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Newspaper Page Text| COTTON MARKET LIDDLING .. ... o oo @ Bedo EVIOUS CLOSE .. .... 9 7-8 | 101. No. 220. [Government Demands Kidnapers’ Conviction VERSITY TOPS | WITH OVER 2.000 Ry ! ures Not Yet Complete But Already Largest ‘ In History . \ A—————————— \ \ | ORE ARE _E_)EPECTED 1 . \ rst Week to End With Social Events and Football. Game gl . nrollment in the University of oreia is the largest in the his v of the institution. With more n 2000 now in attendance, up classmen are still coming in and duate students will -not regis for another few days. The ly estimate cf 2100 for final en iment has been in creased ‘o )0, since the graduate school en- Iment alone will exceed 100. rhe Cocrdinate College of the iversity has 480 freshman and shomore women enrolled, and re than 300 junior and senior ymen hawve completed Fregistra n, making 800 women now in at wdance not counting the graduate col and more than 1200 men are w attending classes, Latecomers e still coming in such number it full registration machinery hag en kept in meotion. Among the departments show : a definite increase in enroll nt over last year are the Lump -1 Law School and the School of mmerce. Figures for most of the pariments have not been com led Students at 'each of the three hens branches of the University e now on regular classroom sche le. First year men and women gan their class work Mconday and yperclassmen Thursday. The social side of the univer y program got underway this ek end with *two dances, open use at the dormitories as the ordinate College, and the activi s of “rushing week” among the ternities. The . ITwWoO dances, onsored by university ' authori s, will be held in Woodruff hall iday and Saturday night, and a rt of the social program in con ction with the opening of foot. Il season Saturday afternoon hen the Georgia Bulldogs meet e Wolfpack from North Carolina ate college. The Red and Black, the univer ty weekly newspaper is publish g its first issue of the 1933-34 ssion thig week, under the edi rship of W. B. Williams, Bryan. ussell Hargrave, Thomasville, ill serve as managing editor of e campus paper, and J, Franklin ‘¢ jr, businesg manager, A 150 KATIE MASON cloved Athens School teacher Dies Thursday After Short lliness Miss Katie Mason, beloved, by undreds of echildten she has ught during the past ten years e has served as a teacher in e city school system, died hirsday morning at a local hos ital at 9:30 o’clock. She had been | only a short time. Miss Mason was born in Athens nd had spent her life here, and Uring her valuable period of ser '“¢ In the eity school system had fidcared herself to hundreds of ol children and through them 40 won the = staunch friendship L their parents. Services will be ' held Friday flernoon at - MeDorman-Bridges ‘iipel, conducted by Rev. J. C. ‘llkinson, pastor of the First abtist church, of which = “Miss le” was a member. Interment Il 'be in Oconee Hill cemetery. The following gentlemen will “IVe as pallbearers: B. M. Grier, ;[ I, O’Farrell, Charles Q'Farrell, lUsh Rowe, James Barrow and ‘Wosevelt Walker. They Wwill' meet U the funeral heme ¥Friday after %on at 3:45 eo'clock. - b % Miss Mason is survived by her Other, Mrs. G, W. Mason; two 'Sters, Mrs. W. F. .aiolder, Sara " 4, Fla. and Mrs. A. H. Web- T of Athens: three brothers, G. . Mason of Decatur, Ala., W. P. lason, Charlotte, N. C.,.and. Har v Mason of Athens, . . Heceiving her educational train "% in the Home School, Lucy 9bb institute and the ‘University T Georgia, Miss Mason was well !Ualified for the highly important “fool work she conduected with ¢ children of Athens during their "'mative and most impressionable Chase Street Teacher For several years she taught "ol in Oconee county before be ing connected with the dity (Continued on Page Two) ATHENS BANNER-HERALD FULL Associated Press Service. Supreme Court Will Face Unusually Large Docket At Opening Next Monday Over 500 Cases Have Accumulated During Summer Recess RELIEF ISSUE IS UP Bishop Cannon Wants Highest Court Quash : Indictments WASHINGTON—(#)—Nine black robed justices 'will file solemnly into the Supreme court chamber next Monday to begin dispos‘it\ion of 500 cases which have accumu lated since the summer recess be gan four months ago. . The task which awaits them in their austere Capitol courtroom is unusually large—approximately 100 more cases than was on the docket ‘thls time last year. ~ All the members have said they \will be present for the opening ‘session and there have been no \ndications of any change in the Ipersonnel of the coury thcugh four ‘of the jurists—Louis D. Brandeis ‘Willis Van Devanter, James C. ‘Mcßeynolds, and George Suther )land—»are eligible for retirement. ~ On Monday the court will re ceive motions and will postpone ar ‘guments until October 9. The first iweek will be devoted to an inten sive effort toward deciding whe ‘ther to review some 300 of the ap plications on file. About one-fourth es the cases on the docket represent federal and state tax controversies. Ques tions of bread national importance are raised in only a few of them. First Relief Issue The first relief issue to reach the tribunal challenges the Minnesota moratorium law, which would ex tend the time property owners have to redeem homes and other real estate foreclosed under mort gages. A Connecticut firm would have the operations of the Clayton anti trust act suspended in view oi present unemployment, conditions to permit it to continue operations. Bishop James Cannon, jr., active in the south in 1928 in opposing the Presidential candidacy of Al fred E. Smith, wants the court to quash the indictment charging him and his secretary with having vio lated the corrupt practices act by failing to report campaign contri butions received. Grain exchange houses are at tacking the validity of the ggain future act, on the ground it re quires them to disclose informa tion which they consider confiden tial. HOME LOAN IS GRANTED HERE One Athenian Gets Loan; Ten More Applications Practically Ready One Athens home owner, J. *A. Gordon, has secured a loan from the Home Owners’ Loan Corpora tion, it was announced today by Lee Bradberry, Clarke county ap praiser, and J. D. Bradwell, a‘tor ney, after returning from a con ference with Frank Holden, man ager for Georgia, in Atlanta Wed nesday. Government bonds on Mr. Gor don’'s home were accepted by ¢ local lender. Ten more applications of Athenians are practically ready to be closed by the bhoard in At lanta, and the loans should b granted soon, Mr. Bradberry said. Six applications were taken to Atlanta vesterday by Messrs. Bradberry and Bradwell. There are twenty more applictaions for loans here in the Athens office nearing completion, and will soon be sent to the Georgia board for approval. A large market has been created for government bonds, Mr. Brad berry said. Several banks have (Continued on Page Two) NRA Is Like Hitler’s National Works, Says German Exchange Student Here The NRA is very similar to the National Arbeit or National Works program instituted by Adolf Hit ler, according to Gerhard Paul, Germian student who is attending the University of Georgia as an exchange student from Marburg. “From what I have seen of your NRA,” Herr Paul said, “it is very much like our National Arbeit, which, since March, has reduced our unemployment by more than two ‘ million people. . While the l‘technical sides of the two pro grams are different, they both | have similar aims, and Germans are watching America with very much interest, for we admire your President.” : | “Hitler is not the blood-thirsty demon some people paint,” the S7,OOO,OOO—ALL HIS ,’/’","";:7/ o o 0%, ™% ,/’/,//,4’ 5 e S G = S N 3 o R G ~.'A:.';':.';’_'_';_-.;:I;.‘f;;‘;. o s y//” S e v 4& .:v:; 7 ,/( sRX O R ._-::;:;v,,--, -l‘-:lﬁ:ﬁi-':-'::‘:::.-':i-ﬁ'5.-""3-,-'"'-':".-‘ 3 PPt SSOn S B e fE?:»:'::i-?:.‘:l.Ai'r‘-’::-'.’5:«'55:15;;‘?15:5:1::;::.‘:f':f~: £ SR i G : BERe »% o S S o Tt "'%;"}’-. oB B B e s i L i;’y/z (s Z ‘/;w;/ e L G o . . 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TROOPS IN CUBA ARE SENT INLAND Hershey Sugar Interests In Island Clesed by La bor Trouble HAVANA, — (/)— Government troops were going to Camaguey to the interior Thursday as labor troubles increased, Army headquarters said the troops going to Camaguey prov province to guard sugar mills against workers’ attacks but the soldiers themselveg declared their purpose was to suppresg a revolu ticn, All the Hershey sugar interestsg suspended operations in_ Matanzas and Havana provinceg because of strikes and the Hearshey electric railway between Havana and Ma tanzas was not operating. . The situation remained tense at a match and cigarette factory in Matanzas where men workerg at tacked women employes, one of whom was wounded. Efforts of neutral mediators hav ing failed, a strike of Havana newspaper employes continued. President Ramon Grau San Martin became ‘nore optimistic about the nation’s financial condi tion and said treasury collections were “Growing daily and we hope soon to be back to nermal.” The president was still studying Thurs day the demand o 7 his political opponents that he resign. Scldiers and sailors started a round-up of persons suspected of being . Communists and detained eight men for a short time, Police said they had orders to investigate “all foreign agitators” and hold them for deportation. I “National Guard Gets . New Senior Instructor ATLANTA.—(#)— Major Robert K. Whitson will become senior in structor of the Georgia National Guard, succeeding Colonel James M. Kimbrough who wiil retire Oc tober 20. v Adjutant General Lindley Camp Wednesday announced the change, explaining that the transfer of Major Whitson from the ninth in fantry at Fory Sam Houston Texas, would be ordered by the army in a few days. student said. “His program is simplifying and unifying. When he came into power, Germany was in great danger from the Commu n'sts. There was no majority of ;(-me “power in our Parliament, un ’til Hitler became Chancellor. Now there is a great deal of security lin Germany . l “We have no imperialism as be fore the war. It is rather a total ism—a bringing out of the Ger-~ ‘iman soul,” Herr Paul asserted. . As for war, the Germans have no desire for war. Gerhard Paul !laug‘hed when the Hitler troops vere mentioned as a possible war {time menace. : * “But they are not military,” he l (Continued on page seven.) —ESTABLISHED 1832 Athens, Ca., Thursday, September 28, 1933 U 5. MAY SPEND 510,000 HERE ON - JOBLESS RELIEF Commissioners Apply for Covernment Funds = To Aid Needy DISCUSS PROJECTS Money Would Eliminate Unemployment in City and County -~ Applicdtion for relief funds to help Athens and Clarke county unemployed tc. the extent of ap proximately SIO,OOO has been sent to the Georgia state board gov erning the relief funds by the Clarke County Commissioners. To help abolish unemployment in the various communities, the federal government is contributing money to pay for labor on city and county projects. The govern ment will pay 30 cents per hour for two days a week to supply unemployed with job for four months. This will amount to about $6 per week for each unemployed person. Pays For Labor As the federal government pays for the labor only, the city and county must supply supervision, projects, and materials. The fed eral government will pay the sala ries of a trgined case -worker and her assistants who will investi gate the unemployed here and place them on jobs. It will also donate a sum for adult education to be carried on at the same time of the job projects. ; Cities and counties do not re quest a certain sum from the fed eral relief fund. The amount to be given here will be decided by the government case worker after investigations are completed. It was estimated, however, that $lO,- 000 would be necessary to elimi nate unemployment in Athqns and Clarke county. In addition to the federal case worker, the work will be carried on under the supervision of a local committee composed of the cha'ir man of the county commissioners, the mayor of Athens, the secre tary of the chamber of commerce, and two local women, if the money is appropriated by the govern ment. The commisSioners expect to hear from the application within the next few days. The projects being discussed here include im- (Continued on Page Two) JAMES W. COLLIER DIES ON BIRTHDAY Mississippian Was Prom inent Democrat; Mem ber of Tariff Body . WASHINGTON.— (AP) —James W. Opllier, of Mississippi, mem ber of the tariff commission and former Democratic chairman #f the house ways and means com mittee, died suddenly at his home here Thursday. - Death was due to heart trouble, his office assistants said. This was his birthday. He was born near Vicksburg 61 years ago. Collier served twelve terms in the house and declined to run again last November after a con troversy over whether candidates should run at large or by dis tricts. § Collier was promoted to the chairmanship of the ~ways and means committee of the house after last year’s Democratic vic tory. He suffered a stroke a while later. Thereafter, the then Represen tative Crisp (D.-Ga.) took over the active committee leadership. Crisp, a “lame duck,” also was appointed a member of the tariff commission, but resigned after serving only a few months, -Oddly enough, it was Crisp’s place that Collier tcok on the commission. The Mississippian’s commission term began only lasg March 28. He is survived by his widow, the former Emma H. Klein; and two daughters, Mrs. Allen T. Akin and Laura D. Collier. Funeral ar rangements have yet to be made. D. Weaver Bridges Goes to American Legion Convention D. Weaver Bridges will leave Friday to attend the National American Legion convention, which is being held in Chicago, October 1,2, 3 and 4. Mr. Bridges is the only delegate from Athens who will attend the convention, going as the Eighth district commander. Mr. Bridges has been a prominent member of the Allen R. Fleming post of the American Legion for many years, having served as post commander and held other important posi tions. 2 KTI B . | now This Bo V. il \ S R SRR RL S A B R A RS S R L 5 T e e S R . eR v e s B SRR : T = i R e BRT R P & > BRSSO R R 4 e B P R R o Z%( BRI b % R B R SRR PR B E L gl e RO TR TN T R R R AR R B :'if B RR S S RR R RS RSR e g }.::::::5, B B e R L SN P :':3.1:-':?;':' e, R Riy SR et S SRR O R g A S R T e R I e R B R 53 A R gas MY Gl RRR R S ':-'1%‘3:515::':55131:?573.» B """u515-'}52515:5555“:5-"-':" gt R e R S %‘fﬁiﬁii:&:&i&i{- ;E*gz'i:-}f?*’f’ff- S Q%:‘15133525?51:' Bo | By B R ;f:;:;:;:;:;:;:;;;:;_ BSR T R R w;w‘ PR P s B . e A B 0 R R R A s R R R g R S R £ a 0 % T B o 08 e“f *W g S R S s ‘,\ﬂ-"% 28 LaR & : e ® : i Authorities at Asheville, N. C,, are seeking the parents of Fred Stephenson, 15, above, who is a victim of amnesia and knows nothing about himself but his name, although he be lieves he was on his way to school somewhere in the south. ‘Welfare workers found the boy ; in a railway station. BAYLIGHT RAID NETS £IOO.OOO IN BOSTON Mail Robbers Hide in Phone Booth Near Rail road Postal Station BOSTON.— (AP) —Three sacks of pegistered mail containing money and valuables estimated by postal officials to be worth more than SIOO,OOO were stoléen from the South station Thursday morning by ()f:&:lr daring daylight thieves. «of the sacks was known as a_‘“coin bag” and was outward bound to banks on Cape Cod. Postal officials told the police this contained money aggregating $40,- 000 to $50,000. The other mail sacks were to be sent to Taunton, Mass.,, and New port, R. ~ the police were in formed, and contained payrolls, in addition to the general run of registered mail. The postoffice of ficials said the total value of the contents of the three sacks was more than. SIOO,OOO and might be as high as $200,000. The thieves, according to police reports, concealed themselves in a telephone booth near the receiv ing room of the postal station and rushed the trucks as the money was being removed to be placed aboard trains. Workers in C.C.C. Will Build 1,466 Camps for Winter WASHINGTON, —(#)— The for est Conservation Corps is geoing to buy 250,000,000 feet of lumber to build 1,466 winter campg for 250,- 000 crops workers, In making the announcement Thursday Robert echner, conserva- Lion director, said: : “This is one of the largest single orders ever placed for Ilumber in the history of the country and will gve active stimulus to the lum ber industry in which 1,000,000 men are normally emyloyed,” Fechner said bids are being called for by commanding officers in the nine corps areas and that the specifications calling for num ber two ecommon lumber were drawn in collaboration with the National TLumber Manufacturers’ association. In the soath, 50,000 men will continue to live in tents. WEAVER CONFESSES " ATLANTA—(®)—Chief of Polict iT. O. Sturdivany Thursday said | Robert Weaver, a pareled convict |from Nevada, had made an oral g‘confession that he participated in | the shooting of Glenn House here | during an atempted robbery earliet | this week. : LOCAL WEATHER Generally fair tonight and Friday except probably local thunderstorms Friday in West and North portions. s i TEMPERATURE HIZOBIE <5 oo “aons aniei 4.0 LOWEIRIcos vvps sese DainaSD NOWN L. i ianiiins «isernnssßholb NOMEE L d o v wsnn T 9.9 : RAINFALL Inches last 24 h0ur5........ 0.00 "Potal. since Sept. 1........ 3.00 Deficiency since Sept. 1.... 1.36 Average Sept. rainfall..... 3.50 Total since January 1......28.56 Deficiency since January 1.10.73 LABOR CHIEF GIVES CREDIT T 0 NAA FOR EMPLOYMENT EAIN Federation Estimates That Nearly One Million Got Jobs in August RELIEF IS STRESSED Senator Wagner Says NRA Is Powerless to Keep Factories Open WASHINGTON —(#)— Big em ployment gains Wednesday were attributed to the Roosevelt recov- ery program by Willlam Green American Federation of Labor chieftain, but employer labor dif ficulties—this time involving Henry Ford—continued ito worry NRA officials. Green said the federation's es timate that 815,000 persons ieturn ed to work in August represented “greater progress in employm?‘ than in any month since depres gion.” He counted the remaining unemployed at 11,001,000, and said “relief needs this winter will be greater than ever before.” , Coinecidnt with Green’s comments on the recovery program were fresh intimations that a chan~ein monetary policies to aid farm prices may be forthcoming soon. Dr. James H. Rogers of Yale re turned from a talk with Président Roosevelt to confer with ranking federal financial officers. Commodity Dollar Talk Though official comment was lacking, the IRogers' conferences served to revive talk of a com modity dollar with less than the present dollar’s buying power. 2 ‘While representatives of the aluminum and banking « business gathered for public' hearings today on their NRA codes, recovery of ficlals were concerned at the sud den closing’ of the Ford plant at Chester, Pa.. after, a strike of workers. Henry Ford has never signed the automobile code. “The NRA is powerless if an emplover chooses to shut down his plant,” Senator Wagner, chairman of the National Labor board, com mented when a mediator sent to (Continued On Page Three) TELEPHONE RATE HEARING RESUMED Representatives of Com munities May Express Views to Commission ATLANTA. —(®)— Jud Wilhoit, chairman of the Georgia Public Service Commission Thursday an nounced that on October 5 and 6 representatives of communities throughout the state would be ac corded the right to appear before the commission to express views on telephone rates. g The visitors wiil be given the right to question telephone com pany representatives who for the past several days have been testi fying as to rates before tne com mission, and may present their own ideag as to the present rate set-up in Georgia. Additional information regard ing the operation of the Southern Bell company was sought Thurs day by the commission in its in vestigation of the charges and rates of the utility in the state. ‘ The commission Wednesday heard T. Barton Baird, state man ager for the company, and George Selden, supervisop of buildings whose testimony concerned chiefly the varioug litems gecing into the cost of the French type, or hand set, telephones. In éxfslaining the charge of 50 (Continued On Page Two) Robert Elliott Burns, “Fugitive From A Georgia Chaingang,” Asks Clemency ATLANTA, Ga.—(AP)—Robert lEllltt Burns, who bounded into the limelight after twice escaping from Georgia chaingangs and writ ing a book purporting ¢o set forth his experiences, has appealed to Governor Eugene Talmadge for clemency. | Burns is now a resident of New Jersey, which state last fall denied Georgia's request for his custody. A robbery in Atlanta in 1922 for which Burns was convicted sent him to prison for six~fo 10 vears but he escaped and was caught in 1929 in Chicago where he was a magazine editor. From Chicago Burns was re turned here as a fugitive, but es caped a second time and was lo cated in New Jersey. The gover nor of that state refused to ex tradite Burns after hearing charges of abusive treatment on A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—sc Sunday. Forced to Shield Fleeing Gunmen e R R R % ‘,é ""&5’@?‘%55.,@ "";‘1%%8 «c-.,’“,&\ RS IS i g S Eo &g 33 ‘143"‘:;'.;.\:_{;:::;:17 'j:s._. gﬁ.;,: 52 EomEea Sl S e .2, ‘;.,u:.s}%?:r 2 3 £ R %&Y’ IR 2 g Be S % R A :'z.»-;. g B v."'f)/' R‘ - 7 EERR o g s A : : % b A B RO S L 5% R 5 WU e p(3 o i e L i 8 : L R RS - . R 0 R i T R %% ,Q, SRR % s, G . 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The officials have claimed that only a few hundred men were on strike in the Chester plant, al though 2,400 in all were affected, They refused tc comment on re portg that this strike might bring to a head Henry Ford's reported refusal to reorgnize the collective bargaining provisions of the na tional automobile code. FFord has refused -to sign the code, but has let it be known that the company intendg to more thap live up to the work-wage provisions. The 32-hour week that the Ford company put into effect this week %n what was described as a plan to strike an average of 35 hours, as specified by the NRA code, was one of the grievances of the as sembly plant workmen, aithough they are. asking a $5 daily mini mum. : ~ The Ford company, which was paying a minimum wage of 60 cents an hour wuen the code be came effective, since has raised the minimum to $4.80 a day for pro duction workers and spokesmen have said that a schedule was be ing worked out to extend the in crease to non-productive workinen. JOKE CAUSES DEATH NEW YORK.—(AP)—Fred Con rad’s little joke caused his death Thursday . ’ In a spirit of fun he approached an automobile in which friends were sitting. “Stick ‘em up,” he commanded . - A passing patrolman heard. He gaw that Conrad was ¢arrying a top-coat, draped over his right wrist as if he had a gun. “Drop that gun,” the policeman shouted. Conrad couldn’t obey because he had no gun. Speechless with fright, he backed away. The po liceman fired and killed him. Con frad was 29. The book which Burns was credited with writing, purported to be an account of his experien= ces on the chaingang and it later was fMe basis for a motion pic ture. Georgia prison officials said the book was “highly imaginary." Tom Linder, executive secretary to ‘Governor Talmadge, said he “supposed” the Burns appeal would be referred to the Prison Commission. He said it had not been the governor’s practice te consider a clemency application from an escaped prisoner not in jurisdiction of the state. V. L. Stanley, member of the State Prison commission, Thurs day said the. commission had not received the Burns petition. He added that he knew of “no prece dent” where a prison eommudoni recommended clemency for a man outside jurisdiction “m’“ﬂ’&‘ KIDNAPING [N U, 5. i'' 1 " 5 BEING CRUSHED, SAYS PROSECUTOR JHID e Urschel Case ans Eyesk Of Whqle Nation to “Kidnap Racket” CASE NEARS CLOSE - Says Government s Now Determined -to Wipe Out Machine Cunners™ OKLAHOMA ClTY—(#)—Joseph B. Keenan, assistant U, S. attor-= ney general, opened the final ar- ' guments in the Charles F. Urschel * kidnaping case Thursday with a declaration that the governmentis determined to wipe out kidnaﬁz_\k' and the activities of machine gun gangsters. Ly “The interest of the nation 8 focused upon the drama now coms= ing to a close in this court room, and we are here to find an answer to the question of whether we shall have a government of law and or«’ ‘der or abdicate in favor of ma=" chine gun gangsters,” Keenan told ‘the jury. j ol Albert Bates and Harvey Bailey are accused as principal defendants in the $200,000 kidnap case, with . George Kelly, gunman nrrested"mg‘ Memphis. The others are R. G. (Boss) Shannon, his wife, Ora, and his son Armon, and the ﬂ\g?v Minneapolis and ~ St. Paul men," Barney Berman, Clifford Skelly, Isadore Blumenfeld, Sam Kronick and Sam Kozberg. e Unusual Spectacle o f Keenan referred to the unusual spectacle of four separate groups of defendants linked in the same case. i “It would \ seem that kidnaping has become @ modern act,” hesaid. “It requires’ the ‘spotkers,’ those who determine’ what the intended victim can pay; it requires the actual ‘snatcher®’, the bold out laws who smash their way into a home in the dead of night to whisk away their vietim at the poing of machine guns. i “The third ‘group comprises the guardsmen and those who hide the ‘vietim from the searching public spurred by the outraged commun: ity N v}fﬁ’%‘, i 2 ol “Fourth, and not,“:‘{!‘lmw ‘are the money chamgers, the slips Lery, slimy creatures. schemiing da the manner and faghion . ‘of the ‘modern fences, who e he ‘marked curtency into THORSY that cannoy he identified. R “It is self evident they @re equally guilty with those vho originally plotted and carrled out the abduction. e “In this case we have the nu« merous conspirators carrying outa carefully laid plan almost simuls taneously in four states of the ‘union.” . 2R ’ Sam Kronlck was on trial. five ‘r'l;v; in the r‘neae fbe;"lox'e he IW'A.,_‘L ed he w n - ‘ as o of the dofend%?;‘ , (Continiied On Page Twe)‘ag’?\ —— it ————s% A KELLY CONFESSES PART IN KIDNAPING Prodded by Federal Men, Outlaw Breaks Gangster Code and Talks. e E MEMPHlS—(#)—Prodded by feds ‘eral authorities, George ‘“Maching CGun” Kelly has talked. o . W. A. Rorer, department ok jjusti(-e agent, announced Wedness 'day night the “bad man” from the southwest had confessed a,pagg the kidnaping of Charles F. Urse !Chel, Oklahoma City oil man,iw» that he had stoutly denied twa | ‘other crimes with which the offis cers sought to link him. Leanan “You've got me Tight oﬂ‘rﬂlﬁ Urschel kidnaping, but not the Chicago robbery and the Kansas City Union Station job,” W‘i quoted Kelly as saying. " . Amplifying Rorer’'s brief - ame nouncement, a confidential % g close to the federal authorities said Kelly in his oral confession had named Albert Bates, now om trial at Oklahoma City, as the gunman’s actual accomplice in the Urschel kidnaping. x Pt “Kelly made no' formal conféss sion but he told the department of justice agents,” the informant said, “that he and Bates were the ones who did the actual kidnaping and that they teok Urschel to Paradise, Texas, and returnsd to Oklahoma City te collect the rans som. o “Kelly indicated the degree of guilt of the others connected withh the case and gave some idea ";};' the disposition of the ransom 4'{: money.” 5 Ll The Chicago robbery referred t%} in Rorer's announcement was the - (Contipied o% B