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IFOTTON MARKET pLING o ss T vious CLOSE .. «ee s 12¢ 01. 102, No. 73. t)ft Coal Operators From Five Mtates Mass Against NRA emocrats Ridic;de Wist Hearing, To Open Tomorrow ’! lIGED HIS MIND | JHOLE SUBJECT T A i cator Once Favored' rogram He Now At- l tacks, Says Speaker. ——— | ILL SIFT CHARGES ns Says Money Is B :il2ble to Press Any Worthwhile Quiz. \SHINGTON —(#)— Speaker ev told newspapermen Mon he had a “document” showing pr. William A. Wirt two ¢ aco “favored some ©Of "the . things he now calls ‘Com he “document,” the speaker ex hed, is “three typed and copy- ‘ tod articles, with his mame | ikem, and corrected in Pen‘l hev were sent to me.” Rainey kd “and 1 expect they werel My vears ago he favored the »t farm program we are nowl ng into effect. Tweo years| | he favored revaluation of the dollal n't anything we are ¢ now that he didn’t favor in He was for the exact pro n we are now putting into es- Just “Too Bad” t ls t ad that "he was for in 1932 when it was impossible it 0 the program and now tit is done, says.ove .are Com " sked why Dr. Wirt “changed Rainey replied: n't account for his mental f somebody had given “him :\l ity th government—" a Fspaperman began. L-Maybe he would be ail right 7" Rainey concluded. oa le Wirt was supposed be in the capital, but, It so, he! iined in seclusion. He is to estioned by a house investi ing committee Tuesday on who said told him some members of Roosevelt “‘brajn trust’ p!fln-g te erthrow the ;zovernment.; ¥mocrats said Monday that if! . Wirt produces the goods when takes the stand Tuesday, flu" 150 of representatives w i 11 b plenty of money” to siftl ges of a Red plot, ! Doubts Worth 3 *p. Byrns of Tennessee, ])mn-l ‘ ler. asserted Rep. Me- | #in_ (R.-Kan.) ~ who charged | Uemocrats were “starving” © nquiry to death by appropri -4 2 3000 for it. Byrns said ' 11 the Gary, Ind. educator ' s anything “worth investi o> TOre money WL B snPnf‘l Ve presumed that {f Dr. Wirt tinued on last page.) ! HAPPY? WELL, WHY NOT? \" “»9 R | “ 3 ] a 3 4 £ T i .. i e, oy £ e T ! B Gy 3 T e 4 - F 4 VE e B : E . 2 ;;n : » ofi @ g There aren't many really 900 excuges for being consti- Wionally unhappy, say mod i Psychologists . ', . And ol needn’t bnvy the peole "he you think ape happier than JOU ape; they simply ot struck a balance in their ives that yon yowrgelf fn ach eve without intelli oet & There’s real e aid for persons less n"PY than they want to be, N the series of daily articles Brigy, ey Margaret Mc- Shide, amous .Ut’lor and for <22Per woman, ‘is- writing % YOU in The Banner- Herald %"uer the title of “Th‘ A"t Of H:’n’,)znpn“' . Ruen o page 8 w‘ e ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service U. S. 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WASHINGTON — (AP) — The New York Stock exchange scored a smashing victory in the senate banking committee Monday by a 10 to 8 vote to create a new com mission to regulate the exchanges instead of giving jurisdiction to the federal reserve board and the federal trade commission. The:committee adopted an amend ment t, the stock market bill of - sered by Senator Glass (D.-Va.), upsetting plans ot the bill's auth ors and Président Roosevelt to have the exchanges regulated by the two existing governmental agencies. As it now stands, a commission of three members appointed by the president and ‘confirmed by the senate, would be set up to exer cise all the powers the bill origi nally proposed to turn over to the reserve board and the trade com mission. Friends of the original legisla tion planned to carry their fight to the senate floor, and with Pres ident Roosevelt's expressed sup port, were hopeful of final vic tory. Opponents of the bill as origi nally drafted also scored an im portant victory by the same mar gin in adopting a motion by Sen ator Adams (D.-Colo.) to elimi nate the vital introductory sectior of the bill outlining its purposes for constitutional reasons. Senator Glass, who voted to strike out this section, immediate lv entered a motion to reconsidet the action, however, on the ground that some substifite word ing should be adopted. 2 No vote was taken by the com mittee Monday on the troublesome marginal section, but Chairmar Fletcher predicted the committee would eliminate the fixed mini mum margin requirements and turn the entire power over t, the administrative agency. Clyde Basham Named Secretary of Clarke Talmadge Supporters At the organization of the Clarke County FEugene Talmadge for Governor club, Clyde Basham was elected secretary, Mr. Bash am’s name was inadvertantly omit. ted from the list of officers car ried in Sunday’s Banner-Herald. For the past several yvears Mr. Basham has been prominent in po litical and civie affairs of the city and his election as secretary of the club will be of interest to his U. S. Fighting Craft Sailing for Atlantic On Giant Maneuver SAN PEDRO, Calif.—(#)—"“An chors aweigh" was the order among the 101 fighting craft of the United States fleet Monday. Terminating a two-year stay on the Pacific coast, the fleet was ordered to proceed to the east coast, through the Panama Ca nal. The movement meant a giant tactical problem. Fifteen giant patrol planes, the largest units of the navy's air craft, poised for a take off from San Pedro to fly in four hops of about 700 miles each to the Pan ama Canal. They will rejoin the fleet there April 21. Seventy-five officers and men will make the flight. Simultaneously the navy’s giant of the air, the U. S. 8. Macon, was to cast off from Sunnyvale, Calif. The dirigible will return to Sunnyvale after joining the' fleet in the first of the war games ‘which will occupy the 35,000 fighting men throughout most of their cruise to the east coast. Conditions of war will be simu lated by the fleet in its journey to the canal, which will test the tactical strategy of commanding officers. The high spot of their cruise will be a “war” in the Caribbean in which they will again be joined by the dirigible Macon. Most of the tactical exercisea will find Admiral Joseph Masdn Reeves, commander of the battle force, as chief of one fleet, with Vice Admiral Frapk Hardeman Brumby, of the scouting force, commander of the opposing fleet “Farmers’ Frolic” On Thursday Night Has New Features At the conclusion of their meeting Tuesday night at the Y. W. C. A., members of the Business Girls' club will hold 4 rehearsal for the minstrel show to be given ai the Grow ers’ MMgket Thursday night. Members of the club are asked to particularlly note this an nouncement. Dancing. jokes, and songs will feature the combined minstrel and frolic to be presented by the Busi nesg Girls club and members of the Growers Market Thursday night, in the large market building on Washington street. : The minstrel show will be pre sented by the business girls, and the Market members will put on (Continued on last page) —ESTABLISHED 1832— Athens, Ga., Monday, April 9, 1934, CHARGES DENIED BY HUEY LONG'S ENEMY Lawyer Says He Did Not Dictate Appointment As “Kingfish” Charged. WASHINGTON. —(®— Colonel John P, Sullivan,, New Orleans lawyer, denied befote the senate finance committee Tuesday that he dictated the nomination of D. D. Moore, as internal revenue collector of Louisiana, as asserted by Sen. Huey Long. Sullivan also said he had never in his life been connected with gambling. p Sullivan, 59-yvear-old Spanish- American war veteran, questioned by Edward Rightor, counsel for Moore, said: “I don't know how te gamble, 1 might say, perhaps to my moitifi cation, that I dgm't know how to roll dice. - “1 can't even read a racing form,” he added, although previous testimony by Colonel E. R. Brad iey. Kentucky horse breeder, had been that Sullivan owned 33 1-3 per cent of ‘the stock in the fair grounds race track in New Or leans. Sullivan also denied Long's charges that he had profited from “randbook” operations, and said I'e had been active t, stamp out thi¢ practice. Long also had asserted that Sullivan dominatéed the revenue office since Moore took charge. Other Charges Asked if Long’s statement that Sullivan had received fees for fix ing tax matters-in New Orleans was true, Sullivan said: “T have never in the city of New Orleans had any legal interest in tax matters in the internal reve- nue office.” Sullivan also denied F. P. Kriss had been his and Bradley's part ner, as asserted by Long in the senate, in opening a “gambling dive” on Metairie ridge. He said his only connection with Bradley was as a ojint stock holder in the Louisiana jockey club. He said he had never been in any partnership with Kriss. Sullivan also denieG Long's statement that he had been a (Continued on Last Page) Young Business Men Hear Dr. Wrighton Members of the Young Business Men's club will hear an address by Dr. W. H. Wrighton at the weekly meeting Tuesday night at the Y. M. C. A, Byllding on Lumpkin street. The meeting will start at 7:30 and js the pegular monthly religious meeting. The meetings each month are divided into business, religious, eduecation al and social gatherings, TWO ARRESTED FOR EXTORTION PLOT IN SOUTH CEOREIN CITY Officers Say One of Sus pects. Confessed Threat ening H. M. Hanna. OTHER DENIES PART Search for Thomasville Man Leads Into Flor ida and Back. "X‘HOM_@SVILLE, Ga.—(P)— Two men wete under arrest here Mon day Ic-hafg«d with violating the ‘,‘Lindba&h kidnaping law” in an attempts to extort $16,000 from HowardfM. Hanna, Cleveland fi nancier,* and officers said one of them hfifl confessed. Post«ag Inspector T. W. Over street afinounced Emory Callahan, 26, of 385 Campbell street, and J. E. Pullian, alias “Uncle Sam,” of Stevens.street, both of Thomasville, had beén arrested and Callahan ‘had comfessed his part in the plot, implicating Pullian, although the latter' eontinued to deny any con nection ‘with the threats against the Hanna family. § Wanted Easy Money In the alleged confession Calla han sak% ahout four weeks ago he and Pallian met at a house here and it was suggested they make some “eesv money.” Callahan had been working on Melroge plantation, the Hanna es tate, &nd Pullian, he said, asked about@Hanna. A letter was writ ten™™% " ‘Callahan, the purported confession sald, in which threats were made to blow up the Hanna winter home herd unless SIO,OOO was left by a certain railroad sig nal light . Cailahan said he went to the spot on the night of March 21 but saw a number of men around and left. A second letter was written and mailed ‘on March 24 divecting that the money be left on Mecln tyre street on March 26 at 7:30 p. m. Officers under the direction of Sheriff G. E. Davis surrounded the spot and fired at a man who attempted to get the package, thrown from the Hanna automo hile by postal inspector Ralph Greer. The man escaped and officers expressed the belief he was a flark-nklfil{ed white man or a Ne gro. The next day a Negro, Han sell Wilson, was arrested and was shot to death by jailer Will Carter that night while attempting to escape. Suspicion Aroused Sheriff Davis, in rouine ques tioning of employes -on the Hanna estate, learmed that Callahan had expregsed a desire to own a Thompson machine gun and a fur ther check showed he had left Thomasville the day after the fail ure of the plot. One of the extor tion notes threatened Hanna with a “Thompson gun. Inspector Greer and detectives started a chase of Callahan that extended to Miami and Belle Glade, Fla.. but before they could catch up with him he returned here and surrendered to the sher iff, saying “I heard you were looking for me.” The sheriff meanwhile arrested Pullian as an associate of Calla han. Callahan made his alleged con fegsion Monday night to the sher iff and the two postal inspectors. Both men, held under the fed eral law enactéd after the Lind bergh kidnaping which makes it an offense to send a letter through the mails with intent to extort, will be given a preliminary hear- (Continued on Last Page) Lineups For ‘“Donkey Ball” Game Announced Lineups for the “donkey base ball” game between the American Legion and the *Lions club to night on Sanford field, starting at 8:30, will be as follows: Lions Club American Legion P—Arthur Oldham-Weaver Bridges (C—sß. S. Thomas-H. Higginbotham IB—Troy Edwards ...Ed Eberhart 2B—Henry Hi 11.... Vane Hawkins (Np short stop used.) 3B—H. Rosenthal.. Bob McWhorter LF—Cody David ..W. A. Hodgson CF—James Costa-Harold Hodgson RF—Elmer N0b1e....D. L. Turpin Substitutes will be for the Lions: H. W. Birdsong, R. L. Whitelock, John Arrendale, Bill Ray, Howard Higginbotham, W. A. Abercrom bie;; and S. R. Grubb. For the American Legion Jim Kelley will be the &gly “gub.” Dr. enn Gentry will be the umpirs, . i Issues Of Anti-Smith Fight Rehashed As Bishop Cannon And Secretary Go On Trial Food Dealers Meet Tonight to Discuss Retail Stores Code A meeting of vetall food dealers of Athens will be held tonight at 7:30 o'clock at the city hall and every retail dealer in Athens trade territory has Dbeen urged to be present. The purpose of ~ the meeting is to make every food dealer in this territory familiar with the ap proved code for retail food deal ers. ‘it is necessary that certain im portant provisions pertaining to prices and operating hours bhe made clear to every dealer and at the meeting tonight will be repre sentatives from the local Code Authority, Athens Retall Food Dealers association and the Cham ber of Commerce. The local Code Authority is composed of M. M. Arnold, L. S. Davis and W. C. Jackson, Offi cers of the _Athens Retaii Food Dealers association are L. O. Price, president; G. H. Bell, sec retary, and M. .B. Wingfield treasurer. VIOLENCE MARKS EVE OF ELECTION Ward Leader Slain Sun day; Interest Centers in INlinois Primary Tuesday. CHICAGO.— (&) —lllinois will have a primary election Tuesday but Joseph Tierno, polititician in Chicago's “Bloody Twentieth” ward, will take no part in it. They found his body in the street Sunday, with bullets in his back. He was a precinct captain in a ward where there is bitter strife for control of the Demo cratic organization, but he was also seen walking with a young woman shortly hefore his death, Police are unaertain whether poli tics or jealousy actuated the slayer. They will keep their eye on the Twentieth Tuesday, nevertheless, for it is a ward with a history of bloodshed. The “citizens committee working for honest elections” and the pub lic affairs committee of the Un jon League club charged Sunday that at least 100,000 persons have registered fraudulently for Tues day's voting., John 8. Rusch, chief clerk of the election board, called this charge just a “smoke screen.” / Most of the interest in the pri= mary centers on contests for con trol of the Democratic county central committees. The recent rise of Demcorats to power in the state after years of Republi can rule has resulted in a greater demand for the county committee jobs, for they spell a share in the control of patronage. In previous years Republicans controlled the state, and therefore nobody cared much who got the Democratic committee jobs. : . Nothing has arisen to make the Illinois primary a test of senti ment as to the policies of Presi dent Roosevelt, barring such an unexpected development as the de feat of several congressmen. Standing for renomination is (Continued on Last Page) Athenian’s Brother Is Shot to Death in Atlanta Restaurant ATLANTA —(#)— Charlie Galia 42, clad in his Greek FEaster fin ery and with four bullet wounds forming a square pattern on his chest was found dead in the case he operated here Sunday.. Police Monday had in custodya man listed as Major Bernhard, an emplove of Galis, and Detective TJ. T. Woodruff said Bernhard made an oral confession to the killing. A Negro who worked for Galis alse was held. The body was digscovered aftef neighbors had called officers and told them someone was shooting | pistols in the viecinity. Galis had | just attended an FEaster celebra ition and was preparing to go teo work when he was shot. Woodruff quoted Bernhard as saying Galis attacked him with a billiard cue after trving to per suade him to go to bed following the celebration. Surviving Galis are a brother, Tony, and an uncle, Henry Galis, both of Athens, O, -..- A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday Both Plead Not Guilty of Violating Corrupt Prac tices. Act. LOSE FIRST MOVE Defense Fails to Force Covernment to Submit Full Particulars. . WASHINGTON.—(#)——A de fense motion that the government be required to submiit a full hill of particulars was overrdled Mon day in District of Columbia ecrim inai court as Bishop James Can non, jri, and Miss Ada L. Bur roughs went on trial on a charge of conspiracy to violate the fed eral corrupt’ practices act in the 1928 presidential campaign. Robert H. McNeill, the South ern Methodist churchman's chief counsel, insisted that the govern ment be required at least to set forth “when, where and by what means Ada Burroughs conspirved with Cannon to fail to report the contrikution of Hdwin C. Jame son."” ¢ ) After hearing McNeill, . Justice Peyton Gordon waved back to his seat John J. Wilson, assistant distriet attorney, who had arisen to reply. y Pleatt Mot Guilty Gordon asserted the condition qualifying an indictment as “good” is “whéther it sufficiently advises the defendant of ‘the facts of the faots of-the 'charge so he may go to thial" i et L ' 'Bishop Cannon and Miss Bur frougha pleaded sot “guilty.” Miss Burroughs answered firsdt in a quiet veice. Cannon, speak ing loud enough to be heard throughout the court room, then said, “not guilty.” Indications that issues that played a large part in the Hoover-. Smith campaign more than five yvears ago would enter into the trial proceedings” came when the court and counsel framed a ques tion to test the jurors on their religfous, “priohibition Yrd politi cal views. ; Twelve persons were called te¢ (Continued on last page.) Kansas City Stirred By New Threats on City Manager’s Life KANSAS CITY —(®)— Renewed threats on the life of ity Mana ger Henry F. M,cmlr&y, political storm center, stirred Kansas City Monday on the eve of the inaugu ration. of officials chosen at the recent turbulent city election. Twice within less than 24 hours the McElroy home wasg molested —first by a sniper’s’ bullet, and secondly, by a mysterious tele phone threat, “we never miss twice,” Saveral weeks ago Me- Elroy’s life was threatened in an extortion note. 3 The bullét crashed throtgN a window of a room adjoining one occupied at the time by McElroy and his daughter, Mary, for whose freedom kidnapers were paid $30,- 000 last year, The attack on McElroy's hom* came as demands were being made that he be ousted as city mana ger. Tuesday, the newly elected eity couneil will fili the post. Tt was considered certain he would be retained. # McElroy blamed critics of him self and of the T. J. Pendergast Demoeratic organization for ' the latest post-election incident. In a flery statement, he said the Clitizen-Fusionist party, which waged an unsucecessful “anti-boss” ecampaign against the Democratic regime, was “stirring up animosi ties” and “trying to get somebody to shoot someone.” 4 When the city eouneil meets Tuesday, six of the eight ecouncil men are expected to back McElroy for re-election. They were chosen on the Pendergast ticket. The other two are Fuslonists. Directors of Y. M. C. A. Meet Tonight At 6:30 Directors of the Y. M. C. A.;and chairman of the various commit tees will meet tonigh¢ in the as gociation building at 6:30 for the launching of the Promotion Cab inet commitiee, which is to start work immediately, - This meeting ie one of the most important of the new year, ang all members of the board of direetors are urged to attemd. Supper will be served, 00l wE| | N ~ ; ~f! R ; ; i i ; ety SR NRA's Public Hearing on Arnendment to Code Opens At Capital. Workers Stay Away From Alabama Pits Opened Under Injunction. WASHINGTON . —(#)-—Soft coal operators from five states massed forces Monday to overthrow Hugh 8. Johnson's NRA mandate for shorter hours and highes wages. The battle ground was NRA'S public hearing on the recent amendment to the bituminous ceal code. This extended the seven hour working day and a ocmpensat ing increase in wages to all soff coal mines. Although it was approved by a majority of the operators In the Appalachian region, strong opposi tion to the new wage and hour schedule was voiced by operators in Illinoig, Alabama, - Kentucky, West Virginia and Tennessee. A Heated Dispute A heated dispute between John L: Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, and Foney Johnston, representative of Alabama commercial operators, caused a-brief recess in the hear ing. i Jolinston, after calling the NRA ordér’ for the wage and hour changes a violation of the recov ery act, said union representatives, idurlnx ¢onierences with the oper ators leading to a wage contract, had assured the operators they had no -intention of initiating an other wage increase. ; Lewis, who had been sitting at one side during Johnston's speech, interrupted with the question of whether Johnston meant to imply the union had a secret under standing, ‘apart from the contract, with the operators. i Tohngton denied making such an - implication. : w Lewis persisted. e “lI made 'no such statement,” Johnston repeated. v g “You implied it.” countered Lewis. “I did not.” “Then withdraw it,” Lewis said: “I implied nothing and with draw nothing,” replied Johnston, At this point Blackwell Smith, of the NRA legal division, inter rupted the debate and asked ;figi witnesses to confine themselves. to direct statements of fact. oo BIRMINGHAM, A!a.«-(m-—fi,. though whistles shrieked their. call Monday, most of the 15,000 miners in Alabama made idle Fri day through a shutdown, today remained away from the pits which were reopened under a fed eral injunction against the NRA. Carson Adams, spokesman for the publicity = committee of thes Alabama commercial coal opera tors, said he was unable to é&g definite figures on the number of mines which resumed operations. The operators voted Saturday to reopen Monday, after -"'clo‘;igg'r down all commercial shtats, .and to operate pending action by’ the NRA in Washington, under a o 2 porary injunction granted Ffli by Federal Judge C. B, Wenna mer restraining NRA and other federal officials from enforging the terms of an amendment to. the bituminous coal code which re duced hours to 356 a week dand raised the basic minimum wage from $3.40 per day to $4.60. JOHNSON ABSENT WASHINGTON.— (&) —Public hearings of . the controversial Wagner labor bill were closed Monday after Hugh S. Johusen, NRA adm:aistrator, failed for the second time to appear to give his views on the legislation to the senate labor committee. i LOCAL WEATHER | - i Fair tonight and Tuesday, . not much change in tempera- ‘ ture. LY The following report covers ' the 24 hour period ending at * 8:00 A. M. today: . TEMPERATURE i Highest . ... siee Stiw dss DR Lowest .... Sees svss ne..8080 MBAN .. . e seit eia N NoEmAl ..u wbvs oseias kIS i RAINFALL viess Inches last 24 hours .. sees 82 Total since: April 1 .. ... 88 . % Deficiency since April 1 ~. 46 Average April 3 wnf.‘n. “ssa -19% é
