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ARM PRICES MAKING STEADY GAINS
eyer Snatches .ead From Stapp At 325 Mile Pomt In Speedway
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PUTATE ARM OF |
PEEDSTER BILLMAN|
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eral Previous Wmn’zrs,
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Race Lose Out in "33
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peedway Classic |
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\DIANAPOLIS SPEEDWAY |
— Louis Meyer snatched the-l
iat 325 miles in the 1933 In-!
unolis Speedway classie- here |
sd fternoon when Stapp, |
ing the time, ran out of gaso- |
f back strength. Shaw |
k second and Stapp dx'opped:
k to third position. The timel
5 {541, averaging 107.88. |
jsleomb Fox of Station Island,
“er Sprangler of |
both went over the|
Il simultaneously on the treach- |
b ith turn of the track. Th@*
y ) immediately slowpdi
; wreeking cars were
ito the =pot along with am-l
tapp peeled off the distance inl
(! eraging 109.429 miles |
ho which broke the record
106.74 made a year ago. [
0 Meyer of Huntington,
k. Calif winher of the 1928
o second, and V\’i]burl
v of Indianapolis, third. Ch(‘(!
iner of Long Beach, Calit‘.,t
§ fourt four laps behind the‘
ders, followed by Al Miller of |
snit, who was four laps h"(‘kl
Gardne Lester Spangler nfl
k Angeles, was sixth, and Dave !
fens, Columbus, Ind., seventh; l
it Moo Los Angeles, eighth. :
It estimated 100,000 specta- |
vatching the death (le-l
g d of speed, i
fen of the 42 original starters |
e f the race due to acci- |
il motor trouble. l
freddie \Frame, Los Angeles, |
pner of t 1932 race, cru(‘kn(lt
mt Frame, along with the me- |
foic, ¢ ed injury. ;
F Billmar of Indianapu]is,l
$ ¢ to be in a serious
. 1 result of a crushl
I l his car over a re- |
few seeconds after |
¢ It was repol'tedl
I se his left arm. His |
Ml Elmer Lombard of In
tapolic s rushed to @ down
W tla for treatment for
Billmen was taken
ency hospital within|
‘t t leading, was burn
: track at 300 miles withl
1 eaking. speed. He
" tance in 2:42.47.83,
,' BiNg 109.892 miles peer hour.l
¢ ils second, two laps
M 0 and Wilbur Shaw, third.i
I on Page Three)
L M. G. MICHAEL
BELIVERS LITERARY
ADDRESS AT COMER
‘ : ! about the dog
tream . with a big
E ! in his mouth form
. of Colonel M. G.
' ress to the gradu
! High sehool Mon-
E ) will recall, saw
n the water and
that other piece of
of the dog and
: meat was written
hundred years iago
“olonel Michael peint
-3 was so true to life
k $ in literature to
more than a thous
k. ', the story of the
: iunk of meat de
titude and actions of
. ! nations which has
world-wide depres
" bective war.
were opened by
, who delivered the
k se Lee Coile deliv
) itatony and Paul
s the valedictory.
y and Mary Carolyn
, ‘ Ve a violin number,
: Eleanor Thompson,
and Mrs., C. L.
h biano selection.
" were delivered by
iy . O. C. Dyer. Sup
i “. B. Ayers of the
h v schools, made a
The henediition was
V. J. B, Brown,
FULL Assuciated Press Service.
Manufacturers Summoned to Hurried
Meeting in Opposition to National
Industrial Recovery Act Provisions
WASHINGTON —(AP)— Oppo
sition to stiff enforcement provis
ions in the president’:: encompass
¥\g indu trial. conirol bill resulted
uesday in summoning of an
emergency meeting here of the
National Association of Manufac
turers for next Saturday.
Robert L. Lind, president of the
association, annownced he was
sending invitationt by wire. He
expected 1,000 to come.
The industrial = c¢ontrol-publie
werks-taxation measure in ity
present form, he asserted, would
“retard rather than promote in
dustrial ecovery.”
A specific objection is the pro
vision for licensing industries
which refuse to cooperate volun
Local Attorney Voices Opposition
To Proposed Industrial Contrc! Bill
. Athens, Georgia.
May 30, 1933.
To The Banner-Herald:
This morning’s Atlanta Con
stitution contains a misquota
‘tion from a letter written by
me to the Atlanta Constitution
on May 26th.
| hand you herewith a copy
of the letter which shows ex
actly what | stated therein.
Respectfully
WILLIAM L. ERWIN.
OPPOSES BILL
Athens, Ceorgia
May 26, 1933.
Editor Atlanta Constitution,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Dear Sir:
I have read with interest ydur
editorial criticising the remarks of
Miss Perkins concernng the al
leged unshod condition of south
ern people. If you will examine
carefully the proposed legislation
which Miss Ferkins was discuss
ing when she made the remarks in
question, I believe that you will
find that it carries a threat to
southern industry, and to such
rights as the states still retain to
regulate their own local affairs,
that is far more serious than the
mere annoyance caused by such
comments as those of Miss Per
kins.
The proposed legislation is em
bodied in H. R. 5664, which is
commonly referred to as the Pub
lic Works—lndustrial Control Bill.
It is now before congress, and
newspaper reports indicate that
the bill will pass.
Without attempting here any ex
haustive discussion of the bill, 1
BANK BANDIT SLAIY
FIVE ARE CAPTURED
Practically All of $16,000
Loot From Culver Bank
Is Recovered
CULVER, Ind. —(AP) — One
dead and five captured Tuesday
constituted northern Indiana's
accounts with a sextet of gunmen
hlleged to “have robbed the State
Exchange bank here Monday .
The dead bandit said by officers
to have been employed formerly
as a chauffeur for the wife of Joe
Saltis, Chicago beer baron, was
T. C. Tecke, alias Joohn J. Enea,
of South Chicago, TIl. *
His companions in jail at Ply
mouth and South Bend facing
possible charges of kidnaping and
bank robbery, gave names of Jack
Gray, 23, of New York; Eddie
Murphy, 33, New York: Joe Cohen,
20, Chicago; John Gorman, 27,
Detroit; and James Davis, 2u
Tampa, Fla., Cohen insisted he
had no part in the robbery. He
said he was a hitch-hiker picked
up by the bandits and forced to
accompany them.
Teske was shot in the head by
Oliver Schilling, son of Schuyler
Schilling, president of the bank,
as he sat at the wheel of the
bandit automobile, holding two
employes on the running boards
as shields against officers’ bul
fets; the other gunmen quickly
manned the car and sped out of
town.
The bank employes soon were
released, and, with a posse in hot
pursuit. the fleeing automobile
overturned a few miles from Cul
ver. The robbers ran into a woods
and surrendered in face of rifle
fire and tear gas used by the
posse.
AN but a small part of the $16,-
000 loot was recovered,
THE BANNER-HERAILD
|tarily for business stabilization.
Lund supports the principle of the
bill.
At the same time, however,
lumber manufacturers announced
through the National Lumber as
lsu'iution that. '“‘a code . of; falr
i competition and administrative
|nrganization" had been drafted
lfor submission to the president
!under the bill.
Wilson Compton, manager of
the acsociation, said the code was
drawn in accordance wish resolu
tions adopted at an emergency
conference in Chicago last week,
and provided for eliminating un
fair practices, reducting unem
l _ployment, revising wages and
protecting small enterprise.
will mention briefly some of its
provsions as they impress me.
It is amazing to me that the in
dustrial control feature of this
bill, which .if enacted rand upheld
‘as valid, will destroy in a large
measure what remains of state’s
rights, and will subject to federal
bureaucratic regulation the man
agement of all trades and indus
tries, has attracted so little atten
tion and apparently has created so
little concern.
Section 1 of the bill declares that
a national emergency exists, pro
ductive of widespread unemploy
ment and disorganization of indus
try which burdens interstate
commerce,” affects the public wel
fare, and undermines the standards
of living of the American people;
@and further declares a congression
al policy “to remove obstructions
to the free flow of interstate eom
merce which tend to diminish the
amount thereof; and to promote
the organization of industry for the
purpose of cooperative action
among trade groups, to induce and
maitain united action of labor and
management under adequate gov
ernmental sanctions and supervis
ion, to eliminate unfir competitive
practices t oreduce and relieve un
employment, to improve standards
of labor, and otherwise to rehabil -
jate industry and to conserve nat
ural resources.” 4 -
The above quoted references te
inetrstate commerce were evident
ly designed to justify the legislation
as being an exercise of the consti
tutional power of congress to reg
ulate interstate commerce. But
(Ctortinued on Page Three)
ATHENG SCHOOL 3
CLOSE JUNE 7TH
Admission to High School
Exercises Will Be By
Ticket Only !
l Admission to Athens High
lschool graduation .exercises next
iTuesday, June 6, will be by ticket,
Superintendent B. M. Grier an
nounced today.
It has been the custom of the
school to issue reserved seat tick
ets to the graduating class to
give to parents and members, and'
to permit the public to take the
unreserved seats without admis
lsion tickets. This practice has re
lsulted in the auditorium being
overcrowded, with persohs sitting
in the windows.
In view of the fact that the au
ditorium seats only about 800
persons, the school administration
has decided to issue two reserved
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Local thundershowers Tues
day afternoon or Tuesday
night. Wednesday generally
l fair in north and probable
local thundershowers in south
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RAINFALI
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| Total since May 1 .. .... 251
, Deficiency since May 1.. .. .79
Average May rainfall .. .. 3.69
Total since January 1 .. ..1758
Deficiency cince January 1. 4.77
—ESTABLISHED 1882—
Athens, Ca., Tuesday, May 30, 1933
MORGAN PARTNERS
TAX RETURNS ARt
PROBED BY AGENTS
Internal Revenue Bureau
Closely Scanning Tax
Statements Filed by 20
Partners of Financier
TRY TO IRON OUT |
GLASS OBJECTIONS
Majority of Committee
Gives Pecora Free Rein
As Hearing Is Resumed
By NATHAN ROBERTSON
Associated Press Staff Writer.
WASHINGTON.— (AP) —Fer
dinand Pecora will resume ques
tioning of J. P. Morgan and his
partners Wednesday, with a ma
jority of the senate invetsigating
committee determined to back him
ac far as he wants to go.
Preparing for continuance of
the investigation into Morgan's
world famous private bank, the
senators’seught Tuesday to setile
the objections of Senator Glass
(D., Va.) to the way the revealing
inquiry has been conducted by
the counsel and chief questioner,
Pecora.
Glass has charged employment
of circus methods. He says he has
no desire to stop the investigation
but wants to Lknow where it is
heading.
Pecora. himself . was heading
back from ~ New Yeork ‘Tuesday,
after announcing he would not let
attacks which have been made on
his character divert him from . the
investigation. I
Scan Statement
It developed meanwhile that the
Internal Revenue Bureau is scan
ning closely the testmiony given
on income tax statements filed by
the twenty Morgan partners. The
long-hidden partnership agreement
of the firm, now in the hands of
the committee, was being examin
ed on the possibility that it might
have an important bearing on the
tax situation. :
Morgan officials testified last
week that they paid a total of
$48,000 income taxes since 1929.
All was paid in 1930, and none in
the two following years when their
returns showed all taxable income
cancelled by losses.deductible un
der the law.
Pecora is expected to start the
inquiry off Wednesday by present
ing another of the “favored
client” lists which have caused
much- reverberations in Washing-~
ton.
Several more such lists, of prom
inent folk invited to ,buy stock
‘from the Morgan firm at bargain
prices, are in the counsel's hands.
ne rumor was that another sen
ator would be found on one of the
lists but most of the names com
mittee members say are duplicates
of those already published.
REQUEST OUTLINE
- WASHINGTON.— (AP) — The
senate banking committee decided
Tuesday to ask Ferdinand Pecora,
its counsel, to submit a report to
it in executive session Wednesday
on the evidence he proposes to
submit in the investigation of J.
(Continued on Page Three)
“KINGFISH” IS SUED
FOR $250,000 BY
LOUISIANA WOMAN
BATON ROUGE, La. —(AP) —
Senatorr Huey P. Long Tuesday
was sued for $250,000 damages
by Mrs. Anne TEctor Pleasant,
wife of former Governor Ruffin
G. Pleasant, who alleged that
Senator Long had doh.med her
character and had her ejected from
the state house during the 1932
session of the legislature,
The suit was entered in East
Baton Rouge district court.
Describing herself as a “law
abiding ecitizen” who “deported
herself as a woman of respecta
bility, character and honor,” Mrs.
Pleasant charged in her sulit that
Senator Long called her a “drunk
en, cursing woman,” in the office
of Miss 'Alice lfee Grosjean, state
supervisor of public accounts, and
that at his orders she was arres
ted and put out of the state
‘house.
The suit said the damages were
asked because of the “rihsequent
hurt” to Mrs. Pleasant's feelings,
and her “humiliation and mortifi
cation.,”
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BN N g s HEepLex .o
Athenians planned to honor the
hero dead of three wars Tuesday
afternoon at 6:15, when the Am
erican’ Legion Auxiliary and the
United Spanish War Veterans
Auxiliary were scheduled to hold
Memorial day services at Oconee
cemetery.
Following the services at the
boulder monument at the gates of
the cemetery the graves of Revo
dutionary, Spanish and World war
veterans will be decorated, after
the sounding of taps. ‘
Commander F. H. Williams of
the American Legion, and Com
-mander John Briscoe of the U. Sl
‘W. V. will read the honor roll
ATHENS' FIRST 3.0
AAREST LAST MIEAT
Case Will Be Turned
Over to Grand Jury. Tal
madge-Key Debate
Athens' first beer arrest, since
3.2 was legalized hy the federal
government, was made last night
when Captain C. E. Craft and
Policeman Herman Stein arrested
a man giving his name as G. W.
Carry as he delivered ten cases of
brew to the Elks club.
Chief of Police C. E. Seagraves
said that the man arrested here
last night will be turned over to
the grand jury of Clarke county.
The police have not been given
orders to arrest persons for selling
beer in Athens, Chief Seagraves
said, but Policemen Craft and
Stein happened to see the man
delivering the beer to the ciub and
made a case against him, also
confiscating the beer. The KElks
club recently took out a license
with- the government to sell beer,
according to a news dispatch.
While it is reported beer can be
obtained in more than one place
in Athems, no effort has been
made to stop the sale, particular
ly until city council acts on peti
tions asking it to give its approval
officially to the sale by fixing a
city license tax. These petitions
will be presented to council next
Friday night, it is said.
Beer is being sold in many
Georgia towns and cities. In some
places council has fixed a license
tax. In other towns, however, the
‘policy of non-interference has
been followed by the city author
ities but no attempt has been
made to fix a license tax, the au
thorities helding the view that it
is better to permit the sale of the
brew—inasmuch as it is going to
bersold by someone—by respecta
ble business concerns without po
lice interference, thap to attempt
(Continued on Page Three)
qlof the World war and Spanish-
American war dead during the ex
ercises, and an invocation by
Miss Moina Michael, originator of
:lPoppy day idea, and an address by
lDr. Andrew M. Soule will feature
the services. Music will be fur
nished by the Athens Male Quar
tette, and a salute will be fired by
a squad from the University.
l ROOSEVELT ATTENDS
| .~ WASHINGTON.— (AP) —Pres
ident Roosevelt picked a quiet
part for himself in the capital's
‘observance of Memorial day, at
ltending services at Arlington Nat
{ional cemetery where military offi
COMMENCEMENT AT
UNIVERSITY WILL
BEGIN TOMORROW
| Commencement activities at the
University of Georgia will' begin
l‘wednesday evening, May 31, when
| President and Mrs. S. V. §an
‘ford will honor the 450 members
{ of the senior class with a recep
‘tlon at their home on Cloverhurst
| avenue. Final examinations end
‘on that day.
This funetion, a traditional one
lon the commencement program,
[ will for the first time include se
| niors of all three Athens branches,
|and marks the actual integration
!of those units into the University
|of Georgia. The graduating class
|is the largest in the history of
| Athens. -
| Sunday, June 4 at 11 o'clock,
|Dr. M. Ashby Jores of Atlanta
lwil! preach the baccalaureate ser
i et
E (Continued o:n Pagbé Three)
§ SR TS R
‘Famous Walker Is
~ Dead at Age of 92;
| ’ ,
{
Set Many Records
} S s
| LOS ANGHLES —(AP)— A hu
man machine who EKnew no fati
{gue, Dan ’OLeary, long distance
{walker, died far short of the 120
iyenrs he expected te live:
{ Disease and the natural toll of
ia;;e struck him down Monday in
ia Los Angeles hotel where he was
lepending the winter. In another
month he would have been 92.
| Many of the marks he set for
l!nn;: distance walking still stand
las a challenge to others, at ‘35
i he began walking 100 miles on his
| brithday, and he kept it up until
{his 90th brthday. He began de
veloping his heel-and-toe prowess
in Chicago while employed as a
;hnok agent.
| At the ag of 80 h started vis
{iting every siate capital afoot,
i:md only a few of them had he
| failed to see &t the time of his
| death. ,
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday,
clals were assigned the speaking.
Secretaries Dern and Swanson
were given the chief roles at the
principal services, under auspices
of the Grand Army of the Repub
lic association. Special tribute was
arranged this year to the memory
of the more than seventy gallant
Navy fliers who plunged to death
in the airship Akron early this
spring in the country’s most cost
ly air tragedy.
Tributes to the dead of the War
Between the 'States, the Spanish-
American conflict and the World
‘war, with all patriotic organiza-
(Continued on Page Three)
GRADUATION NEAR
FOR ATHENS HIGH
Commencement Events to
Begin With Picnic Tues
day; Graduation June 6.
One of the first events on the
commencement program of the
Athens High school was scheduled
to take place Tuesday afternoon
when the juniors entertained the
graduating class with a pienic at
the Athens Country club.
Graduation exercises will be
held next Tuesday night at Mell
anditorium, and senior class day
will be observed Jupe 7, the last
day of school.
Seniors are enjoying privileges
this week, being excused from
study halls, etc. The first of the
commencement programs was last
week when the seniors presented
a play, “The Path Across the
Hill.”
With 127 students receiving di-
plomas, the class this year will
be the largest graduation class in
the history of the Athens High
school. Sixty-seven boys and
sixty girls will graduate.
The seniors are as follows
Senior Girls
Martha Lee Allan, Edna Ander
son, Miller Bailey, Grace Benton,
Louise Blunt, Bonnie Lee Bowden,
Idyrene Bray, Ruth Breedlove,
Gene Brooks, Sarah Bryant, Mar
tha Butler, Mildred Cagle, Bonnie
Chandler, Ruby Cleghorn, Sarawill
Collins, Edith Conally, Kathryn
Cock, Marguerite Costa, Mary
Grace Costa, Hazel Dial Doris
Duncan, Mary Deupree Eckford,
Frances Eidson, Frances Etheridge,
Gwendolyn Fambro, Celestia Fos
ter, Louise Fowler, Lucy Hall
Carolyn Hancock, Helen Hendon,
Florence Jackson, Gwendolyn
Jones, Frances Kilpatrick. =
Elizabeth LaCount, Hazel Lloyd,
Effie Mae McCay, Philomene Mec-
Mahon, Luta Merck, Mildred Moon,
e
(Continuéd on Page Six.)
FARM PRIGE RISE ¢
5 FASTEST 3IACE
WORLD WAR'S END
American Cotton Manu
facturers Association to
Co-operate in Fight ta
Raise Price of Staple
ADAMS PREDICTS 15
CENTS COTTON BY 34
Federal Reserve Business
Review Shows Upswing
In this District
BY ROY F. HENDRICKSON
Associated Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON —(AP)— Farm
prices are going up in the fastest
rise since the spring after the
World War's end. o
A steady climb has been under
way since April 15, and up to
Monday the bureau of agricultural
economics reported it still under
way. The last upswing to com
pare was in April, 1919, after the
government relaxed war-time mill
ing regulations.
Leading the way in the trek to~
ward levels of prosperous days
have been the farm draft animals,
horses and mules. From April 15
to mid-May, the bureau said, the
average. farm price for horses went
from $67 to s7l, while mules
mounted from $73 to $77. o
Wool, however, scored the sharp~
est rige of any commodity, increas<
ing 75 per cent from April I¥s
average farm price of 10.1 cents a
,pound to 17.7 cents a month later.
~ Farm prices, despite the increase
are still below the pre-war level.
Using 100 to represent pre-war
prices, the May 15 index fl‘ungt
for the same group of commodities
was 62, a gain of 9 points since
April 16, and a gain of 12 points
since March 15. P
To returm farm prices to a level f:‘
where they will bear the same re<
lationship to prices of goods w.gg,;%*f
chased by farmers as the two W"
to each other before the war, %
goal of the new farm act wfifi%f(,;fig
Secretary Wallace and his aides
are now striving to get into operas
The bureau attributed the new!
price rise to three factors: aj,
cipatlon of inflation; anticipatiom &
of a brisk business revival, and ="
‘poor prospects for some crops dus
o bad weather conditions, partie
ularly for winter wheat, corn and .
some grains. i g;fi
FIFTEEN CENT h
ATLANTA — (AP) — Fifteéns
cent per pound cotton by the “end =
of this year” is forecast by Ge@ot
Adams, Georgia Commissioner of =~
Agriculture. U ma————"
He based prediction on threges
points he said: e
“]. Our money has been cheaps
ened and the currency inflation =
program will necessarily ::’lg,l
the price of all commodities.
“3. The people have done with- =
out clothes and other cotton goods *§
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City Halted From %%
Collecting Money .
Lenders New Tax
A meeting of representatives of
City Council and the Famdily Fi
nance company, which has
granted a temporary inj b.‘v;"t":'
preventing the City of Athems 41§
collecting a new tax, will be hel¢ *
during the latter part of the
according td Bolling S. DuBESS
chairman of the council "‘«.
Council recently raised the tax =
rate from SSO annually to SSOO on
money lenders charging mfié ;
than 1% percent interest «’3&”
month. The Family Finance com- =
pany, which charges 3 ”&;é’l ;
monthly, claims that the tax R
crease ~ is unreasonable. = One |
money lending company here went
out of business when 3 ;
rate hecame effective. ':,
Judge Blanton Fortson, 6f the
Superior court, recently gra }‘a
temporary injunction restraining
the c‘ty from collecting thé WoL
tax, L _f_::::’
The meeting of the council 9*
mittee and the company represems
tatives in an attempt to gé;.»; a 5
their differences was scheduled to
be held Monday afternoon. It was
postponed, however, when no rep
resentativé of the company = was
present. D “'{f?i“;;’ B