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COTTON MARKET MIDDLING .. .. .- pREViOUS CLOSE ke ihv :e ), 101. No. 190. STORM DAMAGE PLACED IN MILLIONS I otton Price Guarantee, Acreage Slash Plan Studied CATED PLAN TO \ Il APPROVAL OF | 3 CCRETARY WALLACE oposes —Hflolding Crop to 25,000,000 Acres, at 13 Cents a Pound STATEMENT SOON gadline For Plowing Up Cotton Expires; U. S. To Enforce Contracts By SAM P. BLEDSOE pyright 1933 By Tne Associated Press JASHINGTON, —(#)— A long s program coembining acreage juction and a form of price arantee to the cotton grower is fore Secretary Wallace with pspects that its principles will accepted and the plan announced but September 1, he program contemplates a re ction of next years acreage to und 25,000,000 One of its most portant features would be an as rance of parity price for that rtion of the gverage crop con med in this country. The parity price for cotton is e price 4t which it must sell to ve the purchasing power it had m 1909 to 1914. At present, this estimated at around 123 cents, proximately five «cents above ment farm prices. May Be Revised Final approval of the plan, ex nding this year’s emergency ogram depends upon the Secre ry of 'Agriculture and President posevelt, and it might be radical revised, Its central features have e approval of farm administra n cotton experts and many owers, so revision to any great tent is regarded as extrememly Nlikely, Already, Wallare has tentatively proved the reduction to 25,000- res. In return for this the grow would receive benefit payments ! an acreage basis as he did this ar, The benefits probably will be nsiderably lower per acre than the emergency reduction cam ign this year. These ranged from to S2O and suggestions have been ade that they vary from $3 to lin the long time campaign. But the farmer would be certain the parity price on that portion his production which is ordinari used in this country. roughly, lis is about half the average crop. The proposal does not contem ale that the growers domestic oduction be figured on what he ises after he reduces his acreage XL year by about fifteen per cent The suggestion receiving strong- L consideration is that his do estic preduction be figured on ¢ dverage number of bales he ised durng the last five years. Guauranteed Parity For instance, if his average pro- Clicn over the five years was U bales yearly, he would be aanteed party on about 50 bales. If the market price averaged fity, the government would make ’ lurther payment. If it fell be- W, the former would get the dif 'fence between the rental he re- Wed and the money he would Ve received from his 50 bales if fad sold at parity, The rentals e ‘l‘vfw‘. on idle lands previously tor cotton. There hag been opposition to es ' the basis of the last five years, d this detail, among others, re ins to he worked out. The money to pay the farmeg “uld come eventually through a ocessing tax paid by the man r‘".])rorosses cotton—turns it in tloth for instance. That tax is (Continued on Page Eight) r. S. BEGINS FINAL MOVE TOPUT URSCHEL KIDNAPERS BEHIND BARS YKLAHOMA CITY.—(AP)—Dar § gangdom to interfere, the “Inment's quick acting prose ors sopght Thursday to hurry farles P, Urschel's accused kid- Pers to Oklahoma for a speedy “l and, they hope, a sweep of "'tme sentences. “urrving to Texas on the heels . ¢ Brand jury's indictment of * Dersons for conspriacy to kid- D the oil millionaire for $200,000 HlSom—a ransom that was paid— "Seph B. Keenan, special assist- It attorney general; District At €Y Herbert ®. Hyde and D. Colvin, in charge of the case " the United States Bureau of iVestigation, sought removal or 'S for Harvey Bailey and -the 1 members of the Shannon Amily, jailed at Dallas for the “haping, Likewise airplanes speeded cer ATHENS BANNER-HERALD FULL Associated Press Service. DEATH REUNITES OLD FRIENDS; “JIP” IS BURIED WITH MASTER ATLANTA —(AP)—In death as in life, Herman Benjamin and hig beloved dog, Jip, re main side by side. They were buried in adjoin ing graves In Oakland ceme tery Thursday in keeping with 14 years of companionship that never found the veteran At lanta druggist without his pet. even in a Pullman car. Death brought a reunion. Two years ago Jip died of the infirmities ~of age. Benjamin had his body embalmed, placed it in a copper casket and held it in a mortuary. He wouldn't hear to the aog going to the grave alone. i . ' Company Unions Coer cian Claim by Googe Bring Emphatic Denials ATLANTA, Ga—(AP)—A charge by George L. Googe, southern representative of the American Federation of Labor, that the Sou thern Bell Telephone and Tele graph company was endevaoring to “coerce” employes into remain iing in company unions drew em ‘phatic denials Thursday. In a signed statement, Googe said a number of employes in At lanta and other cities had with drawn from the Southern Asso ciation of Bell Telephone Em ployes and that officials of the company were ‘endeavoring to coerce employes into rescinding their action and re-establishing the company unions.” Such a movement, Googe con tinued,, was a violation of the spirit and letter of Section 7 of the NIRA and protests will be made to the federal government. Ben S. Read, president of the telephone company, and other of ficials said they knew mnothing of the charges, that they had not been informed of any employes withdrawing from the association and that if they had, no official had tried to get them to return to it. Officials of the company added that the employes’ association was a voluntary organization and the company had, nothing to do with it one way or another. ~ Are Dissatisfied Googe said that employes had become dissatisfied with the type of organization and since passage of the national industrail recov ery act which prohibits ‘‘member ship in company unions being made a condition to employment, large numbers of workers have become desirous of dissolving this type of organizations.” He named Atlanta, Savannah and Macon in particular as points where dissolution of the organiza tions was being carried on. He said iabor officials were pro testing “to the government and that if “immediate relief is not given the workers we shall insist that the Department of Justice make a thorough investigation.” He added he had discussed the gituation with William Green, president of the American Federa tion of Labor, and that -he had been assured action would be taken Thursday. CONTRACTOR DIES MACON, Ga— (AP) —A few hours after Ches W. Jones, a leading building contractor, bowl ed several games of ten pins with his friends, he was found dead in the basement of his home Wed nesday night with a bullet through his head and a rifle by his side. tified copies of the indictment to Denver, where Albert Bates, ac cused of the “strong arm” end of the abduction is jailed, and to Minneapolis, where at Jleast five of those indicted are either held or hunted. “We are retdy to meet the chal lenge of these gangsters and out laws fearlessly and with their own weapons,” said Keenan, in a dra matic statement at the close of the five-hour grand jury session Wednesday, during which Urschel and_a score of other witnesses were protected by sub-machine guns in the hands of federal op eratives. Still at large, and regarded as one of the most dangerous of the accused gang, is George (Machine Gun) Kelly, named with Bates in the indictment as having actually abducted Urschel. . The other night the druggist locked up his store, was strick en with a heart attack on the street and died in a few mom ents. Joint services for man and dog were held in a 'funeral home Thursday and then the big black casket and the little one of copper were carried to the cemetery in the same hearse. On the dog’s casket was this inscrpition: “Jip—My companion, friend. True. unfalteringly loyal, pa (Continued on Page Three) , | g | | I | ‘ | ! A ¥Over One Hundred to | Play at Athens Country I‘ Club i : I Bringing over one hundred players and large delegations of Ispnvtutors from several towns in !Nnrtheast Georgia. and South Car folina, the annual Northeast Geor- Igia Golf tournament, sponsored by the Athens Country club, will be played here Friday afternoon. l Players will tee off at 1:00 p. m. on the Athens Country club icourso, and the last round will be | over in time for a barbecue and ‘awm‘ding of prizes at 6:00 o'clock. i Visitors will be guests of the club‘ {at the barbecue. Prizes will be |given for the low medal score, the best handicap score, .and the best team-of-four score. Bob Nowell, Monroe, who won the tournament here last year, will defend his title Friday. Re turning also is the Monroe four some, team champions of 1932. Outstanding among the other en tries are Broglett and Grimes, of Gainesville;. Tabor and Hunter, of Elberton, and Sutton and Monts, of Washington. Friday will be the first time in the history of the tournament that out-of-state golfers have been in vited to participate. Players from Anderson and Greenwood,. S. C, 'are among the entries this year. Perhaps the largest number of players ever entered in the tour nament will be here Friday when golfers from Monroe, Gainesville, Winder, Jefferson, ‘Washington, Anderson and Greenwood tee off. Athens golfers do not play for prizes in the Northeast Georgia tournament. Designed by Donald Ross, noted golfing architect, the Athens course has received quite a repu tation among Southern golfers who have played it. Bobby Jones played an exhibition round the day it was opened. The greens and fairways will be in splendid condition for the tournament, but its hazards, both natural and oth erwise, are well-known among players in previous tourneys. The tournament is being direct ed by a committee composed of Mayor A. G. Dudley, president of the club; Pat Lamkin, Frank Dudley and B. M. Grier. Alleged Westberr ged W y Confession Center Of Hot Controversy VALDOSTA, Ga. — (AP) — A purported confession Thursday be came the center of controversy in the second trial of Austin West berry in the slaying of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Browning in a filling station three years ago. The signed statement was intro ‘dueed by the prosecution Wednes day and J. M. Hubert, notary, and Miss Ruby Hester, assistant to Solicitor G. C. Spurlin testified it was obtained without cogrcion or promises of reward. ‘ Defense attorneys announced they expected to prove the confes | sion_was obtained by coercion and 'threatg as well as promises of re ward and that Westberry had de 'nled every allegation in the paper. Mrs. Euna Bailey testified to ‘finding the Brownings mortally wounded at the scene of the kill !ing. Dr. _Frank Bird gave medical !testimony about Mrs. Browning's lwounds. He said the woman told | him she did not know her assail {ant but that she described him. E Westberry was the first of five !to be tried for the slayings. He was convicted with a recommen idation for mercy, but was granted a new trial by the supreme court. I'l'hp prosecution advanced robbery as the motive in the slaying. S Athens, Ga., Thursday, August 24, 1933, Ten Die as*Gale Hits Atlantic deaboard B T T TTe T W R TR g 2 PSR i ‘: BIREC 9 3R L 3 ¢ ; Sk N ‘ ’:: S e AT S ‘ R Somdor : A S o SR o e : S RAR O € A ‘2:1:5:25‘_;5:-:s»»__-.'». 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One of the craft, the tughoat Point Breeze, is shown off Seven-Foot Knoll Lighthouse near Bal timore. Md.. just before it was swept over on its side and sank. The engineer perished. | ELEGTRIC CRAIR 13 CHEATED BY WOMAN Texas Woman Starves Self To Death While Inmate Of Death Cell LAGRANGE, TEX.,, — (#)— By starving herself to death, Mrs, Maria Dach, 36-year-old farm wo man, has cheated the electric chair of the penalty impoesed for the the murder of Henrw Stoever, her 58 year old helper . Convicted for the slaying in May, Mrs, Dach began refusing food al most at once, Her weight dropped steadily from 200 po{mds until she weighed only 100 pounds when she died Wednesday in her jail cell. She had eaten only three meals in 37 days and then only nibbled at the food brought to her. She was waiting the result of an appeal from the death sentence when she died. Her case was the second in which a woman had been given the death penalty in Texas. In the previous case, that of Mrs. Clara Uhr, convicted for the axe slaying of her husband, life im prisonment was substituted when she pleaded guilty at a second trial. Stoever’s burned body was found buried in a pit in Mrs, Rach’s back yard on April 16. - She said she shot Stoever be cause he had attacked her last De cember, CRAZED BY RABIES, MULE BITES WOMAN ' MONTEZUMA, Ga.—(AP)—At tacked by a mule crazed with the pains of rabies, Miss Hortense Simmons is nursing s/vere bites on her arm and is undergoing the Pasteur treatment, The beast suddenly went on a rampage at the farmer of her father, John Simmons, in Garden Valley, and cnorged her viciously. She was knocked down and bitten before rescuers could reach her. The mule was killed after a vet erinary surgeon determined the na ture of its affliction. LINDBERGHS FLYING TO SHETLAND ISLES THORSHAVEN, Faeroe Is- | lands.—(AP)—Colonel Charles | A. Lindbergh and his wife | took off Thursday from | Tveraa, in the Faroes. The ! Colonel said he was flying to Lerwick, Shetland Islands, but ~ declined to give any further particulars of his plans. ‘ COLUMBUS MAN IS . | FREED IN SLAYING COLUMBUS, Ga. —(#)— W. E' Lyons has been found guilty by a| Muscogee superior court jury ofl the slaying of E; T. Davis, jr., and| sentenced to life imprisonment. The | jury recommended mercy. i Davig was shot to death here| June 28. ! The defensa relied on the state-| ment of Lyons who ‘claimed he acted in self defense te prevent Davis from taking his wife from himself and children and breaking up his home, i —ESTABLISHED 1832 TODAY’S BEST HUMAN INTEREST STORY ©SAN FRANCISCO.—(AP)— Hitch-hiking isn't so bad if a former President gives ‘‘a lift” ani then a SIOO loan, John w:s;le Gordon, Memphis, Tenn., youth, declared Thursday. ordon said he was hiking aigbw northern California highway Monday when a big car stopped in response to his signal. The youth immediately recognized Herbert Hoover, who was in the back seat. Gordon said he raode with Mr. Hoover to San laranclsco and the former President gave him-a SIOO bill to ‘“help me along until I get a job.” With a new outfit of clothes, Gordon is looking for a job to repay the loan. \ \ - WILL BE ISSUED Weekly Ginning Report To Be Issued by Atlanta Agency of U. S. | ATLANTA, Ga,— (AP) — The United States Department of Ag riculture announced Thursday its Atlanta office in the division of cotton marketing will issue 2 weekly report during the ginning season, showing the grade and staple of cotton in Georgia, Ala bama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia. Reports for other states not in cluded in the Atlanta summary will be issued from other field offices. Last year the weekly reports on cotton quality ~were issued from Washington. Decision to have them come from the field offices was made in response to requests from cotton growers and the trade. They asked that informa tion as to the quality of] totton ginned be made available more promptly in order to use it in marketing the crop- The reports will show the per centages of the different grades and staple lengths as represented by samples received from cooper ating gins. . The first summary from the fAtlnnta. office will be issued at 11 o'clock central standard time next Saturday. It will concern gin nings in Georgia for the week ending August 24 and for the season to that date. Barber’s Wife Mother To 3 “Little Shavers” — e e ATLANTA, Ga.—(AP)—Bar ber Otis Glosson’s family was almost doubled Thursday with . the arrival of triplets, Mr. and Mrs. Glosson were the parents of four boys be fore the triplets came, now there are seven boys. The Glosson triplets are the first born at Grady hospital here-in several years., They ! ranged in weight from three | pounds and eight ounces to four pounds and 12 ounces. ONLY WASHINGTON BIVES EXEMPTIONS New NRA Ruling Says Washington Alone Can “ Give Temporary Stays ATLANTA, Ga—(AP)—A new interpretation by national recov ery administration officials receiv ed nere Thursday from Washing ton denies trade associations and chambers of commerce the author ity to grant exemptions from the provisions of codes temporarily appreed. The advices were sent to W. L. Mitchell, district manager of the United States Department of Com merce. He was told the exemp tions from temporary codes must come only from Washington. “About three days ago,” Mitch ell said, “the Retail Food Dealers association here received a letter from the administration at Wash ington, granting - authority to ap prove exemptions to the food code. i “This was so obviously a con tradiction to the previous ruling |that I wired Washington for an [interpretatlon and received the eply that it is impossible for ltrade associations or chambers of commerce to approve stays of | temporarily approved codes.” He said he would inform the the secretary of the Food Dealers association of the conflict in rul ings ; Another interpretation that Mitchell inquired about concerned the code of barbers and beauty shop operators which specifies barber shops are to open a mini mum of 52 hours a week. “One-Chsir” Shops | “There are several one-cha'c shops here and barbers may only ]work 48 hours weekly,” he con tinued. “The question arose as to whether operators of one-chair shops were to employ another j (Continued on Page Three) lAsk President’s ' “New l Deal’’ Be Effected With out Discrimination ! ATLANTA —(AP)— A plea for |inclusion of “Negroes without dis !(‘rimination in the President’s new} | deal” went forth here Thursday laster a mass meeting where it was charged there have been instances !of replacement of competent Ne- Igrn workers by whites ag a result of the higher wage scale provided by the NRA. At their gathering Wedensday, the Negroes adopted resolutions ‘condemning as “unjust and in vio ],lation” of the National Recovery |program any such displacements. Spfikers pointed out that “in credsed unemployment among Ne groes will simply add to the num iber who are to be maintained in idleness Ly the taxpayers."” ‘ Equal pay for equal services for 'all wag urged and . the Negroes pledge full cooperation to the Fresident declaring they would “remind employers that the Blue Eagle is intended by the President 'to protect and help all citizens alike without regard to race, sex ‘or religion.” - A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—sc¢ Sunday. Many Lives Lost As Wind, Rain Storms Continue Up Coast; Train Is Derailed HEAVY RAINS CAUSE WRECK ON SOUTHERN WASHINGTON, — (#) — The Crescent Limited, Southern railway train enrcute from New York to New Orleans, carried two engine men to instant death and sent 13 passengers and members of its crew to a hospital when it was de railed cver a swollen stream near here at 3:45 a. m. Thursday morn ing. A weakened bridge over the east ern branch of the Anacostia river just outside the capital, caused the disasterous, before-daylight wreck. The engine left the rails, plung ing into a mudbank with its op erating cab submerged in the stream. A. H, Bryde of Washington, en gineer, and J. H. Faye, fireman, of Perrysville, Maryland, were kllled. A mail car and a coach were hurled ahead of the engine, diago nally across the tracks. A dead head car was thrown into the stream and almost completely sub merged, ’ Saved By Luck Four other cars hung precar iously to the roadbed, saved from a worse crash only by their coup lings. Two cars, off the track, swung directly over the stream, partially submerged, and only the pull of the cars lin front and be hind saved them from toppling into the water. | ‘Washington police at first re ported that two other men had been killed in addition to the fire man and engineer, but later said they had been mistaken. ~~ Ben Johnson, tailroad employe, ‘who had been riding in the engine cab, was pulled out of a sunken compartment. Those at the wreck said he probably had been fatality injured, but at the hospital doctors said none of their wreck patient® was in any immediate danger, There were conflicting replrts as to the speed of the trian. Offi cials of the road said it had been proceeding under reduced speed orders. ' Several of those on board the train said ity was their Impression that it had been wnoving at a high rate of speed in order to make up part of the hour it was behind schedule. All of the cars, however, were badly smashed, showing that they had hit with considerable force. Rescue squads said that at least thirteen were known to have been injured. Initial reports from police and the first of those aboard the traia to reachl the capital were confused. Police stated that the derailment was caused by a section of the bridge over the Meastern branch of the Potomac river giving way, Buried in Mud, At least three cars were thrown into the water, police said, Pas sengers reported that the engineer and fireman were undoubtedly kill ed since the engine had buried it gelf in the mud. A harbor rescue boat and a res cue ship from the navy yard were senty to the scene. Both carried diving apparatus. A rescue train was dispatched from the union station here, and brought back a group of passeng ers, most of them clad in pajamas and night clothes. The first to arrive could not give a coherent account of what had happened, saying that it was too dark when the accident happened to get a clear picture, Some of those brought back by train were rushed to hospitals for treatment. At emergency hospital here those first brought in as injured, but with the extent of Their in juries undetermined were: List of Injured Myer Blackman, 49, Philadelphia. Ben Johnson, Washington. -Paul Hanna, 30, student at Co lumbia wuniversity. Samuel Hamilton, 57, Montclair, New Jersey. | A, O. Tugwell, 44, Baton Rouge, La, Maxwell Galland, 48, Brooklyn, New York. Russell L. Mables, 59, Trenton, New Jersey. J. C. Cunningham, 50 (no ad dress.) William H. Brown, 39, Baltimore, ;cuts on head and shock. A. H. Myers, 35, Thurmont Maryland, cuts and bruises, possi ble fracture of left leg. Charles S. Kenny, 34, Westmin ster, Maryland, cuts and shock. Anthony Swano, 26, Philadelphia sk.ck. C. 8. Smith, 41, Wading River, Long Island, cuts on head and possible fracture skull Sudden Jar In union station here topcoats and blankets were provided for the first of those to reach here, (Continued on Page Three) J_,' VIRGINIA IS : HARDEST HIT; ’ By The Associated Press A storm born in the Caribbean . and raging strangely into the. north Atlantic—still tore at the: eastern seaboard today after a. night of fury. Striking with hurricane or whele gale force, it killed at least a dozen people on land and sea and ins flicted damage running into many millions. Fear that the death list might meount swiftly grew as calls for aid came from communities beset by raging waves or floods resulte ing frorm record-breaking ' rains.. Frantic calls for coast guard aid: reached Washington from half a dozen Maryland towns where 100 families were marooned. Birgon The seas inundated the Norfoelk waterfront Wednesday, shattered a pavilion at Wildwood, N. J., and sent wealthy summer residents of Cape May, N. J, fleeing from their homes. Marines patrolled the lat ter town, where fallen electric wires in pitch dark streets menaced lives. . : Shatters Cottages by A 72-mile gale at Fort Monroe, Va., shatteréd many cottages oec cupied by non-commissioned offi~ cers’ families and only swift res cue work directed by army offl cers prevented loss of life. The gale destroyed three hang ars and an airplane near Easton Md., overturned a coast guard cutter in i.ong Islard sound and capsized a surf boat in swhick a l‘flozen coast guard cadets were {drilling near Montauk, Long Island “The cadets were saved. el ' A lumber shanty and a telegraph ipole, blown acrogs the Erie tracks: mear Belleville, N. J., . almost wrecked a train, but two boys flagged it in time. A man was |electrocuted at Atlantic City, N. I, when he stepped on a fallen wire. At Sea Girt, N. J, 1,000 national guardsmen 'spent a sleepless night in their encampment, struggling to keep tents over their heads. HARDEST HIT NORFOLK, Va., —(#)— Virgin counted ten dead and millions :% i dollars in damage Thursday in the wake of the wildest hux’rle%a ever expearienced here. S - The death list mounted to ten when the coastal liner Madison staggered into port before dawn. minus two of her officers. : Caught in the full fury of the storm on her way from New York, the steamship lost much of her superstructure when what her skipper called a tidal wave smash ed it like a cigar hox Wednesday. Second Mate Lyeurgus Lawrente and Quartermaster Edwamborw; were swept away. o Two white men and six Negroes™ died on land, while the tashionfl resorts of Virginia Beach, Cava Shores, Cape Henry, Ocean View and Willoughby Spit presented scenes of devastation, o Seawalls Collapse L¥y Terrifying waves wrecked i‘“u-} walls and undermined countless structures until they collapsed... At Buckroe Beach scores 'of cottages were washed a w é‘y,‘- wharves and piers were demolishs ed. The famous Virginia Beath" boardwalk was ripped and torn, water five feet deep swept threugh the main street and the gay Cava-' lier Bach club ruined. T The sea pulled houses to de struction at Willoughby Spit. Res idents fled as the waves com;go‘fd‘ through their homes. st Coast guardsmen, wading ¢to their armpits, saved 70 residents at Cavalier Shores in pitch dark ness. Picket bvats rescued 200 at Willoughby, many from second story windows. At Maneto, N. C, Mrs. George B. Hopkins was haul ed a quarter mile in a breeches buoy through pounding surf from the wrecked schooner Kohler, ° Damage at Virginia Beach alone was estimated by Norfolk residents at a million dollars. Power lined failed in Norfolk, stopping the - ¥ X (Continued on Page Hight) LOCAL WEATHER e e e B Generally fair Thursday night and Friday. Net much change in temperature. ' iy TEMPERATURE i Highest. .ow Suis Heid ve s G LOWESL .o o 0 weci Sace Bsss, 080 BBER. ..0 tavids sonne vsesslibel MNormaal . co. Vi cicesd SeretENE RAINFALL Inches last 24 h0ur5....... 0.00 Total since August 1........ 2.82 Deficiency since August 1.. .78 Average August rainfall.... 4.68 Total gince January 1......24.45 Deficiency since January 1 10.60
