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CONCLAVE OF STATES CALIFORNIA REPEAL VOTE BRINGS RIFT AMONG DRYS Mrs. W. .B. Hamilton’s Desertion From W. C. T. U. Just Before Landslide Likely to Have Political Results. g |dry, and this by less than 200 votes. CE C. BLAKEY. BYA:;::EAS July 1.—Repe _ | Orange C%lonty. dr_\‘ustronf:’mldhl\‘go:f; 108 , July 1.—Repercus- | jority. s sions in the ary ranks of Caé“;{:‘?;rfi' [ int Cllowed iihs peretal State av. the olden e, T sulting from tne Golden, Siate land; | erage. while San Francisco registered even the most rabxc{lfl\:\: 1;r:sav;;nprifir;'repnl. vately), fade into the backgroul 1 N comparison. with the bombshell hurled | Quine T'*“ks“;'f s;"— S into' their midst immediately preceding | Succeeding Frank Shaw. who today the Tuesday election by Mrs. W. B, becomes the new mayor o e Hamilton, Republican leader, naticnally | geles, John R. Quinn, former na known club figure and one-time dry commander of the American Legion, candidate for Congress. She was vice has been elected as chairman of the ' - |Los Angeles County board of super- president of the famous Women’s Com- | =5 HBn's (Aret. Mmoiall Bet wan mittee of Five Thousand, who 11 years | ¥isors. ~Quinns first officlal act WaS ago were credited with writing into the | to urge officials of every city 80 | county to immediately list “every pos- California_ statutes the Wright act, F s | sible public improvement needed” as California’s little Velstead act. e i o Rising before a gathering in her candidates for honor at San Mateo, three days before Dational industrial recovery act. the recent election, she announced: that | Business Activity Grows. “three years of investigation” had con- | General improvement is shown for vinced her that the eighteenth amend- | the month of May by indices of the ment should be repealed and that she State Chamber of Commerce research would so vote on t;\e follo“\ ing ‘messzy. | departilmenstt. ':va:;me_r we:}t‘herl t}‘lro&g: The State president being away, Vice | out the State during the last thr President Beatrice Coggins of th:hstate | weeks, following a cold sg;mg‘ favors W. C. T. U. immediately rose to the oc- | agricultural operations. ctory em- casion and notified Mrs. Hamilton that | ployment shows a 10 per cent increase she had automatically forfeited her | from the March oot Total bank membership in that organization, a |debits in 14 cities increased 4.9 per Tove that already has stifred factional | cent over April. Building permits in Tumblings. That the rumpus will attain | 51 cities, including those for part of importance in political circles is indi- | the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, cated in several quarters. totaled $35.736,739. Total sales in 55; re 5. While the State's nearly 3-to-1 vote passenger automobiie sales increased for prohibition repeal stirred national 120.8 per cent over April and were 59.1 interest, State-wide interest was prob- | per cent greater than May, 1932. ably greater in the proposition to legal- | 2 | THEODORE G. BILBO, Former Governor of Mississippl, who has been appointed an adviser to the Agricultural Adjustment Administration at Washington. New Jersey Solves_ 3 Major Problems Liberalization of Difficult! Beer Laws Among Accomplishments. Within One Week '* TENNES SEE IS PREPARING TO VOTE ON REPEAL ISSUE Plans to Float $10,000,000 Deficit Bonds Nearing Success—Wets Have Some Pre-Election Advantages. BY THOMAS FAUNTLEROY. MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 1.—Tennes- see's novel plan by which it proposes to float $10,000,000 of deficit bonds by having the banks throughout the State take them on an allotment basis is near- ing success. It is expected that the m'mxnlng $2,000,000 still unpledged will be taken care of within the next week, 80 that the State will face the second half of the year with a clean slate. Campaigns second only in importance to the repeal campaign now under way have been conducted by State officials and groups of friendly bankers for the last month. Group meetings of bankers have been held and pleas made to them to take their share of the bonds and thus save the credit of the State. The success of the deficit issue is necessary for two reasons, first because 1t will release $8,000,000 to the schools of the State, ang it will wipe out all of the State’s floatin® debt, permitting the Governor to put into effect the new economy budget of the recent Legisla- ure. Endanger Credit Structure. The plan to have the banks of each county absorb as many bonds as the county had due in funds from the State was hit upon after the banks in Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga and Knoxville did not sponsor a plan to borrow the money from the Reconstruc- tion Pinance Corporation. This failure followed an appeal by the Governor with the iction that the State's BY EDWARD M. GILROY. credit was in the balance, and that the captured the Legislature, and in 1909 it enacted a State-wide bill which, in spite of subsequent amendment and tighter restrictions, is still the basic prohibition law of Tennessee, Tennessee will vote for 63 delufll!‘ 4 district, 7 from each but they will be elected from the State at large. This was a victory for the repealists who 2 defeated the anti-re- mbmwehctdemeonm result of this legislative representation. The will be that the large repeal vote in Nashville, Chattanooga and Memphis is expected to offset the probable rural dry vote so overwhelm- ingly that the repealists will carry the State by a handsome majority. Two Political Leaders. ‘The repeal election has brought two interesting political leaders to the front again, former Gov. John I Cox of Bristol and former Senator John K. Shields of Clinchdale, both from the first district. Mr. Cox, now 76, is ac- tively on the stump as a repeal candi- date. Senator Shields, at 75, is also a 1 candidate, though he en the stump. Mr. Cox is debating in West Tennessee with former Representative Willlam D. Up- shaw of Georgia, the national prohibi- tion candidate for President last year. An interesting angle of the repeal campaign is that none of the Senators and Representatives from Tennessee is taking any active part. All of the Democrats except Representatives Cooper and Browning from West Ten- FRANCIS J. CARR, Predident of the Comptrollers' Insti- tute of America, who has been ap- ted comptroller of the $50,000,000 in gannuue Valley Authority. {South Dakota Drys Threaten Fight if 3.2 Law Is Passed Governor Urged Not to Yield to Demands for Special Session. BY ALFRED BURKHOLDER. - * Valley Expert \ DRYS’ STRENGTH SURPRISE TO WEST VIRGINIA WETS (Victory in 20 of 55 Counties. Strengthens Boast Test of Prohibition Will Come in 1934. [ BY ROBERT H. HORNER. CHARLESTON, July 1.—Twenty of West Virginia's 55 counties returned dry majorities in last Tuesday's eight- eenth amendment repeal election, and although the wets won, they were shocked. They had ex] to win 49 of the counties and their loss of 20 strengthened the boasts of the drys that the real test of prohibition in the State will not come until November, 1934, when the voters are to pass on a legislative proposal to repeal the 20- year-old bone-dry amendment to the West Virginia constitution. Drys are turning to the argument that much of | the sentiment which favored repeal of national prohibition will shift to their side when voting comes closer home, and will save prohibition for the State, depending upon the still existing Webb- Kenyon law to keep out goods from wet territory. School Law Holds Interest. An appeal pending in the State Su- preme Court for an injunction to re- | strain operation of Gov. H. G. Kump's county school unit law, enacted as an economy measure at the recent extraor- dinary legislative session, will continue to hold the attention of the State un- til a decision is reached, probabl: within the next 10 days. The injunc: tion was denied last Monday by th Kanawha Circuit Court and the tax- payers who brought the suit took it immediately to the Supreme Court. Meantime, the law already has begun to operate. Under its provisions, State Superintendent of Schools W. W. Trent, has appointed 55 new county school boards, who are to manage within their county borders, all . schools, school buildings and properties, which hitherto have been managed by approximately 1300 magisterial and city independent district school boards. Gov. Kump sponsored the new system, not only be- cause of large economies that might be effected by having fewer boards, but because local revenues have been so re- duced by a new constitutional tax | limitation amendment, that it became | necessary for the State, by new in- | direct taxation, to raise the necessary | funds. Since the State is to provide the funds, the Governor thought the State should have direct control over the schools. Another act of the extraordinary session of the Legislature stood the constitutional test in the Supreme | Court, which ruled a few days ago that | the State has power to issue $5,000,000 |in bonds to pay a casual deficit. Is- fuance of the bonds was authorized by | the Legiclature a few weeks ago to \htlp pay off the States $8,000,000 | deficit. Taxpayers took the case to |court in a friendly action to have its | constitutionality passed on. The Su- | preme Court held that the deficit was “casual”; that it had been created with- |out intent and that the act of the Legislature was for the purpose of | safeguarding the State’s credit. " i Industries Pick Up. | There has been a steady pick-up of business in West Virginia's industries | since April 1. At Charleston the Owens-Illinois Glass plant put 700 ize race track betting. with the State regulating the machinery and getting 2 cut from the proceeds. The voters approved by slightly less than a 2-to-1 majority. Bond issues and tampering with State funds were generally tabooed. | with the exception of $20,000,000 worth | of unemployment bonds which gained | 3-to-1 approval. Irrigation district | bonds, aggregating $55,000,000, were | disapproved, and two propositions to | transfer funds from the State gas| tax, which opponents branded as| “schemes to rob the State highways,” were overwhelmingly rejected. A prop- osition to exempt private schools from taxation was defeated, while a refer- endum on reduction of quake-damaged property assessments in the Long Beach area was generally approved. ‘The complicated Riley-Stewart taxa- | tion plan, purporting to relieve the tax | burden on real estate, was approved by | a small margin. A 51 per cent vote | was recorded. | In the dry repeal vote, Riverside was | the only county in the State that went | Kentucky Making INDIANA REFORMS CLOSE MANY J0BS Employes Not Asked to Stay| Dropped Automatically. Offices Centralized. BY HAROLD C. FEIGHTNER. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July 1.—The Indiana State government today passed from the scattered bureaucractic form established by constitutional and legis- lative forefathers to the highly cen- tralized form brought in by Gov. Paul V. McNutt. Although most of the system was placed in operation on April 15, when Gov. McNutt brought 169 separate di- TRENTON, N. J.,, July 1.—New Jersey in a space of one week has disposed of three of its major problems—liberaliza- tion of the legal beer regulations, con- clusion of its prolonged legislative ses- | sion, and a major step to end labor | racketeering in the building business. The Legislature ended a six-month | session by voting to the Governor wider | control over the State’s finances than | ever before reposed in the executive | branch of the State government. The | major provision gives Gov. Moore, a ! Democrat, the appointment of a fiscal | officer who can withhold expenditure of | State appropriations he considers un- | wise even after they are voted by the Legislature. Passage of this financial | reform program by a Republican con- | trolled Legislature was an unexpected | display of non-partisan politics after a entire credit structure would be en- dangered. About $2,000,000 of the issue will go to the retirement of obligations held by contractors and business firms that have supplied the State departments during the last two years. The Legislature, after an exhaustive study, lop off around 40 per cent from the cost of government. It was decided to wipe out the debts up to July 1 by the deficit bond issue, so that the treasury might start on that date with a balanced budget. The assurance that the budget would remain balanced was fortified by a special provision of the law giving the Governor authority to make further reductions if at any time it appears that the outcome is greater than the income. Take Up Repeal Issue. With the deficit out of the way, the nessee supported the repeal amend- ment in Congress, as well as the beer bill. Senator McKellar has long sup- ported dry meaSures, both in Congress and in the State. He has made no statement of his position in the pres- | ent campaign. Memphis Is Wettest. It is expected that Memphis will re- turn the largest repeal majority, not only because it is the largest voting unit in Tennessee, but also because it is the wettest. Representative Crump, the Memphis political leader, is an out and out wet, and so are the city and county organizations, both under the political domination of Mr. Crump. The repeal majority in Memphis may reach 15,000 or 20,000. ‘Tennessee requires the payment of a poll tax by all persons between 21 and 50 as a prerequisite to voting. This MISSISSIPPI TOWN SELL BEER OPENLY Special Session of Legisla- ture May Not Consider Legalizing Brew. SIOUX FALLS, S. Dak, July 1— Attention of South Dakota people for several days has been concerned with| the calling of a special session of the| State Legislature by Gov. Tom Berry for enacting legislation for the sale of | 3.2 beer in South Dekota, the attorney | general of the State having recently rendered an opinion that the sale of | this beer would not be a violation of | the bone-dry amendment to the South Dakota constitution. Prohibition lead- ers of the State di ee with this| opinion, and if the Legislature convenes and enacts a beer measure, it is certain | the prohibition forces of the State will | | endeavor to tie up the legislation by | carrying the question into the courts for adjustment. ‘ ‘The position of the prohibitionists | was indicated when S. Keck of | | Huron, superintendent of the Congre-| visions into eight new departments, Prohibition History | After Own Fashion | First State to Pass on! Legality of Beer, but Delays Repeal Vote. 8pecial Dispatch to The Star. LOUISVILLE, Ky, July 1.—Ken- tucky, -without participating in the re- al tidal wave, has been making pro- | mhitlnn history after her own fashion. | She is the first State to pass upon the | legality of the 3.2 amendment to the Volstead act and the first State to | bring litigation upon that question to the doorstep of the Supreme Court of the United States. Although the ruling of the State courts upholding the power of Congress so to amend the act may not be of great moment to a Federal court, it was necessary for that issue to be de- cided in order to determine whether | the first day of July marked the date fixed by law when all employes, unless previously invited to remain, automati- cally went off the pay roll. A good many public servants who had been retained under 16 years of Republican rule waited in vain for word that their services were desired by the new Demo- cratic administration, It is still too early to predict just what the new form of government will do in the way of reducing expenses, and at the same time promote effi- ciency, but enough has transpired to show that operating costs can be cut, and that jobs can be dispensed with. In the first four months of the Mc- Nutt regime costs were cut $1,600,000 more than in a similar period in 1932, and today the State has more than 1,000 less employes than it had a year ago. Gov. McNutt himself believes that economies totaling around $4,000,- 000 a year can be effected. Constitution Unchanged. In modernizing the State govern- ment Gov. McNutt did not resort to constitutional changes, which have been thought necessary in other States, but cbtained passage of a simple act which consolidated all governmental agencies the new beverage could be manufac- |into eight departments. In setting up rt in Ken- | the system he utilized the existing ‘“?x?‘ Lo e | constitutional elective officers but pro- Tt is an anomaly that the ruling |vided that after 1936 the attorney went in favor of beer in the face of |general, a non-constitutional officer, the existence of a stringent enforce- should be appointive rather than elec- ment act. All that saved it was the tive as at present. omission from this law of the defini-| The new departments are executive, | tion of an intoxicating liquor. Lower | commerce and industry, audit and con- | and upper courts wrote almost parallel | trol, law, public works, State, treasury | opinions. After concluding that Con- | and education. One of the first moves | gress had the rignt to amend the Voi- |of the Governor was to bring into the stead act, there still remained the |executive department. which he heads State amendment and the State en- |alone a consolidated law enforcement | forcement law, modeled on the Vol- |division made up of the State police, | stead law. to be considered. The | identification bureau and fire marshal. | learned judges held that in view of the | Virtually by executive decree was ' fact that the State law did not define established a State police force, which | an intoxicating drink by a stipulated 'legislators for years had shied away | percentum, it cculd be defined only |from because of the opposition of or- by the facts of experience. Both ganized labor. courts agreed that its personal con-| Gov. McNutt also reserved for his | sumption in the “largest practicable department control of the State’s| quantities” did not produce intoxica- |penal and benevolent institutions, and, | manipulation. {up again the approaching prohibition The temporary State beer code was | campaign, with the election July 20. | amended to permit use of bars and| It will be the first time the voters Sunday sales after 1 p.m. upon resolu- | have passed directly on prohibition | tion adopted by municipal governing |since 1887. An indirect vote was taken | bodies. Both bars and Sunday sales | 25 years ago when former Senator Ed- were prohibited since April 7 when ward W. Carmack, running as a State- Congress legalized sale of 3.2 per cent | wide prohibiticnist, was defeated for the | beer. Most cities and towns are ex- | Democratic nomination for Governor by pected to legalize Sunday 3ales except | Malcolm R. Patterson. Mr. Carmack where church elements are strong. lost the nmomination, but his adherents | dreary session characterized by political | people throughout the State will take | | the use of 1931 receipts in the July 20 | day sent to Gov. must be the poil tax of the preceding |gational churches and president of the | year. However, the repeal act permits | State Federation of Churches, the other | Berry a telegram election. This is another turn of the |reading as follows: “The Congr cards in favor of the repealists, since |gational conference and the State Fed- the 1931 poll tax receipt was used in | eration of Protestant Churches urge the general election last Nevember, and | you not to yield to pressure for a spe- | there are tens of thousands of them | cial session to legalize beer. We be- still in possession of the voters. Other- | licve it is a serious mistake to assume wise, an off year such as this is in |that liquor, which always is a major | Tennessee, would find a small percent- \uuaeuo{ poverty, would bring prosperity or relief.” age of the poll taxes paid. Oregonians Are’Battling Over State Bone- Dry Clauses. | SPECIAL ELECTION SET FOR JULY 21 Business Optimistic, With | Industrial Upswing on the Way. BY RALPH WATSON. Texas and Oregon Wrestling Repeal Issue Under Way in Lone Star State. /SENATOR SHEPPARD [ e {Cotton Crop Control Plan Is Major Problem of State Planters. Intense Campaign Is| | HEADS DRY CAMP| PORTLAND, Oreg., July 1.—What | Oregon folk are worrying about just at this time is whether the State is to join the wet column on July 21 nevt, vote to repeal the eighteenth amendment and at the same time wipe the two bone dry sections of the State Constitu- tion off the books, or stay officially dry, as it has been for the past fifteen years or 0. | The State went absolutely dry long before Volstead won his place on the front pages. It wrote into its consti- tution an absolute barrier against liquor of all kinds. In November, 1932, it repealed the enforcement act. On July 21, at a special election set to pass on the repeal of the eighteenth amend- | tion: ergo. it was no intoxicating bev- | while the reorganization has not erage ngg could enter the channels of | reached out to them yet. there is a |ment it also will vote for and against the repeal of the State constitutional | dry amendments. BY S. RAYMOND BROOKS. AUSTIN, Tex., July 1.—Texas people, in wet and dry rival camps, this week | swung into intense state-wide election | campaign for and against ratifying the repeal of the eighteenth amendment, and for and against adoption of a State con- stituticnal amendment to legalize the sale of beer. The election will be held ‘August 26. The prohibition and repeal issue was one of several dominating attention of | citizens generally, and in Texas, com- bining political, social and economic considerations inextricably. There was one broad line of division | between wets and drys, fairly evenly | divided, but the issue drew Texans into a unity of attention to the National | issue of terminating prohibition. Otherwise, people of this State, or- dinarily of numerous conflicting, com- | petitive and dissimilar groups, have BY REX MAGEE. JACKSON, Miss., July 1.—King Cot- ton was the center of interest in Miss- issippi this week when, following a State-wide celebration of Federal aid | for pledged curtailment of acreage, the | staple increased in price. It was particularly fitting that the 10-cent cotton, a profitable should reach that market price during the period Gov. Mike Conner had | issued a proclamation setting June 26 to July 2 as cotton week. | tailment of the Mississippi crop, but he led off by agreeing to sign a con- tract for the limitation of his own cotton crop in South Mississippi. over shadowed in interest the speci: session of the State Legislature to meet in late July or in early August for the amendment to be submitted to the ical question of prohibition. Gov. Conner has estimated that the reduction of the cotton crop will bring between $10,000,000 and $15.000,000 into Mississippi from the Federal fund, and it is generally estimated that the | increase in the price of the present crop will range between $20,000,000 and | $40,000,000. The estimated gain in the | price differs because of a divergence | of opinion on the effects of the drought on the production of the crop in the fertile delta where long staple is grown. At any rate, during the week cot ton was king in Mississippi. Legislature to Meet. | _ Following meeting of the Legislative| Recess Committee on reorganization | of the State government, Gov. Conner | agreed to call an early special session | of the legislature. | were tabled. The special session of the | Legislature will draft an amendment | for reorganization of the State depart- ments. The amendment then is to go | before the 300,000 voters of Mississippi. Whether they will give the 1934 Legis- | lature great power in the reorganization remains to be seen. The people are | to be offered the opportunity of giving the lawmakers almost full power. | In the meantime Gov. Conner has been “talking to the stockholders” of { the State in a plea for an increase in the present sales tax which has helped { cial muddle. Also some opposition to | his plan has been encountered, partic- ularly by a few leaders who first op- posed the tax. figure, | Not only did Gov. Connor urge cur- The cotton activities not- only have | purpose of framing a reorganization | people, but also the troublesome polit- ! All proposed plans | | Mississippi gzt a start out of a finan-! | men to work manufacturing beer bot- | tles, day and night shifts being en- | gaged. Two hundred houses that had | been vacant since the plant closed two years ago are now occupied. Several | of the larger industrial plants of the | Kanawha Valley. including the du Pont ammonia plant at Belle and the | Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Cerpo- | ration, at South Charleston, have in- creased their forces. Around Wheeling | and at Weirton steel mills have been ;puttm; on men and at Parkersburg, | Clarksburg and Follansbee the fac- tories are putting men to work, the State labor commissioner has reported. |~ The West Virginia coal industry has assumed a hopeful attitude and is ex- pecting better prices for their products as soon as their central selling agencies begin to function. Operation of these agencies, two of which have been or- ganized, are somewhat at a standstill, | pending the adoption of a joint code of ethics by two_distinct coal fields, | in pursuance of President Roosevelt's requirements in conformity with the l rational industrial recovery act. | = — — = |Beer, Banks, Budget ‘ Legislative | Session in Kansas Force Wheat Growers Hope o1 Low Prices to Collec’ Processing Tax. Special Dispatch to The Star. TOPEKA, Kans., July 1.—Beer, banks |and budget have forced Gov. Alf M Landon to call a special session of the Kansas Legislature. The special session, which probal | will meet in early Winter or late Fal is expected to do three things: | First, submit the repeal of the eight- | eenth "amendment tc the voters at the regular election in November, 1934, thereby taking the liquor issue out of | the 1934 election so far as State officers |and members of the Legislature are concerned. Second, revise the Kansas banking laws to permit State banks to take ad- vantage of the provisions of the Glass banking act by January 1; make pro- vision for State banks in towns too small to meet the requirements of the Federal banking act as to capitaliza- tion; revise the entire banking system 30 as to retain the State banks as a secondary system in Kansas, outside | the Federal Reserve. Third, balance the budget for the | next fiscal year. The Legislature in |its regular session this year reduced | appropriations for State departments | and institutions so enthusiastically that | the rise in ccmmodity prices, if and | when continued, would give a State | deficit of from two to four million dol- lars by 1935. | Hope for Low Wheat Prices. | Fcr once the wheat growers of Kan- ;sas have been hoping for a brief con- tinuation cf low wheat prices. Doesn't sound reasonable, but it is a fact. | Here is why. The Winter wheat belt in Southwest | Senator Morris Sheppard, author of the eighteenth amendment, who was been brought into coherence, in the spirit of the Nation, of mass response | | _ The uncertainty of the date of the Kansas—and it stretches down t , special session of the Legislature has Oklahoma into the Texas Panhandle— industry as a soft drink. | likelihood institutions of a similar nn-‘ As things now stand beer is sold in to the swift-moving achievements of | prevented Lieut. Gov. Dennis Murphree | has a short crop this year. In fact, teresting liquor decisions | ture may be brought under a full-time we?:?mor?due; 1(‘;1(7\1"11 by gh! Court of Ap- | executive board. His latest move in peals just before it adjourned this | following up the reorganization trend month. One, flowing naturally from ‘ was the establishment of a public wel- the decision that 3.2 beer is a soft | fare division which combines the du- drink, was the ruling that retailers | plicating functions of the Board of don't have to pay a $75 annual State | State Charities and the Governor's license, created in an old fermented malt liquor law. This deckion was a heavy blow to the tax gatherers. They had already collected $130,000 from this source and were obliged to r8fund it all. Especially was it a hard- | ship upon county clerks. Deprived of the usual volume of fees from title and mortgage recording and other busi- | ness transactions, they had been de- pending on their share of the beer tax | to pay for the operation of their of-| fices. After returning this revenue to| the retailers, some of the clerks roundl, themselves strapped for official running | expenses. | The other decision was to the effect that even in the event of repeal of the whisky, except for medicinal purposes, | remains proscribed in Kentucky &s long | as the State amendement is on the; books. The effect is more technical than real. Even un prohibition, Kentucky has been making about 8 per cent of the nation's supplies and since the liberalization of physicians’| perscriptions rules by Congress, ship- ments have materially increased. In order to bring the question before the court, A. J. Carroll, attorney for the distillers, argued that the State might lose its distilling industry be- cause Kentucky, under her constitu- tion, cannot possibly vote on State re- peal until 1935 despite the possibility of national repeal in 1934. He contended that business might be lost if export for beverage purposes is banned until the voters have acted on State repeal. Generally, however, the length of time required for the manufacture and aging of whisky was regarded as a safeguard aginst the loss of the indus- try to competition organized elsewhere. ‘This od of time will afford the voters ample opportunity to take action. Outside of the courts, one of the most significant utterances indicating the trend of public opinion appeared in p recent issue of the Elizabethtown News, a well edited and influential ru- ral publication, that has never been known to give aid and comfort to the To those familiar with the pol- paper, its pronouncement Unemployment Relief Commission. Education Work Simplified. An unwieldy Board of Education Las given way to an eight-man department, which not only controls the educational system in the common schools but the two State universities, Purdue and In- diana, and the two State teachers’ col- leges. Indications are that the mod- ernization trend also will spread to the universities and duplications in the curriculum of Indiana and Purdue will be eliminated. With a surplus of teach- ers in the State, it is probable that one of the teachers’ colleges will be replaced by a junior college. Force of necessity obliged the ad- | ministration to add two new divisions, | €vent they will not attend the conven- eighteenth amendment. shipment of | the excise to handle the beer situation, tion, even should they be elected. The and the sources of income tax to tap new revenue made obligatory by the decrease in taxable property valua- tions. They are the ones on which the State must depend for its financial success or failure. After all, however, part of the overturn was the placing of all patronage in the hands of the Governor. Even the elective officials, who always looked upon the counter” as part of the perquisites of office, faced by an emergency that de- manded retrenchment, Sur- rendered their prerogatives. As a re- sult Gov. McNutt holds the tenure and :1111." of every State employe at his Job Hunters Disappointed. ‘The Republicans, aghast at the broad assumption of power, called McNutt a “Mussolini” while the Democrats crowd- ed to his office for jobs. More than 36,000 of the “faithful” filed applica- tions. It was not humanly possible for McNutt to fit that many persons into the ifim hjobs dr"lmbr‘e' t.h‘: he l}mw is tasting th2 egs Of politically disappointed. “The enemies of this plan,” explains the Governor, “called it a dictatorship. It is not that. The people of Indiana have made their Governor the general manager of governmental activities. common sense and mctmi meth: the important business of government.’ the spectacular | | practically every grocery, drug store, | restaurant and even by the service appointed by Gov. Ferguson temporary chairman of the dry preliminary con- | vu‘:(n’ion against repeal, which met in Austin, Tex., during the past week. the National Government. They, as & unit, have been put the attitude, | stations along the highways. The Legis- |lature, in January last, fixed July 21 as the date for a special election at | which the electorate will vote not only | against or for the eighteenth amenda- |ment, but will elect 116 delegates to a | constitutional convention to be held within 30 days from the date of the election. The candidates for delegates are required to pledge themselves (o vote for or egainst repeal in accord- ance with the votes of the majority or the county from which they seek elec- tion. This pledge has resulted in the ] dry leaders finding much difficulty in inducing candidates to file against re- | peal, most of those sought out to run {not wanting to run the chance of be- | ing compelled to vote against their con- i victions in event their county votes | preponderantly wet. Many of the dry | delegates say candidly that in such an Alabama, First BY J. F. ROTHERMEL. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 1—Con- tinuation of the industrial pick-up and approach of the election July 18 on prohibition repeal and State consti- tutional amendments providing for an income tax and a debt-refunding bond issue hold the attention of Alabamians as_July comes in. 113 is e.slklml!tl;‘l filtteelfl.offiedun;.ncli general assumption is that the State |Ployed workers have n C: | will go wet thmh the drys have im- |t0 jobs for the early part of July. | ported “Pussyfoot” Johnson and other |Most of these are In Birmingham, | n ., | Battie, 21 are putting up a desperate | 00, G rmaking preparations to_blow in two more blast furnaces and five | open hearth furnaces, as'well as to increase the output of its coal and ore mines and to-open the large rail mill at Ensley the second week of July for a run of ‘at least three weeks. ,| The Slgss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. . | is blowing in additional furnace in the Birmingham district. A number of smaller plants are. also reopening to join the march back to prosperity that was begun in this State by the textile industry and cement plants. . Repeal Vote Watched. Alabamsa’ is conscious of the fact that the eyes of the Nation will be turned this way July 18, when the | State becomes the first in the South - Largest Hop Crop. | _Oregon incidentally is the lary producing center in the Unit States and stands third in world production. ‘The bulk of the production in Marion, Polk and Yamhill Coun hop hand, Mount Angel, but a few miles away, has voted to open a municipsl | beer garden. The average production is around 140,00C bales of an average of 180 pounds each. Before beer was legal- ized as a non-intoxicating beverage hops | cents.” Hop men of the State, most of whom were broke a short time ago, arz nearly all now out of the red and Eyes of Nation to Be Turned on and have assumed it willlngly enough, of waiting on the leadership of the Na- tional Government, of responding to the suggestions and demands of the Government, of awaiting relief, eco- Southern State to Vote on Repeal. The difference arises out of the fact that most of the politicians and ex- perts of the State are on the side of repeal with the anti-repealists con- ducting & quiet campaign, while the political camps of the State are pretty well divided on the constitutional amendments. Y. Miller, d:‘srm( the coming week, continue personal stum| tour on behalf of the State mmm!ngg and the $20,000,000 bond issue, with which he hopes to pay the State’s cur- rent debts, including some $4,000,000 due school teachers. For the first time since 1929, Alabama miners are being organized by the United Mine Workers of America. The Alabama coal and ore fields have been conducted on an open-shop basis since the union failed in its big strike of 14 years ago The organization now go- ‘mlslnugumm&fmmem program for recovery. ty-five locals already have been organized, with a total membership of about 8,500. The field seems wide open for candi- dates to fill the House of Representa- tives vacancy created by the death of Representative Ed B. eighth Alabama district. Inasmuch as the district embraces the Muscle Shoals development, its Representative may be expected to be influential in the next few years. 5 those already listed as candi- H. Carmichael. Florence; Huntsville; Harry John M. nomic and political leadership from the Government. This was embodied principally in the State Governor’s work in co-operation with the National Relief Agency, the public works program, the home-own- ers' relief program, the cotton and wheat production and price control movement, and the business-code move- ment. Special Session. There is imminent a special session of the State legislature to modify dras- tic anti-trust regulations, to give busi- ness benefits of the National recovery act, and to modify credit restrictions to permit citles, counties and districts to ];uol“edxe‘u repayment of public works This is far from exclusively political, affecting the everyday life and welfare and the economic thinking of prac- tically all the people. | . Vice President John N. Garner is | back home for a rest, and his presence has aroused the "m,fi" of posses- Democratic | sive _enthustasm for P v, with ly 20 | Xas, near ,000,000 |1and planted in cotion, and s promised crop of about 4,000,000 bales, was week mth‘"fllmufll program of plowing under one-fourth of | the productive acres. Cotton touches %e financial welfare of every pérson in xa8. ton e $30.506.000 b e rmuces ns $20,000, e lucers in Texas. Cotton, climbing from 5 cents to nearly 10 cents on the spot market, had doubled the value of the prospective crop, with a steady rise still holding A two-year troubled situation over the huge oil production the East Te this | of y responding to the from completing his plans to head the | jannual “Know Mississippi Better” train | ! scheduled to depart on August 4 for the World’s Fair in Chicago. Session ior no session, Murphree or no Mur- phree, the train will run. Sell Beer Openly. With 3.2 beer being sold openly in some Mississippi towns but at “boot- leg” prices of 25 cents a bottle, the prohibition question has been brought home forcibly to a so-called “bone dry” State. In all reported cases of trials before justices of peace, those charged with selling 3.2 beer have been acquitted. One case in which the man was acquitted, a witness testified he had consumed 27 bottles of the beer in one day and immediately after had driven his wife to Jackson and had attended a show without feeling a bit intoxi- cated However, this particular case yielded a Government charge of selling beer without Federal license. Recently there has been & run on the office of the collector of revenue for Federal beer certificates, some half-hundred being reported for dealers in " Mississippi. One mayor of a sold in his town, but that he is not wasting the time of his officers to try to stop it. In another town it is re- ported the Federal beer license is tacked on the front wall of the cafe. However, session of the question of :uhm?tun‘ the FPederal prohibition amendment, notwithstanding the fact tiat the wet sentiment has been in- creasing decidedly in the State during the last few years, New Collector Arrives. The coming of Eugene Fly, the new United States collector of internal revenue in Mississippi . to as and of the House Ways and Means Committee. Sheldon, & Re- R once, the the Mississippl Leg- of to deita town openly admits it is being | n a half dozen Kansas counties there is no wheat crop at all. Under the announced plans of Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, these farmers were to be taken care of by modifying the domestic allotment plan in the farm adjustment act so as to pay these growers the wheat boenus on the average of their crops the last three yeais. If a farmer had been getting 4,000 bushels a year, he would get the bonus on the domestic per- centage of that—2,500 or 3,000 bushels as determined by the department— whether he had a crop cr not. ‘The wheat benefit is to be the differ- ence between the current farm price and the “fair exchange value” as de- fined in the farm adjustment act. Ac- tually, that means about 90 cents a bushel at the farm is the fair exchange value, or about $1.10 a bushel, Chi- cago price. Wheat the 1st of June was 59 cents at the farm. So.the benefit—and the processing tax to meet the payments—would be 30 cents a bushel. Market Has Been Soaring. But the wheat market has been soar- ing. A short Spring crop in the North- west is forecast. Also the milling in- terests may have been “bulling the market” somewhat also, in hopes that by the time Wallace issued his order wheat would he close to 90 cents on | the farm. At that point the difference