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lie Local Cotton Strict Middling IT! MWdttnt Ml Rtriet Lh Mtfdliai 1X2 Weather fair urf sHgfctfy tuwr twUrt areasta I raise. Volume CXI No. 17 fall Uaj a4 KirM Imln ml tmr AwritM Pma Montgomery, Tuesday Morning, January 17, 1939 10 Paget' Priced Cent Party Picks' McCorvey Over Lusk 3 aJ jj Gov. Names Aids In Key Jobs Succeeds McQueen As Committee Chairman -Handpicking' Charged Rusliton Is Chosen Fowyth, Pewons," Curry 5 And Sherlock Name; Two Smiths Appointed Vl i- Dr. Jones Clibseh Griffin, Livingston, Harris Retain Posts In State's Agriculture Department Saw sail inn in.

-'J Gov, Frank' M. i six hours his jinaufcruTation announced last night his raili-1 tary 'staff, major department heads, and executive, office personnel. Generally, the appointments followed newspaper speculation km 'w r- IV 1 1 'I Montgomerian Is Selected National Committeeman; Mapping Full Program T- Alabama's Democratic Ex-cutive Committee elected Gess-ner T. McCorvey, of Mobile, as Its chairman and named Marion Rushton, of Montgomery, as national committeeman in quadrennial organization here yesterday. McCorvey succeeds John D.

McQueen, of Tuscaloosa, who aia not seek reelection to the committee, and Rushton will fill the unexpired term of Leon Mc Cord.of Montgomery, who re sipned to accept a U. 'S. Cir cuit Court judgeship. All four are lawyers. Walter J.

Price, of Huntsvllle, won committee rice-chairmanship when two other nominees withdrew, and McCorvey named Committeeman Nel aon O. Puller, of ConterviUe, acting i ecretary. A spirited fisht against election of a national committeeman v-as made by a group led By H. M. Abercrombie and Mrs.

Louise O. Charlton Birmingham members, and they refused mane Cushions selection unani nous. AoercromDie. arruim there wn "tin i immediate need for fUUng that office." proposed that selection of a national committeeman be delayed until "the next Democrat1 primary." Abercf embie Beatea w. Taylor Boyd, of Sylacauga, iiiorea oiaoie ADercrombles proposal as the latter shouted: Vote it down and hand-Dick if you nlease but I say the Democrats of Alabama are capable of electing their own represen tatives.

The committee killed Aber crombie 's motion, 45 to 25. MeCe-rvey, who succeeds Joha D. McQueen, ef Tuscaloosa, told the committee In taking office there wwM be way te feree the State te pay the te it would require to hold a special primary election of a. national committeeman. "It looks to he said.

"like we've got to take the bull by the horns and ewct a national eciMnlttetiiwn: 'T We now have no voice in national partv councils," Both McCorvey and Walter C. Lusk. of Ountersville, denied election of national committeeman could be looked upon as "hand-picking." Held out of order was a motion by Lucion C. Brown, of Birmingham, that the committee elect someone from its own ranks as national committeeman td serve until the next regular primary. McCorvey held Rushton al ready had been nominated.

Lusk Urges Harmony Lusk. who Rushton, was a candidate for chairman and sit was his motion that McCorvey be given unanimous election, after gaining majority on the second ballot. State Representative E. C. Bos well, with nine votes, was eliminated on the first ballot and then McCorvey won with 38 votes against 20 for Lusk and 10 for Probate Judge J.

M. Moore, of Payette County. McCorvey got 32 votes on the first ballot, Moore 10, and Lusk 16. Rushton supporters pointed out In urging election by the committee, the office of national committeeman bad been vacant six months, and the Montgomery lawyer said in accepting election: "We've got to get back Into an effective bargaining position for Alabama, and It appears to ma that it will bo ny Job to find oat how to do that." Rushton is a close personal and po litical friend of Gov. Frank M.

Dixon, who was Inaugurated yesterday, and the latter's close associates had voiced the opinion Dixon favored Rushton election. Rushton served 12 years as State committee, secretary, a position Pitt Tyson Maner, oi moni-Kumery, reun ouished yesterday as McCorvey named Fuller to act. Maner was private-sec retary to retiring Gov. Graves and is (Turn To Pago Col. Crowd Keeps Honor Guests Off Ball Floor An unprecedented throng turned out last night for the Inaugural Ball hon oring incoming Gov.

Dixon. Some time before the Ball was officially to begin the City Auditorium was full to overflowing and celebrants were lining up in the corridors and in the street outside the hall. Many of the honor guests were ob. served to give up the attempt to make the hall after arriving on official time. President pro tern of the Senate, Joe Poole, struggled unavalllngly for a quarter of an hour before deciding to give it up.

Mrs. Robert Ross. Oov Dixon slsteit and William Z1 Shirley, his recording secretary, had consid erable difficulty in getting through the crowd to take part In the Orand March which was led by Oov. and Mrs. Dixon early in the evening of entertainment.

The crowd was disappointed but well behaved, some in evening clothes and others in less formal dress. The press of the crowd in front of the auditorium held back newly- elected National Committeeman Marlon Rushton in the company of Dr Richard Poster, University of Alabama president, who voiced their despair In front of the police desk. Detective Sergt. Clark Frisxle rose to the occasion and offered assistance. He arrived back a few minutes later without them, declaring that he would have "pushed them In'" If other means had not availed, of recent weeks, bu a superin-.

tendent of insurance and an unemployment compensation comi mission chief were' not announced. Some quarters heard Frank Julian might hold over. A. R. Forsyth, Birmingham, former vice-president and treasurer erf Gulf States 8teel Company, waa named to head the State Board of Administra- tion to succeed C.

B. Rogers, also of Birmingham. i- Col. William X. Persona, Birmlng ham, was named to head the State Convict Department, Into which Dixon plans later to bring a revamped Pa- role Bureau and the present Welfare Department.

Hamp Draper, Wetump- ka, is retiring Convict Department chief. i Chris J. Sherlock, Jr, Montgomery, was named president of the Highway Commission, being elevated from chief engineer. Dixon plans to supplant the three-member commission with a one-' man directorate. Gaston Scott, Montgomery; Hi D.

Burnum, Decatur, and L. L. Herzberg, Gadsden, served four years on the board under Gov. Oraves. Joha C.

Carry, Chatrma John C. Montgomery, waa'' named of the State Tax Commission, also slated for one-man supervision under Dixon, to succeed Henry S. Long. Curry was in charge of the ad valorem division', under Long. Maj.

Ben Smith, of Birmingham, will relieve -John C. Coleman, Albert -ville, as adjutant-general, and Thomas Weller JBmlth, also of Birmingham, was chosen chief of the State Highwa; Patrol to succeed Walter S. MeAdory Birmingham. 'v i Walter B. 'Jones of becomes commissioner of conservation under succeeding to the-posi-tkm I.

T. Quinn vacated last week in resigning. Jones is State geologist and is president of the Alabama Wildlife Federation. James 'Little, of 'Gadsden, succeeds W. H.

Williams, Guntersvllle, as superintendent or banks, and Edwin Julian McCrossin. of Empire, becomes chief mine Inspector, J. Miner Bonner, former Wilcox Senator, was announced several weeks ago as Dixon's choice for legal adviser. Roland Mushat, Birmingham, and WiUiam P. of Montgomery, are private, and recording secretary, respectively.

Dixon's Office Force The Governor's office force will include: a Miss Carolyn Morton, of Birmingham, confidential secretary; Mrs. Mabel Amos, Montgomery, -stenographer; Mrs. Kate Thompson Simmons. Montgomery, stenographer. The new Governor's staff- follows: "Claiborne Blanton, colonel, Selma; Walter Bragg Smith, lieutenant-colonel.

Montgomery; Luther H. Waller, lieutemnt-colode, Montgomery; High- man Turner, Lieutenant-colonel, Montgomery; F. Hudson, lieutenant-colonel, Montgomery; Alex Brantley, lieutenant-colonel, Troy; Robert H. Makme, lieutenant-colonel, Dothan; Richard Andrew Allison, lieutenant-colonel, Bellamy; the William Byrd Lee, lieutenant-colonel. Auburn; L.

Bernard Haygood, lieutenant-colonel, Greenville; Mortimer Jordan, lieutenant-colonel, Birmingham; Dr. Jamea R. Garber, lieutenant-colonel, Birmingham; John H. Dukes, lieutenant-colonel, Harry M. Avers, lieutenant-eoloneL Anniston; Walter C.

Lusk. lieutenant-colonei. Guntersvllle; Clyde Anderson, lieutenant-colonel, Florence; J. Craig Smith, lieutenant-colonel, Sylacauga; Herbert Meighan. lieutenant-cokmeL Gadsden: Lawrence Goldsmith, lieutenant-colonel, Huntsvtlle; George M.

Mahoney, lieutenant-colonel. Hunts-ville: William P. Bloom, lieutenant-colonel, Tuscaloosa. Paterson And Brandon Announce Appointments While Gov. Dixon was preparing to move into the governor's office at tha Capitol this morning, former Gov.

Bibb Graves with Mrs. Oraves waa perfecting plana for departure tomorrow for points along tha Gulf In south Alabama and Florida where be will enjoy an extended rest Outgoing department heads late yesterday wound up their affairs and cleared out desks and personal files to make way for their successors-rail but a few, busy with preparations for shifting from one department to another. These three were John Brandon, Howell Turner and Judge Charles B. McCall. Three elective officials, reelected additional terms, had no moving out or transfer plans to make.

They are Associate Justices William H. Thomas and Joel B. Brown, of tha Alabama Supreme Court, and Dr. A. H.

Collins, State superintendent of education. All were unopposed In last year's Democratic primaries and the succeeding general election. Several incoming officers announced partial or complete lists of staff appointments for the next four PaUraaa's Chalcea Commissioner- of Agriculture Haygood Paterson said ha had reappoint-' ed William B. Orlffln as department chief clerk: that B. P.

Livingston will head the bureau of plant industry; that George Harris will continue as department entomologist, and that Jeff Walker, of Mobile, win hart charge of the bureau of gins and warehouses. Oommlaaioner Paterson (Tara Ta Page Cel. pnetss By statt Buraau of Publicity. Dixon And Perry Reunion New Sheriff Starts SECTION of "the- most 'colorful parade Mbnt-jromery. has even tacular Parade, Throng Kinsmen Here Feature Dixon Inauguration be of help In removing these discriminations against us, I will be contributing to a cause even more effective for our ultimate prosperity Brings 89 1 By GROVER C.

HALL, JR. The Inauguration occasioned a fam lly reunion Sunday of 89 Dixons and Perrys, one of whom came here from Europe to Join the other mem bers of the clan in felicitating their kinsman and your Governor. The fifth floor of the WhiUey Ho telon which Oov. Dlxori has maintained a suite for himself and family was taken up almost entirely, by his ainsmen and. those, of Mrs.

Dixon (nee Perry). Among the Governor's klnspeople were his mother, Mrs. Frank Dlxon; brother. Max Dixon, of France, a mining a. slater.ijuine about It A mother, very Four-Year Term 10 Deputies, 2 Wardens Join Motley In Oath sheriff Addle Mosley and staff of 10 deputies and two 'wardens began their four-year term of office yester- aay Probata Judge W.

Hill officiated at the ceremonies of wearing in the officers. They had previously made the required bond. Old-timers around the courthouse said Mosley, who came to the sher iff's office 16 years ago, waa the only sheriff in their memory ever elected without opposition. the sheriff's office has been 'one of the most keenly contested places on the county ticket in Democratic primaries. Only two new deputies' were added to the staff.

Jesse Hodges and O. A Clements. F. F. Mueller, a warden.

Is another newcomer. Sheriff Mosley succeeds Haygood Peterson, who' became Stabs com missioner of agriculture and Indus British Ship Repairs Damage In Storm MAINE. Jan. 1 () Mackay Radio tonight reported the British steamer Swinburne cancelled a call for assistance that sent two ships speeding to her aid through gale-swept seas off Cap Hatteraa. Macksy said the Swinburne's operator told a Bermuda short station the vessel no longer needed aid and would proceed, under her own power, to Bermuda, roughly 300 miles away.

The Swinburne, a 4.651 ton freighter in the New York-South American service, had sent out an 8. O. S. shortly after p.m. ssylng a boarding sea stove In a hatch and giving a position about 300 miles east of stormy Cape Hatteraa.

is shown in the upper, left as it traveled 'Dexter, behihdj in-coming Gov; Dixon, shown in the car to the right with retiring Gov. Graves. In the" second row left Gov. Dixon is shown delivering his record-breaking short speech to the 'demonstrati ve -throng which gathered in front of the speakers stand upon the Capitol fawn! part whichis shown in the lower lefL 4 Three governors1 stood upon the reviewing platform (middle right). Gov-.

Graves, Gov. Dix- and visiting Gov: Rivers, of Georgia; right. Rivers himself went through an inaugural ceremony only a few days ago and responded to Gov. Dixon's invitation to attend his for' reason of personal friendship. Gov.

Rivers has also been associated with Gov. Graves in the fight to remove the-. Southern freight rate differential. 4 After the ceremonies at the Capitol Gov, Dixon was feted at an Inaugural Luncheon presided over by Grover Hall. The 'new governor is shown seated at the left, next Mr.

Hall, and then Mayor A picture of the receiving line for the reception yesterday welcoming Mrs. Dixon appears bn page 5. and attitude. Not the was pleased at 'this observation. She said the Governor was named Prank Murray to distinguish him from hi Prank Dtxon.V her, Gov.

Dixon 4la: "a good son." When did she ieam Of his election? wai in Philadelphia at the time." she called, me himself." "No," she answered with" a. dellb-eratenesa characteristic of her son. "I was not I had -traveled with him some In Alabama and I had seen the response to his personal uy ana. pisuorm. i san you know, never thinks her son will be oe feated." But what' about 1934? At this she laughed heartily! She dl.climd credit for her son's achievement: "My part may be told In a very few words." Mrs.

Dixon's expressions, one conjectured, pretty much those of Mrs. James Roosevelt in 1 1932 and 193S. i' At the next room the occupants were perusing a star cut In a piece of worn construction paper. the kind with which a kindergarten pupil dismays his teacher. As a matter of fact.

It had been cut by kindergarten pupil Oov. Dixon. That was back In January, 1897, in Hartford, Conn. Pasted to the star which presents no suggestion that the Governor missed his celling was a letter written by his mother to a relative." "Murray made this and wants vou to have It. It Is the star which led the wise men.

He made it at kin dergarten Just before Christmas." His Star survives This star survived 1U original child- hood significance, one relative, ob served, and was sublimated into the (Turn To Pag 2, Cot I) (Text ef Gov. Dixon's Inaugural address appears oa page two.) By ROBERT HUGGER An estimated 50,000 persons yes terday morning watched one of the longest and most spectacular parades here In three generations and then, at- noon, as many as could converge upon Alabama's historic Capitol to see Frank Murray Dixon, of Birming ham, sworn in as governor. From the rostrum, where he placed his hand on the same Bible that was used by Jefferson' Davis, the crowd heard hit reiterate his promises of ef-. nclencjr and economical government and neara htm proclaim a determination to "true -this State ef those arti ficial barriers which have kept our ople poor these many "Remove the load we unfairly Gov. Dixon sold, "and I will guarantee prosperity to Alabama." The inaugural oath was administered by Asfoclste Justice Luclen D.

Gard the Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice John C. Anderson, who Das presided at six inaugurals, was unable to officiate because of Illness. Oov. Dixon was Introduced by Marion Rushton, prominent Montgomery attorney. The new executive pleaded for a united Southern voice at the 1940 Democratic National Convention as one of the major steps toward removal of the load "unfairly carried." He mentioned, particularly, the "artificial barriers placed In our way by partisan politics or sectional Interests," and "discriminations'' against the South through tariff and regional freight rate differentials." Here he paused to praise the retiring governor, Bibb Oravea.

for the latter's efforts to adjust the freight rate differences. "If," continued Oov. Dixon, "I can than -can come from any administra tion of the affairs of our State." He told the assembly, further, he hoped to Increase' school terms, conserve the State's resources, continue road-building, Increase aid to the needy where possible, to give every fals encouragement to Industry which would help balance agriculture, to continue and strengthen, those governmental activities which best served the people, and to administer wisely and emciently those resources now available. To this end, said Gov. Dixon, he would propose certain changes in governmental forms "a modern Itation of our machinery, not with the idea of change alone, not with the pur- pota or effect of uprooting the good things of the -past, but with intent to recognize the growing burden of taxation and to render the utmost of return for the taxes asked and re This program was expected to be embodied in his first message to the Legislature today.

The official said, also, that his office would be as open to the humblest toller aa to those who "sit in the seats of the mighty." "My obligations," he asserted, "art to all our people." He referred, briefly, to possible dangers of unfair administration of the Wage and Hour Law, and to the "dls-asterous" abolishment of the two-thirds rule. This rule required a two-thirds convention majority for selection of the party's presidential nominee. Luncheon and Reception Following th address, Oov. Dixon (Tons to Pag CoL I) aura, noss, or Pennsylvania. as aamirmg relatives of His Ex cellency, the family reunion for the Dixom and the Perrys was pretty much what you would expect.

They gathered in congenial groups in the several suites and talked and laughed. Air spoke, not oi "Frank," but of For Gov. Dixon It was a day of re laxation. He puljed at his pipe, walked from room to room, group to group, and chatted. Likely enough he Was extracting a maximum of pleasure out of the exercise, realizing that many a gruelling day would pass before he could again relax.

He was genial, but quiet-spoken and apparently, reflective. The Governor's handsome, vivacious lady took the reporter through a cir cuit of the fifth floor encampment for a look and an Introduction. The first was the Governor's mother. She speaks four languages nd reads a fifth. She la a fan of Poet Robert Browning and is prepared to complete most any line of his poetry that you care to start.

Mrs. Dixon and her son bear a truly striking racial resemblance the eye, the mouth, the forehfad. Equally striking is the similarity of gesture.