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Vol. 101, No. 247.
End Of Carolina And Augusta Strike Seen
Optimism Felt In Trading Circles As U.S. Begins to Buy Foreign Gold
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5. GOLD STAND
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Dollar Tumbleés on French
Exchanges Following
F. D. R.’s"Edict.
STOCKS RISE BRISKLY
New Move Preliminary to
Dollar Revaluation to
Bar Fluctuations.
NEW YORK —(®)— The dollar
tumbled in foreign exchange deal
ings, and shares rose briskly in the
stock exchange, in trading Mon
day, in response to the announce
ment that the RFC would extend
its gold buying to foreign mar
kets.
WASHINGTON—(®)— President
Roosevelt fortified his price-rais
ing drive Monday against foreign
raids with preparations to buy
gold in the world markets.
It was the obvious intention of
the President through this step to
increase and then control the
world price level of the precious
metal. Apparently he was convin
ced that a constant rise in gold
prices would stimulate a similar
upward movement in commodities, |
Mr. Roosevelt stated Sunday
night after a lengthy talk at the
White House with government fi
nancial leaders thet the machinery
for purchasing gold abroad would
be set up immediately,
This wag unofficially interpreted
as meaning he was dissatisfied
with foreign influences on his
price recovery - campaign. The
White House parley followed a
drop on Saturday in the London
gold market while the American
government was again advancing‘
its price for ore mnewly mined "in
this country. ’
The TLondon drop brought a
differential between that market
and the United States of $1.25 an
ounce. Also, there was an appar
ent feeling here thatp,the dollar
was not in line on the foreign ex
change with the new American
gold elevation movement.
So, Mr. Roosevelt decided to go
into the foreign markets and place
his game on a world scale with
the determination to control the
gold value of the dollar.
This is preliminary to revalua
tion of the dollar and the estab-‘
lishment of the Roosevelt proposal
for a managed currency to bar
violent price fluctuations in the
future, :
It is expected here that it will
take a couple of days, at least,
to put up the machinery for goldl
purchase abread. The President
had directed that this be done
through the Reconstruction cor
poration, which is making the
domestic purchases of newly mined
gold.
The presence here Sunday of of
ficials of the New York federal
reserve bank led to the opinion
that this institution ' 'would be |
employed as the ageney for mak
ing the foreign purchases. ]
The ad@ministration M on @ 2 y!
raised the price of domestic newly
mined gold to $31.96 an ounce, and
1} cents higher than Saturday’s
figure and 47 cents above the day’s
quotations on the world markets.
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olice Have Heavy
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Week-end With 52
Arrests on Books
A heavy week-end was reported
Monday hy eity police, with thir
ty-two cases of drunkenness, 17
disorderly conducts, six reckless
_‘]“i\'ing, 1 resisting arrest, 1 public
indecency, and two arrests for
running over a fire hose on Oco
nee street Saturday morning, when
firemen were fighting a fire which
destroyed the top of a three-room
€mpty house.
John Strickland was taken inte
custody on an old charge, on
which he had evaded arrest, of
selling liquor. A Negro was held
in the city jail over-night for the
Whitehall authorities.
- Chief Charlie Seagraves and U.
S. Clerk V. K. Hawkins went to
Macon today to testify in the
-I‘mwing of a true bill against Gus
Sellers, charged with violating the
Mann act, >
Sellers was arrested in Athens
Some time ago and was indictec
bure by the grand jury. He is be
ng held in the county jail here.
Carry Maxey, Negro, was arrest
€l Sunday on charges of disorderly |
“onduct and drunkenness. He was
e Mfim& ing his wlfl
4nd is out en cash bond.
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PARlS.—(AP)—Abruptly bring
ing to an end the mystery which
had surrounded his movements for
hours, Maxim Litvinoff, Russian
foreign commissar, arrived here
Monday enroute to the TUnited
States. His plans for sailing to the
United States where he is to con
fer with President Roosevelt re
garding possible American recog
nition of Russia, remained veiled
in secrecy,
Discussion to Be Concern
| ed Principally With
~ Trade Matters.
WASHINGTON. —(®)— Virtual
completion of a formula for Pres
ident Roosevelt's recognition dis
cussions with Maxim Litvinoff of
Russia wzfs revealed Monday by
Washington authorities.
State department officials guard
ed the exact course to be followed
but no secret was- made of the
fact that there had been a final
roundup of data for the conversa
tions.
Both Mr. Roosevelt and Secre
tary Hull remained silent upon
Litvinoff’s assertion that so far as
he was concerned the matter could
be settled in half an hour, It
was known, however, that the
President planned to take consid
erably longer for what he termed
the move to “explore” in across
the-table fashion *“all questions
outstanding between our coun-J‘
tries.”
~ In the discussions, expected
here to start early mnext week, it
is Mr. Roosevelt’s intention to hit
only the high spots with Litvinofi
and leave details to assistants.
Secretary Hull,. who postponed
for a week his trip to South Am
erica, will have a hand in this
work, as will R. Walton Moore
assistant secretary of state and
William C. Bullitt, speecial assist
’ant to the secretary of state.
One plan under consideration
}would call for creation of a spec
jal corps of economic and trade
experts to handle details.
Observers here have had definite
intimations that the discussions
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Laboratory “Murder” Shocks Customers
At Athens Soft Drink Emperium Today
The “murder” Monday morning
in one of Athens’ most popular
soft-drink emporiums wasn't a‘
murder at all, but the effort of
some law students at the Univer
sity of Georgia to create a “case”
for “trial” in connection with their
studies. s
7+ is said that the “victim” was
sitting at a table with a certain
‘young lady, who, it is further
said, was not “in” on the “mur
der”. The “murderer” rushed in
and stabbed the “vietim” with 2
small pen knife, and then made a
dash for freedom.
In the midst of the struggle, one
of the two spilled a bottle of red
all over the floor. The “wit
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RETAIL CODE, MOST
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IMPORTANT OF AL
BECOMES EFFECTIE
rMillions of Employes Af
~ fected By Compact of
| Fair Competition.
STEEL PARLEY TODAY
Johnson to Start on Tour,
to Explain Misunder
l standings of NRA.
WASHINGTON—(#)—Most of the
country’s retail store< with mil
lions of employes began putting
into operation Monday the single
compact applying equal standards
of trade honesty and fair compe
tion to all.
Officials regarded this NRA re
!tail code as the greatest experi
‘ment in the industrial recovery
|program, and the start of its op
‘eration shared attention with his
‘problems of the day.
i Chief of these was up at the
White House. President Roosevelt
invited the steel industry’s lead
ers to tell him why they had not
worked out for their coal mines
the labor agreement which he de
manded three weeks_.ago. .
Decision Expected
I ‘With this session, the President
‘expected to establish definitely
whether the steel men proposed to
accept all of hisindustrial program
—including the portion they liked
least—or to challenge his authority
and force a test of the law's con
stitutionality.
Hugh S. Johnson, recovery ad
ministrator, waited the outcome to
decide definitely upon a plan for
starting almost immediately on a
westward tour of the country., He
'wants to make several speeches
| directed at what he considers mis
under standings of the industrial
program, and to observe conditions
at first hand.
Thel question of Henry Ford's
'compliance with the automobile
’oode wasg temporarily shelved.
;pending action on government mo
tor contracts, establishment of
Ford's intention in regard to filing
§required data with ,the national
automobile Chamber of Commerce
and revelations of his attitude on
dealing with strikers at his Edge
water, New Jersey, assembly plant
Of Particular Importance
A reason why particular impor
tance attached to the retail code
was that unlike most manufactur
ing indusries, hardly a unit in the
army of stores regimented under
the compact is engaged in inter
state commerce. Hardly one, un
til passage of the industrial law
could have been reached by fed
eral regulation.
Bven under the new law the ex
tent to which regulation may be
enforced has not been established
clearly.
Only the declaration of the in
dustrial act that the employment
emergeney is a burden upon,inter
state commerce gives the federa
government any right to get at lo
cal trade, and this authority willl
expire. in 1935 or whenever the
emergency is declared at an end
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Bishop Mikell Installs
New Episcopal Rector
Rev. David Cady Wright, jr.,
was installed as rector of the Em
manuel Episcopal church by Bish
op H. J. Mikell of Atlanta at
special services Sunday. ‘
Bishop Mikell conducted the
service of institution, a ceremony
which has not been held in Ath
ens for many years, after which
he conducted the regular morning
prayer, assisted by Rev. Wright.
The Bishop delivered the sermon
during the service of institution.
who happened to be presen; at the
time.
I Any Way, the Svictim” was rush
ed somewhere (supposedly to the
hospital) while the fast-gathering
lerowd looked on in horror,
| It seems that the law students
must do a certain amount of “lab”
| work, and they must Have the nec
essary materials, even if they have
to create a “murder”.
Later in the morning, the “vic
-Itim” and the “murderer’ made
|their way together down to The
|Banner-Herald - office to plead
guilty to pulling a “fake”. They
|didn't want to make the headlines
|with their “murder”. However, the
$s e R e e SCTMPRT R Ci BE
—ESTABLISHED 1832
Athens, Ca., Monday, October 30, 1933,
WILL DEFAULT ON
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OBE RELIEF WORK
lForty-Two Given Work
Last Week and More
Are Called.
Frowns were conspicuous by
their absence on the Chamber of
Commerce front yard today as Mrs,
Frank Camstra, administrator for
the Clarke County Emergency re
lief commission sent grinning, ov
er-alled ana in most cases bearde«"
men, from boys of 18 to adults of
40 or more to join the men alreudyl
wielding picks shovels at ‘the \\'a-|
ter-works and the high school drill
field. Forty-two were given work
last week.
. The total number of men given
work hag almost doubled since Sat- '
urday, and they are being sent uuti
as soon as their cases can be in-|
vestigated and passed on.
Mrs, Camstra asked that Athens
employers cooperate with her in
the investigation of cases that
come up for relief, so that the work
can go on properly, ]
Investigate Tlhoroughly '
) “We will not accept anyone for |
;relief work who already has a job, |
or who gives up the job he hag in
the hope of getting better pay from!
us,”” she said. “The work ig strit’t-|
ly relief and only for those who are |
[really in need. Hach case will be,
investigated thorougniy, and musv’
speuple who are asked for informa
tion would help us a great deal by
giving it to us immediately”
~ The relief committee met Mon
day morning and discussed var
ious projects which it is hoped
will get underway in the near fu-l
ture. All projects must first be ap
proved by the state relief com
mission. Plans already seng to At
lanta for approval include work at
the waterworks, Winterville school, |
the high gchool, and county |
schools. Other projects which will |
be considered later are the develop- ‘
ment of the American Legion civic|
center, tearing down the ‘Octogan |
on the University campus, de- |
velopment of a park at n: foot of |
Dearinge*street on the s'te of the |
old Botanical gardens, improw-§
ment of grounds at the Athens|
General hospital, and work on lhel
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JAPS MAY SPONSOR |
" PEACE CONFERENCE
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TOKYO —(#)— Minister or \Vulj
Sadao Araki, now in western Japan |
for jthe annual army muneuverst
was quoted in Japanese newspapers |
Monday as advocating a parley on|
peace. !
In an interview, Araki was said |
to have announced that he wuuldi
propose to the cabinet an interna-|
tional conference in Tokyo for all]
powers interested in the Far East
Japan, China, Manchukuo, Rus
sia, Great Britain, France, Hollanc
and the United States would hex
invited, it was said.
I, O e e
Control Board Meets;
Postpones Selections
ATLANTA .—(#)—Thgl Board of
Control of Georgia eleemosynary |
institutions met Monday and post
poned the selection of a chairman
and all other important business
until November 17,
Resignation of Arthur Lucas of
Atlanta, the chairman, left thar
position open and there were ru
mors thas heads of the State hos
pital in Milledgeville and the Tu
berculosis Sapitarium at Alt«
would be remgved. but no action
!New Premier Is Expectea‘
to Follow Deladier’s
Example on Debt.
NO SURPRISE TO U. S.
Pall of Gloom Surrounds
French Capital Over
| Death of Painleve.
1 PARIS, —(#)— The government
of premier Albert Saraut, it was
earned in official quarters Mon
day intend— tp default on the Am
erican War debt installment due
December 15, as did Premier
Edouard Dalarier June 15.
le was said semi-officially the
government would abstain from
raising the question in parliament,
and this policy, rather than 'his
health, woud be responsible for the
absence of former Premier Edourd
Herrioy because his participation
would be certain ‘to revive the debt
question.
M. Herrot is an advocate of the
debts payment. The December 15
due payment is $22,200,928.
A pall was thrown over French
political circles Monday ag all
France prepared a national fun
eral for gne of its illustrious states
men, Paul Pairleve, who died Sun
day of the same malady that forced
him out of public affairs—heart
disease. He was 70 years old,
He died within 24 hourg after
Presideng Albert Lebrun had dedi
gated Saturday the new “Painleve
Amphitheater,” conservatory of
arts and trades.
Monday plans were made for the
Ibody to lay in state there until
a national funeral, sey for Novem
!ber 4, is tendered. Burial probab
|ly will be in the Pantheon.
WAS EXPECTED
WASHINGTON. —(AP)—Ameri
can officials have been prepared
for a continued war debt default
by France as probably inevitable,
| regardless of who might be head
ing the cabinet when December
15, the next date, arrives.
This conclusion was drawn from
the emphatic attitude of the Cham
ber of Deputies agianst further
payments, as expressed from time
to time.
! On December 15 the Parisian
government has payments of $3,-
046,879 on principal and $19,154,046
lun interest, a total of $22,200,925
'falling due. In addition, payments
'due last June and in December,
1932, are in arrears to a total of
360,00,000. |
For several weeks British and
American spokesmen have been
reviewing the war debt obliga
tions of the London government.
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COMPLIANCE BOARD
WILL MEET TONIGHT
” The NRA Compliance board for
‘Athens will meet tonight at 7:3(0
in the Chamber of Commerce. Al
lthis time complaints of non-com*
| pliance, petitions for exceptions
!I‘r‘om the agreement, and petitions
jto work longer hours under ex
isting Union contracts than those
'set forth in the Presidents agree
‘'ment will be heard.
The board consists of W, L.
Pledger, employe in industry; J.
‘M. Brock, employe in retail trade;
10. D. Grimes, employer in indus
try; E. L. Wier, employer I
'wholesale trade; Joe Costa, jr.
Max Michael, lawyer; and Joel
Wier, special representative. Mr. |
Michael is general chairman of the
‘board. l
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Pryor Bowen Is Given |
Release ?n Probahon;
ATLANTA —(#)— Pryor Bowen,
17, convicted with William Delin-|
ski in the kidnaping of John K.
Ottley, president of the First Na
tional Bank, Monday was released
from the chaingang on probationi
after serving a little more than a
month of a 12 months sentence. l
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Cloudy, probably rain in ex
treme south portion tonight
and in central and south por
tions Tuesday.
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Deficiency since October 1.. 1.356
Total October rainfall .. .. 2.91}
~ Total since January 1 .. ..30.06
. Deficiency since January 1.12.31
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Lupe Velez, peppery Mexican screen star, and Johnny Weissmuller,
swimming star of the films, who announced their marriage teday, are
shown above in a recent photograph taken as they emerged from a dip
at a Hollywood beach. s y TR
{LOS ANGELES,—(/P)—Lupe
Velez, Mexican actress, and
Johnny Weissmuler, Tarzan of
of the screen, admitting they
have been married since Oct. 8,
said today the reason they kept
their marriage a secret was to
give “a little gir a break,”
The “little girl” was the
writer, of a film fan magazine,
a friend of the of the film
couple, who accompanied the
actress and getor to Las [Pegas,
Nev., last Oct. 8,
“It was my own business,”
said Miss Velez. “I felt like say
ing I wasn’t married and now I
feel saying I am married.”
EIGHT ARE KILLED
IN PLANE CRASHES
Stunt Fliers Collide in
Texas; Cabin Ship Falls
in Massachusetts.
AMARILLO, Tex. —(#)— While
thousands of horrified spectators
watched, twe stunting airplanes
collided Sunday over Amarillo
bringing' death to four *“air cix
cus” fliers.
A ship carrying Pilot Ezra Wige
gins, of Hooker, Okla., Bill Tullis
of Liberal, Kansas, and Frank
Clay, of Morrill, Neb., plunged intc
a street three blocks from the
city’s main business thoroughfare.
All three were killed.
The other plane, piloted by Ar!
Stude of Wooedward, Okla., crashed
through the roof of a laundry
Stude died later.
CRASH ON FARM
WESTBORO, Mass—(#)— Four
persons lost their lives in a Sun
day affternoon airplane] crash as
their cabin ghip fell onto the Fair
banks farm near the Westboro air
port.
The dead are:
Oliver H. Walton, 34, of Need
ham. believed by police to have
been pilot of the plane. Z
Mrs. Ruth M. Walton, 34, the
supposed pilot’'s wife.
George F. Chapman, 35, instruc
tor and pilot at the Westwood
airport.
Clarence E. Heath, 25, Dedham.
Italy’s “Consecration of Nuptiality”
Results in 2,500 Marriages Monday
ROME — (#) — Seven hundred
voung couples from Rome and 1,-
800 others from the central prov
inces were married simultaneously
Monday morning in celebration of
a new Fascist rite, “the consecre
tion of nuptuality,” created by
Premier Mussolini to encourage a
larger population. 4
| The Rome couples first attended
private ceremonies In their own
parishes and then gathered at the
church of St. Mary of the Ang
els, where the Archbishop of Pali-
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday
In Las Vegas, justice of the
Peace Frank M. Ryan, who
previously denied he had mar
ried the ‘couple, admitted he
had performed the c¢eremony.
It was the champion swim
mer’'s second marriage Three
dayg before hs wedding to the
fiery little actress, he was di
vorced from Bobbe Arnst,
musical comedy star.
Miss Velez had consistently
denied she might marry the for
mer swimming monarch from
the time their mnames were
firs¢ linked, while she was ap
pearing in vaudeville in New
York, until the day of Weis
smuller's divorce,
MOB STORMS SHOP 3
IN DETROIT STRIKE
Police Reserves Called
Out Following Wild
Demonstrations Monday
DETROIT.—(#)—A_ mob said by
police to mumber 2,500 riding in
nearly 300 automobiles, Monday
swept tarough streets in which
several tool and die shops are lo
cated, hurling bricks through plant
windows and overturning auto
mobiles in what officials said was
a demonstration against tool and
diemakers who have returned tc
work during a strike.
Police reserves were called after
the mob visited the plant of the
Kiestglin Tool and Die Corp,
smashing 134 windows, but the
men had sped on to the plant of
Frederick A. Colman and Sons
where they circled the factory.
then drove away as patrolmen
rushed to the place.
The demonstrators then sped to
the Faig}{ Tool and Die Co., plani
where they overturned automobiles
parked in a lot near the factory
hurled bricks through windows, and
stormed the offices of the plant.
Officials reported the men seized
blue prints and drawings, took
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The newly-weds then, preceded
by bands marched under a brilli
ant sun through streets crowded
with women throwing con.etti, to
the Fascist recreation organization
headquarters. 4
The Fascist secretary, Achile
‘Starche, presented’ each couple
’with 500 lire (about S4Q) bank
note as a gift of Il Duce. bk
Many determined mothers-in-law
limmedlately appropriated the gift
for safekeeping in a bank.
l Then couples then were served
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Peaceful Settlement Ex
pected in Augusta
Plants, Still Closed. =
AUGUSTA, Ga—(AP)—Cotton &
textile mills in the Horse Creek *
valley, just across the line '
South Carolina, continud opera
tions Monday despite presence of
pickets at Bath, Clearwater, Lang- |
ley, Warrenville and Graniteville. =
South Carolina National Guards
men were on duty at mills in the
- and the situation was quiet.
There . was no . picketing hexs, =
where mills have closed down, due =
to labor troubles. el
The early morning, crowd .at =
Clearwater got a whiff of tear gas,
but it was good-humored about it,
' One of the gas hembs sprang.a =
leak and National Guardsmen told =
the crowd it would have to be ex- =
‘ploded. As the crowd watched, the
‘bomb was exploded, St
Meanwhile, - negotiations were
begun here to stop the strike, =
Mayor W. D. Jennings of Au
gusta said after conferences with =
| mill men and labor leaders that &
(he believed progress had been
made and that there might be an =
announcement forthcoming durixié,_f
the day. Hisestatement came after
the strikers at three mass meet- ©
ings decided to resume picketing.
“Everybody wants to cooperate
under the NRA and settle this =
thing,” Mayor Jennings said after
conferring at separate times witfi
George L. Googe, southern repre
sentative of the American Federa
tion of Labor, nad Charles L.
Richardson, conciliator for the _
United States Department of La
bor, and with owners of the closed
Augusta mills, HRT
T. M. Hefferman, president, and *
Willard Lewis, vice-president, of
the closed Riverside mill ‘here,
said their plant had been operat
ing in accordance with the NRA
code, that a peaceful settlement of
their difficulties could have been
arranged and that a strike was
unnecessary. F
“Last Saturday a mob of unau
thorized persons entered our plant
and by threats of force caused our.
employes to leave their jobs” the
statement said. “There has not
been any action taken which even &
slightly resembles a strike. We
\were, immediately after this, and
’have since been in a position to
open our doors for a continuance
~of operations just as soon as our
workers -could be accorded pro
} tection.”
l The statement concluded that
“unless there is material change
in conditions” Riverside mill ‘will
reopen Tuesday morning. .
Paul W. Fulier, educatjonal di~
rector of the American Federation =
of Labor, at the mass meeting in
the Municpial stadium here urged
the strikers to leave arms at home =
as they resume their picketing. In |
’their activities he warned espec
ially against violence in the South =
Carolina area where National =
Guardsmen have been -on duty =
since the disorders occurred last ‘
'week. e
In addressing the mass meeting =
ihere Googe said he had received =
notice from Harry L. Hopkins, =
ffiedeml relief administrator, that =
all strikers would be eligible for =
relief until the Department of La- w
!bor declared the strike unjustified.
'He also said the War department =
‘at Washington had issued an or- %
‘der that Augusta police should re
turn arms. borrowed a few days
ago in preparation for po'saible‘f‘?
violence during the strike. o
NO DISTURBANCE
GRANITEVILLE, 8. C.—(AP)—~
Hose Creek valley’s textile plants
opened Monday morning without °
disturbance while National Guards
men and state officers stood watch
over long lines of peaceful pick- =
ets. A e / :
Officials at the six plants in the =
valley said their forces yanged
from 90 to 100 percent of normal,
and denied the statement of Di C.\ =
Finch, organizer for the American -
Federation of Labor, that no ;
member went to work and “they
are running the mills with strike~
breakers.” S
There were approxlmat%;‘ 200
pickets at the Bath mill of the "=
Loring Manufacturing "j
150 here at the Granite Manufac
turing comgany. and about 250
scattered at plants ,of the fwo