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" i | COTTON ' WIDDLING «:osavs i s (RS PREV. CLOBE... 4 toss is e U.S. Withholds Road Funds Pending Settlement of Ga. Highway Row: /DANSON T 0 MARSHAL PUBLIC OPINOR T 0 BRING WAGE RAISE: Farley Predicts Repeal By Christmas As Tennessee Goes to Polls Today: THESSEE 13 TOTH GTATE 0 VOTE [!N} L 8 | . ! Victory for Wets in Alas bama and Arkansasl Strengthens Postmaster . - . . General in His Predlctlonl WETS CLAIM TENN. BY 2 TO 1 BALLOT) Oregon Votes Friday and| Seventcen Other States Beforc November 7 | (By The Associated Press) ! The nation will repeal prohihi-! tion by Christmas, Postmaster! Generai ['arley told President| Roosevelt Thursday as Tennesee.l the third southern state to vote on the question this week, was hul-: loting 1 Farley said “the President werees with me,” after repm‘ting“ on the prospects for repeal at! Washington on his return from a t through states in Dixie andi P pating in the campaign for Tennessee was the 19th state to vote on the issue. All 18 of those voting previously including Ala bama and Arkansa®, having ap proved repeal. Repealists in Ten-, nessee claimed a vietory by a mar gin as high as 2 te 1, while a dry leader predicted a, minimum ma jority for prohibition of - 75,000. Oregon will vote Friday. Sev enteen other states are to hold electicns before November 7. ° While the exact figures on Ala barha’s vote of Tuesday will not be known until the state board canvasse the returns because many of the smaller boxes were locked and surrendered 'to the sheriff withcut the results being made nknown, the latest returs shoy a 31,242 margin for repeal with 1,740 of the state’s 2,137 counted. Arkansas’ vote Thursday stood at 62176 for repeal to 41,232 again“t with less than 10'000 votes still to be counted. MAJORITY IN DOUBT | BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —(#)— Ala | bama's majority for repeal in Tursday’'s election will remain_a question until the. state board canvasses the returns, as many of the smaller hoxes were locked and surrendered to the sheriff without the result being made known. Repeal held a 31,242 margin with unofficial veturng from 1,740 of the state's 2,137 ballot boxes, the count showing 92,443 for repeal and 61201 against. The missing boxes held approximately 20,000 votes. County election boards canvass the returns Friday, and on the fol lowing Thursday, July 27, the state board at Montgomery will canvass the returns and certify them to the Seécretary of state. Meanwhile a movement for a Special session -of the legislature to legalize the sale of beer and Wine in Alabama which just nine (Continued on Page Eight) BUY INFORMATION & R —————— ; BERLIN—(#)—In an endeavor to find Marxist parties’ funds and tc “certain who have foreign bank my S, police officials advertised ‘Mursday that a- reward would be s ‘l'- persons divulging such in formation, ”"r:;,‘ move is preliminary to the ‘”,‘P'"":'l'»!f of the sums as pro “‘ “"" ‘n a cabinet decree is = ‘- 4 "»: week ordering the seizure 7‘”.-1)“\ tte fortunes and even citi . 1D rights of “enemies of the : ] and the people,” Tty Advertisements referred prin wreo? 10 a soclalist war chest wen olt was appavent from the heor ... 1€ public, has evaded the o LOTLS 10 SN IS et . Uecree. probably the strong poeny APON vet placed at the dis- E of :\:r/i officials, only lega oo Methods—go far as political 4, e concerned—which long een used ".‘ VW of the =zovernment’s saé complaints about ances- Heting Indreds of thousands of. cit co o €xpected to take advan®- Rl the reward offers to ven b ..\.”:”“'lw& seeretly and per lice afrep eSy ANd get the po the “foreign ®srtunes.” FULL Assuciated Press Service. 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B % B e R B e R T TR R gy EENA 82 A Al bW %TR ek . ‘% : B W s - AL R L oaagießl SR P e % R A ‘*‘M e e Ri:=RSG 3 ; 2 3 e e R R « > e RN Responding to the government’s plea to reduce‘cotton acreage by 25 per cent so that a.smaller crop will produce higher pgices and better times, thousands of Dixie farmers are plowing up part of their growing cotton. This picture, taken on a plantation near Palmetto, Ga., is typical of many such scenes now being enacted throughout the cotton belt. The growers will be compensated fop their loss under the terms of the farm relief law. POST 15 OFF FOR I - LASKAN LIRDING Airplane Globe - Girdler, Ahead of Record, Flying Into Thunderstorms ’ SEATTLE, Wash.—(AP)— Wiley Post, Oklahoma round ‘ the-world flier, passed over Nome, Alaska, at 7:30 a. m. ‘ (Nome time) (1:30 p. m. East ern standard time), the U. S. Army Signal Corps was ad- I vised by its station there. MOSCOW.— (AP) —Wiley Post, American globe girdling aviator, took off from Khabarovsk, Siberia, for the North American continent { Thursday with a lead of 30 hours {and 16 minutes over the record he and Harold Gatty set in 1931. ! He refueled his plane at Khab tarovsk, enjoyed a meal at which lhe refused to take any wine, and sped toward Alaska despite wea lther reports of thunderstoms ahead. . l The stocky, daring Oklahoman arrived at. the eastern Siberia town at 38:45 a. m. Thursday, Moscow time (7:45 p. m., Wednesday, E. S. T.) from Rukhlovo, 700 miles away, and was off again at 5:58 a. m. (9:58 p. m., E. 8. T.), taking just two hours, 11 minutes for refuel flng his plane, the Winnie Mae. ' His haste eclipsed the speed of communication facilities, and for several hours news of his takeoff from Rukhlovo and arrival at the jumping-off place ‘was lacking. l His relentless pace, even in the, face of almost complete exhaustion !was occasioned by his intense de gsire to better the mark he made in 1931 with Harold Gatty over much the same route. ] Post had seen his advantage whittled down to only 42 minutes because of rain and fog that he encountered on the trip from Mos cow to Novosibirsk, Siberia, and jlater from Irkutsk to Rukhlovo tbut he' increased it by the fast {flight to’ Khabarovsk and the faet the stayed there so short a time | whereas he and Gatty w e T € grounded at Khabarovsk about 2] day. | Post. left Irkutsk, 1.400 miles west of Khabarovsk. at 7 a. m. | ! Moscow time, and arrived at Rukh 'lovo st 232 p. m, Wednesday. Moscow time (6:32 a. m., E. 8. T.) Bad weathey forced him down ithere—he had planned to continue 'to Blagoveschensk—and his plane |was slightly ' damaged before he tarrived there. | Shortly before reaching Rukhlovao | the Winnie Mae brushed snmo; tree tops, because fog forced him to fly close to the ground, but he made a perfect landing despite the ‘danger. | Post would not discuss the ;ms-l sibility that he might encounter | |Jimmle Mattern, who was I'9:«'ued| after his own projected round-the world hop came to grief in the leg from Siberia to Alaska. The flier merely smiled at a suggestion that the two might stage a rat‘e‘ on the way to New York. 5 Thunderstorms = lay ahead of Post in the vieinity of Khabarovsk | . ) " (Continued on DPage Three) { THE BANNER-HERALD Five Americans Held In Mallorca Released PALMA, Mallorca. —(#)— Five American prisoncrs held here with out bail for a month and a half ‘because they allegedly attacked a civil guard, were granted balil Thursday and were released. ! Manu¢l Azana, premier and war minister of Spain, cabled the mili tary authorities here ordering the immediate release of the Ameri cans. He took this action after a lengthy conference with United States Ambassador Claud G. Bow ers in Madrid. The five are Mr. and Mrs. Clin ton B. Lockwood of West Spring field, Mass.; Rutherford Fulleton of Columbus, + O.; Edmund W. Blodgett of Stamford. Conn., and Roderick F. Mead of New York. | H { ] il Food D y Retail Food Dealers’ Asso o ain ciation Approved Tenta . . tive National Code i i MACON, Ga. -—-(AP) — Retail grocers of Georgia have endorsed a tentative code of ethics drawn by their naitional organization save a few minor changes. The action was taken at a con ference here Wednesday. Under the tentative code, store managers would receive a minimum salary of %25 a week and male help with expericne2 of one year or more wculd be paid not less than sl6 a week and women without experi ence would receive a minimum of“ sll per week. ‘\ The pay of experienced female help was tentatively set at sl2 al week and women without experi ence at $9. ; The Georgia grocers took issue with the national code in oppos-i ing the minimum pay schedule! proposed for store portérs and de livery boys. ‘\ The code’'s provitions for a .~ix-] day week with a maXimum of 54] hofrs a week for each employe and 60 hours a week for keeping stores open were approved by the Georgian. However, they voted to the questicn of fixing hours for opening and closing to groups in various localities. The code would define retail grocers as those whose principal business is selling groceries but the Georgia dealers went on rec ord as favoring e definition that would include all whose business wholly or in part, is the selling of groceries. The Georgians approved anoth e section of the code which would ban trade practices regaxdedi as unfair such as rebates, prizes, | premiums and the selling of goods! at cost or below in order to at tract trade. A. J. Orsini of Savanna lis president of the Georgia Retail Food Dealers’ association which made consideration of the code 3 part of its annual convention. : Athens, Ga., Thursday, July 20, 1933 ANDTHER OTTLEY SUSPECT 15 HELD v .. - {Man Giving Name of T. | D. Westmoreland of ¢{ Griffin, Held in Virginia HALIFAX, Va, —(AP)— A man giving the name of Torrence D. | Westmoreland, 26, of Griffin, Ga,, lis being held in Halifax county [.ian in connection with the Kkid ‘naping of James K. Ottley, At lanta banker. Sheriff J. A. Tune said the man was held for investigation after a similarity had been noticed be tween his appearance and picture of William Delinski, who is want ed for 'the Kkidnaping. Westmore land, who was detained after ap i plying at the ja:l for a night's |lodging, said he left Georgia last Friday and was euroute to Wash tington looking for work , He de- Inied any knowledge of the Kkid %naping. { Sheriff Tune sxid he had sent }lfinger prints to Washington for comparison with records of Delin {ski and had wired the chief of po lice of Atlanta that Westmoreland would be held until further inves tigation could be made. MYSTERY SOLVED ST. LOUIS —(AP) — Depart ment of Justice agents announc ed Thursday the mystery of the kidnaping of August Luer, 77- vear-ld. Alton, 111., banker, had lbeen solved with a daylight raid cn the abductors’ hangout near, IMadison, 1. Three women and two men were Etaken into custody at the reputed lair of the kidnapers, which is on [a farm a half mile south of Eagle Park. Names aof fthe prisoners }ware not announced by the of ficers. St. Louis police aided the fed eral men in the raid. A dug-out [simnar to that in which the aged ib&nker said he was held for five idays prior to his final release last i Sunday morning, was said to have been located on the property. } Percy M. Fitzgerald, ex-Convict jagainst whom a federal complaint |of kidnaping for ransom has been lodged, and whom now is held in jail at Murphysboro, Ili., was named as a member of the Kkid lnnp gang. TIDE TURNING | (By The Associated Press) | The tide appeared to be turn ing against the Kkidnaping racke! Thursday. Al complete failure in an ap parent attempt at kidnaping wasi scored against abductors in Phil-} adelpha, because the vicnm~‘ Frank A. McClatchy, 56-year-old member of a prominent real es-| tate firm-—dared to put up a fight. | McClatchy, however, was shot and seriously wounded when hé" was seized by two men, who tried| to tie his hands behind him with ] a piece of rome while they wvw’? about to 'step into a house thv.\'! said they wanted lito buy. Mc-| Clatchy joiked hdmmseif Do ;mdi struck one of the men in the n...w1 and kicked the other. | One of the assailants drew al (Continued on Page Three) l —ESTABLISHED 1832 MAGHADA REVOLT 13 BIAMED FOR RAIDG ON UNIV. ARSERINS Federal Authorities Think Latest Attempt, at Uni versity of Alabama, Just One of Series : INTRUDER FLEES AS WATCHMAN FIRES ‘Robberies or Attempts Have Occurred at Sev . eral Schools in South TUSCALOOSA, Ala—(AP)—AnN apparent effort to loot the R. O. T. C. armory at the University of Alabama here early Thursday was {frustrated by a nightwatch man who fired on -an intruder, probably wounding him. ! The watchman surprised a man in the armory and opened fire as the intruder ran. The man fell during his flight, giving rise to .the belief that he was wounded, but he recovered and joined a companion in a waiting automo bile and they escaped. The armory contains 1,600 army rifles,. several machine guns, am lmunmon and heavier equipment. | Officers advanced nd¢ theory as jto what the man was seeking but “recalled the recent theft of several “machine guns from the University ?fl, gpo,rgia armory, as a probable fmove by Cuban revolutionists to | acquire arms. ONE OF SERIES Belief that the attempted rob bery of the Alabama R. O. T. C. armory today was another step in the south-wide organization to supply Cuban revolutionists with arms, was expressed here by fed eral authorities. ! Prior to the robbery of ma lchlne guns and rifles from the University of Georgia military lbullding recently, guns were taken from college arsenals in Florida and South Georgia, it was reveal 'ed here today. Several known Cuban revolutionists were arrested |in connection with the Florida lrobberies. The largest theft of arms thus far, however, occurred between the dates of June 30 and July 6 from ‘the U,niversity of Georgia mili tary building. The four-fold in vestigation by Department of Jus tice men, the United States Army, and government and county offi cers here, into the robbery con tinued today. Six Browning machine guns, tri pods and two belt loaders, several 20-shot automatic rifles, several 50-shot machine rifles, and a few .22 calibre rifles were taken from the University here. ! A couple was recently arrested iln Augusta, Ga., on charges of running guns and ammunition i ’to Cuba for the anti-Machaya [forces by airplane. The headquar ters of the opponents of President Machada, said to be located in New York city, are in reality lo cated in Miami and Tampa, Flor- Jda, and have never ceased efforts to bring about a siccessful revolu tion. Activities of various Cuban societies and organizations in 'Georgia. and the South are being investigated. Tom Wisdom Starts on Second Auditor’'s Term ATLANTA —(®— Tom Wisdom of Chipley, Ga., who has been in the accounting field since he was 20 years old, began h.s second tirm as state auditor Wednesday., He was appointed to a four year term by Governor L. G. Hardman and received his second appointment from Governor Talmadge. For nine yvears he was an auditor in the State Department of Education. LOCAL WEATHER s —————————————— e R Occasionial showers Thurs day night and Friday. TEMPERATURE SEARRESE " ... veai. faese v ann 880 N . e i RS B sl e PR ... .iai aiak v IBD | RAINFALL | Inches last 24 hours .. .... .15 Total since July 1 .. .... 1.61! Deficiency since July 1 .... 1.49 Average July rainfall .. .. 4.96 Total since January 1 .. ..21.39 Defigiency since January 1. 8.13 J. J. VANGHAM AND MAX NERAE. ANIED 10 HEWAY BOARD Talmadge Names Mang ham as- Chairman With Mcßae Succeeding Ve reen; Wilhoit Remains DELAPERRIERE TO SUCCEED MANGHAM State Not to Get U. S. Money Until It Is Decid ed ‘Who Is Department’ WASHINGTON.— (AP) —Fev eral states may have to reorgan ize highway departments Dbefore they zet any of the $400,000,000 road fund set aside in the $3,300,- 000,000 public works program. This warning came Thursday from Thomas H. McDonald, chief of the Bureau of Public Roads, who is directly responsible for administration of the road funds. “In some cases,” he said, “there has been a diversion of revenue from its inteneded purposes.” ¥ Already Kentucky has received i.notice that there must ve a re ‘alignment in its highway admin istration, and MacDonald said 'similar word may soon go to other 'states. The road chief said he did not yet know which statées would be required to make changes, be cause he had not received reports from all and thée decision would depend upon conditions in each. All were notified, however, when they were allotted their shares of the $400,000,000 that: “No specific allotments will be made available hereunder until and after the State Highway de partments concerned have satis fied the Secretary of Agriculture and the administrator that they have adequate powers and are suitably equipped and organized, with a proper system of accounts and audits, to discharge their du ties as required by the federal highway act.” : MacDonald said the provisions of the federal aid highway act had been emphasized by inclusion in way departments have been oper the public works law. Many high ating satisfactorily in the past, he said, but have adopted new poli cies which must be abandoned. Officials of the roads bureau said Georgia's allotment was being withheld because of the contro versy between Governor Talmadge of that state and the Highway department, and that it's share would not be advanced until there was a decision as to “who is the Highway department.” | NAMES NEW MEMBERS ATLANTA, Ga—(AP)—Gover nor Eugene Talmadge has capped his dispute with the Georgia Highway boara by appointing ltwu of his state officials to suc |ceed members he ousted a month lago under a declaration of mar ’tia] law. . J. J. Mangham of Bremen, su lpervlsor of state purchases, was ‘named to Succeed Captain & s Barnett as chairman of the High way board, and Max L. Mcßae of Mcßae, director of the State Bu rean of Markets, to supplant Commissioner W. C. Vereen. Jud P. Wilhoit, who supported the governor in his budget argument with the Highway board, contin ues as the third member. E The commissions were issued ! the new members late Wednesday laster Governor Talmadge again !had declared the offices of Barnett 'and Vereen vacated and both took loaths of office immediately after Iresigning their state positions al | ready held. Herman DeLaPerriere {of Hoschton, former director of state relief administration, was appointed to succeed Mangham. No successor was named for Mc- Rae. #@ " i l © Forced Out i Governor Talmadge declared | Barnett and Vereen had abandon led their offices by refusing a blue iponcillng of the Highway budget, | entailing discharge of five engi |neers. which he had ordered. The | dispute began early this year and ‘cume to a climax a month ago when the governor invoked mar tial law and installed his own re gime. Martial law rule, he said, will continue with amendments to | permit functioning of the new Highway board. Ousted members of the Highway board tried to overthrow the mili tary rvule and regain their offices . (Continued on Fage 8) *_ | A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢c Sunday, “ Bares Tryst to Halt Execution B el S L EAERs e e G A R S e G L. T T %‘ St %% . G B A B ((’ e i 2 i o e RS 5 RPN AAO 5k b-..-:» ’ ’ ”\,}; :fé;: ‘ 7 Y G i ! }3 Rather than remain silent and permit two negro youths to be executed for a murder she says they did not commit, Mrs. Mil dred M. Bonnie, above, of Cin cinnati, revealed her tryst with a married man and thereby won a 30-day, reprieve for them a few hours before they were to be electrocuted at Ohio’s peni tentiary. Mrs. Bonnie said she and her escort were in Silver town, 0., on the day a bank cashief was murdered in a hold up and that the two convicted youths were not the ones she saw running from the bank. COTTON AND WHEAT CHOW BIG SLUMPS Prices on Exchange Show $5 a Bale Drop for Cot ton; Wheat Follows NEW YORK.— (AP) — Cotton broke $5 a bale Thursday in the worst slump since prices started upward in April. Heavy selling of cotnracts, bas ed on the pronounced weakness ‘of grain markets, pushed October to 1045 cents a pound, December to 1080 and January to 10.65. The uuset occurred following a comparatively tame forenoon ses sion. The market was under some pressure from the start but the support held prices fairly close to Wednesday’'s finals until they gave way violently under an avalanche of liquidation and professional selling near the end of the fourth hour. The break ercouraged more ac tive trade buying which ralliec the market about a dollar a bale from the exireme lows. PRICES BEREAK NEW OPLEANS.— (AP) —Cot ton broke sharply again Thursday on a wildly fluctuating market, (Continued on Fage 8) TODAY’S BEST HUMAN INTEREST STORY ATLANTA-—®)—A buck pri vate on guard at the state highway offices Thursday for a time preventell the function ing of Governor Talmadge's new Highway board. J. . Mangham and Judge Max Mcßae arrived for their new duties only to be stopped at the door of the executive of fices by the young soldicr. “You can't go in there,” the soldier said. “But I'm J. J. Mangham and this is Judge Mcßae, the new appointees of the governor,” Mangham replied. “Well T don't care who wou are, you're not going in” said the private. A conference was held. The governor was called by tele phone and his message relayed to the military. But still he stood firm. “March them over here”, the governor then told the private in a direct message. The private did, step jaunty and side-arms swinging. The governor egflalned . matters, congratulated = the private for attention to orders, and the ngw offfcials took wup their duties, their first engagement won, H2ME] JONNSON BELIFVES: CRISIS IMPENDS 1F WABES NOT HAISEUTé Industrial Administrator. Has Perfected Plan for Nation - Wide Adoption Minimum Wages, Hours" PRICES ARE RISING, PAY MUST FOLLO\M" President Keeping Wary'f- Eye on Stock and Grain Exchange Activities . WASHINGTON—(#)—p» For a crigsis in the recovery o ‘ unless popular purchasing powe is stepped up to keep. pace ‘ riging prices, industrial ...."‘-"fi‘ trator Hugh . Johnson Thursday perfected the plan for na , wide adoption of minimum and working bour limitations. =@ ~ Only approval by : Roosevelt awaits promulgation of ‘the drastic proposition, and son wag ready to seek that ba“‘ o the day is out. The plan would be voluntary, with reliance on pre " sure of public opinion 'to get}lml *’ trial and business concerns into line, . *:f Making the rounds of hearings being held on proposals for speecif ; codes to raise wages and restr s;"k working time, Johnson told the 'crowded meetings we are “emerg=- ing from the depths but not fromy the dangers” of depresmu warned insistently that wagest must keep step with raising priece m going o¢ far in talking to a hotel session on the code proposed ' the women’'s woat and suit in m try that a crisis is faced withim the next month or two in bringing, buying power to a par with ase cending cost of things. \ Take Precautions _v',}gn,,g,. : L ! Extreme precautions were takem by Johnson and his aldes to sur round the “blanket” plan secrecy until President Roosevelt actually has approved. ’* P Especially guarded were the forms by which employers are ta signify their participation in the program, the actual terms pre scribed therein being known oniy¥ to Johnson, the dezen members of his cabinet advisory committee and a few days has dealt with the terms but no authoritative word: has been given and al! informed persons are pledged to seereécy. ' Johnson's advisory ‘; ] 'n !baor, consumer and “‘"?’&i;g s ‘nterests were consulted in the 1y itial stages of the pian. and . the first suggested diffr?rentlafiflfl_: 3 ween emplovers of labor and of ‘white collar” classes. - By Thev propnsed a 35 hour eak . for lahor and a 40 hour base e the white collar workers, with si4 " and sls minimum wages respsel tively. i A Since then Johnson has hinfe® at a further separation of trad€ | service - establishments such a 8 stores, laundries, and others. = = There have been indications als@ that some further flexibility w & q be provided to take care of periods of business when absolutg maximum hour limits might world | hardships. e Also there has heen cause fo¥ doubt that a general application o 8 a 35 hour week would be attempts ed, in view of approval of & 4 , week for the textile industries which have presented formal codefl “We have a right to be encours aged about this law, it works® Johnson said. Ca fi;‘-,‘ “As I see it there are now the two main problems—some device to bring in the unorganized. classes and this question of prices goi too far ahead of consuming pOwWer The operation of this law has be an inspiring thing.” e Whirl of Activity = The assertion stood out amid a whirl of activity, other hearings ‘heing in progress elsewhere. on. the ‘ 3R wage-working time agreemel sought for the shlpbuifliné«% lumber industries. i Also, experts were at work - the prospective national standai ‘to be backed by the administration under which industry and voluntarily would boost wages am lessen hours to spread purchasing power and employment. .. . i s S S ‘We have had a rapid inere in prices throughout in I‘Z&M‘ ; Johnson noted emphatically. = “We recognize that costs | . (Continved on Fage 8}
