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irminnbtm News HOME EDITION THE WEATHER Fpr Birmingham and vicinity: Cloudy, slightly colder Tuesday night, lowest 36 to 40 degrees; Wednesday partly cloudy. For Alabama: Cloudy, somewhat colder Tuesday night; Wednesday partly cloudy. PRICE: THREE CENTS SSMSS 14 Paces, 112 Columns YEA 302 JAPS WIN PASS TO JEHOL CITY National Whirligig NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS German Police Order Virtual Martial Law CHATTANOOGA MAN IS NAMED AS SUCCESSOR TO HULL AS SENATOR Will Rogers Says: BEVERLY HILLS. Calif There wasn't a soul in America that when they picked up their paper didn't utter the same exp i "Well, that's too bad," when they read that Mayor Cermak had pneumonia. Lots of states and places are calling a moratorium on debts, taxes, banks, takes us so long to think of anything for ourselves.

Funny we thought of it for Europe, wlu but not for ourselves. Why pour all that reconstruction money into a bank, when all you had to say was, We are going to pay you out as we are able to pay you out." Lingyuan Now Must Be Taken By Invaders To Reach Province Capital TWO-THIRDS VOTE FOR REPEAL BILL, RULING OF COURT Tribunal Gives Opinion On Convention As Women Drys Seek Delay By Solons; College Lobbyists Are Flayed MONTGOMERY (Ah The Alabama Supreme Court, in an advisory opinion in answer to a House resolution Tuesday, ruled that the Sossa-man prohibition convention repeal bill will require a two-thirds vote oi the quorum voting in both houses of the Legislature for passage. The Supreme Court held that all BEFORE DIET VOTE Daring Move Made By Teuton Cabinet To End Trouble With Communists CHINESE HANDICAPPED BY BRITISH EMBARGO Senate Tries To Rid Slate Of Appropriation Plans Before Adjourning Tokyo Would Forcibly Resist Bar On Material Needed, Spokesman Says AL SMITH WANTS U.S.T0 FINANCE PUBLIC WORKS POISONING OF WELLS, FOOD SEEN IN PLANS CERMAK IS GIVEN lit Moratorium And Recognition Of Russia Also Favored To Combat Slump Damaging Fire At Reichstag Building Investigated By Berlin Police bills not included In the governor's the two-thirds vote provision, written in constitution, would apply measure, in the Supreme Court justices Jhey said had been resolution on which opinion was givdn. con-i the prohibition re-peal was a federal mat-I governing the conduct of Legislature Brave Mayors Condition Held Somewhat Better After Physicians Consult PARIS (INS) A warning that Japan will search the ships of foreign nations if arms and ammunition filter through the British embargo to China was voiced Tuesday night by Yosuke Matsuoka, former chief of the Japanese delega tion to Geneva. Matsuoka plans to leave Paris shortly to return to Tokyo by wv of the United States.

By The Associated Press Japanese forces under Maj. Gen. Heijiro Hattori, assisted by bombing pianes, smashed the stubborn resistance of Chinese regulars at Shamao-slian in Southern Jehol Tuesday and occupied the town and pass. The Chinese retreated northward. A two-day battle, marked by the heaviest fighting of the Jehol campaign, finally ended in a Japanese victory and opened the way to Lingyuan, the southern pass to Jehol City (Chengtefu), the provincial capital.

A dispatch from Kailu said the Japanese army of the north reached Farigchen, 1 18 miles north of Jehol City, at 10 a.m. Tuesday. It has Continued on Page 2, Eighth Column J. Massey Edgar, introduced a joint POLITICS Aspirants For Governors Chair Are Much Disturbed By Prohibition Question BY HUGH W. SPARROW MONTGOMERY Gubernatorial aspirants in Alabama are disconcerted right now because the repeal would not apply mad a A A issue is coming to the tore as a leading question in this state.

Most of them hope the Legislature will go ahead and call a state conven- tion this year the sooner the bet-ter and not leave the matter sus- I pended in midair. If the convention is authorized! then they will not have to take a I position for or against repeal but can sit back and let the people decide and the convention act. But, if the convention is held off, then it will carry the question over into the next gubernatorial campaign and will make the political horizon Continued on Page 2. First Column 1 call must receive and that this the state to the Sossaman opinion the cited three cases so decided. The Sossaman i the advisory tended that since amendment ter.

state laws if special sessions Representative of Washington, BILLS MONTGOMERY affecting featured Tuesdays A hill of clerks of the Municipal was 74 to 0. A by the fees guardian ad the county county pay the AFFECT COUNTY NATHAN L. BACHMAN NASHVILLE pP Gov. McAlister Tuesday appointed Nathan L. Bachman.

Chattanooga, former justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court, as senator to succeed Cordell Hull, named secretary of state in the cabinet of President-Elect Roosevelt. Judge Bachman is a Democrat. Gov. McAlister managed Bachmans senatorial campaign in 1924, when Lawrence D. Tyson, of Knoxville, won the Democratic nomination.

Bachman has managed several of McAlister's gubernatorial campaigns in Hamilton County (Chattanooga). Bachman is in his fifty-fifth year. He is a native of Chattanooga and began his public career there in 1908 as city attorney. Four years later he was on the Circuit Court bench and in 1918 was elected to the state Supreme Court, from which he resigned to seek the Senate post. Two measures Jefferson County legislative session.

consolidating the offices of the two divisions Court In Birmingham passed in the House measure was introduced Representative Tate requiring collected by the litem to be paid into treasurer and the guardian a flat salary of $3,600. ANXIETY FELT FOR WASHINGTON By Paul Mallon CABINET The inner whys and yrefores of the Roosevelt cabinet lections and the private reactions aroused might fairly ho tbumbnailed as follows; dtate Secretary Hull His appoint-nr nt developed from a close political friendship with the president-elect which no one knew about; Mr. Roosevelt's desire to use a former as lobbyist for ratification of the coming war debt settlements. Reaction Acceptable here and abroad. Treasury Secretary Wood in Recognition for a $30,000 campaign contributor who is also a former Wall street conservative Republican and a logical choice of available material after Senator Glass declined.

Reaction Favorable among big bankers; little known elsewhere. Walsh Probably the nation's moat popular lawyer among those who have never been identified with corporations (the Senate will never confirm a corporation lawyer as attorney general). Reaction General approval, except among big business men. Navy Secretary Swanson A big navy man logically put in a nawy scat; made possible by the Glass declination. Reaction Splendid in navy and slopping circles but not in the peace societies.

War Secretary Dern Repayment for pre-convention political aid; moved from interior because of Senator Hiram Johnson's objections to bis Boulder Dam record. Reaction No telling yet; snoopers looking up his war-time speeches; a good balance for peace organizations alongside of Swanson. Postmaster General Farley The appointment with which all successful presidential candidates pay off their campaign managers. Reaction He should make a good postmaster general. Commerce Secretary Roper Moved Into the picture to take Woodins scheduled place when Woodin was moved uj) treasury; was slated for internal revenue commissionership in Mr.

Roosevelt's first list. Reaction Business men know little about him: congressional reaction not generally favorable. Agriculture Secretary Wallace A progressive Republican who fits Mr. Roosevelts allotment plan requirements. Reaction Favorable through the farm belt and that is all that matters.

Interior Secretary lekes Taken as a progressive Republican when Senator Cutting, Phillip La Follette, Hiram Johnson and others turned it down. Reaction Almost unknown here except as a 192t campaign friend of Hiram Johnson. Labor Secretary Frances Perkins Labor had no candidate who could surpass her in Mr. Roosevelt's opinion: very capable and efficient but likely to have a hard time because of bitter resentment among union labor officials, (Mrs. Roosevelt had no more to do with it than you did).

Reaction Very unfavorable among union men but splendid among womens organizations. 1, There has been considerable private grumbling about the cabinet. You always get that. There would have been moaning even if 10 of the original apostles had been available. Progressive Republicans were particularly unenthused about their representatives.

That was partially their own fault. Many declined. That same answer is being made to those conservatives who are pining for Owen Young, Melvin Traylor. Newton Baker, A I Smith and Albert Ritchie. All in all.

it stacks up as a cabinet at least equal to average. COMMERCE -The Roper confirmation was held back because several strong protests against his selection were made immediately after the news got out. The commerce department deals mainly with business houses. They do not know Mr. Roper.

Also he has many political enemies within the party. The economy angle of his appointment was not generally known. Likewise the fact that Mr. Roosevelt regards the commerce department as less than nothing was not recognizd. That has "it considered a big post since Mr.

Hoover made it a stepping stone to tin' presidency. Nevertheless the apointraent was considered certain to go through. The designation of Roper will give yon in idea of what Mr. Roosevelt intends to do with the commerce de-partment. It will be sliced down to mere matchstlek.

Foreign trade functions will be given to the state department. That idea more than th" McAdoo endorsement furnished th" background for Roper's appointment. SHERLEY The Douglas appointment as budget director caused some heartaches. The Kentuckian Swagar Sherley had been slated for that job. He was chairman of Mr.

Roosevelts secret economy committee which has been meeting on the sly here for some "tilts. On it also were Byrnes, and Daniel C. Roper, new commerce secretary. The reason Sherley did not get emitting important is Mr. Roose-v' i' own secret.

A personal reason arose at the last minute. SARTORIAL Trouble has torn the Roosevelt secretariat already. There can be no peace in tho new adnmiisti'iition until someone decides "hethiT there should be black braid or morning coats. That question was raised by the imtT Roosevelt circle which always If good joko at the expense of Tunis Howe. Probably at the behest i Mr.

Roosevelt himself they have cailct Howe several times each day Pointing out he could not get into the bite House in the clothes he usu resolution calling upon presidents and representatives of the state's higher educational institutions to confine their activities to their respective campuses and not the legislative halls of Alabama. The resolution stated that such visitations upon the Legislature were less frequent prior to introduction of pending economy measures. Representative Edgars resolution follows: Whereas the people of Alabama are undergoing a period of great economic stress, and, Whereas, there is a widespread demand for economy voiced in the highlands and lowlands of this great commonwealth, echoes of which' are constantly reverberating through the corridors of this Capitol to the discomfiture of some members of this assembly, and. Whereas, the people of this state have come to believe that the greatest economy can be effected through rtrenchment in education appropria- Foreigners In Danger Zone Wont Evacuate When Warned, Report Fike Cites Proffer To Provide Attorney For Bulmer In Charges Made Scottsboro And Andalusia Are Scenes Of Slayings In Which Three Died WASHINGTON (JPj Sponsors of the Senate cotton pool bill were victorious in their first House test on Tuesday, winning by a 193 to 179 ballot adoption of a rule forcing consideration of the relief plan until Its final disposition. The vote came after an hours debate, during which the measure was vigorously attacked by Republican Leader Snell, after it had been called before the House by Representative Bankhead Snell first sought to kill the bill on a parliamentary point of order, but was overruled by Speaker Garner.

Legislation to aid the hard-pressed cotton farmer was taken up in the House Tuesday while the Senate at-temped to rid its calendar of appropriation bills calling for action before-March 4. Alfred E. Smith told the Senate finance committee what he thought should be done to aid the nation He advocated recognition of Soviet Russia, a federal bond issue to finance additional public construction and a war debt moratorium to expand Americas sales abroad. The Senate Tuesray adopted the Oostigan resolution continuing the life of the banking committees stock market investigation until the end of th first session of the next Congress. Arnold M.

Byrnes, prmer vice president of the National City Company, was called to the stand Tuesday as the banking committee resumed Its investigation of the sale of South American securities in fkis country by the National City Company and other firms. Ferdlnard Pecora, committee counsel, questioned Byrnes about the sale of Peruvian, Chilean and Brazilian securities. Previous testimony had been that the company participated in the sale of $90,000,000 in Peruvian securities although repeated warnings had been given to the company that the financial and political condition of Peru was bad. Pecora questioned Brynes about these reports Tuesday. We might not agree to your classification of the men who took a pessimistic view of Peruvian conditions, Byrnes said.

The Smith bill, as passed by the Senate, would pool cotton held as collateral on crop production and seed loans 710,000 bales with stocks of the American Cotton Cooperative Association approximately 1,500,000 bales. Added to this would be cotton donated the Red Cross for relief which has not yet been distributed, estimated by committee members to approximate 350,000 bales. Growers would be given options on this cotton in return for reducing their 1933 output, and benefit by any resulting price increase. Senate and House conferees failed to agree again on the treasury-postoffice appropriation bill with its provisions giving President-Elect Roosevelt drastic powers to reorganize the government in efforts to obtain economy. The points on which representatives of the two branches were at variance were whether $19,500,000 should be appropriated for air mail service and whether a 5 per cent cut under appropriations should be ordered for all departments.

The Senate struck the air mail allotment from the annual supply bill approved by the House and on the Continued on Page 2, Fourth Column THE LEGISLATIVE LOG BERLIN () Virtual martial law under a police regime was decided upon by the German cabinet Tuesday. President Hindenburg later signed the emergency decree giving the police extraordinary powers to enforce order. The cabinet, which had been in session since 11 a.m., adjourned at 2:30 p.m. until 5 p.m. It had Heard a report from Wilhelm Goer-ing, minister without portfolio, upon the fire which damaged the Reichstag building Monday and the result of a raid last week by police on Karl Liebkneeht House, Communist headquarters on Buelow-platz.

A military state of emergency was refrained front in order to keep the Reichswehr (standing army) out of political action, but the measures to be decreed will have the effect of placing Germany under a state of emergency with the sole object of meeting Communist danger. Herr Goering reported that material seized in Karl Liebkneeht House included forged orders to the police and to Nazi storm troopers and even Included instructions for poisoning wells and food. According to the testimony of two men who were arrested, they telephoned Monday to the Socialist organ Vorwaerts at the request of this paper that Herr Goering himself had arranged for the Reichstag fire. The Hitler government ordered prohibition of the entire Leftist press and the arrest of the 100 Communist members of the last Parliament Tuesday. With Reichstag and Prussian Diet elections five days off, both orders were regarded as forerunners to the outlawing of the Communist party.

They followed swiftly upon partial destruction of the massive half-century old Reichstag building in a fire started by a young Dutch Communist Monday night. Police squadrons occupied the building housing the Vorwaerts, principal newspaper of the Socialist party, for four hours Tuesday morning, confiscating truckloads of election propaganda. The two Leftist parties formed the bulk of the majority opposition against tiie Hitler regime in the Reichstaf dissolved this month, holding 221 of the 554 seats. The Communists and Hitlerites formed the two largest parties in the Prussian Diet, which was dissolved also. Outlawing of only the Communists was expected to easily assure Chancellor Kilter's party of control in both the Reichstag and Diet to be elected Sunday.

POLICE CALLED IN Ford Official Will Be Sought By Authorities In Michigan DETROIT (Pj Acting updn the request of his wife, officials of the Ford Motor Company and Detroit and Michigan state police Tuesday began a widespread search for Ernest G. Liebold, for more than a score of years general secretary to Henry Ford and fiscal agent for the motor manufacturer. Although no theories as to his disappearance were advanced, following the discovery at 2 a.m. Tuesday that he was not at his home, Lieholds friends and Ford officials said he had been under a terrific strain for several weeks, working for the manufacturer on plans for easing the financial situation in Detroit. At the Ford plant, officials said they "have no idea what has happened to Liebold.

The only thing in the way of a clue to the mystery coming to police were a report that Lieboid's car had been seen upstate, and the almost simultaneous receipt of a letter from Jiim, mailed at Pontiac, in which he resigned as a bank director. "After having been associated with you since the establishment of the bank, it is with deep regret that I find it necessary to request the acceptance of my resignation as director," the letter read. IG GER CELLAR NEED OKLAJ IOMA CITY (IP) Although Sheriff Stanley Rogers poured out 1,600 gallons of whisky and 100 gallons of beer, hes enlarging his cellar" because his raiders fill the evidence room with confiscated liquor faster than the courts can order it destroyed. (By The Associated Press) TUESDAY Both houses convene at noon. Senate expected to renew its move for adjournment after Wednesday in order to attend the Roosevelt inauguration.

House will be asked to take up eight economy bills as a special and continuous order of business. MONDAY Both houses in recess. With a view of removing from the public mind any doubt as to the harmonious relationship which has existed for several years between the dairy interests of this market and the Jefferson County Board of Health, the Alabama Dairy and Food Council has offered to provide legal counsel to cooperate with L. C. Bulmer, of the Health Department, in defending the charges filed in Judge Synders court against him by a former employe of this organization, it was announced Tuesday by J.

Howard Fike, executive secretary of the council; Employes of the council have been notified their services will not be needed after March 1 and the councils trustees have been called to a meeting at 2:30 p.m. March 1 at its offices in the Martin Building. Affairs of the council became involved in court recently when G. T. Kay, former manager of the Bottle Exchange, obtained an Injunction restraining Bulmer from devoting his Continued on Pago 2, Third Column JUDGE RISES TO EMERGENCY PHILADELPHIA (IP) Defending the sanctity of a man's place of business, Judge Theodore Rosen told a man and his wife; If my wife came in here and tried to run things, 1 would feel justified in asking her to leave my place of Just then Mrs.

Rosen entered the courtroom. Rising to the emergency, the judge asked his wife to wait for him in an anteroom, where explanations NEWARK, N. J. (TP) A special plane bearing a 900 pound portable oxygen room to be used in the treatment of Mayor Cermak, of Chicago, left Newark airport at 1:43 p.m. Tuesday for Washington en route to Miami.

MIAMI (IP) Mayor Cermak, of Chicago, has "a reasonable chance to live, in spite of the many complications which have made his condition critical since he was shot by-Giuseppe Zangara, the assassin. Dr. E. S. Nichol declared Tuesday.

His condition was described by his son-in-law, Dr. Frank Jirka, as appearing to be somewhat better" shortly after attending physicians issued an official bulletin on his condition Tuesday morning. The mayors color was good, Dr. Jirka said, and shortly before daybreak lie asked for a bottle of near beer and for more food. The request for the beverage was denied.

In the bulletin the physicians said Mayor Cermak spent a fairly comfortable night and was sleeping at noon Tuesday. His, pulse was given as 120, respiratioR 36 and temperature 101.2. Use of the oxygen tent employed as a meant of relieving some of the strain an Mayor Cermak's heart as it showed signs of failure was abandoned at least temporarily Tuesday because the apparatus failed to function properly. The oxygen could not be suitably cooled. Special oxygen giving apparatus to be used in connection with an oxygen tent arrived here by air express Tuesday morning from Chicago.

An oxygen tent is coming also from New Yolk by air. Three different tents have been tried since the use of oxygen was started last week. There are no outward indications that the pneumonic area discovered Sunday night has enlarged since Monday," Dr. Nichol said. "We are concerned about the oxygen tents because none of the three we have used have proved satisfactory.

One of them is so small that it annoys Mr. Cermak. We had difficulty in the cooling processes of the others. L. NEW TRAVEL RATE WASHINGTON (P) The L.

N. has saked permission to reduce its passenger fares to 2 cents a mile. The request was made Monday of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The railroad's contemplated reduction applies to its entire system and would affect travel in Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Ohio, Mississippi and Louisiana. The action is an experiment and is to ldst only six months unless extended.

Permission for the general reduction was asked of tho sixth section board of the commission, but formal application was filed only in connection with fares in Illinois, Georgia and Alabama. Those three states, in 1920, refused to make fares within the states coincide with interstate fares and the result was the Interstate Commission required rail-roads to charge the basis of 3.6 cents a mile within those states and to collect a Pullman surcharge. DE GRAFFENREID CHARGES LIFTED MONTGOMERY P) The Alabama Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed impeachment charges against Solicitor Edward PeGraffenreid, of the Tuscaloosa Circuit, who was acquitted several weeks ago on a charge of arson in the burning of his antebellum home. The action was announced by R. E.

Ligon, clerk of the court, who said a written decision covering the case would be handed down. DeGraffenreid was indicted by the Tuscaloosa County Grand Jury on the arson charge following the burning of his home last September and later was acquitted in Tuscaloosa Circuit Court. Attorneys for the solicitor in arguments before the Supreme Court on Monday asked that the impeachment charges, recommended by the Grand Jury when he was indicted, be dropped on the ground the defendant already had been tried and acquitted. COOLER WEATHER NEAR Temperature Will Go To 36 Or 40, Forecast Says Slightly cooler weather is to follow Tuesday's showers. The forceast calls for "Cloudy, slightly cooler Tuesday night.

lowest 30 to 40: I Wednesday partly The inch-Jury hung close to normal during the last 24 hours, ranging from 41 to 55 for a mean of 50, and a slight rainfall of .05 inches was recorded. tions, especially so far as they pertain to expense accounts, and, Whereas, it is common knowledge that many of th states educational leaders, representative of the so-called educational monarchy are constantly on hand to harass legislators and to plead to their ense of prejudice, and, Whereas, the frequent visits to the Continued on Page 2. Fifth Column WATER PARLEY SET Industrial Leaders Want Supply Of Water For Manufacturing Arrangements Tor a conference between the City Commission and a group of about 20 industrial leaders to discuss a proposed Industrial water supply system for Birmingham were completed Tuesday afternoon. The conference will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the office of Commission President Jones.

Need of a supply of industrial water and the probable consumption are scheduled to be discussed. An engineering commission reported last week recommending either of two proposed systems, one of which would cost $3,196.285 and the other $4,937,1 44. GAS TAXES SHOW DROP Gasoline taxes collected In January amounted to $15,389.34, figures compiled by Comptroller Armstrong showed Tuesday. They compared with collections of $17,603.56 in December and $19,975.62 January of last year. WASHINGTON (TP) The safety of 3,000 Americans in the Peiping and Tientsin area is the cause ol' much concern to State Department officials as Japanese and Manchukuo forces sweep southward through Jehol toward North China.

Civilians in China never evacut when orders are given by diplomatic and consular officials. This is true of Europeans as well as Americans, who have been through so many revolutions and civil wars that they generally refuse to leave their homes. The 1,300 marines and soldiers tho United States has at Peiping and Tientsin could not be evacuated except by agreement with the Japanese, Italians, British and French, who also have small defense forces in the two cities. Military observers say American lives would be menaced should Chinese mobs attack the Japanese colonies in those cities because of the possibility that the uprisings might develop into a general anti-foreign movement similar to the boxer uprising in 1900. The Japanese have given warning that they will be forced to throw additional defense forces into North China if Japanese lives and property are threatened.

Such a development would, foreign military men say, result in a situation with far greater possibilities for international complications than the bombardment of the Chinese section of Shanghai last year by the Japanese. Europeans and Americans live in practically all parts of Peiping and Tientsin and are not grouped in foreign concessions as they are in Shanghai. Air raids over these cities would be a source of danger. Foreign military men also fear the retreat of disorganized Chinese forces southward into Peiping if the Japanese and Manchukuo forces drive the Chinese soldiers out of Jehol City and send them across the great wall in confusion. The Far Eastern crisis is receiving attention both in and out of Congress.

Senator Borah, of Idaho, Monday spoke in opposition to any action by the United States in joining with European nations in placing an embargo on arms shipment to the Orient. Democratic House leaders blocked action this session on President Hoovers proposal to empower the president to institute embargoes against countries in conflict. Tax Delinquents Have Additional Day For Settling Tax Collector Hamilton has granted an extra day for nearly delinquent taxpayers in Jefferson County to pay approximately $4,000,000 in 1932 taxes and escape paying 75 conts each additional for citation fee. This means that these delinquents have one more day closing time Wednesday to pay taxes, Hamilton warned. Ordinarily citation notices are issued March I but Hamilton is waiting until March 2 to issue these.

I The notices are for appearance ot delinquents in Probate Court April 10 to show why their property shun Id tmt he sold for taxes. Delinquents must pay Interest at 8 par cent per annum, dating from Jan. 1, and a 50 -cent delinquent fee. besides the citation foe. Officers in two widely separated spots in Alabama Tuesday were attempting to solve the mysterious slaying of three persons, one near Scottsboro and two near Andalusia.

in Hog Jaw Valley, near Scottsboro and the Tennessee line, Sheriff McBryde was delving into the circumstances surrounding the slaying ot Jim Robbins, 60-year-old farmer, whose partly cremated body was unearthed from a crude storm cellar grave, Monday. Robbins' widow and four youths, Jake Morris, 21; Tom Stokes, 19; B. T. Stokes, 31, and D. L.

Smith, 18, were lodged in jail. Later, they were ail released with the exception of Tom Stokes and Smith, who are charged with murder. The body of Robbins was discovered Monday after Jake Morris, who Mrs. Robbins said was her step-father's son, told of a party at the Robbins home that resulted in the slaying of the farmer. He told Sheriff McBryde the two Stokes boys and Smith were at Robbins' home at the time of the slaying and that after attempting to burn his body they buried it in the storm cellar.

Robbins had been missing since 1930, a few months after he married Mrs. Nicy Ladd. Mrs. Robbins, B. T.

Stokes and Morris were released after a hearing before a coroners jury. According to Sheriff McBryde, Morris said tho slaying followed a quarrel over liquor and money. Mrs. Robbins said Morris had lived at their home more than two- years. At Andalusia, in the southern part of the state, officers were seeking a motive for the slaying of Carl Hicks and Marvin Longmier, brothers -inlaw, who wore felled with buckshot fired from tho rear, as they were fishing on the banks of Yellow River, 20 miles from Andalusia, Sunday.

Friends of Hicks, former Covington County deputy sheriff, and Longmier, Andalusia Telephone Company eableman, could offer no reason for their slaying. Both were said to have been popular in the community and their widows knew of no enemies. The two men were sitting on the banks of the river, when the killers apparently slipped up behind them unnoticed, firing full loads of buckshot Into their heads, Sheriff Tom Gantt said. Tlie sheriff said the killers (he estimated there were two, judging from tiie buckshot) then stood over the fallen figures and fired additional buckshot in their bodies. Robbery was not tho motive, as ono of the men had $42 and the other $36 in their pockets.

Their locked automobile was parked on the roadside near where they were fishing and an automatic rifle they carried with them was In the rour of the machine. Longmier Saturday resigned his position with tiie telephone company and was planning to move to Texas, where lie had a job. Sundays fishing trip was to have been tho last for tho two brothers-in -law, who were said to be very fond of each other. Both men are survived by their widows and Longmier has three children. INJURIES FATAL TO CHILD MONTGOMERY W) Charles Guillory, 10, son of Mr.

Hnd Mrs. E. L. Guillory, died Tuesday at a hospital here from injuries received in the collision of an automobile driven by Ids father and a truck. The child suffered a fractured skull and never regained consciousness.

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2 is given on the comic page of the present issue of The News. Try your skill with these interesting puzzles. There is lots of fun, in addition to WALSH IS NAMED TO CABINET POST the cash prizes. First prize in this contest is $25, the next five are $10 each, and the next five, $5 each, a total of $100. Work out puzzle No.

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In puzzle No. 2, there are incorporated parts of three states including part of the state whose motto is the famous saying, United We Stand, Divided We Fall." The flower of this state is Goldenrod. Its name Is derived from the Indian; the meaning is "Bloody Ground." This state originally was a battleground between tho Iroquois and Cherokee Indians; this state was destined to bo the first American state west of the Alleghany Mountains. It was admitted to the Union In 1792. Gen.

Wayne put down an Indian uprising. Start working and clipping these HYDE PARK, N. Y. (IP) President-Elect Roosevelt Tuesday announced appointment of Thomas J. Walsh, ot Montana, as his attorney general.

It was Senator Walsh who prosecuted the Senate's inquiry into the naval oil reserve leases that sent Albert B. Fall, former secretary of tho interior, to jail. The selection of Walsh left only two more nuntes to be announced for the Roosevelt cabinet. It Is expected Roosevelt will till the official list before Wednesday with the announcement of Miss Frances Perkins, of New York, for secretary of labor, and Daniel C. Roper, of South Carolina, fur secretary of Commerce, ai'5 wears.

For the benefit of those "If do not know Mr. Howe his Pi'miitnence is based on intelligence aJ'l not on sartorial pretense. His clothes usually look as though he not have time to take them off "''fore retiring the night before. Repeated confidential proddlngs h(lm other members of the finally drove him to a tailor. He emerged with a morning coat he Thought was quite nice.

It drew only fioos from his associates. It had no tliu'k braid. The battle raged around that point mnny days. Howe would bo damned a would get black braid. Other Prospective secretaries sneered.

They doubted whether they could associate with one so socially incorrect. 1 otti promise jK out of the question. w'1 of Mr. Roosevelts secretaries i have black braid. Ono will not.

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