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a For Nearly A Century Has Set The Pace For Mississippi Journalism Prinfs All The Ncics That's Fit To Print And Prints It First 4- Wl DO OUR PACT -9 Wt DO OUK PART FULL ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT JACKSON, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1935 ESTABLISHED 1R37 The Daily Washington Merry-Go-Round By DKEW PEAIiSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN Authors or "Washington flier ry-Go-Kound" and "More Merry-Go- Round" 4 i till i lo) hyi uj fi 1 'Mil I 111 President's Concession to of I IlelDs Prospects for NRA Re BUNS WILD IN STATE Conferees Reac aymond Hamilton Is EUROPEAN YET ALIVE e'rms As Relief Mekiified One By ill Near End ny Kidnap Cashier of Bank of Collins Identifies Desperado In Mississippi Trail of Gunfire as Public Enemy No. 1 of Texas newal; senate liberals, However, Still Ready for right remands are Unmet; Selection of Labor Leader for Board Is Defeat for Chairman Richberg; "Assistant President" Named as Chief After Two Others Had Declined. WASHINGTON. Mar.

25. Un questionably the president's nec essity-inspired rapprochement with the A. F. ox moguls has brightened the prospects for NRA renewal. The battle, however, Is far from won.

The administration has yet to placate the bitterly hostile senate- progressives, who, privately, are fully prepared to scuttle the Blue Eagle unit if their demands for reforms are not met. The president is fully aware of mis cancer, iseiuna me 5L-en he Is makins a strenuous effort to reach an understanding with the left-wingers. He has given them assurances that personally he favors the banning of price-fixing, elimination of all restraints on production and the reinstatement of anti-monopoly safeguards. Senate Independents say they are taking the president at his word, but they make no bones of the fact that they have their fingers crossed. In other words, they are waiting for him to make good his privately-conveyed promises.

If the administration bill that Richberg is secretly preparing fulfills the president's statements, then the independents are ready to play ball. If it fails to do so they are determined to fight. At Kichberg's Expense The president's, peace-making with the A. F. of L.

chieftains was almost entirely at RIchberg's exaense. The burly Chicaoan took it or the Jaw thre times. Privately hostile to the Wagner Labor disputes bill, he had to back water and make a public avewa! that he was for the measure in principle" Likewise, he was strongly op-rosed to adding another labor member to the NRA board. "Some weeks ago when Secretary Perkinswho favored such an addi tior thought she had it all arranged with the president. Rich-berg intervened and put a stop to it.

But In last week's shake-up of the board, not only was a laborite added, but he was the choice of John I. Lewis, president of the denunciatory of Richberg's foes. Cat in Front Lastly, and most costly to Rich-berg, was his appointment as chairman of the NRA board. Second only to the presidency, this is the most exposed office In (Continued on Page Five) VIENNA STAGES SHAM WARFARE Land and Air Demonstration Frotests Heimwehr Dissolution VIENNA, Mar. 23 VP) Cannon reared, machine guns sputtered, and airplanes dived from the clouds today In a double demonstration or military force on the outskirts of Vienna.

It was primarily a demonstration of the military preparedness of the Vienna Heimwehr the loyal fascist followers of Emil Fey, minister of the interior calculated to discourage those who lately have been talking about the necessity of abolishing the Heimwehr. Secondarily, it was a demonstration of the Austrian capacity for military defense in case the regular army of 30,000 troops allowed under the Versailles treaty should be lost or mislaid. The Heimwehr troops divided themselves into two "armies" for the purposes of the maneuvers. One force occupied the hills back of the suburb of Foetzlelmsdorf. The second force was to dislodge this "enemy." While this was going on the upper Austrian Heimwehr sent a delegation to Vienna assuring Prince Ernest von Starhemberg the Austrian vice chancellor and supreme leader of the heimwehr of its determination to resist dissolution "whenever our leaders call and may that be soon; we are ready." Simultaneoaily the Catholic storm troops (Premier Kurt Schu-schnigg's volunteer army) which Is closely affiliated with the anti-heimwehr peasants league (led by Minister of Agriculture Reig-her) was advertising In Catholic newspapers for new recruits.

The socialist republican guard, which was defeated and driven underground In the rebellion of Februaryi 1934, did not figure openly in these maneuvers of the private army, Eoweevr, ten telephone booths in the workingclass section of suburban Floridsdorf have been dynamited In the last 24 hours, presumably by left radicals. Such dynamiting carries th death penalties It the perpetrators arsi cazhV i ji 1 1. minim iimn I "mi in in 11 Raymond Hamilton, noted Public Enemy No. 1 of the Southwestern states, was running idld in Missis sippi last night after robbing the bank at Prentiss yesterday morn IYSTERY OF BODY SOLVEI Believe" Confession Clears Details of Finding of Burned Body BATON" 28 CSMl'steVy surrounding dis covery of- remains of. fire-con- sumed human body after, the re cent burning of a farm shanty was believed by authorities solved tonight as result of a reputed confession attributed to a jailed homicide suspect.

A man giving the name of Henry R. de Salvo 27, of Independence, was ordered by Dis trict Attorney John Fred Odom held 'for the grand jury after Odom and Sheriff Robert L. Pettit' said; he "admitted beat ing a bootlegging companion to death with- a hammer and then burning the dwelling they occupied to conceal the slaying. A written statement ascribed to the prisoner named the man he was quoted as admitting having slain as Travis Temple, or Travis Smith, of Albany, who has served repeated terms in tne penitentiary for breaking and en tering and theft. Arrested in.

Baton, Rouge in company with a woman, while assertedly. the shoes of (Continued from Page Seven) WORLD NEWS DOMESTIC WASHINGTON: Congressional conferees -break 40-hour deadlock. agreed on president's $4,880,000,000 work relief bill. JACKSON, Desperadoes, one of whom is believed to be Raymond Hamilton; climax reign of terror by disarming 15; militia forms to hunt down pair. WASHINGTON: Bernard M.

Baruch senate munitions committee U.v S. must preserve rigid neutrality in event of European war. LOS ANGELES: Bombing plane crashes, two die, as U. S. fleet completes sensational secret tactical exercises.

WASHINGTON: Senate repeals "pink slip" income tax publicity. oicviuiiGEE Gen. Hugh Johnson to resume Oklahoma residence; reserves right- to change mind about running for U. S. v-, WASHINGTON: NRA fights to ward off walk-out by, 400,000 soft coal miners; confronted with new automobile, rubber strike threats.

NEW YORK princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani slips ashore by third class gang plank, prepares to go to Reno to divorce prince. WASHINGTON Georgia and Oklahoma senators assail Secretary Wallace. Federal agents Join hunt for three bank robbers who kidnap two couples as hostages. FOREIGN LONDON: Great Britain studies alternative security pact; report Hitler says German air force stronger than England's. MOSCOW: -British, Russian statesmen pledge efforts for, solution of European crisis.

BRUSSELS: Hear new cabinet will abondon gold standard, devalue currency; tie Belgian franc to pound; markets closed. GENEVA: France warns it will oppose nazi brownshirts' occupation of demilitarized Saar. i VA I I 9 fg pl Victims of two posses on the highway near Prentiss. T. Hand, an emploj'ce of th state highway department, was kidnaped during the early afternoon, but managed to escape and Joined one of the posses.

The Covington county trio also escaped In the excitement as the bandit car rushed through the ranks of the second passe. Turned back trom their mad dash toward the cast and south, the bandits drove through New Hebron, Rockport and almost to before turning back toward Georgetown, where their car was last seen, proceeding northward on a narrow, crooked country road. Officers expressed the fear late last night that the pair had escaped, probably through crystal Springs and the western half of the state via Vicksburg. or had crossed the river above Mendenhall and made their way toward Jackson through Rankin county. Two bandits, one of whom wa tentatively identified the desperado Rajmond Hamilton, climaxed a reign of terror last night by holding up and disarming a posse of 15 men "12 rnils north oi Prentiss as Mississippi national guardsmen were mobilized hunt them down.

The ruthless bandits Cartel their mad dash through lh south Mississippi countryside after robbing the Bank of Blountville fit Prentiss Thursday morning. "One woman was woundea. Eber-Itt Ennis Crawford of Covington county was reported shot slightly in a gun battle and numerous others were kidnaped in the trail of smoking guns. The two men, streaking along country roads at a dlzz? pace, surprised a posse of 15 men 12 miles north of Prentiss, took all their guns, kidnaped M. E.

Smith, Jefferson Davis county farm agent, and forced him to drive them onward in his car. Deputy Sheriff W. J. Lee of Jefferson Davis county said after a pistol battle with the men that had tentatively identified one of them, by pictures, as Raymond Hamilton, the No. I desperado of the southwest.

It was after the posi-e was disarmed that Jefferon Davis county requested Governor Sennett Conner to mobilize mlltlamen. The governor instructed Adjutant General Thomas Grayson. to call out the troops Immediately. Deputy Sheriff Lee said Sheriff Crawford was "creased' In the head with a bullet when a party of offi cers and the bandits exchanged shots at a point between Prentiss and the spot where the posre was held up. He said the sheriff was not seriously wounded.

Earlier this afternoon, Mrs. Rodney Polk of Prentiss, was shot In the left arm when the desperadoes commandeered her automobile in their night. Deputy Sheriff Lee said that one of three women arrested today had been identified as the woman who accompanied the two men in the robbery of the bank. Approximate ly $1,105 was taken in the holdup. D.

N. Cammack of Rock Point in Copiah county, said he saw a car speed by his house at 7 p. with two men in it -whom he believed to be the bandits. "The officers were eight minutes behind," he said. Cammack said a report that the men had engaged in gun battle at Cammack's Gun, near Rockport, was erroneous.

Men with guns were standing cn all highways In several counties with orders to "shoot to kill." One of the youthful bandits was believed wounded In the face by a charge of birdshot by a farmer who resisted an attempt to commandeer his automobile. W. O. Thomas, cashier of tl Bank of Collins, E. Dent, attorney at Collins and Shcrirf Crawford were abducted shortly before the posse was overpowered.

The men were made to stand on the side of the car as shields. Speeding along, the group over took the posse of 15 and the bandits started footing immediately. Further along the road, about six miles, they ran into another group and started firing again. The possemen were forced to re treat because they were arraia ex wounding 'the bandits hostages. During the excitement, however, Thomas and Sheriff Crawford es caped.

1 Dr. L. TL Griffsby of New Or leans, said at Bogalusa. La, tonight that a woman with a mi- (Continued ca Pass Sixteen New Security Agreement Being Worked on From London Offices FRENCH ABANDONING GERMAN PEACE EFFORT Paris Dismayed Over Hit-ler Demands Before Entering Covenants By ASSOCIATED PRESS Great Britain's statesmen, seeking to save something from the wreckage of Anglo-German conversations at Berlin, Thursday were reported studying still another scheme to bulwark Europe's peace. French officials, however, were described as despairing of, getting Germany into any effective peace system, believing the only way to curb the Reich's military power would be return to the old system of armed alliances.

If Hitler's reputed demands economic union with Austria, air parity and some Czechoslovak territory among them are true, and if any attempt is made to enforce them, -the French saidthe result will be war. LONDON, March 28 VP) The British government, facing decision of grave import-at the tri-power Stresa conference April 1, tonight studied still another European security scheme v.i an effort to save something from the wreckage of Anglo-German conversations at Berlin. Authoritative sources said Sir John Simon. British foreign secretary, failed completely to get Adolf Hitler's assent to -fundamentals of the present security draft' plan, worked out at Anglo-French discussions in London. early in February.

An alternative arrangement, therefore, will be sought, it was staited, which, compromising differences between the reich and other powers, may be presented to France and Italy at the Stresa conference. Germany will not be present at that meeting, Sir John told the house of commons today. He vouchsafed little other information about his mission, however, mentioning "considerable divergen-cier of opinion" between the two governments and declaring fuller information undesirable because expiatory conferences on the continent are continuing. The house, apparently convinced of the gravity of the present situ-tion, did not press him. What shape the proposed new security scheme takes will depend largely on the outcime of conversations at Moscow and Warsaw being conducted by Captain Anthony Eden, lord privy seal, it was said.

A press dispatch from Moscow this evening quoted British circles in close touch with developments there and at Berlin as saying the Anglo-French peace plan still exists as the basis for the Anglo-Russian conversations, the Moscow negotiations being referred to as "continuation" of those at Berlin. Meanwhile, It appeared certain that Foreign Minister Pierre Laval of France would go to Stresa determined to maintain the French thesis that Germany can be curbed only by renewal of the old astern of armed alliances against her. French quarters, startled by Hitler's reported six demands presented to the British visitors, were described as without hope of achiev- (Continued On Page "Fourteen) BARBARA" ELUDES CURIOUS CROWD Makes First Class Escape Down Third Class Gangplank at Landing NEW YORK, March 28 VP)-On the theory that no one would be looking for. a glamorous heiress at the third class gangplank. Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani managed to elude a crowd of curiosity seekers today as she arrived from Eu rope to divorce her prince.

Leaving the ship unnoticed, the princess stepped into an automobile and was driven along a need lessly circuitous route to her home, where she prepared to leave soon for Reno. FEDERAL MEN HUNTBANDITS Three Wisconsin Robbers Who Snatched Four Hostages Widely Hunjed CHICAGO, March 25 Federal agents tonight Joined the search for three Wisconsin bank robbers who disappeared with four hostages and simultaneously speculation developed that remnants of the Dillinger-Karpis gang might be involved. Two couples, seized by the marauders in a flight from Mauston, after an unsuccessful attempt to rob a bank, were still unreported and fears were expressed for their safety. Federal agents conferred late today with local and state police as the search fan-tailed over northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin and the order went out to "shoot to kill" an order reminiscent of the days of the rambling Dillingers. The names of Alvin Karpis.

public enemy No; 1, and John Hamilton, killer to the Dillinger gang, (Continued on Page Sixteen) FERA CHECKS SCHOOL PLEA Dr. 1. R. Alderman Confers With Governor and Other Officials Important developments in Mis sisslppi's school situation are anti cipated within the next few days as a result of the visit to Jackson yes terday of Dr. L.

Alderman, di rector of the emergency education division of the Emergency Relief Administration at Washington. While the exact nature of Dr. Al derman's brief visit to Mississippi could not be learned, It is known that he spent considerable time in the offices of the state department of education, where federal audi tors are checking the budgets on which the state applied for nearly $2,000,000 to relief funds for Its schools, visited Governor Conner at the executive mansion and spent some time at ERA headquarters in the Tower Building in conference with Charles B. Braun, director of the organization in Mississippi. The net result of the three con ferences was a dead secret last night.

Dr. Alderman himself had "checked out" at his hotel. Mr. Braun could not be located at his hotel. Governor Conner said merely that he had nothing to say about his conference with Dr.

Alderman at this time. Whether the long promised "showdown" in the controversy over (Continued on Page Sixteen) ABE MARTIN Our Ladies Aid Society reports that it recently found three poor families completely out gas, an' one wretched hovel where th family had been unable t' git about fer three days owin' a blowout. never like ask where th mail box is in a hotel 'cause I'm alius COTTON GROUP TO MEET HERE Southwide Assembly Coming to Jackson for Conference April 9 Agricultural leaders from all over the South, and particularly those interested in cotton, will gather in Jackson April 9 at an open forum in an effort to solve the cotton problems of cotton-producing states, it was announced yesterday from the office of J. C. Holton, host commissioner of agriculture.

The meeting is being sponsored by the recently formed Southern Commissioners of Agriculture, and representatives of 110 distinct groups interested in the growing, marketing of cotton and manufacturing of cotton products, as well as commissioners from 16 states and leaders of the AAA, are being asked to attend. An informal meeting of a number of commissioners in New Orleans last week led to the formation of the new association, if was stated. Harry D. Wilson, commissioner of Louisisnx, was elected president and C. Hanson of Memphis was' chosen' executive secretary- At the request of Wilson, Secretary Hanson yesterday mailed out notices of the meeting to the com- (Continued On Page Fourteen) ALABAMA MINES IGNORE STRIKE Court of Appeals Reconsiders Dismissal of Bill in Lower.

Section BIRMINGHAM, March 28 (JP) All captive coal mines in the Birmingham district will continue in operation, regardless of a strike call, it was learned here today. Apprehension has been felt in the district of a complete shutdown of coal mines, affecting more than 16,000 workers, if the United Mine Workers committee and operators do noti reach an agreement in Washington. Captive mines in the district are those operated by the Tennessee Coal, iron and Railroad the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron The Woodward Iron and Re public Steel corporation. Alabama operators and union officials today watched with eagerness developments in Washington, and declared chances for settlement of differences were "a shads brighter." FRAUDS PUNISHED BY PRISON TERMS United States Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms 'Gold Convictions NEW ORLEANS, March 28 (JP) The fifth United States circuit court of appeals today affirmed the convictions and sentences of Lamar S. Boiling and E.

A. Reilly, San Antonio, Tex, "gold mine-promoters for fraudulent use of the mails. The men appealed from convictions in the western district court of Texas, where they were each assessed $11,000 fines and sentenced to six years imprisonment in southwestern reformatory at 1 Reno, Okla. The government charged Reilly and Boiling, together with H. Rowe Morris and Edward L.

Tomllnson, used the mails to obtain money under false pretenses by misrepresentation in connection with the sale of stock In a "gold mine at Venezia, Ariz. Morris was found guilty, fined $1,000 and sentenced to a year's Imprisonment. Tomlin-son was acquitted. Morris did not appeal. WASHINGTON, Mar 23 VP) After hours of give and take behind tight-shut doors, senate and house conferees tonight placed the $4,880,000,000 work relief bill but two steps from the president's desk the weary conferees broKe a xorty- by announcing a complete agreement on the huge measure.

Striking down the controversial Thomas silver inflation amendment. eight hour deadlock and reached a complete agreement on the presi dent's $4,800,000,000 work relief bill. The largest appropriation mea sure in national history emerged in a form sure to be approved by the president. Arrangements were made in advance to make possible final house action on the measure tomorrow. It will then be rushed to the senate.

Despite previous threats of a fili buster in that branch by Senator Thomas (D-Okla) author of the sil ver inflation amendment, members of the silver bloc tonight asserted they would not stand in the mea sure's oath. Thomas said he would offer His plan later. Quick approval thus appeared likely, and there was a possibility that the bill might be earned south by airplane so that President Roosevelt could sign it into law while aboard the yacht Nourmahal. Once before he signed several bills while outside the United- States, fishing cn the high seas. Plans for speeding huge spending machine to be created un der the bill already are virtually complete.

But at the White House, earlier in the day. It was said Mr. Roosevelt would not disclose the set up until the measure is finally approved. There was nanosnaKing au arouna as the senate-house conferees, long after the supper hour tonight and after a second day of give and take on the 30 differences between tne bills passed by the two branches, finally came to an agreement. The measure that emerged rep resented a compromise.

Many changes were made in the senate measure. Besides eliminating the Thomas amendment, to which the presi dent particularly was opposed, they included: Modification of the Russell lab or compromise amendment to provide that the president shall pre determine the prevailing rate or wages on public buildings to be constructed under the fund. This rate would be submitted to contrac tors in advertisements for bids. This Russell compromise previously was adopted by the senate instead of the long controverted Mc- Carran prevailing wage amendment in order to permit the president to pay so called security wages to employees other than those working under contract and on public buil dings. A provision was inserted to provide that the Bacon-Davis act for prevailing wages shall apply on per- (Continued on Page Ten) MISSISSIPPI Friday: Fair, warmer in northwest portion.

Saturday: Partly cloudy, warmer in south portion. Louisiana: Generally fair, warmer in north portion Friday; Saturday partly cloudy, warmer in east and south portions. Alabama; Fair Friday and Saturday; somewhat warmer Saturday. Extreme northwest Florida: Partly cloudy, cooler in east portion Friday; Saturday generally fair, warmer in west portion. Weather bureau records of temperature and rainfall for the 24 hours ending 8 p.

m. in the principal cotton growing areas and elsewhere: High Low Rain Jackson 64 53 Atlanta 70 60 .54 Birmingham 62 52 1.53 Chicago 43 34 Denver 60 22 Jacksonville 86 64 Little Rock 60 44 Memphis 58 44 Meridian 64 54 .24 Mobile 80 72 New Orleans 78 72 New York 52 40 .38 Vicksburg 64 52 MISSISSIPPI Flood Stage St. Louis 30 Memphis 33 Helena 44 Ark. City 48 Vicksburg 45 Natche3 48 Baton Rouge 35 Donaldsonville v. 23 Reserve 22 New Orleans 17 RIVER Prest 24-Hour Stage Change 14.9 0.0 37.2 0.1 rise 48.4 0.5 rise 47.9 1.0 rise 40.2 0.8 rise 425 0.7 rise 31.1 0.3 rise 24.0 0.4 rise 18.0 0.3 rise 13.2 0.2 rise MANHUNT AT A GLANCE Two, bareheaded, unmasked bandits robbed Blountville Bank at Prentiss of $1,100 and escaped after locking three employes and two customers in the vault.

Bandits changed cars at point of guns several times during afternoon and apparently cut a wide circle, losing their way In a maze of Jeff Davis and Co- piali country roads. Bandits disarmed posse of 15 armed men and later captured three new hostages which they used as "shelds" In going thru a second posse. These "shields' later Identified one of the men as Raymond Hamilton by comparing their recollection of him with pictures in possession of a federal agent. County Agent M. E.

Smith and Ralph Ballls of Prentiss captured and bandits seen in Smith's car with Smith driving near Hopewell In Copiah county just before dark. National guardsmen called to assist In capture when and IX hunted men are surrounded. Detectives Carter and. Craw- ford of the Jackson police fitaff made a tow of the "terror rone and returned late at night to report they not. only lound no barricades along any roads, but, were not even stopped one time during their entire tour of the section.

Adjutant-General Grayson then disbanded all but a skeleton force of guardsmen, and the impression was general that the bandits had slipped through the cordon of officers. A reign of terror gripped four eoutn Mississippi counties yesterday and last night as two youthful bandits robbed the Bank of Blount-viH'at Prentiss and back and forth over interlacing highways in an orgy oi snooting ana Kianap- mg. At Ipajsfe rIx tvrsons were kid naped at various times during the day and night and grave fears were felt late last night for the safety of two of the victims M. E. Smith and Ralph Ballls, both of pren tiss.

Several persons were reported wounded by promiscuous gunfire from the bandit car as it raced over the highways seeking to evaoe posses of citizens and civil authorities closing in upon them. Efforts of the possmen were handicapped by the presence of hostages in the bandit car at every point where it was sighted. One of the bandits was identified by at least three of the men kidnaped during the day as Raymond Hamilton, the Texas "bad man." His companion was described as a swarthy youth. The trial of the desperadoes was lost near Georgetown, in Copiah coucity, about nightfall. The spectacular man chase which continued throughout the afternoon caused Governor Conner to order mobilization of the national guard, but only a handful of the troops were actually placed on duty.

Detachments were ordered to Mendenhall and Hazlehurst while unnraximatelv 100 men were held in the armory at Jackson ready for immediate use should the necessity arise. Th hanriits drove Into the town of Prentiss early yesterday morn-ma-, entered the bank, forced three employees and two customers into the vault and took $1,100 from the tellerfc cage, A woman accomplice waited In the bandit car while the -rthhprv was nronrcss. and as the bandits emerged from the bank the trio sped away. ivkm was formed hastily by RhMHff fathi.ton of Jeff Davis county and a score of armed citi zens and deputies gave cnase to uie bandits. Throughout the afternoon the desperadoes played a game of hide and seek with the posses, and ar the chase went on officers in the adjoining counties Joined it.

Ahandonlnff their own car with ife mrnon a river, the bandits com mandeered the automobile of M. E. Smith, county agent In Jeff Davis county, and, forcing him to remain at the wheel, continued on tneir trav. Ralnh Ballls was a passenger in Smith's car; and he was also" held as a hostage. Later in tne day as tne posses nulled th -pordon tlchter about them, blocking highways in every rfirecUnn.

the 'bandits kldnflned Sheriff Ennis Crawford, of ftoimtv. E. tJ Dent, an at torney, and w. O. Thomas, a bank er at coiiins, and forcing inem to stand on the mining board of the automobile, drove through the ranks standin' right by it..