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Receives Protests From
All Parts of Nation I
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WARRANTED, CLAIM
imergency Pictured By
Rail Heads Does Not
Exist, Opponents Say l
WASHINGTON.—. (AP) -—Pro-l
iis against the proposed 15 per
ent increase in freight rates
iled up today before the Inter
lnie Commerce commission.
Telegrams and letters, many of
hem addressed to President
mover and sSent even before the
gtition was presented to the
mmission yesterday, came from
hricials, business houses and pri
mte citizens denying the claim of
e railroads that an emergency
hrists ~ warranting increased
freight rates.
They demand almost without
ieeption that the commission re
ect the proposal.
The protests included one from
e W. F. Cullens Fertilizer
wmpany, Camilla, Ga.
Some of the letters and tele
rams simply protested the pro
wsals. Others said the railroads
ihould remedy their situation by
vage cuts or that relief should be
ranted them through taxes on
motor trucks.
The North Dakota Railroad
ommissioners telegraphing the
wmmission “for and in behalf m"
e people of North Dakota” as- |
wrted that they objected to “any'
sich procedure as being unlawful |
uwd denying the people of North
lkota their inherent rights.” |
No Emergency {
‘We deny the existence,” the |
telegram sontinued. “of any emer- ’1
cency requiring general freight |
nte increases'and urge that such ‘;
¢ petition be dismissed. We insist |,
that the carriers be required ml.
moceed in the manner prescribed .i
by law and that*any taviffs filed !1
wntaining increases be subject
b protest and suspension. We |,
wsert that economic conditions |’
ire such that a general rate in- |,
rease would be disastrous and |
vould greatly prolong the pres-!
gt severe business depression.” i
Dunbar and Bohlman, the Pitts- |,
kld, Mass., investment bankers |,
wncern, said the railroads should |,
legotiate wage reductons instead ]
of rate increases. The railroads
in their petition filed yesterday |,
fid they were ; refraining from | ;
vage cut proposals both DBecause |,
of the length of time it wouldi.,
take and the fact ahat the gov- |,
emment and large business comne- g
terns were agreed wage radtes
should be maintained.
The United States Fisheries as- |,
sociation urged taxes on motor ||
ricks as a relief measure. !
DO-X ON FLIGHT
TOWARDS BAHIA
NATAL, Brazil.— (AP) — The
German flying hoat DO-X, resum
g her flight from the old world
0 the new was soaring down the
toast of Brazil today toward
Bihia on the first stage of a trip
o Rio De Janeiro.
She rose from the harbor at
30 a. m. (2:30 a. m. E. 8. T.)
ind set sher course due South.
Fifty.five ‘minutes later she was
tighted over the city of Parahyba,
thout 100 miles from here. About
# minptes after that she circled
fl‘hn\'u Pernambuco, 75 mlies fur
lher, and turned back on her
tourse at 7:08. She had then
ffffl.m nearly a third of the total
dffl!nnrfrf of approximately 600
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HEAT WAVE BAKES
NORTHWESTERN U.S.
ST. PAUL —(AP)— The north-
West simmered today in the worst
leat wave of the season.
~For three days temperatures
"ave soared. Thundershower pre-
Uictions held out hopes for local
Telief today.
1 \linot, N. D., rcasted at 104 yes
“rday; Bismarck, N. D., reported
Kidnappers Arrested As Police
Go With Victim To Rendezvous
POTTSTOWN, Pa.—(&)—When
fangsters kidnapped Dr. J. El-
Ter Porter, 66, president of the
Security trust company, state po
¢ went along—disgrised as
.E%Q'age'
. Ur. Porter, who is a physician
‘anker, drove his automobile to
i appointed place last night
Vhere he was to “treat” a patient
M response to a telephone call.
. State police had already ob
‘@ined information from an un
"amed source that the call was to
% the starting point of a kidnap-
Ping and two of them concealed
temselves in the rear of the doc
tor's car,
Arriving at the piace, Edward
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- HEADS INQUIRY
Elvin N. Edwards, district
attorney of Nassau county,
Long Island, is the chief figure
among the investigators prob
ing the mystery death of Starr
Faithfull. Much of the girl’s
life has been disclosed, but lit
tle progress has been recorded
in solving the case, officials re
port.
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Death of Girl
NEW YORK,—(AP)—Detectives,
still balked in their aitempts t¢
untangle the mysterious snarl of
fact and fancy surrounding the
death of Starr Faithfull, sought
today to question two women re
ported to have been with her
shortly before she disappeared.
« They hoped these witnesses
might be able to throw light on
why the overwrought, unstable
girl of 25 'dropped from sight and
turned up dead on Long Beach.
~ One of the women was reported
o have been seen talking with
Starr at Grand Central station at
4:30 p. m. orr June 4, the day
Jbefore she disappeared.
The second woman was a clerk
in a Fifth avenue department
store, said to have lunched with
Starr the next day. Seeking this
girl for several days, officers
hoped to question her today.
Meanwhile, authorities tended
to cast doubt on the story of
Henry Goldstein, a chauffeur, who
said he saw the girl on the day
she disappeared with a “million-.
aire” for whom he once worked.
He knew them, he said, because
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| Interesting ltems |
( Concerring This
| World of Ours
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By The Associated Press
COVENTRY, England— (&) —
An Eveless Eden is maintained by
the town. More than 300 bache
lors, disillusioned swains, women
haters, live in a colony at Fole
shill. They pay the town $1.50 a
week as rent of huts enclosed by
a high hedge. Many of them work
in neighboring - factories, but
tenants come from all parts of
the British Isles. There is no
trouble about enforcing a strict
rule: “No women visitors allowed
without permission of the super
intendent.”
NOT SO GOOD
LONDON — Boys at Bulwich
college are forbidden to go to the
movies unless their parents take
them. R. B, Henderson, the head
master, says Americanized films
are not good for the boys and
anvhow movies are detrimental to
school work and health.
LESS HOLIDAYS
CANBERRA, Australia—Ther>
is a drive against the great num
ber of holidays. Saturdays and
Sundays are workless in most
states and in addition there the
numerous celebrations of histori
cal events,
Kitchell and Harrg McKay, de
scribed as Philadelphia gangsters,
climbed into the car and directed
Dr. Porter to drive to a lonely
part of the city. They glanced in
the rear of tk= car but concluded
the bulge was baggage and paid
no heed.
The gangsters directed Dr. Por
ter to stop at a place where an
otheér automobile was waiting. In
it was Foster Weand, also of Phil
adelphia. 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 phy.
sician was to be held for $15,000
PRSOEN, . o
THE BANNER-HERALD
JURY DELIBERATING
PANTAGES VERDIGT
STILL NOT AGREED
No Indication Given as to
When Verdict Will Be
Reached in Trial
HEATED ARCUMENTS
~ INDICATE DIVISION
“Love Market”’ Case Put
In Hands of Jury at
Noon Wednesday
SAN DIEGO, Calfi.—~(AP)—The
jury in the trial of Alexander
JPantages and three others on
charges of conspiracy and con
tributing to the delinquency of a
mfnor took up its deliberations
today with little indication of
when a verdict might be reached.
Receiving tl!e case at noon yes
terday, the jurors were back in
the courtroom within a few
hours asking for a copy of the
court’s instructions, The copy was
given, Persons outside the jury
room heard occasional heated ar
guments, indicating a division.
With no verdict reached at 10 p.
m., the jurors were allowed to
retive. #
Superio Judge L. N. Tufrentine
made two major points in his in
structions. He told the jurors
Lydia Nitto, complaining witness;
John P. Mills, who turned state’s
evidence, and Helen Livingston,.
associate of Miss Nitto, should be
regarded as accomiplices in ‘he
alleged conspiracy. Their testi
mcny he advised, must not be
considered unless corroborated by
other evidence or circumstances.
Age Disputed
Secondly, he said, the defend
ants must be acquitted unless
they found that Miss Nitfo was a
minor at the'time of the alleged
law violation. Miss Nitto testi.
fied she was 17. The defense pro
duced six witnesses who said she
told them she was 22.
Mills had pleaded guilty to
contributing to the delinquency of
Misses Nitto and Livingston, He
testified he, at the suggestion of
Jesse H. Shreve, wealthy real
«estate operator, .arranged with
Olive Clark Day and William
Jobelmann, alleged operators of a
Hollywood “girl market,” to
bring the two girls here to a ho
tel party last October 30. Shreve,
the Day woman and Jobelmann
are defendants with Pantages.
- Mills said he and Shreve want
ed to get Pantages in a good
humor about a note for §sßo,ooo
which the three had endorsed and
which was about to be foreclosed.
Miss Nitto testified Pantages was
intimate with her at the pur
ported party. General denials
were made by Pantages and the
other defendants. i
DETECTIVE IS HELD
AS SLAYER OF WOMAN
LOS ANGELES —(AP)— Mrs.
Grace Duncan, 25, of Glendale,
Calif., mother of two children, was
beaten to death with a pistol butt
in a downtown hotel room and de
tective' Lieutenant Edward Nolan,
35, was held today as the slayer.
Police said the killing followed
a jealous outbreak in which No
lan floored R .V. Williams, New
York silk salesman, during a “par
ty” in the latter’s hotel room.
Football Player is
Killed in Accident
GADSDEN, ‘Ala.—(#)—Warner
Sttherlin, 24, former Gadsden
Nigh school football star, was in
stantly killed early today when
he was thrown from an auto
mobile as it turned a corner at
a high rate of speed.
Lester Griffin, qriver of the
car, told officers Sutherlin pitch
ed out of the machine head first
as he turned the corner and that
his head struck the curbing.
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| DEFICIT REDUCED
WASHINGTON—(#)—The fed
eral deficit was reduced by $82,-
662,000 today by income tax pay
ments and collections on the for
eign debt. The red ink figure,
‘however, still exceeded the bil-
Jion dollar mark, standing at the
close of business June 16 at SI,-
$17,241877. The preceding day’s
figures was $1,099,903,063.
| LOCAL WEATHER |
Furnished by the Government
Bureauv at the State Teachers
, College, E. S. Sell, Observer,
for 24 hours previous to
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TEMPERATURE
Higheat.. . i<t iiix .. 950
Eowest...o v 0 uih, «. =BOO
Mea .. ... .. e 4. -308
Nothale.o i ice . i . 700
RAINFALL
Inchesi owiiiiielas cvvn D 0
Total since June 1........ .54
Deficiency since June 1.... 1.89
Average June rainfall,... 4.18
Total since January 1....18.37
Deficiency since Jan. 1.... 648
ATHENS, GA.,, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1931.
CAPONE NEMESIS
Elmer L. Irey, chief of the
Intelligence Bureau of the Im
ternal Revenue department (be
low) is the man who wove the
bits of evidence against Al Ca
pone for income tax evasion in
to a net that landed the gang
chief in court and led to his plea
of guilty.
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IN HOME ECONOMICS
Miss Mary Todd Awarded
SI,OOO Fellowship; To
Study in Washington
WASHINGTON, —(#)— Mary
Todd of Georgia and Andy Cole
bank of Tennessee were_announ
ced today at the 4-H Club« en
campment as the winners of the
Payne fund fellowships of sl,-
000 each.
Miss Todd was gradvated from
the University of Georgia this
year while Colebank will receive
a degrée from the University of
‘Tennessee. Thet were selected by
a committee appointed by the Ag
riculture department and were
chosen for a high scholarship rec
ord, excellence in 4-H Club work
during the last five years .and
promise of leadership in agricul
tural and home economics fields.
They will begin studies in
Washington mnext September.
Sam H. Thompson, farm board
member, spoke to the 156 boys
and girls and club leaders today.
He sgtressed advantages of coop
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Today’s Best
.I.II’MAN TNTERE;I‘
Story
MEMPHIS, Tenn—(AP)—
‘What Dr. Ernest R. Cleaves,
blind young osteopath, saw
with the sixth or ‘“divining”
sense sightless persons are
supposedly endowed with won
him a divorece here yesterday
from his blind wife.
Dr. Cleaves testified he
heard, sensed and divined the
fact that his ywife, Mrs. Lillian
Cleaves, also an osteopath,
was hugging and kissing an
other blind man, After hear
ing the testimony of two
other witnesses, both blind
and one of them the sgister of
Mrs. Ceaves, Judge Patter
son granted Dr. Cleaves a
divorce.
The Cleaves had married se
cretly while they were stu
dents at a medical school for
the blind in Chicago, in
1926.
Mrs. Cleaves, now in Chica
go, did not appear at the
hearing.
Military Revolt Is Reported
In Spain To Restore Monarchy
MADRID —(AP) — Published
reports that a military govern
ment was under way to overthrow
the republican government and
crown Prinec Jaime De Bourbon
as King of Spain were being track
ed down today. 5
A number of newspapers, in
cluding Heraldo, said Genetal
Martinez Anido, military governor
of Barcelona 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, was forced to re
sign his post when King Alfonso
gave way to the republic. His of
ficial acts later were scrutinized
~ESTABLISHED 1832
ATLNTIC CROSING
TAKE-OFF HOUR 15
NEAR AT HAND NOW
Favorable Weather Start.
Several Flyers Working
i To Be First in Air
{THREE EXPEDITIONS
ARE ALMOST READY
Ruth Nichols is Ready tc
~ Start Solo Flight to
Paris Any Minute
VALENCIA, Irish Free State—
(Pl—Aviation circles here were
puzzled by wireless reports from
a French trawler of an airplane
sighted early today about 225
miles due west of Land’s End,
England, flying in an easterly
direction.
The appearancé of the plane
at such a point could not be ex.
plained 2nd efforts to identify the
ship were being made.
)
' NEW YORK—(P)}—Good wea
ther prospects today gave fliers
hope of starting = trans-Atlantic
fliehts soon, - N
~ Dr. James H. Kimball; goyern
ment forecaster, noted general
improvement in conditions and
the absence of headwinds over
the Atlantic. He advised that
there be no start till visibliity at
sea improved.
His announcement started ac
tivity at various Long Island
fields. g
Wiley Post and Harold Gatty,
who want to circle the globe,
hoped to be the first to get away.
Their plane was already loaded
and fueled at Roosevelt field. They
intended to fly to Harbor Grace
Newfoundland, before crossing
the Atlantic.
Miss Ruth Nichols, who plans a
solo flight to Paris, tested her
plane in a dash from New York
to Baltimore yesterday and mad:
arrangements for a possible start
today for Harbor Grace,
- At Floyd Bennett field, Clyde
Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, jr.,
are conducting tests with a plane
in preparation for a flight to
"Mioscow, and ‘thence round-the
world. i
Eight Men Injured
When Miners March
On Company’s Mine
ST. CLAISVILLE, Ohio.—(AP)
—REight men were injured today
in @ battle between mine guards
and pickets of the National Min
ers’ union at the Florence mine
of the Youghiogheny ‘and Ohio
Coal company. The fight started
after 300 pickets had attempted
to march to the mine but were
dispersed by the tear gas bombs
thrown by deputy sheriffs.
The trouble at Florence was
the most serious of a number of
disorders in""the coal strike reg
jon today. At the Blaine mine a
deputy sheriff was attacked by
two pickets but he arrested them.
When the 300 pickets approach
ed the Florence mine, deputy
sheriffs halted them about a
quarter mile from the workings
and told them to disperse. When
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 oc
curred, and ‘eight of the pickets
were injured.
SHIP FORTY CARS
SPARTA, Ga. —(#)— Hancock
county growers announced today
they plan to ship forty cars of
peaches this year., Then majority
will be Carmen, Georgia Belle and
Elberta varieties. Shippers will
linclude John O. Moore, Culvert
:son;. H. K. White, Culvertson; A.
B. Armstrong, Mayfield and Al
len and Hollis, Mayfield.
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HEY, BASEBALLERS
Allen Lester, director of the
American Legion baseball pro
gram here, asks that all boys in
terested in trying out for the dif
erent Legion teams meet him Fri
day afternoon at the Y. M. C. A.
at 3 o’clock or call him at 1938.
by the provisional government
with an eye to prosecution.
Prince Jaime, whose headquar
ters are in Paris, was roundly
cheered at a meeting of 20,000
Catholics in Pamplona, capital of
Navarre, last Sunday for his sym
pathy toward the church. A tele
gram from him felicitating Cath
olics in their cause against the
government was read at the meet
ing.
Shortly after the fall of the
monarchy, Prince Jaime issued a
manifesto asserting his rights to
the throne and urging them - to
support .a royalist government
which would be “renewed, progres
sive and decentralized,” but which
would not be headed by Alfonso.
Greatest Sustained Offensive
Against Dry Law Violators To
Be Started By U. S. On July 15
GPEECH AT MARION
BY HODVER BRINGS
POINTED QUESTIONG
Defense of Harding Stirs
Senator Walsh to Ask
Hoover to Explain
~ WASHINGTON—{#)— Pointed |
‘questions as to President Hoo
ver’'s knowledge of Warren G. '
‘Hxarding’s “dim realization” that
some of his trusted friéends had
betrayed him, have been directed
at the Chief Executive by Sena
tor Walsh of Montana.
Wal¢gh was the Democratic
prosecutor in the.senate investi
gation that disclosed the Teapst
Dome and Elks Hills oil lease
scandals of the Harding adminis
tration, in which Hoover was Sec
retary of Commerce.
In a statement through the
Democratic national committee,
Walsh in referring to Hoover's
dedication of the Harding Memo
rial said:
“That was an interesting bit of
history introduced Tuesday by
President Hoover into his speech
a Marion, Qhio, namely that the
realization by President Harding
that he had been betrayed ‘by a
few of the men whom he had
trusted,” was a contributing cause
of his death.”
Coming from the reliable source
from which “the fact is now given |
to the public, a number of ques
tions are prompted,” Walsh said.
“Of the faithlessness of which
particular friend or friends, aft
erwards shown in the courts of
the land to have betrayed the
country as well—to use the langu
age of the orator at Marion—did
President Harding have knowl
edge Fall, Daugherty, Forbes or
Miller?”
Three Convicted
Fall was Secretary of the In
terior, and was convicted of ac
cepting a SIOO,OOO bribe from
Edward L. Doheny. Daugherty
handed in his resignation as At
torney General at the request of
Presigent Coolidge. Forbes be
came involved in his administra
tion of the Veterans bureau and
Miller, likewise as Alien Proper
ty Custodian., Both were im
prisoned.
Walsh asked if Harding “had
such knowledge why did he not }
peremptorily dismiss them from‘
the public service and cause to
be instituwetd those prosecutlons‘
to which they later became sub- |
ject?” |
“Was the President’s informa- !
tion,” he continued, “that Hard
ing had a ‘dim realization’ of the
fact that he, and, of course, the j
country as well, had been be
trayed acquired before or after
the aeath of Harding? If after,
who was his informant and, if
before, why did he remain inac- |
tive, being one of the constitu- |
tional advisers of the President!"l
SIMPLE SERVICES
FOR BOAT VICTIMS
NANTES, France—(AP)—Sev
enty-seven victims of the St. Phil
ibert steamboat disaster were
huried today after outdoor funeral
services in which thousands of
stolid Bretons participated.
As the simple service marked
the passing of more than 400 men,
women and children drowned in
the Bay of Biscay when the ex
cursion steamer sank.
Man Takes Own Life
In Movie Theater
CHICAGO — (AP) — Several
thousand persons watched a mo
vie in the uptown theater last
night, ignorant of the covered body
of a suicide in a rear seat.
Just as pistol shots broke upon
the sound screen, Christopher
Kelley, 60, Northside druggist,
shot himself in the head. Only
those in nearby seats knew of the
shooting.
A police captain halted removal
of the body until a coroner’s phy
gician arrived. It lay slumped in
the seat and covered with a sheet
for 20 minutes while the show
“went on.”
HEALTH QUIZ
By Athens, Clarke County
Department of Health.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT
13. How long has the board
of health employed a sanitary
inspector?
Answer: Since December
16th, 1920.
14. How long has the stand
ard milk ordinance been in
force in Clarke county?
DAILY AND BUNDAY~I3 CENTS A WEER
A. B, C. PAPER
ASKS QUESTIONS
Senator Thomas J. Walsh of
Montana, has fired a series of
very pointed questions at Presi
dent Hoover following the lat
ter’s speech at Marion, Ohio, in
which be defended the late-Pres
ident Warren G. Harding in
dedicating the Harding Memo
rial several days ago.
FLLS WIFE MAKES
ALY 10 HOOVER
ATIACK AT MARION
Quotes Letter Written By
Mrs. Harding to Mrs.
Albert Fall in 1924
ELL PASO, Texas.—(P)}—After
reading President Hoover’s ad
dress at Marion, Ohio, and news
paper comments upon it, Mrs. A.
B. Fall today made public certain
corréspondence exchange between
her and Mrs. Warren G. Hard-
Ing.
In his address, Mr. Hoover said
President Harding “had a dim
realization that he had been be
trayed by a few of the men
‘whom he trusted , .. .”
In a letter written fto Mrs.
Fall by Mrs. Harding on February
15, 1924, after Harding’s death
in the late summer of 1923, Mrs.
Harding said:
“I am justing getting to my
Christmas acknowledgements, for
these weeks since ] reached
Washington have been so full of
interruptions that I have had to
neglect mv correspondence.
“] am greatly pleased to have
your telegram, and it mean a
great deal to me to know that
my friends were thinking of me
at the time.
- “I am now in Washington for a
time at least, and -called up the
Wardman park to see if you were
there, and I was disappointed to
hear that you did not come on
with Senator Fall. I always re
call so many. pleasant associations
of the past with you both, and I
miss you here.
“While my coming on to Wash
ington was an experiment, I am
as happy here as I would be any
where, and my friends have been
g 0 good to me, I hope you will be
coming on while T am yet here.”
The letter was signed “your
friend, Florence Kling Harding.”
“It has always been understood
generally in Washington,” said
Mrs. Fall, “that Mr. Harding
took his wife into his closest con
fidence and any reaction in his
mind would have been known to
her.” \
Atlanta To Welcome Mayor Key
Upon Return From France
. ATLANTA, —(#)— Friends and
ifoes alike were striving today to
give Mayor /James IL, Key the
iwarmest reception in the history
of the city when he returns from
his tour of France with a group of
‘mayors who were guests of the
French goovernment.
Friends were preparing a rous
ing tribute for the mayor whom
they described as “the man who
dared to speak the truth about
prohbiton’s colossal failure”, while
foes were circulating a petition
seeeking his recall,
A large number of business and
political leaders joined in arranging
the friendly welcome for the mayor
urging. “thousands of just good
plain Atlantans” to turn out in his
honor for his widey quoted remarks
WEATHER FORECAST
Fair Tonight and Friday;
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ENTIRE PERSONNEL
B USED IN DRIVE
Agents to Concentrate on
“Big Fellows” in Great
Cities of Nation =
By JOHN F. CHESTER : :
WASHINGTON.—~ (AP)'— The
zero hour for the biggest suse
tained offensive in prohibition
history against leaders of the
illicit. liquor industry was - set
for July 15 today by federal offi.
cials. : 4
Exactly 15 days befora that
date, Prohibition Director Wood
cock said, a corps of 350 mnew
dry agents will be concentrated
in a dozen cities spread from &
coast to coast for an intensive
two-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 3
higher-ups of the liquor gangs,
leaving the speakeasy and small.
time “bootlegger principally: to
local enforcement. *
Woodstock 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 appli
cants, could be thrown into tha
field,
Expect Resuits el
“If we don't make more and 3
better cases with our force im
creased by nearly a third,” he
said, “then something is wrong
with our force. There is no deny.
ing_that our effort will be strom.
ger.” The results should speak
for themselves.” ou'i s L
The federal dry chief made
clear, however, that the new Qf-é
fensive should noét be considered -
as a “drive” in thé sense that it -
would be a spectacular effort cofi
fined to any one period. He .
stressed his idea of keeping “&a .
steady pressure” against the men o
he seeks to comvict. e
Already 150 of the new agenis
atthorized by congress have been
t'rown against the Volstead jaw,
violators. o
Woodcock held out for this
number against the ecriticism of
the Wickersham commission
its recommendation ‘to President
Hoover and to congress that his
figure be doubled. SR %
The commission asserted ‘im its -
cenclusions and recommendations
that “there is yet no adequate
observance or enforcement,” and
criticised the dry army as-“inades
quate,” merh S
e I s
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Screven County Man
Is Held in Slaying
MILLEN, Ga.— (AP) —Deputy
Sheriff Addison Dwelle today 8r- %
rested Martin Burke of Sereven 2
county for the death of Liloyd -
Burke from knife wounds officers %
said he received during a fight 3
at the home of Ed Willlams near
here last night. asma lOg
Officers said the two men, Who
are not related, engaged in a 4
quarrel after about twenty dan. -
cers had become dissatisfied with
the way Lloyd Burke was calling
a square dance. In the fight that
followed Lloyd Burke was fatale
ly slashed with a pocket m
and Miss Evelyn Burns and mfi@
Mattie Burns received .
that prohibition was not working so.
!m-n, Attorney George B, Finch 18
leading the recall movemm?“fi@é
said fifteen lists for signaturés are
in circuldtion. Under = a-- m.flfi
statue slightly over €,OOO signatures
are necessary for a recall election,
Meanwhile, Luke Ame!d.&
Mayor's executive secretary, asked
Mayor Walker, of New Y%fi
provide police protection for Key
when he lands because otw
against his life following "m lis
bolg statements” in Paris M
the eighteenth amendment. =
' Key's lexpressed anti-pro ‘*,
sentiments raised a storm, both _’k ¢
protest 3& W‘Tfl. as soon as
they were prini _ here, and
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