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Population 1800, 1900, 1910. 1920, 1930. 16,046. VOLUME 27. Move To Cut Relief Bill Nears Tests Senate Leaders Sure Reduction Will Be Beaten On Vote BONUS ISSUE UP House Will Look Over Series Of Proposals WASHINGTON, March 18.

(AP) The $4,880,000,000 relief bill, with the prevailing, wage issue compromised, approached the final ballot on passage with administration leaders confident of success. Efforts to slash the big fund by half offered the most serious threat remaining, but President Roosevelt's, fail. friends believed the drive Bonus Vote Near for a ballot $2,000,000,000 The House laid plans meanwhile, cash bonus issue--a step opposed as strongly by the White House as were efforts to 'rewrite the relief measure. The leadership decided to allow 11 hours of debate and to permit votes on all forms of cash payment bills-including the Patman currency' expansion plan. Strong differences remained today as to the method of paying.

The rules committee was called into meeting to ratify the procedure under which the House be allowed to choose between the Patman bill, which provides for new currency, and the VinsonAmerican Legion bill which leaves the method of raising the money to the government. In the procedure was involved a double chance for votes on the Tydings-Cochran "compromise" bill, which will give the ex-soldiers negotiable bonds instead of cash for their certificates. As the program shaped up, it was this: Tomorrow, the Vinson-American Legion bill will be called up on the floor. It, and other bonus proposals, will be debated 11 hoursperhaps three days. Then it will be in order for all bonus bills to be offered as substitutes for the Vinson plan.

Among these are the Patman and the Tydings-Cochran measures, as well as other proposals to limit payment to the needy and to pay in installments. Strategy Unfolded It the Patman bill is rejected on the first vote, supporters of that measure subsequently will be allowed to move to send the whole thing back to the ways and toe means committee with instructions approve the Patman bill and report it back immediately. If the Patman bill is accepted, a similar motion will be allowed on the Vinson bill. Leaders conceded there was little doubt but that one of these two bills would be approved. But they were offering another opportunity for a vote on the TydingsCochran bill.

That, too, would be in the form of a motion to send all bills back to the ways and means committee with instructions that it report back immediately, and with its approval, the Tydings Cochran plan. Under this bill, a veteran who cashed in now on the negotiable bonds would get 79.8 per cent of the face value of his bonus certificate. If he held off until 1945, he would get 100 per cent. Other capital developments: Harry L. Hopkins had no immediate comment in his controversy with Governor Martin L.

Davey over the Ohio relief fund situation. Edwin Smith, member of the labor relations board, termed the company union "a broken reed" in accomplishing labor's NRA guarantees of collective bargaining. He testified before the Senate labor committee Dozer Sets Bedding Ablaze But Escapes A quiet nap came near being disastrous early today for Ernest Monk of Whitten street -he awoke to find his bed in flames. With a yell he dashed for a telephone to summon firemen and they arrived in time to check the blaze from spreading over Monk's house. dozed Monk told firemen he apparently off while smoking a cigaret.

COUNCIL MEETS A docket of routine business faces city council at the second March meeting tonight. The session starts at 7:15 o'clock. WILL ROGERS SAYS: SANTA MONICA, March Well we just wake up in the morning to see who will get the headlines. "Mussolini is moving into Abyssinia." "Stalin buiids up the Red army to one million," but today Hitler took the play away from not only the dictators but away from St. Patrick, and say, that old gentleman St.

Patrick was no slouch as a fighting man himself. Yesterday I drapped me shamrock into a thimbleful of old IrishOwen and may you be seven months in heaven before the devil knows you're dead. Fag a bealoch. Yours, WILL ROGERS. THE Long Partisan Ready Whip Kingfish's Foe WASHINGTON, March 18.

(AP) -Senator Huey P. Long bas an intense partisal in Louisiana who is willing to fight Representative Gassaway (D), Oklahoma, with "six-shooters" for the latter's attacks on the "Kingfish." He is Anthony Russo New Orleans. Russo sent a challenge to the Oklahoma congressman. today in care of the Washington office of the Associated Press. In a small package containing a miniature black sombrero with a yellow ribbon labelled "Ride 'Em Cowboy," he enclosed the letter: "Mr.

Tuff Guy at Washington D. the Oklahoma Cowboy Congressman. "I reed in the New Orleans Ttimes-Picayune ware you are pretty tough. And you going to slap Huey Long down. Let me tell you what 1 I think about you and your six shooter.

I not from the but I am from that great state of La. from ware Huey Long come from. And I will lay down my life for any man that bars his name. "Now Mr. Big Shot you lay down your life for Mr.

Roosevelt. You take your six shooter. And I'll take mine. It means one thing. The fastest man to the trigger.

"Take me up." A note attached to the sombrero, which had a long blue feather in the crown, said: "See if this hat fit that cowboy congressman." AP Leased Wire DANCE HALL MADE SHAMBLES AS GUN DUEL BREAKS OUT Hostess, Two Men Slain In Pistol Fight Breaking Up Week End Party SWAINSBORO, March 18 -The crack of pistol fire brought an abrupt end to the revelry of a week end dance at a roadhouse near here, leaving two men and a woman dead. The names of the victims were given by Sheriff P. L. Youngmans as Miss Odessa Jones, 22, and Harry Nunn, 21, employes of the roadhouse; and Gary Fields, 38, whom the sheriff described as a man about town. Youmans said the shootingestarted when Fields entered the dance hall at the roadhouse late Saturday night, "broke" on Miss Jones and her partner and after words with the woman opened fire on her.

The woman, who, the sheriff said, was employed at the roadhouse as a hostess, fell mortally wounded with three bullet wounds in her body, Guns flashed, Youmans said, and pandemonium broke out among the 40 guests as the men whose names he gave as Nunn and Fields moved with drawn pistols toward the pavilion entrance. Suddenly he said, the men blazed away. Nunn dropped with three bullets in his abdomen and Fields went down with a bullet through his temple. "Everybody scattered," Youmans said, "and by the time my deputies go there there were but few people." Long Guard to Face Trial For Assault On News Photoman NEW ORLEANS, March 18 (AP) -Arraigned in criminal district court here today on a charge of attacking Leon M. Trice, an Associated Press news photographer, intent to kill, Joe Messina, chief bodyguard of Senator Huey P.

Long, today pleaded not guilty and was released under his original $1,000 bond. The arraignment was brief. Messina, through his attorneys, State Representative Fred Oser and Henry O'Conner, son of Assistant Attorney General James O'Conner, toid Judge J. Arthur Charbonnet that he had elected to be tried by a jury. Date for the trial will be announced later, Judge Charbonnet said.

Messina was arrested following an investigation by District Attorney Eugene Stanley, who filed a direct bill of complaint. Trice assertedly was attacked while snapping a picture of Senator Long as he stepped from a train here February 1. HOWE STILL ILL WASHINGTON, March 18 (AP) -Louis M. Howe, secretary to the President, who is seriously ill at the White House, today was reported to have passed a satisfactory night. His condition was said to be unchanged, SUPREME COURT QUITS WITHOUT SCOTTSBORO RULE WASHINGTON, March 18 (AP) -The supreme court adjourned today until April 1 without passing on deaeh sentences imposed on Clarence Norris and Haywood Pattersos, segroes convicted of assaulting a white woman near Scottsboro, Ala.

DOTHAN Heard Them Say, 'Let Us Go To Dothan'." -Genesis DOTHAN, ALABAMA, MONDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 18, 1935 Swanson Won't "Give Up the Ship" Enjoying the opportunity to justify his defiance of Comptroller McCarl on naval disbursements, Secretary of the Navy Claude Swanson is shown in high good humor in this characterful photo taken as he testitied before a House Appropriations subcommittee. He cited the opinions of two attorneys general and eleven court decisions in support of his views. New legislation may settle the dispute. Coffee Warns Dothan Must Help Road Or Loose Trade Warning that much of the Coffee county trade will be lost by Dothan unless cooperation is given Enterprise, New Brockton and Elba citizens in obtaining a paved road through their county, form letters were being circulated among business men, merchants and governmental officials of Dothan and Houston county today. Agitation for a paved route through Coffee county was begun last week when Gaston Scott, state highway commissioner, announced here that negotiations had been completed to pave the road from the Chattahoochee river to Brew- MARIANNA CRASH INJURES QUINTET; ONE BADLY HURT Mrs.

A. J. Phillips, Chattahoochie, Confined To Dothan Hospital A head-on collision of two automobiles near Marianna, late yesterday injured five persons, one of whom was in a Dothan hospital today in a serious condition, while two others were in a Marianna hospital less gravely hurt. In the hospital here was Mrs. A.

J. Phillips of Chattahoochie, with a broken leg, head injuries, lacerations and bruises. Her condition was described by attendants as "very Mrs. Phillips and her small son were riding with Mr. and Mrs.

Roy Crushen, also of Chattahoochie, when the car, driven by Mr. Crushen was in collision with another machine driven by James E. Bush of Graceville. The Phillips child was the least injured and was at his home today, while Mr. and Mrs.

Crushen were patients of a Marianna hospital, both broken legs, lacerations bruises. Bush, discharged from the U. S. Navy at Hampton Roads, Saturday, was under care of 8. physicial at Bonifay.

He was en route to Graceville at the time of the accident. Cooperative Poultry Truck Loading Nears A cooperative poultry truck will be loaded Thursday at the Houston County Farmers' Exchange on North St. Andrews street. Loading will start at 8 a. m.

and close at 2 p. m. Prices to be paid are one cent higher than the scale of last week. Since the sales were started. poultry prices have climbed three cents A pound.

Quality Of Mercy In Judge Frees Negro To Save Family Simon Smith, Negro, who was arrested several weeks ago in a net of evidence spread by officers investigating the burglary of the Central of Georgia depot at Columbia left the Houston county jail for home today under a bond signed only by himself. Orders to release the Negro on his own recognizance were given by U. S. Judge C. B.

Kennamer, whom the Negro must face at the next term of court here to answer a charge of concealing property stolen while in interstate shipment. When Smith was arrested, he was at his home near Columbia and officers found his invalid wife ing with two small children look- I Dothan Spots Middling 1002 Strict Middling 10.27 Strict Low Middling 9.72 "For Reports Hint More Recess Time Wanted Legislative Councils Unable To Conclude Task By Deadline DECISION WAITED Conference With Governor To Make Plans MONTGOMERY, March 18 (AP) -Political gossip today carried two reports of possible additional recesses by the Alabama Legislature but both had a common reasoninability of the recess finance and taxation committee to complete its tremendous task by April 30th when the Legislature reconvenes. Governor Bibb Graves said that the matter had not been officially brought to his attention but the reports persisted. The first report predicted that the Legislature, after convening April 30th would immediately take an additional recess of 30 days to permit the finance and taxation group to complete its general appropriation and general revenue bills. The second report said that the Legislature, after reconvening, would remain in session for a few weeks, and then take a recess until January to permit financial problems to be worked out.

Meanwhile, the finance and taxation committee was scheduled for a conference with Governor Graves during the day, and confirmation or denial of the recess reports was regarded as possible after that conference. The governor today had assigned 500 "white collar" workers to the task of making a complete inventory of all state owned lands, especially those bought the state at tax sale. This last data will be turned over to the recess ad valorem taxation committee for use in its program to provide installment plan redemption of lands lost because of unpaid taxes. "We don't know what we now." the governor said, in ing the survey. "We are going to find out who is squatting on the state's lands, who is cutting the timber on it, and everything else about it." Except for the finance and taxation committee, the other recess committees did not plan to return until tomorrow.

Two propositions that the finance and taxation committee was expected to place before the governor (Continued On Page Eight) MRS. F. S. WILLIS DIES OF STROKE Funeral Services For Dothan Matriarch Will Be Held To- morrow Morning Mrs. Fannie Slaughter Willis, age 75, died at her home, 209 West Crawford street, at 10:45 o'clock tack which she suffered at 10 Sunday night following ca heart ato'clock.

Mrs. Willis had had a similar attack about two weeks ago but apparently had regained her usual health. She was the widow of J. J. Willis.

Mrs. Willis was born in Barbour county, near Clayton. There lived until her marriage when she and Mr. Willis made their home in Echo, for a number of years, moving thence to Columbia and then to Dothan about 25 years ago. Funeral services are to be held from the family residence at 10 a.

m. Tuesday. The Rev. Mr. W.

E. Middlebrooks, pastor of the Foster Street Methodist church of which Mrs. Willis was a faithful member, will officiate. Surviving are three daughters, Miss Lucille Willis of Dothan, Mrs. Sam Clark of Florala, and Mrs.

J. M. George of Houston, Texas; two brothers, W. L. Slaughter of Monterey Park, and; J.

F. Slaughter of Houston, Texas, and a sister, Mrs. John McEnroe of Houston, Texas. Active pall bearers will be: J. L.

Crawford, S. A. Stapleton, L. T. Shackleford, Charlie Newton, Wiley Deal, Hugh Spann, Earl Stapleton, W.

O. Stewart. Burial will be in the city cemetery, Houston Funeral Home in charge. 37:17 Washington Discreetly Silent But Keeps Eyes On German Rearming TEACHERS TO GET GOVERNMENT HELP UNTIL TERM ENDS FERA Will Pay Up To $60 Monthly; Eligibility Rules Are Explained Houston county school teachers were on duty today with the assurance that at least part of their salaries from now until the end of the present term will be paid by the Federal government. Through efforts of county authorities in conjunction with state officials the Federal Emergency Relief Administration has agreed to pay up to $60 monthly of each teacher's salary, the state and county to pay the balancee.

This Information was given Saturday to an assembly of 171 members of the Houston County Teachers association by Solomon Baxter, superintendent of Houston county schools. The meeting was held in the auditorium of the Dothan High school, and was presided over by Prof. E. S. Walden, principal of the Columbia schools In his address, Mr.

Baxter pointed out that to procure this relief fund the county cannot. dismiss any teacher until the end of the current term, and also that only one teacher in a family is eligible to receive aid from the government. The assembly voted Its thanks to the the county superintendent and the the county board of education for their "untiring efforts" to secure this aid from the government, and also sent to Governor Bibb Graves and State Superintendent J. A. Keller an expression of its appreciation for their cooperation.

The Houston County Teachers association is a subsidiary organization of the Alabama Education As: sociation, and seeks, to work in with the parent group. harmony, are said to have been in perfect accord during the meetIng Saturday, and its leaders are confident that the organization in equipped to promote the best interests of the teachers of Houston county. Halstead Will Rule On Decree To Block Trustees' The fate of district school elections in County, scheduled for Saturday held up under a Houston, temporary writ of Injunction, hung in the balance today as Judge I D. C. Halstead announced he would rule tomorrow on a motion asking a ten day postponement op the hearing to determine whether the tempowrit would be dissolved or rary, permanent.

The hearing on the dissolution was expected to be held before Judge Halstead today, but 8. motion filed by the petitioners for the in injunction asked ten days in which to prepare their case. The ten day period would have extended beyond the date set for the elections and if the postponement is granted the hopes of the board of education to have the writ dissolved--allowing them to hold the elections as scheduled -will be killed. In gaining the temporary restraining order, the petitioners charged Superintendent Baxter were preparing to oust trustees of county schools through the district elections. The board had scheduled elections to nominate trustees in each school district, from which number the board would appoint three as the trustees.

Women Ordered From Court As Unprintable Letters Enter Trial WHITE PLAINS. N. Mar. 18 (AP) Justice Frederick P. Close, presiding over the trial of Albert H.

Fish, accused of slaying and dismembering 10-year-old Grace Budd, today ordered the supreme court cleared of women as unprintable letters the aged defandant wrote read into the record. The letters, written to Mrs. Grace C. Shaw of Little Neck. N.

who conducts a home for aged and invalids. asked that she 'spank" him with a rope. She maid he came to her home in November. 1934, representing himself an him own ward. He gave her A.

rope and a letter from himself- an imaginary motion picture director She ordered him to leave her home. The were turned over to postal inspectors. Ultimately the defendant WAS sent to Bellevue hospital for menobservation. He was later diemissed am a harmless victim of senile dementia. James E.

Dempsey, council to Fish -who is charged with luring the child to an abandoned cottage in East Irvington, N. where he killed her -offered the letters in an effort to substantiate his contention that Fish is insane NUMBER 147. Senator Pittman Warns America Against Becoming Entangled Abroad; Blames Allies For Reich's Repudiation Of Treaty Limitation WASHINGTON, March 18 (AP) Pittman, of the Senate Foreign scribed Germany's plans to increase "very serious" Secretary Hull today President Roosevelt's European Davis was expected to go to the day to discuss with the President uation and especially Germany's clauses of the Versailles treaty. Under Fire Martin L. Davey OHIO'S GOVERNOR FIRES HOT REPLY IN RELIEF BROIL Davey Dares Reliefer Hopkins To Visit State "If You Dare;" Claims Libel COLUMBUS, March 18.

(AP) Governor Martin L. Davey, facing possible impeachment because of charges by Federal Relief Administrator Harry La Hopkins that he had "inconvertible evidence" of political corruption in the administration of relief in Ohio, filed A warrant charging criminal libel against Hopkins today. The developments came two days after President Roosevelt directed Hopkins to "asume entire control" of the administration of Federal government's $8.000,000 A month relief bill in Ohio. Dares Him to Come "Come to Ohio if you dare and show you are a man, or turn and run like a coward and confess your contemptible character," Davey said in concluding a 700-word telegram to Hopkins. The warrant for criminal libel was sworn out in the municipal court at Newark, at 9 a.

m. A few minutes later Governor Davey made public his bristling telegram to Hopkins. Hopkins dispatched to Attorney General John W. Bricker what he called "Incontrovertible evidence" that business firms seeking relief (Continued on Page Five.) First Aid Kit Jams. Controls, Sends Air Stunter To His Death (Farly Story on Page 3) MONTGOMERY, March 18.

(AP) The cause of the fatal air crash that ended the "stunt trail" of Clifton Tribble of Owensboro, here yesterday was definitely attributed today to a first aid kit that dropped from its holder during An outside loop and jammed the controls. Although I. K. McWilliams, department of commerce inspector, would not make his findings public here, the announcement of the first aid kit came from Lion Mason, airport manager, who McWilliams make the first official, inspection of the wreckage. Mason said that kit found jammed in the controls leading back to the tail "flippers" 'and that Tribble was powerless to stop the power dive that led to his death before air circus crowd of 000 persons.

GRAND FINALE SEATTLE, March 18 (AP) -A. J. Herbert, the music-loving taxicab driver, is looking forward to greeting his friend, Fortune Gallo, whose grand opera company arrives next week. Last year Herbert had Gallo as a "fare." In a happy mood, the driver began whistling an aria from "Rigoletto." "Going to the opera?" Inquired Gallo. "No.

sir," replied Herbert. "I can't afford it." Gallo thereupon gave him a pa.35 to all the week's operas. This year Herbert is going to usher at all the evening operas -Shortly after Chairman Relations committee had deher military strength as called Norman H. Davis, observer, into consultation. White House later in the the general European sitdefiance of the military Hurries To Capital ton, traversing Houston, Geneva, Covington and Escambia counties to join the paved road into Mobile.

Pointing out that Coffee county has "no fight to make on other proposed projects," but. that citizens of that county "hope they are all realized," letters signed by Dr. W. A. Lewis and under date of Elba, New Brockton and Enterpris ewere being put in wide circulation today.

The letter follows: "We recognize and appreciate Dothan's importance 88 a trade center. We have rejoiced with you (Continued on Back Page) REPRIEVE OF NRA AS RECOVERY AID URGED BY LEADER S. Clay Williams Declares Great Majority Of People Support System WASHINGTON, March 18. (AP) Extension of NRA was ed to the Senate finance committee today by S. Clay Williams, chairman of the recovery board, with an assertion that it had "made a definite contribution to recovery." After three days of more or less general discussion of NRA Williams was pinned down to a definite recommendation by Senator Hasting (R), Delaware.

The short, stocky Delaware senator asked Williams point blank, if he favored extending the recovery for two years, as proposed by the administration. Leaning back in his chair, Williams, puffing a cigaret, said: "NRA has made a definite tribution to recovery and general conditions. With certain modifications, it would be exceedingly valuable to have it extended." Hasting asked if the majority of people in the United States were in favor of NRA in its present form." "It's A political question," Williams replied with a smile, "but I think the answer is 'Yes'." "You find great segments of the that want it changed in this people respect or that, but out of it all 18 a high common divisor that repregents an NRA supported by a great majority of the people." U.S. Launching First Murder Trial For 42 Years Freshly Armed CHICAGO. March 18 (AP) The Federal government, opening it.a first murder trial here in 42 years, turned to a fresh page in ita war on crime today.

The defendant is John Paul Chase, accused of slaying Inspector Samuel P. Cowley of the Department. of Justice in the bloody "battle of Barrington" November 27. in which Agent Herman F. HolIla and George "Baby Face' Nolson also died.

The trial in the first held anywhere under the recent Federal which permits the death statute penalty for conviction in cases in which government agents are killed on duty. Previously the statute permitted Federal court trials only when a person was killed on Fed. eral territory. The start of the trial found Chase, who was captured in California, standing alone. Fifty-one witnesses are under subpoena by the government, One is Melvin H.

Purvis, Chicago chief of the division of investigation. Purvis was reported to have obtained a death-hed statement from Cowley. Davis, who represented the United States at recent disarmament conferences at Geneva and in the London, morning naval from discussions, New Yofk arrived and went Immediately to the state department. After a lengthy conference with Secretary Hull he began A series of consultations with state departLONDON, March 18. (AP)- Great Britain tonight protested to Germany against the formation of a conscript army as announced by Reichsfuehrer "calculated Saturday, seriously to increase the ness of Europe." The note, delivered in Berlin by Sir Eric Phipps, British ambassador, expressed the, British government's regret Germany's action.

ment specialists, Including J. Pierrepont Moffat, chief of the Western European division. He declined to make any comment. Chairman Pittman, commenting on the Hitler government's decision to increase its armed forces to ape proximately half a million, men, said the States should not become involved "in the threatening situation in Europe." Secretary Hull, declining to make any comment at his press conference, said the state department wAs keeping in close touch with developments. The American attitude was described as one of a "watchful waiting" on the sidelines.

Hull, Davis and other state department officials were keenly Interested in press dispatches from London reporting that Great Britain, after consulting with Italy and France, had dispatched a note on the subject to Berlin. That and Sir John Simon's statement that Great Britain might seek consultations with the United States were res ceived here however, in discreet silence. Blames Allies Commenting on the decision of the Hitler government to increase, its armed forces to an estimated 500,000 men, Pittman described it as "the inevitable result of the total failure of the warring countries after the war to get together and adopt some new defense system other than military alliances." "Whether in this age such cooperation is possible, or not," he continued, "only experiences would have demonstrated." "The League of nations might been the medium through which the present situation in Europe might have been deferred many years. "It seems clear to me, however, that when the allies refused to admit the conquered countries and Russia to become part of the league, and the United States refused to participate, that the league could not perform the functions of such mediary." Reverberations of Reichsfuehrer Hitler's startling announcement Saturday that Germany was restoring its conscript army system continued to agitate the capitals of Europe, BERLIN-The today. Reichswehr ministry hummed with activity as army officials hastened to the task of organizing the Reich's new milltary establishment.

France Defenses PARIS- -French official circles, all hope for diplomatic settlement of Europe's peace problems shattered, turned their attention to the possibilities of ing a net work of. defensive allioppose Germany's reborn military power. LONDON--The British cabinet was called into session to decide whether Sir John Simon, foreign secretary, should go through with his projected visit to Berlin to confer with Hitter in light of the developments. VIENNA Burgomaster Victor Schmidtz announced that although Austria has not yet compulsory military service is coming soon." ROME Official circles, while believing it would be futile for the powers of Europe either to join in ing on with startled eye. "Dey gonna starve if you white folks take me away," Smith pleaded and his pleas were not in vain.

After, placing the Negro in jail, sympathetic officers got busy and with permission of Judge Kennamer reduced Smith's bond from $500 to $300. in expectations his friends would post bail. But they didn't and conditions grew worse at the Negro's home. Judge Kennamer was notified and today ordered the Negro released under his own bond, but with the stipulation that he must be produced at the next term of court, just as if he had regular bondsmen guaranteeing he would appear for trial (Continued on Back Page) The Weather ALABAMA: Cloudy, occasional rains in southwest portion, somewhat warmer in west and north portions tonight; Tuesday cloudy, probably occasional rains, somewhat warmer. N.

W. FLORIDA: Mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; occasional rains in west portion Tuesday..