The Leaf-Chronicle from Clarksville, Tennessee • 1

r1 (1 -1 SHOWERS AND COOLER TENNESSEE Increasing- ludiness followed, by showers beginning in west portion late tonight or Saturday, and til rajtt portion Satar day; warmer tonight and extreme east Saturday, 2 I I I II The Oldest Paper in Tennessee-' Established in 1S03 i Old in Service, Younj in Tim, ij fy v. is. VOLUME CXXIII NO. 46. FIVE CENTS A CO? MAY 8, 1931.

CLARKSVILLE, ASSOCIATED PRESS EIGHT PAGES nn fs 1 1. (ih I1' IT JL ill ri Ju UULi v7 Li Ks L-3 LJy L-3 'ill Rescued Scientist and Fiancee SOUTSISIBE HIGH 1 TO GRADUATE LAKE COAL RATE CASES MAY FAIL BUS DRIVER IS -1 G1VEU 1UDGMENT flEVYOaiCRAriO JURY 5ETS PACE INDICTING SLAYER FAULKNER GROUPtO siiAts: HIDINGS REPOal i I Argument Over Audit In Memphis 17 Years Ago Rules Last Session Exercises Will Open Sun4 day Morning with the Commencement Sermon Examiner Recommends that Commission Dismiss Old Litigation L. B. Buckingham is Decreed: Remuneration for Girl's Riding True Bill is Found in 26 Minutes Against "Two Gun" Crowley O'CONNELL QUIZZED CAPTURE THRILLING Says Situation in Tennessee Judgment for $7750 was given LV B. Buckingham of Shlloh in a damage suit he brought against Floyd Fletcher, also of Shlloh, for that amount before Bowman S.

Meriwether, justice of the peace, Thursday. The suit Was hotly contested and consumed most of the day. Buckingham sued Fletcher for $7750 which he said Fletcher owed him as a result of having signed a contract to pay for transportation of his daughter to and from the Clarksville high school. Buckingham contended he had bought a truck and equipped, it to convey students back and forth from school, and Companion of Much Sought Man Confesses Dance Hostess Murder WASHINGTON, MAY 8. (AP) Examiner Bardwell today recommended to the Interstate Commerce commission that the lake cargo coal rate casege dismissed.

The cases were brought by the Ohio Lake cargo coal rate committee and others against carriers from Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee coal fields to Lake Erie ports for trans-rtiip-shipment by vessel in an effort to secure a greater rate differential between the northern and the southern fields. The examiner found that the rates were not unduly preferential to any other coal fields and recommended that the commission refuse to take 7 The laks cargo coal rati cases have been befora ti.t- commissio.i from time to time since 1912, and in two other instances the rates have been upheld. Worst He Has Encount-, ered Anywhere NASHVILLfc, MAY 8-tAP) Refer-ence to an audit made of the city government of Memphis 17 years ago was the occasion for SDirited discussion dur- EOUTHSIDE, TENN, MAY 8. (Special) Commencement exercises for the Southside high school which will graduate a class of eleven will open Sunday morning with the delivery of the sermon at the Methodist church by the pastor, the Rev, Claude P. Giv-ens, who will speak on "Life's Dimensions." The class is composed of Misses Lillian Thomas Harris, Agnes Hudglns, Mattie Belle Davis and Mary Dickson; Francis Hudglns, Dudley Dunn, Alfred Mayneld, Averitt Alton Jones and Lewis and Wilbur' On Tuesday night the senior class play, "What About Betty?" will be given In the school auditorium.

Every member -of the-elass -will-take- place. The annual debate will take place on Thursday night between the Workman and Adkins societies. -The subject is "Resolved, that Chain Stores Are Detrimental." There will also be a reading and oratorical contest between representatives of the two societies. Graduating exercises will be held each of the parents of the twelve chil contracted to-! fa pay him $90 for each child per term. NEW YORK, MAY -(AP)-The fastest Indictment for first degree murder ever returned in Nassau county -28 minutes from the time the grand Jury convened until the true vdtedrtiamed Gun" Crowley today as the killer of Patrolman Frederick Hirsch on Long Island last Crowley was captured late Thursday when 20 policemen with guns, axes and bombs trapped him, his girl companion, Helen Walsh, and Rudolph and was not concluded, until Scott P.

Fitzhugh of Memphis developed that the city, under the political control of H. Crump, was given a "clean bill of health." Fletcher contended that his daughter, Ann Belle, has attended school only four weeks of the term, and he had; paid Buckingham for five weeks' trans i portation. He said the student was in jured by the carelessness of BuZJJm- "Tough Red" Duringer. in a West jTdZZlTL eTrHro'Conn'e'li. uperor t.u t6 car 'ot the auditors examining state affairs, Augustine Courts uld, (left) young British scientist, believed to have been loci on a Greenland Icecap, was fuund thurcday by a.

dog-team party headed by H. G. Watkins. At the right is Misa Mclly Montgomerie. fiancee of the scientist and explorer, and whosa br ther headed cne of the expeditions tn the search for Courtanld.

International Illustrated News Photo. 90th-street apartment SECOND TRIAL IS 'DENIED BROTHERS Sa. 'I r- firm had ever made an audit In of 30 miles The capture of the three after the 'Friday night. May. 15, when diplomas.1 speed an.

hour. The girl Tennessee before. and various prizes will be awarded the I New Attorneys Contend Witnesses to Strengthen Defense are Ready students. Prof. Gayden of the Austin Peay normal will be the speaker.

On Monday night. May 18, pupils of Miss Mildred Black will present a recital in the The school has had a successful year's work under direction of Prof. John Matthews, Theodore Hinton, Miss Jessie Basford and Miss Marie Rig-gins. dryWfacTng murder charges Rtscued Thursday DENMARK; MAY 8 (AP) Augustine CourtauW, young British scientist who was believed to have been lost on. the Greenland icecap, was found Thursday and is on his way back to tlie b-; enmp near the Greenland border.

.1, The news that the scientist, for whom several parties have been searching for over two weeks had been found was contained- in a wireless message received here from Angmag-salik, Greenland, by the Danish ministry of marine, The message said Courtauld was returning to the base of the British Artie air expedition, of which he was a member, with H. G. Watkins, leader qf the expedition." This fact led to the assumption here that Courtauld Bad been found by the dog-team rescue party which, set out under Watkins' leadership three weeks ago to search for him The government newspaper, Social Demokraten, in a dispatch for' publication tomorrow, will say Courtauld was found by the Watkins sledge party only a few hours after the arrival of Capt. Albin Ahrenberg, Swedish flier, in his rescue plane. Ahrenberg who flew over the ice-cap, brought food and supplies to both the rescued and rescuers, the paper will say.

'A message received from Ahrenberg at Angmaksalik stated that, the filer, intended to continue on 100 kilometers further across the Ice-cap In an effort to ascertain whether Prof. Albert QwjlenwJ.ss's:.;.'' O'Connell replied affirmatively, but when Craig asked where, replied: "I don't know that that is the committee's business, refuse to answer that question." Craig sat back in his. chair and laughed audibly before he continued: "Well, let me ask you this question? If you didn't aut the city of Memphis for Mr. Crump, who was mayor?" "Yes, we did, but not for Mr, Crump was the reply. f.T "You audited it for some one, else with a view of finding something Irregular In regard to the city administration under Mr.

Crump, did you not?" inquired Robert L. McReynoIOs of committee counsel. "Absolutely, O'Connell testified. "Did you find anything wrong?" "Nothing of any serious importT Capital Situation Went "How did it compare witn what you've found here in the capital of Tennessee?" "There is no comparison This sltua- tion Is so much worse that you could not compare it. I never saw a situa was permanently injured, he charged, by the sudden stopping of the car, her side having been severely wrenched.

He contended also that Buckingham had told him after signing the contract that in case of the permanent illness of any of the passengers the parent would be excused from paying the transportation charges. He also argued that the plaintiff should be barred from collecting the transportation charges because of having violated a state statute In not paying a privilege tax to operate his car for hire. The plaintiff answered that he had communicated with the state and had been informed that he would not be compelled to pay privilege licenses, that the child was not injured by his carelessness, that he had exercised all due precaution In the safety and comfort of the rmssengers and that he had purchased Me truckand had equipped It for transporting the students on the grounds that all would pay a given amount for the transportation of the passengers, and that he had to undergo the same expenses In operating the truck whether or not the Fletcher girl was a passenger. Attorney General Matt Q. Lyle represented the plaintiff and John S.

Daniel was counsel for the defendant. CHICAGO, MAY 8. (AP) Leo V. Brothers was denied a new trial for the murder of Alfred Tribune crime reporter, and was formally sentenced today to 14 years in prison. Brothers' attorneys were given 60 days to file a bill of exceptions in preparation for an appeal.

A new set of attorneys had argued that the punishment set by the Brothers jury, the lightest possible under Illinois statutes, was a "travesty on and indicated the jurors themselves were not sure of Brother's guilt. New witnesses had been found to strengthen the defense case, the attorneys said, and the defendant, because of "improper advice by his former attorneys," had not taken the stand. They promised that Brothers would testify if granted a new trial. Warrants Issued in Slaying Of Mississippi Farmer In Raid exchange of hundreds of shots and the wouhding-ef Crowley, was describ ed 'by Commissioner Mulrootiey (who led it) as the "most thrilling and dramatic, experience" he ever had in 30 years as a police officer. It was the murder of a young dance hall hostess Virginia Brennan which started the police hunt for Crowley April 27, even before he slew Patrolman Hirsch, and it was a dance" hall hostess Blllje Dunne who led to his capture.

Capture Cine Revealed Police revealed today that on Wednesday, as Crowley with 16-year-old Helen Walsh, fled from the most intense man hunt in New York in years, Crowley telephoned Billie Dunne at the 90th-street apartment where she had been living, fie told her to "get out;" tha ho wh bringing a 'regular girl" to occupy the apartment Billie Dunne that night told, several persona at the dance hall about it. One who heard it relayed it to the police, A on the apartment was set up resulting in, Thursday's sensational siege and fighting. Although Crowley, orginally was sought as the Virginia Brannan killer, it was his companion, Duringer, who confessed the crime Thursday night. Crowley admitted the Hirsch murder. The district attorney of Nassau county said the Walsh girl would not be indicted and that she might not even see the inside of a cell.

physicians had advised the district attorney that unless her were watched carefully she might suffer a nervous breakdown which would possibly prevent her testifying. She waa removed to a private home, the location of which was kept Secret. Duringer Indicted NEW YORK, MAY Rudolph Duringer, pistol pal of Francis Crowley, was indicted today by the Bronx grand Jury for the murder April 27, of Virginia Brannen, young taxi dancer from Maine. JUVENILES WILL OFFER PROGRAMS FINE DISCOURSE CLOSES MEETING tion as bad as A. F.

Officer asked O'Connell whaV connection the Memphis audit had witn tnat of the state, and the audi tor said that he could not see any. n'nnMHnll 1 1 1 I Dance and Play Are to Be Attractions Tonight and Saturday Dr. Stoves Says Disposition Of Savior Is A Personal Question 5 CHILDREN ARE KILLED IN CRASH vs vuimcu iituu lie iiua louna unsat- -lsfaetory conditions in practically er-ery department of the state tnat had been audited. "There wasn't much oposltioa ta SUNDAY GAS BAN REPEAL FINISHED Train Knocks School Bus Into a Ditch. Large Number Injured COLUMBUS, MISS, MAY 8.

(AP) Murder charges were filed here today against Wiley Wright, Henry Furr and D. J. Kendricks, federal prohibition agents in connection with the killing of Wales Land, 27-year-old farmer, in a prohibition raid late Thursday. Sheriff John B. Williams left for Ab-berdeen, Miss, this morning with warrants for the igents1 arrest.

The agents informed the sheriff that Land was shot in a field near his home, several miles from Columbus. They said they carried his body to the porch of his home and left it there. It was found by his sister when she returned from Columbus. After giving mealper accounts to Sheriff Will iams, the agent proceeded to Aberdeen with several others arrested in a series of prohibition raids. Other authorities said Land had never been arrested on liquor charges but had been under surveillance during a cleanup In this section.

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL PLANNED City Council Hopes for Regulating Agreement Among Dispensers your audit here until you began to find something crooked, was there?" asked Officer. By his questioning Officer inferred that some members of the committee had sought to impede the auditors but' O'Connell said he had nothing of this He had met "opposition" in the-hlgh-way department, O'Connell testified, but he believed that was "perfectly, logii cal," because O'Connell. said "he had criticized that department In his' tifsb testimony and they "resented Chairman Faulkner named Commit teeman Officer, J. M. Payne ert L.

Alexander, on the subiconv mlttee to draft the investigate final report to the Faulkner and the two-speakers' will be associated with the An innovation in amusement and entertainment for both children and adults of Clarksville, is tobe had at the Parish house of Trinity Episcopal church at 8 o'clock tonight and in a 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon matinee, when the dance and expression pupils of Mrs. M. L. Shelby will offer a dance program and a three-act play under auspices of Trinity church school. That the event is as much for adults as for children and will entertain the mature as well as the Juvenile, was the statement this morning in correcting an Impression that "it's just a kid's thing," which some people have.

It was also emphasized that "Helga and the White Peacock," the three-act play, is not a religious drama, as some people seem to have assumed because it is being given under auspices of the Pilate's question, "What shall I do then with Jesus which Is called Christ?" as found in Matthew. 27:22, is a personal question every human of ail times has had to answer, and one that will continue to confront people Dr. George Stoves, pastor of West End Methodist church in Nashville, declared Thursday night in the closing sermon of the revival he has led at Madison-street church In this city since April 27. Dr. Stoves said that there is a great disposition now to exonerate and excuse Pilate for the disposition he made of Jesus' fate.

"I have sympathy but no respect for him, because he was a moral coward," declared Dr. Stoves. "The moral coward," said Dr. Stoves, "is the one who doesn't meet his obligations." Some people say Pilate was acting 'under God's plan atjd was therefore not morally guilty, Dr. Stoves said, but he contended that had Pilate acted An ordinance repealing that prohibiting the sale of gasoline and lubricating oils on Sunday was passed on its second and final reading by the city council in Its May session Thursday night.

H. C. Merritt, chairman, of a special committee appointed some time ago to attempt to reach an agreement with the operators of filling stations whereby a satisfactory solution could be reached, asked for further time, but when the various cduncllmen began to freely express their views one way or the other, he withdrew his" request and the motion was put. Those voting for the repeal of the VET CONFERENCE TO BE THURSDAY Please Turn to Page Three. Enrollment Will be Sought In Church Schools on Next Sunday HAMEONE'S MEDITATIONS Legion Post Will Make Conference a Homecoming Event according to his conscience and convictions without fear of consequences and defied the multitude In protecting Jestis, his name would have shared in By J.

P. Alky original ordinance were Jesse F. Perry, Stanley Gower, Lane G. Farris, H. C.

Merritt, A. C. Wall and Mayor Wj Hudson. Those voting against the ordinance were Elmer Winn, John R. Dickson and Summey E.

Hunter. William Kleeman did not vote and Wallace Perkins and. Dr. N. Carney were absent MERCED, MAY 8.

(AP) Five elementary school children are dead as the result of a school bus-train collision at a grade crossing here Thursday. Two other children and the driver, Douglas Creegar, were in a critical condition today. The bus, crowded with two score small children om their way from school, was thrown Into a ditch when the locomotive of a slowly moving freight train struek It broadside. Twenty-three children were in hospitals, MERIWETHER FARM BID IS REJECTED Holding that the highest bid of was far bdow the property value, Mrs. Hunter M.

Meriwether this afternoon rejected the auctioned offer for the Belmont stock farm on whkh she lives on the Hopklnsville turnpike. "There is nothing- to say except that there was no sale as to the farm," Mrs. Meriwether told a Leaf -Chronicle reporter." Robert Moore, son of G. S. Moore Son, Agents, Springfield realty selling firm, announced to the crowd merely that "the farm waa not sold." A larrx number cf livestock were sc Id, however.

MAN FALLS FIFTY FEET, HAS HEADACHE NEW ORLEANS, MAY 8 (AP) "John Hill. 32-year-old "laborer, fell fifty feet from a third floor scaffolding on a school building today, got up and told fellow workers he only had a slight headache as a result. Over his protests he was taken to a hospital where an examination failed to show any Injury. Enrollments will be made at the various Protestant Sunday schools Sunday morning for the Union daily vacation Bible school which will be conducted at Howell school during the month of June the supervision of Robert O'Neal. tlu principal.

A similar school was londucted last June and had an enrollment of 200. It was decided at the close of that school to make this a peniiament institution. Plans to make the Sixth congressional district conference of Legionnaires to be held here next Thursday, May 14, the largest this year in the Tennessee department of the American Legion were discussed by Archie Wood post at the regular meeting Thursday A6HTAhTER SELL oil dMAM A ooK'BooH, But wwp hVp us Tom' NEEP Mo CooX-BooK FuH JE5' Please Turn to Page Three' TROOPS CONTROL COAL MINE AREA night. The school year will begin the The post also endorsed the sale to 1 June and will operate morrow of carnations by Montgomery first week county chapter, American War Moth- i four weeks, studies will be had from crs, pledging Its heart? co-operation in 9 a. 11 a m.

It will not operate Tranquil After Evarts is COUNCIL ORDERSf 3 BONDS DlSPOSai; Traffic Lights Will Be" In-stalled Next Week, InstaUatlon of the5 four traffic lighfci which arrived here this weet Will be? gin next week, Jesse F. Perry nd, E. Winn, two members of a commSttee to purchase and install the -four Ughta. told the mayor and city council. In the May nlghU Tt' lights will be lnstalletj over Frsmlsv-lin and Franklin and Commerce anc.

Second and Commerj; and Third streets. The council voted, the ordinance on second reading, u-thorlzlng the sale of a $38D0. bead Issue for unprovement and- eitenslo of the water" department." The 'bonds will be dated May 1, in denominations-of $1,000 each and will be sold k. not more than 5 per cent interest. Th bonds will be payable twenty years a ter date of Issuance, but "Ttdeeiabi in.

ten years. The legislature has au. thorised issuance of- the bonds. i William Kleeman reported tSe im provement in the wafrerworksis jrrcsf sing nicely and the committee stay within Its appropriation, WhenlnK nurchases and distribution 01 me now- jn. the auernoons Quiet Invasion by its a ers.

It also pledged support to the hunrl uhirh haa resumed wotk after Guardsmen t. ruimhor of months inactivity, and LINER BERENGARIA AGROUND BUT SAFE The councilman opposed to the repeal ordinance contended that it would be a backward step, that the Sabbath ls; already too. negligently observed, and said the employes of the filling stations were in favbr. of the tabling of the repeal ordinance in order that they niiht have their Sundays off. They argued that it.

would not Inconr venince the public, for the gasoline could be purchased on Saturdays. Vp to Operators, Claim Those favoring the passage, of the repeal ordinance Contended that the law it could not be enforced, for either all the stations, must be closed, or all allowed to open. No, one wants all to dose. insisted that the question was for the gasoline, station operators themselves to settle, and not for the' city to say who should stay open and who should close. It.

was reasoned that" gasoline has become a public" utility and filling, stations had as much right to remain open, on Sundays as hotels, small groceries, drugstores and the ike. It was brought out that since the ordinance, prohibiting NEW YORK. MAY 8. (AP) The liner Berenaria ran aground in Grave-send bay today and tugboats and coast guard cutKts worked nearly three hours before she was finally freed. Ran Afround Today NEW YORK.

MAY 8. (AP) The Cunard liner Berengaria, from 8outH-liampton with 468 went around toditv in Oravesend Bav. Offices of the line in New York reported the liner was not tn distress. efforts will be made to whip it into class. condition to attend the state iepartmept convention in "Nashville tn August.

Entertainment of the district conference on May 14, Is to be made a 'homecoming or welcoming event for the membership of Archie Wood post, by that time will be 400, the largest in its history. It will be the first coming together of the large mem- bership, which includes many who have in heretofore affiliated witfv the Legion. One of the outstanding attractions for the members will be the free barbecue to be served at 6:30 p. m. The EVARTS, KY-, MAY 8.

(AP) With an imposing array of national guardsmen on duty here to prevent further outbreaks in the coal fields conferences toward a permanent settlement of the difficulties went, on today and; at Harlan the special grand jury resumed its inquiry in lawlessness that cost five lives. E. B. Chllders, superintendent of the Black Mountain mine near here, reported a number or men had gone back to work. He declined to state how many, but said they were workers who had feared to go to the mines during the disorders.

No additional disorder has been PASADENA. MAY 8 APi Dr. Albert Michelson, dean of Ameri-san physicists, was said today by his physician to have grown steadily weaker since he lapsexl Into a coma late Ss" Oreanizatloti of child health units is under wav in evenr county of Okla- Thursday. -'I rptease Tura to (Pleas? turn to Page Six) homa. 1111 death was expected momentarily Piease Turn to Page Three,.