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ganner-Herald Washington i
Correspondent.
WASHINGTON. — One day a'
shington correspondent has tol
:,'1 something that seems pret-!
. nd next day there's |
:,.;} ing on the sunnier gide.
. the way it goes here in
. administration, with its pulp
b and haulings, tightrope acts |
| cernal compromises. Bothy
soodies and the baddies have
buence now, whereas in prevlous'
ninistrations just one of those |
we had everything its own |
v—and vou decide for yonrself’
s a segnel to digspatches which
wod how the Democratic spoils
n during Roosevelt's absencei
e snitching evervthing that:
a't nailed down — and even(
he that was—it is possible to i
b important instances since thel
ddent’s return wherein Jlmz
ey and his political gang hav(—'
n effectively foiled. {
ppointment of Dr. Ernest}
wening as director of the new |
ision of Territories and Islandl
esessions, to the am-ompani—l
bt of triumphant shouts from |
liberals, was an mltstanding!
\ nlv was it symptomatie of‘
iinistration’s benevolent :
ribbe policy. It was a severe |
¢ to 4 patronage lobby which |
Il knows how few of the nice
t in Gruening’s far-flung
] | now be filled on a parti
[ al basis.
election of John \\'ollingtonl
) ief of the Bureau of !
nes wasn't exactly a (~lc-:1n-('utg
b percent victory for the meritl
rists, but it was another |
koot for Farley and a victroy for!
vernment scientists who fear |
ical encroachments into their,
coretary Ickes recommended t
ng ago as an outstanding |
1 t and' author, but I":]:‘Ie‘y!
! it Finch wasn't a well- |
n Democrat, proposed amolh-é
iellow who had more political |
1 nd persuaded R(\OSOVE‘lti
) the appointment until |
rn from Hawaiti. :
hs soon as the President got |
. Ickes told him he still had |
h f the jobh—the same one.‘
All right said Roosevelt, “if
're still with him, I'll appolntl
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inch wouldn't have received
h, however, if he hadn’t sup
ed and voted for F. D. Di-1i
tor Scott Turner was being liffl
se he was considered a
Pove protege who didn’t qnitel
in with the New Deal. I
S tely comes word that !
famous “Amory ring” in the[
eau of Foreign and Domesticl
mmerce, which swung the ax
re ruthlessly than any otherl
mocrat group and established |
new high for impudence when
knifed Director Willard Throps.|
last is being quietly broken up.
ene Wilbur, a McAdoo ap-l
ntee and closest associate Ofl
sistant Director H, Russell
ory, has been taken out of his
t as assistant to the director,
it to San Francisco and ra
peed by Johnston Avery, a
b Carolina = newspaperman
| friend of Director Claudius
Murchison.
ther Amory intimate, Chief‘
K. Salisbury of the plumbing
[l heating division, finds his di-
E Ana his job simultaneously
imory is still on the job, arriv
p ¢ ind leaving late, though
ne knows just what he is do-
E since his personnel duties
e en from him. He proba-
Vill be transferred.
lays of the tariff lobby
]"‘“f 1 Hill, when log-rolling
ackdoor tactics were a per-l
Wal scandal, are over.® The‘
Ssure is now directed at the
(¢ Department, which is em-‘
"red to change duties under
-16 w reciprocity act. ‘
s essure doesn’t get any
"¢ unless the lobbyists make}
E | case. Secretary Hull
P ihordinates in the
PRy of tariff treaty-making
3 ) exand internatiomal |
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i the old methods of personal;
! ’ upplementing huge
Bof briefs and letters, were,
t Hull. as finishing
e re placed on the re
] romulgated treaty with
| Srimmest lobbying came
# tic sugar refiners, who
¥ favorable differen
bma . POrted raw stiger, ahd
) ocal attacks from fruit
growers in Florida
. . who objected to a
i ‘ariff on more or less
Cuban products.
L Was successful.
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devoted irsday in each
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dddress the clup, inkville
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD ¥
Full Associated Press Service
RooseveltEntersLabor Dispute
Bibb Mills at Macon Are Closed This Morning
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President W. D. Anderson |
Refuses to Give Out |
Statement Yet I
CLOSED IN ATLANTA !
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Strike in Georgia |s Only}
Slightly Over 50 Per |
Cent Effective |
ATLANTA —=(AP)— The = sec- !
ond day of the test in the national !
textile strike today saw the clos- |
| ing down of the six plants of the
‘Bibb Mfg., Co., headed by W. D. l
“Anderson, president of the Ameri- !
can Cotton Manufacturers associa- {
tion. l
. Riotous clashes in which strik- |
ing textile workers fought with |
police and non-sympathizers |
| marked the close of the three Bibb |
‘,])lalms at Macon. There was no|!
lu-nbula at Porterdale at the clos- |
iing and the Columbus shut down
was quiet although about 2,000
pickets surrounded the mill in the
i«enrly morning hours.
. The fighting began at Bibb mill
| No. 1, the first of the group to at
lt('mm, to open today, but the sit
;uation was kept in hand until
| Bibb mill No. 2 attempted to opeu,
;ahout two hours later. | There
!where previous troubles have cen-i
tered, the first melee occurred whes
}an automobile load of mill ofx'i-}
;ciuls and office workers tried to|
drive in the front ‘gate. !
! Flip Car Over |
- Strike sympathizers swooped |
down on the car and flipped it |
{over on its side as one of the pas-!
- sengers fired a pistol from the |
interior. None was hurt. Officers !
)said two pistols were taken from!
the car. |
! A few minutes later a party of!
mill hands also tried to enter the|
Lsame gate by automobile. Strikers, |
"many of them carryving pieces of |
bricks in their hands, piled over it|
}but police fought them back as |
they rocked it over from side to§
' side. The car then was drivenl
laway. Just before, police had to!
’form a cordon to shove pickets|
and sympath: zers back from the
| gate. i
' Attempt Fails
I Just before Ba. m., the sched
uled opening hour, an attempt Was:
lmade to rush non-symbpathizers |
lthrough the side gate of the mill. |
| Strikers swept about the group;
i like a wave and fodght hand to’l
hand with police and workers. Al
few women workers gained ad-&
| mitance in the flying wadge charge |
lmade by police but the officers!
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Pittman Offices |
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Announcement was made today
that the Clarke County Pittman
Club has opened headquarters on
the second floor of the Georgian
hotel. A meeting will be held to-‘
morrow night at 8 o'clock to dis- |
cuss campaign plans in Clarkej
county. ; i
T. M. Philpot, secretary of the|
Pittman club today invited Clarkei
citizens interested in the candida- |
cy of Judge Pittman to visit club|
headquarters and attend the meet
‘ing tomorrow night.
i The club is sponsoring an ad-
Idress by Judge Shepherd Bryan of
l Atlanta in behalf of Judge Pittman |
| here next Tuesday night. : i
Tue NEws IN A NUTSHELL
By Jack Braswell
The tax rate of Clarke county
will remain at 10 mills this year by
order of the county commission
ers.
If the county commissioners heed
the request of a committee of law
vers that deed books from 1891 to
1908 be modernized, all of Clarke
county’s deed indices will be re
indexed from the beginning of the
county.
The English political custom ol
“heckling” (razzing in American)
will not be permitted at the Tal
madge meeting here Monday.
Captain Claude Craft, acting
chief of the day police force, re
quested today that any Athenlan
'who misses gasoline from his av
tomobile report it to the police
[quartera.
It was announced today that
the Pittman club has opened head
quarters on the second floor of the
Georgian hotel, A meeting will be
Helen Morgan
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With the tense look that is part
of the torch singer’s equipment,
" Helen Morgan is shown as she
sat in a Los Angeles court and
fought to a draw with a pro
ducer. She was cleared of the
charge that a show failed be
cause she was intoxicated, but
she won't get SI6OO she claimed
in salary unless it’s paid by her
hushband, who invested in the
show
QINGLAIR SATISFIED
Democratic Nominee for
Covernor Talks With
Roosevelt and Farley
NEW YORK—(®)—Upton Sin
clair talked for two hours lase
night with President Roosevelt—*‘a
gorgeous man’—and then se; out
for Washington to inquire today
what federal aid he might obtain
for his plan to end poverty In
California.
The EPIC program is the key
stone of Sinclair's campaign as
Democratic nominee for governor
of the Golden State,
He also met Postmaster General
James A. Farley, national chailr
man of the Democratic party, Af
ter their 25-minute conference both
declared with broad smilies, “we
didn’t discuss politics.” Sinclatr
saw the president at his home in
Hyde Park, the party chairman in
a New York hotel.
Like Caesar, he came and he
saw. Whether he conquered could
not be said, for no word was forth
coming of party support for his
campaign.
“What we talked about is be
tween us,” the author of biting
novels on capitalism and one-time
socialist said after his chat with
the president.
Age has eradicated the rasp in
Sinclair’'s voice. He smiles genially
where once he was wont to be dis
tant. Politics apparetlny has made
more subtle the spirit which once
ripped viciously into capitalistic
doctrines. He keeps very busy.
“1f 1 had wanted leisure I sure
wouldn’t be in this,” he said. He
dashes from one task to another,
thinking and using tried weapons
—words—all of the time.
For the president he had noth
ing but praise. One of his chief
purposes in visiting Postmastér
General Farley, he said, was to
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held Thursday night at 8 o’clock
to discuss campaign plans in
Clarke county. ” |
A committee appointed by the
Athens Garden club started a sub
seription drive for the “Garden
‘Gateways,” Garden etub publica
publication.
‘ It wont be long now betore Ath
ens will see g real celebrity in the
lfight game, Joe Knight. He fights
|here October 2. It is also hoped
that Jack Dempsey will be seen
in K. O. Franks’ arena acting as
referee sometime between now and
' the first of December.
Coach Howell Hollis is planning
radical changes in the Athens High
school line-up this fall.
Harold Epps. former baseball
player for Athens High ang sev
eral local teams is making a name
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Athens, Ga., Wednesday, September 5, 1934.
President, Wife, Cashier
Are Kidnaped, But Are
Later Released
FLEE IN PLYMOUTH
Officers in Adjolning
States on Lookout
For Daring Trio
LAKE CITY, 8. €. — (AF) —
Three men robbed the Palmetto
Bank of Lake City of approximate
ly SIOO,OOO today after kidnaping
J. H. Carter, the president, and
his- wife from their home ond ty
ing Carter’s three children to their
beds.
The robbers fled in an automo
bile, taking the Carters and a
bank cashier with them.
All three were released later un
harmed.
The thrce robbers invaded Car
ter’s home about 8:15 a. m.; 45
minutes before the opening hour
of the bank, and held up the fam
ily with pistols.
The three Carter children, the
eldest a 16-year-old girl, were tied
to their beds and Carter and his
wife forced to accompany the rob
bers to the bank.
Enroute there. the leader of the
trio of gunmen, a young red-haired
man, told Carter they were taking
him to open the vault after the
time-lock hag made it possible.
At the bank, however, they
found Fred Stalvey, the cashier,
had already arrived and the vault
was unlocked. Taking what money
was in the vault, the robbers then
forced the two bankers and Mrs.
Carter into their car and left.
Three blocks from the bank
Mrs. Carter was put from the au
tomobile and the robbers drove off
with Carter and Stalvey.
Mrs. Carter ran home and re
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Stopped by Two Court
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Orders, ‘‘Kingfish” Eyes
Political Transactions
NEW ORLEANS — (#) — Con
fronted with two court temporary
restraining orders filed by his op
ponents to block his political path,
Senator Huey P. Long, today swit
ched his legislative committee in
vestigation into the Mayor T,
Semmes Walmsley city adminis
tratin from “vice and lottery” to
a examination of financial transac
tions of city leaders.
One temporary res‘raining order
was issued last night by Judge
Wayne G. Borah in federal district
court here to prevent R. J. Gre
gory, registrar of wvoters, from re«
moving names from the voters re
gistration list made up for the
September 11 Democratic primary,
and ordering him to certify the
rolls. Mr. Gregory was ordered to
appear in court at 9:30 a. m. on
Friday, September 7 for a hear
ing.
The other order was issued by
Judge W, Carruth Jones, in East
Baton Rouge distrtct state court
and temporarily restraineq the use
of the state constabulary in the
primary. Judge Jones set a hear
ing on his order for September 13,
two days after the election.-
In beth cases the petitioners al
leged that their constitutional
rights were endangered by acts of
the Long faction.
Two additional legal papers, des
cribed as “injunctions” were servea
personally on the “Kingfish” as he
emerged with national guarqg troop
ers from his skyscraper committee
hearing in which the legislative
committee is investigating Walms
ley and his leaderw. Their nature
remained a mystery as the “King
fish” let them fall to the floor and
an attendant grabbed them up.
Atlanta Has Coldest
Sept. 5 in 43 Years
ATLANTA—(#)—Atlantans shiv
ered under the coldest September
5 in 43 years as the mercury drop
ped to 54 degrees early today.
Citizens forsook light summer
clothes for heavier apparel as the
thermometer came within one de
gree of equalling the record read
ing of the same day in 1891,
George Mindling, head of the At
lanta weather bureau, said it was
colder in Atlanta today than in
New York, Boston and Montral
Canada. ;
- No “Heckling” Will
Be Permitted Here, l
Mayor Dudley Says
Mayor Dudley announced todayl
that any person_who attempts to
heckle Governor Eugens: Talmadge
here next Monday afternoon, when‘
the governor deliyers a campaign
speech, will prompty be slammed
into the city jail and ,prosecut.ed‘
for disorderly conduct. |
The police have reported to thel
mayor that they will have ample
protection for the erowd and that'
any person who attemptg to heckle
the governor will 'be arrested and |
carried off to the eity jail. |
Heckling has become quite fre
quent in the present campaign and
has caused perhaps as much com- |
mernt as any of the important 15-]
sues. It ig a custom imported from |
England where it is a character-!
isticc ‘of political meetings. i
The mayor said that candidates |
coming 'to Athens for publicl
speeches” wil] not be hampered byt
hecklers”, and the police will see
to it that all gspeakerg are given an |
opportunity ta complete their ad-l
dresses without interference t'rom!
persons in the crowd, l
GERTIFICATE PRICE
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15 SET BY WALLAGE
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Will Be 4 Cents Pound:
Secretary Also Creates
National Pool }
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WASHINGTON— (#) —Secretary
Wallace today set a price for tax
exempt certificates upon cotton
prQMuM at four cents a pound
on the coiton they represent. A
farmer who sells his excess certi
ficates will be paid roughly on
the busis of S2O per bale. |
At the same time the secretary'
c¢reated a natiopal pool to direee
sale and purchase of the certifi- |
cates, which were issued under the |
Bankhead production control act
and represent the total amount ol’l
cotton a farmer may produce tax
free. Production above quotas set
under the act is subject to a tax
of 50 per cent of its value. ‘
The poo] will permti the sale of
excess certificates by farmers In|
the droughy area, where production
has been sharply cut. They will be|
sold principally in the old south
where production is prospectively
greater than Bankhead allotments.
Wallace appointed Ernest L.
Deal of Florence, Ala. as mana
ger of the peol, ]
The exchange of certificates will
operate to aid farmers in- the|
drought area by permitting I:hem,l
to realize at least some cash on
their excess certificates and at the
same time will help others in more
favorable production areas by en
abling them to avoid paying the
heavy penalty tax on production
above the quota. i b
Governmeng purchase of certifl
cates is not econtemplated. Holders
will turn them over to the mana
ger of the pool, who will handle
them in behalf of producers under
a trusy agreement,
A .
dolf Hitler Says
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Socialist Revolution
Is Finally at End
BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER
(Associated Press Foreign Staff)
NURNBERG, Germany — #) —
Adolf Hitler, dictator of Germany,
declared today:
“The national socialist revolu
tion is ended. It has fulfilled all
its hopes.”
This declaration he made at the
‘annual convention of the Naazi
party—the party which he found
‘ed and which placed him In the
supreme power of the nation.
~ Hitler spoke to the assemblage
through Robert Wagner, the Nazi
}district leader for Baden, who read
Der Fuehrer's proclamation to the
throng.
‘ The regimented delegates cheer
'ed and waved flags in honor of
their leader as he proclaimed that
nowhere else in the world could
be found @ political demonstration
'so completely expressing the domi
nang wil and power of the na
tion.
Der Fuehre, said that revolu
tions which took on a permanent
I(-ha.racter resulted in anarchy and
chaos and merely served the pur
’poses of greedy politicians, and
thay an evolution had to come to
| bring' about better conditions.
| “For this purpose,” he said. “the
Nazi leadership possesses -all the
power. Who dare deny that the
national soclalist movement is the
absolute power in the land?”
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Luther Bradley, Musca
~ dine Hunting, Finds
Clue; Search Is On
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Bucket Recognized by De
scription in Exclusive
Banner-Herald Story
County Officers Claude Kidd and
Bill McKinnon today were riding
the byways of Clarke and Madison
county in an effort to follow up
clueg that may bring about the re
turn of 14-year old Dorothy Pearl
Hubbart, who mysteriously disap
peared from her home on the San
ford (Nowhere) road Sunday morn
ing.
The officers were giver thelr
clue last night in the strange case
when Luther Bradley, 168 . Eliza
beth street, brought the empty eight
pound lard bucket the girl carried
when she disappeared to city po
lice. e i
Mr. Brddley said he and another
man were out uicking muscadines
about 12 mileg out on the road to
Tla. He and his companion climb
!wd a steep bank and noticed the
bucket about fifteen or twenty feet
Ifrom the road. He used the bucket
|to collect the .muscadines and
thought nothing of ' it until he read
|xh» description of the bucket late
vesterday afternoon in the Banner-
Herald, He examined the bucket
and, as it fitted the description
carried in the paper, decided to
take it to police. st
Parents |dentify
This morning the bucket was
positively identified by Mr. and
Mrs. Nat Hubbart, father and
'mother of the missing girl. The
bucket bore several rather deep
'dents indicating it had been
thrown a congiderable distance and
landed on a rock or pile of rocks.
. Meanwhile officers pushed the
‘search for the little girl and Clif
ford Anthony, middle aged mar
ried man with séveral children, for
'whom the father swore out 2a
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“SABRE-RATTLING”
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iEvidences of Practice in
~ Arms Salesmanship s
E Promised by Clark
By CHARLES P. NUTTER
. WASHINGTON—(#)— Evidences
lof sabre-rattling in arms sales
| manship and widespread payments
lto obtain munitions contracts in
South America were promised to
!day by the senate munitiong inves
| tigating committee.
| Senator Clark, (D.-Mo.), In
| charge of South American angles
| of the hearings, said:
I “We hope to prove that Ameri
}cans nonchalantly admitted brib
ier_v was necessary to do business
!in South Ameriea, and that it was
!perfectly proper to use sabre-rat
|tling in munitiong salesmanship
| tactics.”
| Officials of the Electric Boat
company of New York and Groton,
Conn., who bore the brunt of the
first day testimony, were called
lback to the stand.
l They are Henry R. Carse, presi
'dent: L. Y. Spear, and Henry R.
Sutphen, vice-presidents, who tes
:m’ied yesterday that Sir Basil Za
haroff, mysterioug European multi
{ millionaire arms salesman, repre-
Isented them as their agent on
ithat continent for many years and
i profited handsomely thereby. ,
i They also said the way to pre
| vent war is not to refuse to sell
armg to belligerent countries, but
to sell them in order to build up
Ithe weaker country and thus main
tain peace.
I Senator Clark said evidence to
be laid before the committee would
prove FElectric Boat and Vickers
!Limited. of London, mutually prof
]ited in 1929 and 1930 when Peru
land Chile were bickering Over
I'l‘aona and Arica, and that Vick
lers took the Chilean business while
Electric Boat handled the Peruvi
’an munitions sales.
So close was the hookup be
tween Electric Boat and Vickers
the committee expects to learn that
!\Vhen one company made a sale in
| South America the other shared in
the profits.
Further steps wili be taken to
bring out evidence that munitions
lcompanies sought TUnited States
support in selling arms at almost
the very time the TUnited States
wasg preparing to take leadership
for naval disarmament.
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Facing an accusation of double
murder for the second time in
his life, J. J. Mendenhall, 64,
above, is held in Jacksonville,
Fla., jail, charged with killing
Mrs. Laura Green, 84, and her
daughter, Mrs, Mary Anderson,
60, his filancee, with a hammer
and a knife. Mendenhall served
15 years for the first crime. He
at one time was known asg a
Florida “citrus king.”
Says Governor Had Agree
ment With Power Com
pany to Reduce Rates
ATLANTA — (#) — The charge
that the reduction in power and
light rates in Georgia came about
through an agreement between
Governor Eugene Talmadge and
the Georgia Power company was
made by J. J, Mangham, once a
close friend of the governor, in a
radio address here last night.
Mangham once was chairman ot
the state highway board but he
resigned that position after break
ing with the governor. He is now
supporting Judge Claude Pittman
for governor.
The power company was willing
to accept the lower rates because
it knew tha¢y TVA intended cutting
them anyhow, Mangham said. He
added that the reduction saved the
power company from an increased
tax assessment of 100,000,000 or
more.
“It was arranged that the com
mission (Public Service Commis
sion) should have a hearing or
pretend to have one and the rates
which came about in Tennessee,
Alabama and Mississipp were fix
ed for Georgia or approximately
those rates and there was also an
understanding that no tax value
was to be raised and the power
company thus got off with exactly
the rates it was going to put inte
effect anyhow and Talmadge was
given credit for it ang the power
company saved an assessment of
one hundred million dollars or
more."”
Mangham classed as “pure bunk”
the claim of Governor Talmadge
tha; he had saved $2,000,000 on the
overhead of the highway depart.
ment, He said the economics re
sulting from the reorganization of
the department when he became
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Attorney for Harold Taylor
Fined for Contempt of Court
BIRMINGHAM, Ala—(#)—Morel
Montgomery, defending Harold
Taylor, 29, of charges of murder
ing Faye New, 19 year old Howard
college student, today was held in
contempt of court by Judge J.
Russell McElroy and ordered com
mitted to jail on refusal to pay
a $256 fine. .
The sentence {8 to be served
after the trial ends.
The contempt citation was made
as Moantgomery launched what
was indicated as a vigorous cross
examination of A. B. Cain, admit.
ted suitor for the hand of the dead
girl.
Montgomery declined to pay the
fine, when the judge refused to
extend him credit.
“Y could give you a chesk™
Montgomery said, “in fact I have
the money in my pocket, hut I pre
fer to be committed to jail than
lm that fine.” : 3
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Acts Upon Request of
Board of WNational
Labor Relations -
NO OTHER MOVE NOW
United Textile Workers’
Strike Committee Does
Not Comment s
HYDE PARK. —(&)— President
Roosevelt determined today to
name immediateiy g special board
to inquire into and mediate the
widespread textile strike,
The president acted upon the re
quest of the National Labor Re
lations Board. He will name &
board probably of three members
and the personnel will be announs
ced very shortly.
The nationa] labor board asked
to withdraw from the strike nego
tiations to serve in the capacity of
‘a court of appeals in the labor dise
rute.
} “From our knowledge of the sgite
'uation,” said the labor board in a
%]etter to the pregident, “we are
~satisfied that mediation looking to
’ward a termination of the strike
can best go forward by your cre
‘ating a special board under publie:
‘revnlution 44, with ful]l authority
to investigate the causes of the
Istrike and to propose a just base ot
| settlement.”
. Aside from this move, however,
the president is contemplating no’
' federal interference in the strike
|involving thousands of workers,
' He undoubtedly will wait to re
| ceive the first hand report of the
.srpecial board,
| The letter asking the special
' board was signed by Lloyd K.
Qarrison, chairman of the Natlons
'al Labor Board.
} STRIKE AT GLANCE
1 By The Associated Press
Independent surveys indicated at
{least 250,000 out of 650,000 work
ers were idle.
President Roosevelt announced
he would appeint a board to med
iate the strike.
. Employers in silk, woolen and
cotton sections of the industry
planned to .organize to defend
workers from alleged intimidation
by strikers.
In New England employers, “to
protect workers,” closed some mills
that operated yesterday.
Instances of disorder were res
ported from Portland, Ore., Ma.
con, QGa., Danielson, Conn., Nas
\hua. N. H., and Salem, Mass.
MILL IS CLOSED i
GREENVILLE, 8. C.—(P)—A flys
ing squadron of approximately 62§
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Pittman Challenges
Talmadge to Debate
THOMASTON, Ga. — (AP) —
' Judge Claude Pittman today chal
lenged his opponent, Governor Eu
‘gene Talmadge, to meet him in
joint debate *“at any time and
place you may designate.” :
The challenge was telegraphed
from Thomaston, where the judge
' spoke yesterday afternoon, to the
}pfivernor at Americus, where the
latter was on a campaign speaking
\tour of South Georgia.
. “You have held yourself up as a
'mar of courage, ready and willing
tat all times to defend yourself
[against anv andg all charges.” The
challenge said. “I now offer you
the opportunity to meet me."”
Montgomery charged the judge
with citing through personal mc«
tives which drew a quick and em
phatie denial from the court. :
“You have a brother in the pen
itentiary conyictea for murder,”
Montgomery asked Cain.
“What is the purpose of thal
question” Judge McEleoy asked
after sending the jury from the
room.
Montgomery said he had been
advised that Cain with a brother
had been tried on charges of mur
der in Geneva county and that
both had been convicted.
~ Cain denied the implication.
On direct examination Cain had
told of seeing Taylor with Mise
New and of temg introdused to the
defendant. :
The crowd In the courtroom
leaned forward as Cain was callal
to the stand, the third witness of
the day.. 2 Lds u;.:s_a