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About The Banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1923-1933 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1933)
e COTTON e e A MIDDLING. .o soee wres e PREV. CLOSE.... .. vor. AOV /ol 101. No. 162. Jthens Food Dealers Meet To Consider Roosevelt Recovery Plan ÜBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION FIRED i otton Again Breaks $5 With Gran Market Closed; Stocks Follow 106 SHARES ON | i YORK MARKET Sl | ' overnment Is Reported Ready to Act to End - - Mass Manipulation of . - Stocks and Commodities RADING IN GRAIN SUSPENDED ONE DAY New York Market Col lapses After Moderate| improvement in A. M. ! 1s € pp— "'_-.y;';‘ YORK.— (AP) — Stocksi wroke sharply Friday afternoon as | ' tumbled more than $5 al Active elling sent loading! shares down $2 to more than $7. | The market had improved moder~' during the morning. By 2 oclock U. S. Steel was down $5 to $52.50; American Tele phone $5.37 to $119; New - York | Central $7.50 to S3B; Allied Chem- | ical $7 to $114; General Electric | 8250 to $22.50; American Can l $250 to $70.50; General Motors s3{ to $26: Santa Fe $4 to $65. | Forced selling appeared to play a large part in the afternoon slun The market's firm tone] during the earlier trading doubt less prompted many brokers t(){ give ilstoimers more time in which to fortify balances depleted’ by Thursday's violent shake-out; but when prices began to crumble afresh, weakly margined holdings were dumped. Repeal’ shares, which had been leading the market down ) tended to hold more suc cessfully than other groups. Their sses ranged roughly from $1 to §4; they had been $1 to $7 higher In the morning. Bull pool liquidated hastily, putting large offerings of thoiri ¢ favorites into a feeh]el The collapse on the New York| ( lixchange was severe, Less than half an hour hefore the us sing time Electric Bond | Share and Gulf Oil were down | 39 or more, Distillers Corp.-Sea gral recent favorite, was off $7, and Aluminum of America SB. | SIGH OF RELIEF l CHICAGO. (AP) *—The grain | trade drew a long breath and re axed Iriday as trading was sus pended at all the American ex- | es to allow rest from the' nt sessions which culminated | T in the worst price col lapse in many years. ' F 'wing the action of the Chi-l tago Board of Trade' in suspend- | lealings for the day, Kansasl “ Minneapolis, St. Louis and Juluth were Quick to fall in line take holiday. When trading ed Saturday there will hel : n daily fluctuations. m taken by directors : ¢ Board of Trade late Thurs ht caused but little sur- | ¢ The reason given tor the| : n of trading was that; loves needed some rest, | eran observers saw it as a| f checking the frcnz:»'i iracterized transactions 4 diy. Then wheat drop- | vards of 17 cents, rye 26 : and other grains in propm'-;’ . ugh it was a holiday in! I windreds of traders cir- | e neasily around the \'ast; & floor of the exchange with | vds in the gallery ‘.vutch-é READY TO ACT | . HINGTON. (AP - Th":'! 3 't administration is ready | A‘M»\'e-r action it ('an} » [' that becomes neces- | ¢ .0 Stop mass manipulation | ¢k and commodity markets | for srorators seeking = profit only| ' themselves, | 5! '8 was evident Friday as! o Y’ 1Y \\';«lla('v moved to de- | e definite program to hait, | o OSSIble, widespread shfits in!' ; _ brices. ‘Wallace also gave! .., “vbroval to the suspension of} . "5 trading for one day at | .50 and other points. i ; Pbroving the order of direc- ‘ i the Chicago Board ofi =9 S pending trade Fridu}', i\‘ e said: i i iCtion is a fundamemall\'é conner V€ in the right direction | i it affords a cooling off | { N Which to take stock of ! ation.,” Ice said he had net sug-! ‘Lontinued on Fage 8) l FULL Asscuciated Press Service. New Elks Ruler T R Sl R e 00l eet NG T, SELEs | 2 e T g 2 00 2 NG | BR‘ Y | AR ./. it hY B i EiNigan | s s R F 3 \ B : B \ B O g: 5 | G ; 5 """1:-:?. e ‘ ); B g b REBGE v 5 : e - :»:~:-,-:. : L e | e 2 4 LI :-7:“-'?'75'.1‘,5‘7» i A 8 BRSO 2 s o 4 2 E RIS A P AT # R gt 3 : B B X it T ’ 5 R R R _'.}::_A ooy :: "9;,? B~ g B % B G Eo B SR %2 ’& = Unanimous vote elected Walter F. Weier of Seattle, Wash., new grand exalted ruler of the Be nevolent and Protective Order of Elks at the organization’s recent convention in Milwaukee. Weier is shown here as he succeeded Judge Floyd E. Thompson of Moline, Il * %.- ot OUT PERMITS TOPLOW P GOTTON Permits Received by the County Agents in Cotton States Friday, Saturday County Agent L. S. Watson announced Friday that permits to plow up cotton had not been received by his office from Washington but he expected them in sometime during the day or Saturday. The county agent said that approximately 297 permits will be received by his office and that these per mits will reduce the cotton acreage in Clarke county by approximately 2,700 acres. . WASHINGTON .—(®)—Farm ad ministrators, extension forces anda volunteer workers who have car ried on the cotton acreage reduc tion campaign in the south have the congratulations of President Roosevelt. “The whole hearted response of the cotton growers to the first tes of the administration’s program for agriculure is not only deeply gratifying but is also evidence of an intelligent determination on the part of farmers to take the necessary steps to improve the price and buying power of their product,” the President said in a message made public by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. “I wish to offer the forces who are putiing the cotton program into effect my heartiest congratu lations upon the initial success achieved and at the same time to urge the farmers that nothing be jest undone to make the program tompletely successful.” Wallace has pronounced the re- Iducuon plan a success, and saia { county agents in cotton states will !begin issuing permits Friday and Saturday making it possible for _farmers to plow up their acreage. Administrators have accepted all }contracts which have been ap proved by county agents and county committees but have not completed tabulation of them. { A hearing within the next few days to consider the levying ol compensatory processing taxes on commodities sold in competition with cotton was announced by Charles J. Brand, co-administrator LOCAL WEATHER | —-——_——__—_b‘________._( M‘ Mostly cloudy Friday night I and Saturday. Occasional showers Saturday and in south portion Friday night. | TEMPERATURE | SOt o oine ssol LOWEBL ... viss seis civs 000 DR o s el veen +.79.0 Noomal ... oo deon svan R 0 RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours .. ...s 01 Total since July 1 .. .. .. 1'.62i Deficiency since July 1 .... 1.64 Average July rainfall .. .. 4.96‘ Tot4l since January 1 .. 1. Deficiency since January x. 8.2‘.'1 THE BANNER-HERALD TENNESSEE VOTES R PRON AEPEAL Y SHALL ARG l WASHINGTON. — (AP) — Commenting Friday on the Tennessee repeal vote, Post master General Farley said: “It's close, but it's O. K.” (By the Associated Press.) Tennessee came Friday the 19th state to approve repeal of the -18th amendment as Oregon proceeded to ballot on the problem. The margin of victory for anti prohibitionists in Tennesses was smaller than in any of the other states which have held popular \o!ectlons on the proposed constitu | tional change. | As returns from the Tennessee election neared completion Friday, the repeal lead was approximately 9,500. Tennessee, the third south ern state to vote on and approve repeal, had been dry for years, the legislature having passed a dry law in 1909. This « year 3.2 beer was legalized: ! In Oregon Friday, leaders of the repeal movement predicted 2 to 1 victory. Dry leaders seemed agreed that they had no more than a “fighting chance.” | NASHVILLE, Tenn. —(#)— Ten lness»(e. nineteenth state on vote on prohibition, Friday became the nineteenth to approve repeal on the face of nearly complete returns ifrom Thursday's referendum—but iby the narrowest marg:n yet rec lorded. & Early Friday, tabulations of the urofficial vote in 2,007 of the state’'s 2,232 precincts showed: For repeal, 123,650, | Against 114,401, The returns showed a majority in 9,249 for the repealis.s "'.‘he 297 unreported precinets were scatter lcd over the state and were mostly ‘small ones. It was estimated they ,did not contain enough votes to ioverride the repeal majority and it | was considered unlikely t h e y iwould materially alter the ratio. i Commenting on results, W. E | Norvell, jr., secretary of the repeal tassociation. said: ‘“We're very well lsatisfied, especially in view of the lfact that so many of the Republi cans lined up against us‘ in the lfirs*t and second districts.” Com ment was withheld by John F. 'Baggett. chairman of the dry ‘foroes, until returns were complete. Tennessee voted to elect 63 dele- Igates from the state at large to a convention to be held August 11. | The ballot contained two lists of ‘names. one for repeal and one !against. Tennessee has been dry |since 1909. A bone dry law en acted eight years after that date ionly recently was modified to per- Imit sale of 3.2 per cent beer. TO CALL SESSION WASHINGTON —(#)— Governor Johnson of Colorado announcéd Friday he would call a special ses sion of the state legislature for August 1 to provide for a vote on prohibition repeal September 4. First Bale of Georgia Cotton Brings 20c Cents Per Pound at Savannah SAVANNAH, Ga—(AP)—Geor gia's first bale of cotton of the 1933-34 season went on the block shortly before noon Friday in front of the Savannah Cotton Ex change and was bid in at 20 cents on the pound, about 10 cents per pound above the market and five cents better than the first bale price last year. The cotton was sold to Carl Espy for the account of the Sav annah Warehouse and Compress company - LINDBERGHS OFF CARTWRIGHT, Labrador .—- (AP)—Colonel Charles A. Lind bergh and Mrs. Lindbergh took off from here Friday ‘ffom Green land to continue their aerial map making expedition. Athens, Ga., Friday, July 21, 1933, Recently Divorced Son of President To Marry Fort Worth Girl Saturday; Formal Statement to Follow Wedding T B RS O o e o » REA N"‘.. Bi R R Ve . | o i L S T A "%:355\*. > 4’* = 2 G oM R - @@ -, = 7 é‘h i 2 R Y G 9 B s . e 4 R ee N | e o s 3 A | 3e S R % R e G e s e BB G e G e s e S T e =y e % , ':"_' s 8 & : i R oy g o Gk ; . b 2 @S < e a—————— BURLINGTON, lOWA,—(®)— .. Elliot Roosevelt, scon of the President, and Miss Ruth Cog gins of Fort Worth, Texas, will be ‘married Saturday under present arrangements, the The Associated Press learned from unimpeachable source Friday. Young Roosevelt will arrive by plane Friday, accompanied by his sisters, Mrs, Anna Cur COTTON SPINNING REACHES NEW. HIGH Textile Industry in U. S. - Shows Pharp Increase Over Preceding Months WASHINGTON — (#) — Unitea States cotton spinning operations reached a new high reord of ac tivity during June. They operated at 129.1 per cent of their capacity on a single shift basis. This was a sharp advance over activity in May which was at 112.3 per cent of capacity. June's activity was more than twice that of the same thirty day period in' 1932 according to the monthly report of the Census bu reau Friday. Based on an activity of 8.96 hours per day the average number of spindles operated during June was 39,917,475. Many of the mills ran at capacity around the clock with 25,540,504 spindes active dur ing the month. These set up a new record by operating an aggregate of 9,299,175,026 spindle hours dur- (Continued on Page Three) Clay Withdraws His Name Following Public Works Program Disagreement . ATLANTA—(#)—Ryburn G. Clay, president of the Fulton National ihank and manager of the Demo cratic party’'s campaign in Georgia last year, has withdrawn his name for consideration as a member of the proposed committee of three 1o supervise the federal public works program in the state. Clay, in a statement, said tha? when Harllee Branch, sxecutive assistant to Postmaster General Farley and L. W. Robert, assistant Secretary of the Treasury, were in Atlanta Branch notified him that “he and others who advised the administration about Georgia ap pointments could not consent t¢ my appointment notwithstanding my selection by the governor and Senator Russell.” | -~ “It is not necessary for me t 0 discuss the reasons assigned by Mr. Branch,” the statement con tinued, “I told him that these ad visors about Georgia appointments would, I hope, not consider my name for anything. I did not di rect him to announee a withdrawal on my part, €xcept in the manner just stated. I do not care to ‘naw-§ my name the occasion for a con troversy, as to whethey Mess's. Branch and Robert on one hand or| Governor Talmadge and Senator Russell on the other nand are rec ognized advisors of the adminis tration about Georgia appoint ments, ? I 'is_ E % :,..:_'*;:s : . gy R S B g R R SR T e il e e B “ Rt B 0 'TE:%( SR B g Nesom A - AR ‘g y P el ey el T Goraae AR G L i BB bR e o R e | S e 4 R . gt e 2 o e f\g -55 : Lo B 2 a 7 RB, % R > tic Dall. Mrs. Dall will be Miss Googins” only attendant Only immediate members of the two families will be pre sent at the wedding in the home of George C. Swiler uncle of the bride-to-be. The hour for the wedding has not yet been set, No formal statement will be istued until after the wedding and the couple has departed for a honeymocn “in the West,” it was asserted. Miss Googins and her mother rested Friday morning at the home of J, W. Swiler, father of George - Swiler. o 3 POST TURANG NI THE HOMESTRETCH World Flyer Resumes Trip With Only 4,000 Miles to Reach N. Y. FLAT ALASKA, —()— Wiley ‘Post, Oklahcma, flier, resumed his aerial jaunt around the world Fri day at 7:28 a. m., Fairbanks time, (12:28 P, M., eastern standard time.) ! Post expressed the opinion he | would still ‘break that record” of ieight days, 15 hours and 51 min utes which he and Harcld Gatty |set in their 1931 Globe-circling | flight, if his ship was repaired suf §ficlefitly for him to get away Fri ‘day morning. He hopped offgfrom !New Yerk at 4:10 a, m. (eastern istandard time) "last Saturday, July | 16. . 'The Oklahoman was anly 4,000 miles from his goal, New York when he landed after a 22-hour battle with the elements on his flight from Siberia. He was un da.un;ed by his plane nosing over (Continued on Page Sevon) l “This statement is made throughi ‘no resentment, hecause porsonally’ EI feel nothing but relief. It :«)ems] ‘to be required in justice to those, ‘who pressed my name and s, of| ;lcourse, made without their knowl-} edge.” [ ' Braneh at Washington said he had not opposed _ Clay, docs not| now and furthermore has nothing! to do with the selec’ion. He saidj the same thing applies to Robert, The Constitution says it is un. derstood that Arthur Lucas, prom inent tlanta theater man and a| member of the state board of oon—} trol for eleemosynary institution.| is being sponscrei by Branch andl Robert for the place on the com-‘ mittée for which Clay had been recommended. ’ Governor Talmadge. who recom-! mended Clay for the committee, ! telephoned Secretary of the interi- | or Ickes at Washington. about the| situation. Tckes is also adminis-| trator o° the public works pro-i gram. ! * “Ts a thing like thig is to he put| over therg will be thousands of' Georgians who will want to know| the reason why,” the governor told| Secretary Ickes. “and I won't’ mind telling them.” ! . The governor said the secretary told him the entire matter wouldl be giv:n full consideration. Senator Russell had also rpcm‘n-l mended Clay. MATIONWIDE MOVE 15 BEGUN TO AID NATIONAL RECOVERY L. O. Price Declares Food Dealers Recognize Need To Join in President's Plan COMMERCE BODIES URGED TO ASSIST Intensive, Strongly Or gsanized Campaign s Planned to Back Move Athens retail food deaiers will be the first to hold a meeting to rconsider President Roosevelt's pro 'posal for all business interests to voluntarily support the plan for leconomlc recovery. i The food dealers meet at: the city hall at 8 o'clock tonight. Lt O. Price of Price Provision company and Piedmont Market an nounced the meeting today with two purposes, first to re-organize the Athens Refafl TFood Deaiers ’assoclatlon. a group which has ‘been dormant for ten years and to {discuss the code for that group adopted in Macon Wednesday by ‘the Georgia Retail ¥Food Dealers association. ; } Mr. Price attended the Macon meeting in addition to Guy Smitn, I'T. H. Jackson and Mia Wingfiela. |A code for retail food dealers was adopted at the meeting which pro vides for a minimum of 60 store hours. However, the suzgested vol untary code announced by the Na !flonal Industrial Recovery Admin jistration today provides for a min 'imum of 52 store hours. Mr. Prics says qt present from 7) to 85 store hours is the average. ' “We recognize that we must (raise salar‘es in order to maintain ithe price level”, Mr. Price said. l"'rhis ig not only a patriotic move iment. It is good business. Unles:‘ | salaries are sufficient to buy goods! ‘at a higher price we may expect a collapse. The food dealers rea lize that wholehearted support oi ithe president's program for econ :omio recovery is necessary if we iare to expeience a return of good !times." CAMPAIGN BEGINS . WASHINGTON.— (AP) —Hugh ;»S. Johnson, recovery administra ixor, set swiftly in motion Friday ‘the nation-wide campaign to swing every employer into the jwage-raising movement. ~ He telegraphed *to chamber of commerce presidents in all cities pf over ten thousand, asking them to create local committees which will run the community end of the re-employment drive. While Johnson acted, President Roosevelt kept close watch on the movement, alert for public re action to the program to which he had given his official approval only Thursday night. , Meantime, deputies pushed ahead hearings on four separate ‘industries which have stepped forward with fair competition codes for self-regulation and labor betterment. These were the shipbuilding, lumber, electrical manufacturing and the women's cloak and suit industries. i Labor’s demands for Dbetter wage and hour terms than offered by the employers dominating the proceedings. Print Agreements Simultaneously the presses at the government printing office were roaring away on production of millions of copies of the emer gency President’s re-employment agreements, which employers, be ginning the middle of next week, will be asked to sign. Mail carriers were instructed to deliver the blanks to every business establishment employing more than two persons. Johnson asked the presidents of the ~chambers to get on the local committee their mayor and official heads of the clearing house, Ro tary, Kiwanis and Lions clubs, retail merchants’ associations, Federation of Labor, advertising clubs, Federations of Women’'s clubs, welfare societies, ministe rial asssociations, real estate asso ciations and other importjant units. Further instructions as to con duet of the campaign were prom ised later. The campaign in general will be under supervision of Charles F. YHorner, Kansas City, wartime (Contiiwea on Fage 8) : A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday, - Flies Plane at.l2 st T o o N /\‘o.w“' X % A et Pl T "’% % 0 s a b R e %k . v R '*:::4‘: $ b b s i = s O B RRea e T e i RESIER . R e S % 2 ‘:»:.,.v.\ > ;; T W o ) 4 L B Lorraine Bowman of Burbank, Calif., above, is only 12 years old, but she made. a successful solo airplane flight at Salem, Ore., the other day. She can't get a license, though, until she is 16. Her father, Les Bow man, is a transport pilot and plane salesman, and her mother also holds a transport pilot's license, - PERRY WILL FIGHT - JUSTING IN COURT Suspended Public Service Commission Chairman " Serves Notice on Wilhoit ATLANTA—(#)—James A. Perry, ousted chairman of the Georgia Public Service eommission, an nounced shortly after he was sus pended from office Friday by Governor Talmadge, that he would bring court action in an effort to regain his post. Perry said the action would be in the form of quo warranto pro ceedings. He did not say when he would take the case into court. In a letter to Jud P. Wilhoit elected to succeed Perry to the chairmanship by the board after his appointment by the governor Perry said he denjed Wilhoiy had any right to succeed him. 1 Perry was preparing a statement outlining his position. : ‘ Perry and the other members of the c¢ommission began packingl their personal belongings as soon as they heard of the order and va-% cated their offices within an hour after they were suspended by the governor. | } Perry's letter to Wilhoit: ] have just been advised by ‘Governor Eugene Talmadge that he “hasg suspended me as a member of the Georgia Public Service com mission and directs you to ps-rform; the duties of the office to which I was elected by the neople. | Without Authority ; “Only for the purpose of bring- | ing notice to you of my conten tions, and wholly frce from any personal feeling, T contend that thr‘ action of the governor in conduct ing the hearing jfust finished nsl well as his action in suspending me i# without a warrant or oonstitu-l tional authority. “If more need be said. and 1 consideration is to be given any part of the hearing conducfed by the governor on which he bases his (Continued on Page Seven) Text of Governor Talmadge’s Dismissal Order Governor Talmadge’s order dis-; missing the five members of the Georgia Public Service Commiss ion today follows: | A petition was filed with me on. the sixth day of June, praying foz‘! a suspension of the members ot’ the memrbers of the Public Service commission on wvarious grounds, consisting of domination by the public utility interest, neglect of duty, publishing false propaganda‘l about rate hearings and increas ing rates at a time when everything | else was declining. ’ “I issued a rule nisi and called |, on the members of the Public Ser- | vice commission to show cause|’ why the prayers of this petition |; should not be granted, l “The hearing began on the 26th |; day of June and terminated on | Monday, July 10th, Used Passes Ll “This hearing developed that | sometime in the fall of 1931, an order was passed by three mem HeME] [ " § | 1Y & f o | ; | ) s i | 3 P . 8 i ol ;' S ‘ é g ‘Charges Brought Against | . . 3 ~ Five Members of Public . . . : ~ Service Commission Are - Sustained by Talmadge ‘ i Jud : i 4 E AS NEW CHAIRMAN v b ‘New Group Outlaws All | 5 Passes, Vacates All Jobs . - . 4 In Jurisdiction ‘ 8 | ATLANTA,—(P'—Georgia's’ new = Public Service commission meet,.._% ing Friday immediately after taks ing office rescinded an order per-" ' mitting commisgioners or em- . ployes riding on bus or railread passe:, ~ The new commission also order ed all positions with their juris- . diction vacated but later named three employes of the old body to retain their peosts temporarly, Reuben Crimm remains as a clerk; Mrs. Evilyn Brougdon as assistant secretary and Miss Mat tie O'Shields as cashier. i & Chairman Jud P, Wilhoit, named to succeed James A. Perry, by the commission at a meeting held in the .governor's office, said the commissioners would return to their homes to wind wup business affairs and all would be on the - next prepared to consider all’ problems before them,. | The next meeting of the coms« mission was set for next Tuesday. | ATLANTA.—(#®)—AII five mem} |bers of the Georgia Public Serv=, |ice commission were suspend:d ;Friday by Governor Eugene Tal madge after an extended heafing on charges against them of incom petence and sanction of high util= ity rates in Georgia. .. '3( b The governor acted under the section of the code giving him the authority to suspend any commis gioner and the governor mlgik' I‘s port his action to the next meet=" ing of the general assembly. This: will be in January 1935 unless the body Is called earliér into extra seS= sion by the chief executive. . i The five commissioners suspend- ¢ ed were James A. Perry of "fi'gi:j;_” renceville; Walter McDonald of Augusta; Perry Knight of Valdoss = ta; Albert J. Woodruff of Deca tur and Jule W. Felton of ‘Mq - zuma. To succeed them *‘* ernor named Jud P. W'l]%fl o Warrenton, in the place of Perrys. J. B. Danfel of LaGrange to sues ceed McDonald;” Tom Dayis of Meigs in place of Knight; George L. Goode of Carnesville to succesd Woodruff; and Ben Hulett of "Ats lanta in place of Felton. ge The law says that if a majority of each branch of the iflj sembly declare that the commiss" sioners shall be removed from ofz fice, their term of office shall; exs pire. Public Service commissioners are elected for a term of six years. Cites Authority T The governor's suspension ordes was based on Section 2618 of the code, which says: “Any commiss sioner may be suspended from. of= fice by order, of the governor, wha shall report the fact of pension, and the reason therefors, to the next general assembly; - and i L 1 i (Continued on Page Three) .. ‘bers of the Public Serviee eoms 'mission providing that mem?egg‘_"' ‘the Public Service commission land employes of the Public . f vice commission ride on fai Iroax passes. An order was also. Pass providing that members of 't Public Service commission fss identification cards to themselve and employees of the Public Ser vice commission allowing thém' ¢ ride on busses. ! ~ “The evidence developed that a of the members of the public ses 'vice commission were guilty of #i¢ ing on bus and railread passes ‘with the exception of James A Perry. Mr. Perry stated that He ‘made one trip to Columbus 6n a bus and did not pay themn V Tnot produce his pass or identifica tion card, e - “The evidence as to newSp&pe statements issued by the chairman of the board and concurred in by (Continaed on Pagme Three) ‘ ‘ e
