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PAGE THREE DAILY CLARION-LEDGER, JACKSON, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2, 193'( TYPIST FREED OF SLAYING MRS. J. B. CROOK ONE- HERE ARE REACTIONS TO RADIO ADDRESS BY BLACK "Haichet" Being Buried In Jackson Labor War This Dope Voted For The Reds! Choc taws Defeated 13 To 0 i Labor leaders and contractors, i conferring here yesterday, prepared i last night to bury the "hatchet" for good. So certain was labor that an agreement, favorable to both sides, would be reached that workers were returned to jobs vacant since last Thursday when contractors re- fused to recognize the local com- I mon labor union.

Practically all construction in the city, including several lare downtown was brought to an I abrupt halt last when con- tractors refused to meet demands for recognition of the local com- mon labor union, which would Drin? about payment of a 40 to bi) ceni wage scale. Lib Jones, permanent representa- tive of the International Hod Car- riers and Builders and common la- bor organization, said last niht that "all agreed to agree" and that TI i m'W V'1 lllPiflDHM il.lM.,.iMll.ijmP.Ml.MIV"ll'lMM I. HI 1 I i i i f' M' i it i-f i v. i 4 y-y, V. a compromise, ocneiiciai ii uuui puujr oumi mm interests.

"is being drawn up now. man Scott, baffled the visitors at Tom Scott. Jackson contractor the start. Nardo made both mark-and member of the contractors' as- ers in short line plunges after he sociation. said a verbal agreement i and Scott alternated with the ball only had been reached but that in the downfield march.

Hal Wade compromise was. expected by the place-kicked the extra points after middle of next week. the first touchdown. Ass.urar.rp of a settlement was Mississippi college never even Happy at the turn of events, Gertrude O'Keefe, 37 year old Street tyoist, is shown reunited with her brother, Arthur O'Keefe, in New York just after she was cleared of killing her former fiance, George O. Frank.

The case was dropped for lack of evidence. iiaoio i mi seen last r.unt at a meeting attended by about 30 members of the contractors' association and labor representatives. Jones said the compromise would benefit all labor croups in Jackson and at the same time prove beneficial to contractors. "I believe further labor difficulties in the city of Jackson at an end." Neither faction would reveal details of the proposed compromise but it was hinted that contractors i had met labor's demand for recognition of the common labor union. Crafts workers, who were forced to as members of the AFOL to walk out with the common labor union, also an AFOL affiliate, were allowed to return to work yesterday.

The week-long strike stopped work on a downtown theatre pro- ject and remodeling of a local ho- tel. both jobs under the contract Of I. C. OarOCr ana feOll. BRAIN OF GIRL BEING STUDIED Scientists Believe Sleeping Sickness Case May Open New Channels CHICAGO.

Oct. 1. (rV) The i brain of Patricia Maguirs was I hv Tveriir.il srienre today I for its potential value in opening new channels fcr the treatment of sleeping sickness From microscopic study of the i organ physicians hoped to gam 1 more knowledge of lethargic ence- phalitis the baffling ailment which kept the 32-year-old stenographer I in a 67 months' slumber. Dr. Traut disclosed a post i mortem, performed shortly alter; Miss Maguirc's death from pneu.

monia Tuesday night, provided only one new discovery which, he said. I "may be the first" step toward con- trol of the disease." Physicians found the frontal lobs of the girls brain, which controls! speech and movements of the tongue, head and eyes, had withered. Dr. Traut said the atrophied con- dition never before resulted from I sleeping sickness. i "We know." Dr.

Traut said, "that sleeping sickness is caused by a i virus. I hope by freezing the brain i DIES IN MEMPHIS Mrs. J. B. Crook, Mother of Mrs.

J. C. Holton, Passes in Hospital Funeral services will be held In Henderson, this afternoon for Mrs. J. B.

Crook, mother of Mvs. J. C. Holton of Jackson, who Cicd in a Memphis r.rsjpital. Mrs.

Crook w.s seriously in a fall about two weeks ago and was taken to the hospital ui Memphis. Mrs. Holton unt to Memphis by plane when word was received here that Mrs. Crook's condition was serious and was at her mother's bedside when death came. Mr Holton, state commissioner of agriculture, joined his wife in Memphis Thursday night and they accompanied the funeral corctge to Hcnd-ison-ville.

Mrs. Crook, member of an old and prominent Tennessee family, was 80 years cf age at tli time of her death and until her her 1th began to fail in recent years, took sn active part in religious ard civic activities. She was a faithful member of the Henderson Baptist church. Surviving are four daughters and one son. Jackson relatives besides Mrs.

Holton arc Miss Dorothy Holton and Harry Holton. grandchildren. STATES' EDITOR IS LAID TO REST Hundreds File Past Bier in Paying Final Respects to Orleans Journalist NEW ORLEANS. Oct iT) Captain John Walker Ross, editor of The New Orleans States who died yesterday after heme in 1h service of his -paper for 52 years, was laid to rest late today In Greenwood cemetery. He 69 years of age.

Religious services were conducted by the Reverend Herman S. Hitler, pastor of the Jackson Avenue Evangelical church, and were attended by a large number of sorrowing friends of Capt. Ross in the newspaper world and the business, professional and political realms of the city. Hundreds of persons passed by his bier in the undertaking parlors prior to the final rites. Light showers fell during the afternoon services which were held at 3 o'clock.

Those who served as pallbearers were Leonard K. Nicholson. John D. Ewing, Joseph p. Buckley, James E.

Crown. William P. Ball and Albert W. Newlln. Capt.

Ross was a widely-known newspaperman. He rose from proof reader on the old States into the managing editor's and editor'. positions by steady climb and for several years served as the paper's publisher. He had been in ill health for many months since he fell and broke an arm but he remained on active duty in his newspaper office and refused to give up his work until he suffered a stroke in his office several days ago. The stricken editor then was removed to the hospital and passed away while surrounded by members of his family.

-4 State Oldsmobile Dealers Leave For Meet In Michigan Leon Gober of Gober Auto Sales company, local Oldsmobile dealer, together with a number of other Mississippi dealers, loft Jackson last on a special Illinois Central train for the Oldsmobile factory at Lansing, Mich. The 1938 sales, advertising and merchandising programs will be outlined by factory executives Thurs. day and a prc-showing of the 1938 models will e.hcld. Mr. Gober is accompanied by the following members of his organization F.

M. Tohill, service manager; L. T. Tanner, office manager: Hush Blaylock, bodv and fender department; L. W.

McAtce, sales. NAZI CHURCH BAN TIGHTENS BERLIN. Oct. 1. (V) Henrich Himmler.

chief of the German secret police, tightened the restrictions on the Protestant confessional church today with a decree closing all pastors' training colleges or the equivalent educational facilities srt up by the oppositional Protestant movement to train their own ministers. The official reason for the ban was said to be that the activities of these institutions infringes on the existing nazi regulations covcrnmg the church and constituted a flagrant disregard of state run facilities for training ministerial candidates. The measure Is ft sequel to that, of several months ago forbiddme the ordaining; of new confessional pastors. WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 OP) John L.

Lewis, labor leader, lauded Justice Hugh L. Black's speech tonight as a "powerful and straightforward statement." Commenting: on the address in which Black said he once had joined the Ku Klux Klan but later had resigned and never rejoined, the chairman of the Committee for Industrial Urbanization said; "It defines the creed of all Americans, as well as that of Justice Black." Another who commented was Senator Glass The Virginian said he still didn't think the appointment of the Alabaman was "a fit one." Questioned on Black's discussion of his Ku Kluv Klan membership. Glass said: "There is no comment to make. He admits he was a member of the Klan. but disavows the thinss the Klan was understood to advocate.

"I voted asainst confirmation of Senator Black regardless of the charges that undertook to connect him with the Klan. I didn't think the appointment was a fit one, and I don't think so now. He said nothing that changed my conception of what should be the type of person appointed to the supreme court." Fellow justices on the supreme court had no comment on the unusual address. JUSTICE- (Continued from Page One) zation, social, political or fraternal, have I ever indicated the slightest departure from my steadfast faith in the unfettered right of every American to follow his conscience in matters of religion," Black said. Black, who comes from a state which has a large proportion of negroes in its population, said he included among his "friends" many members "of the colored race." He added that some of his "best and mast intimate friends are Catholics and The justice began his speech by saying that "the constitution is the supreme law of our country.

The bill of rights is the heart of. the constitution." He moved very quickly from this starting point to a "forthright discussion of the Klan charges, which ever since his appointment have involved him in one of the bitterest controversies ever to attend the elevation of any man to ths hight court. He prefaced his reply to the contentions that he is a member of the Klan with a discussion of personal freedom and the rights of religious and racial groups. He said that "the constitutional safeguard to complete liberty of religious belief is a declaration of t.h greatest imnortance to the fu ture of America as a nation of free people." He referred to the recent attacks on his membership on the court, saying that on his vacation in Europe "a planned and concerted campaign was begun which fans the flames of prejudice and is calculated to create racial and religious hatred." "If continued," he said, "the-inevitable result will be the projection of religious beliefs into a position of prime importance in political campaigns and to reinfect our social and business life with the poison of religious bigotry." Blic ksaid that in order to do his share "in averting such a catastrophe in this land dedicated to tolerance and freedom" he would "break with precedents of the past" to deliver his speech. HORSE UPSETS CAPONE HOUSE CHICAGO, Oct.

l.fP) Trouble figuratively galloped into the lives of the Capones again today. This time it was a horse, so to speak, on Ralph Capone. Agents of the internal revenue department disclosed they were attempting to collect a. tax of $3, 082.18 from him on $75,000 they contended he won at the race tracks in the 1922-25 period. Meanwhile, United States District Attorney Michael Igce and his tax expert, David L.

Bazelon, prepared to seek a judgment for more than against brother Al Capone, who is serving a term in Alcatraz prison for evading payments on his hugs income during the lush illegal liquor era. They claimed th-i amount was due in taxes, penalties and interest for the years 1924-29. ATTACK CHARGED FORREST CITY. Oct. 1.

(D c. A. Stanfield, Hot Springs, attorney for the tenant farmers union, charged he was attacked on the courthouse steps here today and escorted from town along with two young women companions. RT ACK SITPORTER BIRMINGHAM, Oct. Lauding the appointment oi senator Black to the supreme court bench, Arthur W.

Mitchell, Chicago's nejro congressman, told a group of negroes last nisht that "jealousy among' yourselves" is the negro's greatest hindrance to prog, ress. CHATTANOOGA. Oct. 1. of Chattanooga sccreci two loucnaowiii uie lirst ten minutes oi piay against xviis slssippi college here tonight to de feat its Dixie conference rival 13 to 0.

It was the first conference game for both elevens, played before a crowd of 3.500. Chattanooga's offense, featuring threatened, although O. Winstead and Joel Hitt, Choctatv backs, completed several forward passes. Rain slowed the game in the second and third quarters. The last quarter was marked by brilliant punting by Wade and Winstead.

Chattanooga had the ball on Mississippi college's one yard line as the game ended. First Quarter Co-Captain Smith kicked off for Missisippi to Chattanooga, and the Moccasin's marched quickly to a first down on the Choc 47. Nardo carried the ball on a touchdown march from this point, picking up 20 yards in one dash, and jamming the ball across from the one-yard line. Wade kicked the extra point. Mississippi took the kick-off, and Winstead carried the ball twice bp fore tne Chocs kicked to Ule Moc.

casins who promptly returned the hrtf. tn 7 97 Trnt'c nnt. rittr. nlars n-at narflv blocked. Nardo taking the ball on the Choc 41.

Scott made a first down to the Choc 27, then alternated with Frank to sweep to Mississippi's 2. Nardo promptly punched the leather across, but the kick was wide. Rain which had been falling began to sog the field and drench the players'. Second Quarter Hitt kicked out of bounds on Chattanooga's 41, but lost yardage on a return boot that landed cn their 17. When Hitt was held in line tries, Mississippi punted out, again.

Chattanooga was forced to kick back as the Tribe stiffened. A pass by Winstead gave Mississippi a urti oowu uu uk own 40, and Winstead and Green made it first again on the Mocca. sin 48. The Tribe had to punt. Marler took Chattanooga's kick h.irk to his 43.

Winstead made 7 and Hitt went over center 12 yards aic chuv Vv. intercepted a pass on the Nooga 20 and parked it on the 27. waoe kicked out of bounds on Mississippi 37. Landrum made 5 yards, and Winstead went to mid-field a tackle drive. He made 12 more at center, then the Chocs bogged down in a welter of rain and mud.

Hitts pass attempt was smothered, ana Nardo intercepted Winstead aerial on the 37. A few more plays and the half ended, Third Quarter Mississippi dared the rain and alert Moccasin backs with a pass attack, but Kopchak intercepted and was brought down on the Tribe 44. Nardo made 5 yards over left tackle, and Frank was smeared for a 6 yard loss. Wade kicked out of bounds on the Choc piavs before Winstead punted tt the 'Nooga 36 yard stripe. out Wads made first down, but the Tribe line stiffened and he was forced to punt.

Taking the ball on their LS. the Chocs hit the then Winstead lateraled to Schmaltz for a first down. Schmaltz passed incomplete and was smeared for a 3 yard loss. Winstead punted to Eubanks on the Moccasin 12. Fourth Quarter The 'Noogans ran a line play and punfed to Schmaltz on his 41.

Winstead lost on an attempted pass and line stab, failed to gain though in a pass to Green, and kicked out of bounds on the Chattanooga 44. 'Nooga got 2 and Scott picked up 12 yards on a reverse. Winstead intercepted his pass and Mississippi punted to Scott, who was downed on the Moccasin 39. Two line plays and Wade kicked to the Choc 29. Hitt came back into the game during the worst of a heavier downpour.

Weems car- ried the ball twice for 5 yards, Hitt's "pass was incomplete, and he kicked to Scott, who was stopped on the Moccasin 31. Mississippi tock the cautious 'Nooga punt, and Chattanooga drew lo yards when the receiver was roughed. Hitt passed twice, and the second was intercepted by Eubanks on the Choc 40. Nardo got 5 over center, and Eubanks drove to a first down on the Tribe 24. Hanging tightly to the ball.

Chattanooga poked at the line after Scott made (Continued from Page One) all Americans and other foreigners had been evacuated from the area by noon at Sept. 26. Yarnell said that in reality Johnson told Japanese foreigners would be evacuated from the territory after that date. He stated several thousand foreigners, including 1,000 Americans, are in the Yangtze river valley and added that "it is imperative that a safe route" for their evacuation be agreed upon. Advise Evacuation Chinese, meanwhlie, said Japan was considering a further warning to foreign powers to evacuate Nanking to avoid danger of air raids.

The Chinese news agency said the warning would be based on the ground that several Japanese planes raiding Nanking recently were shot down wrhen they flew low to avoid damaging foreign property. (The Chinese delegation at Geneva asked the League of Nations advisory committee to declare China a victim of Japanese aggression. (The Japanese foreign office made it clear that Japan, however, would not stand for third party mediation. (Japan's navy ministry admitted Japanese warships recently had shelled a fleet of Chinese junks off the south China coast, but said the shelling was in self defense. Japanese military sources at Peip-ing reported that Americans stranded at Paotingfu, North China stronghold recently taken by the Japanese, wrere safe and that American property was being protected by the Japanese army.

The Japanese told of the capture of Yenmen Pass, in north Shansi province, and occupation of Taichow after capturing' Fanchin and Taiy-ingchen to the east. A communique said Chinese troops deserted Yen-men Pas defenses and fled southward. China's military affairs commission at Nanking declared Japan's North China forces "massacred" 200 wounded Chinese soldiers following Japanese capture of Tsangchow, south of Tientsin. Sept. 25.

Chinese had been unable to take their wounded with them during the retreat, the commission said. Fourth Day's Battle The battle for possession of the Chinese Chapei sector of Shanghai raged into its fourth day with Chinese holding their own in hand to hand fighting. Japanese reported advances in the Lotien sector of the front north of Shanghai, where a Japanese commander said a two-hundred yard section of Chinese pillbox lines had been mined sue-ccssf ully. Japanese asserted their casualties in five weeks of Shanghai fighting totalled 7,530 men, of which 1,893 were kiled in action. The report did not include naval losses.

Chinese casualties, Japanese- estimated, were 20,000 killed and 35,000 wounded. Shanghai's cholera epidemic increased at the rate of 100 cases a day, with nearly 2,000 known cases among Chinese living in the international settlement. A total of 504 deaths were reported in the last few days. From Hongkong came reports that a Chinese blockade of the river approach to Canton imprisoned the Amercian gunboat Minda-no, two British gunboats and a French warship. Chinese nilots were said to have shot down two Japanese bombing planes from a squadron wnicn damaged Canton's outlying areas.

Air raid warnings were sounded in Nanking, but Japanese warplanes did not bomb the city. ALL ACE (Continued from Page One) the supreme court nullified the tax and handed millions of dollars of tax money over to the processors," he said. Other points in the program would provide: encouragement of greater consumption of cotton "in ways that would raise the standard of living of all our people," increased production of home food and feed crops; authority for loans to prevent price collapses; and finally, authority for marketing quotas on the entire crop, to be used after a referendum of producers in time of emergency as a further protection from disaster from crushing surpluses. He described the "processing tax as the farmer's tariff" and said "simple justice demands that the nation find some way to make up for the handicap that the tariff imposes on the south." Wallace took cognizance of a prospective southern crop and a prospective 19.000,000 bale foreign crop, wiiich he said wrould lead to world carryover next August of "from 17 to 18 million bales. Senator Hattie W.

Caraway, (Dem-Ark) who heard the address said the secretary appeared to be "thinking along straight lines," but there were parts of the program she wanted to study. Cully Cobb, Atlanta, former administration cotton chief, praised it as "the first official statement that definitely recognizes the international position the cotton producer occupies." LAND-- (Continued from Page One) peachment proceedings against the veteran official when the legislature convenes in January. Although the records of the office will be released to Mr. Moore upon the adjournment of the committee, the commissioner has already delivered to Governor White something like 1,700 land patents the validity of which were questioned by the committee. These patents are now in a vault in the governor's office.

In the meantime. Governor White has announced 'that he notapprove any land patents until the legislature meets and considers the problem of what is to be done about the state land office. The probe committee has recommended abolition of the present office and system and the substitution of a new system of handling the public lands of the state. By PAUL MICKELSON NEW YORK, Oct 1. (JP) I was minding my own business and very happy in the pursuit of three-star special guesses as to the sure outcome of tomorrow's big football games when the boss emitted a hilarious rear and tossed a carefully preserved clipping on my littered desk.

One look produced a series of gulps. Just as expected an astounding spring prediction had come home to roost with a left hook to the schnozzola. Gazing from left to right a screaming headline read: "Here it is! Mickelson picks Cincinnati to capture National league flag race." Attached to it, like salt in an open wound, were the day's league standings. Dowrn, down, down to the very bottom was where the Cincinnatis were finally discovered. It's all right to say they can't do this to me but they've already done it.

I'm in the experts' hoose-gow dressed in red stripes. All there is to eat is food for thought. But misery loves company and has got it. Somewhere in this vast army of the unemployed is my associate in this spring baseball calculation business, Charlie Dressen, who was pretty sure we were right last April Fool's- day. But inasmuch as I gotta take it, 111 repeat part of the world's championship wrong baseball prediction of the year.

A pinch of snuff and we're off. "Unshaken after numerous huddles with the slickest psychologists (P. Always listen to them guys) in town I'm still stuck on the Cincinnati Reds as my three-star special to win the 1937 National league flag. Honestly, this is no trick stuff to win a reputation (ouch.) as a sage in case of a lucky pick Coming back this spring the Reds have struck rookie gold with two o. the finest young pitchers in years-Lee Grissom (that helps) and Johnny Vander Meer Okay.

I'm still stuck with them. "The Giants don't look so hot without Bill Terry on first but Can Hubbell still throws 'em for New York. Giants to place." "The Cubs should get good pitching but where they're going to get their punch nobody knows. Can't expect Gabby Hartnett to keep going. Third for the Cubs." That Hartnett crack really hurts.

"Pittsburgh has got the class but not the hustle. Fourth." Not so bad. "Paul Dean is washed up and Dizzy's nci in the pitching mood. Infield looks too weak. So does catching.

Fifth for the Cardinals." Not so bad either and neither were the rest with Brooklyn, Boston and Philadelphia picked to sew up second division. If it weren't for the fact I had the standings upside down all would be swell. However, it can't rain all the time. Rising out of a stupor, I drew a real long shot out of the pickle in the American league. It read "This vivid imagination can stretch from the pole to the horn with plenty of slack to spare but hardly far enough to see any ba club except Joe McCarthy's New York Yankees in the impending American league race.

The race of the league is scared stiff of the Yankees." The rest weren't so good but what matter? I'm cured. From now on I'm going to choose nothing but New-York in both leagues. They don't always win but they don't make a bum nut of a conscientious expert. In football, it's always going to be Minnesota, Duke and Pittsburgh; in golf Harry Cooper and in horse racing always the stable with tht most dough behind it. As the Yankees were the only ones who didn't do me wrong in baseball this year, I'll stick with them to beat the Giants in the world series.

BRITISH (Continued from Page One) out when Britain four months ago proposed to partition Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states with a third part remaining under British mandate, reached a climax last Sunday with the assassination of the British commissioner of Galilee and his bodyguard. The British drive against new-outbreaks started before dawn when houses of Arab leaders were surrounded and searched. Dr. Hussein Kjalidi, Jerusalem mayor, and Faud Saba, secretary of the higher committee, were reported British cruiser Sussex. Telephone lines were discon-arrested and taken aboard the nected.

Censorship was imposed. Automobiles were searched. Tension spread throughout Palestine. One Arab was killed, British said, when he refused to halt at a sentry's challenge. Authori-ti-s foresaw the possibility of more serious trouble and adopted all possible precautions.

Action against the Mufti, who has received a $3,000 annual salary from the British government as an appointive official, deprived him of the presidency of the supreme Moslem council. Authorities explained that they found it necessary to take action against persons "whose activities have been prejudicial to the maintenance of public security." The action followed British rejection of Arab demands for the release of 200 prisoners held in connection with the slaying Saturday of Commissioner Lewis Andrews and Constable Peter McEwan. An official deportation order was issued against five members of the Arab higher committee. Those listed for deportation were Khalidi. Saba, Jamal Effendi Husseini, head of the Arab party; Jacoub Hussein, head of the Moslem Youth association; and Ahmed Hilmi Pasha, manager of the Arab bank.

LEVIATHAN REPLACED WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. (TV-Rehabilitation of America's merchant marine was under way to day fol. struct a new liner to replace the lowing acceptance of a hid to con-Leviathan in the north Atlantic service. and by careful study to find tnatn.

Hitt got fhree yards in two 731 WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. The text of the address tonight by As sociate Justice Hugo L. Black of the supreme court: Ladies and gentlemen: The constitution is the supreme law of our country. The bill, of rights is the heart of the constitution.

The constitutional safeguard to complete libexty of religious belief is a declaration of the greatest importance to the future of America as a nation of free people. Any movement action by any group that threatens to bring about a result inconsistent with this unrestricted individual right is a men-ance to freedom. Let me repeat: Any program, even if directed by good intention, which tends to breed or revive religious discord or antagonism, can and may spread with such rapidity as to imperil this vital constitutional protection of one of the most sacred of human rights. I believe that no ordinary maneu ver executed for political advantage would justify a member of the supreme court in publicly discussing it. If, however, that maneuver threatens the existing peace and harmony between religious or racial groups in our country, the occasion is not an ordinary one.

It is- extraordinary. Charges Prejudice During my recent absence on a short vacation abroad, a planned and concerted campaign was begun which fans the flames of prejudice and is calculated to create racial and religions hatred. If continued, the inevitable result will be the projection of religious beliefs into a position of prime importance in political campaigns and to reinfect our social and business life with the poison of religious bigotry. It will bring the political religionist back into undeserved and perilous influence in affairs of government. It will elevate the least worthy to political positions because religion or race bars others from a password.

It will resurrect practices and arguments from which this country suffered sorelv in the nineteen-twen-ties. It will revive the spirit which, in 1928, caused a national campaign to be waged largely upon issues unworthy of a free people. It will bankrupt many business men whose sole offense is that they have religious beliefs which do not accord with the prevailing religion in tneir communities. It will punish the professional man whose patients and clients boycott him, not because of lack of professional ability, but because there are in his locality lew members of his faith or his race. It will again set neighbor against neighbor and turn old friends into new enemies.

To contribute my part in averting such a catastrophe in this land dedicated to tolerance and freedom, I break with precedents of the past to talk with you tonight. An effort is being made to con vince the people of America that 1 am intolerant, and that I am prejudiced against people of the Jewish and Catholic laiths, and against members of the negro race. These insinuations are advanced despite the fact that, for the last eleven years, I have served in the senate of the United States under constant and microscopic public scrutiny. Tvtv and acts are a matter of public record. I believe that my record as a senator reiuies evei implication of racial or religious in-toleance.

It shows that I was of that group of liberal senators who have consistently fought for the civil, economic and religious rights of all Americans, without regard to race or creed. Dropped the Klan The insinuations of racial and religious intolerance made concerning me are based on the fact that I joined the Ku Klux Klan about fifteen years ago. I did join the the Klan. I later resigned. I never rejoined.

What appeared then, or what appears now, on the records of the organization, I do not know. npvpr have cons idered and I do not now consider the unsolicit ed card given to me shortly alter my nomination to the senate as a member of any kind in the Ku Klux Klan. I never used it. I did not even keep it. Before becoming a senator I dropped the Klan.

I have had nothing whatever to do with it since that time. I abandoned it. I completely discontinued any association with the organization. I have never resumed it and never expect to do so. At no meeting of any organization, social, political or fraternal, have I ever indicated the slight I exi i iiiacK i est departure from my steadfast faith in the unfettered right of every American to follow his conscience in matters of religion.

I have no sympathy with any organization or group which, anywhere or at any time, arrogates to itself the un-American power to interfere in the slightest degree with complete religious freedom. No words have ever been or will ever be spoken by me, directly or indirectly, indicating- that any native or foreign-born person in our free country should or could be restricted in his right to worship according to the dictates of his conscience. I have supported candidates for public office without reference to their faith. In my endorsement of applicants for governmental positions, I have acted without discrimination of any kind or character. For Tolerance I number among my friends many members of the colored race.

I have watched the progress of its members with sympathy and admiration. Certainly they are entitled to the full measure of protection accorded to the citizenship of our country by c-Jjr; constitution and our laws. Some of my best and most intimate friends are Catholics and Jews, shortly after I moved to Birmingham, more than a quarter of a century ago, I formed one of the most valued friendships of my life with a son of Jew-ish faith. He was one of my closest associaates and strongest political supporters. Months of our lives were spent together, much of the time in his home.

He stood so nearly in the place of a father to me that while in the army in 1918 I designated this trusted Jewish friend as sole executor of my will. In my campaigns for public office his counsel and assistance were always mine. His widow who was a guest in my home at the recent inauguration of President Roosevelt was one of the first to congratulate me upon nomination to be a justice of the supreme court. When this statement is ended my discussion of the question is closed I believe the character and conduct of every public servant, great and small, should be subject to the constant scrutiny of the people. This must be true if a democracy serves its purpose.

It is in this spirit that I now bid those who have been listening to me goodnight. PWA (Continued from Page One) according to these drainage basins: The Tennessee valley; the Atlantic Seaboard, including the drainage area below the basin of the Se-wanee along the Gulf of Mexico; the Great Lakes and Ohio valley: the Missouri valley; the Arkansas river valley; the southwestern section of the United States, south of the California-Oregon line, taking in the great basin area of Utah and northern Nevada; the Columbia river basin of the Pacific northwest. Officials did not estimate how many employes will be dropped, but Ickes said "in order to keep within our budget it will be necessary to make many separations from the service in the near future." PWA's payroll has been cut from a peak of 10,938 in April of 1936 to 6,822 persons at present, officials said. President Roosevelt announced recently he will make no more major allotments of funds of PWA projects, but officials said construction is still at a high point. Many of the 1,200 odd projects allotted funds this summer are not yet under way.

There are 2,980 projects, to cost $1,986,592,702, still under construction, under contract or under allotment. Baltimore Fire Destroys Park BALTIMORE, Oct. 1. GP The third largest fire in the history of Baltimore destroyed Carlin's the city's largest amusement park, early today, injuring two firemen and causing more than $250,000 damage. Ten alarms called out 60 pieces of apparatus to battle the spectacular blaze.

The fire alarm bureau said more alarms had been sounded only twrice before in the great city-wide fire of 1904 and in the Fifth Regiment armory fire a few years ago. virus: When it is found, only then 1 can we study the way to attack it." MRS. S. T. PONDER BURIED FRIDAY Mrs.

Sarah T. Ponder. 73. who died Thursday at the home of her son. Glenn Ponder, 741 Eastview street, was buried yesterday morning in Cedarlawn cemetery.

Funeral services for the well known Jackson woman were conducted by Dr. J. Lloyd Decell, pastor of the Galloway Memorial Methodist church, from the Baldwin funeral chapel. Mrs. Ponder was a native of Macon but had resided in Jackson for the past 12 years.

She was a mem ber of the Galloway Memorial Methodist church Two sons. Forrest Ponder, 3318 North State street, Glenn Ponder, one daughter. Miss Mamie Ponder, and one sister, Mrs. Laura Hubbard, survive. Five grandchildren are also left.

Active rv.U bearers were Jack Reeves. Temple Withers, Jack Downing. D. B. Sharon.

Homer I Thames and McWillie Robinson. Honorary pall bearers were J. D. Sellers. E.

E. Barksdale. H. S. Rob erts.

R. M. Hendricks. E. M.

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