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135. Alabama: Fair, Behind The Facts and Gossip Polltics, Officials and Legislation the Capital. BY FRED H. GORMLEY MONTGOMERY, Mar. Alabama's Legislature is in for long session on Dr.

Street's sedition bill which passed the House without great opposition during the closing days of the first session. For some days it seemed that opposition had been dissipated and that the purpose of the measure would be met by an act that would Abe approved by the two houses and Governor Graves. In the past week a substitute for the bill has been quietly circulated in the state with the report that it will be offered when Street bill gets the attention of the Senate. The substitute makes radical changes. in the original bill, especially in the amendment which exempted newspapers from its provision when the newspapers were permitted to circulate in the United States mails.

The substitute seeks to let some court or body, still hidden behind verbiage of the bill, decide whether a statement of a is seditious, although the newspaper may have the right to circulate in the United States mails. CONFERENCE Under the Street bill, as approved by the House, any statement made by a newspaper that was permitted to enter the United States mails could not be construed as seditious, This amendment was accepted by Dr. Street, Col. Alf M. Tunstall, who sponsored the measure when it came to a vote in the House, and even by many who did not believe there was any need for a sedition bill in Alabama.

SUBSTITUTE--Sponsors of the bill are now circulating a substitute, which they say will be proposed in the Senate at the adjourned session (when the Street bill is considered) which makes the following statement regarding newspapers: "Section 5. This act shall take effect upon its approval by the Governor and all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby specially repealed; provided, however, that this act shall not apply to any writing, publication, printing, cut or cartoon appearing in any newspaper or other publication permitted to be delivered and carried in the United States mail under United States postal regulations and laws relating thereto, unless such writing, publication, printing, cut or cartoon has for its object and purpose. the overthrow or destruction or attempted overthrow or destruction by force or show or threat of force, the government of this state or any political subdivision thereof or the United States." EFFECT-What Interpretation do you put on this proposed revision in the bill? Many wonder who would decide whether a statement newspaper, regularly admitted" to the United States mails, had (Continued on Page 3, Column 2) Watch For This Girl! 6 Millicent Graves, blond, blue eyed, 20 years old, is the heroine of Carleton Kendrake's new serial, "The Dark Blond" -a story packed with thrills, action. love ones You meet Millicent in the first installment beginning Thursday in The Anniston Star The THE WEATHER warmer tonight and Thursday. RICHBERG'S NRA PLAN TO SLASH CODE NUMBERS Administration Would Pare 0 to 181 Major Codes in United States SENATE VOTES 75 TO 5 AGAINST LONG'S PLAN Consideration of Bonus in House.

Is Delayed Until Next Week WASHINGTON, Mar. 13. (U.P)- House Democratic advocates of vided higher in old the age pensions administration's than social prosecurity bill today forced call of party caucus. WASHINGTON, Mar. nation's capital seethed with political campaigns and counter- -plots today as Congressmen and administration officials pushed campaigns for favored legislation.

Social security programs, the and bonus were in the forefront of the battle. Dropping of all codes covering less than 10,000 workers each and merging them into 181 major codes was suggested today by Donald R. Richberg, as he concluded his testimony in the Senate's NRA Declaring general sentiment "overwhelmingly" favored continuance of codes, Richberg told the Senate finance committee today he could bring "battalions of businessmen" to testify in the committee's investigation of NRA. Richberg, the New Deal coordinator, said the American Federation of Labor was unanimously for continuation of NRA and the U. 3.

Chamber of Commerce favored it by vote of 1,495 to 419. The Senate has had its first opportunity to vote, on a portion of Huey Long's "share-our-wealth" program and has repudiated it by an overwhelming majority. The margin against Long was 75 to 5 when the Senate rejected his proposal to. ear -mark $1.000,000,000 of federal money for needy students in search of a college education. The House consideration of the soldier bonus will be delayed until next week, administration leaders said today as a flare-up over procedure developed serious proportions.

69TH REGIMENT LEAVES MONDAY FOR TEXAS BASE 22nd Infantry Is Expected to Be Moved to Fort McClellan The 69th Coast Artillery, antialrcraft regiment, which has been stationed at Fort McClellan for the last few years, will leave Monday morning for Fort Crockett, Texas. where the unit will be stationed permanently, Part of the 22nd Infantry, it is understood, will be sent here to replace the 69th Coast Artillery as the garrison for Fort McClellan. However, no orders have been received setting for removal of the infantry units to the local post. The' removal of the 69th Coast Artillery to Fort Crockett will include 74 official vehicles, including searchlight, gun and sound equipment trucks, and 32 private automobiles. Sixteen officers and 325 enlisted men are in the 69th Coast Artillery.

The route for the convoy will be Montgomery, Mobile, Gulfport, Lake Charles and Galveston. The convoy is scheduled to leave here at-! o'clock Monday morning and arrive at Fort Crockett the following Saturday afternoon. SINGS FOR GUESTS To show their distinguished guests. the high achievement of American artists, President and Mrs. Roosevelt selected Galli-Campi (above), young native coloratura soprano, to entertain at a White House party for the diplomatic corps and iatimate friends.

M. EASTHAM PASSES AWAY AT FLA. HOME Anniston Classed Daily and Sunday Morning By Consolidated Publishing ANNISTON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1935. JIG6S BILL IS ADVERSED AT RECESS HEARING Legislative Committee Also Rejects Bill to Reduce Number on Jury CONSTITUTIONAL MEET BILL NOT FAVORED Committee Postpones Consideration of Simpson Deficiency Judgment Bill MONTGOMERY, Mar. 13.

-Ten million dollars worth of urban and rural property taken by the state for taxes would be restored to rolls under a -plan proposed today before the recess mittee on property taxation, Smith, state adjutant general. Divert $14,000 Colonel Smith explained that the MONTGOMERY, Mar. 13. (U.P) -A woman may be the "peer" at the hearthstone, but. not on trial panels in Alabama, in the opinion of the recess judiciary committee, composed almost wholly of lawyers.

Thus, the "Jiggs" bill by Representative Arnold, of Jefferson was unanimously adversed late Tuesday. Working at top speed, the committee also adversed the Hamner: bill cutting the number of grand jurors from 18 to 12 and petit juries from 12 to 6, except in capital cases. The Almon bill calling for a constitutional convention to redraft the state constitution of 1901 was adversed, though Chairman Archie McDowell and several members of the committee said they favored the purpose of the bill, but believed the time was not now propitious. Postpone Consideration The committee postponed consideration of the Simpson deficiency judgment bill and the Welch meas-. ure clarifying the workmen's compensation act relating to occupational diseases.

Public hearings on these measures were set for Tuesday and Wednesday, March 19 and 20, respectively. A bill by Representative ner of Dallas providing that persons acquitted on pleas of insanity shall be committed to the state insane hospital and only by unanimous consent of the hospital sanity board and approval of the Governor, was postponed for further consideration. Representative Welch's bill to make the statute of limitations imperative on lien holders until all mortgages have been recorded, received a favorable report. Discussing the Hamner bill reducing the number of jurors, Representative Welch said that a local Jefferson County bill will be drafted for a jury of six in misdeameanor cases and civil actions involving -less than $500. The recess committee on agriculture, highways and education Tuesday took under consideration the bill reestablishing a state aviation commission after hearing tes-timony by" prominent Montgomery and Birmingham aviation tatives, headed by Colonel Sumter recreation of the commission would involve no specific appropriation by -the Legislature but called for diversion of approximately $14,000 annually from the gasoline tax fund used for highway construction.

He estimated that between $18,000 and $20,000 in gasoline taxes is paid annually by airplane owners and operators Alabama. L. G. Mason, manager of the Montgomery Municipal Airport, stressed the need for the commission to encourage the promotion of aviation in the state, pointing to the fact that air service between Montgomery and Birmingham had been suspended because' of inadequate landing and lighting facilities on the route. Others appearing before the committee were: Steadham Acker, manager of the Birmingham Municipal Airport; Odell Garrison, Merritt Craft, Tom Oster and Glenn E.

Messer, all of Birmingham. The bill was referred to the highway subcommittee. Today in Congress BY UNITED PRESS Senate "Continues debate on works-relief bill. Education and labor committee hears National Labor Reiations Board Chairman Francis Biddle on Wagner labor disputes bill. Finance committee continues NRA Finance committee considers repeal of income tax publicity.

Munitions, hears mid mer Secretary of War Patrick J. House Considers deficiency appropriations: bill. Interstate Commerce committee considers utility holding company legislation. Rules committee holds bonus hearing. Labor committee hears witnesses for labor disputes bill.

Star Local Cotton. ...11 FLOOD WATERS MENACE DIXIE: START RELIEF Red Cross Estimates 6,000 Made Homeless Already By Swollen Streams TORNADIC WINDS HIT SOUTHEASTERN STATES Much Damage Is Reported Over South From Water and Winds By UNITED PRESS Flood waters from tributaries of the Mississippi River today continued to menace thousands of farmers living in the lowlands of Southeastern Missouri, Lower Illinois and Arkansas. Red Cross workers, who reported they had the relief situation under control early today, estimated about 6,000 persons were removed from the flooded areas. State and private agencies, assisting in the care of refugees, indicated the rivers and streams throughout this territory had passed flood stage. No estimate of damage could be made but fears were felt for buildings, equipment and livestock in the lowlands, where highways and fields in most places are several feet of water.

Four companies of national guardsmen was ordered to the stricken area in Southeastern Missouri Governor Guy B. Park. About 100 boats, under the command of Major J. C. Allen and national guardsmen, patrolled the flooded Poplar Bluff area.

Some farmers were rescued as they stood waist -deep in water in their homes. Refugees are being housed in buildings on high ground and are being fed through the cooperation of FERA camps. Storm Does Damage ATLANTA, March 13. (U.P.)Razed buildings and uprooted trees today gave mute testimony to the tornadic winds that lashed sections of Georgia, North Carolina and other coastal states. High winds disrupted communication systems in sections of Florida.

Clear, cool weather today had re- placed the "blow" of yesterday, with Atlanta reporting a low of 30 and Chattanooga, 27. Centers of the wind storm 'In were Macon and Wrightsville in Central Georgia, Augusta in Eastern Georgia and Valdosta in South Georgia. Columbus reported heavy rains, while Atlanta experienced torrential rains and a 30-mile wind. Edward Jackson, was injured at Macon when he was trying to repair a signboard. aged by the wind.

Several farm: buildings were razed as the storm cut a patch 400 yards wide and a mile long near Macon. A dozen and a church were damaged near Wrightsvifle, with $10,000 damage done. FHA CAMPAIGN TO GET STARTED 14 CITIES Persons Registered at Reemployment Office to Get First Opportunity BIRMINGHAM, March 13. (U.P) Organization of committees to carry on the 1935 campaign of the Federal Housing Administration will perfected in Alabama cities of more than 10,000 population within two weeks, Robert Jemison, state FHA director, announced today. Persons registered with the National Re-employment Service will be given first chance at jobs created in the state-wide home-improvement and repair campaign, he said.

3-4 5c a Copy-20c a Week by Carrier ASKS HANGMAN'S JOB The forgotten man of tomorrow is the one who stopped his advertising last week. NEA 'Feature Service U. Students of A. And Tuscaloosa Cafes Are at War TUSCALOOSA, Mar. (U.P)-The University of bama campus seethed with tivity today as outraged students held councils of war to consider boycotting Tuscaloosa cafes.

The furor started over students working their way through college by selling sandwiches. Four cafes protested to the city council that student vendors be charged a $25 license fee. Student council agreed. oratory rent the air as campus speakers pleaded "for a return to American individualism and constitutional rights." But cafe owners, backed by the law and anticipating a waning resistance as hunger grew, soleninly stood their ground and prepared the usual number of meals for luncheon today. JURY HAS BEGGS MURDER CASE IN CIRCUIT COURT Anniston Man Charged With Killing Emory Bohannon, Ohatchee Farmer The murder case of.

Rudolph Beggs of West Anniston, charged with fatally shooting Emory Bohannon near Ohatchee last summer, again was placed in the hands of a Calhoun County Circuit Court Jury about 11 o'ciock this morning. A previous hearing in December resulted in a mistrial. The defendant in the murder case pleaded not guilty and sought to prove that he fired on Bohannon in self defense; that the shooting culminated a fight. Judge R. B.

Carr, who presided over the case, charged the jury shortly before 11 o'clock after arguments of counsel had been concluded. In Judge Lamar Field's section of court a breach of promise suit Was in progress this morning. Mrs. Mary Powell, age 69, is the in the case and J. W.

Harrison, age 79, is the defendant. Mrs. Powell is seeking damages and charged that Harrison refused to marry her after promising to do 60. Other civil cases disposed of included the suit of Mrs. Lucille Orrison Perry against the City of Anniston which was settled by the complainant taking a non-suit.

The case involved alleged property damage by water drainage from Highland Cemetery in the eastern part of the city. Other cases were the First National Bank of Pied(Continued on Page 9, Column 3) Late Press News BIRMINGHAM, Mar. 13. (J.P.) -Jefferson County school teachers through an elective council, today. pledged themselves to keep the schools open despite financial uncertainties.

PONDVILLE, Mar. 13. (U.P)Sickernment surveyors Perry, went and to work Bibb Counties preparation for a government pour of 165,000 acres of sub-marginal land to establish new national forests in the state. Approximately 1,600 persons will receive employment in establishing and maintaining the proposed preserves, it was estimated. BIRMINGHAM, Mar.

13. (U.P.) -Federal Judge William I. Grubb today temporarily forfeited the 500 bond of Mrs. Virginia B. Charlton, wife of a former United States commissioner; who was indicted here last year on charges of embezzling the estate of a World War veteran.

MONTGOMERY, Mar. 13- (U.P) Justice John C. Anderson, of the Alabama Supreme Court today scored constitutional amendment cutting judicial salarics and implied Alabama's $17,060,000 debt refunding amendment was urconstitutional. LITTLE ROCK, Mr. 13.

(U.P.) -Legalized after 19 years of prohibition, was assured Arkansas today when the House voted, 62 to 25, for an enforcement measure Governor J. M. Futrell had held necessass. before she would sign the recently passed legalization: bill. SIOUX: FALlS Sr Do (U.P)-Strike.

of workers at the John not was ended today when workers. roted to accept settlement terms offered by employers. EDITOR DIES. LONDON, Mar, 13. (U.P) George Earle Buckle, 80, editor of The Times from 1884 until 1912, and a well known author, died today.

He had been ill but a few days. MERCURY DROPS 28 DEGREES TO SPURT BUYING Warmer Weather Follows 29-Degree Temperature Here Last Night MERCHANTS OFFERING DOLLAR DAY BARGAINS Many Shoppers From Anniston Trade Territory in City To Make Purchases Applying for the job of springing the death trap on Frank McDaniel, condemned negro, because "she would like to see how it feels to hang a man," Thelma Rediger, above, attractive 20-year-old Springfield, business college student, declared she has plenty of "nerve for that sort of The sheriff declined to deputize her, because she is a minor. LIBERTY BONDS MAY BE CALLED IN REFUNDING Government May Lower Interest Rate on Outstanding War- -Time Securities WASHINGTON, March 13. KU.P.)The federal government may call its entire outstanding first liberty loan: bonds amounting to nearly $2,000,000,000 before the end of the week for refunding into lower interest bearing securities, it was learned today. Treasury officials still were unwould be issued but it was expectdecided as to, whether.

the call ed by the government bond market. The three months notice required before an interest date expires Friday. Four Important benefits claimed for such a call were: 1. If the first liberties were refunded into 3 per cent obligations more than $14,000,000 annually would be saved in interest charges. 2.

The government's outstanding "gold clause" bonds would be reduced to around $11,000,000,000, reducing liability. to the treasury should any claimant finally force the government to pay off in gold dollar equivalent. 3. The bonds would likely escape possible, adverse decision in the recently filed Taft suit contesting the government's authority to call a bond before its maturity unless it was paid in gold. 4.

The treasury would transfer another large portion of its shorterterm debt into longer obligations. SCHOOL HOPES DIM Jefferson County Sets Funds for Only 7 Months BIRMINGHAM, Mar. (U.P)-Prospects for full ninemonths term for Jefferson County schools dimmed today as it was learned federal relief funds available will only finance only a sevenmonths term for elementary schools and nine-months for high schools. Dr. J.

A. Keller, state superintendent of education, told county officials that at a conference with teachers of "North Alabama held here yesterday. Jefferson County's local funds would not be exhausted until April 30, end of the seventh month. Dr. Keller 'outlined his program for schools, calling for funds of $4,000,000 now before the recess committees, to the assembled superintendents.

KILL BANDIT PADUCAH, Mar. 13. (U.P.). Richard McLaughlin, aged grocer, shot and killed one of two bandits, who attempted to rob him last night. The second bandit escaped.

Army Fliers Take Secret Plane On Mystery FlightOverOcean OAKLAND, manned Mar. by 13. United (U.P)--army with a robot pilot, headed westward, into nowhere. Their destination might be Honolulu, 2,400 miles away, but no definite announcement was made of the distance they would fly in testing the automatic flying equipment and a new type of radio directional compass under the auspices the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of Aeronautics. Eugene Vidal, former Warmer weather followed subfreezing temperatures of last night in Anniston today, as buyers invaded the business district to take advantage of bargains offered for "Dollar Day." A low of 29 degrees, three below freezing, was recorded in Anniston last night.

That was a drop of 28 degrees from the low Tuesday morning and 40 degrees off from the high Tuesday afternoon. The drop in temperature followed rainfall of 1.23 inches Monday night, bringing a further precipitation of .40 of an inch and making the total rainfall for 48 hours 1.63 inches. The weather forecast for Thursday is fair and warmer. Day," which is celebrated in the city by the "lowest possible" prices, is a feature of the Spring Parade of Values Week. Merchants of the city were enthuslastic in their outlook for bustness during the remainder of the Spring Parade of Values, since indications point toward warm, clear weather for the latter part of this week.

Many shoppers came from over the trade territory of Anniston to take advantage of the bargains offered by the local stores. I Large numbers of shoppers were in the stores. The Parade of Values will continue through Saturday. Prominent Anniston Industrialist Will Be Laid to Rest Thursday James Mally Eastham, prominent Anniston industrialist. died at the age of 71 years shortly after midnight at Gainesville, where he had been spending the winter with his family.

He has been in, failing health several years. Funeral services will be conducted from the residence at 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon. The Rev. James Stoney will officiate. Interment will be in Highland Cemetery with Usrey in charge.

Active pall-bearers will be E. A. O'Neal, James T. Gardner, J. F.

King, John Thornton, L. E. Morton, Otto Latseh. Honorary pallbearers will be Governor Thomas E. Kilby, O.

H. Parker, Neil' Sterne, Whit Clark, Dr. N. E. Sellers, A.

L. Carroll and C. A. Hamilton. Eastham was born in San Marcus, coming to Anniston in 1920 from the oil fields of Oklahoma and Louisiana.

He was married the same year of his coming to Anniston to Mrs. Felix WilHams: first connection wast with Rudisill Foundry. During his residence he had been actively interested in industries among them being -Woodstock Mills and Ajax Foundry. At' the time of death he was president of Rudisill Foundry. Surviving him are the widow, two daughters, Miss Mally Eastham and Mrs.

Clara Smith of -Fort Worth, and a Felix Williams. Mrs. Eastman will return to Anniston with the body, accompanied by her sisters, Mrs. Fred Winston, Mrs. Joe McFarland, Mrs.

O. J. Angle and Mr. Winston and Mr. Angle.

LYNCHERS UNKNOWN Negro Accused of Murder Hanged by Mississippi Mob SLAYDEN, March 13. (U.P)Authorities can take no action against the lynchers of Ab Young, negro, because they have no clues whatsoever to the identity of 50 white persons who hanged him to a roadside tree. Young was accused of killing Hardy McKie, 45, a highway worker, Saturday. He was captured by the mob at Rossville, near here, and conveyed across the state line. He stood on a truck while a rope was thrown over a tree branch and noosed around his neck.

The. truck was then driven from beneath him. Anniston Star ToHold Marble Tournament for Boys of City be ancient in for game revival of boyhood within the will, next two weeks when The Anniston Star completes its arrangements for city marble tournament. The game of marbles has been on the downgrade in Anniston for sometime. Occasionally you run A.

small crowd of boys. who are at the pastime adl. in the past has had good Chards down, steady knucks" players. As plans now stand for the mar.ble tournament, it will be a contest of strict rules. None of this "roundance" and "poke-ance" and ture" this and "venture" that.

The players will put their "hard knucks to the gritty ground and shoot in the approved old time style. GREEKS FRAME PUNISHMENT IN REVOLT PURGE Venizelos Is Political Refugee In Rome; Will Never See Home Land Again ATHENS, Mar. 13. (U.P) -A stern program of punishment and a rigorous purge of politics, were promised by the government today as thousands of dispirited rebels, their revolt now merely the basis of treason charges, awaited news of their fate. It was proposed to continue marm tial law until trial of captured rebels was completed, to dissolve the Senate and to hold elections from which Communists and all parties supporting aged Eleutherios Ventzelos, rebel leader, would be disbanded and outlawed.

The government, totalling up the millions of dollars of damage done, faced the prospect. of. rebuilding its little navy. Eleutherios Venizelos, leader of the revolt, was a political refugee under the protection of the Italian flag on Cassos Island in the Aegean Sea a few leagues from the capital he hoped to enter in triumph. Tearfully, the 71-year-old veteran of European politics said: "Greece will never see me.

again." NEGROES ON TRIAL Colored Trio Accused of Slaying of Deputies BIRMINGHAM, Mar. 13. (U.P)-Three negro ore miners went on trial today on charges growing out of the ambushing of six deputies of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company during the ore strike here last summer. The deputies were slightly wounded by shot and the three are charged with assault with intent to murder. Rules of the tournament are to be compiled and published in the Sunday issue of The Star, along with the entrance blanks.

Prizes with be Johnston Field will be the place for the final competition in the cite Marble, other tournaments, have been sults. Those interested the local project cannot see why. Anniston has not as good marble players as any other city in the state. Warm up your trigger finger, boys. Get out, in the back lot, and whang away at the marbles until your hand is in condition to Lung the "taw' straight down the line.

Get ready for the tournament! star. now directing the aeronautics bureau, had said that the plane onetarata test fly 1,000 miles westward." This -may I. None: knew except the bureau and the men in the cockpit. Captain Albert Hegenberger, army flier who in 1926 spanned the Pacific in transport plane, was in charge. His co-pilot was Captain Clayton Bissel, also of the army air corps.

They and four 8550- had been borrowed by Vidal for the tests. The plane also vas leased from the builders. Conscript Men, Capital WASHINGTON, Mar. 13. (U.P) Patrick J.

Hurley, war secretary in the Hoover cabinet, told, the Senate munitions committee toHay that private capital power should be placed on the same basis in 5 be make one man give up his testified voted to discussion of methods of taking profits out of war. The committee must cover the subject in its preliminary report to the Senate. on April 1 He said Congress had power, to seize all war a profits, "and put them in the war chest of the tion where they belong.".