lav. A i Wright of Clavaland. a da- poaed Townsend director, who suit asking an accounting of more than 11,009 000 of the holds removal of Dr.

Townsend and the present directors, and appointment of I a receiver. The band of Dr, da- who attended aU- i day hearing appiaucitd wnen thair leader said he considered payment of Mrs. travel expenses tha of MYSTERYDEATH BLAMED ON FALL LITTLE ROCK. Aug. 25.

-OF) 35-foot fall from a North Little Rock hotel ndow was blamed today for mystery death of M. C. i Sutton, about 39. Deputy Coroi.er A. Dte- returned a verdict of accidental death following an inquest that dte- cioaed three fractured ribs, a I tured pelvis and other injuries.

had expressed tha poau sihility of foul play when they unable to find bruises about tha woman body. Dr. Dishongh said death had been so audden that there ware no bruises. Mrs, Sutton registered at the hotel two ago aa Mabel La PaLmer, Pensacola, Fla. A aiatet-in-law, Mrs.

C. A. Sutton, recognized her from a newspaper da- and identified the body. Da. Dishongh said the evidently hag bean gatoge.