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Washington Lowdown —— Rodney Dutcher Sinclair's Status Dynamo Leads Strike Labor Sore At Bruere ganner- Herald Washington Correspondent ASHINGTON —(#)— It is im c;M‘,‘ to report ]»‘resid(’l]t'Roosc:' . reaction to Upton Sinclair’'s "\‘imux‘_\ in California, but v of the president’s best cn'ds here are turning cart ools in the privacy of their doirs. i ot Lt ey may not like bmcl;\ll.ox : iam\ and they may think e Creel would have made a {E‘!’ sovernor, but the progl‘e.s --s in the New Deal councils sieve they now have conclusive fionce that popular support will e lacking for the strong lib | program here which they are » will hecome more pronounced. W creat popular victory for a dieal” indicates they haven’t b to fear from “reactionaries.” ts o fairly safe bet that Roose t feels much the same way, as has jately indicated almost un iakably that his course was vinz left ward with an increas appeal to “the average man” i away from the old-line conser kive element of the Democratic bim Farley promised Sinclair uldn't be denied Demoeratic sup bt if he were nominated and the e of the ex-Socialist’s majority jkes it certain that regular Dem atic politicians will seek some tkine arrangement with him n though the administration | he careful to avoid associat iteelf with Sinclair's personal htform t: only official candidate is the lifornia primaries was Senator ram Johnson, who won the nom ption of all parties and can't pos by he handicapped by Sinclair. ome: New Dealerg will even ad t that Sineclair's platform—even ugh he couldn‘t achieve it if eted—isn’t far left of their own pas. Hi; proposal for subsistence m¢ and use of idle factories for b unemployved, with exechange of jducts among them, differs little m federal programg already in B{W ld age pensions are in the New al deck, though Sineclair's rates high. No one here is wyet pro sing a graduated tax beginning silo—as Sinclair is—but there plenty of sympathy for the “soak rich” idea. @ black-haired, wiry, bushy pwed, short, obvious Irishman is § Francis Gorman, chairman of P textile strike committee, fe was born in Yorkshire, Eng., i2t the age of 13 was brought %8 and put to work siweeping 18 in a cotton mill. He stayed the mills of New England for vears, but educated himself and tto work with the UUnited Tex- Workers, of which he is vice fdent, some 10 years ago. flich makes him ahout 43. He sin Providence, R. 1. frman ig full of nervous energy e of which probably is just il nerves, considering the size ‘thji v‘f’r_lkf His manner is grim, ‘.“’ over-confident, He usually T 3 a rolled-up newspaper as "'t of swagger-stick. whacking 8 sharply with it as if he v to &0 somowhere, L %E A white linen suit sh Is seldom offensively clean, d"'i"-"““ rtly matching blue shirt ‘ i e "‘”"’""""” of the Clotton Tex- P:“, Board is the same Dr. \\ ,l.'i"""r“ who was a guest TY‘»'Hin '{l‘ } f:’“““‘_ﬂ “red” dinner entle ‘,h'nf‘f;;“ Va, and subse i m'-;h Itho Gary school QM ,\;‘.:,}_“ in as stentorian gTst'inl"l'n[\z‘ - hpnrd‘ before - Yu"u’;,:‘...‘, hmmittop. Ry g were needed to show ‘ lere isn't a political radi i Vents leading up to the Ike ave rovi R "*"r'l‘];n‘ti\-p D;U\;dp:jf }t. b s 4. Sses to be sore at o Cl2iming that he hag fail ,, the stretchout evil in nats . 204 has accepted the b NS and denials of the ' frS 100 complacently, ..+ studious philosopher, a ol ok & human heing of great mathe - has indicated less b, . With the labor leaders b ANy other offiecials, 8 934, NEA Service, Inc. biliday $o Snonk iday to Speak . . To Kiwanis Tuesday b i hi ¢ .. ©2mes Halliday, new E . Salvation A\l'l"lly here, i B members of the Ki . Norrow at the “‘Pekly Yoo © held at Costa's at Ath - L iptain Halliday came vac 5. om Columbus, where ktede . o rß€ Of the work and b heen 1o in Elmer Noble, who L Drogram ‘\i:;ifi?'!"to'llclj‘g‘“n;(‘;us. " L . ~ arran lester Rumble, e ATHENS BANNER-HERALD ¥ Full Associated Press Service Talmadge and Pittman Address Big Crowds at Macon and Rome Today | Governor Claims He Has | Carried Out Promises 1;? of Two Years Ago. { i GILLIAM ALSO BUSY "Pmman Declares He Will ‘“ . 3 . I “Fire” Highway Board | If Elected. - MACON, Ga.——(#)—The opposi tion is more concerned with the red pencil operated under the budget law than red galluses, Gov ernor Eugene Talmadge told a po litical jaudience in his campaign for re-election here today. “You will remember I told you in my announcement for governor twh years ago that the main issue !was to lower taxes,” the governor sajid. “The west way .to lower 'taxes is to cut the expenses of government, “The Highway department with its millions, was spending over half the entire revenue of the state. So great had it grown that it not only defied the governors, but also dominated the senate and dictated the laws. | “We also had the Public Service {onmmiSSion so under the influence lof the public utility corporations { that they did not think utility l rates could be reduced. } “The state institutions, inciud ling the asylum at DMilledgeville, were overloaded with useless em | ployes and unnecessary overhead i expenses. ! “Enjoyed Life” | t “A great army of people was en !joying a life of ease, living on the | taxpayers without thought of care | for them, while the taxpayers were ! groaning beneath the burden—not i only losing their homes, but being !dri\'en into dire poverty. } | “All of these felt secure behind the ranting of my onrosition that |:\ govepnor could do rething with the Highway board and other state departments. They said that Talmadge could not reduce this! burden of the people—that he was | just a wild man running for gov-] i ernor. | “What could a governor do any- Ehow. They had never had a gov-| { ernor to bother them. 1 i “When I was elected they ! thought old Talmadge would for get his promises to the people— | that T would just step in, driftl down the stream and not dare to‘ rock the boat. ‘ “Rude Awakening” i l “But what a rude awakening! All of you know what happened. “The fulfillment of my promises| { made to the people two years ago lis written on every tax receipt,‘ power and light bill, telephone bill, truck and bus bl}l, freight bill andi passenger ticket. oA | | “If I had failed you there would }have been no opposition. | Thel same crowd that is now fighting | ‘me. would be singing my praises. | This same crowd would be pro-i claiming - from every housetop: ‘Behold our great governor, Tal madge,’ instead of stooping to thel depths they have to try to defeat‘ me. “But they overlooked the budget law—the red pencil—and Tal madge had no more sense than to use it for the good of the people.” The governor told his audience that in this (Bibb) county the savings affected by him on utili ties alone amounted to approxi mately $4 to every man, woman and child in the county. And that % (Continued on Page Two) THE NEws IN A NUTSHELL : By Jack Braswell County agent Luke Watson; sec retary of Chamber of Commerce, Joel A, Wier; M. P. Jarnigan, pro fessor of animal husbandry; Ann Dolvin, home demonstration agent, | will meet tonight to discuss Fairi exhibitions. It wag reported that the Uni-“ versity dormitories are filling rap- | idly. Enrollment expected to be | greatly increased this year. { Human jawbone wag found in | the yard of a Rutherford streetl home. Bince the bone did not show signs of being weathered, investi- | gation is being made in an attempt | to locate the former owner. | The *“Little World Series” will| open today at the Y. M. €. & with the Hill and Vason teams | beginning the excitement. E There wil] be thirty-two rounds of boxing at Franks’' arena Tues- | day night with Nunnally and | Deadwyler heading the card. [ Dove season has apparently quell- | ed the interest held by the Skeet club: however, dove sheoting will be ended the last day of this month unti: November 20. | Football season opened today in Atheng with two practices at Athens High school and one at the BRYAN WILL DELIVER PITTMAN TALK HERE ’ Judge Shepherd Bryan of Atlanta will deliver a campaign address in the interest of the - gubernatorial candidacy of Judge Claude C. Pittman here Tuesday night of next week, the night before the primary. Judge Bryan has been ac tive in supporting Judge Pite mun‘fnr governor, and was one of the principal speakers at a Pittman rally in Atlanta last week. Fle was invited to speak here by the Clarke Coun ty Pittman eclub. President Spends Part of Today in Conference on Official Business. HYDE PARK, N, Y.,—(#)—Pre sident Roosevelt observed Labor Day at a pieniec luncheon on the family ground and in conference on official business. The widespread Ilabor difficulty resulting from the textile strike caused Mr. Roosevelt to give re newed watchfulness to this situa tion., bug there is no indication that he is ready to intervene. George Peck, special assistant in charge of foreign exports, was on the day’s calendar and the presi dent was looking hopefully to re ports of new opportunities for trade operations. Mr. Rogsevelt is taking the week end off like other Americans, as much as the presidency allows, He appeared to get a big kick watch ing the White House correspon dents baseball team rally for a ninth inning wvictory yesterday over their last yvear’s rivals, Lowell Thomas's Saints and Sinners from Pawling, New 7York, The score was 26 to 25. A little presidential managing helped to save the day for his gang. Rexford Tugwell, under se cretary of agriculture, went to the mound for the White Honge team. One inning was all right but when in the next he allowed a flock of hits to go into a nearby cow pas (Continved on Page Five) | Gun Battle Is Fatal To Tallapoosa Couple] TALLAPOOSA, Ga—(®-—A gun battle between the town marshal and a middle aged couple which Policeman A. W. Braden said cli maxed an “old grudge” resulted in the death of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Ledlow and the wounding of the marshal here. The Ledlows operated a general merchandise store. Braden said they were killed in front of the town hall after Mrs. Lewlow start ed shooting at night Marshal H. C. Pope. Pope was shot in the abdomen. He was taken to an Assiston, Ala., | hospital. 1 Funeral services were held here today for Mr. and Mrs. Lewlow. | University. The Georgia boys will leave for the Y. M. C. A. camp tomorrow at 6:40 a. m. Pairing for the Athens golf tour | nament were announced today. i Malon Courts wins state tennis tournament by upsetting Jim Hal- Ivershadt, 6-1, 6-3, 6-4. | The cotton futures market closed {the period with contracts from 4 ito 20 points below the levels of August 25. ‘ Russ Columbo was accidently killed Sunday night when a friend | unconsciously discharged a pist:, | the bullet of which ricocheted off | table and struck Columbo ir the | eye. I william Gieen, president of the | American Federation of Labor, de |c-red that th- thirty hour week { wzs the oaly remedy for un:mploy | ment and that the Federation .would appeal to the government [ for direct relief payments to the { unemployed this winter. A monster parade was seen in Atlanta today as the working men of Georgia celebrated their annual |day off. : Havana tense today as student l (Continued on page eight.) —ESTABLISHED 1832~ ; Athens, Ga., Monday, Septembe: 3, 1934, THE THINKER OF TODAY L—— a e o T e : gy - (1) o S R B T i g i wefd | RSN Ry S Nt B, e e OAT SECyy, @3_ % i 7 4 ‘“: Jﬂ > @, , / ATR e %o S .ﬂ? - ST @ A: i N (,;, N{" iy b /00l Wy RN S 0% TG di W (P eAN TR Gl o W ARG T e N ol S A ‘1 ’ G ‘:\ LABOR ~ -——M&W*WWW*W%, : | } i Police Seek Unknown “Itinerant” As Alleged Attacker of Pair. SACRAMENTO, Calif. — (#) — From the lips of a two-year-old boy, authoritieg sought g clue to day which would put them on the trail of the attacker of the child’s two young sisters wose bodies were found locked in an ice box. An autopsy disclosed the girls, Maryann, 7, and Mary Paiva, 6, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Paiva, hop pickers had been crim inally assaulted. At first authorities believed their little brother, Alfred, had locked them accidentally in the ice box at the Paiva ranch home, 18 miles from here, but the autopsy findings for Dr. C. H, McDonnel esnt sheriff’s deputies searching for the attackers. The crime ypossibly wag commit ted by an itinerant, of whom there are many in the locality, officers said, and they beleived he placed hig victims in the refrigerator to permit him time to escape. The tragedy was discovered Sat urday night when the Paivas, par entg of 11 children, returned to their home. Mrs. Paivg - and her daughter Adelaide, 18, noticed the ice and food had been removed from the refrigerator. The litte boy ran forward and lisped: “Sistie in box.” The parents paid no attention to him, thinking his words were childish prattle. Then the daughter flung open the ice box door, revealing the bodies of her sisters. Screaming, Mrs. Palva pulled the voungsterg out, tore off their cloth ing and placed them in a bathtuhb fl of water in attempts to revive them. Dr. McDonnell said they had died of suffocation. From Civeino Paiva, 15-vear-old brother of the vietims, authorities learned he last saw his sisterg alive when he was at home at 1 p. m. Saturday. Steamer Runs Aground Of Coast of California In Thick Fog Sunday - SAN FRANCISCO — (#) — The Steamer J. B. Stetson ran aground on rocks near Monterey, Calif.,, 8% miles south of San Francisco, the marine department of the Chamber of Commerce was advised early to day. _ Marinemen here estimated the small craft carried a crew of 25 men and no passgengers. She struck on Cypress Point in a heavy fog, “as thick as g soup,” the cham ber was informed. . The J. B. Stetson left San Pe dro Saturday for Monterey. She is a craft of 521 net tons. First reports gave no details of her condition nor of how high the seag wers running. & - . ~ Justice Indicates He -Yl“ Admit Statements . nto Coo Trial Record “ﬁ’—-"ﬁv—q——————'————————-——-.— e O AR e e e S COOPERSTOWN, N. Y. —(&)— Supreme Court Justice Riley H. Heath today iidicated he will ad mit into the record of Mrs. Eva Coo's tria} for murder the two statements made by the Buxom de fendant who is charged with slay ing her cvipled handy man, Harry Wright. 1 The admissibility of those state ments has been subject of a deter mined fight by the defense. w e ‘ MOTHER OF TOM ’ Parent of One of World's Best: Known Convicts Succumbs Sunday. SAN FRANCISCO.— (&) —The long fight'of Mrs. Mary ‘“Mother” Mooney in behalf of her imprison ed sen, Thomas Mooney, has ended —in death. On the eve of Labor Day, which to her symbolized her son’s cause, the 85-year old mother of one of the world’s most widely known convicts, iuccumbed here to a heart attack. " She died with high hopes, her daughter-in-in-law, Mrs. Reno Mooney said, that her firstlborn of three children, who is serving a life prison term for the 1916 San Franeisco Preparedness Day bombing, soon will be free. Upton Sinclair, Democratic nominee for governor of Califor nia, has promised that if he be comes the state’'s chief execctive his first act will be to pardon Tom Mooney. Another son of Mrs. Mooney, John, a San Francisco street car conductor, said her feeble strength had been taxed by efforts in sup port of Sinciair's candidacy. But death also was tinged with grief for the aged woman, Mrs. Reno Mooney, the convict's wife, declared. “She was denied the right to ride ‘in the ‘Labor Day parade here,” Mrs. Mooney said. “She felt very, very hurt about it.” It has been “Mother” Mooney's custom to participate in such pa (Continued' on Page -Five) ‘ M ‘ i opiphctipmantrim.| LOCAL WEATHER e Fair tonight; Tuesday part- 1 ly cloudy, showers in north portion Tuesday afternoon or night. | TEMPERATURE Higßest 0o cive hed a.. 4180 Lothalit Lola 5 e5..080 MEE i e T BTN MO S E S sl e e 1600 RAINFALL Inches last 24 h0ur5........ 0.00 Total since September 1... o.of Deficiency since Sept. 1 .. .36 Average Sept. rainfall...... 3.5 Total since January 1......39.30 Excess since January 1 ... 3.43 NEW ORLEANG PEACE 1 | - PLANG ARE FAILURE B . !Lack of Agreement Be | tween Long and Citizens . Disrupts Negotiations. | NI i i l NEW ORLEANS—(®)—Lack of agreement today disrupted peace | negotiations in the arm political lconf]ict in New Orleans in which | Senator Huey P, Long is seeking | to oust Mayor T. Semmes Walms iley from office on charges of un derworld “graft.” ' A committee of 100 citizens or 'ganized to seek a ‘“fairly and peacefully held” election on Seép tember 11 announced that the Long faction had refused to sign their peace and arbitration agree l"“”‘nt unless a halt was called on | law suits seeking restoration of voters names scratched from the registration lists. The committee described the‘ Long proposal as “Arbitrary” md‘ “imposible” of acceptance and an-‘ nounced termination of their ef forts toward peace. | Meanwhile, militiamen guarded‘ Long in his mansion on Audubon Boulevard, as the senator labored in the assembling of new witnesses who he 'said would expose the “yice lords” of New Orleans and | strip Mayor Walmsley of his of fice. Liong said “more rottenness” even reaching to the local courts would be added to the records of lhis special legislative investigating { committee in tomorrow's sessijon Iwhon the solons who are investi { gating - “iniquity” of Walmsley’s indministraﬂnn hold their second Isossion in the loecal skyserape, un | der the protection of armed { troopers. i The “Kingfish” said the mayor i would be run out of town'by elec ition time, September 11, and added [\‘n that his threat that Civil Dis { trict Judge Nat W. Bond who %n-lvd against him and his Military ! (Continued on page eight.) | e | 'Two Air Mail Pilots . Are Injured As They | Make Forced Landing ' WINONA, Miss.—(P)—Two Han | ford Airlines pilots were injured isoverply when their mail plane en“ ' route from the Twin Cities to Chi cago cracked up last night as they lmtompt(\d to land near Cochrane, ’Wis. ’ | Jerry Sparboe, pilot, and Martin | Qaverson, eo-pilot, hoth of Minnea ' polis, were recovering in a Winona | hospital today. ’ | They encountered fog and de | cided to land near Cochrane. Their ;N:\Pt‘ turned over in 5 meadow. i The mail was not damaged. i Farmers in the Cochrane vicinity { heard the plane circling and then {neard the crash. When they ar !rivpd_ Severson, who had loosened {his cafety helt, was nearby, hav iing crawled from the plane while }'Sparbm was walking about. The lplane was wrecked. A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—sc Sunday Labor Day Dawns Upon What May Be Greatest Strike in U. S. History SOCIALISTS FIGHT SINCLAIR ELECTION MILWAUKEE —(#) — The executive committee of the socialist party was committea today to a fight against the election of Upton Sinclatr, who won the Democratic nomina tion for governor of California, In a formal stateéement, the committee declared. that Sin clair is not a socialist, has neither the open no, tacit sup port of the party and is not campaigning on a Socialist rlatform. Support of party candidates in California ,was urged. George White, Thought ~ Lynched, Is Recovered By County Officers. l i —— SAVANAH, GA.—(®#)— George White, Bryan county Negro, miss ing since he fell into the hands of a mob Friday night in that coun ty, was brought, wounded, into the Crathamn county Jjail at 12:45 o'clock this afternoon by Sheriff H. G. White of Bryan county. When White was brought to jail here it confirmed reports /transmitted by Chief of Chathai County Police Chapman to Sheriff White last night that the Negro wsa alive but wounded in a house in Bryan county. l The Negro entered the jail where ‘nc was placed for safe keeping, }suppol"i.ed by two persons. He ap }peared very feeble, unable to bend ' his right leg and his face was leither blood op mud stained. Sheriff White asked that the prisoner not be interviewed. The sheriff stated that he and the soli citor general, J. Perry Dukes, ol Il'embroke. planned to return to ' Savannah this afternoon. Although ‘no announcement has been made, it lis expected an official explanation will be made at that time, ’ Last night Chief Chapman in formed sheriff White that a cousin lot the Negro said he was alive in Bryan county at a house, the 0- 'cation of which was given the Bryan county officer. A prominent woman of Bryan county, who the officers declined to rame said that the woman at whose house the Negro was reported to be, had comg to her for some medicine to treat the wounded man, PR it - - Student Disorders in Cuba Spread Tension a Spread T . HAVANA,—(#)—An atmosphere of tension swept Havana at noon itod&y as student disorders spread all over the capitol city and the ‘strlke movement gained momen tum. The latest disturbance broke out in front of the high school building in Central Park where soldiers and police fired into the air to disperse a group of students |who stood in the street and fired ’pistols at the trolley wires ana | telephone cables in efforts to dis !rupt electric services. Russ Columbo,Famous Crooner, Is Accidentally Killed By Bullet | HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—~(#)—The ldeep, captivating voice of Russ ICnlumbo, familiar to millions of radio listeners and motion picture ' fans, is stilled. !E A sudden shot from an ancient dueling pistol, accidentally dis- Icharged in the hand of a frienad, 'sent a bulley into Columbo’s left eyve and he died within a few hours last night. " Columbo had called yesterday at the home of Lansing V. Brown Jr., 'a photographer who counts among his patrons many prominent play ers and performers of the screen and radio. They were looking at firearms in Brown’s collection. “I was absent mindly fooling with one of the guns,” Brown told detectives. “It was of a duelling design and works with a cap and trigger. “I was pulling back the trigger and clicking it time after time. I had a match in my hand and when I checked, evidently the match eaught in between the ham mer and the firing pin, There vras an explosion. Russ slid to the side of his chair.” Corman ‘Satisfied” With Walkout of Workers in Southern States. TUESDAY TEST DAY All Reported Quiet Today ' in Georgia Mill Cities; Carolinas Hard-Hit. By The Associated Press The day which organized labor usually gives to displaying lits strength only by parade and talk, found what may prove to be one of the greatest strikes in the na tion's history in progress today. . A not immediately known por tion of the nation’s textile work ers were determined to keep their millg idle until demandsgor short er hours, wage adjustments and the end of the “stretch-out” were met, sk Labor leaderg alj ever the coun try praised the activities of unions in the past year, and urged work ing men to extend their organiza tions. Shorter hours ag¥ a means of ending unemployvment wag a theme running through many of the statements. : William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, gave his Labor 'day speech lin Wichita, Kansas. ~ Before leaving Washington, he sent' out a message to all uniom labor, stressing what he called the needs for keeping up mass purch ‘asing power through high wages. GORMAN SATISFIED . At least 42,000 workers were idle in the Carolinas today as g rseult of the general textile strike call. ~ Francig J. Gorman, chairman of the strike committee directing the walkout, said he was “more than satisfied” with reports from the mill centerg of the South. 4 | He predicted that the industry ‘would be crippled by the middle of the week. “Remkmber,” he said, “the first real test will come to morrow. Watch the textile centers then.” By Saturday, he predicted, -the strike wil] be between 85 and 90 per cent complete, . QUIET IN GEORGIA 3 MACON, Ga.—(#)—The quiet of the annual Labor day holiday per vaded Gegrgia textile mills today while workers and employers alike awaited tomorrow's developments in the textile workers' gtrike. . In accord with the usual cus tom, mills in this state were shut down today for the celebration by labor. Textile workers went tao rallies in several sections to kear their Jeaders’ speak. Mill owners have announced in wvarious textile centerg that their plants will be open for work tomorrow morning in spite of the textile workers’ strike which became effective Sat« urday night. w 5 The latest development in the sitnation came in Atlanta where the Clonstitution estimated that ap proximately 1,400 employes of four mills in the Atlanta area will join the strike. The Constitution said the four mills to be affected were the Exposition mills, the Whittier mills in Chattahoochee, the Ge«& Duck and Cordage mills and th Scottdale mills. Late developments, briefly told, in other textile 'mille in Georgia over the week-end were: . T.afayette—Boo employes. spokes men announced, walked out at ﬂ%g (Continued on Page Two) 3 mahogany table and then struchk Columbo. o “ It was mighty fast,” said Brown “I thought he was clowning.” . When he saw that the -singe® was wounded Brown called ‘his father and mother, who were I 8 another room. The elder Browm summoned an ambulance and po lice. ‘I bought these pistols at an an tique store,” RBRrown, jr., told tg; ficers. “I have had the collection for seven years. I had never made an examination to see whether they were loaded they were so Ql'ﬁS T had no idea at all they were loaded.” capo Brown was not held, but the county coroner said an inquest would be held. - Columbo did not regaln con seiousmess Carl Laemmile, jr.. who had announced the singer to star dom in his just completed pic ture, “Wake Up and Dream.” was in close touch with the hospital m telephone. Carole Lombard, screen actress, who was to hlmm supper with him at the erly (Continued on Page Seve @ § avs ARER S SRR Ll o R