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Newspaper Page TextP cOTTON MARKET — 5 ¥ M|pr)|:lNG S e S pPREV. CLOSE.... n:os +2:20..130 E“ 102. No. 200. THE Washington Lowdown —— Rodney Dutcher “Reorganization” Liberty League Mystery Solved. WASHID aTON—Remember how . Hoover was always wanting to weanize the zovernment and the «es he had with congress about what a headache reorganization ould be today! mgt the same, the boss New lnlw‘ are beginning to speak pri vy of ‘reorganizatfon®™ ana U{,;,;,,i Jtion” rather than of mere rdination.” ' They're ‘all .in cting something ought to be ‘”u,,., hears vague suggestions of + anothey super-council, separate ' the cabinet, consisting of both ministrators and technical ex ,‘A{l which would operate direct- V:,,L, Roosevelt, bring all poli s into line, and ‘“consolidate” re and there. winfield Riefler, the administra- S« interpreting economist—who » has more titles than affyone n remember and to whom the indreds of other economists here ¢or only in reverent tones—de ded 2 swell way to spend his va tion would be m_wm'k on a gen .l reorganization plan. He has just returned. The plan tieht under his hat, but what e “Win” has worked out will on be receiving -careful - consid ation iy Liberty League Stirs F. R, president Roosevelt's reaction to . hirth of the American Liberty acue was, one of the most in resting he has ever displayed, r 15 minutes he discussed it with . unusually large group of cor spondents. mhe extraordinary TRooseveltian nalities of light, airy cynicism, notional fervor, and outright ban . played upon Jouett Shouse’s ganization, as the president ex ained that a government must oserve “life, liberty and the pur it of happiness” as well as the his of property. and the Wall reet speculators, Even Al Srith's fohdést admir s and Shouse’'s many friends one +he correspondents left with e impreassion thHl' this Adminis ation will fight “Big Business” fore it will kduekle down to it And that whepn the fight waxes armer vou'll hear plenty . about o close present or previous con ctions of. the varions Liberty ague founders with the Steel rporation, the New York Stock xchange the munitions industry d other huge corporations. U. 8. S. K. Mystery Solved Mr. Donald Richberg, who has ore important titles than any dyv else in town and is especially arged with coordinating the New a] agencies, was riding home in s big black limousine. Suddenly his eve caught the u nse tag on a government truck in pntt He read “U. 8. 8. H” g letters, He frowned. His mind tame a kaleidoscope of all the phabetical combinations that rep sent the emergency agencies, as tried to place this ons.. Couly he have overlooked some ”l: in his charting and diagram g7 { -y Somebody suggested “TTnited ates Subsistence Homesteads,” it isn't ever ealled that and lsistence Homestead rucking is In department of interior After five minutes of puzzling d ‘z- ;w!:-rint;, Richberg gave it . Still a bit worrieq, Next day he was relieved to 0 that the truck was from the \; \w; ers’ Home, which is one i 71¢ , establishments and no _l"”” 0} the brain-wrenching @mation effort. (When Richberg first entered his W offices at the Natfonal Emer ey Connet = er the ‘,,,,,"..“:1 2. big black sign Al o ',’f"h deseribed him L , of NFC, executive sec s O the Executive Counen, L HTTRAN of the Ingmstrial E fncy Committee, ,_Protested and the sign was ~ ;-‘4 O 4-I,’l, the F“"f‘“nd and toy m,' appeared in smaller ) T continued to protest those tiles werea crased.) \_NN .t L:wv':a‘ls and _personais i ' NS assiduous attention ... rt of y»nn}m”ni,‘nting with bt Irai o} Deople” 1. 13 Rosee ] “:I'--’d 04, stin retains Ee ” celebrated. “Harvara (;-. for “heen” in:t’,’,;d ’:;t‘a‘:i"‘n‘:’ i P ) R - . » “The Drunk & s old play revived suc many other loealitjes, ‘ Arrived her in'aMile way & (“ staged it on the tt : ”'“’j”f Si’“”ltﬂn#nnsh~ Re Ty ation hy the Roaa t o it a barn in the out » roof you lap up c g er S 0 mueh the Dla}-- the haee. eard hgit INE e nojv twa o 0 COntain yourselt s iy, . The eapital t Rorotee 0 OFtHE TR S B ke ki and homea of Chief ATHENS BANNER-HERALD ¥ Full Associated Press Service Disorders Mark Strike at Mills In Macon Pittman Says Talmadge ‘Coercing’ University GANDIDATE 15 GIVEN REGEPTION TODAY BY FRIENDS IN ATHENS Talmadge Forcing Univer sity to Support His “Machine,” He Says CHARGES COERCION Candidate Speaks at Lex ington Today: Spends Night in Athens Judge Claude Pittman, eandigate for governor, en route to Lexing ton charged here today that Gov ernor Eug:ne Talmadge is at tempting to make the University of Georgia pary of “his political machine.” Judge Pittman asserted that the “forcing of the head of the Uni versity to introduce Talmadge here on September 10, is the most de plorable of all the outrageous acts of intimidation the head of the ‘House of Talmadge’ has attempt e‘d‘" Judge Pittman was givenanim promptu reception in front of the Southern <Mutual . building, after emerging from the office of Abit Nix, president of the Clarke Coun ty Pittmah club. "‘The jurist spent last night in Athens and was guest togethey with.members of his party at a breakfast this morning . given by Luther W. Nelson , The judge was accompanied to Lexington hy a motorcade of Athens supporters, shortly aften 10 olcleck. The jurist, an alumnus of the University, declared that “the en forced Injection ot the University into partisan politics is a specta cle which is giving concern to lovers of the University throughout the state. Y is an act of intimi dation that none would have be lieved even - Eugene Talmadge would have resorted to, despite the fact that he and his crowd are ys ing every device known to the low est type of politics in order to save the ‘House of Talmadge' from In evitable defeat September 12, “Act of Coercion™ “Anyvone can see,” Judge Pitt man said, “that the oblject of the ‘House of Talmadge’ in forcing the head of theé University of Georgia to help carry Clarke county for him, is to coerce the members of the faculty of the University into support of an official whom they know only too well has no; the slightest regard for their self-res pect and for the true aims of edu cation. “Hyery citizen of Georgia, whe wants to see his state grow and prosper both materially and spirit pally, looks with alarm upon this brazen attempt of Talmadge to take over thé University and use it for his own political purposes, just as he has taken over and - (Continued on Page Five) * TEXTILE FORCES IN SOUTH READY Southern Forces Prepared To Join in “‘Fight to Fin ish” Saturday CHARLOTTE, N. C. — (AP) — Southern textile forceg arranged their battle -lines today in prepa ration for what leaders of the United Textile Workers union said would be a fight to the finish with manufacturers. Three major groups within the industry and oné on the outside found themselves vitally affected by the plans for starting the gen era] strike tomorrow night, and none save the union leaders would prediet the -outcome. Within the industry, strike lead ers expressed supreme confidence in the strength of the union and its ability to force the employers to terms. In return, the employers maintained silence, nierely echoing the cotton textile institute’s stand that they could not dea] with a group which sought to amend the NIRA through strike coercion. Another apparently large group, found itself in acfive conflict with the prospective strikes. Through out the area thousands of non union members and wmembers of so-called “company unions” or workers association were pledging themselves not to join the walk out. Tn many cases these pledges constituted a great majority of the employes in individual mills. 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It was estimated that about 1,400 responded. Here strikers are shown in front of the Bibb Manufacturing company’s plant No. 2 as they halted a truck and prevented it enfering the plant. The strikers stripped the car of wires and it was necessary to call a wrecker. - (Associated Press photo,) i MG, MLEAN BIVES “BUSSIA A THRLL® Wife of Former Washing ton Publisher Tells of Experiences on Return | NEW YORK—(#)—Russia—"poor idismal Russia—was given a thrill with an eyefull of the famous Hope {Diamond. Mrs. Edward .B. ,Mc lL.ean, its possessor, reported - today upon her arrival] in New York aboard the liner Berengaria. “There can be no surprise after . me,” she stated, dangling a dia | mond-studded purse from its dia mond loop. : Reporters blinked at the daz zling display, augmented by sew ' oral diamond braceletg and a cig [aret case liberally set with dia monds. '_ The wife of the former Wash ington publisher said she was warned not to wear her jewels !while in Russia. But out of cu riosity one night, she aserted, she arrayed herself in all ‘'her jewels, including the hope diamond which is supposed to bring misfortune to its wearers. Then she made a round of night clubs In Moscow. “i wanted to see what the re-J action would be to a woman wear ing jewelry, and while it was a bit bloodcurling, I\ ~ent through it,"” she said. : “There way no envy of the géms in the eyes of those who observed my jewelry. There was only hate. “I seemed to revive for them the memory of old Russia and often during that interesting evening in Moscow, T eomid almost feel the blade of the guillotine at my throat “They hated me. That was ob vious. T stood for all that women | (Continued on Fage Two) l Athens Celebrates Lahor Day Monday; Many Stores Close ! Atheng will join the nation in i celebrating Labor Day, a legal hol liday, Monday. The first Monday {in September has long been cele ’brated by organized labor but only |in recent years has it been gener i ally observed in the south. | A jarge number of the grocery istores are advertising in the Ban ner-Herald today that they-will he lclosed Monday in obseryvance of the | holiday. Arnold and Abney will be | closed for a half-day, the bakery | necessitating the store staying | open part of the day. : i Postmaster D. G. Anderson an nounced that all windows will be open for only one hour, between 12 and 1 o'clock and that only one delivery will be made by carriers. _| The National] Bank of Athens The Citizens and Southern Bank iand the Hubert Banking company. all have announced they will not lbe open Monday. .. .iF oo 8 ¥ —~ESTABLISHED 1832 f Athens, Ca., Friday, August 31, 1934, Romance of Doug And Mary Appears to Be Again on Rocks HOLLYWOOD, Cal. —(AF)—The often reported and denied reconcili ation of screenland’s “first couple” —Mary Pickford and Douglas Fair banks—again seemed far away to day. Miss Pickford boarded a plane late yesterday afternoon for the ‘National Air Races at Cleveland. Fairbanks was not there to bid her bon voyage. bREENVILLE MILLS WILL REMAIN OPEN General Textile Strike !s I Likely to Be Met With - Indifference GREENVILLE, 8. C.—(®)— The Greenyville Piedmont today says a survey indicates the general tex tile gtrike will meet with indif ferent response in Greenville coun ty and that ‘“business ag usual” will be the motto of the mills there and their 13,000 employes. : “Not only will the mills be op erating next week, with little or no interruption, but reports of or ders for goods being deceived were obtained today frem 5 num ber of plants, assuring a brighter ontlook than has prevailed for many months™, the paper says. September 1 normally marks the opening of the fall demand for cot ton goods and the Piedmont said a number of mill officials had told it they looked. for unusually good business. With respect to the strike call the paper said: “Indicating that the general tex tile strike will- meet. with an in different response in this country, * (Continued on Page Five) Property Ordered Sold In Tax Collection Drive Here Seventeen pieces of real estatGl were advertised for sale today for | back taxes by the City Marshal of | Athens upon an order of Mayor | and Council passed several monthsi ago. : While a few piecegs of property | hawe already been ordered sold for I back taxeg by the City Marshal prior to today’s order, the current I list is the largest vet advertised. | - A large number of property | owners are behind in their taxes| and more property would have| been listed for sale today if t\ql office staff in the Clty Marshal’s! office could have completed the necessary work incident to listing the property in time, it was said gt »-th" »""f’ fias A ¥ sed {CONFESSION OF Ma MY PAROON “LIFER Jacob R. Daeffler Has Served 22 Years for Dou ble Killing % RED WING, Minn, —(&)— The purported confession of another man to the double slaying for which Jacob R. Daeffler has ser ved 22 yearg of a life sentence will be considered by the state board of pardons in October. Daeffler was convicted here of the killing of Mr. and Mrs. An ton Schill in 1911, to which Eu gene Artz, - Daeffler's brother-in law allegedly confessed in a let ter received recently by tne con vict. A copy of the letter was turned over today to Probate Judge William M. Ericson by Hugh M. Gillen of Stillwater, Daeffler's atterney. | At the same time Nidge Fricson disclosed that Artz, waile not m prison, is newertheless paying a severs penalty for the crime toJ which he allegedly hag confessed. Artz is afraid of his shadow, ev ery neise startg him to his feet, the fear that haunts him has turn-, ed his hair white and when indoors he keeps sadeg lowered and doors locked -even in aaytime, Judge (Continued on Page Five) Assistant Denies Giving Advice to Hugh Johnson WASHINGTON — (AP) — Misg Frances Robinson, administrative assistant to Hugh §. Johnson, to day denied published reports (not carried by the Associated Press) that she had counselled the NRA chief to make a dramatic exit from the recovery administration. “General Johnson has a mind of his own and a strong one and he certainly doesn’t need any counsel from a little stick like me,” Miss Robinson said. for sale today contains the only pieces that will be sold at the next legal sale, which: wili* be Oc tober 2, a larger list will be ad vertised for sale gt the November sale if taxpayers who own the property do not make arrangements to pay their taxes, the city mar shal's office declared. ° Tax collections have been better this year than last it was said partly due to the help given by the Home Owners Loan Corporation which has taken over a large num ber of homes here in the last few months, paying back ‘"axes at the same time, and partly due to the fact that the- city -ta.: collectors ' (Continued or Page\ Five) J WALTON - GOuTY PERGONG DIE HERE; HURT I\ EXPLOSION Oscar Bradley, Mrs. Sam Bradley Fatally Burned When Boiler Explodes ACCIDENT THURSDAY Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon at Bradley Home Near Cratis Oscar Bradley, 58, prominent Walton county man, and hils sister in-law, Mrs. SBam Bradley, 42, died at General hospital last night from scalds and burns suffered when a boiler in the Bradley gin, near Gratis in Walton county, exploded Thursday afternon about 3:30 o’clock. Double funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the old Bradley home stead, conducted by Rev. James E. Clarke, Monroe; Rev., J. W. Mc- Whorter, Winder, and Rev. W. H, Wood. Interment will be in the Bradley family cemetery. Details of the accident yere given the Banner-Herald over long dis tance telephone by Ernest Camp, jr.. of the Walton Tribune, who in vestigated it. The Bradley gin was preparing to gin the first bale of the new cotton crop, brought by Jim Pat rick. Oscar and Sam Bradley, gin proprietors were explaining opera ‘tion of the gin to a group consist ing of Mr. Patrick, Mrs. Sam Brad rm,,m., and Mrs, Lester Bradley and Walter and Roy Bradley. The party was in the boiler room when a flue in the boiler blew out, im. mediately filllng the small room with live steam and hot water yn der 110 pounds of pressure. Blinded by Steam The steam blinded the party and they had difficulty finding the exit from the room, Mrs. Lester Braa ley sufered severe scalds about the legs and Ogscar [Bradlev and Mrs Sam Bradley incurred terrible scalds and burns. The last named ——— (Continued on Page Two) TURNER FORGED OUT OF MR RACE TODAY Three Other Entrants Get Under Way: Atlanta Pilot |ls Entered BURBANK, Cal.—(#—A broken gas line, developing fifteen min ‘utes before the start of the trans continental air race, today forced Col. Roscoe Turner, holder of 'the west-to-east record, to withdraw from the race. Turner, who made g desperate effort to repair the feed line, saw the other three entrants in the long distance speed event of the national air races get under way. The last to take-off was Lee Gehl bach, New York, who was delayed due to trouble with the starter of his huge green spedster. Winner of the 1933 Bendix race, Colone] Turner said he would hop off tomorrow in an attempt to break the west to east record of ten hours and five minutes. The first racer to leave was Douglas Dayvis, Atlanta, who lifted his black and gold low wing mon oplane from the field at 3:20 a. m. (PST). He was followed five minuteg later by John Worthern, Pine Bluff, Ark. Gehlbach hopped at 4:45 a. m While (Meveland is the first ob jeetive of the pilots, "all have tXe opportunity te <ontinue to New York and colleet an added prize of $2,500 in the event the present v e {Continued on Page Four) | LOCAL WEATHER Fair tonight and Saturday, slightly warmer in north por tion Saturday. TEMPERATURE Highest.. ¢ saiss cave <.050.82.0 Jowesti. ~ ik N ir N 9 MOER .. ke heaint s sorelßi® Normhil. i i b diias indn: s hilt:D RAINFALL, Inches last 24 hours.... .. .03 Total since August 1...... 4.2¢ Deficiency since August 1...17 Average August rainfall.... 4.66 Total since January 1......39.36 Excess since January 1.... 3.79 A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday Signed for Life in Favorite Role T 3 ) i RS R Sk R R i A%H RR N SRR s B A R 0, R .'-' b i Y 28 i BRI S i SR S .;.;' SRS s Y ' R ‘é’ R o S e Ly e v 2OA e S CEEE e . R e G S e e B B R R R R T B, e B R, R e B o SR RS SRR SR, ] R R S e SRR R e R B A T A oo iy sB R e E > \‘; o R b R s 5 . s R S 1 i\v SR :4:3:-:v:1:<:;:;:§r L3SS R R . R ""t'-#if:’;:ﬁ:':;:-‘ 55 4&5;:;:;;;2._;_ 25 3 AR R R e o e e v R S A Y 1:-1-:v;cc-;.:»:;:::»:-:;,_:n;{,f.;; ’ e s @ Madge Rennedy, after seven yl«rs of widowhood, several weeks ago secretly signed for life/to play the sweetheart role she made famous on stage ‘and screen. It has just been learned she was married to W. B. Hanley, Jr.,, an actor, at Kingman, Ariz, Following her first husband's death she inherit ed $500,000 LETTER THREATENG ROOSEVELT. FAMILY Man Jailed in New York Today on Charge of Vio lating Lindbergh Law NEW YORK.— (&) —A clumsy letter threatening harm to Presi dent Roosevelt and his grandchil dren has put Benjamin Franklin Varn, 33 years old, in jail on a charge of violating the Lindbergh law. The letter was addressed to Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House. It saiq'that unless she paid $168,000, *“Buzzie” and “Sis tie” Dall, children of the Presi dent’'s daughter, Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dall, and the baby of Elloitt Roosevelt would be kid naped, and that injury would be inflicted on the President. President and Mrs. Roosevelt never saw the letter, but secret service men did, and they started an investigation that led to Varn’s arrest last night. The letter writer included in the kidnap note a telephone number where he could be reached. It was that of the William Sloane House branch of the Y. M. C. A. in New York where Varn had been living and where he was ar rested. Although the authorities were secretive about the entire affair, it was learned that the arrest was made by Detective John Broderick of the New York police, who co operated with the secret servlcei men in running down the threat. , Varn, who was held for arraign ment today, described himself as a former machinist in the Naval Aviation Corps and said he was a resident of Charleston, S. C. He was descrmbed as a member of a‘ (Continued on Page Two) | Committee Orders Special Election in Southern Alabama MONTGOMERY, Ala. —(AP)—A sub-committee of the state demo cratic committee, after deliberating seven hours, has ordered a special primary held in Russell county on September 18 to settle the contest over the nomination for probate judge of the county. The committee action came after inspection of the records of the regular primary; a recount held under auspices of the Russell county committee and a hearing conducted several days ago. The announcement of the aetion was not amplified by Chairman John P. Kohn. Howsaver, a com mitteeman who withheld his name said the decision was not unani mous and that the long delibera (Continued On Page Five) SLVERAL ARE HUAT, OTHERS INJURED 1N CENTRAL CITY TODAY Officials of Bibb Mills Secure Warrants for Alleged Offenders POLICE ON PATROL Pickets Take Stand With Clubs in Order to * Enforce Strike . BY ROBERT BUNNELLE (Associated Press Staff Writer) MACON, Ga.— (#) — Seventeen warrants were issued to municipal 'mill workers at Bibb Mill No. 2, where disorder was reported this morning. Twelve more warrents, possibly more, would be sought later in the day, it was stated by officers. 4 The warrants charge a misde= meanor, but lawyers for the Bibb Manufacturing company saigd they would seek indictment in these cases charging rioting. é The warrants were turned over to sheriff's deputies for immediats arrests. . At 11 o'clock sheriff’'s deputies had made seven arrests of strikers 'on warrants issued for this morn ing’s disorders at No. 2 Bibb mill. After the Payne mill reopened this morning a truck driver at tempteq to take a truck from that plant and was obstructed by plokg,. ets. Sheriff J, R. Hicks, in “ersonal command of the force of deputies, poli®e and guards there, drove the erowd back and the truck proceed-: ed. Warrants will be sough; m that case, too, it Wwas learned from mill executives, : | Patrol Continued - At Payne mill of the Bibb Manu facturing ecompany where a total of five were arresteq yesterday m a clash between pickets and per-. sons attempting to enter the mis strikers continued their patrol of the gates as a reinforced squad of police kept guard. : ' Pickets were armed with clubs and hurled taunts at the tltty-o@ workers who entered the mill for the morning shift—which numbers around 200—in disregard to the strike program. Several workers, including some Negroes, were es corted into the :nill gates by of ficers armed with pistols and black Jacks, There were shouts of “scab” but ne physicial encounter occurred though several cars load ed with officials were halted and then permitted to pass through the lines. v ;S Cars Harmed 7 o Last night cars bearing Payne mill officials were belabored with clubs and tossed about dangerously (Continued on Page Four) U.S. WILL MAKE NEUTRAL INQUIRY Little Hope Held for Stop ping Giant Walkout To= morrow Night ¢ WASHINGTON—{#) —The guﬁ‘ ernment appedred ready today {8 launch a neutral inquiry into the issues behind the general cottow textile strike as all hope of averts ing the giant walkeut vanished. - Still striving ‘for ‘a quick peacs Chairman Lloyd Garrison of the national industrial relations board —‘supreme court” of labor dis putes—had in mind the appeme ment of -a committee of three te explore the corflict impartially and perhaps recommend a SOlu« tion. Union leaders threatense? to ca® silk, woolen and rayon operatives out “on the strike line” unless their employers met demands. Thise they said, would boos; the grand total involved from 425,000 to 725.% 000, including union, non-union and unemployved operatives who would aid strikers. The estimates conflicted sharply with those of the management, which said that in many mills none would walk out, and the total would not amount beyond 10 or 15 per cent. After flashing the order for the cotten struggle to begin at 11:38 p. m, tomorrow, union leaders con= ferred again late yesterday . with Garrison. So—qit a late, hour—- dig George A. Sloan, head of the cotton textile institute, who had declined to attend a “round table™. with union leaders. Yesterday's conference came to naught. b Garrison said sadly that his board could not “report that any ——--.' : (Continued on Fage Two)