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THE
Washington
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Rodney Dutcher
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Behind the Scenes
l SIOO,OOO Fund
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Washington Correspondent I
For The Banner-Herald
WASHINGTON.—The not pehind- l
pe-scenes battle over the make-l
up of the new Federal Securiti-es!
Jxchange Commission has cen- |
ered on a mild, rather shy, spec-!
iacled, and very intélligent fellow |
hamed Ben Cohen. (
Conen’s {riends and admirers, |
vho happen also to be the strong- |
<t friends and admirers of strlctl
stock exchange regulation, raised’
the issue both ‘on his behalf zmdi
i protest against putting a couple ;
of Wall Street men on the flve'l
nan board.
Wall Street, with all its emis- |
qaries and friends here, its pipe- |
jnes into high places and war |
funds, has fought to have Roose
velt put at least tweo of its insid
ers on the board—and, if possible,
o third man who would be “neu
tral” or wobbly.
Behind the drive for Cohen onel
found Prof. Raymond Moley and
Chairmen Sam Rayburn and Dun- |
can Fletcher of the respective
House and Senate committees
which framed the stock market
pill. Federal Trade Commissioner
Jim Landis and Counsel Tom Cor
coran of RFC.
Rayburn’s entire cominittee en
dorsed Cohen in a letter to -Roose
velt. (Cohen, Landis, and Cox
coran wrote the original bill and
helped the committees “steer it
b (hrough Congress.) :
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The latter group wanted Landis,
Federal Trade Commissioner
George C. Mathews, Ferdinand Pe
cora, and Cohen on the commis-;
sion,
(Cohen is associure wounsel for'
PWA, in charge of railroad loans
and a protege of Prof. Felix Frank
turter. He was born in Muncie,
Ind, 40 years ago, was graduated
from Chicago University and Ha,r-l
vard Law Schoel.dn- record time,
and became .secretary to Judge!
Jullan Mack of the U. 8. Circuit
Court, who handled most big cor~!
poration receiverships in Newl
York. |
Cohen was an attorney for the}
Zionists at the Paris peace confer
ence, working with Justice Bran-}
deis, and helped manage Palestine
colonization. He pywmetiCed law inJ
Wall Street, handled some big re- |
ceiverships, became & director of
the Amalgamated Bank—only labor
bank still surviving—and drafted
and fought for women's minimum
wage laws now operating in sev
eral states,
. . .
Moley tipped off his friends here
that a §sloo,ooo fund had been
raised in Wall Street to finance
hand-picked experts who would go
to work for the new commission,
unless aided. . . . W. ‘Averill Har
riman, high NRA official and part
ner in Brown Brothers, Harrimax
& Co. at 59 Wall Street, was
lfnmd busy: backstage., . . . And
then there were the Hebrew finan
clers from New York who urged
Roosevelt not to appoint Cohen lest
e thereby stir up resentment
against both their race and the ad-
Hilhistration among the anti-Semi- |
tic element, J
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It seems funny to some people
that Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace, who launched the corn-hog
reduction program, should be in
interested in the Hi-Bred Corn CO..}
;H“Lih advertises in ‘“Wallace's
‘armer” a seed corn which will
vield 19.8 per cent more to the acre
than ordinary corn, |
Walace geveloped the seed by per-
Sonal experiment. He has a small
f"""."ltb' interest in the company
stock and Mrs. Wallace is the larg
est stockholder.
But the secretary, questioned, in-
SlSts there jsn't enough seed in ex
istence to plant more than one and
one-half per cent of Yowa's corn
L‘*lf«frxe and that it takes 10 years
‘\’v‘ l"f"'*d_ it, so that it couldn’'t pos-
SiVly affect the general situation
LOr years,
..1,3\1,;;“‘ ' mo conflict between
~‘f~i‘atg[l(m efforts for efficiency
prodic “ same time controlling
;-f,,‘.”:(ft,"?n' he says. “It is absurd
)vz-uduc:”:ezc‘rm work long hours to
duce in gh s th'at S -CE, - e
':‘z'ivienm;r €{!‘t houfs. ‘SN Sies for
e can and should be car
¢ on at the same time the total
nh:ll‘Ut is controlled.
r.@;:;:fiy would advocate that
torked “stgl?‘kbECk o R e A
|lo wealsiite Bae TR R
| e wOB o decrease production.
o e of beiter seed is In line with
,»A,,»-@:fsgf,()f better machinery and
vhich tdi“mmg methods, all of
more ] iend to give the farmer
~ © leisure and permits a greater
N per hour for his labor.”
'-Opyright, 1934, NEA Service
Inc.)
e sttt
- RECREATION PROGRAM
_oames B. Williams, Southern
“bresentative of the National Rec
‘“ation agsociation with offices in
'icksonville, is expected in Ath
:eis: this week to arrange a recrea
+ion program for the fit’.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
California’s Strike Area Unsettled
VIGILANGE AGAINGT
FURTHER REVOLT Fo
RESUMED BY NAZIS
Party Spokesman States
Roehm Revolution Had
Wide Ramifications
OTHER INDICATIONS
Policy of Government
Seems Headed Toward
Conservatism
By A. D. STEFFERUD
(Copyright, 1934, By the Associat
ed Press.)
BERLIN.—(£)—A Nazi Jigil
ance agalnst revolt was resumed
today with disquieting reports
that “something more is brewing"”
among friends of ‘“liquidated”
Nazi leaders.
The Nazi party spokesman said
the Roehm revolution had wide
ramifications and was well organ
ized, and that those delegated by
Chancellor Hitier to preserve the
regime are taking no chances on
Roehm’s sympathizers. i
Storm troopers in civilian
clothes, under orders not to wear
uniforms during a vacation period,
were reported to have met today
in the Wedding district of Berlin,
former stronghold of Communists,
and to have shouted ‘“revenge!”
Other Indications
This and other indications, the
spokesman said, have brought re
newed vigilance and determina
tion to prove once and for all
that “the iron fist angd a strong
will rules Germany.”
Meanwhile the course of govern
ment policy was believed to have
‘taken a step toward conservatism
‘with the delegation of new pOwW
ers to Kurt Schmitt, minister of
‘economics, who, it was hinted,
'might attempt to quell some as
;pects of the anti-Jewish aetivities
of the government in order to
better Germany's economic situa
tion.
; He is authorized to impose un
}llmited fines on persons and insti
tutions who refuse to obey his
k orders.
Complaint Made
Schmitt had complaired ' that
his work was being hampered by
the more radical doctrines of other
cabinet members and Nazi lead
ers. He has now obtained more or
less a free hand in directing Ger
many’s economic program.
I This development came as lead
ers attacked labor, financial and
political problems with redoubled
efforts and a spirit of “Well, that’s
over.”
The Nazi press made much of
the theme of a party workers
meeting at Flensburg that the
“gecond revolution,” which broke
out a week ago tomorrow, has
been completed and ‘‘there is
work to be done.”
' The unsettled situation in the
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SIAMESE TWIN TO
“FIGHT IT OUT”
Determined to Carry
Point Despite Offers of
Other States
NEW YORK.—(#)—Violet Hilton,
the staboard half of the Hliton sis
ters, Siameme twins, s going to
fight it out with, New York offl
- who yesterday refused to is
sue a marriage license to her and
Maurice Lambert, musician.
Turned down both here and in
Newark, Miss Hilton at first con
sidered the possibility of going to
Maryland to get the license. She
changed her mind today,.and is
going to make an issue of it.
Her attorney, Irving Levy, said
he would apply in supreme court
for a mandamus writ directing the
New York ecity clerk to grantg the
license,
“I won’t permit Violet—and of
courve, Daisy (Daisy is the sister)
—to go to Maryland,” Levy said.
“The city s2t an undesirable prece
dent in refusing to issue the
license.
“We're going to have a show
down on the matter. The oniy way
to solve it is through the manda
mus proceedings.”
William C. Chanler, acting cor
poration counsel, ruled against the
marriage, saying:
“The very idea i{s quite immoral
and indecent.”
In Newark, the applicants were
turned down on similar grounds.
OFFER NO. 1
CHARLOTTE, N. C.—(#)—Violet
and Daisy Hilton, Siamese twins,
are welcome to a marriaz> license
in North Carolina.
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‘ OFFER NO. 2
MARION, Ark.—(#—Violet Hil
ton, red-headed Siamese twin, and
her fiance, Maurice L. Lambert, to
[day were invited to come to thi3
Arkansas town to be married,
Roosevelt Makes
Second Trip Ashore
At Puerto Rico
By FRANCIS M. STEPHENSON
Associated Press Staff Writer
ENROUTE WITH PRESI
DENT ROOSEVELT ACROSS
PUERTO RlCO—(#)—President
Roosevelt motored across this
American possession in the
Caribbean today between lines
of natives waving flags after
an early morning arrival at
the western seaport of Maya
guez and rode with' him over
the mountainous route to the
capital, San Juan, where
Roosevelt will spend the night
before going to St. Thomas,
Virgin Islands, tcmorrow.
A threatened rainfall some
what dampened the ardor of
the reception for the president,
who rode in an open car and
responded to greetings along
the way.
The route followed the coast
to Ponce De Leon and into the
hills to Cayey. Lunch was
taken at the residence of the
governor at Jajome, Alto. The
party is due at San Juan for
dinner.
The cruiser HoustOn was
gighted off Mayaguez at 6:30
a. m. with the destroyer escort
in its wake. i
CHURGH SENTENGED
T 0 LIFE IV PRISON
Slayer of Earl .Gentry
Hears Fate Two Hours
After Pleading Guilty
JEFFERSON, Wis. — & — &
gwift stroke of justice had Carl
Church; 86-year-old itinerant paint
er, in a Waupun state prison cell
today under life sentence for the
murder of Earl B. Gentry.
“I didn’t think it wrong to kill
a rat,” Church sald yesterday as
he was sentenced by Circuit Court
Judge George Grimm, two hours
after he pleaded guilty in justice
court,
He was started to prison with
out delay—within 18 hours of his
capture at nearby Fort Atkinson.
Church said he killed Gentry be
cause the one-time bodyguard of
D. C. Stephenson, imprisoned for
mer grand dragon of the Indiana
Ku Klux Klan, abused Mrs Carrie
D. Gill, Jltterson’s “Sunshine
Lady,” and because Mrs. Gill had
been kind to him while he was
giek. i
The “Sunshine Lady,” st called
because of charitable acts, pleaded
innocence to & change of first de
gree murder growing out of Gen
try's death. Gentry was found shot
to death Sunday in his automobile
parked near the Gill residence,
where he made hi# home.
With her brother, Ferdinand
Porbest, Mrs. Gil] awalited a pre
liminary hearing next Wiednesday.
Ferdinand, arraighed on a charge
of being an accesgory after the
fact of murder, also pleaded inno
cence. District Attorney . Harold
M. Dakin said the widow’s brother
helped the painter dispose of Gen
try's body.
Stephenson with whom Gentry
was tried for thu death of Madge
Oberholtzer, an Indianapelis girl,
is now serving alife sentence. Gen
try was acquitted. i
Administration of
Bankhead Act Begins
In State Thursday
Instructions concerning compll-i
ance with AAA cotton contracts
and the administration .of thel
Bankhead act were begun 'Thurs-]
day at meetings being held
througout the state, to contmue}
through July 11, |
District agents of the Universi
ty of Georgia agricultural exten:
sion service are in charge. County 1
farm agents and committgemen are
atending. ¢ |
Measuring of land devoted to
cotton as well a 8 the acreage rent
ed to the government wlll start
immediately, and in cases where
the area in cotton is in eXcess of
the amount stipulated in the grow
er's contract an adjustment in ace
cord with the agreement will be
required. .
Plans for administration of the
Bankhead act are also being laid
before the county agents and com
mitteemen and applications for al
lotments allowed farmers under
the measure will be accepted be
ginning at a nearly date. Exten
sion and county organizations
have been perfected. Control
measures will, therefore, b= un
derway in all counties shortly,
Athens, GCa., Friday, July 6, 1934.
Over Million Americans
Have Openly Approved Of
Roosevelt Administration
Literary Digest Poll Is
Source of Interesting
Information
SOUTH FAVORABLE
Vermont |ls Only State to
Disapprove of Policies |,
Of President
A total of 1,082,752 Americans
have signifieq their approval ‘on
the whole” of the acts and poli
cies of the first year of President
Roosevelt's administration, the
eighth and final report on the Lit
erary Digest poll, showea today. A
total of 1,772.163 votes were cast.
Of the total, 1,083,762 voted
“yes,”” ang 688,411 voted unfavor
ably.
Forty-seven of the states fav
ored the Roosevelt policies, only
one, Vermont, showing a total
vote against. The vote in Ver
mont was 6,451 votes cast; 2,992
for and 3,459 against the Roose
velt policles. The ratio of disap
proval in Vermont thus is 53.62.
The. New Deal’s greatest sup
port is from the states in the
70-85 percent group, consisting of
Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Arkan
sas, Virginia, Mississippi, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Texas,
‘Tennessee, Utah and Oregon.
| Georgia Figures
Georgia voted 14,279 for Roose
velt’s policies ang 3,044 against.
The ratio thus was over 4 to 1.
Alabama and Mississippi almost 5
‘to 1. The other states in the group
voted down as low as 2% to 1 in
| favor.
. Ten states were in the group
which recorded less than a 5 per
!cent margin of approval. They
| were Indiana, lowa, Kansas, South
lDakota, Illinois, Nebraska, Colo
irado, Maine, Massachusetts and
New Hampshire.
In the 55-656 percent “yes’” group
are Idaho, Montana, New Mexico,
,“’ashlngton, Wyoming, Michigan,
' Minnesota, Missouri, North Dako
’ta. Ohio, Wisconsin, Connecticut,
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BOTHOF CHEMI3TS
REPORT FOR DUTY
Situation in State Agricul
ture Department Still in
Deadlock
ATLANTA —(#)—Both Dr. C.
Reynolds Clarke. discharged state
chemist, and Dr. J. R. Cain, jrj,
place, were on the job today with
the situation in regard to the
chemistry department still appar
ently in a deadlock.
Commissioney of Agriculture G.
C. Adams last week eliminated the
anme of Dr. Clarke and six of his
assistants from the budget for the
third quarter and appointed Dr.
Cain in his place. Governor Tal
madge, who under the law must
approve the budgets of all depart
ments refused to approve the eli
mination of the chemist,
~ Dr. Clarke today was in his of
fire at the chemistry department
while Dr, Cain, who was a mem
ber of Georgia Tech’'s.l92B national
championship football team, occu
pied a chair in the agricultural de
partment.
Mr. Adams has . not Indicated
what his future will be beyond a
statement several days ago that
his original budget recommenda
tions stood.
Governor Talmadge approved the
budget as it had been amended
by him and said that so far as he
was concerned there was no fur
ther action to be taken.
Collector of Internal
Revenue Answers Suit
By University Regents
ATLANTA, Ga— () —A suit
brought by the Board of Regents
of the Unviersity of Georgia Sys
tem seeking to restrain collection
of $15579 in taxes alleged to be
due from admissions to athletic
contests, has been answered by
W. E. Page, collector of internal
revenue, with a declaration that
the board is not an interested
party.
The receipts, Mr. Page set
forth, are the ¢ property of the
Georgia Tech Athletic association.
He also said revised federal stat
utes prohibited maintenance of a
suit in which the assessment and
collection of federal taxes were
involved.
~ Penalties for non-payment of
taxes has brought the sum due
from the Athletic association up
to $20,148, Mr. Page said.
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Members Vote to Change
Meeting Day From Wed
nesday to Thursday
At a meeting of the Pilot eclub,
held 4t the Georgian hotel Thurs
day with 25 out of the 28 mem
bers present, it was voted to
change the date of the meetings
from the first and last Wednes
days to the first and third ‘Thurs
days of each month.
Miss Rebecca Fowler gave a
report on the recent Lions club
meeting at which Pilot elub mem
kers, were guests angd delivered the
invitation of the men's civic club
to join with them in a highway
beautification project which the
Lions expect to take as one of
their objectives for the current
vear. The matter was referred to
the civic committee.
Following the routine business
taken up at the meeting, the
members were entertained by a
group of dancers from the Lucy
Lampkin School of the Dance. The
first number was a Russian Ma
zu-ica, danced in costume by Jead
Creekmore and Mary Anne Bras
well. This was followed with a
Spanish folk dance, danced by
Jane Weatherly and Catherine
Davis, which was very colorful
with the lively tempo and bright
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Fred Perry Defeats
Crawford for World’s
Tennis Championship
"WIMBLEDON, Eng—(®)—Fred
erick John Perry, 25-year-old Eng
lish tennis star, today defeated
Jack Crawford, of Australia, the
defending champion, 6-3, 6-0, 7-5
in the men's singles final of the
all-England tennis championships
to keep the title in England for
the first time in 25 years,
It was the year Perry was born
that A. W. Gore, one of the im
mortalg of the ¥nglish courts, won
the Wimbléedon championship. Since
then the stars of Australia, France
and the United States have mono
polized the titles.
Lester Soefén and George M.
Lott, jr, United States Davis cup
doubles combination, won their
semi-final mateh from the Aus
tralian - German combination of
Harry Hopman and Daniel Prenn
6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 8-6 and will meet
Jaeques Brugnon and Jean Borotra
for the title tomorrow.
LOCAL WEATHER
Mostly cloudy, probably
showers and thunderstormg to
night anfi‘Saturday; except fair
in southbafsit portion tonight;’
cooler Saturday in north por
tion.
TEMPERATURE
S, . 880
Tt ... . . 8000
B ... L e IR
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RAINFALL
. Inches last 24 h0ur5........ 0.00
< Total since JUIY lia.iovncon - 80
Excess since, July 1........ 0.00
Average July rainfall...... 4.96
Total since January 1......30.22
- BExcess since January 1.... 2.98
THREE JUDGE COUAT
CONSIDERS PETITION
OF PHONE COMPANY
Federal Jurists Refuse to
Cite Gov. Talmadge
into Court
Covernor's Testimony Is
Not Thought Material
To Point at Issue
ATLANTA —()— A three judge
fedral court which refuged to cite
Governor Eugene Talmadge as a
witness on the grounds that it did
not consider his testimony materi
al to the issue, today considered
the petition of ten telephone com
panies for an injunction to prevent
rate reductions set up by the
Georgia Public Service commie
sion.
The telephone companies, all in
dependent, are asking, in addition
to the injunction, that the commis
sion members be cited for con
tempt of federal court. The com
mission contended that the court
did not have jurisdiction because
of the Johnson bill which throws
utilities controversies into state
courts. 5
[Circuit Judge Samuel H. Sib
ley said the guestion of ‘jurisdiction
will be the first to be decided.
Refused Summons
Governor Talmadge last week
refused to accept a summons to
appear as a witness yesterday. At
torneys for the telephone compa
nies said they had hoped to show
through Talmadge that before ap
pointing the commissioners, he
had pledged them to reduce rates
and that they were under duress
to the extent the governor would
remove them if reductions were
not made. ;
Judge Sibley se#id “whether or
not the governor made the com
migsioners pledge themselves to
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COMPLIANGE GROUP
CTARTS WORK SOON
County Members Meet
This Afternoon to Make
Arrangements
Measuring of areas planted in
cotton in Clarke county will begin
Monday, it was announced by Luke
Watson, county agent. The meas
urement will be done by the Cot
ton Compliance board for the
country, and is to act as a check
on farmers who have contracts un
der the cotton acreage reduction
program this year, to see whether
they are complying with the con
tract.
The board is composed of mem
bers of the country Cotton Produc
tion contract committee: John
Pittard, Winterville, chairman; J.
W. Morton, Puryear's district, and
John M. Fowler, Athens; and R.
¥. Johnson, W. D. Amis, J. R.
Tuck, T. W. Morton, Luther Craw
ford, Harris Thurmond, Joe P.
Nunnally, G. C. Daniel, and N. O
McWaters. These men will be as
signed various districts to be cove
ered.
l ‘The group met this afternoon at
12:30 in the county commissioners
e office to discuss measuring the
[land. ‘County Engineer H. K.
!.Nicholson led the discussion
explaining the varioug¢ methods ot
‘doing the work.
The board and County Agerit
Watson attended a distriet- meet
ing in Madison yesterday, when T.
1. Asbury, distriet agricultural ex
tension agent for Northeast Geor
gia, explained the work. U. H.
Davenport, Athens, discussed ways
of measuring the land at this
meeting.
City Authorities in
Amsterdam Order “No
Leniency to Rioters”
AMSTERDAM, Holland. —(#)—
City authorities ordered today that
“no quarter” be given in a two
day-old battle against rioting un
employed and communists. Thr2e
demonstrators have been Kkilled
and a score injured.
Police were ordered to take the
most severe measures toward the
demonstrators, who have barri
caded themselves up in the Jor
dan workers' district.
Disturbances continued this af
ternoon with increased violence.
Authorities considered asking for
military reinforcements.
Special guards were posted at
the gas works and other public
utilities and barricmdes were erect
ed cutting off the affected area.
The rioters are protesting a dole
cut. They resisted repeated police
charges after rebuilding barricades
which were torn down during the
night. gl a !
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Dr. T. H. McHatton, head of the
horticuiture division of the State
College of Agriculture, at thg re
quest of the federal government,
has been loaned the Chancellors
ville subsistence project for a peri
od of sixty days. Dr. McHatton
helps map plans, work out details
and ses that the operation of the
project gets off to a smooth start.
ATHENIAN TO DIRECT
HOMESTEAD COLONY
‘Chancellorsville _ Project
~ “Borrows” Dr. T. H. Mc
| Hatton for 60 Days
WASHINGTON—{#)—The divis
jon of subsistance homesteads an
nounced today Dr. T. H. McHat
ton of Athens, Ga., had been ap
pointed manager of the Chancel
lorgville Homestead project in
Georgia.
‘Dr. McHatton is horticulturist
at the University of Georgia.
A governmient official said Dr.
McHatton was “a fine gentleman
and a scholar” and wag thorough
ly fitted for the post. As mana
ger, Dr. McHatton will work out
details for the propect and have
charge of operations for 60 days.
Dr. McHatton is one of Geor
gia’s best known educators, and
has been prominent in civic affairs
for years. Among the other organ
izations in which he has :been
prominent is the Reserve Officers
association, of which he was state
president for a year. He holds the
rank of lieutenant colonel in the
chemical warfare service.
The Chancellorsville homestead
project is located in- the lower
Piedmont section of Georgia and
will be built with a $2,500,000 grant
of public works money for a co
operative back-to-the-farm move
ment on 16,000 acres. One hundred
families will form the nucleus of
the project.
Located in Jasper and Putnam
counties, the project centers in the
establishment of maintenance units
of fifty acres for each family of
which thirty acres would be arable
and the remainder marginal and
forest lands.
The hundred families thus would
take up 5,000 of the 16,000 acres,
leaving 11,000 acres to be handed
from a community standpoint or as
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Two Governers Give
Freedom to Convict
For Valuable ‘Tips’
TOPEKA, Kans.—{#)—Two gov
ernors moved today to reward
Francis Sharpe, a Kansas convict,
with freedom for informing au
thorities of a plot to Kkidnap the
daughter of one of the state ex
ecutives. .
Keeping his word to the prison
er, Gov. ‘Alf M. Landon, of Kansas,
made known he will parole Sharpe
for “tips” last year that fallow
prisoners and outside friends
planned to kidnap Miss Peggy Ann
Lado, 17-year-old daugnter of the
Kansas executive.
At the same time Gov. W. H.
Murray, of Oklahoma, announced
that he had acceded to a request
of Governor Landon that Sharpe
be paroled from a 25-year prison
term pending against him in that
state,
Governoy Landon satd the plot
to abduct his daughter was de
signed to force him to free “about
ten of the worst offenders in the
Kansas penitentiary.” The scheme
was laid at the door of the des
perate Wilbur Underhill gang
The governor said we was con
vinced Sharpe’s story hastened the
death of - Wilbur Underhill and
Ford Bradshaw and the capture of
several of their henchmen. .
Sharpe. is serving a sentence of
from 10 to 25 years.
H2YE
GUARDS CONTINUE
10 PATROL SECTION
ALONG WATERFRONT
Strikers NUrs@ Wounds
Today After. Bloody
Battle Thursday.--
BYSTANDERS HURT
Two Thousand Soldiers
Occupy Battleground = °
. During Night = =
SAN ~FRANCISCO. —(#)— Bay
onets bristled dlong San Francis
co’s blood-stained waterfront to
day. { L R RS e
Two thousand national guards
men patrolled the area where 34
persons were shot down, at least
two of them fatally wounded By
police gun fir: yesterday. Scores
were gassed, beaten and trampled,
The soldiers occupied the bat~
tleground, of .the Pacific coast
maritime strike during the night.
Embattled strikers huddled silent
ly around picket fires and nursed
wounds. of yesterday's bloody riots.
“We are . lot going to retreat
from the.. waterfront,” declared
Ralph Mallen. of .the International
Longshoremen’s Association pub
lieity committee. “We avo going
ahead and expect to obtain plenty
of help: from -all' other unions to
ward a - general strike.”
‘- To Protect Life
The 'National gaurdsmen were
specifically ordered by California’a
acting governor, ' Frank F. Mer=
riam, to protect life and property
and maintain o¥dér along the five
and . one-half mile waterfront.
They were under orders, issued by
Adjutant Genéral Seth E. Howard,
to do no shooting “until there is
evidence of an attack upon you of
upon state property.” )
Howard Sperry, 49, a striking
Longshoreman, ang George Coun
eourakls, about 45, a member of
the cooks and waiters’ union and
reported to be connected with
the ‘lnternational Labor Defense
League, died from bullet wounds.
Innocent “Bystander”
Mrs. .Josephine Fuentes was
struck in . the head by a bullet
while riding . through the strike
zone in.a. street car. A number
of other .. non-combatants were
among the injured.
From -Rincen Hill, where the
whine of bullets gave the first war
note, the fighting swept down the
waterfront - streets - to the Inerma
national’ Longshoremen’s Associa
fion headquarters and to Steuart
and Markei streets. It was at this
sreet jntersection that a bomb ex
ploded during ‘a Preparedness Day
parade in 1918, killing 10 persons
and wounding 40 others. o
Acting Governor Merriam's for
mal order calling’ out the state
troops came while the rioting was
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FOR LEGION POST
D. Weaver Bridges Select
ed President of Corpora
tion Lsat Night =
D. Weaver Bridges was “elected
president of the Allen R. Flem
ing, jr, Post No. 20 of the Amer
ican Legion, Inc. at the meeting
of the post held last night at the
Georgian hotel at 8 o'clock for
the purpose of electing directors
and officers of the corporation.
Dr. H. W. Birdsong was elect
ed vice-president; V. G. Hawkins,
secretary; and Harry Heins,
treasurer. Other directors are
Mayo C. Buckley, Tony Camara
ta, Grace B. Cook, R. H. Drift
meir, B. F. Grant, H. B. Higgin
botham, Dr. H. B. Hodgson,
Harry Heins, Frank BE. Mitchell,
James White, jr., Jim Costa, and
Thomas J. Echols. : ;
The incorporation is a separate
entity from the Legion post, and
is for the purpose of furthering
the park and playground move
ment of the Lelion, giving the
group the right to enter imto con
tracts and do business as a firm.
. The board of directors will be
called together shortly to adopt
and approve the by-laws. ...
Commander of the post is B. P,
Grant; H. B. Hodgson is Come
- mander-elect. o
\ T L e
NUMBER OF BOMBS
TOSSED IN HAVANA
" HAVANA.—(#)-—A number _of
bombs were tossed In -Havana to
day, apparently by radicals in their
‘teens, leading to redoubled police
vigilance. : i
Authorities had been warned
that left wing high school sm%§
planned to place 60 bombs in vari=
ous parts of the eity. ;i %
Fourteen bombs were distributed
last night and early this momfi
Six exploded, causing considerable
