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iiiDirfi FULL LEASED WIRE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE CITY OF INDUSTRY VOL 19 NO 164 KINGSPORT TENNESSEE tUESDAY JULY 101934 MEMBER A SIX PAGES TODAY PRICE THREE CENTO Fear Spreads CRISIS DRAWS ON IN STRIKE AREAS OF PACIFIC COAST PRAYS AS MOTHER WINS REPRIEVE r-t I i Death and Increasing Strike Threats Mark Developments Federal Board Moves Swiftly Economic ALABAMA FACING STRIKE OF 30000 TEXTILE WORKERS Dictator Orders Meet Reichstag to Hear a Speech By Him On Recent Defeat Nationals in Charity Classic By Score 5 of 9 to 7 Americans Get 14 Hits While the Nationals Get only 8 Nationals Use 21 Players in Game 1 SPEAKS FRIDAY NEW YORK July 10 (AP) The American League defeated the Nationals at the Polo Grounds here this afternoon by the score of 9 to 7 in the all-star charity classic' The Americans scored -2 in the fourth 6 in the fifth and 1 in the seventh The Nationals scored in the first 3 in the third and 3 in the fifth (By The Associated Press) Threats of further labor trouble along the strike-tom Pacific water fro" nard ioriv federal conciliators worked determinedly tor a truce A seventh victim was added to the death list resulting from the prolonged strike of maritime workers this time an officer of the law In a sharp skirmish between deputies and strikers or strike sympathizers on a Seattle business street Steve Watson 48 special deputy sheriff was shot to death The Alameda county (Oakland Calif) Central Labor Council with a membership of 32000 union workers called for a general strike vote last night The Portland Ore labor council authorized a to draft a general strike plan to be submitted to individual unions To Strike Thursday Teamsters in San fh'ancisco and Oakland have decidAi to strike i Thursday unless the Longshoremen difficulty is settled Hoping to bring a speedy con- elusion to the maritime strike the (One of Major Offensive federal consiliation board moved I Will Be Directed at NRA to bring together ship operators LaW5 passed By States and union representatives A federal mediator was on the REPUBLICANS' PLAft COURSE OF ATTACK CHICAGO July 10 (JP) The By ALAN GOULD (Associated Press Sports Editor POLO GROUNDS New York July 10 (A3)--Preceded by th9 OFFICERS BATTLE BAND OF GUNMEN CPy the Associated Press) Chancellor Hitler returning from a brief vacation convoked the Reichstag or national par-1 1 lament for Friday to listen to a i speech by him concerning the recent At Munich a secret order was issued to a section of storm troopers to turn in their arms emphasizing the uncertainty of the political situation in Southern Germanv Apprehension spread in Berlin ana elsewhere because of a ser-1 I0 jn thel The first attempt to unravel the chief staple food of all Germans i Import quotas from Belgium and! economic cnsis in Germany after other countries were increased to' tte rccent Nzi Paging resulted meet an emergency vesting of Dr Kurt Interest centered on re-j Schmitt Reich minister of eco-ported plans for a vacation cruise homics shown here with unlim-this summer on the Baltic Sea ited power to reorganize the na-It was pointed out that should 1 trade and punish anyone the occasion arise he would be disobeying his orders ready for a quick flight from Paul Joseph Goebbels minister NEGRO IS LYNCHED of propaganda was scheduled for on gy LOUISIANA MOB other countries regard the teremony of unveiling a tablet to the memory of John Joseph -McGraw who piloted the National League team last year All-Stars of the tMo major leagues met be- fore a Toaring crowd of 52000 fans today with two most famous southpaws Vernon Gomez of the Yankees and Carl Hubbell of the Giants as opening pitching rivals The sun beat down hotly on the -1 tack on White Offi- Accused of Attempted At- scene at Bridgeton where iG inted oRe of Tolice and striking employes ofitg major attackg of th forth the Seabrook truck and fruit! omi fftU cam on tht farms clashed yesterday IWDA MtA laws passed in approxi- Cumberland county authorities appealed for state troopers to OIie-third the state quell further violence The 'JJ11011- 1 Jersev assembly declared the1 Thls lme of campaigning was strike was communistic in origin 1 by enry At Fort Worth Texas several Pennsylvania newly elected hundred employes of the North- chairman of the Republican na- Fight Leads to Rumors Notorious John Dillinger is on Another Rampage FOND PU LAC Wis July 10 ff) A wild gun battle between deputy sheriffs and a band of gunment riding in a large automobile led to rumors John Dillinger was on another rampage and sent Wisconsin peace officers on an extensive manhunt today One of the gunmen was believed to have been wounded The fight which occurred on a highway near here yesterday left a maze of conflicting details but no tangible evidence that the elusive Indiana bad men was involved The finding of a bullet punctured small automobile fa Ford) abandoned in a ravine preceded the gunplay While the deputies were driving the bullet-scarred machine to Fond du Las a large gray car approached and as it drew near the officers its occupants opened fire with a machine gun and sped away The deputies answered the volley with shots from their shotguns and pistols No trace of the gray machine was obtained until last night when Earl Rasch of Fond du Las told Sheriff George Foreund that Frisch and ran to second base i i MM 111 TVS 1 tf 11 1 1 A missed hitting him spectacular setting and world series enthusiasm prevailed for a struggle of skill power and strategy between two million-dollar teams perhaps the greatest ever assembled on any bail field The McGraw Memorial a big bronze tablet set against the clubhouse in deep centerfield was dedicated with brief ceremony A likeness of the famous longtime leader of the Giants occupied the center of the tablet looking down on the scene of greatest triumphs The Polo Grounds was not quite filled to capacity but there were only a few scattered patches of vacant seats in the extremities of the upper stands The final prelude fo the gams was the presentation of the most valuable player- award for '1933 to Carl Hubbell A plaequfe was given to Hubbell on behalf of the Baseball Association by Frank Graham of the New York Sun There was no -ceremony of throwing out the first ball and the National Leaguers simply trotted out to the field while the crowd yelled 1 The playjby play account of the game follows: First Inning Americans Gehringer fouled the first pitch and then smashed a drive past Huntsville Times- Says the Workers Have Voted to Strike-Walkout Date to Be Fixed Sunday HUNTSVILLE Ala July 10 (A3) The Times today will say that approximately 30000 textile workers in Alabama mills have voted to strike and that a meeting will be held in Birmingham Sunday to vote on a strike date The paper quotes John Dean personal- Representative of the president the United Textile Workers of America and Albert Co A1 state representative as saying the strike already has been voted asking shorter hours pay increases and changes in working conditions Headquarters for directing the strike if called will be located in Huntsville one of the largest textile centers of the state Dur ing the past 10 days the paper quotes Dean as saying every one of the 42 locals has met and voted for the strike Dean described the conditions of the workers in the textile industry as the in the Dean also was quoted as saying the national union would aid the Alabama strikers The strikers' demands as given the Times are: 1 A reduction from 40 hours to 30 hours work week 2 A minimum of $12 a week for 30 hours against $9 a week minimum now existing This would be restoration of the code wage for the 40 hour week 8 Abolition of the system or limiting the number of looms per worker to prevent increasing work and: reducing personnel 4 Re-employment of all workers who lost their jobs through the stretch system 5 Re-employment of those who lost their jobs through union activity 6 Recognition of the United Textile Workers of America as the representative of the workers for collective bargaining under the national recovery act Dean said there were 35000 textile workers in the state and that the United Textile Workers of America 1 represented more than 90 per cent of them all of whom would answer a strike call The meeting in Birmingham on Sunday Dean said would not have power to postpone' the strike but Qnly authority to fix a date for the walkout to begin in event operators did not meet the demands Decision to submit a strike call to the Alabama workers Dean said' was reached at a meeting of the national executive committee in Greeneville some weeks ago The average wage of textile workers in Alabama Dean claimed the survey had disclosed was $750 a week whereas the NRA bulletin claimed the average for the south was $1341 a week There have been strikes in Alabama during the past 18 months at individual mills but this is the first general textile strike attempted in the state BASTROP La July 10(A) "em Texas Traction company voted committee who came to The stabbed and broken body of to strike threatening a tie-up of Chicago with other leaders of Andrew McLeod a 26 year old bus and street car transportation negro farmer today bore mute! Clash With Police evidence of a north Louisiana I A federal was on the lynching and officers were in- scene at Bridgeton where 1 backing for the political vestigating the mob action police and striking employes ofWay? ah ead nto arrests had been made ear- the Seabrook truck and fruit wl- nob iy today from ampng the mob farms clashed yesterday Dozens 1 Republican chairman said in an estimated at 300 men but Dis- i were hurt and 17 were arrested terview the extent to which trict Attorney Frank Hawthorn Joseph A Moffett a mediator! the national administration has rt I MM I A MM A his party to map a drive to win congressional seats in the agricultural midwest and to seek slain when Hitler crushed last' June 30 The Jewish telegraphic agency reported at least nine Jews were revolt 'Reichstag Convoked BERLIN July 10 (A5) The Reichstag was convoked today for Friday for a speech by Chancellor Hitler on events which made the executions of June SO necessary Chancellor Hitler ho since June 30 the date of climatic events marking the beginning of the has kept silent once more will use the for- um of the so-called national par- Lament to address the nation and the world His speech is calculated to ans- wer innumerable questions that German citizens and foreigners have been asking in explanation of the executions of June 30 The Reichstag has not met since January 30 this year when Chan cellor Hitler gave an exhaustive account of the first year of his stewardship Grand Stand Play It is part of policy to call the Reichstag together only 1 I from the department of labor £OIe in Die invasion of state planned to confer today I shall go into the sub-Charles Seabrook owner ofJect thoroughly and shall have was conducting an inquiry The body was in an undertaking establishment where Jh 'j V'V 4- A XV' -f x'- V- I VU I i -Si? I ir i JUT' 4S 'A I Xv-ftst lid stayed by reprieva from Gov Herbert Lehman The reprieve was granted after Vincent Saetta one of two men convicted of being hired to bill Antonie declared the was innocent BRITISH GOOD WILL ASSURED BARTHOU Formal Anglo-French Conversations Concluded Is Clothed in Secrecy By HAROLD BRAMAN LONDON' July 10 Louis Barthou French Foreign Minister indicated- today on his departure hat Britain will go to the aid of France in case the Franco-Belgian erea is invaded by a foreign power Leaving for Paris after two days of momentous conversations with British officials he indicated further that Great Britain had sanctioned in principle the Eastern Security Pact? in which France is participating although Britain was not a signatory The French statesman departed at 3 :30 declaring thatFrance and Britain' agreed on the European He expressed -the highest satisfaction with results of his visit reiterating that no' pact 'of any kind had been signed bat that the two nations had reached a -v Is French- and British discovered' we are agreed oh the European Barthou -said indicating that the British acceded to most points of the French proposals am very he added Francois Pietri minister of the xavy remained to have charge of the French side of naval discussions in preparation for the 1935 conference which also were said to be By HAROLD BRAMAN Aum-U4 Press Foreign Staff LONDON July Assur-anaces of the friendliest permanent reationship between Great Britain and France were given today by Acting Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin it was understood to Louis Barthou the French foreign The formal Anglo-French conversations were concluded early this afternoon The extent of the understanding arrived at between the two nations during two days of negotiations was still clothed in official secrecy An official statement said conversations made it possible for the two governments to clearly appreciate their respective points of view on the questions under discussion 11 questions included French proposals 5 for additional mutual security in eastern Europe the future of the disarmament conference and preparations for the 1935 naval Barthou was understood to have replied to assurances that 'never have Anglo-French relations been more cordial of more mutual value' and of more value to the peace of Europe Surrounded By Secrecy Although secrecy surrounded this phase of the Anglo-French exchanges informed circles felt that Barthou will be- satisfied with whatever technical 'ollab-oration Britain has agreed to give to France under certain circumstances I In contrast to the success of negotiations on 'that pointy there was a well-founded belief that Barthou was unSble tc change the British attitude -toward eastern European security pacts A it was taken after being cut 1 the 5000-acre farm and lot to ffly about it-la down last night from the limb sentatives of the striking employes' ter Thls issue will be taken up 0f an oak tree on the court in an effort to avert further vio-1 specifically in every one of the house square of Bastrop the lence The strikers were in which the legislatures seat of government of More- testing alleged wage cuts which prostrated themselves so abject- house parish 1 Seabrook denied had been made iy in response to demands from Mcleod was accused of at- At Minneapolis truck drivers Washington tempting to attack a white girl threatened today to strike again prt 'State Law Sunday near Jones La 30 miles unless their -wages are increased! I understand the present from here He was arrested St Paul union leaders indicated situation about one-third of the shortly after the alleged attack truck drivers in that city would have passed bills that in -and officers were preparing tobe ready to go out with the Min-effect make the numerous nd file formal charges against him I neapolis local A strike in May alraost numberless codes-' -actually a part of the law of -those states codes were written by the industries themselves by men official "connection' with he government and they are being enforced by -newly created oincers whose existence never was contemplated by the dbnstitatRm tion 1 were drawn up by extra governmental forces and were given approval by a rubber stamp congress but the utter' abjectness of the state legislatures was more extreme -than that of congress for the iegislaj tures passed their- state laws without even looking at word of the codes -already an While the Republicans were getting together the Democrats planned to -do some -work on their own account 4 Postmaster General Farley will speak at Sprinfield Saturday and confer with Democratic state officials members of the state committee county chairman and other leaders A representative Chicago -delegation is expected to make the trip to Sprihgfield PRODUCE CHICAGO July 10 (Butter 13602 weak creamery -specials (93 score) 23 1-2-24 extras (92) 23 extra firsts (90-91 22-22 1-2 grsts (88-89b21 1-4-1-2 seconds (86-87) 20-20 1-2 standards (90 centralised curlots) 22 3-4- Butter sales 3 -cars standards 22 3-4 Eggs 8513 firm extra firsts 14-14 12 fresh graded- firsts 13 3-414 rl-4 current receipts 12-13 POULTRY- 1 CHICAGQ -July 10 (P) Poulr S9 trucks steady bens 13 leghorn heqs 9L2 -rock fryers 20-22 1-2 colored 171-2 rock springs 23 12 colored 21 rock-broilers 181-2-21 col-' ored 1712 leghorn-12 1-2-Mi batthacks 14-15 roosters- 9r ftutv 1 0-14 i sprint dapks 1014 old8-9 spring geese -li old 8 it narrowly when it cut out in front of him on a main street of Fond du Lac Man Wounded was a man in the back seat with his shirt torn and blood running down his he said Federal officials were rushed to the scene by Melvin Purvis chief of the Chicago bureau on reports that Dillinger might have been involved Previously a report was circulated that the driver of the small car found in the ravine had been shot by the occupants of another machine who then drove" away with their victim hut it proved unfounded The investigators said the police at Kaukauna accounted for the bullet holes in the car when they announced that two youths had confessed to having shot a stolen automobile which they left near Fond du Lac They spattered the car with bullets they said to make their deed seem spectacular and then stole another car from a Fond du Lac doctor and drove to Kanukauua on the most important occasions at the time the mob battered when the attention of the entire down the door of the small brick world is focussed upon such a jail house last night and seized meeting and then have the rep- him resentatives of the people endorse Formed Quietly his policies by loud acclaim Witnesses reported that the general strike threats in (hree Hermann Wilhelm Goering mob formed quietly and grew to cities drew the Pacific coast mar-Prussian premier when he called such proportions that officers in fitime dispute rapidly toward a the foreign press together on the town were unable- to halt new crisis today as a federal Jane 30 stated that Hitler would their plans A telephone polejboard pleaded for an armistice address the nation probably the 1 and a railroad rail were used to Gunfire added the seventh vic-same night or at least the next break down the iron doors to time to the death list since the day the small jail and to burst into i strike started May 0 Steve Eleven days have elapsed since the cell where the accused negro) Watson 48 a special deputy sher-then during which the nation has was crouched crying and plead- i iff fell fatally wounded in a waited in vain to hear Fue- ing for mercy Seattle business district battle These reports stated that the The six previous victims were Instead two of his closest col- mob went without demonstration strikers or sympathizers laborators Paul Joseph Goebbels from the jailhouse to the 'court- Watson and several other dep- SAN FRANCISCO July 10 (A5) Another death and increasingiwithno cost two lives and injuries to scores when" Wally Berger fumbled tho balL Frisch dived for the ball but missed it by The count went to-two and three on Manush who then walked The Nationals went into' their first huddle around Hubbell as Ruth came to bat Ruth took a called (Continued on pfeffe three) ROOSEVET WILL VISIT CARTAGENA President Cruises "Along tKe Coast of South America" Cristobal Tomorrow By FRANCIS STEPHENSON (Associated Press Staff Writer) ABOARD THE USS GILMER ACCOMPANYING PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT July 10 (A Franklin Roosevelt cruised along the coast of South America1 today to pay his first visit as President of the Umted States to a neighbor continent The cruiser Houston is to put in at historic Cartagena to enable Mr Roosevelt" to take luncheon with President Olaya Herrera 'of Colombia On the journey to South' Ameit ica from the Virgin Islands the President displayed especial interest 1 minister of propaganda and Ru- dolf Hess minister without port folio addressed the nation Goeb- bels is scheduled to give another address tonight TT Church Question In political circles the question is being raised whether Hitler will touch in his speech to the Reichstag upon the church ques-' Acoriatca Pres was re informed that Catholic bis- hops sought an agreement from house about a block away and hanged McLeod to oak tree on the courthouse lawn The negro was forced to stand bile was turned over on the top of an automobile Ivan Gill a union seamon was while the rope was fastened and released by police after being (Continued on page six) (Continued on page six) 1 A CLEAR UP WRECKAGE FREIGHT THAT BROUGHT DEATH TO FIVE PRISON MURDERER IS CALMLY AWAITING END IN DEATH ROW trains- Nashville to Washington and New York Passengers on the ttiine were delayed a few hours Hitler that he would state in some I LA VERGNE Tenn July 10 public speech that he had nothing (JP) Working throughout the to do with the so-called neo-ng1tt crews of men today were Continued on page six) nearing completion of their task of clearing up the wreckage of a 1 1 freight train that claimed five I lives near here late All 1 were hoboes train ruaiirr The five with many other rrMvrttrr -HA 7 hoboes were riding the TENNESSEE: Generally fa St freight train en route from tonight and Wednesday little jfashJffle to Chattanooga when a score of cars were derailed and men and two negroes were- ip-VI RG1NIA: Mostly cloudy to-jseilt Crashing across the track night and Wednesdaay probablv the wooden tops and side? of sev- showers on the Coast not much ral of them being splintered by the impact! James Stoddard of Indianapolis change in temperature the St to the break down of a rear truck on a car of ammonia He believed the rails were spread when a huge piece of steel loosed from this truck was dragged against them As the cars which railway officials said were running about 35 miles an hour were hurtled from the track some of the hoboes were thrown clear Others were ginned underneath In addition to the five killed four two white jured so seriously they were taken to Nashville hospitals-' The freight train was en route to Chattanooga' Two crack passenger By HOWE SADLER TUCKER PRISON FARM Ark July 10 (P) Oblivious to the ever present death row diapason of static last mement hope Mark Shank lay in his cell today waiting out seventeen days before he must die One action can save him from electrocution July 27 'for the quadruple poison murder of Alvin Colley his wife and two small sons 'last August in the Saline county -woods Governor Futrell will hear week-1 the plea of his counsel Blake Cook" that the former Akron Ohio attorney and parish civic leader is a cyclothimiac victim tf A mental disease which carries the xufferer the heights of egotism to the lowest The British do' net oppose the 'of The governor who has directed every effort of his' fight and whose letters have provided the only interest for him since he came here is in such ill health she wjll not be able to visit him before his execution day Shank was apprehended not far from where the Colleys 'died in their speeding car as they rushed for aid after drinking gjrape juice containing a poison The state contended the attorney killed Colley also of Akron and "his family because he feared they would implicate him in the theft of papers from the prosecuting attorney's office at Barberton Colley was sought for the theft and Shank allegedly was interested in the cas6 The Colley family came to Arkansas Shank' followed them According to -fhis' confession introduced at his trial Sbink placed poisOn in cups" usedfor-gfapeand hia staff 'arrived by airplane juice while C6lley went to a yesterday from Bogota cefi- sprihg fir water taL in reports on the strike San Francisco wjiich were relayed to him from White House The Houston and her convoy destroyers ploughed last night through a heavy sea waves splashing over the decks in 'a bright starlit tropical night The Southern Cross 'was clearly visible in the heavens After his reception at Cartagena-Mr Roosevelt will proceed this -afternoon to the Panama Canil expecting to arrive in Cristobal harbor at 8 a tomorrow The Canal transit will be made tomorrow and the Houston Will leave Thursday for Hawaii 'Dispatches Jr om Cartagena said elaborate preparations have beeh made there to receive Mr Roosevelt President Olaya Herrera ilnd was the bnly white' mn killed Of four negroes killed wo were identified air were caught on either side of the wrecked the Dixie Flyer i bound from Jacksonville to Chi-men and two were' unidentified cago and the 'Lookout' High temperature yesterday 97 Same date one year ago Low- temperature yesterday 66 Sama date one v'ear ago b6 No- rain either date Readings' taken at 6 K)0 each day fir preceding 24 hours None of the Train wis injured wreck was ascribed 'by Templeton gen eraj manager of which the French but they Continued to mlin- tain that euel) pdets ire (Cunliuued on peg ii) hea given indication he will consider clemency WbM came also to the impas- sivo fSeed ftttbfney that his Wife.

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