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Thursday’s Confusion |
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Physician Charged With
Slaying Daughter-in- |
Law Remains Calm |
By MAURICE E. QOLLINS
Associated Press Staff Writer
CHICAGO — (@) — A jury was
completed Friday to try. Dr. Alice
1. Wynekoop for the onerating|
table murder of her daughter-in- |
law, Rheta. .
The completion of the jury came
after less than two hours of ques
tioning Friday, under the urgings
of Judge Joseph B. David for
speed. Seven of the twelve were
chosen Thursday and the routine
questions were abbreviated Friday
to obtain the remaining five. |
Mixed Panel ‘
The jury which will pass on the§
tate of the 62 year old physician
includes a salesmanager for a|
gporting goods concern, a bOOk-J
keeper, a draftsman, a street car
motorman, a former printer, an
electrician, a mechanic, 4 night
watchman, a dif)rict manager and
a photo engraver. {
The jury was sworn in and
Judge David announced that court
would be adjourned until 1¢
o'clock Monday.
Strict order replaced yesterday's
scenes of wild, confusion as the
second day of the trial got under
way.
By order of the court the entire
fifth floor was barred to;all who
could not present credentials, The
courtroom itself had almost a de
serted 21])])(‘1“'11“(?9.
Dr, Alice Lindsay Wynekoop,
whose life the prosecution placed
in jeopardy Thursday when it an
nounced it would qualify the jury
for the death penalty, again was
carried into court. BShe wore the
same somhre * black ensemble as
Thursday, a white secarf providing
the only relief. :
Qualified By State ‘
Members of the jury were quali
fied by the state to vote for the
death penalty, each having an
swered “no” to the question as to
' whether they had any objection to
| capital punishment, which in Hli
nois is carrjed out in the electric
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But if the knowledge that the
state was laying the forYrdation
for a request that she die in the
chair had any effect on the 62-
vear-old woman doctor her ex
pression did not show it.
She maintained an unflagging
interest in the proceedings, with
out however, the comfort of her
son, Earle, for whom the prosecu
tion contends R'jeta was slain so
that he might be relieved of ar
unhappy marriage. His where
about was unknown,
University Enroliment
Is Increased to 2209;
Further Gain Expected
Registration at the University
o Georgia reached 2209 today, with
% new students entering for the
winter quarter. Last quarter
2124 were enrolled,
Possibly another 20 students will
fomplete registration within the
“XU week, Registrar. T. W. Reed
asserted. Peak enrollment, however,
's usually rached in the sprins,
when Mr. Reed expects a total of
Mmore than 2250 to be gained.
Two thirds of the student body
are men, one third coeds. Of the
eds. 500 attend classes on the
Coordinate College campus, for
merly the Georgia State Teachers
Colfege, more than 200 are on the
Main campus.
Official Investigates Charge of Swindling
Convicts’ Families on “Influence” Pretext
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ATLANTA Ga.—~(AP)—A charge
¥ a state senator against uniden
tified men alleged to have swin=
" 'amilies of convicts on a claim
Mat they could obtain pardons
Yrough influence with the gover
10r was under investigaiton Fri
; Tom. Linder, executive sec
ary to Governor Talmadge.
_State Senator Pat Haralson, of
Slairsvilje, made the charge
SAinst . the unidentified mén
*l2¥y in a hearing on the
“€mency application of Hugh
VN, convieted in Union county
% the slayving of Bdith Miller,
. 1= White woman, and sentenced
t¢ imprisonment,
aralson sajd Mrs. Brown, wife
Ls s client, had been approached
¥ two men whe gave what he
JHeved to be the fietitious names
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Honolulu Fetes Record-Breaking Fliers
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EPISCOPAL CHURCH
OFFICERS ELECTED
Annual Meeting and Din
ner |ls Held Thursday;
Reports Given
Election of officers for the year
teatured the annual meeting of the
Emmanuel Episcopal church, held
last night in the parish house.
As is customary, dinner was
served to tlose present, aftet
which the annual reports of the
various church officers_were sub
mitted. The finane¢ial report, made
by the church treasurer, . M,
Heckman, showed a surplus in the
treasury at the end of the year.
At the Thursday night election
‘Homer K. Nicholson was made
senior warden for the year, and
Prof. David F. Barrow was named
junior warden. The eight vestry
men selected were: Prof. Claude
Chance, Dr. E. D. Pusey, Prof.
H. M. Heckn/l, Prod. 7. H.
Davenport, Ogfar D. Grimes, C. L.
McLetoy, R. V. Watterson, and
lCuyler A. Trussell.
U. S. ESPIONAGE |
Vice Admiral of Japanese
Navy Urges Nation to
Defend Self |
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TOKYO, — (# — Japan must“
prepare, and is preparing, to de
fend herself against what appearsl
to be “America’'s policy of hosti
lely encirculing Japan by every
pessible means,” said a published
statement attributed Friday to Vice
commander of the navy's combined
fleets.
The statement wag made in an
interview published in the widely
circulated monthy magazine,
Gendai.
Instances of encirclement, the
interview cited, were Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh’s leisurely flight
along the Kuriles in the summer
of 1931 and Harold Bromley's
abortive atempt to fly the pacific
in 1930.
“1 may be mistaken, but I think
t s possible they were spying in
;those islands,” the admiral was
quoted as saying.
. “Some time ago, an American
%licutenant happed of from Japan
on an alleged transpacific flight
!attempt and turned back after fly_
iing we don’t know where, I think
the filure was purposeful.”
(This reference obviously was
the Bromley-Gatty attempt of
September 14, 1930.)
“Then Lindbergh stayed in the
Kuriles over a week on excuse of
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of Kitchens and Strickland, and
offered to affect her husband’s re
lease for a certain sum.
“rd like to find those men,”
Linder said- “I don't know just
what charges we could put them
in jail on but I'll bet I can find
! something.”
| Senator Haralson said he repor'¢
ed the matter to the governor in
order that it could be investigat
ed.
Linder said evidence he had re
ceived in the case included the
copy of a purported contract be
tween Mrs. Brown and one of the
men in which the man acknowl
edged receipt of SSO for securing
the release of her husband with
the stipulation the money would be
returned if he was not liberated
within 30 days. &
Navy’s Ai A
Heroes - Today With
Honolulu’s Citizens
HONOLULU, —(#)— Through
darkness, fog and other hazards of
a 2400-mile oversea flying journey
six navy seaplanes have completed
a 24 hour, record-breaking mass
flight from sSan Francisco to
Hawaii. '
Friday, the Pacific - spanning
fliers of Uncle Sam’s navy were
heroes here.
And when Lieut, Commander
Knefler McGinis and his 29 offi
cers and men are fully rested they
face rounds of entertainment.
The six seaplanes sliced the
waters of Pearl Harbor Thursday
The last one “ame to rest "at
3:07 p. m. (Pacific Standard
Time).
The squadron came through
without a slip in what the navy
insisted was merel, a ‘“routine
movement” and cotgmander Me-
Ginnis described as “just another
all night hop.”
The civilian population of Hon
olulu, however refused to accept
such a mater-of-fact view, On the
street and elsewhere conversation
indicated the very ease and pre
cision ‘with which the squadron
accomplished its task suported the
opinion that a regular air route to
the mainland had ben blazed.
Intense interest was evidenced
in the declaration of delegate Lin
coln MecCandles of Hawaii in
Washington that the success of
the flight paved the way for regu
lar airmail and passenger service
to the mainland “in the near fu
ture.”
Entertainment for the sailors of
the air awaited the arrival of
Rear. Admiral A, W. Johnson,
commander of the aircraft, base
force, who is ®due in Honolulu
Saturday on the aircraft tender
Wright which stood by in line of
flight 600 miles from Pearl Harbor
as the squadron roared overhead.
From the time commander Mc-
Ginnis le@ the flight through
San Francisco’'s -~ Golden Gate at
2:925 p. m. (Pacific Standard Time)
Wednesday until the Pearl harbor
finish Admiral Johnson kept in
touch with the fliht by wireess,
His flagship was one -f six sur
face vessels along the course at
300-mile intervals.
The entertainthent program for
Saturday night includes a dance
and reception by the Honolulu
advertising club. Next week thr
Honolulu chamber of commerce
will give a luncheon for the fliers
and the mayor and voard of sup
ervisors plan an Hawaiian feast.
. While expressing appreciation
for honors shown the fliers, navy
lofficials again pointed to the or
}ders which said the squadron will
now take up its regular duties
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Jack Garrison s '
Painfully Injured
As Car Overturns
Jack Garrison, of 391 Nacoochee
avenue, was painfully injured 'yes-1
terday afternoon when the car he
was driving overturned on the
Agricultural College campus drive,
He was rushed to St. Mary’s hos
pital in Bernstein’s ambulance,
where today his condition was pro
nounced as ‘“painful but not serie
ous.” ]
It is alleged that the accident
oceurred when Mr. Garrison’s ma
chine swerved to th® side to avoid
hitting another car which is said
to have pulled into the road in
front of him. The driver of the
latter car was parked by the side
of the road watching some dril}
maneuvers, previous to the time
of the accident. :
Athens, Ga., Friday, January 12, 1934
GEORGIA REQUEST
TAKEN TO HOPKINS
Representatives ‘Satisfied’
That More CWA Money
Will Be Granted
WASHINGTON.— (AP) —After
calling -on Harry L. Hopkins,
civil works administrator, Georgia
representatives in congress said
Friday they were satisfied more
civil works jobs would be avail
able for the unemployed of the
state. z <
The Georgia delegation asked
Hopkinsg to double the 90,000 quota
now allotted the state.
The administrator told nowspa«
permen at his regular press con
ference shortly after the Geor
gians called, when asked what sat
isfaction they received in rgeard
to more jobs, that “we always
strive to please.” z
He declined to discuss the visit
of the representatives further, but
inidicated he would have an an
nouncement on the situation with
in a few days.
The call upon Hopkins was ar
ranged at a caucus called Wed
nesday by Representative Vinson,
dean of the Georgia group. It also
was decided at the caucus to visit
Secretary Wallace and urge that
he speed up approval of a milk
marketing agreement for Georgia.
Vinson said Friday he had not
vet arranged a meeting of the dele
gation with Wallace.
Vinson called the caucus shortly
after Senators George and Russell
and two representatives from
Georgia visited Presidént Rogge
velt and wurged that additional
civil works jobs be provided in
the state. The President was told
Georgia was not able to benefit
equally with other states from
the public works program due to
a constitutional limitation on
‘bonding which prevented the state
and its political subdivisions from
providing necessary guaranty for
public works loans.
~ Hopkins was again asked by
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Dr. 1. E. Marcuson
Will Speak Here at
Synagogue Tonight
Rabbi Isaac E. Marcuson, Macor
will be guest speaker at ’the
Syngogue tonight at 8 o’clock.
Rabbi Marcuson is one of the
most distinguished of American
rabbis. He received his rabinical
training at the Hebrew Union col
lege of Cincinatti, and is at pre
sent on his way to that city to at
tend a meeting of the governors of
the college. He has been recording
scretary of the Central Conference
of American Rabbis for a quarter
of a century. ‘
A special musical program has
been arranged by Miss Nolee Mae
Dunaway, organist, and Roosevelt
Walker will sing a solo. Rabbi
Shusterman will conduct the ser
vices, and introduce Rabbi Mar
cuson,
‘The public is invited, Following
the services the Sisterhood will
give a reception in the Stern Com
munity center in honor of the
vigiting rabbi. Mrs. Ed Shulman
and Mrs. Abe Link are in charge
of the refreshments.
The complete musical program,
in addition to the regular reposes
include. the Morning Song by
Grieg and Dubois’s Grand Chorus
which Miss Dunaway will play as
prelude and postlude; “The Hea
vens, O Lord” by Beethhoven,
which will be sung by the choir;
“May. the Words of My Mouth”
which will be sung by the choir;
and Mr. Walker's solo: “Thine the
Glory” byißizet, ¢ &
Watkins Glen’s Deer,
Once Trapped on Ledge,
Thought Killed in Fall
SENECA FALLS, N! Y.—(£)—
Po\sgibility that a buck deer found
dead in a chasm near Sheldrake
springs, south of here, was the one
imprisoned for more than two
weeks on a ledge in Watkins
Glen state park last fall was
given credence ‘by game wardens
who said distinctive markings on
the deer were the same as those
on the dead buck.
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
ORGANIZE TONIGHT
Public Is Invited to Meet
ing at Georgian Hotel at
8:00 P. M.
Organization of the Clarke
county unit of the Young Demo
cratic clubs of America will take
place at a meeting tonight in the
Georgian hotel.
. Miss Margaret Fortson, vice
president of the Georgia division
of Young Demcoratic clubs, has
appointed fifteen Athens women to
serve as a committee to help or
ganize the women-of Clarke coun
ty for the Young Democratic
clubs.
. The list includes: Mrs. H. A,
Birchmore, Mrs. Walter Marbut,
Mrs. Murray Soule, Miss Flora
Cox, Mrs. Malcolm Bryan, Mrs.
L. L. Hendren, Miss Mary Fred
Broughton, Miss Julia Bradwell,
Miss Julia Stovall, Miss Eugenia
‘Arnold, Mrs. Annie V. Bullard,
Miss Dorothy Fargarson, Mrs.
Pope Hill, Miss Beulah Singleton,
and Miss Caroline Vance.
_William Schley Howard, well
known Atlanta lawyer and former
Fifth district ~congressman, will
gddress the gathering tonight,
after which a committee of young
Democrats, men and women, . will
be appointed to carry forward the
organization details, including
a membership campaign. This
sgo first meeting to-be held with
a view to organziing a Young
Democratic club in Clarke county.
This will not be a banquet.
An organization committee was
appointed to promote the meeting
tonight, which includes Arthur S.
Oldham, H. H. West, David Mich
ael, Curtis Stephens, Stokely John
son,oJack Martin, Preston Almand,
Afex’ Saye, James Hayes, Hoyt
Robertson, L. Dennis Penny, John
L. Green, Gordon Dudley, Chap
pelle Matthews, Joseph Costa, jr,
Roy Hamilton, John Y. Coffee, R.
R. Gunn, D, Weaver Bridges,
Lynne Brannen, A. P. Gentry, J.
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Charles E. Mack,
Famous Comedian,
Killed in Accident
MESA, ARlZ.—(®)—Charles E,
Mack, 46, originator of the famous
comedy team of Moran and Mack
known as the “two Black Crows,”
was fatally injured as an automo
bile . everturned six miles from
Mesa Thursday night.
Others in the automobile, who
all escaped serious injury, were
Mack Sennett, former “bathing
beauty” motion picture producer;
the comedian’s wife and daughter,
Mary Jane, and his partner Ge?rge
Moran.
Mack was crushed under the
machine but was still alive when
passing motorists kelped to fre him
and bring him to a hospital. He
died a short time later,
Moran, who said he had been
associated with Mack for 18 years
declared the dying comedian,
whose Negro dialect pharases were
once by-words of the country,
kept muttering; “The end is here
pal.”
Mack, Born in White Cloud,
'Kas., November 22, 1887, obtained
his first vaudeville engagement in
Seattle 25 years ago. He had pre
viously been a baseball player,
street car conductér and electri
cian.
Several ‘“Morans” were asso
ciated with him in the “Black
Crows” combination. L. A. Young,
publicity man for the educational
pictures at Los Angeles, said the
partner who was in the accident,
had his name changed last summe
from George Searcy to Moran.
The automobile party, Moran
said, was enroute from New
York to Hollywood where he anl
Mack were planning to engage in
motion pitcures, A rear tire blew
out and the car turned over.
Mrs. Mack was kept under ob
servation at the hospital for an
injury te her back which physi
cians said was not serious. The
others in the party weng to a ho
tel after receiving emergency
treatment. %
Mack, whose first vaudeville act
brought him sl4 a week later ap
peared in Ziegfeld’'s “Follies,”
George White's “Scandals” BEarl
Carroll’s “Vanities,” and the
Greenwich Village “Follies™
BLANTON WINGHIP 13
PRESIDENT'S CHOIGE
1S EORE SUCCESSOR
Nominee for Governorship
Of Island is Craduate
Of University Here
GORE RESIGNS TODAY
GCovernor Has Been Under
Fire in Puerto Rico
Since Taking Job
WASHINGTON, —(#)— Presi
dent Roosevelt Friday nominated
General Blanton ‘Winship, former
judge advocate general of the
army, as governor of Puerto Rico
succeeding Robert H. Gore of
I;‘lorida, who resigned this morn
ing.
Gieneral Winship is a veteran in
insular affairs, having served in
Cuba and the Philippines as ad
visor to the ranking American of.
ficials in these Islands,
He was a militarv aide to Presi
dent Coolidge and just retired as
judge advocate general. He is a
native of Macon, Ga.
Gore attributed ill health as the
reason for giving up the post. He
ig in this country now.
Karly appointment of a succes
sor Is expected. There also is
strong likelihood that Gore, who
played a part in the Roosevelt elec.
tion campaign will be Bilven an
other assignment.
Gore was the center of a politi
quarrel in the island almost
from the time he took office last
summer.
More than a month ago he and
his family returned to the United
States.
Gore's letter of resignation said
the “climate in Puerto Rico has
not been conducive to my own
health or to that of the members
of my family.”
The president accepted the re
| g el
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SPECULATION ON
OPTIONS BANNED
Covernment Sends Warn
ings to Dispose of Hold
ings by January 18
WASHINGTON, —(AP)—Warn
ing has been passed to speculators
who purchased government cotton
options from producers at below
market prices to discontinue the
practice and dispose of their hold
ings by January 18.
Amplifying his warring, Oscar
Johnston, farm administrafion pool
manager, said the date was set for
the speculators to rid themselves
of the options if they wanted to
realize on them. :
The options wese given farmers
who plowed under a part of their
crop last summer in the adminis
tration’s acreage reduction cam
paign. Government credit agencies
will advance at least 10 cents a
pound on the options.
With the price of cotton now
above 10 cents a pound, option
holders stand to realize Dbetter
than that amount. The pool head
ed by Johnston was formed to dis
pose of approximately ™ 2,400,000
‘bales of cotton covered by the
'options.
PROGRAM EXPANDED
WASHINGTON.— (AP) —With
NRA approval, the cotton indus
try' Friday extended its production
restriction program, ordering
thread spinning mills to cut pro
duction hours 75 percent from the
maximum of two 40-hour shifts a
week for a period of seven weeks,
beginning January 15.
A similar limitation already is
in force for the weaving branches
of the cotton manufacturng indus
try. .
The latter was strengthened Fri
day by an order prohibiting co
operation of machinery in weav
ing, knitting, mercerizing, carded
yarn and combed yvarn mills
which was not in operation during
the 90 days prior to January 1,
1934. This would prevent exten
sion of production under the cur
tailed hours by bridging in hith
erto idle equipment. ,
LOCAL WEATHER
Cloudy with rain this after
noon and probably in east and
north portions tonight, slightly
colder in extreme southwest
portion tonight; Saturday gen
erally fair.
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Judge Thomas F. Green, sr.,
prominent attorney, will address
members of Rev. George Stone’s
Sunday School class at the Oconee
Methodist church, Sunday morn
ing at 10:15 o'clock.
The class is one of the largest
in the city and one of the oldest
and strongest organizations in the
Oconee street church,
Judge Green has won a name
throughout legal cireles in Geor
gia during the more than 40 years
he has been a practicing member
of the bar, He is asle a former
member of the Board of Regents
of the University System of Geor
gia and has held many other of
fices of honor in wvarious organi
zations,
PRESIDENT SIGNG
LIQUOR TAX BILL
Senate Takes Up Long
Trail of Debate on St.
Lawrence Waterway
WASHINGTON —(#)— President
Roosevelt announced Friday that
he signed the $500,000,000 liquor
tax bill shortly before midnight,
thus making the major provisions
of the measure applicable on Fri
day sales.
‘The measure raises the levy on
whiskey from sl.lO a gallon to $2
This was the first bill passed
this session, and Mr. Rossevelt
lost no time in making it a law.
The measure is expected by
treasury and congressional leaders
to provide from $400,000,000 to
more than $6000,000,000 a year.
The legislation reached the desk
of Mr. Roosevelt just before 7
o’clock Thursday night, He re
ferred ‘it to treasury officials for
a quick check-up and signed it at
11:50 p. m.
The bill became effective Friday,
with the exception of the stamp
provision.
This requiring a one-cent inter
nal revenue stamp to be attached
to every container wof liquor to
!show the tax has been paid, takes
!effect in 30 days, but if the secre
tary of the treasury finds within
|2O days [t would be impracticable
to do that he would be given an
additional month to put it in foree,
The $2 a gallon rate on distilled
spirits also included wine contain
tlng more than 23 per cent alcohol
| The present rate is sl.lO. The beei
{levy is $5 per barrel against $6
lnow,
WASHINGTON—(®)—The senate
took the long, long trail to the St.
Tawrence waterway treaty with
Canada Friday, but the tortuous
route of debate gave no prospec!
of an early vote on ratification.
Threading through developments
at capitol and white house was the
renewal of speculation over the
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State Presses Charges Against Mechanic
Accused of Murdering Carolina Schoolboy
COLUMBIA, 8. C—~(AP)—With
swift, rapid strokes the state,
through a procession of witnesses,
IFrlda.y continued to paint a pie
tture of the ghastly kidnaping and
murder of 15-year-old Hubbard H.
Harris, jr., for whose death it is
seeking to send Robert H. Wiles,
middle-aged auto mechanic, to the
electric chair.
The details of the incidents sur
rounding the crime, as related by
Ia half dozen witnesses, revealed,
nothing new that was not related
by Wiles in a confession he made
to investigating officers shortly
after his arrest. Surrounded by
nine armed guards, the bespec
tacled defendant maintained an
attitude of nonchalance and ap
peared to be interested only cas
ually in the' proceedings.
In the cross-examination of
TROOPS HELD READY
T 0 MARCH ON PARKS
T 0 HALT DISORDERS
Protests Over Death of
Stavisky Grows More
Violent
DEPUTIES DISBANDED
Vote of No Confidence
In Chautemps Feared .
By Government
PARlS.—(AP)—Premier Camlille
Chautemps warned the nation Fri
day that the royalist riots over
the Stavisky scandal held the
threat of a coup d'etat to eflb;&;gfi» ;
a ‘“directory.” z ot
Thousands of troops .were held
ready to march on Paris if Tieces
sary to stamp out the disorders
which have occurred in a protest
against alleged complicity by Bov
‘ernment officials in the Bayonne .
pawnshop collapse which cost the
French public more than $40,000,-
000. &
The president of the chamber of
deputies adjourned the body sud
denly Friday afternoon in the
midst of a pandemonium which
broke out when Deputy Jan Ybar
negaray charged that “the police
assassinated” Serge Stavisky,
founder of the pawnshop, to hush
the case and protect higher-ups.
Premier Denies Charge
Premier Chautemps jumped to
his feet, waved his arms, and pro-.
tested that Stavisky killed himself
when secret service operatives
surrounded him last Monday and
Ipledged he would make a “per
sonal investigation” of the affair.
The chamber previously had
been twice suspended because of
the noise in the hall. =
| When adjournment came, hun
dreds of deputies continued to yell,
slam their desk tops, and rush.
about.
Chautemps went to the chamber
of deputies apparently confident
that it would grant him and his
cabinet a vote of confidence and
accept the government's promises
to clean out any officials guilty of
'(-omplciity in the pawnshop sean
dal. :
But the lobbies seethed with
‘talk predicting that the cabinet
| might resign in order to prevent a
vote which it - was feared might
proclaim to the world the legisla-'
tors’ lack of confidence in their
government. B
The premier defended the min
istry against insinuation of police
and governmental corruption but
admitted there had been wide
spread looseness and ‘“rusty” fume
tioning of various services. =
i in Fighting Mood S
Chautemps, in a fighting mood,
revealed in parliament what he
said was a coup detat p%
three days ago to place the gov-.
ernment in the hands of a 4 ‘J—;’
tory of a few men ‘reputed for
their energy.” gy
“Tracts were prepared demand
ing that France confide its des
tiny to a directory of a few men.”
the premier said, -adding that the
men, whose names he did not re
veal, had not been consulted.
Meanwhile the police were busy
until after midnight scattering
hundreds of royalists who rioted
outside the chamber while rever
berations of the financial scandal
were being aired. B
Rioters uprooted trees on boule;
vards, hurled iron tree guards andl
case tables at the police, and threw
some of them from their horses.
Thirty policemen and 50 demofie
strators were injured.
Mrs. Serge Stavisky, widow of
the bank founder, criticized authore
ities Friday for delay in getting
‘medical attention for her husband,
but discredited fmors he was
slain when captured Monday, say
ing he left letters indicating he
'planned suicide.
~ Charges had- been hurled that
Stavisky was shot by police tg
‘prevent his revealing details of al
leged undercover transactions by
which investors lost $40,000,000.
state's witnesses, the defense in
dicated it would seek to prove
that Wiies, acquitted several years
ago in Durham, N. C,, of the mur
der of his wife and her paramour,
is insane. At the outset of the
trial, Judge Hayne F. Rice denied
a defense request for a sanity
test of the defendant. Judge Rice
pointed out that were mue.%
victed, he could then given a
mental examination.
Young Harris, a flaxen haired
school boy, was lured away &@
his home two days before Christ
mas and hammered to death with
an iron bar in a deserted swamp
side farm houes. ' Wiles, in his
confession, said he killed the boy
when he realized that his one-man
plot to seek SI,OOO ransom ecould
not be carried out without the aid
of an accomplice. e