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Jo. 1 Local Cotton Strtrt Kiadiiag lt.J itmmf ...114 Birtrt Low M4kng U.M The Weather Partly elMty. itiilt today Wede4 cloudy. VOLUME CV11 NO, .13 rv Dy and snv of Tm Ajaoocaioo' Proao MONTGOMERY. ALA, TUESDAY Ok I NG, JANUARY IS, 1935 14 PACES Price 5 Cents Fraud Charged) As Thousands Of Alabamians Hailed A New Governor II Ml Col.Bibb Graves 'J rV- As Count Aids Tolbert.DeKalb Evidences Of Tampering With Absentee Ballots In County Box Alleged Democrats Ahead Possible Criminal Action 7 Looms If Mails Were Used To Send Votes In N- j-e By JOSEPH K.

M'COT i r. A 'J Again Assumes Alabama'sHelm Most Impressive Inaugural Parade In State's History Greets New Governor Thousands Attend Executive Makes Appeal For Cooperation In His Second Term In Chair By GEORGE DAVIS Bibb Graves became Governor of Alabama yesterday for the second time before a colorful multitude comprising one of the largest crowds the city's history, Packed and j'ammed for the distance of a city block the gigantic throng heard the Governor pledge an administration that would put human welfare first and reaffirm his stand for De-mocracy and rule by consent of the governed. The inaugural address wa easily heard through an amplified system that extended from the Capitol step, and th vast Capitol building served a an adequate sounding board so that not one word of the ceremoniea was lost to the crowd. The inauguration address and taking of the oath wa one of ft aerie of event of the day. They began with a mammoth parade in which several thousand persons participated, continued through luncheons at the Montgomery Country Cluk and the Standard.

Country Club in honoring the Governor and Mrs. Graves, respectively, a beautiful reception at the Capitol early last night and were brought to a climax by the grand inaugural ball at Maxwell Field last night. Frequently during his address the Governor wa applauded, but the vast throng a a whole, true to Its traditional nature a shown on other m-augural event and even on the visit of President Roosevelt, was undemonstrative. Providence Invoked The Governor Invoked the guidance of Providence in the task he wa about to assume, pleaded with the people to "have faith in ourselves, faith In ono another and faith in our Stat In it future." i He reassured them that the "things that must be done are on the way and I believe in due time they will be done," and called upon them for ft spirit of cooperation arid tf-s-Ti work. grteu 4 hi pii-a la which ha declared: "I not only ask your co--operatiou, but I jilfdge you fcy best efforts to deserve that Again he wa applauded when he deplored the tendency to concentrate pow- In the hands of a few and great-cilstanos from the people and made a edge to the "million who must be ever absent and must trust and pray" that he would be their champion.

God's Children Next The new deal and what it had don for humanity, reference to Roosevelt and' his policies as "the foundation of America and the hope of the world, and-ft pie to place "God' children right next to God" and "make human welfare our chief concern," also won a heavy response from the throng. But the climax of his speech came when he turned to the queenly little woman seated nearest him and proclaimed his devotion and gratitude for the "aid and comfort of my life' It wa, we venture to suggest, the proudest moment of Mrs. Graves' life. The honor of being "First Lady" has before been hers, but no other Alabama woman has twice held this distinction. Again the "First Lady" had no little part in returning her husband to the governor's chair and the eloquence of her speeches in hi behalf during the campaign is conceded by politician to have had no little part in his election.

i On Reviewing Stand For nearly half hour she had awaited her husband's coming on the review ing stand, seated with Mrs. Ballle Brio Miller, sister of Gov. Miller. She waa simply attired In a navy blue crepe dress with a black coat, brown fur collar, and wore a navy blue hat topped by an ornament of ft lighter shade of blue. A small bouquet of golden roses, tied with a golden strand, was toned to her coat.

And the cheer that went up from the throng a Gov. Grave paid tribute to her wa the loudest cheer of them all. Mrs. Miller waa aeated with Gov. Miller on the inaugural platform and likewise wa simply attired in a dark coat and hat.

She carried a bouquet of American Beauty rose. For the taking of the oath the Governor left the inaugural platform to stand upon the spot where Jefferson Davis stood to take the oath as President of the Confederate States of America. The same Bible which was used for the Jefferson Davi ceremony was used on this occasion by John C. Anderson, chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. Preceding the Governor's address Lieut.

Gov. Thomas E. Knight took the oath to support the Constitution of the United States and the State of Alabama and to discharge faithfully the duties of hi office. His little daughter, Leila, stood with him as his father, Thomas X. Knight, Sr, associate Justice of the Supreme Court, administered the oath.

"And my son," said the senior Justice Knight, "may God keep you steadfast In that Gen. I. Stetner presided, presenting Lieut Gov. Knight and Gov. Grave.

In introducing the Governor he declared that he had "come back because of his abUity, integrity, loyalty to hi friends and because the people of Alabama know that he will keep his promises." Dr. Charles A. Stakely, pastor emeritus (Tora To Page 9) Jackson Daily News Sued For $100,000 By Mayor JACKSON, Jan. 14. VPl A $100,000 libel suit based on an editorial in Sunday's Issue of The Jackson Daily New was filed in Chancery court today by Mayor Walter A.

Scott. The court is asked for attachment against ail monies due or to become due to the newspaper from it larger -V AO question of the election of R. L. Tolbert, Democrat, representative to the Legislature from DeKaib County, over this Republican opponent, Norman C. likes, tu apparently removed yesterday afternoon when official count by a special legislative committee of absentee ballots cast In DeKaib In the general election last November, showed that Mr.

Tolbert 'was the winner by a margin of tl vote. In the course of the count it was discovered that 92 of the 244 ballots the absentee ballot box contained, bore in-, dications outside and Inside the envelopes tha. they had been tampered with. The committee so found, ruling It was plain ly Indicated that It was the -jurpose of those casting these ballots to vote the Democratic ticket, and It was apparent fraud bad been practiced to make them appear otherwise. The method generally followed In mak-irg the change, it was apparent, was where a cross mark appeared In the Urge circle directly beneath the, Democratic "rooster" emblem, to mark out under that emblem the names of Democratic nominee for county office only and then place a cross mark In front of the name of each Republican nominee for those respective offices In the adjoining column which carried the Republican emblem at its top.

Grade Changes In some- Instances, it was held to be clear that In doing this, where a pencil had been used to place the cross mark In the large circle under the Democratic emblem, It was retraced with Ink, pen being -used throughout In marking the ret of the ballot for the. Republican county office nominee. In other Instance where ink was used, there was a wide cU3erence between the color of the Ink marking the ballot md that with which the voter signed the affidavit at the bottom of the ballot. Some ink cross marks under the emblem and those opposite the names of candidates, showed the same difference. Evidence of the opening of envelopes containing the ballot and resealing thrm was obvious, It was held, and even casual examination in a majority of cases made that clear.

At times, In re-sealing, the ballot apparently had adhered to the envelope, and had to be forcibly separated, from Hlt Some of the bHoU were torn. 8 ix -of the ballot were rejected as Illegal, on account of Improper marking or improper signing of affidavit, 83 were held to have been tampered with. Of the total of 344 voter casting adbentee bai lota, the count showed that 153 had vot ed ft straight Democratic ticket. Democrats Elected The committee' count, it is claimed, assure the election of all other Demo- cm tie nominees for county offices In ue Kalb, as they were originally declared loser by mucn amaner margin wan Tolbert, the difference between their total vote and those of the Republican nominee ranging from 80 to 140, it was learned. In conducting the count, the commit tee relied on a decision by the Alabama Supreme Court holding that the mark appearing in toe large -circle under the part tmblem on ballot, represented Another Held In Labatt Abduction COVINQTON.

KY. Jan. 14. Ar rested today on a Canadian warrant charging the kidnaping of John 8. Labatt, wealthy London, brewer, a prisoner who identified himself as Kingston P.

Murray, 34, pleaded not guilty. An agent of the division of investigation, United States Department of Justice, aided by two Covirigton detectives, nabbed bin on street corner. He offered no resistance. Arraigned before United State Commissioner Edward Pflueger, he entered his plea and officers were ordered to take him to the Covington Jail in lieu of bond. A hearing was aet for Jan.

23 on the question of his removal to Canada. The prisoner, known as "Piccolo Pete," fairly tall, thin-faced, hi hair thinning back from his forehead, contended he had not been out of Covington for "five or six years" and to could not have been near London last? Aug. 14 when the kidnaping occurred. David Meisner, a Cincinnati bookmaker held by London authorities, awaiting trial on a charge of participating in the kidnaping, ha argued that he, too, was in Covington on that day, the date Labatt said he was dragged from his automobile between London and Sarnia, Ontario, and held captive for two days. The basis for the charge against Murray was not known here.

Canadian officers said ft third man, described on their "wanted" circulars as Albert Pegram, still 1 sought. Meisner and Pegram, they said, were identified by Labatt a two of his captors. Beverly Hills, Jan. 14. Editor, The Advertiser: Congress ought to really get into th main show this week.

This past week was just the overture. They will get aeU tied down this week to "steady taxing." All the "lobbies" are gathered in there to see the tax I put on somebody else's business, but not on theirs. Congress ha got all their committees made and they are composed of two Democrat to each Republican, so what ft pleasant year that poor fellow will be in for, cause there Is a lot of different breeds of Democrats. I bet you before the session is over, President Roosevelt will trade you two or three Democrat for one Republican. Your, WILL, IDMOTGERS Vr.

Saar NazrFo To Resist Union Early Plebiscite Results Show80Or90PerCent Of Votes Is Pro-German Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press SAARBRUECKEN, SAAR TERRITORY, Jan. 14. With a conclu slv vote for 'Germany visibly piling up in the ballot counting bouse tomgni, anti-Hitler forces In the Saar were called upon to resist to the uttermost any attempt to join the Saar to Germany on the basis of the League-controlled plebiscite. While spectators in the gallery oi Warteburg Auditorium scanned tabula tions with spyglasses, estimating a pos sible 80 or 90 per cent pro-German vote out of the 500,000 total the communist newspaper Arbelterzeitung plastered the streets with editions calling for demon stration everywhere In the territory at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. The Saar minority must protect Itself, said the newspaper.

"Never shall the Saar become Hitler booty; a new stage of our fteht begins." it exhorted. During two. and ft half hours of tab ulation In plain view of the world press and representatives of all Tactions ft "sampling" of ballot piles on 47 tables spread out below, seen through opera glasses, yielded an estimate that Germany was averaging 85 per cent status quo about 14 per cent, ana votes tavor-ing union with France about one per cent. That the result of the vote was not held in doubt was Indicated in advices from the French frontier that cities in that region had "begun stocking up pro- vliions for an influx of Saar refugees opponent of the Hitler regime as soon as the result of the plebiscite are officially announced at 8 ajn. tomorrow (1 a.m.

Montgomery time). These refugees are expected to num- (Turn to Page 121 Dillinger Lawyer Is Freed By Jury CHICAGO, Jan. 14. () John Dil- Unger'i lawyer tonight was acquitted of a charge of conspiracy to harbor him. It took ft Federal Court Jury only three hours and 42 minutes to agree that Louis Plquett, one time city prosecutor, was within the rights of an attorney in his dealing with the late desperado.

The Jury reached It verdict at pjn. and returned it In open court shortly after 10 p.m. The acquittal came, after Plquett made an impassioned plea, maintaining that the only relation he ever had with Dillinger was that of attorney and client Federal Judge William Holly, In charging the Jury, said: ''When Dillinger escaped and came to Chicago and got In touch with Plquett, It did not become the duty of the defendant to turn him over to police." The Government, however, cnargea that Plquett entered into ft conspiracy with James Frobasco, since a suiciae, two doctors and his aide to hide Dil linger while facial operation were per formed in an effort to disguise tne gangster. The defeat was onr of the first the Government has suffered in it drive to jail those accused of harboring Dillinger and his henchmen. Already abffut a dos-en persona are serving sentence for harboring persons accused of Federal crimes ana nearly a juuic are awaiuim i trial.

r- US Bonus Payment Advocates Split U. S. Is Urged To Enter World Court Only After All War Debts Are Paid WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. (P The American Legion's bonus bill was introduced in the House today, splitting into at least two well-defined groups the congressmen who want to pay off the ad-Justed compensation certificate with cash.

Representative Vmson (B), Kentucky, wa chosen by the Legion to drop lis bill into the hopper. The Treasure for cash payment, cwncellatioa of interest on loans already made, and extended from 1935 to 1945 the time in which applications for adjusted compensation certificates may be filed. It made bo provision for raising money necessary to pay the The treasury would have to borrow the funds through the Issuance of bonds. Estimating it would cost "consideraoly less than Vinson predicted that "my bill will be enacted." But Representative Patman (D), Texas, another leading bonus advocate, eaid he could not support the Lrsi bill. "I'm certainly not in fuvor of issuing tax-exempt, interest-bearing bonds to pay off this bonus," he said.

1 Meanwhile, Frank N. American Legion commander, reached the capital and forthwith plunged into conference on the legislation. The Legion, in a brief statement on the Vinson bill, said it "carries the mandate from- the American Legion convention at Miami In full and ha the en-dura to Page 11) Doolittle Trying For Air Record LOS ANGELES, Jan. 14. JP) With hi wife as passenger, Jimmy Doolittle, daring speed flier, streaked away at 5:27 p.m.

(7:27 p.m., Montgomery time), in an attempt to set ft new coast-to-coast record for two passenger transport airplanes. The takeoff wa from nearby Union Air Terminal at Burbank. Shortly before he left, Doolittle said he expected to average more than 250 miles an hour. He and his wife were equipped with oxygen tanks to facilitate breathing In high altitudes. The aviator said he would be flying most of the time at altitude of 15,000 to 20,000 feet.

Doolittle' course wa In almost a straight line from Los Angeles to Floyd Bennett Field at New York, where he expected to land and eat an early breakfast. The present passenger transport record is 12 hours, three minutes, 50 seconds, established Nov. 8. 1934, by the noted war ace, Capt Eddie Rickenbacker. The air distance between the points is approximately 2,600 miles.

In 1932, Doolittle established new world's record for speed over ft closed course at the National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio. His speed was 294.48 miles an hour. The year before, he made a transcontinental flight from Los Angeles to New York in 11 hours. 16 minutes. 10 seconds.

This was the first time the North American continent had been crossed in less than a half day. ALABAHA HAILS A NEW GOVERNOR and here are the principals and the spectator of the inaugural pageant. Center oval: Gov. Graves In the midst of hi inaugural address. Upper left: A section of the vast crowd viewed from the inaugural platform, Upper right: Gov.

Graves mounting the platform, accompanied by his aid, Col. T. Nettles, Jr. Lower left: Alabama's magnificent capital as a background for the Inaugural crowd. Lower right: As the Inaugural parade swept Into Court Square for its final march ap Dexter.

Immediately abover Aa extraordinary photograph of Gov. Miller and Gov. Graves the ear which bore thea to the eapitol. At the wheel Is "Dixie" Howell, the Idol of sport lovers everywhere. The picture was snapped by Dave Holt, of Mobile, Just before the parade got in motion.

Right and left apper and center photo by Paulger; right and left lower photos by Sexton, Surprise Witness Declares Wi Followed Jafsie. Hauptmann' defense, provided ft bright Interlude In the testimony of two handwriting expert who again called Hauptmann the ransom note writer. These 14 notes, the first one left on the windowsiU of Baby Lindbergh's nursery when he was stolen and slain on March 1, 1932, cost Col. Charles A. Lindbergh $50,000.

"Jafsie" says he paid the money to Hauptmann in St. Raymond's cemetery, a month and a day after the kidnaping. Another Expert Testifies Today the word of Albert S. Osborn, the internationally known expert who last Friday accused Hauptmann as the ransom writer, wa bolstered -by that of Eldrldge W. Stein, another authority on disputed documents.

Stein's cross-examination ended when court adjourned for the day. Both said they believed the ransom notes and Hauptmann' conceded writing were the work of the same man. Osborn, white-haired and unruffled, went further than that. He parried defense thrust at his record with the remark that hi testimony had been overruled perns ps once In 20 times "so infrequently that It always gives me a shock." Then said the likeness between Bruno's hand and that of the ransom notes is "Irresistible, unanswerable, and overwhelming." The florid Reilly hammered away hard at Miss Alexander, who said she wa 26 nd ft model for "teagowns, negligees, and pajama ensembles." He failed to shake her identification of Hauptmann as the man she saw in the Fordham, New York Central Station and again on the street two or three nights later. At one point, Irked by State objections to his line of questioning, the defense lawyer turned to the court and de clared: "I want to prove that she wa never there and that she doesn't even know (Tura to Pag 12) 4 Negro Fugitive From Alabama Heldln Virginia EECKLEY, W.

VA, Jan. 13 VP) A negro thrice sentenced to be hanged in Alabama for murder and who finally obtained ft commutation of his sentence to life imprisonment wa captured here late last night by two deputies sheriff after being hunted since 1923. Off leers said he is Charles Wlmberley 44, who escaped from prison camp at Albrich. after serving three year of bis life sentence. He was sentenced to die for the murder of another negro In 1915 at Woodward, Ala, but after receiving three reprieves finally obtained a commutation of sentence to life Imprisonment.

Wlmberley was arrested by Deputy Sheriff L. A. Green of Raleigh County and Deputy Sheriff Robert Godsey, of Fayette County at Minden, Fayette County where he had worked as ft miner. The officers said he used the alias of William Davis. Green communicated with Alabama officers after ft several weeks Investigation and Wlmberley' arrest followed.

-He is. held In jail pending arrival of Alabama officers. Trip To Catch Kidnap Suspect Proves Futile TAMPA, Jan. 14. (JP) Summoned to St.

Petersburg today on a report that T. H. Robinson, of Indianapolis, sought for the kidnaping several months ago of Mrs. Alice Stoll, of Louisville, had been seen there. Federal agents returned here tonight with the statement that their mission had been a wild goose chase.

Four deputy marshals Investigated the report. They did not say whether they questioned the man believed to be Robinson, and dismissed the whole matter with the statement that It was "Just another wild rumor." Hauptmann By JOHN FERRIS Associated Press Staff Writer FLEMINGTON, N. Jan. 14. UP) A pretty blonde pa jama model accused Bruno Hauptmann of shadowing Dr.

John F. Condon, the "Jafsie" of the Lindbergh baby ransom hoax, as the carpenter's prosecutors tonight took elaborate precautions to shield the identity of three surprise witnesses -from Europe. The model, chic and stately Hilde- garde Olga Alexander, enlivened a trial session otherwise devoted to additional expert testimony accusing Hauptmann as the man who wrote the 14 ransom notes. A friend of Dr. Condon's for 12 years, she took the stand at Hauptmann' trial for the murder of the Lindbergh baby to say she saw "Jafsie" in a Bronx telegraph office in March, .1932, nearly a month before Dr.

Condon paid the 000 ransom, and that another man was watching him "very significantly." 1 say the man was Bruno Haupt mann," she declared firmly. A faint flush stole over the carpen ter's pallid face. His wife, the plump Anna, turned white. "Net Jersey authorities, meanwhile, took careful step to guard the names of the three prsons who will arrive in New York tomorrow aboard the liner lie de France, In the company of Detective Arthur Johnson, of the New York po lice. They will be taken from the liner se cretly aboard Government cutter to an unannounced destination to await their turn to testify.

(German report have indicated one of the three might be Hanna Flsch, sis ter of the lata Isador Flsch, from whom Hauptmann says he got the ransom bills with which he was caught.) Atty. Gen. David T. Wllentz, of New Jersey, said merely that some of the witnesses were "relatives of somebody." Miss Alexander, who arched her fash ionable eyebrows petulantly at the barbed queries of Edward J. Reilly, chief of.