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Newspaper Page TextCOTTON MARKET s 1w MIODLING - 112?2: pREV. CLOSE.... s:ee ‘_— 'ol. 102. No. 180. THE Washington Lowdown —— Rodney Dutcher —— i On All Fronts Studied Careflﬁll!y Hot on Trail L ——————————— he sixths of a series 4 ] on the more im : \cies created under ; P Neal, their aims and - ritten by Rodney Dut . Banner-Herald and vEA Washington correspond- A SHINGTON—The New Deal's ke squeese play against the “pow g +ust” is operating on all fronts. A, least seven federal inquiries 4 «s of electricity, its sale hd future development are under be Ih 11 tie in with a grim krort to force down rates until . of cheap afd abundant electri bt becomes universal. coneress has backed the admin its policy of spending I..de of millions on huge pow - projects and stimulating public nlants wherever private s are unsatisfactory. Secretary cos has lent $50,000,000 of PWA oney to build public plants. The Tennessee Valley Authority, . .nd building facilities in its t is selling power at about 1f the price charged elsewhere. arning has been issued hat te gecales approximating Ist ome into effect h the land. neeze play is directed at od s itiesy, holding com ylundering axcessive rates { othe rms of financial rack boaring hich made the “power rust nch in the national ed on the partially a@e ~eirated theory that fair private fit n bhe retained and evem ! i expanded sales re ting from low rates. Heading up the administration brogram is the new National Pow ¢ Policy committee, chairmaned v Secretary of Interior Harold ckes and staffed by members of ederal groups dealing with power nd the utilities, T Roosevelt Federal Power ommission, loaded with pregres engaged in three inquiries i ill gather essental ammu & First the congressional man jate, sponsored by Senator George Norris of Nebraska, to maké e first complete compilation of 1l electric light and power com rates charged in every town t tructures are so complex at yate n one community can’t e compared with those of another. The FPC will reduce it all to one non formula and pick up In ormation which will indicate what mipment and markets municipal ants must have to succeed. Citi ens il will be able to yell In elligently, for or against their own municipal plants, and private uti ities can learn how lower rates timnlate a larger volume sale, FPC Ilso studying costs of generation, transmission, and dis tribution—the thirq a cost care fully concealed by electrieity com- T ind, under executive order, it engaged in a national survey of il power resources and ecoonmic A 1 nf ‘\""‘]v The power survey is a phase of nation lanning begun with the mer that ynplanned power In lustry ion Hhas resulted in bot elopment and under p in differgnt areas. he Federal Trade Commission rece from the last congress to continue its utilities nvest 1 until 1936, when it ', ide a report and re tions for striet federal = It has more companies - q ures since 1928 have - anaed covery of about sl,- writeups of securi by innocent invest sorry and used as hich to soak the zing of writers, coi b nd newspapers for 1 expensive Jobbying S lic projects, holding E ts under which com : inother excessive expense and stock Anipulation. 7 Making Thorough Check th Mississippi are investigating résources in their checking on 10. . N many cities, brove them before ; I Toeglly—through le and Farm Au fap electrie ranges, ters and other ap- A nwtilities, which fichs S \’ :'::\‘r- lost their old gaingt ~ —CCUNE injunctions Sions nes, . CoSes. But gourt Tequeney .4 ¢ 'NEM inerease in - ° ilmportance, ATHENS BANNER-HERALD ¥ Full Associated Press Service County Agrees to Help Pave Broad Street Téllilahge +Alt£ckéd;* N;x T:) i,e;ld I;itln;an I;o;pés In 'ﬂ éo:m*t& TALMADGE " REGIME “DUBLIC SCANDA, SPEMERS DECLAE Abit Nix, who poled nearly 80,- 000 votes for gowernor in the 1932 jcampaign, last night declared his support of the candidacy of Judge Claude Pittman at a city hall rally for the latter whichh was swept with applause by T. S. Mell’s denunciation of the admin istration of Governor Eugene Tal madge as ‘“the most scandalous since the Harding regime at Wash ington.” For nearly an hour the crowd, which filled the city hall audito rium, heard scathing attacks on the present governor's conduct of the state’s affairs as ‘inimical to high public morality,” ‘opposed to the Roosevelt efforts toward economic recovery’, ‘contrary to the best interests of the laboring man and farmer’, and so ‘eon temptuous of law and order that it has held Georgia up to the na tion’s ridicule as the most lawless state in the most lawless country in the world.’ It is because he is convined that “disrespect for law by public of ficials in the first step toward social chaos and because no one can consistently support both the Roosevelt Democratic administra tion and the present administra tion in Georgia that he feels im pelled to join with those who are carrying the banner of Claude Pittman” Mr. Nix declared in ac cepting unanimous election to the presidency of the Carke Pittman club. Nix was placed in nomina tion by Solicitor General Henry H. West of the Western judicial cir cuit who characterized him as a man “whose reputation for public honesty and decency was endorsed by nearly 80,000 Georgians in the last eampaign for governor.” Philpot Secretary T. M. Philpot was elected sec retary of the club and vice-presi dents elected included M. M. Ar nold, Joseph Colling, the latter a Confederate veteran; Kell Fowler, L.. E. Brooks, Mayor Dudley and H. L. Seagraves: An executive committee will be elected at a forthcoming meeting of the officers and the mame of Mr. Mell has already been placed in nomination as chairman of that committee. In accepting the invitation of Mayor Dudley to speak, Mr. Mell declared he attended the meeting “in the interest of decency in Geor gia® and then ijaunched into an attack on the Talmadge adminis tration, going back to the time when the governor was commis sioner of agriculture, tenure of public office which he character jzed as a “perpetual scandal.” As he (Talmadge) was when he was commissioner of agriculture so has he been as governor, Mr, (Continued on Page Six) s e e . . - Lindbergh Kidnaping . Law Invoked Against Former Chauffeur . NEW YORK- (#) —The Lina bergh law was invoked today against a former chauffeur for Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers after an extortion plot against the Standard oQil millionaire was balked. The chauffeur, JYonn Cvaniga, 26, a native of Pueblo, Colo, was arrested last night when he called for a suitcase he believedq to con tain the SIO,OOO demanded on threats of violence to Colzael Rog ers’ third wife. Lieut. Charles E. Neuman said Cvaniga confessed to writing the two letters which directed Rogers to leave the money in a suitcase at the shop of an innocent tallor. “If you love your wife,” one lette, said, “you had better do as we tell Yo' & N The instructions were followed with dummy stacks of paper, cov ered with abou¢ SIOO in real bills. Cvaniga was sgized by a squad of detectives who converged on him as he left the shop. Pale and trembling, he grasped the first detective's revolver, beg ging him not to shoot, Other detectives, mistaking his actions for an attempt to fight. drew their own weapons, but withheld fire on a warning shout from the first of Nine Persons Hurt When Airways Liner Crashes to Ground MILWAUKEE —(/#)— Nine per sons were injured, one of them critically, when a huge Northwest Airways liner fel] into a soft marsh on its takeoff here for Chicago and its motors burst into flames late last night. Among the injured were: -Joseph Ohrback, 34, St. Paul, pilot, John Woodhead, 20, of St. Paul, co-pilot; M. G. Boe, Minneapolis, instru ment man for the Airways com pany; George Merkes, 26, Alvorga, N. Y.; Donald Conture, Duluth, Minn.; Frank Cooper, 42, Wenat chee, Wash.; Arthur <Callahan, Munising, Mich.; Lester Edge, 53, Spokane, and W. R. P. Clark, San Franecisco. 3 STATES CHODGE PARTY CANDIDATES “New Deal”’ Scores Victo ries in West Virginia, ~ Missouri and Kansas . — By The Associated Press Three states tallied off-year pri mary ballots today and posted these apparent results: In West Virginia: Rush D. Holt, whose age—29—is one year under the constitutional age re quirement for a United States sen ator, wins the Democratic nomina tion and the right to oppose Sena tor Henry D. Hatfield, Republican, in the November election. In Missouri—Harry 8. TFruman, candidate of “Boss Tom’ Pender gast of Kansas City, is the Demo cratic senatorial nominee. The Re publican nominee jg Senator Ros coe Patterson, who was unopposed in yesterday’s primary. i | In Kansas: Republicans renomi- | nate Governor Alf M. Landon for a second term: Omar B. Ketchum, youthful mayor of Topeka, wins} the Deniocratic nomination for governor. J The West Virginla result means the fall campaign there wil] he fought out over the “New Deal.” Hatfield, 59-year-old surgeon and former governor, has spoken sharp ly against some of President Roosevelt’'s policies; Holt ig pled ged to support the Rooseveltian program. i Senator Hatfield gained nomina-~ tion over Benjamin' L. Rosenbloom, his only opponent, by an approxi mate 6-to-1 sweep. 5 Holt, a state legislator with a bhovhood ambition to sit in the sen ate, outraced five opponents. His (Continued on Page Five) Roosevelt Swings Into Mississippi Valley in Continuing Tour By FRANCIS M. STEPHENSON EN ROUTE WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO WASHINGTON. —(P)— President Roosevelt swung into the Mississippi valley today to inspect the progress of dam con struction by which he hopes to re build the northwest around profi table water holes. The hopes of redistribution of population to bring all, families within range of profitable oppor tunities has been emphasized by the dust covered president on his tour through the drought area and the several gigantic féderal power and irrigation projects of the west ern watersheds. Mr. Roosevelt again leaves his special train today at Rochester, Minn., to attend exercises honoring the Mayo brothers whose Interna tionally renowned medical eclinic is established there. From Rochester he motors te the Mississippi at Winona where the construction of the dams and locks is under progress to com plete the nine foot channel in the upper Mississippi from Minnea= polis to the mouth ot the Mis souri. ; : Travelling across Minnesota last nicht and through Minneapolis, the seat of the troublesom® labor dis pute of this sectfon, Mr. Roose velt inquired ihto the problem but without any indication of personal intervention. Federal mediators are alreadv at work. Wwith Senator Shipstead, farmer labor. and Representative Hoidale, demoerat, rival candidates soothe Minnesota senate election this year and the president dined together and conferred on this issue. Mrs. Roosevelt left the presi dent’s train at St. Paul to hurry ahead to the white house. 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Long, and Miss Joyce Allen, left, daughter of Gov. O. K. Allen, with Miss Ruth Reid, right, are pic tured as they visited sorority sisters in Madison, Wis., while their fathers waged war on the mayor of New Orleans with troops and words, Miss Reid is the daughter of an [llinois congressman. Louisiana National Guards Commanded to Be Careful 1324 COTTON ChOF ESTINATE 5 WA 'WASHINGTON— (#) —An indi cated cotton crop of 9,195,000 bales this yvear was announced today by the department of agriculture in the first official forecast of the season, Last year 13,047,000 bales were ginned. ~ The condition of the crop on August 1 was reported as 60.4 per cent of a normal, indicating a yield of 160.9 pounds per dcre, as com pared with a condition eof 74.2 per cent a year ago when the yield was 208.5 pounds per acre, and an average August 1 condition of 67.7 per cent with an average yield of 169.9 pounds for the ten years 1932-32, The area in cultivation July 1 was estimated at 28,024,000 acres, or 31.4 per cent less than the acre age a year ago, and the smallest since 1905, The planted area show ed 'a substantial reduction in all states except Arizona and Califor nia, the decrease in maljor produc ing states ranging from 26 per cent in Georgia to 36 per cent in Okla homa. The smaller acreage was due to cotton control program of the agri cultural adjustment administration combined with the restricting in fluence of the Bankhead law on (Continued gn Page Slx) . Augusta Mill Worker Sentenced to Life for Murder of Policeman AUGUSTA, Ga.—(®)—Deliberat ing one hour, a jury in Richmond superior court cornwicted West Gay textile worker, of killing Police man Thomas G. Timmons after a hold-up. Gay was sentenced to life imprisonment. The jury received the case at 4:05 p. m. (eastern standard time) yesterday and returned its verdict an hour later with a recommenda tion of mercy. Judge A. L. Frank lin immediately sentenced Gay to life imprisonment. | The textile worker heard the! verdict calmly. As he left the courtroom for the. \county jail,| Jailer L. H. Wilking said he re marked “well, that is what I told them I would get.” | Timmons was killed on the night | of July 7. A gtate witnes Jack| Swearingen, clerk in the store‘ which was robbed just before the killing, identified Gay gs the ban-i Three Shots Yesterday Cause of New Qrders . Being Given ! i e—— | NEW ORLEANS— (#) —Senator { Huey P. Long's national guards ’men were ordered today to be more careful about shooting at people. l It was learned from an authori- Itative source that the militiamen quartered at Jackson Barracks, 'h'eadquarters of the troops, had |been told to be extremely careful { with their firearms and to shoot only under the most dire circum stances. ! Only three shots—all inett’ectéhve ‘—have ben fired thus far in e [ 10-day-oold bloodless war between ISenawr Long's troops and the po lice of Mayor T. Simmes Walms i ley. ‘ S Two shots wem fired yesterday I (Continuecf on Page Five) ———— - Doug Fairbanks, sr. ~ Sails From France for - - United States Today e e s S A O A 2 NICE, France.— (#) —Douglas Fairbanks, sr., despite an announ cement earlie, in the day that he was going to Chipa, sailed today on the 8. S. Rex from Villefranche for the United States. % . With him sailed Joseph M. Schenck, film executive, who proudly displayed a gold cigarette case as an engagement present from Merle Oberon, now British film star. Fairbanks, who decided at the last minute o accompmny Schenck, indicated they would both return to London within two months for Schenck’s wedding, * then go to China to make a film with Chinese actors. Fairbanks has been in Europe for months, “The actor declined to say whe ther a reconciliation with his wife, Mary Pickford, Ywas likely. M LOCAL WEATHER e e Fair tonight; Thursday part ly cloudy with scattered thun dershowets. w TEMPERATURE FRRBOSt .o o b sia et 380 BOWRRE . N e s .....A.70.0 WEAR s wIBO DN . TBO RAINFALL Inches last 24 h0ur5....... .37 Total since August 1...... .80 Deficiency since August 1.. .25 Average August rainfall... 4.68 . Total since January 1......36.21 Excess sinc. January 1.... 3.66 TALMADGES ATTACK OV GOHEN, HOWARD 15 CONTINUED TODAY GCovernor Again Makes Charges in Speech At Thomson EXPECTS LABOR VOTE Replies to Charges of J. Sid Tiller, Head Of Labor Group THOMSON, Ga.———(P)—GU\'ernor! Talmadge, speaking in his cam-! paign ' for re-election here today, reiterated charges made at East Point last night that Major John S. Cohen, president and editor of the+ Atlanta Journal and William Schley Howard, former congress man, ‘want a pardon racket in Georgia” to get Dick Gallogly out of the state penitentary. “Jake Cohen of The Atlanta Journal” the governor told, “is the sly fox with his slush fund who is trying to sellout orgamized labor by inveigling same. “Jake Cohen and Bill Schley Howard are the two men who want a pardon racket in Georgia, Wil liam Schley Howarw - represents one of the big, rich men in the penitentiary in Georgia. “Jake /Cohen and Bill Schley Howard are the ones who are close to the rich men in the chaingang. Ability to Raise Money “Bill Schley Howard showed his ability to raise money when he got up $25,000 and tried to get my ’triend Hugh Howell, to have the governor of Georgia pardon one of his rich clients. “Bill Schley Howard offered Hugh Howell $5,000 cash of the filthy lucre. “Hugh Howell refused to take the money. Yet, Bill Schley How ard got Jake Cohen to put in the Atlanta Journal that Hugh Howell is running a pardon racket for money. “Everyone knows who Jake Co hen and the Atlanta Journal want pardoned. “I declined te pardon Dick Gallo * ———p—— (Continued on Page Five) HITLER TURNG 10 G SERMAY BY WALTER E. BROCKMANN (Associated Proox Foreign Staff) BERLlN—(#®)—Adolf Hitler put aside the role of funeral orator to day and turned to the task of guid ing Germany through grave prob lems which enmesh it in one of its most critical mdzes since the World War. The chancellor—president in all but name—returned to the capital by airplane yesterday immediately after he had spoken a eulogy at the pier of the late President Paul Von Hindenburg. Germany’s economic situation is grave. A sharp decline in foreign trade and ensuing foreign exchange difficulties have necessitated a program of rationing raw materials which recalls war-time measures. (Continued on Page Five) ! » . ‘Movie Star in Very . ~ ““Bad Predicament”’, According to Judge LOS ANGELES — (#)— In the words of the court, George Ban crofy is in “a very serious predica ment” today, accused of having married his present wife while still wed to a woman who claims he never divorced her, Bancroft, portrayer of two-fisted screen roles, was brought into court yesterday by Mrs. Edna Ban croft who seeks temporary alimony of SI.OOO a month pending trial of her separate maintenance suit. The actor -testified he is cer tain he was divorced shortly be fore he married his present wife, Mrs. Octavia Bancroft, but added he did not remember where, when or on what grounds the decree was granted. Bancroft and his second wife have a daughter, Georgette, 17. “It Is, indeed, a very serious predicament in which Mr. Bancroft finds himself.” Superior Judge Dudley Valentine commented at the end of the hearing. . A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—sc¢ Sunday Two Fliers Take Off Today in Effort to Set New Distance Flight WASAGA BEACH, Ont. —(AP) James Ayling and Leonard Reid took off at dawn Wednesday in an attempt to fly non-stop to Bagh dad, Iraq, and hreak the world's long distance flight record. The "heavily loaded plane ran a mile and a half down thg beach before soaring away at 6:12 a.m. (eastern daylight savirdg time) to the east. Ahead was! the dangerous North Atlantic hop, the biggest hazard along the 6,500-mile route to Bagh dad. + The. fliers have been prepared for the gruelling test for months. Crosg winds balked an attempt July 24. HEAT AGAIN BURNS ' | | MID-WESTERN AREA 1L New Heat Wave Extends From Rocky Mountains To Appalachians (By The Associated Press) Scorching temperatures burned again today the mie-continent al peady hard hit by heat waves and drought. The new heatwave extends from the Rocky Mountains to the Ap palachian highlands, and south ward into the Gulf states, further damaging crops in sections that have been suffering all summer. Temperature readings of 100 de grees or more are common through out the stricken area. Hot winds in some parts aggravate the situa tion, particularly in Missouri, which with Kansas is among the sections hardest hit. Kansas City had an official high of 108 yesterday; St. Louis and Wichita ha\d 104; Springfield, Mo., and Oklahoma City, 102; Spring field, 111, 104. and Concordla, Kan., 108. There were many other high readings, In North Dakota, where President Roosevelt got a first hand glimpse of the damage done by the season’s unfavorable wea ther, the temperature panged from 90 to %4, but dropped late last night when a heavy rain fell. Four deaths were attributed to the hedat in lowa where many read ings above 100 degrees were re ported. Further injury to livestock is re ported. At Dodge City, Kan., grow ers said there would pot be suffi cient feed to carry the cattle through the winter unless rain (Continued on Page Filve) A.B.J. GRADUATES Several Alumni of Univer sity Get Promotions; Others Have Jobs A number of promotions and changes among alumni of the Henry W. Grady School of Jour nalism, The University of Georgia, has been made recently, according‘ te John E. Drewry, director of the school. ‘ Thomas F. St. John, '2B, recent ly became advertising manager of the Jacobs' Pharmacies, Atlanta. He had been engaged in similar 'work for Zachry's, Atlanta men’s store, and prior to this had,been in the advertising department of The Atlanta Georgian - American and Davison-Paxon Company, Atlanta. John D. Allen, 26, member of the faculty of - Mercer University, ' has been granted a year’s leave of 'absence during which he will do research work at Vanderbilt Uni versity under a grant of the Gen eral Education Board. During 1231 Mr. Allen held a Rosenwald fel %lowship which made possible study in Washington, D. C. and Wor cester, Mass. Mr, Allen has work ed on the staffs of The Columbus Enquirer-Sun and The Baltimore Evening Sun and has done gradu ate work at Ceolumbia and Vander bilt universities. . Joseph W. Vinson, 33, has re signed from the advertising de part of Davigon-Paxon company, Atlanta. to become assistant edi tor of The Laundryman’s Guide and The National Carbonator and Bottler, published in Atlanta. Mrs. Mary Lang Chaplin, 31, is an advertising continuity writer and studio planist for Radio Sta tion KOTN, Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Betore&er marriage, Mrs. Chap lin wag a resident of Calhoun. Ben H. Hardy, jr., '2B, who left Georgia a few months ago for Mis sissippi, is now editorand publisher of The Daily Biloxian. Mr. Hardy I e i oote et .il 5 LONG AGITATION TO PIIE BOAD STRET BOUSHT T 0 CLE Clarke county’s board of coms missioners yesterday agreed to ‘ap propriate $4,000 toward paving Broad street from Hull to Ml!led;g, and Mayor A. G. Dudley declared today actual work on the paving will begin as soon as possible. The action of the county coms= missioners brings to successful conclusion dt least seventeen years agitation for paving this impor tant thoroughfare which will pro vide an outlet for a large part of the traffic from a section of Ath ens where a considerahle part of residential construction has been underway during the last several years. Dudley Pleased g Mayor Dudley was delighted with the action of the commission ers, which followed a request by a citizens’ committee to the com missioners two weeks ago that the $4,000 be appropriated for that purpose, : : The city will do the paving, the first project of its kind ever at tempted by the city itself. Mayor Dudley sald a modetrate amoung of grading will be necessary. Council having already authorized the pave ing, the mayor said actua] work can begin in g relatively short time. . The eounty agreed to appropris ate the $4,000 for a 24 foot concrete roadway, including curb and gut ter extending from Pulaski street to Milledge avenue. Ask Bids » The mayor and council yesterday asked bids for paving several other streets, which have already been approwed by that body. They in clude the following: Childs street from Prince avenue to Barrow street; Dußose avenue from Grady avenue to Lyndon ave nue; King avenue from Cobb street for a distance of 2,100 feet south; Springdale street from Milledge avenue to Bloomfield street; Hall street from Bloomfield street ta Church street; Bloomfield street from Baxter street to Lumpkin street; Milledge Terrace from Mils ledge avenue to Carlton D% Milledge Heights from AMtll avenue to Carlton Drive; Hampton Court from Milledge avenue #o Pinecrest Drive; University Di‘fﬁ from Pinecrest Avenue to Ag. Drive; Cloverhurst avenue from Bloomfield street to Hall Oakland avenue from Milledgs avenue to Stanton Way; Morton avenue from Milledge avenue to Pinecrest Drive. e - . . Algerian City Calm Outwardly, But Is - e ¥ Seething on Inside F e CONSTANTINE, Algeria —{(P)— Constantine is outwardly calm, in-- wardly seething today as the city prepared to bury victims of bitter Arab-Jewisp religious riots. : There is an unconfirmed report that troops have been rushed to a distant ecity of Algeria, the name of which is not disclosed, where an attack on Jewish houses is alleged ly planned. , The battles have spread to towns near Constantine. Military precau ‘tiong were strengthened after the arriva] of Jules Carde, French gov ‘ernor general, who broke short a vacation in Paris. A tense situation is heightened by numerous false rumors of fresh clashes. i How many deaths have resulted is pot known. An official -esti~ mate is 27. Most of the victims were Jews. Three Jews m%- ed and seyeral persons were in jured at Ain Beida, 60 mileg away. Unofficial estimates are that 100 have been slain. i ‘Tt will take days Dbefore the world obtains a true picture of atrocities during the program in the Jewish quarters,™ said a cor respondent of the Jewish telegra phic agency after a tour of the city. : Girls, he said, had been muti lated. _, T