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Local Cotton Strict rood I 7 Middling lii Strict few middliag I.II The Weather ALABAMA: Generally fair, awt mora ekup hi tempera-tor today JUid Weineaday. PAGE3 AT B'ES DAT MORNING, JANU'ART 20, 1931 1 volume cm-xo. 0 Kiwanis Leaders The, Legislators wiouo -1 ffij'S Price 5 Cents New Governor Fills Vacancies On Gapitol Hill H. H. Montgomery Named Bank Superintendent; Moon Adjutant General Feagin Is Chosen Turner, Covington Picked As Secretaries; Searcy Becomes Fire Marshal rll Dr N(lt StrrK Tb worn 't trM 'SpangV Among Throng Packs fntfrm 9v fJ rrtes from LeBey HoK, of Birsntngham, Gsveraar ike Alabama JKlwanls District, and William i.

Carrtngton, of Atlantis City, 'N. trustee of Kiwanis International, Who will attend the annual Kiwanis directors' meeting here today and will be gnats of honor at the Kiwanis luncheon. Jeffewon Counlj For Extravaganza Opening Gov. B. M.

Miller Monday night an. nounced a number of appointments' to -public places during his administration, with the proviso that the appointees to the Tax Commission and the Highway Commission were temporary in nature and that the men appointed would not be applicants for permanent places. D. Howell Turner, of Camden, was named private secretary. Mr.

Turner is the official court reporter for the Jadicial circuit over which Judge Miller so long presided. Turner was in Birmingham Miller headquarters during the primary and general election campaign and proved his political adeptness In this post and made thousands of friends who will rejoice that his fitness for this important position has been recognized by Gov. Miller. W. F.

Covington, of Headland, Henry County, Is the recording secretary, Mr. Covington is new to State politics but he is a member of the well known Covington family of Henry. As has been generally known, John the firm of Andrews and Peach; of Sheffield, was named legal adviser. H. H.

Montgomery is named superin tendent of banks. This appointment is effective Feb. 1. Mr. Montgomery served as superintendent of banks during ths Kilby administration and is a native of.

Anniston. Col. Hartley Moon is to be adjutanj general. CoL Moon served during the administration of Gov. W.

W. Brandon. He was a major in the famous 187th Ala bama Regiment and served in Franca and was wounded In action and Was cited for his services to his country. Ralph Searcy, of areenville, was named fire marshal. Mr.

Searcy was one of the most active supporters Judge Miller had during the campaign. William F. Feagin, of Birmingham, was named to head the State Board of Administration. Mr. Feagin has been a State superintendent ot education, has been Montgomery County superintendent of education, served as head of the Convict Department in the Kilby admlnls tratlon and is regarded, as one of the) most active and most astute buttaea men In, fly HaiaHir man from S- to his direction is due In large meaiiura the managerial success of Judge MlSJerM primary campaign.

W. M. Weston, of Luverne, is named service commissioner. The State Highway Commission will be composed of L. O.

Smith, of Montgomery, as highway director; H. D. Bumum, of Decatur, as associate, and William Herzberg, of Birmingham, as associate. These appointments are temporary and neither of these men will be aspirants for the permanent position on the High- way Commission. John S.

Mooring is named as chair man of the State Tax Commissioln. This is also a temporary appointment and Mr. Mooring will not be an applicant for the permanent place. Charlie Greer, of Birmingham, waa named insurance commissioner, In making his announcements Gov. Miller made no comment.

However, It is well known that he will seek to havea law enacted providing for one member of the State Board of Administration, one member of the State Tax Commis sion and one member of the State Highway Commission. These bills are expected -to be introduced Tuesday. Steams Sworn In As County Sheriff Sam D. Stearns yesterday took th 14 Arrive Today Youth Confesses Daring Holdup Georgian Wed Here Admits Falling Station And Grocery Robberies Albert Elder, 24, of Gainsville, Ga, captured by police yesterday morning, confessed to the robbery ot the Fair-view Avenue Filling Station Thursday night, and the daring daylight holdup of the Katz Grocery Company Saturday afternoon, police stated. Elder was captured at IS King Street after he thought he had eluded the officers.

Detectives E. P. Davis, Chan-celor, Scott and Denison had been watching the house Sunday night but Elder did not come until about 9 a.m. Monday. The Detectives closed in on the liquse, which is a two apartment building, but Elder escaped through the other apartment.

The detectives then drove away from the house but once out of sight John Scott and A. Chancellor left the machine and slipped back In time to see Elder coma out from under a nearby building where he had been hiding, and return to his apartment. The detectives approached the house from the front and rear. From outside the back door, Chancellor said, he heard Elder tell someone In the room with him that he had his gun and was going out for and that tt anyone cams vt stopped him on the street, he would WU them. Mr.

Chancellor said that he swung the door open suddenly and cov ered Elder with his pistol, calling for seott who entered at the front of the apartment. Detectives Davis and Denison arrived a few moments later. At police headquarters Elder admitted his two holdups, stating that he did them because his wife had left him and. he did not care what happened. Two women who were in the room with him at the time ot his arrest were taken to headquarters for questioning, but released.

Elder said that he played a lone hand In both his robberies. Druggist Slugged, Robbed By Three White Bandits Two holdups marked the early morning hours yesterday. W. B. Hancock, 6 East Fifth Street, reported to police that he was robbed of $200 by three white men who seized him as he left his garage and started walking toward the door of his home and shortly afterward S.

E. Brown, 401 East Third Street, told police that two negroes had held him up on the corner of East Third and West Streets, taking $7.35. i 1 Mr, Hancock, manager of the South Side Pharmacy, told officers that he had remained at his store until nearly 1 a.m., Sunday, and carried the money from the establishment home with him. After parking his automobile in the garage he was surprised by three white men. Mr.

Hancock said he struggled with the men and probably left scratches and bruises on one or more of them. One of the robbers struck him across the cheek with a large stick, Hancock said, and another took the money from his pockets while he struggled with the other two. Two negroes, one tall and yellow, the other short and very black, are said to have accosted 8. E. Brown near the corner of East Third Street on 'West StreetOne of the negroes, Brown told police, suddenly drew a pistol and kept him covered while the other went through his pockets.

Brown said he bad $7.33 at the time. $60,000 Liquor Cargo Taken From Speedboat BEACH HAVEN, 19. JP A speed btfat loaded wltS liquor valued at nearly $60,000 ran aground in Little Egg Harbor inlet in a heavy storm before dawn today and was seized by the Coast Guard. No one was aboard when Coast Guards boarded the craft. It was not known whether the crew escaped in a life boat when' the Coast Guards opened fire or were drowned.

prisoners if "civil order" Is restored in India. (2) An invitation to the Indian extremists to participate in the negotiations stilt to come before the new Indian government is established, (3) Establishment of full responsible self-government in India with th imperial British government reserving control of finances, foreign affairs and defense. (4 Extension of the voting franchise In India and the lifting of restrictions based on religion and caste. (5) Establishment of a legislature of two houses modelled along the line of the Congrms of the United States, (6) Encouragement ot Indians to settle their own communal problems. (7) Uninterrupted continuance of negotiations to Jfttlo the details ot the new governmtnt.

10,000 Watch Inauguration Of 39th Governor Sun Breaks From Behind Clouds As B. M. Miller Takes Oath Of Office Simplicity Keynote New Executive; Renews Pledges Of Camoaign In Eloquent Address JOSEPH K. McCOY Facing with right hand upraised, bis friend and former colleague, Chief Justice John C. Anderson of the Supreme Court, Judge B.

M. Miller of Camden yesterday took the solemn oath that for the next four years binds him to the highest offica in the gift of the people of his native State, and at high noon, as he turned and brushed with, his lips the Bible that lay nearby atop its glass case, became the thirty-ninth Governor of Alabama. It was the same Bible with which Jefferson Davis was sworn into office as President of the Confederacy. The ceremony, which came at the close of that part of the program which marked the offlclar induction into office of Gov. Miller, was rendered all the more solem and impressive, bythe simplicity of the preliminary events which preceded it; Just the swift passage from the Gay-Teague Hotel to the' Capitol of two automobiles bearing Gov.

Graves and Miller and their aides, Col W. P. Screws and CoL E. H. Jackson, and the delivery by Gov.

Miller of his inaugural address, from the stand erected in front of the main entrance to the capitol All Roads Lead to Capitol Eleven a.m. was the hour set for the program to begin. Long before that time, the crowds began to assemble on the western slope of the Capitol grounds, on Dexter Avenue and Bainbridge Street, and as the minutes went by the assemblage grew until various estimates placed the number of those present at between 8,000 and 10,000 neople, the largest tendance that has over been recorded on a similar occasion, it is said. In the meantime, members of the official parties of both the incoming and outgoing Governors, their friends, and officials of the State, county and city governments, filed In and took their assigned places on the speaker's platform. Mrs.

Miller Mrs. Graves sat side by side throughout the ceremonies, immediately behind Gov. Graves and Miller. On the left and just opposite the outgoing and incoming chief executives; were seated Lieut. Got.

Hugh X. Merrill andMrvM.rill. Special seating accommodations wer reserved for the three former Governors tfhd were there. Judge W. W.

Brandon, of Tuscaloosa; Thomas Kilby, of An-niston, and Charles Henderson, of Troy. Former Gov. Kilby was accompanied by Mrs. All of the one-time heads of the State's affairs took the keenest interest in every moment of the historical (Turn To Page 2, Col. I) Man Is Slain By Enterprise Officer ENTERPRISE.

ALA, Jan. 19. (Spe cial). This city's record of "never a white homicide or murder" was broken Sunday night when Sam Holt, alleged bootlegger, was shot and killed at a vault factory near the city limits Dy Policeman J. D.

Stephens. The shooting is said to have taken place when Holt and a man named Cotton refused to halt when ordered to do so by the officer. Stephens is held Jn the County Jail at Elba pending preliminary hearing. Holt had served a term in the penl' tentiary for bootlegging and had a long record of lawlessness, according to local officers. His wife, Nancy Holt, also well known 4n police records here, is now serving a term at Kilby Prison, Montgomery, for bootlegging.

Troops Guard Area As Wild Well Is Checked OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan. 19. (Ph-Another roaring menace of the oil field at Oklahoma City's doorstep the wild No. 1 Wespaco oil well was throttled late today. The well, wild since morning, shut In at 6:30 p.m.

by John Gordon, tamer of 'the wild No. 1 spout ot the Morgan Petroleum Company, which sprayed oil over the State Capitol for three days last November. Gordon also worked on the famous "Wild Mary" Sudlk, Oklahoma's most notorious outlaw well, which ran wild for 11 days before being shut In. With the flow of Wespaco under control, firemen and national guardsmen took precautions against the danger of fire in the area soaked by oil from the wild gusher, i. -i (TOROGERS New York, Jan.

19. Editor, The Advertiser: Don't weaken on your Red Cross drive. Washington is still arguing, and both ides are set. Now here is what Is liable to happen. The Red Cross will be asked to go light on with their ten million to raise.

Then the government will match that with ten. That would gtve the Republicans an out, and not be called a direct dole that they object to. But their fight has nothing to do with the rest of the country. We want to keep our conscience clear and raise what have been asked to, for it's a cinch Its got to be done, and they 'U need all of It. Mr.

Lueey. Mr, Hoover's investigator right from there told me last night that the need was tremendous, especially In Arkansas, Yours. WILL. Noted Aviator, Atlantic Flier, Coming Here Lieut. Walter Hlnton, recently decorated by President Hoover with the Congressional medal heroic service as pilot of the Navy NC-4 first airplane to cross the Atlantic and the first man to fly over the Brazilian jungles in exploration, will be in Montgomery on Thursday, February it for an aviation day celebration staged by the Exchange Club and cooperating organizations, in connection with he nation-wide "Service to Aviation" air tour being sponsored by the National Exchange Clubs to aid municipalities in promoting aviation.

The noted airman will address aviation meetings, iinder Exchange Club auspices and will discuss local problems of airport location and- construction, proper marking of roofs and highways, and other aviation projects. Civic officials, other organizations, local aviation enthusiasts, and Exchange Clubs of surrounding cities being invited to participate. The tour which comes here was offi cially launched by government officials and aviation leaders at Toledo, unio, Nov. 25. It is a feature of the Exchange Clubs' national program of "Service to Aviation," and its purpose la to aid in promoting aeronautics' in towns and cities throughout the country.

In connection with this program of establishing airports and air marks, promoting air patronage, and numerous other aviation activities, more than 2.000 aviation projects ave been accomplish ed by Exchange Clubs in the past two years. Lieut. Hlnton is third vice-president of the National Exchange Club and a member of its national aviation com mittee. He is uoming to Montgomery through arrangements made by William E. Elsberry, local Club presl dent with Herold M.

Harter, National Exchange Club secretary, at the organization's headquarters in Toledo. O'Neal Backing Shoals Proposal State Farm Bureau Chief Heads For Washington To Offer Suggestions Edward A. O'Neal, president of the Alabama Farm Bureau Federation, left here last night for Washington where he will lead organized agriculture in an other attempt to get cheap fertilizers for "farmers through a solution of the 10-year-old Muscle Shoals problem. He carried with him draft of a bill, which, if passed by Congress, will provide for the leasing and operating of the nitrate plants at) Muscle Shoals by a corporation to fee developed and or ganized by a committees appointed by the board of directors of the American Farm Bureau Federation. "The proposed corporation would be a nationwide, farmer-owned and farmer-controlled co na saia, Mr.

O'Neal Is chairman of the com mittee and will meet the other members of It in Washington. They are President Sam H. Thompson, of the American Federation, ex-officlo; C. E. Hearst, president, Iowa Farm Bureau and G.

M. Putnam, president. New Hampshire Farm Bureau. Conferring with them will be Chester H. Gray, farm bureau Washing ton representative.

"Though the farmers' bill will not be allowed to Interfere with the delibera tions of the conferees now considering a Muscle Shoals bill, we want to be ready for action whether they agree or fail to agree," Mr. O'Neal said. The Alabama leader explained that the action of the Farm Bureau officials was authorized by a resolution passed at the recent Boston convention of the American Federation. "Our aim, as stated in the resolution, Is to get the most fertilizer for agriculture, retain the title in the government of the United States, use all the power necessary at Muscle Shoals for making fertilizers and dispose of the remainder so as to benefit agriculture and preserve the public interests," he said. "Under our plan the property would be preserved in times of peace for agriculture and in times of war for the United States." While in Washington Mr.

O'Neal and other members of the Farm Bureau legislative committee will confer with senators and representatives on provision of additional funds for extension work, drouth relief and other phases of the Farm Bureau program for agriculture." Appeal Of Clark Decision Is Filed WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. (jF) Pre-i Umlnary. to Wednesday's battle over the validity of the eighteenth amendment, the Government today filed with the Supreme Court Its appeal from the decision of Judge Clark of New Jersey, holding the amendment Invalid. A brief supporting Judge Clark's ruling, based on the contention the amendment should have been ratified by state conventions rather than legislatures, was submitted today by Jeremiah M.

Evarts, an attorney of Windsor, Vermont. He Is not associated with counsel for William H. Sprague, whose truck load of beer began the controversy, but was permitted to intervene by the court. Solicitor General Thacher will present the Government's contentions. He has already filed a brief outlining his argument.

Summed up, It said the questions raised by Judge Clark have already been decided by the Court. Underworld Records Are Given To Jurors CHICAGO, Jan. 19 Startling and rapidly developing evidence was laid today before the special Orand Jury Investigating the alleged three-way partnership of politicians, police and criminals, i On the heels of the first tangible Information on the allied buying of promotions In the police drjartment. a mass of underworld records gathered in a raid on a Capone-controlled vice rexort was given to ths Jury, recordi indicating numeroun financial transact Inns between gang lords and their political and, police frlrnds. Most of this evidence was guarded from the public but enough was dlsclmwd and enough hinud at to tn-licaU possible far-reaching development.

International Trustee And District Governor Are Among Visitors The Montgomery Kiwanis Club will be host today to officars representing virtually all of the Kiwanis Clubs in Alabama, who are here for their annual directors' meeting to plan the program for Kiwanis clubs for the year In Alabama, The guest of honor will be William J. Carrington, of Atlantic City, N. a trustee of Kiwanis International, who will be the principal speaker. Mr, Carrington will be Introduced by Leroy Holt, Governor ot the Alabama District in the Kiwanis organization. Judge Sam Hobbs, of Selma, will speak at the luncheon which will be held at the Jefferson Davis Hotel at 1 p.m.

There are about 25" Kiwanis Clubs In the State and the directors of each club, which is composed of the officers and sjven members, have been invited to attend the conference. The directors' meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m., at the Jefferson Davis Hotel. MaJ. Walter B. Weaver, vice president of the Montgomery Club, will preside in the absence of Sam Helburn, president.

Mr. Holt will preside over the directors' conference. The directors conference will continue, through Tuesday, 50 Are Injured Jn Train Wreck BOSTONr Janr 19 -('P) The Colonial Express of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, speeding through a blinding snow storm, today crashed into a local train at Readville, causing Injuries, to more than 50 persons, nine seriously, Failure to take a switch near a point where ths tracks cross the express plowed into the tender and first car of the loaal which was crossing the main line. The locomotive of the express and two cars of the local turned over and were thrown across the tracks. The baggage car of the express was derailed.

George Gladding, of Pawtucket, R. engineer of the express, which was bound for New York, was pinned within his cab and was extricated after acetylene torches had been used to cut away the structure. local was bound from Blackstone to Boston. Most of the passengers injured suffered lacerations, bruises and the effects of a general shaking up. A good many of them were commuters en route to business in Boston.

Confessed Slayer Is Released Under Bond BEAUMONT, TEXAS, Jan. 19. Habeas corpus proceedings late today brought freedom on $10,000 bond for A. B. Johnson, admitted slayer ot Ottis Lee Adams, young married man, who had been attentive to Johnson's 16-year-old daughter before her mysterious death, Johnson, Port Arthur, Texas, refinery foreman, was brought to Beaumont for a habeas corpus hearing in District Court after Justice B.

H. Wiley denied bond after a preliminary hearing on a murder charge. At Beaumont Sheriff W. W. Covington said Johnson had told him he considered Adams "responsible for my daughter's death." Adams was shot and killed Saturday.

The girl was found shot to death Dec. 28 in an automobile parked in front of a Port Arthur church by Robert Williams, Texas University sophomore, her former fiance. Man Shot To Death In New York Restaurant NEW YORK, Jan. 19. Gangsters Invaded Times Square tonight, shot a man to death hi a West 40th Street restaurant and escaped.

The victim was identified by detectives as Giuseppe Par-rine. 40, a building contractor of A crowd that almost blocked Montgomery Street in of the Paramount Theater was milling around the box office of that place of amusement some time before 3 p.m. yesterday, the hour at Legislature To Get Miller Bills Measures Carrying Out Pledges Of Campaign Going To Body yToday Bills' designed to carry out the pledges made by Gov. Miller when he went before: the voters of Alabama In the primary campaign will be introduced in the Legislature when it convenes at 11 a.m. Tuesday.

While no statement has been made by the new governor, it is expected that a bill will be introduced providing for a majority primary in the future. It is not expected that a measure will be introduced dealing with the State Law Enforcement Department for the reason that the present statute provides that the "Governor may" have law officers. He win not be under the necessity of naming them and those who know him expect that he will not name them. The new Governor will, it is expected, carry out his ideas of economy by having bills introduced cutting down the State Tax Commission, the State Highway Commission and the State Board ot Administration to one man. So far as is known there will be no real objection to these measures of economy.

The new Governor is opposed to the Klan or any other secret organization controllinsr the Jury boxes of Alabama, and to this end a bill will be Introduced abolishing the present regime where it means the appointment of jury commissioners by the Governor. It is generally believed that the outgoing Governor has filled the Jury commissions of Alabama with Kluxers. The bill to end this situation may not be ready by Tuesday but if it is it will be introduced It is expected that sometime Tuesday Speaker Alfred Tunstall of the 'House, will announce his committees. U. S.

Seed Loan Office For District Is Opened MEMPHIS, 19. fl) The Memphis office for distributing Federal feed and seed loans was opened today, and distress was waiting at the doors. Jobless men and women besieged H. Lynch, district administrator, as he directed the sweeping of dust and cobwebs from the big, recently vacant office which will be the headquarters of a system serving Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama farmers. 1 Federal officials have estimated that between $15,000,000 and $18,000,000 ot the $45,000,000 appropriated by Congress will be distributed at this office, one of neverol district headquarters.

"1 wouldn't be surprised If applications weed the amount we have," Lynch said. Paramount SHOPPING T0UK I UuAY Miss Guest l'ashion, Queen will make a shopping tour of the following firms, riding in her Chrysler car from the Peoples Auto Company, today: 11 'ajn. Foley's1 Bakery, 11:10 Kratzer's Ice Cream Company; 11:20 Woco-Pep Service Btation No. 11:30 Ray Coal Company; 11:40, Empire Laundry; 11:50 Sunday Dinner Products; 12 noon, Duncan May Candy 12:10 Elite Cafe; 1 o'clock Jesse French Sons, 1:10 Dixie Printing Company; 1:20 Alabama Utilities Service Corporation; 1:30 Scott-Marx 1:40 Klein, Jewelers; 1:50 Stanley Paulger; 2:00 Bullock Shoe Comi Dexter Drug Company; 2:20 Lff3ey Dry Cleaning Company; 2:30 Rosemont Gardens; 4:00 Paramount Theater; 4:00 B. J.

Weil Company; 4:10 Mead and Massey Business College; 4:30 Kauf man's; 4:40 Beasley-Sklnner: 4:50 La Dove Wave 6:30 Jefferson Davis which the Fashion Show was booked to start. At the same time, inside the theater every seat was taken and the folk was waiting eagerly, but not impatiently through the final laps of the movie for the pageant to start. And each Montgomery maiden, as she appeared, whether in a fetching street costume, an artistic dress for afternoon wear, a nifty sports creation, or a resplendent evening gown, Was greeted with a round of applause. The spectators seemed to play no favorites and, indeed, it was hard to do so. Each one of the garments and the wearer thereof was to use a Hibatnicism better looking than the other.

The show yesterday afternoon began a three-day Competition among 27 or Montgomery's loveliest young women 'for the title of "Miss Fashion Queen of Montgomery." It was announced from the stage that the Judges would be guided in their decision 'by the carriage of the contestant, her ability to wear clothes, rather than by tie personal beauty of the girt within the garments; in short, that the affair was a fashion show, not a beauty show. Which is probably Just as well for any of the contestants in the wearing ot clothes could probably give the others a close race in a beauty pageant. After "Miss Fashion Queen of Mont-! (Turn To Page 9) Tuscaloosa Radio Permit In Prospect WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 Elmer W. Pratt, examiner, I.

recommended to the Federal Radio Commission today that Mead Johnston, Tuscaloosa, Dc granted a permit to construct a radio station using a frequency of 1370 kilocycles with 100 watts power and to operate during the day time. Pratt in nls report said Alabama was 2.89 units under its statutory share of broadcasting facilities but the third zone in which Alabama is located, has 8.99 units more than its quota. He recommended that the facilities asked by the applicant be withdrawn from Tennessee. Station WHB, of Memphis operates on a frequency of 1370 kilocycles and the examiner said that the community was abundantly served by. regional and clear channels.

Ceremonies In some parts of the Soifth honored the memory of Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson as well at that of Lee. Gen. Jackron's birthday anniversary is Wednesday, Jan.

21, and other celebrations will be held at that time. In Virginia, whera Lee was born and lived In tbe early and latter parts ot his life, State and municipal offices, banks and schools closed today. The United Daughters of the Confederacy he'd a memorial service In Battle Abbey, Con federate shrine, here Other exercises took place yesterday at Stafford, the Lee home in West Morelund County, and it 8t. Paul's Church, Richmond. The old Bute House at Montgomery, Ala, where Jefferson Davis was Inaugurated president of the Confederacy, echoed to reminiscences of the birth of the Southern alliance as part of the ceremonies Inducting Into effk Gov.

M. Miller. oath of office as sheriff of Montgomery County. The oath was administered by Judeo D. W.

Crosland, probate Judge. Mr. Stearns announced the appoint ment of John L. Scogin, former sheriff, as his chief deputy. He also announced the- appointment of L.

A. Ellington, O. A. Moselcy, H. E.

Sellers and J. E. Wall, who were also sworn in with Mr. Stearns. The force of the sheriff's department has been cut in halt through an act passed at the 1927 session of the Legislature which became effective yesterday.

Mr. Stearns announced that ne hoped to be able to add to his staff later through a bill which will be sub mitted to the Legislature. Deputy Sheriff Wall will continue his duties as clerk of the Sheriff's office while Deputy Ellington will attend to the service of papers. Depul.es Moseley and Sellers will attend to the heavy work. Grocery Store Employe Slain In Birmingham BIRMINGHAM.

Jan. 19. PH-Shot once through the heart, a young man identified as Ralph Pllcher, grocery store employe, was found mysteriously slain on a South Side street here tonight. Pllcher came to Birmingham several months ago from Florala. Police Officers N.

C. Propst and Earl Hen ton said Flleher's body showed bruises and cuts, indicating either that he had engaged in a struggle with hla assailant, or that his body had been dragged along the ground after he had been shot European Federation Compromise Reached I I. 1.11 GENEVA. Jan. 19.

Russia, Turkey and Iceland will be asked to part innate in the preliminary economic discussions of a plan for an European fedrra lion If today's decision of a subcommiu tee Is adopted by the European confer enre. The decision, reached after a kmg de-hate, was in the nature oi a eomnronrlne Germany and Italy had demandfd that non-members of the League of Nations be Invtfrt to Join in establishing the federation plan. Robert E. Lee Honored Throughout South On Anniversary Of His Birth MacDonald Pledges India A Part In Government Of Bntish Empire LONDON, Jan. 19.

WV-Partnership of India as a dominion with responsible self-government in the British commonwealth of nations was pledged today by Ramsay MacDonald as the great IndKn Round Table Cmference in old St James Palace came to a close. "You have opened a new chapter In the history of India." was King George's message to the 100 or more delegates, but It tu Mother India who had the lat word after nine weeks of oratory and debate. The Prime Minister, in a long and earnest speech outlining British policy in India, extended the hand of Dominion fellowship to the great Asian sub-continent where a fifth of the world's population dwells. Tbe policy be enunciated promised thrs innovations: (1) Amnesty for India's 50,000 political RICHMOND, Jan. 19.

WV-An affectionate South turned today to memories of Robert X. Lee. The 124th anniversary of his birth was the occasion not only for extolling his accomplishments on the field of battle, but for recalling that, In civil life, following the War Between the States, he set an example of simple service fir his fellow Southerners in the adjustment to a new life, At Washington tm University In Lexington, Va, where Gen. Lee took up his share of the task of rebuilding his beloved Virginia, students and alumni assembled to hear his name prslsed by R. Oray Williams, Winchester, lawyer, In a Founders' Day oration.

Elsewhere In the South, from the Po-totnao and Rivers to the Oulf of Mexico, simple cere-nonles attested to the esteem in which the commander of the armies ot the Confederacy is held. 4.