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0 I For Nearly A Century Has Set The Face For Mississippi Journalism Prmte All The News That's Fit To Print And Prints It First j.r a 4 i FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT JACKSON, THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 21, 1933 ESTABLISHED 1837 1 i 1 IB It i ill ii i 1 "-f I i i i IVALMSLEY Informed 0. K. ALLEN IS BETTER SHOT BUT: CONNER-EATS VENISON UT: World News At A Glance Misstfig, Mr her Muck I ti Got ham rn a Insur nee The Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round By DREW PEAKSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN Authors of -Washington ftler-ry-Go-Round" and -More Merry-Go-flound." Home Uti injured Ur Hot)e Mrs. Dominick A.

Eove, received $5,000 in a double indemnity insurance policy on the life of her sister, Miss Billie Haxing, for whose death Mrs. Bove's husband is being tried, it was testified late today. Both Eove and his wife said under cross-examination that the policy was to pay 510,000 in. case of accidental death, but that application was made for only $3, 000 by the beneficiary, Mrs. Bove.

Both, however, vehemently denied that they had known of the ex- istence of the policy until they were so informed by the insurance company after Miss Haring's death. District Attorney N. Vick Rob-bins brought out through questioning that Mrs. Bove and Miss Har-ing had a joint safety deposit box. but Mrs.

Bove said she never, examined the box and did not -know that the policy was in it. Bove took the stand late in the day to deny that he had Miss Haring. He said she had fallen, striking her head, and Injuring herself fatally. VICKSBURG, Dec. 20 (JP The defense rested its case tonight in the trial of Dominick A.

Bove, merchant, charged with the murder of -Miss BiUie E. Haring, his sister-in- law. The defendant was on the stand for a little over one hour and his testimony was virtually the same as that given at his first trial. Ha stated he heard 'a noise in th pantry and found his sister-in-law on the floor threshing about in some broken glass with blood flowing' from a wound in her. Bove said he attempted to pick her up but failed and dragged her to bed and then called his wife from his store nearby.

Two rebuttal witnesses were put on the stand by the state. Mrs. Lola Larr. 'ter of the deceased, testified that Bove was drinking the night Miss Haring died. Thia was in contradiction of defense witnesses, including Mrs.

Bove, wifd of the defendant. John Bobb, a newspaper carrier, stated that he eaw Miss the house and he notice! nothing in her appearance. Others had testified Miss Harint? seemed to be weak and stumbled as "she entered the house after, a trip downtown. Instruction' will ba ready when court opens in the DOMESTIC NEW YORK Jesse L. Livermore, Wall Street plunger, dispels kidnap fears by returning home after 24 hour absence; says mind was a blank.

WASHINGTON President Roose velt extends reemployment agree ment until May 1 coordinates whole recovery machinery under one head. CHICAGO Labor Secretary Perkins urges permanent limit on work hours. LOS ANGELES Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton files cross suit for divorce. WASHINGTON Tighter income tax laws may be jammed through despite protests. CROWN POINT, Samuel Insull, and 'six others accused of looting utility firm to bolster In sull empire.

FOREIGN PARIS Ten persons. Including American couple, netted in police drive against suspected military spies. LONDON Unofficial inquiry by international lawyers lays Reichstag lire to four oi five men awaiting sentence held innocent. BERLIN Reich prepares to carry out Hitler's sterhzation decree; 000 incurably ill await judgment of Eugenic courts." OUP MAY POSE House Ways and Means Committee Disposed to Push Thru Revenue WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (JP) A disposition to override the admini stration and force its $270,000,000 revenue bill through the house at the January session was manifested today by members of the house ways and means committee.

The provisions drawn by the committee would tighten the administrative provision of the income tax laws to prevent avoidance of taxes. In the face of protests by witnesses, the committee is preparing to end its hearings on the general revenue measure and turn its attention on Friday to formulation of the new liquor tax bill. President. Roosevelt has informed democratic leaders the administra tion desires early action on the liquor tax bill to let the treasury get the benefit of a higher-rate as quickly as possible. As a result of a conference at the White House last night, Chairman Doughton (D N.

of the ways and means committee, and Senator Harrison of the senate finance committee, plan to expedite the liquor measure. Doughton said his group would meet in executive session Friday and Saturday to agree upon the tentative -form of the measure. It will be introduced on the first day of congress, January 3. A majority of the committee indicated today the $1.10, a gallon levy on spirits would be increased to $2.20. This, they said, under the administration's proposal to share it with states not having a volume tax, would give those states 55 cents a gallon and the federal government $1.65.

ANCIENT CASTLE SOLD IN ENGLAND One of Last Remaining Links With William The Conqueror Auctioned LONDON, Dec. 20 W-One of tne few remaining links with the time of William the Conqueror brok en today, with the sale at auction of Erakelow haU, the seat of tr Gresley family for 28 generations. Even the auctioner was moved to sentiment and described the trans fer as the climax of a tragedy for which town authorities might be held to account by future generations if they allowed a place of such historic importance to be lost. GR OP NEW YORK, Dec. 20 (JP) Jessie L.

Livermore, noted stock market operator who became the object of an intensive 24-hour search when his wife reported him missing, walked to the private door of his Park Avenue apartment at 6:20 o'clock tonight and rang the doorbell. Once inside he told detectives he found there with his wife that he remembered nothing from 5:30 p. yesterday until he woke up late this afternoon in a downtown hotel with a headache and read reports of. his disappearance in a newsoap-er. Livermore, one of the most spectacular plungers in Wall Street's history, then went to bed while detectives pieced together.

the story of the 24 hours he said were a blank in his mind. Federal agents, who had joined the hunt on the basis of the fears of the trader's third wife, that he had been kidnaped, dropped thir inquiry immediately. At the hotel where Livermore said he had spent the night the desk clerk said he was not registered. Police, however, explained that Liver-more told them he "couldn't remember" whether he registered or not. Just after a police official had announced that the taxi driver who drove Livermore yesterday from nls home to his office said Lavermore then had suffered from nausea, another taxicab pulled up before the Livermore apartment tonight.

Livermore, his overcoat pulled close about him, paid off the cab, walked to the private entrance of his ground floor apartment, and rang bell. He 'stood on the steps, shivering a bit, waiting for some one to open the door. The door was opened by a detective who hesitated a moment before he recognized the trader. Police had been stationed in the apartment throughout the day. He saw his wife at 4 p.

m. yester day and told her he was. going to keep an engagement with a friend. He never got to the apartment, but instead walked- to- the curb before his house, summoned a cab, and ordered the driver' to' go to his of fice on lower Broadway, v. From that point on, he told' po lice, his" mind was a "blank.

Detectives at his home, said told thetr he "vaguely remembered" going to a hotel, but had no clear, idea why he had done so. Several times In his 'glamorous career, Livermore has threatened in letters, once, his Great Neck. Long Island, home was robbed of $100,000 in jewels. Again, when fear was felt for -the safety of his two sons, by his second wife Jesse, and Paul he posted a champion pistol shot, Frank on his estate. But Mrs.

Livermore said that there had been no letters of late threatening the operator who went through the panic of 1907 on the "short" side of the market and came out with $3,000,000 in his pockets. COUMRSUiF FILED BY AIMEE Evangelist Charges Mental Cruelty and Marital LOS ANGELES, "Dec. 20 (P) Charging mental cruelty and mar ital shortcomings, Aimee Mcrnerson Hutton. tn evangelist. sued David L.

Hutton for a divorce waa7 in a cross- complaint end answer to the divorce action he brought against her several months ago. Wagner, at Odds With Johnson, May Quit as Labor Board Chairman; Senator Blamed for Procrastination in Ford and Weirton Strikes; Progressives Want Him to Concentrate tn New Social Legislation; Loring Black's Biting Comment 00n Sponsors of TngweU Food BilL" WASHINGTON, Dec. 20-Se'nator Bob Wagner is worried. Three difficult upon the determination of which hang important legislative and administrative developments, bear heavily onthe mind of the hard-working, liberal New Yorker. They are: 1.

Whether, he should step out as chairman of the National Labor board in order to devote all his time to major social measures at the next-session of Congress, or try to continue both as a Senator end labor chairman. 2. Labor dissatisfaction over what Jt considers to be undue delay by Wagner in settling labor disputes. 3. Strained relations between Wagner and General Hugh Johnson.

The last two situations may have en important bearing on Wagner's decision on the first. The coolness between Johnson and Wagner arises out of the firm, insistence that others keep strict hands-off the affairs of the labor board. The board Is an outgrowth of the NRA. But Wagner and his colleagues were appointed by. the president, and in the executive order creating the board, Roosevelt established it as an independent agency.

Johnson has not meddled in the -work of the board. But both workers- and employers have privately complained to him about the board's endless delay In settling disputes. The Ford Plant Case A delegation of strikers of the Chester, Ford plant protested bitterly to Johnson that Wagner's failure to force a prompt decision bad resulted in the disintegration of their union. "Once we had to combat violence (Continued on Page Ten Secretary Perkins Advoca tions Permanent Limit On Working Hours CHICAGO, Dec. 20.

(JPy iPer manent limitation of hours of labor was advocated tonight by Secretary Perkins of the labor de partment in presenting a ten point program for improvement of the condition by wage earners. Speaking before the Railway Labor Executives association, Miss Perkins suggested that efforts be made to induce states lacking such laws to consider these additional points: Prohibition of 'Child labor? standard minimum wages for women; requirement 'of safe' and healthy working conditions: provision for Bg-ed workers; some form r. unemployment adequate (Continued, on Page. GOLD.IS STEADY WASHINGTON, Eec. 20 (A) The RFC gold price was retained today at $34.03 an ounce.

MISSISSIPPI Thursday, fair, slowly rising temperature. Friday, rising temperature; Louisiana: Fair.Thursday and Friday. Alabama: Fair Thursday and Friday; slowly rising temperature in interior. Extreme northwest Florida: Fair Thursday and Friday. Arkansas: slightly warmer in east portion Thursday; Friday partly cloudy, mild.

bureau records of temperatures aJ rainfall for the '24 hours ending 8 p. in the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: URGE LABOR WORK LIMIT NATCHEZ, Dec. 20. (JPy Governor Mike Conner of Mississippi will enjoy venison on Christmas presented him by Governor O. K.

Allen of Louisiana. Governor Allen crossed the Mississippi river at Natchez today en route to Baton Rouge after' havingr enjoyed a deer hunt In Tensas parish, near Newell ton. The Louisiana executive stated that he had killed a deer on the hunt, but that Governor Conner had not been so successful and he had therefore presented him with his deer. Governor Conner had been expected at Natchez today for a duck hunt arranged by Representative L. T.

Kennedy, but according to the Louisiana executive, the Mississippi executive crossed the river at' Vicksburg; Governor Mike Conner's eagerness to slip away for a brief pre-session vacation resulted in leaving Mississippi without a chief magistrate for parts. of three days. This was disclosed yesterday when Associated Press dispatches revealed that the governor, this week has been taking pot shots at deer in Louisiana with Governor O- K. Allen of that state, Kingfish Huey P. Long's right-hand assistant.

Lieutenant-Governor Dennis Mur-phree, back last night from a short hunting expedition of his own, did not learn until his return that for some days he was hunting within a few miles of Governor Conner. Murphree explained when questioned, that he had not. been notified that Governor Conner would be absent. 'Instead of announcing the governor's departure, attaches at the executive department yesterday persistently denied that the executive was even out of the city. From Wisner, during the day came an Associated Press dispatch indicating that.

Mississippi's governor is a better sharpshooter in the field of politics than in the field of deer. Ud to that time neither he nor his distinguished companion, Governor Allen had bagged so much as a doe. According to the Associated Press, Governor Conner met Governor Allen at Wisner Sunday Louisiana's chief executive driving up from Baton Rouge, in-a big black sedan while Conner was described as arriving in a smaller They wers reported to have been the guests of Hoard Netteryille, Tensas parish planter. John B. Fournet of Louisiana, is also understood to have been a member of the hunting CONCLUDE NAZIS FIRED REICHSTAG Unofficial Commission Decides Socialists Burned Building LONDON, Dec.

20 The conviction that National Socialist (Nazis) circles, either directly or through the hands of off the fire in the rjarliament buildina- last winter was expressed. today in the final report oi an unoinciai "legal commission of inquiry which investigated' the blaze. In a ringing declaration presented at Caxton Hall, the commission of international attorneys did not mince words in saying that Hitlerites were connected in one way or another with the arson and that jviannus van Der Lubbe, a young Jjutcn bracK mason who confessed the must havp hat help. Five men, including Van Der Lubbe three Bulgarians, and Ernst Torgler. former communist whip in the" German house of representatives.

Will be sentenced in TirwTncr next Saturday after a. trial in which they were called communists and in which they were charged with arson and treason. The death penalty was asked for Torgler and Van Der Lubbe. The six-rjoint dsclaration an nounced today by D. N.

Pritt, an attorney, said commission. which came, to a similar conclusion before the convening of the trial in Germany, considered "than it is impossible that the accused Marinus Van Der Lubbe could alone have accomplished the burning of the and that 'all known facts of the case point to the National Socialists (Nazis) as having carried out or caused to have carried out this act of incendiarism." ALL TIGER LETTERMEN URGED TO ATTEND FRIDAY FEAST Every Iettermen in Jackson Uigh school athletic history is invited to attend the football banquet at Central High Friday night. The affair will be largely informal, and former Orange Wave members should not wait for formal urging, but are asked by Coach II. F. Broyles to be on hand Friday night at Central High building without further notice.

A ticket to the basketball games with Clinton High the same night will be presented free to every one attending the banquet, it is announced, and the feast will break np in time for the games. There Is no charge for former athletes of Central illjh, it is emphasized. Vim OTTON PO ORGAP Oscar Johnston of Mississippi, Will Manage Staple Under Option WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (JP) Oscar Johnston, finance director of the farm aclmlnistration, was appointed today by Secretary Wallace to be manager of the administration's "cotton pool." Appointment of Johnston, a recognized cotton expert, came' on the heels of an announcement that cotton options will be. distributed this week to approximately 600,000 cotton farmers.

Actual cash for the options will not be paid out until individual farmers choose one of -two methods under which the options may be realized. It is expected, however, that the options will serve to establish credit for many needy farmers until the money can be distributed early in the year. Johnston, now in the south assisting in launching the 1934 cotton acreage reduction campaign, will have direct supervision over the pool to which possible holders of 2,400,000 bales of government-held cotton are expected to assign a substantial portion of the options. Joining 'the pool will be one method for. farmers to realize on the options given them last July in exchange for plowing under their growing cotton.

Farmers who join the pool will receive an initial payment of four cents a pound, or $20 a bale, and a participation certificate. Fanners who do not wish to join the pool may call their options now and receive the difference between six cents, the option price, and the market price. The pool manager would have the right to sell the cotton at any time it be marketed on the basis of 15 cents a pound, middling 7-8. After July 31, 1934, the cotton may be sold in the discretion of the secretary, irrespective of the price. STERILE PROGRAM BEGINS IN GERMANY Incurables to; Undergo Ster- lization, Ordered by Hitler BERLIN, Dec.

20 (JP) Last-min ute preparations were under way today for executing one of the most significant features of Chancellor Hitler's program to make Germany physically fit the sterilization of persons suffering incurable dis eases. This action follows logically upon the anti-semistism campaign which virtually made the intermarriage of jews ana "Aryans' impossible in an eirort to "Nordicize" the, na tion. On January 1, 1934, 1,700 "Eu genie courts" will begin functioning. These will pass Judgment on at least 400,000 men and women considered "hereditary defectives." Depriving -these people of repro ductive power will take at least two it was estimated. Instructions have been issued hospital and sanitarium officials.

as. well as heads of penitentiaries and prisons, to get a list of incur ables and habitual criminals ready by January l. The sterilization operations will be performed under court orders. alter a system of checks from which there will be no habilitation agencies and the home loan corporations. The NRA echoed this renewed spirit by disciplining for the first time an employer charged with violating the collective bargaining guarantee of the industrial law.

The recovery administration announced it had withdrawn its blue eagle emblem from the J. J. Martin company, Roxbury, Massachusetts, furniture movers. The administration said the company had publicly asserted that "no union or union men would be tolerated in the business." The blanket code or agreement was originally drawn up by the president to serve for industries until they had agreed on and signed with the government permanent codes of fair competition and labor practices. More than 160 6uch codes have been approved by Mr.

Roosevelt to date and he indicated todav he expected the remaining codes would come into existence before the four months renewal for the blanket agreement' had expired. OL SZEP a to my Break Between Kingf ish and New Orleans Mayor is Serious Blow NEW DEAL FR0MISED BY OLD GUARD CHIEF Police Arrest Men Distributing Handbills Airing Long's Opinions By RALPH WIIEATLEY NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20 (JF) Political uprisings against the dictatorship of Senator Huey P. "Long have swept the state of Louisiana. The senator, better known as "Huey the Kingfish," had his back to the wall tonight full of fight and venom for his enemies, whom he says he will crush.

The most telling blow against his political dynasty that has ruled Louisiana for five years came in New Orleans today when Mayor T. bemmes walmsley and his old regular democratic organization broke definitel-w With Rpnatnr jnT his Louisiana democratic associa tion over the approaching city elec tion. "We will have a new deal." said Mayor Walmsley. "I would rather go in witn a lew less votes and a ciean DacKground." "It almost turns mv stomach to have the matter even mentioned to me, said Senator Long. Out in the countrv narishes.

rrn uprisings' against Longism have been held in the form of public mass meetings with others organ ized for later in the month. Late in the day city police arrested a number of men distribu ting JianaDiUs setting forth Senator Long's-comments on the break. The circulars were seized by the police and the passers, were charged with distributing -circulars without a nermit. One man, Lawrence LeClaire, a painter ior the dock board, was ar- IERICAN I BELIEVED SP France Jaiis Young Man as Member of; International Communist Band PARIS, Dec. 20 (JP) A young American accused by police of serving a great international band of spies with Soviet Russian connections and his wife were held in separate prisons tonight while authorities investigated what they called a wide network of military tipsters.

The man, described by officials as Robert Switz, aged 92 and a native Of East Orange, N. was charged with espionage and his wife, known to police as the former Marjorie Tilley, who was born in New York In 1911, was accused of complicity in an espionage service reaching even into the ministry of Marine. 1 They were arrested as they were about to flee, police said, before a series of swift raids netting eight other men and women, including a man said to be a Canadian merchant and his wife, of various nationalities, clandestine radio apparatus, military documents, communist books, photographic equipment, large sums of money, and- papers indicating communist affiliations. Police held all incommunicado and, pending an examination by a magistrate, the Switzs were given no opportunity to deny or explain. Authorities said all indications were that the band worked for the benefit of Soviet Russia.

The real chiefs of the organization were suspected by police to be two Russians whom Switz was reported to have met frequently and who fled from France in July when they were replaced by two others still at large. Switz, who police said was always oUowed by two bodyguards, was first suspected in March. He wras called -'the aviator." Three hundred French operatives under Commissioner Gianvetti trailed him and the other alleged members of the band for eight months after they learned of the wide ramifications through Switz" movements. The names of the others arrested were listed a Benjamin Bercowitz, a merchant, born May 10, 1891, Iasi, Rumania; a naturalized Canadian. Mrs.

Clara Bercowitz, his wife and also a naturalized Canadian; born Dec. 19, 1903," in Bendery, Rumania. Moise Salmon, 26, and his wife, Chana, 27, both Polish medical students. Mme. Lidia Tchekaloff StahL 48, a Russian.

Mile Madeleine Mermet, 23. a French teacher. Louis Martin, 43, a French teacher; a translator In the Marine ministry. Doucham Narandisch. 42.

a Ser bian, journalist. SCHOOL CLOSES MENDENIIALL, Dec. 20 Tha MendenhaU high school will close on Friday, December 22 for th Xmas holidays and will resume work on January 1. STORM WAVE KEARLYOVER General Moderation of U. S.

Weather Predicted; Sunshine Over South By ASSOCIATED PRESS A slight northeaster from out of the North Atlantic was expected today to have cleared up most of a disturbance caused by a low pressure area extending from northern Virginia to the New England states, and from the Great Lakes region into sections of western Pennsylvania and New York. Lower temperatures were expected to accompany the blow, but weather forecasters late yesterday said the drop would be only a few degrees. Slight moderation was expected also today in Canadian cold wave areas. Likewise the storm conditions on the north Pacific coast were improving last night. Sunshine and more of it was generally predicted for the entire south today following the clearing yesterday of dripping skies from Savannah along the Atlantic seaboard to Norfolk.

Northern cities remained fairly cold last night. In Chicago at noon yesterday it was four degrees abovo freezing and in Kansas City the thermometers registered 41. In Montana and the Dakotas the mercurv was lower but was not expected to descend further today. 2 SHOOTINGS NEAR McCOIl Road Foreman Jailed1, Vic-tim in Hospital; Fern- wood Miss McCOMB, Dec. 20 Virgil Conner, road construction foreman of is being held without bail in the Pike county jail at Magnolia, and B.

S. Holden, sum mit, is $500 bond on an as sault and battery with intent to kill charge tonight, as a result of two shootings that occurred, in Pike county "today, for which officers nor principals would assign motives. Officers "-said Conner encountered Jack Holsomback, 26, aviator of McComb and Sunset, at noon today here fired five pistol shots at him, three of which took effect in groin, hand and leg. Hospital attaches say Holsomback will 'Conner surrendered to Policeman Marion Sinclair and Chief B. A.

Brumfield. Holden- fired- several ineffective shots at "Duke' Williams of Fern-wood at that place three miles south early, today, according to Deputy Sheriffs O. D. Boyd and H. M.

Williams, who arrested Holden. TO INVITE PLAYERS MELBOtJRNE, Austeralia Two players each from the United States, England, France, Japan. South Africa and New Zealand are to be invited to compete in the Australian tennis championships planned here for January, 1934. latiig the'liqquor law, or operating a gambling table. At "the' Rofesserie No.

2, Pocahontas road, the raiding officers obtained "39' cases of beer, a 15-gaUon keg of draught beer. A. J. the proprietor, was ordered to appear in justice of the peace -court The largest seizure occurred at TaggartX opposite the Rotisserie, where one hundred cases were confiscated. A.

W. Taggart, the owner, was ordered to court. Other. raids included: Dewey Swor, Pocahontas road, gambling table in operation, para-phrenalia seized, and the operator ordered, to court. Jake's Place -Pocahontas road, about 8' gallons of draught beer confiscated.

Jewell Beasley ordered to. M. F. Henderson's Wholesale place, Canton road, thirty gaUons of draught beer, and 11 bottles. O.

W. Shackleford, Canton road, one case. Brown's Tourist camp, Canton road, one case. Earl Smith, old Livingston road, (Continued On Page Seven). morning at 9:30 and arguments will begin in the case after the reading of the instructions.

Each side has -been allotted two hours. The case will probably go to ih9 jury late tomorrow evening. Dr. A. J.

Podesta, superintendent of Vicksburg charity hospital, as a defense witness today testified that gashes found after Miss Haring's death in the knees and knuckles of Bove were "clean cuts and not from teeth bites." Sheriff W. F. Hossley, testifying previously for the state, described the injuries' as "teeth bites" as a result of his examination of Bove on his arrest last June after the death of Mis.v Haring, a pretty young hospital cashier. i The state contends on circumstantial evidence that Miss Haring received a blow on the back of her head with a beer bottle before her death in the Bove home, but the defense refutes this allegation with the claim that she received an accidental- blow on the head in a fall.n Dr. Podesta testifed that the Bove laceratons were "clean and by a sharp nstrument and if they had been teeth bites the cuts would have been ragged." Prosecution testified that a sliver of glass had -been removed from the head wound the young woman but defehsa witnesses today contended that the cut was caused by an accidental fall on a bottle.

Mrs. A. Webster, a defense witness, related a demonstration in the "death pantry-' where tha -young woman was found in a dying condition. DERMA WINS, LOSES CALHOUN CITY, Dec. high boys won over Houlka in a basketball game, with a score of 41 10, but Derma high girls lost to Houlka high girls, 19 to 18.

ABE MARTIN a fl Fofi.riMoHJiH What's become th olo tL patriotic citizen that used Well, I didnt vote fer him. but President jest th' same?" folks go clean thro life w.i-v savin anything but littla tin i or Sheriff Declares War On Hinds Beer Traffic With Raid; Takes 3 Truckloads oosevelt Orders Two Steps To Fortify Recovery With Wintry Season Just Ahead High Low Rain Jackson 58 40 Atlanta 54 44 .02 Birmingham 58 44 Chicago 38 36 .78 Denver 56 44 Jacksonville, 70 64 .02 Little Rock. .53 42 Memphis 43 40 .01 Meridian 54 42 Mobile 66 52 New Orleans 66 52 New York 40 34 .68 Vicksburg 54 42 Initiating a -series of dry raids intended to "rid Hinds county of beer joints and gambling dives," Sheriff Gfc Warren Ferguson and his retinue of county officers last night swooped down on sixteen reported "beer joints," seized three truckloads of beer and broke up two gambling, tables. With the avowed purpose of cleaning up "all suburban sections where, beer is being sold, Sheriff Ferguson and his corps of officers struck first at "five points," Po cahontas road suburb just outside the limits, confiscated about 125 cases and kegs of beer, and broke up -two alleged gambling dives. Sheriff Ferguson announced that he would.

continue his raids "as early and as often as necessary to stop the sale of beer in Hinds county." The sheriff asserted that heer being sold in and around Jackson during the past few weeks contained 6 per cenf alcohol, which is "sufficiently strong enough to make any. body -drunk." Proprietors of nine establishments were ordered to appear before Judge C. L. Graves in justice of thep eace court this morning at 10 o'clock to. answer charges ol vlo- WASHINGTON, Dec.

20 JPy President Roosevelt sought to fortify his economic recovery machin ery against any let downs today with two moves the extension ot his blanket reemployment agreement and the concentration of the many-faceted units of the national recovery agencies. The extension for another four months of the reemployment agreement was designed to cover with the temporary codes the estimated 30 per cent of industries which have yet to come in under the NRA permanent set-up. Mr. Roosevelt said that "in the midst of winter -and with many persons out of work it is essential that the new year should not bring with it any let down In the recc'ery program in the trades and industries." At the same time, he definitely established a policy of tying together under the direction of a single leader, Frank C. Walker, the whole recovery machinery, includ ing the NRA, the several farm re MISSISSIPPI RIVER Flood Prest 24-Hour Stage Stage Chanpe St.

Louis 30 0.0 0.2 fall Memphis 33 5.8 0.0 Arkansas City 48 7.9 0.1 rise Vicksburg 45 6.9 0.4 rise Natchez 46 8.4 0.9 rise Baton Rouge .....1 35 4.9 0.5 rise Reserve 22 2.8 0.4 rise New Orleans 17 .1.8 0.4 rise.