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COTTON MIDDLING .. .. ¢ ot .o .. BY2c pPREVIOUS CLOSE .. .. .. B%¢ Vol. 101. No. 111, Tenth Distnct Congressional Flection Changed lo July 5 By Govern SENATE GROUP QUIZ MORGAN ON FIRM'S INNER WORKINGS industrial Control Bill Comes Out Of Committee Major Tax Bill CHANGES ARE MAI]‘El 5 6 SIEEID T TEISHY DT CHANGES ASKED BY ! A WASHINGTON — (A)) — The publi works-industrial controi pil emerged from committes Tuesday startlingly converted into a major tax bill to extend for an extra vear all speeial exercises imposed a year agoe: when ths Treasury was fast running emp: by, This extraordinary procedure, decided upon in the late night hours just before the ways and means committee approved the whole bill and voted unanimously to report it Tuesday was an nounced as an extra safeguard to Treasury credit and ‘as double in surance for the $3,300,000,000 issue of bonds the measure calls for. Budget Directopr Lewis W. Dou glas, Treasury cpokesman, ' asked the step be LAKOR =i, vl wns As a result th Bill now calls for: Construction of ‘public workse federal, state, local, and public benefitting private building , fi nanced by bhond igsue, designed ta employ millions of men. | Self regulationt of all industry | under federal supervision to end ! overproduction, sweatshop . wages, unduly long hours, and thus in creace prices and 're-create em pioyment . New high income taxes , taxes On corporate dividends, increased gasoline tax, all to produce $221 - 000000 2 year te fund the public works bonds. Extension from July 1, 1934, to June 30, 1935 of a round half (Continued on Page REight’ . . ; District W. M. S. Convenes Frid - (Convenes Friday At Watkinsville i a ‘ The annual district conference} of the Woman's Missionary So clety of the Athens district will onvine ot Watkingville Friday, May 26th, at 10 a. m. “Achieving the ‘Standards for Ue Ideal Missionary Society” is e subject of the program. Among he interes™sng and prominent Pleakers who will .take part on s program - are Mrs, L. M. \.""'s‘ ice-president of North ‘€orgia Conference; Mrs. C. C. rell, recording secretary of Ylth Georgia Conferenee; Mrs. #ster Rumble, Mrs. J, ©O. Brand, s, 1. 1. Beacham, Mrs. Rob ", and Miss Lilla Tuck. Mrs. “ude Tuck, qistrict secretary, "be in charge of the meeting. Miss Mary Culler White, who been uctively engaged in mis .“l IV work in China for about Hrs, will give an address in " altinoon, Miss. White is a m leresting speaker. ‘““'I Athens distriet “has given ~ Alethodism many prominent 015, among them bishops, mis "aies and precahers. Judge ; Ashford will tell something LIS canestly desired that this .5 may be one of the best ' distriet, rui};r ik Baptis(—Com;ltion Deplores Roosevelt’s Attitude on Prohibition e GTON —(AP) — {The | . ptist convention Mon ted down a motion its program a res nz the attitude of Roosevelt on -prohi- Specially that he al: te House to be used the beer business.” ) dopted the social Ission report con baragraph of disap { P. Binns, or Roan ved to strike out three the report and suc riking out one of ' @ section which said ‘the THE BANNER-HERALD FULL Assuciated Press Service. Wages Increased 10 Per | Cent and Work Hiked | Up 25 Per Sent—Strike | GREENVILLE, 8. C. —(AP)—: Started hy 450 weavers in m‘olestt against institution of the “stretch- | out” system, a strike in the F. \V-;l Poe Manufacturing company's ‘ plant here Tue day rapidly sprnad,: through sympathy or force, ;111‘1; by mid-morning the mill's 1,200 | operatives were idle. | The weaving room: workers first quit their posts alleging that al though they had received a 10 per cent wage increase, mill officials had discharged other employes and raised the amount of work ta be done by 25 per cent. £ ; A short while later, all othor departments were idle and it was reported that firemen had been forced from their places at tha boilers. 10 Percent Hike GREENVILLE, S. C. —(AP)— The Southern Worsted mills Tues day announced a 10 per cent in crease in wages for its 475 em ployes. The increase will add an proximately SSOO to ‘the mills’ weekly payroll. JAPANESE-GHINESE SIGN PACT TUESDAY Truce Provides Chinese Troops Must Evacuate Peiping; Demand Met TORYO-S(APY-—A Rengo (Jap anege) News Agency dispatch from Tienstin Tuesday says that a Sino- Japanese truce agreement signed at Peiping provides that Chinese troops shall evacuate Peiping and remain to the south of the line Yenking - Changping - Shunyuo- Paoti-Lutai. Further negotiations looking to terms of a permanent peace will he opened shortly at Peiping, the dispatch says. Japanese leaders stated, accord ing to the Rengo report, that since the Chinese have peacefully evac uated Peiping the Japanese will not occupy that city. PREDICT OCCUPATION Military activities in the Sino Japanese fonflict apparently ar crystalized at Peiping, the one time forbidden city of China. Foreign military observers there predict the Japanese forces would shortly enter. Official Japanece circles declare, however, an arm istice in the north China warfare is most likely within the next dayv or twa, since Chinese officials hawve offered peace terms the Jap anese can meet halfway. A Jap anese War office spokesman also denies Japanese forces intend to enter Peiping and Tientsin. Six hundred Japanese troops were ordered to reenforce the Jap anese legation guard at Peiping- No order for the evacuation of Pejping has been issued, says General Ho Ying-Ching, Chinese national government war minister directing operations there, Re ‘mavol of Chinece soldires quar tered in a certain section of the city to outside the city wati }caused the false impression, he says. ! American school children at l_Tungghow who remained to finish examinations when others evacu nated last week now are in Peip ing, where their removal was ad vised by Nelson T. Johnson, Uni ted States minister. Additional guards are on duty in the Japanese concession in Tient sin as the result of an unexplain ed bombing on the edge of the concession which killed a riccksha coolie. Alleged reactionaries con tinue bombings and shooting, in adents which the Chinese claim (Continued on Page Eight) Baptist looked “with great con cern on the unusual and extraor dinary grants of power to the president by ¢tongress.” . Binne, a youthful looking figur> in ‘sharp contract with venerable Dr., A. J. Barton, Wilmington N, O social service chairman who presented the report, took is sue with the entire draft as be ing too great in scope for proper discuscion. As Binns moved to strike this section and a deep-veiced chorus of “No' No! No!” came from the floor of the auditorium. Dr. M PEENRIEES ~ (Continued on Page Eight) The Mooneys—After 17 Years e st et e et 58, A i e e ,'~’.' e2B 00 O s e . e A TGO P R A PO B SR BR R B e RR R R e A . 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Mrs. Mooney has been fighting for her husband’s release since his conviction in the Preparedness Day b9mbfhg.’ ¥ Tom Mooney Goes on Trial Again on Preparedness Day Bombing Charges ‘ SAN FRANCISCO —(AP) —The trial of ‘Thomas J. Mooney on a Ilong dormant indictment growing lout of she Preparedness’ day bombing here in 1916 gets under way in superior court Tuesday. The last obstacle to the trial was removed late Monday when the State Supreme court denied the petition of Attorney John O’'- Gara for a writ of mandate to compel Superior Judge Louis Ward tp dismiss the indietment. (O'Gara petitioned the Superme | court to prevent hearing of the | trial on the ground nothing was to be gained” by reopening the 16 year old case. The court did not rule on the merits of O'Gara’s con: Wil Erect Three - Temporary Houses | At Milledgeville l ATLANTA, Ga.— (AP) — The State Board of Control has order led the erection of three tempor ary buildings at the state hospital for the insane at Milledgeville to take 300 mentally deranged per sons out of the jails of Georgia. “The buildings were authorized at a meeting of the board here Monday'. Convalescent patients will be moved into them and per cons now held in jalls because there is no room at the hospital will be moved to Milledgeville. The question of finances was referred to a committee which will meet in Atlanta next Thusday to consider means of reducing ex penses. Salary reductions and a cut of 102 in the 800 employes at the hospital were among the pro posals advanced l\fonday. | Dr. R. C. Swint, superintend ent, opposed the reduction in per !sonnel, saying it would seriously ihandlcap work at the institution. Governor Talmadge, after a visit to the hospital some time ago, proposed the erection of tempor ary buildings in order to move !deranged persons from the jails, land suggested that prisoners from the state farm be used for thg work, His suggestion was adopt ed by the board. Necegsary expenses will be paid from the . governors . contingent ttund'. 5 . ROOF 1S DAMAGED !- A fire damaged the roof to the residénce of M. J. Maynard on i“’addoll street Tuesday morning. The fire caught from a spark. Athens, Ga., Tuesday, May 23, 1933, tention, holding only the attorney was not the proper person to make application for the writ. With the way cleared for the opening of the case at 10 a. m Tuesday, th€ deéfense © moved to precent Mooney’g story, which the veteran labor leader hopes wi'l clear him of complicity in the 'bomp outrage. With the old indict 'ment gut of the way, the defenve hopes to be able to obtain a par don for Mooney or move for his freedom through other legal channels, The 'state has announced it wil' not present a case against Moon (Continued On Jage Two) Atlantan Named Administrator For Farm Bill Cotton I WASHINGTON. — Secretary of Agriculture Wallace Monday an lnouneed the appointment of C. A. 'Cobb, Atlanta farm _ publication In~ditor, as administrator =of the | cotton section of the agricultural !relief' act recently passed by con |gress. | { The appointment was made upon ltho recommendation of Senator El lison D. Smith, of South Carolina, I;mthor of the cotton provision, and other southern senators, | Mr. Cobb is the editor of the iSouthm'n Ruralist and the Pro ’grossive Farmer, An early ap- Ipointment of an administrator !was insisted upon by . southern | members because of. the import ance of early action<ln econnection with the new cotton crop. - May Apply Tax Secretary Wallace wad {Jeft free to impose processing . taxes— one of his chief powers under the farm adjustment act—and to use the proceeds to finance acreage reduction programs-on farms. A few hours' after -he called on Secretary Hull, the State depart ment announced that imposition lof compensatory import taxes, re quired under the act as a com- panion to processing taxes, would not be in vieolation of the interna- tional tariff truce. The ruling cleared the way for an early start in the formulatoin of administrative policies by Wal lace and his aids to reduce. tha supply of American farm com modities .and seek an improvement in farm purchasing power. The State department made it (Continued on Page Three) ~ESTABLISHED 18382 EIGHT CANDIDATES I\ RAGE FOR 10Tk DISTRICT DELEGATE Augusta Reported Very Much Interested in De cision of Nix. Shackel ford May Be Candidate ENTRIES CLOSE 30 DAYS BEFORE VOTE Hamilton McWhorter, Is Reported as Definitely Out of Contest + Qandidates for congress in the Tenth ditsrict will have 44 days in which to campaign. Governor wu gene Talmadge, who Monday ten tatively set June 14, as the date fi the genera! election, later in e day changed the date to July & lines were forming Tuesday, and by the latter part of this ‘week the various factional leaders throughout tne daistrict will know who they will support in the race to wucceed the late Congressmon | ¢, H. Brand. ! The ~ Augusta Herald reported ‘Monday that much.interest is be %ing shown there in the decision of Abit Nix. While there are five eandidates from Richmond in the raoer.—f*amck H. Kennedy, head ©¥¥the minute men of . Augusta having announced late Monday— Nix has many strong friends in the county and polled a tremen dous vote in Richmond in his race for governor last year. Due to the factional split-up in Rich mongd, the Augusta correspondent declares that Nix would probably ‘very largely be the beneficiary. 1t was also reported in Augusta, says The Herald, that one group of factional leaders in Athens has “lined up” behind Paul Brown, of Elberton, an announced candidate, and another ' dominant factional group here would line up behind some other candidate. That can didate, according to report here, is Roy Harris of Richmond, who is enroute from Augusta on a tour of the upper counties. jHarris an mnounced his platferm in full Mon day night. No official confirmation of line ups in Athens could be obtained Tuesday, but in the event Nix does not run, the race in Clarke will probbaly be between Miles Collier of Madison, Harris of Richmond, and . Brown of Elbert. Shackelford . Likely T. J. Shackelford, twice a can didate for congress in the old Eighth district, is reported to be a likely candidate, and Thomas J. Hamilton, editor of the Augusta Chronicle, is alse reported to be a probable c¢andidate, His en trance, it is said, would further complicate the Augusta situation. Tom Linder, executive secretary to Governor Eugene Talmadge, said Tuesday the law fixes the closing date at 30 days before the election. The governor, in fixing Campbell Summons County Agents to Statewide Parley TIFTON, Ga— (AP) —County agricultural agents and other farm workers from throughout south Georgia were called here Tuesday for a conference to study various agricultural problems, and also the new program for closer co ordination between state agricul tural extension, research and edu cation forces. The meeting was called by Dr. J. Phii Campbell, state agricultu ral extemsion service director. One of those here for the meet ing was Dr, J. G. Woodruff, who is to head the new Abraham Baldwin Agricultural college, which takes the place of the Georgia State College for Men, efflective July 1. The meeting fell on Dr. Woodruff's birthday. He was 33 Tuesday, the youngest president of a state college in this state, { Under the new program spon !sored by the Board of Regents of ithe University System of (leorgia, (a closer coordination of work of | siich Institutions as the Experi fment stations at Grifin and Tif iton, the Agricultural college at fTitton, the Agricultural college at Athens, and all extension, resegreh land educational agencies eof the |state {s sought, , “Private Banking Is National Asset, Not Danger,” J. P. Morgan Tells Committee At Opening of Senate Inquiry Tuesday s TR N A R B e ‘C"Q\. 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P, Morgan told the senate committee investigating the operations of his huge firm Tuesday that private banking was ‘“a national asset and not a danger.” He submitted a voluntary state ment at the opening of the long awaited inquiry, on being asked by Chairman Fletcher whether he wished to say anything before the questioning got underway. Next to him sat John W. Davis, his counsel, and a little to the side was Ferdinand Pecora, the committee counsel who for weeks has been studying the voluminous records of the Morgan firm which comprised a bulky pile nearby. While the jammed committee FEAKEASIES LOGE OUT T 0 LEGAL BEER g .5 . National Prohibition Di ‘rector Says 50,000 Are Closed by Legal Brew SAN FRANCISCO —(AP)— At least 50,000 speakeasies have been piriven-out of business by the new liberal beer laws, in the opinion of Major A. V. Dalrymple, national prohibition _director, and many thousands more will be closed when better beer is manufactured. “Not that the beer being sold at present is not good,” Major Dal rymple caid, “but it could be very much better a\nd should be ripen ed more fully before being put on sale, Of the 50,000 speakeasies driven to the wall, or forced to be con verted into legal -beer pdrlors, Ma jor Dalrymple said 10,000 are in New York City and at least that many more in Chicago. | The prohibition director, here on |2 national tour of inspeetion, said ‘Mnnday night that stepsi have been taken to prevent racketeerng in ilegal beer hy throwing safeguards around brewers and retailers, such | as the system of duplicate invoices f.’md revenue stamps. ’ i Major Dalrymple, a former San { Francisco attorney, said he also shad in mind a measure to prevent lprufitem-ing h¥ drugg'sts in medi cingl winesa and liquors. Prug |giß(a may buy wire at from 75 to 95 cents a gallon, he said, and ve tta'l it at from $5 to $7. He has 'premrerl a regulation, he addeq, | subject to approval es the attorney | general, previding that case lots of wire {may be sold at wineries mainthin'ng a licensed apotheeary A. B. C. Paper—-Single Copies, 2c—sc¢ Sunday, J. P. MORCAN room listened in a suspense-rid den silence, Morgan quietly in formed the several senators who sat behind the long committee ta ble that he wished to make a statement. Reading rapidly, in a clear, steady voice, he sald any power held by a private banker comes from the confidence of the peopnle. “We have never been satisfled with simply keeping within the law,” he asserted. Reading quickly, Morgan told the committee: “Our desire being to be of use to the commiitee, I have ventured to frame a bhriel statement of my (Continued on Page Three) MID-WEST STORMG TAKE TOLL OF 13 Oklahoma, Nebraska, Col orado and Kansas Visit ed by Tornadoes GARDEN CITY, Kas. —(AF)— Tornadoes whioh whirled through dust darkened skies left death and property damage in widely sbpa rated parts of the midwestern wbeat country Tuesday. Reports over ecrippled commun ication lines indicated 13 neréons were KkilleG, seven near Tryon, Neb,, five in Liberal, Kas., and _one near Garden City. Scores were injured in the sis ter states and a dozen more were victims of a Bainville, Mont., tor nado Monday. ; Ten buildings were demolished or damaged at Bain ville. The Kansas twisters struck dur ing a sand ahd dust storm which had blotted out the sun, hampered all traffic and forced the use of artificial lights. In addition, high winds, rain ‘and hail pounded farming communities of Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado. = In Denver the wind was- report ed to have reached a velotity of 75 miles an hour., Twaq brick houses were demolished. - . A report received at Omabha, Neh, early’ Tuesday said seven persons were killed by a tornado which swept across the farm of Harry Pizer, north of Tryon. They were Mrs.’ Pizer and her two daughtes, Viola, 3, and Mary Evelyn 5; Mrs. Edna Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Bender and their H2“E 'EDITION dildf TITAN OF BANKING WORLD TESTIFIES BEFORE GAOUP. John W. Davis, Morgan Counsel, Demurs at Sub mitting Partnership Ar ticles of Great Concern i KEPT NO RECORDS OF BOARD MEETINGS Head of Firm Reveals As sets Are Near Half-Bil lion Dollar Mark WASHINGTON. — (AP) — Questioning of J. P. Morgan as to income tax returnsiof the giant banking firm which he heads precipitated dissen sion in the seuate investigats ing committee Tuesday aftér soon, breakiug u)p the senkm“'“: so the senators could go into executive session to adjust their differences. o During the heated bickering among the committeemen, Ferdinand Pecara —committee counsel—had insisted the Mor- - gan firm filed/a return for the first two days of 1931 showing | deductions of $21,071,000. "y & Morgan testified the firm had | reorgani?d January 2, 1981, because,‘of the admisgsion of a told /the committee he knew nothing about the details of ty/fl tax‘. e % ~ Chief opposition to the line of quedtioning pursued® by Pe cora was made by Senator Glass (D, Va.), former Secre tary of the Treasury, g By NATHAN ROBERT‘SON; e Assaciated Press Staff Weiter. WASHINGHON.— (AP) "S-Innef workings of the wealthy Morgan 4 banking firm were unraveled slowly Tuesday by a senate com=- : mittee examination of its master, J. P. Morgan, who quietly de~ fined its business and disclosed that its assets® approach half a billjon dollars. While willingly answering some questions, the elderly fityfichf through John 'W. Davis —— his counsel — demurred at submitting the partneérship articles of his firm. = That 'question was put over for future committee decisiom as ta procedure, e Placing the deposits held 5 P. Morgan and Company 8t a quarter of a billion dollan fi%‘@ witness also gave the exact assets as of December 31, 1932, to. the penny—5424,708,095.56 . Lt A gasp whirred throughout the . packed committee room -in the senate office building as he ‘qui zfiv..r,i, ly werit on. There are ;\% neds, he said, who meet evesy week dg, except Saturday. . fESEE “Is there any written record or minutes?’ he was asked., 3¢ - « i “Only the ‘names of those wha attended.” e “There is no record of the. de< liberations or conclusions?¥: + “None."” e Morgan sald it was decided not to keen minutes when the part ners hegan their daily meetings about “20 years” ago.” I ,3”3& ' Prcbe Relationship A number of questions were asked reégarding the rela.tiog%fi the Morgan house in New .York and Drexel and Company in. Phils adelphia. George Whitney angyers ed these. = i “If J., P. Morgan were: sued” asked QGore, ‘“would Drexel and Comgany be Hable?® = sl 2 e ‘“The five . resident partners g’ Morgan and Company Wwe d'be liable but the four Drexel % ners would not,” Whitney .said, (Continued on Page Three) - LOCAL WEATHER T e ———————————— ————————. 7‘;&‘ Generally fair Tuesday night 35 and Wedhesday ; { o TEMPERATURE % Highest. ... .o.viviip oive SEWE 0 Lowest.. ........ «vi. 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