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Evening star., 1933-10-08
LOAN FOR CONSTRUCTING TAM]
SPOTTED Gains
INCREASE HOPE
OF ALABAMANS
Coal Operators Are
DOtvrhearted Over
N. X. n. Code.
BY T. =. ROTHERMEL,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, October T.
Alabama's politico economic appearance
is rather spotted this week. Coal opera
tors Of the State are considerably down.
hearted over . code which they have
accepted but which they are predicting
Will mean ruin for them. On the other
hand the States public works program
has at last gotten under way and Gov
eminent checks for the farmers who
plowed under their cotton In the acreage
reduction campaign are beginning TO
make themselves felt In the stores.
The coal code with its base pay Of
42h cents an hour for tnside skilled
labor. or $40 daily, was opposed By
the Alabama Coal OPERATOR Aesocia-
ton, which for nine weeks kept repre-.
sentatives In Warrington seeking q
daily rate for miners Of $40. Loss Of
the effort. according to D. A. Thomas,
chairman Of the Operators Code Com
mittee. jeopardiSes the coal industry Of
Alabama.
I've Months Les.
Alabama producers. Mr.. Thomas said.
uniformly lost during August and Sep
tember under the proposed scale Of s. 20
which they had put into effect. The
increase In the scale to $40. he added,
will substantially add to the amount Of
loss.
Every effort will be made. however" !"
Mr.. Thomas said. TO comply Nth the
code until Developments make It Ger
tain that further compliance would re-
suit In disaster both to the workers and
to the industry" In that event. he
intimated, there would be nothing left
to do but to close the mines.
The only hope for the producers, they
claim, is an increase IN price that viii
permit them to compete With other
fields.
Alabama finally removed itself from
the column Of States that had Jagged
in getting Federal funds for public I'm
provements and this week let seven
contracts for road construction to cost
approximately 81 900 900. As rapidly
as possible, 1t was said 1T Montgomery
the State will seek bids on highway
building to be undertaken With the
$4,000, 900 available for that purpose
from the Federal treasury.
The State has also begun to get eW-
dence Of the r. r. c. program. accord
ing to report by Milton H F1es. chair
man Of the Alabama State Advisory
Board.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL REFORM
FEATURE RECOVERY IN GEORGIA
State Seeks New Industries and Finds Two
in Peat and Newsprint
Developments.

the substance which is imported to the
United States by the shipload and dis
tributed to thousands OF florists and
gardeners throughout the country
Analyses indicate that the Georgia
peat contains more than thrice the
nitrogen and five times as much min
eral matter as the German peat moss.
and that its water absorption capacity
is considerably greater.
The Georgia deposit covers 400 acres
and is Is feet deep for the greater
part. 1t is the result OF hundreds OF
years of decomposition Ct water reeds
and other plant life. Reeds crumbl1ng
and decomposing fell into swamp water
and formed a mass. There was not
enough surface pressure to turn 1t into
coal or to petrify it. and as it grad
ually absorbed the stag ant water. 1t
became a pseudo soil.
Those are tust two examples of the
initiative with which Georgia is seek
ing to broaden it's commercial activity.
whether they emerge into production
basis is a matter for investing capital
to determine but the State IS taking
new life out of the pressure OF neces-
sity.
Interesting as these things may be In
a commercial way, those who look to
the human side rather than the mer-
camille will see greater importance IN q
community building experiment which
has been undertaken as an object lesson
in purely agricultural section 30 miles
from Atlanta.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
BY EDWIN CAMP.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ATLANTA. Ga, October 7.-E"onomlc
stress is no unmixed curse, phliosopfn-
"a, observers of the trend of the times
in Georgia are coming to believe.
Georeia's routine agriculture and rou-
time industry staggered unoer ulIeo
wears of depression. with coIton, .o
hacco naval stores and timber bringing
less than cost of production; WIN
peaches melons and vegetables uIlsai.
able at prices which would pay cost oa
transportation, and with little or no
,narLet for the vast system Of manu-
factures which had grown up oHlce
1900. and
Rut rs the worst was put behlnd ana
the curve of business turned up 1t 1ouhu
Georgians looking to new sources anu
seeking gainful occupation IN ne"
methods.
Newsprint Developed.
perhaps the most interesting of them
Is the exhaustive experiment being car
ried on under the direction OF the emil
nent Georgia scientist, DR.. Charles II.
Hertv former president of the American
Chemical Society. 1t is expected 10
demonstrate the commercial feasloility
of producing a good grade OF neWSpIHiI
naper from linitless supply Of slash
nine timber which has already peen
worked for turpentine. The paper mas
been produced, the field OF supply mas
been surveyed and proved by Federal
experts, and cost analysis mdlcates tiia'
1t can he manufactured competitivey.
The newest development IN the Or
derly demonstration which DR.: Herty
has been making comes in the an
nouncement of a report Of tests maoe
by the United States Bureau OF STAND
ards at Washington.
Burton w. Schribner, chief OF the pa.
per division of the bureau. has reported
formally that the Georgia-made paper
meets all the requirements for neWspa-
per use, having a good printing format
and the necessary whiteneSs.
DR.. Herty confidently expects the
abandoned or obsolescent timberlands
of South Georgia to become within
decade a formidable competitor OF the
spruce of Canada, which now consti-
tutes the principal supply on this
continent.
Another turning to a new industry
Is seen In the experiments row beng
conducted at the Georgia State Col
lege of Agriculture and the subsidiary
station at Tifton to determine the
commercial availability Of 400 acres OF
semi abandoned land in Lowndes
County.
Preliminary experiments indicate
that the soil Is peat far superior TO
Evening star., 1933-10-08
GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS GET UNDER WAY
IN OHIO AS NEW CANDIDATES LINE UP FOR RACE
Gov. White Will Urge Linn
itation of Property Tax
in Legislature.

. larger burden Of taxation on real
estate and moved the owners Of 1t to
seek the rate limitation now before the
voters.
The death Of Editor Charles L.
Knight Of Akron left vacancy in the
list OF candidates Of the vets TO the
State convention to express Ohio's at
titude toward the pending prohibition
amendment, which caused some con-
fusion. Lawyers expressed the opinion
that to have convention with less
than the legal number Of delegates
might invalidate the entire matter. and
there was no provision in the act oy
which the other delegates might fill the
vacancy.
Attorney General Bricker has ruled
that a candidate can only be nomi-
mated to the vacancy by the petition
method. but that only 5000 names are
required and that they need not be dis
tributed all over the State. With this
advice the vets are hurriedly circu-
lating petitions They will easily sue
ceed in completing their ticket.
Completing his selections for the
Special Tax Commission to study the
State tax system, Gov. White has
caused some unfavorable comment by
naming Senator Paul YOder OF Dayton,
who was outstanding in recent sessions
in opposition to additional taxes on
utilities. 1t is noted also that he named
Richard S. Douglass, a Cleveland men,
ber of the House, who was a leader in
urging the Governors retail sales tax
plan.
In the organization Of the commits
sion Yoder was elected chairman and
Douglass the secretary. In place of
Robert A. Taft. who declined to serve.
the Governor named Representative
Hermann S. Vail of Cleveland The
other members of the Special Commis-
sion are Senator D. j. Gunsett. Sem
ator E. r. Lewis, Representative w. NJ.
Goodwin, Representative James A.
Jones. Fred Lazarus. jr.. of Column
bus, Murray D. Lincoln of the Ohio
Farm Bureau, James Wilson, Cincin-
natl union labor leader. ard John
Ahlers Of Dayton, q manufacturer.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
new MEXICAN JOBS
SHAkE-UP SECUTED
Hockenhull Fails to Upset State
Staff az Predicted When
He Took Post.

Special Dispatch to The Star
SANTA FE. N. Mex, October IA
feared upheaval in New Mexico politics
remains yet to take place, although
Gov. A. w. Hockenhull, who succeeded
the late Gov. Arthur Seligman, has
been in Office two weeks.
And as the days pass the feeling is
growing that there will be no house
cleaning"
When Seligman died suddenly and
Hockenhull stepped into his shoes Dem
ocrats of the controlling Seligman fac
ton of the party, as well as Progress
sives who helped elect the Democratic
ticket. began to worry-those who held
Offices.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
WINANT DISCUSSED
FOR PRESIDENCY
New Hampshire Governor Serving
Third Term and Has At
tractive Record.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MANCHESTER. N. H.. October g.
Gov. John G. Winant is being prom
inently mentioned throughout New
England as possible presidential timber.
One of the so-called younger Repub-
licans, a veteran of the World War.
financially Independent and with con-
siderable political experience. Gov. Win
ant may be the candidate the Repub-
licans are seeking
The fact that he Is serving his third
term as Governor of the State. hav-
ing obtained reelection. thereby shat
tering an old tradition of only two
terms for Governor, has attracted con-
siderable notice outside of New Eng
land.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
William Pickrel of Dayton
Announces Candidacy as
Democratic Nominee.
BY ]. c. GALBRAITH.

OLUMBUs, Ohio. October T.
4 Former Lieut.. Gov. william
I @. Pickrel Of Dayton is out
~ as q candidate for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Gov
ernor, but that was discounted and
caused no surprise The announcement
of the present lieutenant governor,
Charles Sawyer Of Cincinnati, Is Is
confidently expected.
A visit to Washington this week by
former Representative Martin L. Davey
Of Kent, and his conference there with
party leaders Is regarded here aS In
dicating that he is contemplating en-
tering the contest also. Former Gov
Donahey seems to be definitely out Of
1t, since he stated last week that he
would have something TO say In Janu-
ary about the nomination for United
States Senator.
Pickrel has sought election as Rep
resentative in the third district. but
failed. He ran unopposed for the NOM
ination for reelection as lieutenant
governor last year and then. for some
reason never stated, declined the nom
nation. Sawyer was named by the
State committee to take the vacant
place on the ticket.
Former. Gov. A. v. Donahey. three
times elected Governor as . dry, has
come out for prohibition repeal. There
seemed to be no reason for dec
laration from him other than that he
feels that the State is definitely now
against prohibition and possibly he Is
lining up with q view to the sena-
torial contest next year.
Both Gov White and former Gov.
Donahey have declared in favor Of the
pending constitutional amendment lin
iting the rate of taxation on real prop
erty to cent on the dollar. 1t is
row by law lla cents. Gov. Whites
declaration on the subject brought
from Robert A. Taft. son of the late
President Taft, a prompt declination
OF appointment to the State Tax Com
mission named by the Governor to
prepare an entirely new tax system
for the State.
In his statement declining the ap-
Evening star., 1933-10-08
FIGHT IN TEXAS LEGISLATURE
DELAYS RELIEF BOND ACTION
Half Week Left for Session to Enact Plan.
Trust Law Modification Blow to
$17,850,OO0 Oil Suit.
marketing practices. in 1s30-3l, violatet
the State antitrust laws.

marketing practices. in 1s3o-3l, violated
the State antitrust laws.
Suit Is Affected.
The Legislature has provided the
present modification of the trust laws
shall not apply to matters in court
when passed. But the adoption of an
oil code of similarity to that complained
OF seriously affected the big oil suit,
and companies asked abatement Of the
suit on the ground the practices COM
planned Of have been approved as ma
tional policy with the effect Of law un-
der the oil code
Texas oil production this week was
for second time reduced by Federal
and State oil control authorities, this
time to 5000 barrels per day. The
limit under the first Federal ALLEGATION
was from 1,200,0 900 barrels daily to 975
200 Price of oil responded instantly
to the reduction. and was advanced
from an 85-cent to 81 range to s1-sll4
per barrel
Bills requiring final action before Oc-
tober IL to be effective. call for issu-
ance of sums ranging from $4,000. 900 10
100000 Of an authorized 10000, 900
State relief and public works bond is
sue. Legislative opinion was divided
whether some Of the bills can be enact
ed, or whether q second legislative ses-
sion will be forced
Colonization Planned.
One of the bills, by Senator Redditt
of Angelina County, proposes to apply
$4,000 900 of the bonds to purchase and
resale to heads of families of small
tracts of land for maintenance Of sub
sistence homestead colonies.
An aggressive program of relief and
reconstruction has been applied to the
hurricane zone Of the citrus belt in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley. Damage
estimated at from $72,000.0O0 to $780,
900 900 was done by the hurricane early
in September Federal home loan, c-orr
loan and reconstruction loan relief
grants have speeded work there.
The United States Public Roads Bu-
reau has allotted approximately So
900 900 of supplemental emergency aid
to this area and to drought area Of the
Texas Panhandle Approximately S.
600 900 Of the earlier S24, ,24O 900 emer-
gency highway aid allotment of the
Federal Government has been put un-
der contract
Complaint continued In Texas ss,his: s,hi:s::
Of the various relief measures. that
part of the public works program COM
prising loans and advances to cities,
counties and districts for Improvements
Is still held back. Texas has applied
for about 100000 of such loans
and advances, though with definite
knowledge only a part Of the projects
can be approved. -..
Evening star., 1933-10-08
BEER IN ARKANSAS
ROUTS HOME BREW
Sale Legal Since August
Malt Tax Yields $1,719
for September.
BY THOMAS J. BRANSFORD.

hi IHOhlAS j. bhANSfOhD.
Spec. .al Dispatch 20 Tie Star.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, October III
the stamping out Of home brewing was
one of the objects in legalizing the sale
Of 80 beer. it has succeeded in Ar
kansas. The higher tax on malt also
aided. In August the State malt tax
yielded $5,15628 The sale of beer be-
came legal the last week in August.
The malt tax in September yielded
$l,7l9.18.
Beverage permit collections also
showed jump in September. For that
month they were s23 3.43e.17. as COM
pared with $l6.l90 in August. The
beverage tax yielded Sl5,873.78 in Sep
tember. as compared with s2,097.64 in
Angus.
Arkansans also are beginning to
spend more on luxuries There was an
increase of more than $4,000 In cigar
and cigarette tax collections in Septem-
ber over August and an increase of So
200 over September Of last year. And
the gasoline tax collections for Sep
tember set q record for the year
Evening star., 1933-10-08
Improvement SEEN
IN NORTH CAROLINA
Tobacco Prices Better After Direct
Appeal to President by
Gov. Ehringhaus.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RALEIGH, N. c.. october with
the first week Of tobacco sales after
the three weeks holiday distinct dis
appointment, Gov. J. G. B. Ehringhaus
took the case of the tobacco farmers
directly to the President and prices
this week have been distinctly better,
but are still we'll below the parity
prices provided for in the Agricultural
Administration act.
Declaring present prices "pitifully
low" Gov. Ehringhaus sent q vigorous
telegram to the President. in which the
temper Of the farmers was described as
desperate.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
REPEAL CONTEST ON
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Both Sides Waging Campaigns
as Election November z
Approached.
Special Dispatch to The star.

CpcCI81 OISp9CCi 70 1tlS St1f'
COLUMBIA, g. c., October Both
sides are active as the repeal election,
which will be held November z, ap-
proaches. The repealists are led by
former Gov. D. c. Hayward and the
anti-repealists by Rev. r. c. Burts, D.
D., one of the most influential Baptist
ministers of the State. Gov. Hayward
Is conservative in his methods. Dr.
Burts is more aggressive. The latter
has been making canvass of the State
for two months. The meetings Of the
anti-repealists are two to three times
as large as those Of the repealists, but
the general consensus is that the State
will 20 wet by . large majority.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
AUS. WARSfIPS REACH CUBA; T0ILERS MLLITANCY RISES
CONN., SP EXECUTIVE CENSRES NATIONAL LEADERS, WAR STAN
More Murder in Alabama

cHERIFF Foster Of Tuscaloosa
Negro day before yesterday
Is old, and A. T.
third Emoe Clark out of jail and
where he turned
the sheriff there
appointment
The gang there two o
performed Sheriff Shambin with the admitted
knowledge contemplated
occupied
that Foster Shambln had
stir movement to commit this
fact that guilt rests
popertyownng of the ruling class
authorities murder indicated by
which bound the 18yea old Pppen boy the third
Negro while the
1T is clear group approval
threatened the lives the
the International Labor Defense
State Alabama had encouraged coopd with this
ordered the attorneys of the
others eored the Negro relatives
denying the L. to defend them
ruling the
people growing unity white Negro toe
policy the the struggle for national liberia
people
in the South.
Throughout country
BEAsTLY CRIME
CLASS!
WHITE WORKERS! NEGROES! SUPPORT DEMON
sTRAT1ONs WHICH IN EVERY CITY AND ToWNi
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
Communist Worker
Killed by Shock
Cleaning Machine

NEW YORK, Aug. 14.-Exhaust-
ed by the speed-up instituted by the
company to increase it's profits, Ste
phen Graham, member of the Com
munist Party and the Food Work
ers Industrial Union, slipped while
cleaning a machine at the factory
of the Vita-Bran Company at SAL
Tillory Ave., Bronx, and was killed
by an electric shock.
Comrade Graham was active in
the Food Workers Industrial Union
and had just written pamphlet de-
nouncing the speed-up at the Vita
Bran factory. For his activity as
an organizer of workers in Norfolk,
Virginia, he was held for deporta-
ton to Jugo-Slavia. Despite the
fact that he was out on bail, Com
rade Graham did not slacken his
work against the exploitation and
speed-up of the food manufacturers.
His funeral. will, be held today,
Tuesday, at 2 o'clock at the Jugo-
Slavic Hall, Oath St., between 9th
and 7th AYES. Workers are urged
to attend.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15

terized by the LID as nothing more
than maneuver to cover up the
track of the lynchers.
"The first thing 70 do if such an
investigation were sincere would be
to arrest Foster and Shamblin and
proceed with murder charges against
Them" Frank Spector, assistant ma
tionary secretary of the I'D, said.
"Both have admitted that they knew
of the lynchers' intentions III ad-
vance. Shamblin is not even re-
ported as pretending that he made
any resistance to the gang that took
their victims from his hands. He
has brazenly admitted that he sent
back his convoy of deputies, and
when the time came, simply turned
over his prisoners to gang of arm
ed men. The question of whether
such gang even existed, arises
here. Or did the sheriff himself,
and the two deputies with him, con-
stitute the gang which turned the
three over to themselves and pro-
eseded to murder ta*,m%- -
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
Attacks Withdrawal
of Leadership From
Anti-War Congress
S. P. Rank and File
Actively Supports
Congress

NEW HAVEN, Conn, Aug. IA. =
The Connecticut State Committee Of
the Socialist Party in session here
yesterday voted to reprimand the NfA
tional Executive Committee of the
Socialist Party for having withdrawn
from the United States Congress
Against War, which will be held in
New York September 2, and 4.
After having sent representatives
to the arrangements committee of the
Congress, the national executive of
the Socialist Party suddenly with
drew, in an attempt to disrupt the
anti-war struggle.
Only two votes of the Connecticut
committee were cast against the mo-
ton of censure, those Of Jasper Mac
Levy and of Martin Plunkett, two old
guard socialists.
Many Connecticut socialists have
been energetically agitating for So
cialist support of the, congress, and
have been supporting it individually
despite the decision of the national
leadership.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15

TUSCALOOSA, Ala, Aug. a.
The official version of the lynching
of Dan Pippen, Jr., A. 7. Harden,
and Gilmore Clarke, full of discrep-
ancies, holes, and contradictions, as
given. out by Sheriff R. L, Shamblin,
is as follows:
Pippen (who was supposed to be
in Kilby Prison, Montgomery, ac-
cording to a court order made on
Aug. p, Harden, and Clarke. were
threatened with lynching in the Tus-
caloosa lookup.
The sheriff therefore took them
out, selected an unfrequented road
to Birmingham, and set out there
with them, to put them into the JEFF
ferson County Jail. He and two dep
uties were in car with the defend
ants. Another car loaded with dep
uties followed as a convoy.
Dismisses Convoy
Twenty miles out of Tuscaloosa,
he dismissed his convoy.
About twenty miles further, just
Inside the Jefferson County line.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
Mass Send-Off Meet
Today for Gallagher,
Anti Nazi Delegate

NEW YORK.--A mass seno-oti
meeting for Leo Gallagher Just
before he sails for Amsterdam TO
join an international delegation
to investigate German prison con-
ditions and to attempt to act as
counsel for Ernst Torgler and the
other Communists accused OF tine
Reichstag fire, will be held to-
night at the German Workers
Club, 1886 Third Avenue at p.
m. under the auspices of the Ma
tional Committee for the Defense
of Political Prisoners
Speakers will include Malcolm
CowIey, editor of the New Repub-
lie, Frank Spector, assistant Ma
tionaI Secretary of the LID, c.
A. Hathaway, editor Of the Daily
Worker, Haywood Broun, A. j.
Music, Rabbi Benjamin, B. Gold
stein Of the National Committee
for the Defense of Political Pris-
oners, and A. Wagenknecht, sec
rotary of the National Committee
to Aid Victims of German Fas-
cism. Samuel Ornitz, author, will
be chairman.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
Call General Strike
of Metal Workers
in New York Today

NEW YORK.-A call to strike was
issued today to silver, holloware
chandelier and workers of allied
trades by the Metal Workers Indus
trial Union and the Metal Spinners
Union jointly. 1t is anticipated that
the call will bring out more than a
thousand workers
The strikers will gather at Manhat-
tan Lyceum, Sc East 4th ST., today at
10 am. The main demands for which
the strike is being waged are as fol-
lows: establishment of a minimum
wage scale of $125 for skilled work
ers and from so cents to 81 an hour
for seni-skilled and unskilled work.
ers; abolition of all piece work; estab-
lishment of an unemployment relief
fund to be paid by the employers and
controlled by the workers and recog-
milton of both unions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-15
The Miners Continue to Fight

DACK pits
y euenans that
the fight
treachey lot promises sent the
situation the coal fields of
which struggle
did the strike They
fighting than mistake about that
situation the take off its velvet
Washington this onous the New York
special correspondent:
opinion leading officials the NRA who
problem dangerous
dynamite potentiaties expressed
operators able
hold check
In operators
dispatch and federal troops to
order
the opinion in various
quarters firm hand of the president stay the
threat of national disaster"
Of federal troops
will be blow to the miners When the New
of armed and coal operators
already pretext under which the
government break the strike
UMWA
miners back strike struggle
put the recently betrayed strike in the shade
with must
with OF action The delegates
they presented the demands OF the
particular telling the miners OF what hap