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| THE
Washington
Lowdown
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Rodney Dutcher
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correspondent
ko 1 (P)—-Let it not
= .t vour old friend,
e sul :
i Long, #s confin-
L .. .ttention to domestic af
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s avel e of a mere United
: hat, vou jusi don’t
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E itics and if he turns
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= , days, uniess he is
b tained, ] y will be stepping up
b Senate committee in-
Eiiiitne 1 nunitions indus{ry
ks ; iz story about how
feocd B financed Bolivia in
b nst pParaguay.
Hite en undertake to
1 3 that there wouldn’t be
var if it weren't for
k ( degire to obtain an
hitlet ivian oil through
ften right about
< e keeps fooling you
| ; n the other hand,
ot that one would
ott lgment until Huey
it \
¢ A , Huev considers
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3 n pretty rough on
b , I [.ouisiana,
ces and that sort of
hing ould be only nat
ndard were helping fi
a 1 vttempts at Huey's ex
. jore than suspects.
His licates that whenever
¢ fter Huey( he—or
hav—is—or a likely to be sorry.
ome yest-known senators
ave suffered
No. hol barred, insofar as
he Kingfis is concerned. And
¥ S Oil hasn't lived a c¢lean
£o 14 1 better look out.
T t can clear {tg gkirts
b the (O o 1 Huevy will be
ing it £ nto some other
I v vou how it is—
A\t gthe moment. acaording to
1 information whiech I
Bliave y he reliable but can’'t
te bat hot} hirts on, Senator
ong } two agents in Central
A W 0 » are prosecuting hig
ar on t} Unitedr Fruit Company.
The Ui 1 is another enemy of
Ig and one is to believe cer
2in me ¢ of his far-flung ma
it ners have been finan
ir ¢ ti-Huey campaign.
8 would be more natural
! Huce who can’'t quite
eep the company’'ys bvoats from
te g into New Orleans and
eposit heir cargoes there for
stribution over the United States,
h reaching his broad paw
OWh into bananaland and trying
° Dust up some of the company’s
Bhcessl ane ?
,\” to the story I get,
£) gents ire trying to per
-1 of the banana growers
P Bhij crops here independ-
I ee whether their con
s e kind that can’'t be
Hich might gseem a bit
€ if Huey's friends
$ to show you
A litorialg in South
I spapers which urge
1 bo3 cotts as a re
-3 allegations ag to the
o he gets around to it
- vill be publiely ac
b tant Secretary of State
: e of gumming up the
t-traed negotiations
d re to salvage pre
from Morgan's Na
ill be a demonstra- |
impartiality as be- |
nation’s two ‘ViL',f_:(‘.‘(i
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National, the “Rock. |
4 for itg fin;mvi'nl!
the Machado govern- |
4 ndent, like a lot of
- Ouisiana, continues to
k. Oong seriously,
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Mens ; y date the announce-
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
Death Toll From Strike Reaches 10;
More Georgia Mills Are Shut Down
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| Other Clashes at Mills
| Over State Threaten
i ; Lives of Many
' MANY ARRESTS MADE
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| Governor May Be Asked
| To Call Out Troops
| In Some Areas
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! ATLANTA, Ga.—(&P)—CGeorgia’s
| textile strike shootings claimed a
‘led death today as Leou Carroll,
1 27. a striker, died in an Augusta
fnusp?lal from wounds received
;ycsterduy when a trapped police
| man shot his way out of a crowd
| of picketers. y
Two were killed in disorder at
the Trion cotton mills in the
i mountains of mnorthwest Georgia
i]aw vesterday, More than a score
{ were shot or badly clubbed and
| many suffered minor hurts in
{(-l:lshes throughout the state.
{ W, M. Hix, a deputy sheriff,
land J. V. Blaléck, a Rome, Ga.,
i stove factory moulder, were killed
lat Trion. |
| Union leddérs’ at Augusta cullod]
| meetings to decide® whether to re
;quest Governor Talmadge to cullg
| troops ‘into the Augusta area. '
| The Enterprise mill and t‘w’
!-“ihl(‘)' mill where eclashes occur
:red at Augusta yesterday resumed
| operations this morning.
l Carroll was shot in trouble at!
| the Enterprise mill. Officials at |
Ithe Sibley mill claimed they hadl
fmore workers than yesterday re-}
! porting for duty. '
! Man Beaten I
i Walter O’Pryor, an Enterprise
| mill guard at Augusta, reported |
éto police that he was abductodl
gund beaten by six men. Two ar- l
, rests were made. O'Pryor said !
| the men used a belt buckle. i
l Police at Augusta took a stern |
l'attitude, permitting no picketing
at the mills today.
| A warrant was served on Lieu
’tenant Mathews of the Augusta
l police for the use of tear gas dur
ing yvesterday’s disorders. It was
Hsworn ont by a woman.
I- Sibley mill workers asked pro
itecticm in their jobs in a petition
signed by 200 employes.
Dozen Are Shot
Some dozen persons were shot
and clubbed in the disorder at the
|Tl'ion cotton mill. Eleven men
iwere peppered with small shot
when a shotgun was accidentally
ldischarged during a scuffle be-=
| tween two mill guards at Lindale.
As the third day of the strike's
effectiveness in Georgia dawned.
i slightly more than half the 60,000
!‘mill workers neormally employed
|in this state were away from
their places. Over 50 mills were
cloged; 40 mills were operating on
full time nad 15 “Qerated partial
w. .
President W. D. Anderson of
[‘the Bibb Manufacturing company
:and also head of the American
'Cotton Manufacturers association,
(Continued on page two.)
Two “Model Youths”
.
Scught by Officers
FERGUS FALLS, Minn.— (# —
Two “Model Youths” are being
sought today for the beating to
death with a hammer of Dr. John
Schacht, b5-vear-old dentist.
The youths are Robery Palm
quest, 16 and Palmer Swenson, 19,
described as “good boys” and re
ported to have been the last per
sons seen with Dr. Schucht after
he staried ouy Tuesday night to
collect on patients’ bills.
THE NEws IN A NUTSHELL
By Jack Braswell
Still there is no information that
might lead to the finding of Doro
thy Pearl Hubbart who hag been
missing from her home since Sun
day morning.
Several of the Athens Skeet elub
members are expected jo enter in
the Bable Trophy shoot to be held
at the West End club in Atlanta
Sunday. "’
New officers were appointed in
the Order of DeMolay and plans
were made for a house party at the
Y. W. €. A. camp at Jennings
Mill.
Junior football team of the “Y”
started practice this week.
Vason and Hill play off the one
to one tie in the “Little World”
series at the “Y” today. The win
ner of today's game will probably
be the favorite to win the three
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All the outer aspects of war accompany the textile strike in which
600,000 workers were called out. Here is a typical scene outside the
Lonsdale cotton mill at Seneca, S. C., as guardsmen search a work
er entering the plant. Everyvane arriving at the mill gate is searched
for hidden guns or bombs,.in an effort to prevent sabotage.
Boy Faces Murder Charges
- For Death of Two Sisters
SCIENTIST PREDICTS
MERGER OF Z RACES
ABERDEEN, Scotland: =—<{Z%
—The belief - that- the blaek
and white races in America
will merge into ‘one WwWag ex
presséd today by Lord‘Raglan,
chairman of the Anthropologi
cat Society, before the British
Association for the iAdvances=
ment of Science in convention
here.
. Pansy Plants Are
. Grown From Seed
{ By Athens Woman
s a o e e
eTRTR T e T T
: For the second year, Mrs. M.
P. Broughton is achijeving success
in growing pansies from seed, an
undertaking which never before
has succeeded on such large scale
in Athens:. At her home on Cher
okee avenue, where she grows
Isome of the largest and most
gorgeous dahlias to be seen in
'Athens, Mrs. Broughton has for
the last two years met with re
markable success in raising pansy
plants which later find their way
into numerous Athens flower gar
dens.
Pansies have become more and
more popular in Athens, but most
{of them are brought into Athens
from florists in ofher sections of
the country. Last year Mrs.
Broughton raised from seed be
ltween 10,000 and 15,000 pansy
plants. Her pansies won several
first places in flower shows and
| grew to large size. their colors
idelighting the flower lovers who
iboughd them for their own gar
| (Continued on page seven.)
| out of five game series.
' . Barney Rosgs today weighed in at
140 pounds for his title defense
ifight with Jimmy McLarnin in
! Madison Square Garden.
| Union representatives and offici
lalS of the Aluminum Company of
! America, after 5 15 hour confer
|ence, enfed a strike which has
{ kept 8,700 workers idle for a
| month.
f The assurance of the President
that there would be no interference
| with its war profit study was had
ltoday by the Senate_munitions
| committee. :
I Huey P. Long's dictitorial laws,
within 24 hoursg, will be binding in
’Loulsiano,, since the state legisla
l (Continued on Page Seven)
Athens, Ga., Thursday, September 6, 1934,
i Brother, 16, Admits He
| Placed Two Girls in
! Ice-Box Saturday
' SACRAMENTQ, Calif. — (#) —
iSzxteen yedr old Cerivino Pavia,
who authorities said criminally |
lattacked his two young sisters and
]locked them in an ice box to die}
of suffocation, faces murder
charges today. |
The youth corfessed, District
Attorney Neil McAllistey said short- |
ly after the funerals of the girls,
Mary 7 and Maryann, 6, yesterday.
He was quoted by McAllister as |
F‘saying he locked his sisters in the{
ice box, knowing they would die, |
because they did noy wash dishesl
‘to suit him. |
McAllister said two murder and |
incest complaints, sworn to by |
Deputy Sheriff Charles Ogle, will
be filed with a request the youth
be turned over to the juvenite |
court for punishment, |
The little giris, two of the eleven :
children of Mr. and Mrs. Hem‘y|
Paiva, were found dead in the if‘e;
box at the parents’ ranch at Wil- |
(Continued on page two.) !
|se . . i
rvices to Begin
At Synagogue Here
- .
Friday Night at 8 ;
Services for the new seasonv!
preceding the Jewish New Year!
program, will be held at the Syna- I
gogue Friday night at 8 o’clock at
which time Rabbi Abraham Shus-’
terman will preach on “The Trro-f
ducible Minimum.” Miss Nolosi
Mae Dunaway will have charge of;
the music program. |
The Jewish New Year services |
will be held Sunday night a 8|
o'clock at which time Rabbi Shus- !
terman will preach on “A Prayver |
for Life.” - The religious sorvit-osi
Monday morning will begin at 10|
o'clock, when Max Michae!, presi- |
dent and Milton Lesser, vice presi- ,
dent of the Synagogue will assis |
in. the seroll service. The subjecti
of the rabbi will be, The Way Out” ,
The choir will comprise, Miss )
Dunawdy, organist and choir load-]
er; Miss Edith Hodgson, soprana; |
Miss Eulalia Vaughn, cnntmlm:'
Roosevelt P. Walker, tenor and|
William Steward, bass. i
The public is invited to the |
services. -‘
The Jewish New Year, at which |
time members of the congregation |
re-dedicate themselves to the ser- |
vice of God, is featured by a cere- |
mony as old as the Temple 1m |
Jerusalem before the destruction |
This service is known as the blow- |
ing of the ram’s horn, which sym-« |
bolizes the religious re-awakening |
A. Brooks will have charge of ths
part of the service at the Syna
gogue during the ceremonies Mon- l
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President. Assures Group}
Of Non-Interference in
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| War Profit Study 1
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TO GET ALL FILES
[ Yoo
l Body Turns Attention to
- Alleged Transactions
’ At Conference |
% !
| By CECIL B. DICKSON
| WASHINGTON.—(P)—The sen- |
. ate munitions committee carried’
the assurance of President Roose
ive}t today that there will be no!
interference with its war profit
study.
| Backed by this guarantee, the |
i committee turned io evidence that
American concerns did a big busi
ness behind the scenes of the
Pan-American conference last
Winter at Montevideo. I
The committee had received
. word that certain government de
ipnr\mr‘m and munitions manufac
| turers’ representatives wanted to
‘('nnfor with it about keeping some
{ evidence from open hearings. The'
‘group met in executive session, |
| but the representative did not§
“appear.” |
l Committee members said fhnti
la,t first some of the gr,.vr\rnmeml
Idepm'tmr‘ntk‘ had been reluctant to
{turn over certain files about thel
lnctivitios of munitions manufac-‘
turers, but that President Roose
!\'elt had sent word to make the
| information available. ‘
i “Fhairman Nye (R.-N. D.) told|
ireporters he would present evi- |
{ dence that American concerns co- |
| operated with foreign munitlons[
i makers in disseminating armament’
| propaganda in Europe.
i Officials Testify |
| Officials of the Electric Boat |
{ company of New York testified in‘
‘Uhe third day of the hearing as tol
lwhather they were in the group'
{of Americans who it has been tes
tified took advantage of mutual
i suspicions of Latin- American i
| countries’ jealousies to work be- |
| hind the ecurtains at the Montevi
i deo peace meeting.
| These officials had denied they
(Continued on page seven.)
WOMAN TESTIFIES
IN TAYLOR TRIAL
Young Birmingham Di
vorcee Tells of Treat
ment From Defendant
BIRMINGHAM. Ala.— (#)—Mrs,
Clara Cost, a divorcee, today told
a Jjury trying Harold Taylor, 29
vear old civil engineer for slaying
pretty Faye New, 19, that a few
hours before the girl was killed the
defendant attempted to attack her
Mrs. Cost’'s testimony was ovet
the objections of Morel Montgom
ery, who took exception to every
question, and a direct question as
to whether the defendant had at
tacked her was not permitted.
Under questioning by Roderick
Beddow, special prosecutor, Mrs.
Cost told of meeting Taylor down
town and going for a ride with him
on the Montgomery highway and
finally into the woods.
Mrs. Cost then testified on a
question as to her treatment, “wel
he insulted me.”
The witness said she asked to
he permitted to call her sister when
they drove to a drugstore, but
Tavler refused to allow her, i
The defendant, Mrs. Cost testl. |
fied, went to eall for aer, and she
vave him a wrong number purpose
lv and fled while 1 » was gone.
Mrs. Cost, two days after Tay
(Continued on page seven.) ]
LOCAL WEATHER
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Mostly cloudy tonight and
Friday, occasional showers Fri
day and possibly in north and
extreme east portions tonight.
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A waving, shouiing throng of textile mill strikers here cheers W. J.
Kendall, southern representative of the International Machinists, as
he voices an impassioned plea for them to fight until the victory is
won, in the industrial battle in which 600,000 textile workers were
ordered to walk out. Scene of this first mass meeting after the
walkout is the armory-auditorium in Charlotte, N. C.
A luminum Strike Ends And.
Men Are“ Free And Happy”
" .
“Self-Made” Prisoners at
. Alcoa, Tenn., Plants
Rejoice Today
ALCOA, Tenn— (#) —Separated
for\ neagly a month from fheir
families and the outside world by
self-imprisonment during a strike,
200 men who lived inside the Al
coa plants of the Aluminum Com
pany of Ameri¢l, were ‘“free” ana
happy today. :
Settlement of the aluminum
strike meant the end of their long
stay in the plants, where they re
mained to keep ,up machinery.
Their refusal to go out on strike,
meant that they had to eat ano
sleep in the plants, since strike
pickets would not permi; them to
reenter, once they left. ;
The United States mails savéd
them from hunger. Food and
clothing were mailed :o them by
parcel post, and no interferénce
with the mails was permitted.
Two little girls were tagged and
seny by parcel post to wvisit their
fathers inside the plant,
Wives and mothers of others of
the “prisoners,” most of them col
lege men, mailed thém lunches,
(Continued on Page Seven)
; > .
. ’chtatonal Laws of
| Senator Long to Be
| Binding in 24 H
| Binding in ours
| e i
NEW ORLEANS—(#)—Within 24
| hours Senator Hufy P. Long’s dic
| tatorial laws will be binding 'in
Louisiana.
: Adopted at the recent extra ses
sion of the legislature, they give
the state administraton, whicn
lLong controls, blanket powers to
lact in almost any emergency.
Tomorrow, September ¥, a; noon
they take effect and his political
enemies in the Mayor T. Semmes
Walmsley “old regular” machine‘
{ which has ruleq this city for years
are holding their breath and pre~’
Iparinz for the stroke,
Illegal racehorse bookmaking es- I
tablishments must close their doors |
and many signs of life in gay old
fNew Orleans must dance to the
imusic of ‘the “Kingfish” lif he
,r‘h(msos to have the new laws vn-l
§fnrcod by the newly-created state
| police force or the free hand otl
!mi]itar_v law.
| Today the legislative committee
tnprnad on its investigation of “vice
{and graft” In New Orleans under‘
tthn Walmsley administration in
| which witnesses testified that lot
| tery companies. race horse “book
lios and girl establishments ran
{wide open. under the paymen; of
I"protection" money to the city po
lice.”
Mayor Walmsley has announced
his desire to appear before the
committee to defend his record.
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HITLER ADDRESSES
NAZI LABOR GROUP
NURENBERG, Germany.—
(A)—The time will come when
no German can become a vot
ing citizen until he has served
a periogl in a Nazi labor camp,
Adolf Hitler told 52,000 braw
ny and tanned young men
standing before him on Zep
pelin Meadow today.
Roosevelt Calls
In Eastman to Talk
Railroad Problem
By FRANCIS M. STEPHENSON
: HYDE PARK, N. Y. — (& —
President. Roosevelt called in Jos
eph B. Mastman, federal railroad
co-ordinator, today for a confer
ence regarded somewhat signifi
cantly in view of his meeting with
J. J. Pelley, president of the New
York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad, earlier in the week,
Mr. Roosevelt is obviously giv
ing careful atfention to the railroad
Iproblem, but there is no indication
of any immeditae move. Pelley
has been mentioned either for a
federal office or a general post of
i chief of the railroad executives.
The day was set aside by the
lpresldent for an automobile trip to
the Bear Mountain state park
across the Hudson river. He has
alwaye watched the development of
,‘.he project, and was interested to
iday in an oppertunity to see the
'new highway just being completed
lln the park.
i Eastman was invited to go along
son the trip.
l The president ig - putting in a
‘hus_v week. Last night he named
ta beorxd of inquiry into the tex
}tlle strike headed by Governor
| (Continued on Page Two)
Six Slain, Thirty Wounded
Today at Honea Path, S. C.
HONEA PATH, S, C.-—{(#-Six
picketing strikers were slain and
upwards of thirty wounded as guns
blazed in a textile stri'e clash here
today.
The shooting elimaxed more than
an hour’s tension at Honea Path's
only textile mill, the Chiquola, at
ter strikers from nearby Belton
had come to pickey the mill
As the flying squadron arrived
here, the plant delayed opening
and “workers and strikers congre
gated on the mill grounds. Sud
denly, just before 8 a. m., guns be
gand to roar. One striker after
another dropped to the ground,
dead or wounded.
For several minutes, the turm
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IN OUTH CARDLINA
New Board Appointed by
President Will Begin. -
Work Tomorrow
MANY ARE INJURED
Marion Smith, Atlanta
Attorney, Is One of
Board Members :
By The Associated Press
Ten dead, 41 injured and 63 ar<
rests — suck was the record today
shortly after the general strike in
the textile industry had entered its
third effective day. Union leaders
Were exerting pressure through
pickets and “flying squadrons” to
close mills not yet shut down. $
Six of the deaths resulted from
a bloody battle at a mill in Honea
Path, 8. C., thig morning. i
In Greenville, S. C, an unsuc=~
ceasful effort to halt operations at
the Vietor Monaghan mil] by dyna
miting a power plant was reported
by the mill management and troops
are on guard there, ;
| Men Driven Off ;
. Several men ecarrying sticks of
dynamite made for the power
I’l)lant. located a quarter of a mile
from the mill, but were driven off.
'No arrests were made, The mana
ger of the mill said the power
station wag the property of the
Duke Power company of Charlotte,
N..C b
' Meanwhwile, over 360,000 textile
workerg were idle today out of tha
700,000 normally employed in the
!industry. an independent survey of
{ the general strike indicated.
Seven of the strike deaths were
in South Carolina. Six were kill
' ed at Honea Path in a battle be
|tween workers and a“flying squad
ron” seeking to prevent the Chi
quola mills from opening. ;
A striker wag shot and killed
at Greenville, 8. C., in a skirmish
between strikers and police offi
cers guarding the Dunean mills, .
A man, #aid to be a striker, died
today at Augusta, Ga. of wounds
| received vésterday when a trapped
'policeman shot his way out of &
crowd of pickets. %
Sheriff, Striker. Killed ¥
A deputy sheriff’' and a striker
were killed late yesterday in a gum
fight between officers and strikers
at the Trion cotton mill at Triom,
Ga., where a score of others were
njured! :» + & & &
A statement that the violence
and bloodshed brought by the
strike would awaken ‘al] the bite
terness that can be aroused” camy
from the spokesman for the strik«
ers, Franeis-J.- Gorman, who said
the list of workerg now idle
grown to 450,000, An independent
survey showed abou't 336,000 on
strike. TN
The opposing sides were offers
ed an arbitrator by Preshbfi
Roosevelt who named a board
inquiry, empowered to act if the
two sides request itg aid.
Striking workers in Warren, R.
iI.. mainly composed of a “flying
squadron” from Fall River, Mass,
'numb@fl’d by police at 2,000, bat
tled officers at the King Philip
mill to rescue a strike leader after
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| Hawaii
Volcano on Hawaii
.
Island Is Erupting
HONOLULU—(A)-—The Kilauea
voleano on Hawail Jlsland began
erupting within its crater at 2:4%
a. m. (8:15 a. m. EST) today
after a light earthquake. 2
The lava is flowing from a cass
cade 500 feet wide from a hejght
of about 600 feet above the cratee
floor. It had not erupted outsid®
the rim early today. )
No one knew who fired the first
shot.
Then the strikers retreated —
leaving their dead, assisting away
some of the injured,
Ambulances raced to the scene
as did special deputies and regulag
officers. When they arrived, the
situation was quiet. ; .
L. O. Hammett, president of the
mill, saig he would not open the
mill today. it
_ At least 10 were seriously wound
ed. Estimates of the total num
ber hurt varied. Some with minor
wounds left the qe!h%r without
medical attention. N
Ten minutes a!t&‘?.ifié flare-up.
the sector was practically deser~
(Continued on Fage Two)