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Newspaper Page Texte COTTON MARKET S oo snes 1098 ';ADE“’/‘,'C',T,S GLOSE s.en =+ 12%0 L ————————————————— t . THE ;Washington Lowdown —— Rodney Dutcher Causing Worry Who Is Squeezed Just for Contrast Banner-Herald Washington Correspondent \\'ASHII\'GT()N_-—Strikes in big aities are spectacular, but the farm labor problem is causging this ad ministration just as much genuine worry. Dozens of recent strikes by farm Jaborers will be folloyved by many more. The reason is that millions of tenant farmers, share croppers, field hands, contract workers and hired men are being left out of the New Deal. And many are being padly hurt by it. Secretaries Wallace and Perkins _who think the situation is ex tremely serious—feel virtually help jess. Neither NIRA nor the Farm act provides for protection of farm labor. The AAA program is en tirely designed to benefit landown ers. And any attempt to interfere petween landowners and their landless workers is loaded with political ~dynamite. Diversity of the latter groups and their sur wunding problems present innum erable complications. Communists are making the most of this bad business which inflicts starvation wages and conditions of virtual peonage in many cases, Everywhere they haye made in tensive organization drives and jately in California they have sought to synchronize argricultural strikes with the San Francisco walkout. | * * L 4 Whether it's the tenant or share cropper who finds himself squeezed out by the acreage reduction pro gram or the vegetable weeder who faces higher existence costs with unchanged or reduced wages— aften the result of the low prices his employers receive, these vic tims find the the Communists the only ones who seem interested lin their plight. The AAA and the Labor Depart ment have done an immense amount of investigating which dis closed widespread and almeosgt dns credibly inhuman conditions. But they know they couldn’t get any law through Congress to benefit farm labor. The AAA has consid ered treating share croppers and field workers asg ‘producers”—for whom the Farm act permits them to fix returns—and may yet feel forced to try something along that tack. Just for contrast with other labor | disputes, you may he interested tol know that about 20 young men and women are still picketing NRA headquarters three times a day— as employes go to work, leave for lunch and knock off for the day. They march around the Com merce Building unmolested, bear ing placards which describe John son as ‘Chiseler No, 1" and other wise protest the general’s dismis sal of President John Donovan of the NRA employes’ union. The pickets have heen imported from New York and financed by private citizens here, as the NAA union isn’t involved in the picket ing. The first score have just re turned to New York, only to be re placed by about 20 more recruited by the League for Industrial De moecracy, A plan to pieket the halls where Johnson was to speak in his proposed tour of the country col-l lapsed when the administrator cur tajled his jtinerary. l Meanwhite, protests against the Donovan dismissal have come from dozens of labor and other organi zations, some of which contributed money to the ‘defense fund.” President Green of the A. F. of L. bawled out the rest of the Labor Advisory Board for accepting Donovan's dismissal from its staff without protest. The “case has been taken to the new National Labor Relations Board, which is trying to decide whether to accept it as a complainy that NIRA collective bargaining provisions have been violated. (Copyright, 1934. NEA‘' Service, Inc.) Another Name Added. To Death List in Bus . Accident in New York OSSINING, N. Y. —(AP)— An-‘ Other name was added today tol the list of dead in Saunday’s bus accident, the body of the elgh-i teenth victim heing recovered if;‘"“ the Hudson river this morn g. ‘ Twenty one other persons were ff”’ oonfined to hospitals with 'irns suffered when the bus went ;:ttn ';f control and hurtled over a “Hoot embankment. Y-\l'fﬂnwhilo. the state of New OTK prepared to follow out Gov rmor Herbert Lehan's orders for a tomplete investigation of the tragic accident. '“-—— : ATLANTAN DIES ATLANTA, Ga—(#)—John Tho- Mas Ware, 53, collapsed in a ga 'age where he had gone on busi g;ess vesterday. His death was Ih’:’fl'lﬁld on the hot weather. The ‘'mometer here reached a max mun‘ of 95 dme@'., ' ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service 1,500 Strike at Chicago Stockyards Body of John Dillinger Has “Homecoming” Today e Will Have Dingy Hearse " For Final Ride Over Indiana Highways HUNT IS CONTINUED “Baby Face” Nelson Is Reputed to Be Next On Police List ‘ i CHICAGO —(AP) — This waﬂ homecoming day for John Dillin-: ger. i His career as a desperado clos-“ ed by bullets, the man whose ex ploits made a nation gasp was ready for a return to his native Indiana. It was to be no triumphal processgion. A dingy, dust-covered hearse was to be the wvehicle for his final ride. Under a blistering sun the cor tege was to make its way over the{ roads which John Dillinger not sa long ago sped in high powered au~i tomobiles in his expeditions of de predation and death. Over thel roads on which less than sgix months ago he voared westward | after his history making escape from the Crown Point, Ind., jail. | In contrast to the thousands which vesterday milled around the eounty morgue for a look at the | body of the bank robber, only a, few dozen persons gathered at the“ undertaking establishment wh«-w1 John Dillinger, sr., 70 vear nlni Hoosier farmer, waited to claim the body of his son. ‘ Same Worn Hearse The trip to the farm home of thd elder Dillinger at Mooresville, Ind, was to be made in the same worn hearse in which the mild spoken fa‘her was driven to Chicago yes terday by E. F. Harvey, &loores ville undertaker. The services were to be held at the home of Mrs. Audrey Hancock, the slain man's sister, at Maywood, an Indianapo lis suburb, severa]l miles away. The exact time at which the body would be released from the morgue was not made public, but it was expected to be in time to jpnrmit the funeral services to be 'held late this afternoon. Federal authorities , meanwhile, kept secret the name of the man, or men, whose pistols felled Dil linger as he left a north side neighborhood motion picture thea ter Sunday night. Publighed reports that the “pur ger” was Samuel A. Cowley, first assistant to Melvin H. Purvis head of the department of Justice Bureau of Investigation here, were denied by Purvis. Not the Man “Cowley was not the man who shot Dillinger,” said Purvis. Purvis refuséd to-say who the actual killer was, asserting that departmental rules forbid such disclosures. * : Seeking the hideouts used by Dillinger, 200 federal agents and city police were engaged in a house-to-house canvass of the Lakeview district on the city's north side. They were hopeful that they might obtain valuable information through the seizure of the bandit's personal effects. They had little hope that even if they did discover one or all of the ’hlding places they would uncover the remainder of the loot taken in his frequent bank raids. That loot, they believed, was cached in somea safety deposit box, rented under an assumed name. Three keys found in Dillinger’'s pocket were expected to be of as sistance in the search. One was an ordinary door key, another a (Continued on Page Two) Local Citizens Plan to Attend Speeches Tomorrew by 2 Candidates for Governor Political interest was stirring in Athens today as citizens prepared! to attend speeches Wednesday by two candidates in the gubernato-] rlal campaign, Governor KEugene | Talmadge and Judge Claude P'itt-l man. Governor Talmadge speaks atl Sardis school, four miles beyond Hartwell on, the Anderson high way, and Judge Pittman speaks in the morning at Watkinsville and in the afternoon at Covington. Governor Talmadge will stop at the Holman hotel tomorrow morn ing at 9 o'clock to greet friends and supporters here who will form a motorcade to accompany him to Sardis school. His address at thg school will be delivered at 11 o’clock, the same hour as Judge Pittman is speaking at Watkins ville. Court at Watkinsgville will be recessed at 11 o’clock to allow ‘those attending to hear the Pitt ‘man speech. | DAKOTA HOUSE SEEKS TO MUSTER QUORUM BISMARCK, N, D—W@P— North Dakota’s legislators to day sought a sufficient ma-~ jority to function as an im peaching body. All hopes of a quorum in the senate apparently have been abandoned by the solons, al though they voted to meet once more today. Strengthened by an opinion by Attorney General P. O, Sathre that the house could conven? as an impeaching body only, the determined represen tatives left the statehouse Monday intent upon’ bringing back énough m=mbers to es tablish a quorum, and the right to vote on resolutions today. Pending concentration of that strength, a resolution ap pointing a committee to Inves tigate the indictment and con viction of William Langer, ousted governor, rested in active in the files of the speak er of the house. Read Mon day, no action could be taken in it because of lack of voting strength. Only 53 representa tives answered the .roll «call, while 57 were needed for a quorum. FOUR BOYS KILLED Accident Near Caesar’s Head, S. C., Today In jures Over Score 5 GREENVILLE, 8. C. —(AP)— Four bhoys were killed and an un determined number injured today when a truek earrying 35 boys, re ported to be from Charleston, went over a steep embankment a mile from Ceasar’s Head on the Greer highway. All available ambulances here were called to the scene. First information received here was meager and did not give the names of the dead. One of the dead was reported as the Rev. Charles de Vinean, a Catholic priest of Charleston, The truck was driven by a Negro who was not seriously hurt, Leaving the road on a curve, the truck plunged sixty feet down the embankment and came to rest up side down. A motorist whose name was not (Continued on Page Seven) Lottery Offices in 1 DeKalb County Raided Monday; 16 Arrested‘ ATLANTA — (AP) — Sixteen persons wewe arrested and the equipment of what officers said was one of the largest lottery offi ces ever discovered in this sec tion was confiscated in a raid by Fulton and DeKalb county police on a home in the fashionable Briookhaven section of Atlanta. The house, just over the Fulton county line in DeKalb county, was surrounded by police late yester day. At a signal the officers rush ed in the place and found a com plete lay-out—telephones, type-l writers, fans and adding machines. Girls were busily typing away and others were answering tele phones. The police said they found a large number of lottery ticketsl and records. | Of the 16 arrested, all but one“ were white and six of them were women. They were taken to the DeKalb county jail, where all post ed bonds of SI,OOO and SSOO on lottery charges. k Following Governor Talmadge's ‘speech, a barbecue will be served ‘by the Sardis school Parent iTeacher association for which a [small charge will be made, pro ,ceeds going to the school. In the 'afternoon baseball teams repre \senting Sardis and Anderson will keep the crowd interested. During the afternoon Judge Pittman will speak at a barbecue in Covington. The speeches will mark the first visit to this immediate section by pither candidate during the cam l paign. | The Clarke county delegation 'accompanying Governor Talmadge )will be met at Danielsville by a delegation of Madison county -cit izens. At Roysten a similar dele gation will be added, together with a welcoming escort ang a band from Hart county. . : Athens, Ga., Tuesday, luly 24, 1934 Arrive Tonight at CCC Camps at Clayton : And Dahlonega Croup Leaves by Trucks From Postoffice Here This Morning One hundred and forty-six boys from six nearby counties were given physical examinations and the CCC camp oath at the post office building this morning and by nightfall will have been mus tered into camps at Dahlonega: and Clayton. A total of 91 of the boys go to Camp Ga. ¥-6 near Clayton, and 56 were sent to Ga. F-2 at Dahlonega. The counties and the number of boys from each county given the oath are: Barrow, 17; DeKalb, 51; Gwinnett, 28; Hart, 15; Madsion, 18; and Walton, 25. Twenty-six boys from Clarke and 10 from Elbert county will be mustered in Saturday at the postoffice building in Savannah. Clarke has four alternates and Elbert two. Wednesday morning 98 addi tional boys from eight other counties will be examined and sworn in. These boys will be sent to the camp near Clayton. The Counties : Counties represented in Wed nesday’s unit and the number from each are: Banks, 13; Frang: lin, 18; Habersham, 16; Hart, 14; Rabun, 8; Stevens, 13; Towns, 8; (Continued From Page Two) ADMIRAL BYRD Alﬁ 1 Relief Expedition Forced To Turn Back After Co-| ing Half Way | LITTLE AMERICA, Antartica —1! (AF)— Rear Admiral Richard E.' Byrd’'s skill and sagacity were all that he could count on today in some of the Antarctic’s most bitter weather.. An attempt to push a tracter path through to his solitary weath-| er observation outpost was a fail-| ure, and he wag without radio fa-| cilities. | After battling near-blizzard con ditions since Friday, the tractor party turned back yecterday. I Another expedition presumably will be sent for Admiral Byrd when weather conditions improve. No word has been heard from the expedition leader for several days.l Hig main radio set has been out of order and in his most recent message, relayed on a set which (Continued on- Page Seven) . President Roosevelt Goes on Shore Today » . On Island in Hawaii BY FRANCIS M. STEPHENSON ABOARD CRUISER NEW OR-| LEANS .WITH .PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IN KAILU BAY HAWAILI — (AP) — The Cr uiser | 'Houston nosed into Kailug Bay at daybreak Tuesday brining Presi dent Roosevelt to Hawaii Island,‘ largest of the Hawalian group. | A Dbrilliant tun of the eastern horizon outlined the Cruisersi Houston and New Orleans to the early morning crowds waliting Onl the shorg of the conecrested island to greet the first president to visit, this American possession. 1 Roosevelt reserved his plans for; the day until a visit from Governor Joseph Poindexter who came from Honolulu to extend a formal wel come. | A full moon made the island vis ible to the president far at sea be fore he retired last night. The vil lage of Napoéopoo, scattered among the cocoanut trees undey the Ha 'waiian cliffs, awaited the possible land of the president. The spot was reported to have good fishing and boats will be ready for parties to try their luck later in the day. Ships crews will land for the Luau Nijtive festival near Napoopoo monument. O ———————~ WILL START SERIES IN BANNER-HERALD ————————————————————————————————— L D y e - R s . -, . s I T~ . G e 3 ARTHUR DUNN “THE COMPASS” 15 l Arthur Dunn to Discuss Trend of Times in Arti cles for This Paper Stripped of unessential details to what extent has th%/.merican recvoery move succeeded? What is the future of NRA? lls the re building of the American economic system progressing satisfactorily or will other means have to be figed? - i To how many of these timely and important questions can you give an answer even approximate ly correct? For the information of its think ing readers this paper on Friday will start publication of a series dealing 'with these vital matters. Under the title of “The Compass,” will be 18 articles outlining the causes of the breakdown of the economic system of the wor]d.i They will be authoritative, being the work of Arthur Dunn, New York lawyer who for many years has specialized in business man agement, economics in theory and in practice. He is a recognized authority in international affairs. | There also will be a series of timely articles under the same title by Mr. Dunn, who is tour ing the United States in a survey of business conditions. He also i 3 seeking to learn how the NRA provsiions are regarded and ob served in each locality. These firstshand observations will be reported by Mr. Dunn in a clear, (Continued on Page Seven) Wood Leads Crawford Two Sets tn None as Match Is Rained Out ‘ B e WIMBLEDON, Eng. (AP) — With Sidney B. Wood, jr:, lead!ngl Jack Crawford, Australian ace, two sets to none and 15-10ve in the‘ first game of the third set the in terzone final geries of Davis Cup| play betweeén the United States and Austrialia today was postpon ed until tomorrow because of rain. A downpour preceded the match, delaying the start for an hour. Wood’'s two great set victories will not wasted, the match being resumed tomorrow where it was halted today. CONTRACT AWARDED WASHINGTON.—(#P)—Award of a contract for ecarrylng afr mall betsveen Daytona and St, Peters burg, Florida, to the National Air line Taxi System of Chicago, was announced today by the postoffice department. i bt ————————————— ——————————— T e i i ettt | LOCAL WEATHER S ——————————————————————— ‘ WEATHER ... | Generally fair tonight and | Wednesday. a — \ TEMPERATURE | PRt vs” ova snes s .96.0 B . i cais e sidea iR B s aeka s urni R e s e RAINFALL Inches last 24 h0ur5...... 0.00 Total since July 1.......... 3.85 Excess since July 1........ .27 ~ Average July rainfall...... 4.96 Total since July 1..........33.27 ~ Excess since January 1.... 3.25 ! DEATH TOLL IN U. 5. i No Relief Seen Today for Center of Heat Wave I Section in Mid-West | COOLS AROUND EDGESI Each Day Adds to Damage! To Livestock, Crops l Over Country l COOLER IN ATHENS Monday's highest tempera ture -in Athens was 96, three degrees -lower than the sea son’s high point, reached last Saturday when the thermome ter soared to 99 degrees. Only a few drops of rain fell here, too little to register on the government weather gauge. (By the Associated Press.) The death toll mounted to 535 today, as intense heat blazed down on the nation, smashing records for intensity and duration. The Dblanket of heat, tenacious and oppressive, showed signs of lessening at the edges, but in the midwest, where its devastating effects are greatest, no relief was sighted . An unofficial 120 degree temper=- ature was reached at Muscatine, lowa, and above 100-degree read ings were general throughout the central western states. The Atlantic seaboard was cool ing, hope for relief was held out for the southern cosatal states, and a high pressure area, now over western Canada, promised relief for the Great Lakes terri tory. ; In Chicago, packers and officials, (Continued on page seven.) 1 . | : \ Commissioner of Agricul ture Refuses to Rein state Dr. Clarke ATLANTA, Ga.— (&) —Defying Governor Talmadge for the sec-‘ ond time, Commissioner of Agri culture G. C. Adams today refus ed to reinstate Dr. C. Reynolds Clarke as state chemist and charged the governor with trylng} to wreck the department by with holding its funds. | Governor Talmadge last week declined to sign the agriculture department’s budget for the third quarter until the commissioner 'had reinstated Clarke and his three assistants, whom Mr. Adams ioliminated from his department {lwo weeks ago. “I shall not put Dr. Clarke or any of the assistants whom I have discharged on the payroll of the department of agriculture so long’ (Continued on page seven.) Alabama Professor, Thought Attorney for I. L. D., Threatened TUSCALOOSA, Ala.— () —A group of men wearing the regalia of the Ku Klux Klan today warn ed an Alabama college professor to leave town. They were under the impression he was an attor ney for the International Labor Defense. | After they had been satisfied that J. R. Steelman, who is pro fessor of socioloy at Alabama col lege, Montevallo, was not con nected with the I. L.. D. the men left without molesting him. | Prof. Steelman said‘ the delega tion, numbering about a dozenl men, called on him at his hotel room shortly after midnight. Theyl charged him with being “an agi tator” and an attorney for the La bor Defense. When he told them who he was, they called Judge Henry B. Fos-‘ ter over the telephone and werei apparently satisfied with the jur ist’s identification. Steelman said the men asked to search his bags, but that he “talked them out of it.” He has been connected with Alabama college, a state-support ed college for women, for six years. He said he did not expect to file charges in the case. He was still in Tuscaloosa today. A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday 1290 JELD IN AUSTRIA By WADE WERNER Associated Press Foreign Staff VIENNA —(#)—Twelve hun dred socialists were arrested today in connection with an alleged plot to overthrow the Dollfuss government. It was the biggest roundup of political prisoners since the bloody Feb ruary civil war. Political police were picking up threads of evidence which they said indicated socialists, communists and - Nazis had merged into a common front for a huge campaign of terror against the fascist govern ment. Prisoners were herded Into a former coach building plant. Police were uncommunica-~ tive but a government spokes man explained most of the ar rests were merely ‘“formali ties,” pending a search of sus pects homes for explosives and incriminating documents. Those whose connection with a plot cannot be established “will be released within a few days,” he said. Senator William E. Borah Scores Alleged ‘““Monop oly Defenders” 1 ST. ANTHONY, Idaho—(AP)— Senator Wllljam E. Borah called for the destruction of monopoly to day, denouncing it as. ‘‘the most in sidious and most successful enemy of the New Deal.” Flinging down the gauntlet to “defénderg of monopoly,” the Idaho senator told an annual Pioneeyr Day audjence; “They will have to fight in the open,” 2 ' His address bristled with epi grams: “Monopolies are economic Hitlers” . . ..“The effect of mon opoly is to decrease, if not to de stroy. purchasing power” . . . “The farmer. can never win out on that basis™ . . . Monopoly has no more rights to exist than any other form of depradation.” He accused monopoly of blocking the national recovery efforts, so that the purchasing ppwer of the farmer and laborer “have been but little increased, if at all.” ‘“When I discuss the question of monopoly,” he said “I am accused of attacking the New Deal” by (Continued On Page Two) . NRA Fits 144 Codes To Business During - & Past Fifteen Days WASHINGTON.—()—NRA, in a burst of speed, has fitted 144 businesses to codes within two weeks. Even the fly swatter and nose rings-for-hogs industries have ‘b n taken care of in the rush which began July 10. On that date Hugh S. Johnson set a 30- day limit for cleaning up 262 pending codes and promulgated a basic code for industries which could not find places elsewhere, Today the number of unfinished agreements stands at 118. Before August 10, the deadline, nearly another 100 are expected to have niches in the vast code structure. That would mean that only 25 or 30 small industries would be left to go under the basic code administered by a government code authority. Some NRA offi cials will be pleased if the gov ernment code authority never be comes necessary. Most of the 144 industries coded since July 10 have merged with existing groups. RESTORED IN ATHENS, SIGN THIS COUPON B Citizens of Atheng who feel that city council made a mistake in voting for discontinuance of the Georgia Power Company bus ser vice without giving advance notice of the proposal, and, who want either bus or trolley service restored, are asked to sign the coupon below and mail or send it to the Banner-Herald at once. R It is planned to turn these individual petitions over to the Mayor and council so that they may know just who and how many citizens are dissastisfied with the present situation with reference to pub}{c transportation. it To the Mayor and Council, Athens, Georgia. AT The undersigned respectfully petitions you %o mest in spectal session and reopen the question of allowing the Georgia Power Com pany to discontinue public transportation service in Athens, and we urge that you rescind your previous action, S ‘ DRI oo v s snsaivd) svns Cerban sTN Wn:(‘1.........»....,{ HANDLERS WALK OUT TODAY; 75,000 HEAD ’ 5 = OF STOCK SUFFERING Yards Crowded to Three Times Normal Because Of Long Drought - EXECUTIVES HELP O!ﬂf { . \(Covernment Asked to Aid As Officials Are Forced | To Kill Animals CHlCAGO.—(#P)—Weakened anis mals had to be shot at the glutted Union stockyards today as a strike * stopped efficient feeding and watering in a blistering tempera= ture. e - The Livestock Commission Men’s Union, local 519 Joinea a walkout of stock handlers at the Chicago Union Stockyards today, bringing ‘the total on strike to 1,600 as the temperature hovered around the 1100 mark, The commission men 'had helped handle the animals and ' when they quit only a handful of workers remained to feed and lwater the 755,000 head of stock. ’ EXECUTIVES HELP - L CHICAGO.—(P—With 75,000 fretting in the pens, white shirted lclerks and executives scrambled about the Chicago stockyards today in emerge\nvy efforts to feed and water the animals, Some 700 union stock handlers, lwho ordinarily care for stock awaiting slaughter, were .out on strike. The withdrawal, started at midnight, was complete at 2 a. m. (Central Standard Time)) this morning, Overcrowded : In the midst of emergency ef 'forts to prevent suffering in the | jJammed cattle pens—the yards were choked with nearly three times the normal supply, due to heavy shipments from the drought areas—officials of the Union stock= vards and Transit company pre= pared to appeal to Federal Judgs Philip L. Sullivan for aid. S President O, T. Henkle of the company said its attorneys would consult with the federal judge later today. @hs stock _handlers.. had been working under wage and hour terms set by the Jjudge after arbitration last November. Henkle claimed that the yard supenrintendents, with their ase sistants and with “some seasoned help” would be able to feed and water the stock. Commission houses sent clerks and their own handlers into the pens to aid. = Pickets Carry Signs About 400 pickets, carrying signs calling the yards company 'untair, sat peacefully on the side lines watching the emergency actl vities, Lieut. Thomas Flannagan, with a detail of 60 police, patrolied the yard roadways. o The strikers ask a 48-hour mini 'mum week, with pay increas:d i correspondingly. : R | With water supplies none too ilm‘go, with many of the pens de= istroyed in the recent stockyards fire not yet rebuilt, the strike in ‘the vards held serious possibilities. lnbsorvers agreed. XEven before it | began, Henkle had asked govern- I ment buyers to check the enormous shipments of cattle they had been | sending into the yards from the | blighted pasture lands of the plains states. So fast were the cattle arriving thay government agents were post ed yesterday at the unloading pens, to shoot stock which stag- Igered and held back the .stl"o‘ngtr | animals. oy | There was no market and -the laction of the commission men put lan end to all hopes that there l (Continued on Page Seven)