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COTTON MIDDEING .. .. .. .. .. 9 NREVIOUS CLOSE ... .. 9 14e Vol. 101, e 125, Taflmadmgmt_ ‘Supreme Court Decide Row FIRST HEAT WAVE OF SUMMER TAKES 55 LIVES OVER NATIONS Senate Votes Committee Power To Push W_@ ROERS 10 INQUIRE 70 MORGAN ST 115 0 RETINS e WASHINGTON.— (AP) — The genate Thursday empowered its committee investigating J. P. Morgan and Company to go into the individual income tax returns of the firm's partners. The vote took place almost as won as the senate met, O. P. Van gweringen in the meanwhile re aming his testimony before the ommittee on aid received from Morgan in financing the gigantic il ventures of himself and his brother, M. J. Van Sweringen. The resolution was introduced joiitly by Chairman Fletcher and genator Steiwer (R., Oregon), to extend authority for the commit e to inquire into all stock trans ations affecting tax payments. Unanimous consent was given by the senate for comsideration of the resolution out or order and it went though ~within =a' minute, er Fletcher explained the com mittee’s authority had been chal lenged. There was no debate. The senate also adopted: the Costigan resolution giving the wmmittee an additional oppro piation of SIOO,OOO to carry its investigation through to the next session of congress and covering other private banks such as Kuhn Loeb and Company, and Dillon Read. The committee heard from Van Sweringen that the special cor woration device used in some Van Sweringen railroad operations to escape income tax payment had 0 one occasion removed liability for tax on $13,000,000., fMestifying for the fourth day, he Ohioan recited his answers to erdinand Pecora — committee tinsel—in o voice audible to few f the much-smaller-than-usual wd that had gathered. J. P. Morgan and wvarious of his riners again were present, but id little attention to proceedings t the start S The ittitud> the Morgan part- Brs will take as a resplt of the atest senate move to uncover the itome tax reducing transactions tmains to be seen. . ’ Their counsel, John W. Davis, fid if the challenge of uuthorityi 8 carried further, the procedure il be for Thomas S. Lamont—a | ng partner—to refuse to ans- { & questions. “That will put .it up to the sen and will provide the means for L" he told reporters: . Van Sweringes told the commit- l ® all business was improving, | Mt these investigations are ter- ! ffically destructvie.” , ;\A” business is of greater vol- ' M than a year ago,’” he remark d, inter ipting a long series ('fl Ustions on involved financing ofi B | (Continued on Page Seven) | ~ ons to Present 1 l Dancers Thursday .- . | Night in Recltal‘ ™ O b nap—— | . "'r'sday night at 8:80 o'clock, | k. club will \ present the] “ Rryne School of Dancing ‘ijvlm,., a recital at the Mell au«i f.'! from the recital will - the under.privileged grammar | ;‘ ‘ ildren of Athens. Among ¢ laking part on the program ' be: Jane Bowden, Madge ", Dorothy Ann Davis, Lloyd ence, jr, - Gertrude -Hayes, "Y 1 David, Shirley Orr, Elsie nx S Mary Elizabeth Smith, Sid y 'homas, jr, Sybfl Thomas, vOT Williams, WVirginia Tate N Bdna O'Kelly, Ruth John- YUnida Yabrrough, Florence ‘ Frances Forbes, and Ma .’h‘ I¢d on the program will be , 'wing dances: = Burmese, me. Tistic Russian, Spanish, n::v “4n Indian, Chinese and East ' " Which will feature colorful Ymes and interesting muaic. THE BANNER-HERALD FULL Asscciated Press Service. ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT, SON OF FRESIDENT, TO ASK NEVADA DIVORCE FROM WIFE OF LITTLE ! MORE THAN A YEAR; INCOMPATIBILITY PLEA SR e A 2 s - eT = RoR aO, 3 s 3 et S & : :«:::?é;’-gi';:f‘;‘: jf]f{ff:i}::, ; SR ,:::’::_:E:_ o ‘.:':m;‘? 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Right—\With Helen Mad- HBS:&i : . : g ; » y,r‘“?’ B O éf'q’z ison, swimming star, during a recent trip 3RR L : &y ;“,&4§§fx’}f to Agua ( aliente, Mexican resort. S B W ey sns oo s sha ee at g evt LOS ANGELES.— (AP) —After disclosing that her son, Elliott, would establish residence in Ne wada to permit his wife to seek a divorce on the grounds of incom patibility, Mrs. Franklin D. Roose vetl left suddenly at 5:51 a. m. (Pacific standard time) Thursday for Washington, D. C. Her unannounced departure by plane ended a stay of less than 36 hours in Los Angeles where sha came to visit her son. - Young Roosevelt, who only a short time ago became general manager of a. West Coast airline after leaving the east with the announced intention of obtaining a position which in nowise could be gaid to have political significance, MATTERN FORCED DOWN ON FLIGHT @ilot Flying Solo _Round The World Forced Down By Leaking Gas Fumes By STANLEY P. RICHARDSON Copyright, 1933, by The Associated Press MOSCOW—(AP)—Gasoline fumes from a leakingygas line, which al most overcame him in the air, forced Jimmie Mattern suddenly to land near Prokopievsk, S.beria, Wednesday, the American round the-world flier told The Associated Press Thursday. - ¢l am still sick, from those fumes,”, the Texan said in an ex clusive telephone interview. He spoke from Belovo, a workers' set tlement near Prokopievsk where he came down at 10 a. m. Moscow time Wednesday (2 a. m. .eastern standard time) a few hours after he had started from Omsk, Si beria, on the fifth lap of his world race. g “I can't hold any food on my gtomach, but I expect to get off for Krasnovarsk in five or ten hours,” he said. “1 was four hours out of Omsk when I discovered a leak in the fuel line, and by the time I had found out what the trouble was, I was in bad shape from the ;umes." He added that he was almost unconscious when he brought the plane down on a smail emergency landing field at Belovo, the set tlement. § «when I landed, I _broke my¥ stabilizer and I cannot make per manent repairs here. “They hawve helped me as much (Continned on Page Seven) p—— told a newsman he would leave shortly for Reno. The disclosure came as Mrs. Roosevelt left her hotel in com pany with Elliott enroute to the United Airport at Burb#nk. At the hotel entrance Mrs. Roosevelt said in reply to a ques tion that the divorce was in pros pect and then Elliott, at her el bow, confirmed his mother's state ment. Both Reticent Beyond the bare announcement that the divorce action was to be instituted in Nevada, neither Ell liott nor his mother cared to com ment much, Elliott married Elizabeth Don ner, daughter of William Donner TODAY’S BEST HUMAN INTEREST STGRY CINCINNATI — (#) — Mrs. virginia Rogers, who said she abducted the baby of another to satisfy a mother yearning, was held in jail Thursday while the county grand ju'y investi gated the unusual case. The 31-year-old wife of a welfare worker was declared sane by two alienists who examined her, but they said she apparently had acquired an uncontrollable desire to possess a child after her illusion that she was to become a mother had been blasted by a doctor. “I made up my mind I was going to let them know where their baby was when she got well and strong,” Mrs. Rogers said of the parents of the child, Pansy Sneed, 6 weeks old, who was recovered Wednesday after almost a week's search by po lice. The woman explained she felt - sorry ior the. baby, who was ill, and desired to pro vide it better care than the poverty-stricken ' parents, My, and Mrs. John Sneed, could give. : Macon and Bibb County Defeat Merger Proposal MACON, Ga. —(#) — Macon and Bibb county have killed & proposal to merge the city and county governments. Voting Wednesday the citizens turned in 2,635 against the merger to 1891 for it. Under the law the merger would have to be approved separately in the county and city. Both places voted against, 528 Athens, Ga., Thursday, June 8, 1933. of Philadelphia, January I‘6. 1932. . The couple has been separated since last year. An agréement is understood to have been ' rédched as to the custody of ' their ‘child, ‘William Donner Roosevelt, born last November. g When Elliott came to the west | coast his wife and baby " did not accompany him. Mrs. Roosevelt was accompanied 'on the plane, which ‘will make an initial step a‘t_w’l‘ucsofi, ‘Arizona, by C. R. Smith, general manager ol the airline, and Amon G. Carter, ort Worth newspaper publisher. News that the wedded life of the 21-year-old heiress and the 22- ! (Continued on Page ‘Three) DRIVE CONTINUED ON INDUSTRY MEASURE Senate to Remain in Ses sion Until Late Thursday Night Seckings/Vote ! | WASHINGTON, —{#)—y Deter ' mined to remain in session until 'late Thursday night if necessary 'to reach a vote the senate Thurs 'day resumed debate on the admin iist,mt.iun’s industrial recovery ipubli(- works bill with roll-calls imminent on vital sections of the measure, Conte:t over taxes, industrial licensing and relaxation of anti trast laws were ahead as the sen ate met two hours earlier than the usual noon convening time in an ' offort to speed the legislation to ’enactment, : | Fifty amendments had been of fered to the measure, most of them iproposing minor changes, | Senator Reed (R-Pa). announced 'he would move te strike out the llicensing provision as soon’ as the committes changes in it were dis :posed_ o e S | “This ‘lB the most revolutionary {section of the bill,” said the Penn | sylvanian. It is put in as an ad ‘,dmonal threat to compel perfor j mance to these codes of competi i tion, ! Fix Penalties “These codes, once agreed upon by industry and approved by the president, have a force of law and violations are punishable by fine and imprisonment, “Phe administration insists upon adding to that this licensing sy stem so that by refusal of a license an industry may be punished fur §ther. ‘A’ man’s whole right to prac ‘tice' a business is to'be taken from him by the President if the pro ' (Continued On Page Two) —ESTABLISHED 1832« SUGESTS SUPREME COUAT MEMBERS Bt FEUD ARBITRATORS Offer to Abide by Decis ion of Justice Refuscd by Governor on Grounds of ‘Executive Controversy’ OPEN, LETTER GIVEN OUT BY JUD WILHOIT Suppo}ter of Talmadge On Highway Board Urges Him to Act Quickly ATLANTA —(AP)— State High way officials Thursday sugs(sted that the six justices of the Su preme court se¢ttle budget dlier ences between the department _nd the governor, but Governor Tal madge promptly replied that he could not agree to the proposal J. W. Barnett, chairman of the Highway board made public a let ter to the governor in which the suggestion, was made. Decisicn of tge court judges would be final “ds to what is legal, just and right in the matter,” the letter said. Operation of the Highway de partment will shortly be paralyzed and more than 1,000 men thrown out of work, Barnett said. Hun dleds of convicts are now bheing turned back to the state, he added and contractors -and counties are not: receiving money due them. “We feel satisfied that in view of this distressing emergency,” the chairman wrote, “that the six gen tlemen who compose the Supreme court of Georgia will be glad to act as arbitrators, and say what is :right, proper, legal and just in this difference between us.” Talmadge quickly replied that the differences between the de partment and himself “is an exe cutive controversy.” The law places upon the governor the supreme power of arbitration in executive matters, he said, “and the vote of the people of Georgia names the governor as the head executive of the state.” The budget law gives the gov ernor discretionary powers,, Tal madge said, “and I will not relin quish the authority rested in me as governor of Georgia.” Wilhoit’s Letter Another communication appeared Thursday in the matter in the form of an open letter from Jud P. Wilhoit, member of the State Highway commission who has dis sented with Chairman Barnett and W. C. Vereen in the controversy with the governor. Wilhoit wrote that every effort had been made to persuade mem-+ bers of the Highway e¢ommission to agree with the governor's bud get demands, but “as nothing is being done by the board I now call on the governer himself to de something in such way as he rea sonably can to pay these men wha aave been without pay for 60 days and to pay outstanding obligations of the highway department by re leasing this money in the treasury as early as possible.” o vad;nor ;ralmq_dge said he had no comment on the Wilhoit let- Chairman Barnett Thursday also said that he had received a tele phone call from E. L. Rainey chairman of the State Prison com mission, asking if the commission might use equipment of State Highway department prison camps for heusing prisoners to be turned back by the Highway department Barnett said he replied thal equipment could be used by the Prison department. . i Large Section of Pavement Swells at - Washington, Jackson A section of brick pavement at the intersection of Washington and Jackson streets began rising about 2:30 o'clock today and with in an hour had ricen about two feet. A large crowd aisembled at the scene but the porice roped off the street to prevent pedestrians and automobiles from getting near the place. The swelling section covered about fifteen feet :quare. It was not known whether the cause was lescaped gas under the pavement jor the heat. The City Engineer lm‘cummoned and was on his way to make an examination at the time the Banner-Herald went [to:p’reaa. . Chancellor Snelling and Chancellor- Elect Weltner Reply to Banner- Herald’s Open Letter to Regents The following communications will be interesting to those who read the cd'torial dircucsion in last Sunday’s Banner-Herald rela tive to rec.at change: in the Unveristy System, ordered by *we Board of Regents: ’ CHANCELLOR SAYS SURVEY IS NOW ON PRESS ; Atlanta, Ga., June 7, 1933, The Banner-Herald, Athens, Ga. . Gentlemen: Thank you for ycur letter of June 6th and copy of the Banne - Herald. wl;\ regard to the curvey report which the writer of th, edito vial seems to think is being withheld it is only fair to .ay that the delay is not the fault of the Regents. The survey was finiched =2n: -—-_), or the cevenieen specialists on‘the survey _ommitice cent in his report sometime ago. The re ports =i the specialists cover a total of over six hundred type wricten letter size pages. The printed report which will cover about one hundred and sixteen pages was made up by the advisory group of the survey committee, after ctudy of the special'sts rcports and conferences attended by the cpecialists. These gentlemen all hold important positions and are bucy men. There was much unavoid able delay in getting them together for the confercases. Copy for the printed report has been in the hands of the printer for ceveral weeks. Here again delay has been caused by the fact that it was nccescary to send the proofs to Chicago for correciion by Doctor George A. Works, director of the survey. The final page proof was sent to Doctor Works last week. In a letter received from him thic morning he says he expects to get the proof back ‘o me by Thursday. We are having two thousand copies printed. They ought to be off the press by next Saturday. | shall be glad to send you a copy. WELTNER STATES CRITICS MAY BE RIGHT .Atlanta, Ga., June 7th, 1933 The Banner-Herald, Athens, Ga. i Gentlemen: ! | shall read the editorial that you are kind enough to serid me with much interest. : | am quite prepared to believe that there are some who may entertain honest misgivings in regard to one or more features of the progarm recently inaugurated %y the Board of Regents. This is to be expected. ~Furthermore, it is entirely possible that. they may be right. One cannot dogmatize about such large issues. | trust, however, that every one will appreciate the magnitude of the undertaking. Education in its institutional aspects undertakes to make its ctudents at home in their world. But education involves much more than its institutional program. It is a fighting faith. As government is ordained to guarantee political opportunity, so edu cation is deszigned 'to bring about an equality of opportunity. All | shall ever ask ie an enthusiastic espousal of our ultimate objec tives and a sympathetic and constructive attitude toward their fulfillment. ’ 4 NATIONS SIGN TEN YEAR PEACE Great Britain, France, Ger many and Italy Ready For Peace Pact By ANDRUF. BERDING ROME,—(#)—The government of Great Britain France, Italy, and Germany prepared Thurtday to present to their parliments for ratification an agreement for a de cade of peace and disarmament, Signed in' Premier Benito Mus \ solini’s office Wednesday 'night, the pact pledges the four great western European powers to col laborate within the framework of the League of Nations, to examine articles in the League covenant pertaining to aggression, to work for the success of the Geneva dis armament conference, and to co operate in economic reconstruc tion. . Legislative approval for the document is expected to be a mat ter of mere form in® Italy, whose Premier proposed it on March 18, and it is felt here that German and English ratification also will be forthcoming quickly. It was hoped that French ac ceptance would be attended by nd great delay. "~ Newspapers called the accord the greatest event since the world war. Before the Italian senate Signor (Continued On Page Two) e I __________________________,————-—-—-—-—-——" LOCAL WEATHER e e i oel e W . Partly cloudy with possible local thundershowers in south portion Thursday night and ~ Friday. TEMPERATURE et i i it e s 8020 - Lowest il Sol e oo 140 T A B e e ) NOME] «.voieev einstindss B 0 RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours .. .... -00 Total since June 1" .. .. .. .00 Deficiency since June 1 .... .98 Average June rainfall .. .. 410 . Total since January 1 .. ..17.64 | Defleieney since January 1, 5.78 A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday. With all good wishes, Sincerely yours, CHAS. M. SNELLING. Sincerely yours, PHILIP WELTNER. ROOSEVELT STUDIES WAR DEBT PROBLEM Rumored Great Britain to Offer June Payment to U. S. in Silver WASHINGTON, — (&) — The controversial war debt payment due on June 15 received the at tention Thursday of [President Roosevelt as he made an engage ment Ambassador Lindsay of Great Britain for late ‘Thursday afternoon, The British ambassodor has been making overtues informally to learn the American attitude on the debts. This is the first time he has come directly to the President, who is personally handling the war debts question. TO PAY IN SILVER LONDON,—(#)— Rumors were current Thursday in London fin ancial quarters that Great Britain may prefér the mid-June payment to America in silver instead of gold but it was authoritatively stated that no decision of any sort re- (Continued On Page Two) li;peal Tide Is Surprise Even to Rabid Wets; | Death of Prohibition Is Seen by End of Year By RODNEY DUTCHER WASHINGTON—The momentum of the prohibition repeal movament continues a jump ahead of even the men and women who have made it their business to nourish and promote it. The wets have been in an al most constant state of pleasant surprise for «the last three years and even at this late date they still regard themselves in the po sition of chasing a snowball rolling down hill. . A couple of months ago they had privately given up hope that the requisite 36 states would ratify the repeal amendment before the end of 1934. Now they think there is an excellent chance this year. An unexpectedly overwhelming sentiment has developed for get ting this issue out of moni [HeME AT JELIEF FAOM HOT™ Hui “ &‘& %@’ WEATHFA UNLIKELY At j e ¢ 3 ffi{" 4”&{’: BEFORe WEEK - END | " i w PFANEE } ; STemTTL | ?* Heat, Wind Storms and' ‘fornadoes Doing Dam -8 . £ 2l BN age to Crops in Many \ . (BN N, - Sections of Country = | e+, CROPS IN GEORGIA \ & ‘,r,v“‘.;.,v " "FEELING EFFECTS —— .t Beans, Melons, Peza ches. . - Suffer; Cotton and Corn Yet Undamaged = . = f g J?;, ~' KANSAS CITY —(AP)— tering heat, tornadoes. and ' w x; akin to tornadoes, hail’ l»;?:m SR R ning harassed the nation' in mueh:, . f the area between the Rockl*} and the Atlantic Wednesday. Nears = ly three score deaths, most of them = = due to Arowning and heat prostra- Jion, were reported. " Deaths were most - numerous tfli@ ‘the states bordering the Great = Lakes. There were 11 in Illinois, = eight each in Wisconsin and Indi ‘ana, five:in western New York, wfi,fili‘%‘} four each in Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. Including Tuesday, there have been 10 deaths?figflf drowning in Wisconsin. S ~ Bloomington, T, and Padumfi?f Ky., reporied maximum tempcr‘. ‘wrps of 102. i ~i The western New York deaths & were due to a violent wind, mlg and electric storm. Twe Ya,_t;v,m-g@g i awanna “were killed in a wall cive- | in, one drowned at Buffalo, one | wag ecrushed by a barn in Lam;é caster and another struck by lght- = [nim; in Batavia. 5 oty e Harold Seiler, a farm hand near Madison, Nebr, was picked up by a tornado, carried over several trees and dumped, unhurt, in am alfalfa field. o Extreme heat, and lack of fecent = rains, were reported by Oftw'“a;zgé Kansas agricultural sources as un favorable to wheat, oats, patsures; = potatoes and barey but 'hen'_gm;, to corn. ',;«.A"};,}; The mercury dropped from 92 to 71 during a breif electrical st ? jn the national capital about! }gi night. A strong wind upr b trees and shrubs. % SOUTH BLISTERED fi‘” ATLANTA, Ga. —(AP)—A wave = of heat that sent the mercury into . the nineties and hundreds and blistered the South Thursday. & 8 Temperatures ranged from 86 at = Miami, Fla., to 102 degrees at Co= @ & lunibus, Ga., Wednesday and cop- = per rkies held little promise of relief before the week end. Ol{c& fatality was reported in Armflr; where radings ranged from‘Qfi”f“%gf citile Rock to 99 at Blythevifle.t g The mercury reached 98¢ {:xS high point of the year, in Atlamta o wh'le in Nashville, Ténn., the Gffi-§ cial reading was 99. A governs : ment thermometer at street level = in Nashville read 103. P e Richmond, Va., reported mfi ;é ‘ 4 T DR (Continued on Page Sevva)g;:*j NEGRO FIRST HEAT VICTIM IN ATHENS Athens first heat victim for ufli,, vear collapsed - downtown Wednes day afternoon when the thermome ter was registering 102, and fl% taken to the General hospital, ‘;;;;,,’k He was Will Jones, 25-year-old Negro. He was reported resting & well Thursday. : ’g according to reports here. State legislators and officials all regard repeal as inévitable, They ‘_' Z”«“‘ nize that liquor is plentifully = available everywhere and "‘" control wiil offer a rich field for = taxation when one is bad’y needs . ed. . e Beer’s Return Helps The 3.2 per cent beer has opened many eyes to the réevenue »:;’ ities and the fact that this bews . erage has falled to create amy scandalg has also helped tbpg; President Roosevelt has giveit o the repeal movement impetus k pointing out that repeal inate ' the necessity for the new income taxes and rati % become a part of the w . tion program since Postmas | ' — ©_(Continued on Page Seven)
