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GREENVILLE, S. FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 24, 1933. SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE 5c SUNDAY 10c ifate' 0 Cliff Bratnlett To Rest With Sessions Court Jury Here Today 0 0 hou TALKS UT PAULS TO REACH V.OT until SE Europe's Festering 'Sore' Spot ILL flESUM STATE BANKS FORMER PEACE OFFICER TAKES Senate Plans Probe Of Delay In Arrest Banker Harriman I BORROW NITGAGEI PLEAS HEEDED BY R00SEVEL1 0 if Quotes Bible This map shows why the Polish Corridor creates such tension in Europe. Created by the Versailles treaty, following the World war, it cuts Germany proper off from East Prussia. i i A HITLER ABSOLUTE DICTATOR GERMANY FOR FOUR YEARS; 'IRON FIST HOME POLICY Chancellor Surprises When Olive Branch Offered To Foreign Nations SHUNS AUSTRIAN PACT II DEBATE I Drys And Wets Take Turns In Raying Proposal To Legalize Beer, Wine CALLED TEMPERANCE BILL, ALSO 'DEVIL' Sponsors Estimate Measure Will Raise $500,000 In Revenue For State COLUMBIA, Mar.

23 (AP) After three hours of heated debate on the question of legalizing the sale of beer and wine in South Carolina the house adjourned tonight with prospect of a vote before the week-end recess tomorrow doubtful. Before the largest galleries of the year, the question of legalisation of 3.2 per cent beer was discussed alternately by sponsors and opponents. The question of prohibition success of failure dominated a majority of the speeches. RESUME DEBATE TODAY Debate on the bill will be resumed tomorrow but a vote likely will, not be reached before next week. A ballot vote is expected.

Supporters of a beer bill have submitted a compromise amendment as a substitute for the Martin bill, technically under discussion. It would prevent saloons by forbidding sale of the premises and provide local option. It would rit-, at leit $500,000 revenue its sponsors id. i minister, Patterson of Horry, t-ribed the bill, as "the devil up here in disguised form, offering you a bottle of beer. "There's not a thing the matter with the prohibition law," he as wrted.

"We have failed to enforce it. If all church members would leave whisky alone we'd have com Dlete prohibition in 30 days." Blatt of Barnwell, pleaded for the measure as a move toward temperance, while Bob Connor of Orangeburg, said if beer is auowea It should be tax free. TEMPERANCE STEP Describing It as a step toward "temperance," Sinkler of Charles' ton. opened discussion of the bill. "The bill prohibits saloons." he said, "and allows local option on beer.

It Is not the bill of a bigoted wet but an attempt to meet the de mands of the state as a whole." An attack on the bill by Glymph ol Oconee, followed. "Men want beer for only two reasons, he said. Because they love to drink it or to feather their nest directly or indirectly. Men want beer to satisfy their carnal appetites. "Which is the most important clothing and children or beer? The bill would take more than 000 away from mothers and chil dren and bring destruction in the eno rfJosfield of Aiken, made a bit-imVatack on prohibition, asserting that 'instead ol heu being lor rent as advocates said it would be after prohibition, they've had to enlarge the scope of the territory down there.

Prohibition has debauched the morals of this country." The Weather Bouth ind North Carolina: Fair and colder Friday; Saturday cloudy with alow- ly rising temperature followed by showers In the Interior. i.nrAi. ata Local data for the last 24 hours ending Temperature at 8 a. 52; at 12:30 p. 66; at 8 p.

80. Highest temperature, 73; lowest temperature, 51; average temperatura, 62; normal temperature, 52. Relative humidity at 8 a. 67; it 12:30 p. 48; at 8 p.

32. Precipitation, Inches, .00. HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS Br J. P. Alley I PtfME XoV KEEP ToA wAY Fum HEAH Ntf' MoJ I GvAN WID-OIT EMMY Sill Huge Bond Issue Proposed To Relieve Farmers And Small Home Owners FIGHT ON FARM BILL PROMISED IN SENATE Immediate Liquidation Of Joint Stock Land Banks Assured By Rainey WASHINGTON, Mar.

23 (AP) President Roosevelt hastened the preparation of his plans for refinancing farm mortgages on a gigantic scale today to supplement his farm relief program already passed by the House. Ignoring the threats of a bitter legislative fight in the Senate over the relief plan beginning tomorrow, administration leaders said they would attempt to tack the mortgage program on to it and predicted ap' proval of the double load of agra' rian aid within a week. REF1NANCEDEBTS The tentative draft of the mort' gage plan calls for refinancing debts with new government bonds up to a limit of two billion dollars. It would provide machinery to facilitate a voluntary scaling down of the heavy farm debt structure now estimated at more than nine billions in the form of mort' gages alone. It will also seek to reach the short-term farm indebtedness es timated at up to three billions through centralization of existing scattered credit agencies and new loan powers.

Enemies of the relief measure which paraded through the House without being dented by a single amendment, set themselves for the start of their battle betore the sen ate agricultural committee tomorrow. Senator McNary demanded public hearings but the administration insistence on speed to make the plan applicable to this year's crops indicated that none might be held. Chairman Smith, who is opposed to the measure in its present form, said he will offer a substitute, the terms of which he closely guarded except to explain that in his opinion it would not seriously conflict with the Roosevelt plan. SMITH'S OBJECTIONS He favors modification of sections incorporating the domestic allotment plan and some of the provisions authorizing Secretary Wallace to carry on an extensive land-leasing policy to retire lands engaged in surplus production. It was estimated that senators, members and non-members of the committee alike, have in reparation more than 100 amendments for the relief measure.

Even though the number offered would be greatly reduced below that figure, it was indicated that Senate considera tion will require many days. Entreaties from every agricultural state have been made to the President to put mortgage legislation before Congress quickly. Arthur F. Mullen of Nebraska, telegraphed that his state regarded it as more immediately needed than the relief program with its proposed delegation of broad and extraordinary powers to the secretary of agriculture. The President called in for conferences on the mortgage plan Speaker Rainey.

Senator Robinson, (Continued On Page 6, Col. 4) Tomorrow LIPPMANN Legislation be in substance a grant of power rather than a legislative mandate, there are the best of reasons for pressing on. The danger signal in this procedure would be the appear ance of enactments compelling rather than permitting the administration to do certain things. One danger of this sort Is already visible. It is in section two of the farm bill, where it is declared to be the policy of Congress to reestablish prices to farmers at a level which will give them a purchasing power equal to that prevailing from August, 1909.

to July, 1914. This declaration is the one really dangerous thing in the ESERVE MS Non-Member Institutions Of Federal System Can Get Emergency Loans CAREFUL EXAMINATION OF ALL APPLICATIONS Garner And Rainey Given Eight To Sign Bill During Recess Of Congress WASHINGTON, Mar. 23 (AP) Congress today completed action on a bill to extend the emergency banking act's lending privileges conditionally to state banks outside the federal reserve system and then recessed until Monday to await formulation of other proposals. After another day of debate, marked by a warning from Senator Glass Va.) that to open the reserve system funds to non-member banks without the same restrictions required of member banks would hasten the "wreckage" of unsound institutions, the Senate passed the House-approved bank bill with some amendments. HOUSE CONCURS Less than half an hour later, the House, which had been in recess waiting for the Senate to act, concurred in the amendments.

Both Speaker Rainey and Vice President Garner were authorized to sign the bill during the recess so President Roosevelt might affix his signature before the reconvening of Congress next week. Under the bill is finally approved, state banks and trust companies not members of the reserve system could borrow from reserve banks on the same conditions as member banks. They must put up security regarded by the lending banks as adequate, must be certified by state banking departments as sound, must maintain reserves the same as (Continued On Page 15, Col. 8) SOVIETS RELEASE BRITONS ON BAIL England's Demand Result In Action By Russia On Sabotage Charges LONDON, Mar. 23 (AP) Release on bail of three British subjects, employees of a British electrical firm, who were arrested several days ago by Soviet secret police on charges of sabotage has been agreed to by the public prosecutor in Moscow, the Soviet embassy here said today.

The three were W. H. Thornton, John Cushny and a man named Gregory. They, three other British subjects, and a number of Russian employees of the Metropolitan-Vickers company were arrested after raids by the Ogpu (Russian secret police) in Moscow and Leningrad. It was alleged they had engaged in sabotage in electrical construction work, in which the company had been engaged for 10 years.

Meanwhile, it was understood in official quarters that the British government would consider nothing short of unconditional release without trial as a satisfactory settlement. Today and By WALTER Rapid Fire It is plain that the administration is putting forward its legislative program at a pace wheh precludes careful study and shuts off the beneficial effect of criticism and de bate. Yet there are compelling reasons for pushing on. There are the obvious advantages in putting a completed emergency program behind us. There are also the obvious advantages of acting while Congress and the country are in the mood to cooperate.

But in such rapid legislation it is essential to remember that it is emergency legislation and not to confuse it with the determination of permanent policies. What is happening in es- fence Is that Congress is granting the President powers covering the whole field of domestic readjustments. These laws, which are being drafted so rapidly and enacted so hastily, are not a new and enduring framework of American society. They are an authorization under which the President can deal decisively and simultaneously with a whole series of domestic problems. Within the scope of these laws the President has enormous discretion both as to policy and as to administration.

Provided the rest of this emergency legislation continues to it Department Justice Asked Prosecution Be Held Up At Time Disclosures FALSE ENTRIES MADE, GOVERNMENT CHARGES No Criticism Of Mitchell Made By Cummings As He Quotes Scripture NEW YORK, Mar. 23 (AP) A determination to scrutinize the circumstances surrounding a three months' delay in the prosecution of Joseph W. Harriman, resigned chairman of the Harriman National Bank and Trust company, was announced today by counsel for the Senate committee whose inquiry into stock market practices already has resulted in far-reaching disclosures. A statement to that effect came from Ferdinand Pec or a coupled with a promise to "gather all the available facts and "present them to the committee at a public hearing" if the matter was found to fall within the scope of the authorizing the committee's activities. Attorney General Cummings in Washington said that the prosecution of Harriman, now charged with making false entries in the accounts of his closed bank, was held up at the direction of William D.

Mitch- EN PLEAD Petitions To House, Senate Ask That Legal Moisture Be Prohibited GRANDMOTHER LEADER COLUMBIA, Mar. 23. (AP) Vigorous protest against any legislation to change existing dry laws was registered to the South Carolina legislature today shortly after a resolution for a convention on prohibition repeal and a senate beer measure were introduced. ETITION TO SENATE A mild -voiced grandmother, marching into the senate chamber at the head of more than 100 women, read a petition which warned that women's organizations would if necessary mass politically in an effort to defeat legislators voting against state prohibition. A few men Joined in the march.

Representatives heard their clerk read the petition while the dry delegation watched from the gallery. Both communications were received as information and ordered printed in the journals upon motions of Senator Searson. of Allendale and Representative Senseney, of Charleston, two avowed wets. Through Mrs. M.

O. J. Kreps, of Columbia, the delegation of "mothers and grandmothers' asked the legislature not to relax dry laws-They made the appeal, she said, in behalf of more than a million women and children in the state. WANT STATE ARID Mrs. Kreps, local chairman of the national women's committee on law (Continued On Page 6, Col.

6) AGREED TO SHARE WENDEL MILLIONS Brooklyn Painter Brings In Names Of Untermyer And Garfield Hays NEW YORK, Mar. 23-(AP) Thomas Patrick Morris, Brooklyn house painter, whose claim to the Wendel millions was held to be fraudulent, stated in supren.e court today he had a secret agreement with two attorneys that if he were recognized as the son of John Gott lieb Wendel he would divide his por tion ot the estate with other rela tions represented by the lawyers. He also declared that if he lost his case, under the agreement he would get a share of the estate given to tne successiui clients of the at torneys. He said the two lawvers were Samuel Untermyer and Arthur Garfield Hays. Untermyer Is on a cruise.

Havs later in the day issued this statement: 'An agreement was made with Morris that if he sustained his claim of relationship, Mr. Untermyer and would represent him in cooriera- tion with the other heirs who were our clients. The agreement apnlied only in the event that Morris established his claim: otherwise it was void." 1 Man Once Sheriff Says No Truth In Allegations Of Misconduct AGUMENTS STARTED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON Accused Explains' Transac tions Of Selling Autos And Slot Machines The case of former Sheriff Cliff R. Bramlett, on trial in general sessions court charged with official misconduct, will reach the jury about noon today, after which the state will call the case of former Senator Joseph R. Bryson, charged with accepting a bribe.

Bramlett took the stand yesterday morning as first witness for the defense, and made a blanket denial of charges. Defense testimony was completed at 4:30 o'clock, and after a brief recess announcement was made that the state had no rebuttal evidence. Two arguments were heard, Solicitor J. G. Leatherwood speaking for the state and J.

D. Poag for the defense. TO CONVENE EARLY Judge S. W. G.

Shipp announced that court would reconvene at 9 o'clock this morning, the time being advanced 30 minutes to permit earlier completion of the case. Attorney General his assistant, J. Ingram Wilson, and David W. Smoak remain to speak for the state, while C. G.

Wyche and James H. Pride will be heard for the defense. Remaining arguments and charge to the Jury are expected to be completed about noon. Plans were being made to call the Bryson case if the trial now under way is completed on schedule. Belief is that the bribery case can be completed during the afternoon, as there will be comparatively few witnesses.

The former senator Is charged with having accepted bribes on two occasions from former Supervisor A. Frank Pridmore for supporting the county supply bill. The measures carried appropriations for the public works of the county admin- Msterea by tne supervisor. the Bramlett case was centered about efforts to discredit the testimony of Carl P. Hunt, former bookkeeper in Bramlett's office, who made various charges against his former employer.

Evidence adduced by the defense was designed to show, that Hunt himself was responsible for shortages in lunds of the sheriff's office and Jto prove that the former sheriff used some funds temporarily in transportation of prisoners and in meeting other expenses of the office which he had to pay himself and later enter claim for against the county. It was ton-tended that all funds in question were paid to the county as soon as they were called to the sheriff's attention by auditors. FORMER DEPUTIES TALK Three former deputies who served under Bramlett, the Rev. J. A.

Davis, who preceded and succeeded Hunt as bookkeeper, J. D. Tram-mell. head janitor at the courthouse, W. H.

(Crip) Knight, elevator operator, and Joe Robinson, auctioneer for the county, were among witnesses testifying during the aft- continued On Page 6, CoL 1) FRANCE DODGING PAYMENT OF DEBT No Intention Of Returning Sou To America Anytime In Near Future PARIS. Mar. 23. (AP) Payment of the $19,000,000 defaulted interest on war debts owed to the United States since last December 15 appeared to be going into an eclipse tonight. A message from Premier Daiadier to members of the socialist party saying that he would not tit until American policy was made iuiiy known, and a sudden drop in en thusiasm on the part of many deputies made a majority for a pend ing resolution callmsr lor the pay ment appear impossible.

Deputy Rene Richard last Satur day introduced sich a resolution. mentioning a preamDie what ne characterized as a money and credit crisis in America. The decision of the premier to await definite knowledge of the American attitude on war debts was conveyed to the socialists today by Deputy Pierre Renaudel. Meanwhile Georges Bonnet, tnin ister of finance, denied that a unit ed front on the American deb5 issue had wen formed by ureal Britain and France. New York Jews Asking German Goods Boycott 10,000 March To Death Dirge Chant In Protest Against Hitler Persecution OUTRAGES CONTINUING NEW YORK, Mar.

23. (AP) Ten thousand Jews marched to city hall, today to the mournful chant of "El Molai Rachmen," dirge for the dead, in protest of alleged persecu tions in Germany and to call for a boycott of German goobs. The Torah, sacred scroll of the Jews, was carried in its silver case, while the dean of the city's cantors chanted. ASK FOR BOYCOTT Meanwhile, in Berlin, the German government issued a statement which warned that any boycott would affect the United States more adversely than Germany and asked how, if a boycott "agitated by certain American circles" were carried out, "is the question of private debts to be regulated properly? Meanwhile, after protests from Jewish sympathizers, the German-made motion picture, ''Maedchen In Uniform," was withdrawn from two Brooklyn theatres. Although the plot is anti-imperialistic and anti-Hitler in tone, so many complaints were received the managements decided to cancel the film.

POLAND COMPLAINS WARSAW, Mar. 23 (Jewish Telegraphic Agency) Twenty-five new attacks are the subject of an official complaint lodged by the Polish ambassador with the German ministry of foreign affairs. Among the cases of brutality cited are those of seven Jews who were taken from yarious cafes, carried off to Nazi locales, maltreated and flung out into the streets almost unconscious. Apart from these, the Polish consulate at Hessen has officially protested to the authorities in connection with a Nazi attack at Dues-burg where organized Nazis, it is charged, beat an aged rabbi who is a Polish citizen and damaged the synagogue attached to the rabbi's house. SUFFER SERIOUS INJURIES Another case engaging the attention of the Polish authorities is that of a Polish Jewish student, Franz Wolman, whose room in Berlin was entered by uniformed auxiliary Nazi police, and who was beaten for about a quarter of an hour-, (Continued On Page 6, Col.

3) MUSSOLINI PEACE PLAN AIDS WEAK MacDonald Tells Parliament Small Nations Need Have No Fear Or Worry LONDON, Mar. 23. (AP) Europe's small nations need have no fear of Premier Mussolini's four-power plan for stabilizing the peace of Europe, Prime Minister Mac-Donald told parliament today in reporting on his visit last week to Rome, Paris and Geneva. The Mussolini plan, which would combine England, Italy. France and Germany in a sort of internation al club to preserve the peace, should be carried out within the framework of the League of Nations, Mr.

MacDonald said, and provision should be made for consulting the smaller powers when their inter ests are directly concerned. Some of the smaller states art beginning to fear the consequences of this proposal," he said, "that is natural in view of what has appeared in the newspapers, but I can assure them that there is no foundation whatever for their fears." Some of those fears, he indicated, may have arisen from the fact that Signor Mussolini's plan involves revision of HOMER S. CUMMINGS ell, attorney general in the Hoover administration. Cummings explained that "apparently the impression was that the delicate financial situation at that time brought the judgment that prosecution might be well deferred." Cummings added that he meant no criticism of his predecessor and that the situation was to be judged on the basis of circumstances as they were at the time. He answered one question as to (Continued On Page 6, Col.

3) Miss Frances Perkin Tells House Labor Committee What Measure Means CRITICS ARE SILENCED WASHINGTON, Mar. 23. (AP) Frances Perkins, Roosevelt's sec retary of labor, upheld before a battery of congressional critics today the plan of her chief for putting thousands of unemployed to work, at nominal wages, on conserving forest lands. She emphasized that this was a relief rather than an unemployment measure. RELIEF MEASURE "These are not jobs, in the tru2 sense of the word," she told the members of Senate and House labor committees, meeting in joint ses sion.

But the plan, she maintained would preserve the self-respect and morale ot thousands who now are "living by their wits" in large cities But though she clearly impressed the committee with her exposition on every point, the prospect tonight was that neither House would act on the bill before next week. The committees will continue their hearing tomorrow, with leaders of organized labor expected to be heard in opposition, directed particularly at the $1 a day rate oi pay proposed for the workers in the civilian con' servation corps." Criticism was showering down upon the President's plan for members of the two committees when Miss Perkins appearing, wearing her customary three pointed biacK nat and black coat. FEW RETORTS Standing near the head of the long table around wmcn tne House and Senate members sat, she took the objections up one by one and replied to them so effectively that there was rarely a retort. She said at the outset, in answer to criticism of the proposal to pay unemployed only $1 a day, that the plan should be regarded entirely as "a relief, rather than an employment measure." This explanation was meanwhile being emphasized by Secretary Dern at the war department. He said the principal purpose of the plan was to drain the big cities of their hordes of jobless.

He mentioned particiarlv, New York, Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Cleveland. Miss Perkins quieted fears of committee members that the dollar a day workers would take the place of laborers now getting regular wages. She said the work they v.ould do was on projects that otherwise could not be undertaken for 10 years. Dry 'Birthplace' Senate Votes Beer AUGUSTA. Mar.

23. (AP) The senate without debate today accepted and passed an amendment to legalize the manufacture, sale and transportation of beer in Maine often called 'the birthplace ot prohibition." Considerable opposition' was ex pected in the house but anti-prohi-bitionists believed they muster enough to pass it. iiHPi MS CHAMPION BERLIN, Mar. 23. (UP) Adolf Hitler, dapper little aorporal in the Imperial German army during the World war, became absolute dictator of Germany tonight.

In tumultuous session, both houses of the Reichstag by overwhelming votes granted the Fascist chancellor sweeping dictatorial powers which place him even above the constitution of the republic itself. REICHSTAG POWERLESS They adopted hii all-powerful enabling stripping the Reich' stag of all semblance of authority, 441 to 94. The federal council, or upper nouse. a moment later unani mously approved the act and Hit ler, in the brown shirt uniform of his Nazi party, had soared to the peaK ot his power in the Reich. The Reichstag, having in effect voted itself out of existence, adjourned indefinitely.

There was no indication when, if ever, Hitler would call it into session again dur ing the four years which it erant ed him the right to rule by decree, in cooperation with the cabinet. The enabling act expires in 1937, or sooner if tne Hitler government laiis. The swift action came during a dramatic night session of the Reich' stag after a day in which the chancellor outlined the domestic and foreign policies of his regime. The sharpness of his policy at home-where he ruthlessly proclaimed his intentions to suppress an opposition contrasted with the conciliatory nature or nis foreign stand. FRIENDLY ABROAD Hitler surprised his enemies when he emphasized in his declaration of policy at the afternoon session that it was his intention to reach an amicable understanding with all powers.

He expressly named France, and declared: "An agreement is possible if both governments act reso lutely." He alluded indirectly to revision of the treaties demanding cessation of the distinction between victors and vanquished. Contrary to pro nouncements by other Fascist leaders, however. Hitler failed explicitly to advocate an anscniuss," or com bine, with Austria, but did stress his (Continued on Page 9, CoL 7) SWIMMING POOL FOR ROOSEVELT Movement Started By New York Paper Results In Sum Being Subscribed WASHINGTON, Mar. 23, (AP) The White House is to have a swimming pool soon but the money won't come from the treasury. A moveemnt started by the Daily News of New York and joined by 43 other papers has already raised more than enough to construct a small cement tank approximately 20 by 40 feet where President Roosevelt can take much needed exercise.

The newspapers began the campaign without the chief executive's knowledge but he is inclined to accept the fund for several reasons. One is that he does not want to take any money from the depleted treasury. Another is that he feels a declination would come as a rebuff to those many of them school childrenwho have contributed generously to the fund. Then. too.

the President since he took office has keenly missed the form of exercise best suited to him. Present plans are for the pool to be built in the west wing of the White House between the executive offices and the White House proper. The sponsors of the fund intended to have an elaborate outdoor pool constructed on the south grounds of the White House but Mr. Roosevelt vetoed that idea because he did not want to change in any way the present architectural design of the executive mansion. The pool now planned will cost about $10,000.

which is all that will be accepted from the fund already raised. Ira! farm bill, in my opinion, it is the first really, serious mistake of the Roosevelt administration. For this declaration constitutes a promise to do something which it may be quite impossible to do. It is a commitment which is so undefined that it may be gravely misunderstood. Thus, for example, it is conceivable that the average purchasing power of all farm commodities might return to the pre-war parity.

But it is altogether improbable that each farm product can be restored to its pre-war paritv and (Continued on Page 5, CoL 2) existing treaties..