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Newest Japanese Torpedo Boat Mysteriously Wrecked With 120 Aboard COTTON MARKET WIDDLING .o oo oo el 2 300 NREVIOUS CLOSE .. ... 12 3-8 o Vol. 102, No. 51. Roosevelt Defied on Bonus Consideration Dillinger Reported Seen As Officers Challenge Outlaw JSTERY SHAOUIDG 5175 CAPSIZING; Y FEARED LOST Wrecked Vessel Was of Most Modern Type, Fit ted Against Accident. INQUIRY IS CERTAIN Japanese Naval Office De clines to Comment on Rescue Work. TOKYO. —(P)— Japan's. newest georpion of the seas, the Tomo qury, a torpedo boat with an arm ament greater than most . ships twice her size, was 'wrecked mys teriously Monday with the prob able loss of 120 men, The navy declined to describe the disaster immediately, but it was almost certain that the Toméozury had capsized off the Sasebo naval base in heavy weather. Many Thought Dead The ministry announced the ship had been found, after being miss-- ing since early morning, ‘“badly damaged and drifting, many of her crew believed drowned.” The vessel, of 627 tons, was re garded as carrying one of the heaviest armaments ever conceived for & ship her size. A e The navy office said “rescule ef forts are proceeding,” bhut made nreo mention of any survivors, Con tact with the Tomozuru was lost early Monday, : Severa] destrévers joined in a search for the torpedo boat after she was réported lost today. The Tomoguru was completed only February 26. It is a new type, out side the range of the limits of the London naval treaty, because the tonnage is less than 600. The Japanese recently completed three such ships It is understood 18 others are building or projected ~each carrying three fl\v’e~’anP guns and considened equal in fight- Ing power to older and smaller de stroyers. : Specially Filled It had been reported that vessels of the Tomozuru class were fitted vith special apparatus to prevent caplsizing, Special study of this problem Was given impetus after the de- Stroyer Sawarabi capsized Decem- Ur 5, 1932, off the coast of For- MoSa, with the loss of 105 lives. Sasebo base headquarters made Public the names of exactly 100 of fieers and men aboard the Tomio -7y but did not immediately state how many were believed lost. The Tomozuru was regarding as 3 trlumph of Japanese naval arch tecture. A rigid inquiry was con- Sidered certain, - Auto Accident Vietim . . In Serious Condition Mrs, Burt L. Ogletree, Union Poing Who was injureq in an automobile accident Saturday afternoon near Crawford, wag reporigd in ser bus condition ay the General hos bital thig afternoon. Funeral gervices for Millard Henry Ogletree, 12, and Miss Bdith Burrvmghgs, 20, who were killed in the accident were held this after- Toon at 4 o’elock in Union Point. Kiduap Slayer of Carolina Schoolboy Dies In Electric Chair After Confessing Crime COLUMBIA, s, C.~(#)Confess g “I am guilty” and “ready to Pay for it,” Robert H. Wiles, 49- ar-old mechanic, was electro- SUted just hefore dawn Monday i the state penitentiary for the kidnay slaying of Hubbard H. Harrig, Columbia school boy. Wiles Wwent to his death with a hymn gn his lips after taking scle TShonsibility gop the erime. ‘T am guilty,” he said, “I-did it nd 1 gy, ready to pay for it. No e else wag in it at all.” Wileg Walked boldly into the tlectrocution room, * greeting offi ”(F;\ and witnesses Wit-hv'-' cheery 904 morning, gentlemen.” He mada gis confession, said he Wag ‘ready to go” and as the h(‘adx;i(‘v‘n was adjusted started jfiging "Prai;e God From Whom Blessings low.” The death current cut short his WOB Wiles wag mwm% 0 2 m ol ‘minutes afts " Harris youth ¥ey trom nis ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service EARTHQUAKE ROCKS . UTAH AND WYOMING SALT LAKE CITY — (&) — An earth shock that moved office buildings, stopped «clocks and cracked windows ang plaster in this city, was felt this morning over northern Utah, southywestern Wyoming and southern Idaho. . Office-bound residents stopped in Salt Lake City streets to watch the buildings sway. Householders reported swinging chandeliers, rat tling furniture and clattering dish oß, A cloud of dust arose as the Ezra Thompson building and the Tribune building adjeining it, rub bed walls. In the Cintinental bank building two windows were crack ed, and cracks appeared in the plaster of the Clift building, an other tall office structure. BANDITS RAID BANK. SEIZE 9 EMPLOYES Two Women Taken As Hostages, Others Re leased; Cashier Shot.: +ATCHISON, Kas— (#) — Five men robbed the Exchange Nat ional bank here of an undetermin ed amount of money Monday mor ning, engaged in a brief gun-bat tle with police, and kidnaped prac tically the entire bank forece to cover their escape, releasing all but ‘two “women hostages as they drove out of town. & = Chief of Police W. C. Linville, who encountered the bandits as they'left the bank, was shot in the arm, and Ed _lverson, cashier of the Exchange State bank, which occupies the same building, was injured when he fell off the bandit car as it turned a corner. The bandits entered the bank by knocking off the lock of a side door. Part. of the gang walited in side for employes to arrive. A porter, Sam Overstreet, saw one of the men in the bank and phoned pelice. The bandits lined up bank em ployes on both sides of their car as they left town. On the running board they held Hugh Cavanaugh, Ed Iverson, Ed Mattocks, assist ant cashier; , John Baker, Miss Gertrude Wienmons, Pat Hansen, George Wolf,* Miss May Low, and Miss Addie Mattocks. > Shielded from police gun-fire, the bandit machine sped from town. Cavanaugh jumped off one block from the bank, and Iverson fell off. Except for Miss Low and Miss Mattocks, all were released at the edge of town. The bandits got only what money was in the cash tills. Officials could not give an accurate estimate. Company Organization To Seek Liquidation of Securities Here Allowed Authorization to organize a com pany and advertise for a charter was given Frank Shackelford by the group of men working to form a group to liquidate the American and Georgia Securities companies, it was disclosed this morning. Funds for this purpose are to be requested from the Reconstruction Finance company. Clifford Kimzey, Toccoa, is chairman of the group acting at present. It is hoped sev eral hundred thousand dollars can be secured through a RFC loan to pay debenture holders in the local institutions. ed to death with an iron bar on his 15th birthday, two days before last Christmas. A Intended Ransom Wiles said he intended to exact a SI,OOO ransom from the boy's father, a well-to-do grocery chain executive, but his plans were up set and he killed Hubbard in an old farmhouse near the city. _The mechanic and one time auto race driver, by his confession set tled once and for all time-any question there might have been of whether he “snatched” and slew the 15-year gld youth single- hand ed. Farlier statements that an ‘accomplice did the actual slaying ‘were ail retracted as Wiles sat strapped in the death chair. . When someone in the room bade him a last goodbye, he exclaimed: “Don’t tell me goodbye. I want to meet you in heaven. - : . Sings Hymn i "‘}:e clear, baritone notes of the ‘hymn, then filled the small -room . (Continued on Page Two) OLEDD {5 CENTER OF DILLINGER HUNT AFTER RUMOR TODAY Desperado Thought to BF in Small Sedan Being . Hunted in Ohio, CHALLENGE HURLED Machine Guns Trained on Jail Where Harry Pier pont |s Being Held. TOLEDO, Ohio.—{(#)—All" police radio scout cars in Toledo were ordered Monday to search for a small sedan between here and Lima, Ohio, in the bhelief that one of its occupants might possibly be John Dillinger. Reports from Lima said that Brigadier General Harold M. Bush had been advised of reports that a2’ man had seen the sedan and listed one of its occupants as Dillinger. It was not disclosea immediately how reliable was' the jdentification, or who had made it. CHALLENGE OUTLAW LIMA. Ohip, — #) — National guardsmen trained machine guns oh the county jail Monday and hurled an open challenge to John Dillinger, the “kill-crazy” jail breaker. oy F Inside ‘the jail was ‘Harry ' Pier pont, henchman of the Kkiller, who is on the way to the electric chair. He was found guilty ih the early ‘morning hours Sunday of the murder of former Sheriff Jess L. Sarber during the bandit raid last October in which Dillinger was freed fronr the prison. The guardsmen were ready to answer any attempt Dillinger might make to . free his former ally. e f BANKS PROTECTED CHICAGO.—(®)—John Dillinger, ‘escaped outlaw, is believed to be ‘determined to get to South Amer ica on other people’s money. That is why police gave special protection Monday to many. banks ‘and other places likely to attract ‘the desperado. They said that be !fore Dillinger * was captured last January, he and his men were }"savlng up” for the Seuth America trip. i They were intemt/jpn accumu | (Continued on page eight) MORE SUITS SEEN. FOR TAX EVASION Mellon Charges Depart ment of Justice With “Crude Politics.” WASHINGTQON —(#)— The jus tice department, cracking the in come tax whip over the heads of Andrew W. Mellon, former mayor James J. Walker of New York, Thomas S. Lamont of Morgan and Co., and Thbhmas Sidlo of Clevex land, 0., pushed preparation of a score more suits Monday. More than 40 tax experts are en gaged in the special task of pre paring the suits, similar to those naming Mellon and the others. Among the material at hand for their study are reams of testimony taken in the senate banking com mittee’s investigation of stock market and financjal practices. The 78-year-old Mellon, member of three Republican cabinets, bark ed back Sunday at the justice de partment with a charge tha; the department wag playing “crude” polities.: He called newspapermen to his apartment here last night during a break in his journey from Pitts burgh to Aiken, 8. C., and handed them a long statement. Attacks “Innuendo” g He reviewed his entire side of the case, and charged the use of “innuendos” by the justice depart lmfint and the emplbyment by some {one, unnamed, of a “character | wrecking” campaign against him. linstead of evading indome tax pay ! ments, he asserted, he had always | given the government the benefit lof every doubt. “I am as much in the dark as !an_vone_" he said, “as to the pos | sible grbounds he (Attorney General Cummings) could have for suchan action, but T am glad, under any | circumstances to get my tax af | fairs .out of the attorney general’s office and into the court, where I am satisfied I shall get justice and _ (Continued From Page Two) Athens, Ga.; Monday, March 12, 1934. 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RRG R i oS SRR o e 3§ o LR 2LS B - Shown above is a scene of the ruins of the Lovem an, Joseph and Loeb department store, destroyed in the $3,000,000 fire which raged in Birmingham from early Saturday afternoon to ‘\Qfldly mrfiing, _threat ening the city’s entire retail business district. ot ¥ ¥ RIOTER IN MADRID FIRE KINDERGARTEN Children Escape As Radi cal Laborites Start Blaze in Catholic School. MADRID, — (&) — Radical la borers set fire to Catholic kinder garten full of chiddren Monday but civil guards arrived in time to stop the attack, save the children, and arrest two of the mob members, ~ The children' were thrown into a panic. The furnishings of the school, in the Conception district, were considerabiy damaged. \ The attack on the school was one of several outbreaks of violence during the day in connection with strikes called. by radicals. _Guards went intey action several times when extremists stoned street cars. They dispersed several groups in hand-to-hand battles. In Madrid, the most serious as péct of the strike Monday was the suspension of work by allied printing trade workers. Non-union printers, however, re mained at work. Policemen doubled as newspaper-carriers selling the official “Gazette’ of the govern ment. 4 Business in the city appeared normal, but truckloads of the fa mous assault guards patrolled the streets. Rafael Alfonso, minister of the interfor, said, his ministry would broadcast news to the people pe rodically in the absence of general newspaper circulation. s Rural Relief South’s Paramount Problem, Westbrook Says At Conference in Atlanta ATLANTA, Ga—(®)—A greater part of the South’s relief burden would be wiped out with a solu tion of rural social-economic prob- | lems, Colonel Lawrence West-} brook, assistant national relief: administrator, told directors of 12 Southern states in conference here to plan permanent rehabilitation of rural areas. | Colonel' Westbrook, head of ru ral rehabjlitation for the federal emergency relief administration, presented the conferees with a factual analysis of the importance of rural relief problems no which the conference - will concentrate Monday and Tuesday. Basing his statement on figures from 11 Southern states, Florida omitted, Westbrook said approxi mately 75 percent of the popuia tion in these states lived on farms or in communities under 5,000 population. . . ' ‘ He spoke to state emergency ’,nlief' administrators and other officials from Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, South Birmingham Counts Losses From Fire; Rebuilding Started 'BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—(®)—Plans to start business again were bel‘g made Monday by one of the city’s largest department stores, the prin cipal sufferer in the $3,000,000 fire that laid waste nearly a block in the downtown business district here and caused injury to more than three score persons, Jogeph H. Loveman, president and general manager of Loveman, Joseph and loeb, where the fire started Saturday, sald the com pany already had started negotia tions for temporary quarters and the store’s 600 employes will be given jobs as far as possible in the new place. Firemen said the blaze started from defective wiring in the false basement of the store. The blaze Started at 1 p. m. Saturday and burned until 3 a. m. Sunday. Thirty-five persons were in hos pitals Sunday as a result of the fire. Thirty-three were firemen, Other places damaged by the fire were the Southern Bell Tele phone and Telegraph company, Melancon’s department store, the Calder furniture co. a vacant store building and J. J. Newbery Co. STRIKE-BREAKER KI-LED HAVANA -— () — One strike breaker was Kkiller and nine wounded in a clash between strik ers and strike-breakers on the Ward Line docks Monday. It was the firs¢ serious incident on thé waterfront since the dock workers strike began. Since Fri day, strikebreakers, protected by soldiers, had been laboring as stev edores. He said relief in rural areas should be based upon provision of a means of self-sustenance supple~ mented by wages paid for improv ing rural economic and social conditions. Of the total number of rural families receiving relief, in the 11 states, he said, from 85 to 90 per cent are share-croppers who used to be “furnished” by their land lords. . “We have been saying . . . that ’desumte people in cities should ‘get back to the land.’ I subscribe Ito that, but it seems obvious that 'we must arrange to make these ’people who are already on the land and who are also on our reliet rolls, self sustaining. . . . The rural rehabilitation program is ' destined to make the relief fami llies in our rural areas self-sus | taining.” Westbrook - said the program would be developed and directed by. a rural rehabilitation division of the federal emergency relief administration. The federal de partment of agriculture and other federal agencies would act in an advisory’ and co-operative capac ity e 3 EYES OF EUROPE ON DOLLEUSS 1T ROME Vienna Spokesman Says Conference With Mus solin Has Purpose. By W}DE WERNER Associatel] Priess Foreign Staff VIENNA.—(#)—A foreign office spokesman © emphasized Monday that the chief aim of the Musso lini-Diollfuss-Goemboes conference in Rome this week — a meeting which is attracting world attention —is economic cooperation.” All of the more sensational re ports concerning possible accom plishments of the leaders f Italy, Austria and Hungary are ‘pure invitation,” the spokesman sald. \ As Austria’s tiny leader, Engel ‘bert Dollfuss, got ready to speed to Rome for the meeting, every one ‘watched the situation with a two fold interest. | | Anxiously Watched | ! Everybody is waiting to see, ot only what will be done in Rome, but what will happen In Vienna while Dollfuss Is away. | It was during the litthe chancel lor's last absence from the coun try, on a two-day trip to_Budapest, | that Vice IChancellor Emil Fey started a vigorous anti-Socialist action’ which culminated in the. snguinary civil war. : Premier Gremboes left Buda.pest{ for Rome Sunday Dispatches here said he told reporters that he was leaving with' “great expectations.” Goemboes said “all BEurope wantg real solutions. All yearn for genu ine peace and concrete achleve ments.” TO LAY GROUNDWORK - ROME—(P)—Premier Musgolini's own newspaper said Monday that the three-power conference called by Il Duce here this ' week will but lay the groundwork for an agreemen¢ in which other govern ments later will be invited to par ticipate. Whatever agreement may be reached, said his Milan newspaper Popolo D'ltalia, will be presented later to all interested nations in the hope that they will join to as sure. the economic restoration of the Danubian states, ; LOCAL WEATHER Fair topight and Tuesday with slowly rising temperature, light to heavy frost to the coast tonight. TEMPERATURE BUGHOBL scii ik 4ain, €oesißD LoWeßt wiis hreh meres &ae sBN WARR i nie vasd veabn vl R Normhl iisiiaoe vovsi sl * RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours .. ..., .00 Total since March 1 .. ~.. 3.33 Excess since March 1 .. ~ 1.26 Average March rainfall ... 5.21 Total since January 1 .. ..10.43 Deficlency since January 1. 1.67 A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday PCLICE DOCKET OVER WEEK-END IS LICHT Although arrests over the week end numbered only 20—one of the lightest week-ends docketed at Po lice headquarters this year—nine [oaenm were included in them. { More arrests were made for drunk ‘enness and disorderly conduct ac counted for five or them. One-light driving and drunkenness brought two each, with one arrest mads for each of the Ifollowing: loafing, parking on the wrong side of the street and driivng an automobile without lights, Two people were arrested and held, one on susple ion of thrift and the other for sus picious actions. oKIES EMPTY TODAY OF MAIL CARRIERS Order Grounding All Air planes Follows F- D. R.'s Statement on Accidents. WASHINGTON, —()—The skyl was empty of planes flying the malls Monday, just thee week's‘ after the army took over the job, ‘ L The order grounding the planes made no mention of the ten deaths that haveé occurred since President Roosevelt cancelled fl}e private subgidies and turned the a.lrmallg over to the army, but it*followed ,wlthtn a day of the president's stafement that deaths in flying the mails “must stop,” ' Major-General Benjamin D, Foulois, chief of the air corps, di rected the order to all airmail zones, calling upon them to: “Suspend immediately all carry ing of the airmail until your per sonnel and equipment are in posi tion and ready to initiate the sche_ dules furnished you in radiogram.” The order specified that no air maft flying should be undertaken until authorized by headquarters of the air corps. Effect On Business ‘What effect the concellation of all airmail service, even through temporary, would have on on Am erican business which has come to upon the swifter means of maliling, was a, moot question. Postal offi clals, promptly notified by airmail zone commanders of the changed situation, struggled to give the fastest possible train routings to stacks of airmail shunted back to them by Sunday’s order. The interuption of service ig not expected té last for more than two or three days. Major-General Foulois hoped to have a modified “fair-weather” schedule ready by Wednesday. The air corps believes a revised airmail map will be in shape by midweek, with the 18 rutes which were being flown until Monday re duced to about a dozen. The coast-to-coast ‘“backbone” of the airmail will be preserved in the new setup, Training Plan General Foulois had under pre paration Monday a plan by which army fliers could join with com mercial pilots in receiving train ing. The step follows a sug gestion by President Roosevelt that “because military lessons have been taught us during the last few weeks,” . army aviators should train with those who “la ter on will fly the mail” in “night (Continued on page eight,) Rat Extermination Campaign in Athens Opens Tuesday With 36,000 Pests Estimated Here A rat-exterminating campalgn to be carried on by a group of gov ernment experts in cooperation with the local health department will begin tomorrow and last ap proximately three weeks. - The number of rats in Athens i estimated at 36,000, and the city will be divided into four districts in the fight to exterminate them. Bach district will be worked one bibck at a time until the entire city has been covered. The dis tricts are -industrial, wholesale, re tail, and residential. In charge of the work will be W. ¥F. Amann, of Wiashington, who will be assisted by a erew of pro fessional rat exterminators. To Use Poison Government methods and recom< ‘mendations will be used in the work, it was announced. The poi sons to be used are odorless and tasteless, and will drive the rat H2.>- HSME VOTENEARLY 3 70 | T 0 GONGIDER BON3 RECORDED IN HOUSE Will Vote on Patman Bill For Full Payment of 2 ‘Billion Dollars.. VETO THOUGHT SURE Present Strength of Re volters Is Enough to Override. 1 WASHINGTON —(#)- By more than a twg thirds vote—that nee essary to override a presidential veto—the house Monday voted for immediate consideration of Repre sentative Patmon’s bill for full payment of the $2,200,000,000 sold iers’ bonus. The roll call vote was 313 to 104. Immedlate consideration of the $2,200,000,000 measure got under way after it was agreed that two hours of debate be equally divided between the proponents and oppe nents, v 4 Representatives Fish (R.-N. Y.) controlled the opposing hour and Representative Patmna (D.-Texas) that for those who favor paying the bonus with United States notes. ! “Everybody knows what the re sult is going to he and we might as well do it here and now,” said Cannon (D.-Wis.) ' '"The only reagon this debate 18 wanted is because somfe members wang tp get their names in the congressional record tomorrow.” .. Democrats Silent ¥ It was rioticeable during the de« bate on the motion to consider the bill that none of the Democratio leaders spoke in opposition. % Representative Isabella Greenway (D.-Ariz.), close friend of the Roosevelts voted for consideration. Representative Byrns of Tennes see the' Democratic leader, voted against. ’ R Chairman Doughton (D.-N. C.) of the ways and means committee voted t, discharge his own group and bring the bill before the house. n: The senate attitude toward the proposal is not clear, g A white house veto has been promised if the legislation s en aocted. \ House leaders sald bonus advo cates could not enlist a two-thirds majority to pass it over a vetos THe action to discharge the ways and means committee from con sideration of the will came after twenty minutes of debate equally divided between proponents and opponents. s . Move Is Welcomed s The vote was forced by 145 peti tioners. It was the culmination of efforts of the veterans’ bloc to . the house on record, and wel d . by many members in the light of this being &n election year.™ ' " Many another question was be ing considered with equal urgeney in congress Monday, including the ever-present stock market differ ences. . Revision of the Fletcher-Rayburns exchange control bill was delayed, but drafters of the measure said #f would propose addition of _twe members to the federal trade.coms mission as the regulatory bedy. This was a compromise betweetl control by trade commission as it is now and creation of a new. sus pervisory agency. nne Data on all transactfons® I 8 United. Aircraft stock from last (Continued on Page Six) - int, the open for air and water. Upon taking a drink of water, & deadly chemical is formed, paraly zing the rates, and causing instant death. At each place visited by the workers, instructions will be T on how to do extermination work in the future, and advice as to how to keep buildings free of thess pests. i Mr, Amann, in speaking of the rat war, pointed out that m do four hundred mfillion dollare® damage In the United States each year, according to government stas tistics, and that it would take an army of 200,000 men to produce as. much food as is eaten and des stroyed by them each year. T ey destroy more each year on the farm than the taxes cost, and 5= 000,000 acres would be needed te — s (Continued on page eight) ‘ ¢
