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Newest Japanese Torpedo Boat Mysteriously Wrecked With 120 Aboard
COTTON MARKET
WIDDLING .o oo oo el 2 300
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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.
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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)
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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
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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
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* 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
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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)
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