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NEWS FLASHES By Telephont Direct From Newsroom Of Advertiser-Journal Dial AM 5-8246 The Weather Montgomery: Partly cloudy with scattered afternoon and evening thundershowers. Predicted high 98, low Friday night 74. Thursday's high 97, low 73. (Details, Weather Map, Page 2A.) 132nd Year-No. 206 Full Day, Nlfbt ind Sunday gervic By The Anorlated Prnt Price 5 Cents Montgomery, 40 Pages Friday Morning, August 28, 1939 Camellia State Flower ondon Crowds Cheer SNEEZE-PRO YOKING GOLDENROD NOSED OUT resident On Arrival By BOB INGRAM The camellia has finally replaced the sneeze provoking goldcnrod as Alabama's official flower.

Credit for the change has been given in a large degree to the First Lady of Alabama, Mrs. John Patterson. In keeping with her upbringing in Butler County, Mrs. Patterson had made it clear she wanted her husband the governor to sign the bill into law making the camellia the state's first flower. And the governor, like most husbands, did as his wife suggested.

The bill making the change had passed both houses of the Legislature during the regular session but was not delivered to the governor for his signature until Tuesday due to the special session recess. WILD 13.HOUR "CameHia City" of Greenville marched on the Capitol in support of the bill. Only one vote was cast against the bill in committee that by Rep. Olin Hearn of Marshall. And he had a reason.

Hearn had an equally formidable delegation of women back in his home county who favored the mountain laurel. The strongest argument in support of the Camellia came from one of the co-sponsors of the bill Rep. F. LaMont Glass of Butler. He stated emphatically that the goldenrod was merely a weed which had been transplanted in Alabama by Yankee invaders.

After that charge it was but a matter of time before the bill was passed. Rescue Units Start Mopup In Mexico MEXICO CITY (AP)-Rescue missions using planes and boats rushed help Thursday to quake-battered southern Mexico and carried on a difficult count of dead and injured. There still was no accurate count of the dead from Wednes day's earthquake, the worst of the year in. this country, but estimates ranged from 10 to 43. Officials said 14 deaths had been confirmed Veracruz state.

Many communications lines still were knocked out. The port of Coatzacoalcos and surrounding area, hit hard Wednesday, felt another light shock before dawn Thursday. A few already damaged houses collapsed. SEVERE QUAKE Although the severe quake was felt in six states, most of the heavy damage was reported in the Escapee Shot, Killed After Taking Hostage MRS. JOHN HAY WHITNEY GREETS EISENHOWER, MACMILLAN Wife Of U.S.

Ambassador To Britain Welcomes President, Prime Minister Jasper Teen-Ager Given Life Term For Attack On School Teacher's Wife BRAZILIANS GET REEF RATIONS RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) Thousands of housewives lined up Thursday to get their rations of beef from government-supervised butchers. Rationing went Into effect Wednesday in this city of three million people who usually consume about 450 tons of beef a day. Cattle raisers refused to slaughter their herds unless they get higher prices. The government refuses to permit a price hike. 'Dare' Bill On Housing Given Ike WASHINGTON (AP The House sent President Eisenhower a $1,050,000,000 housing bill Thurs day and virtually dared him to veto it.

In the face of clear evidence that Eisenhower finds much of the measure objectionable in princi pie, the House voted 283-105 to pass the bill. If the same proportion prevailed on a vote to override a veto, there would be no trouble in passing the bill over Eisenhower's disapprov al. The Senate vote on passage, on Aug. 18, likewise was ovcrwhelm- ing 71-24. It takes a two-thirds majority of those voting to override a veto- something Congress has never done to Eisenhower.

Some House Republicans con tended in debate that a veto was probable, if not almost certain. They said the bill contained much the same items, if on a smaller scale, that were in the housing bill Eisenhower turned down last month as extravagant and inflationary. But Democrats contended this was a sound bill, not unduly ex icouia veto oniy to tne detriment. of fellow Americans vw need hotter homes. On final passage, 54 Republicans and 229 Democrats voted for the bill.

Against it were 76 Republicans and 20 Democrats. The coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats, effective on other legislation this session, failed to jell Thursday. Republicans pulled away from their leaders in droves in unusual degree, while the Southerners mostly stuck fast with the Democratic leaders Here are the bill's major provisions: Urban renewal, or slum clearance 650 million dollars in grants available at once. The administrate HOUSING, Page 2A) The reason is that in knocking out many of the exemptions, the Legislature repealed the old sales tax law altogether and substituted a new draft revising the exemption list. IF COLLECTION of the local tax is handled by the state and relates to the old state sales tax law, Revenue department officials question whether the local tax is still valid.

Most of the counties and many cities, which use state forms for collecting their tax, are likely to revise their local law and avoid any risk. They will have to hustle, however, for it takes four weeks to advertise local legislation and another couple of weeks to get it through tilt Legislature. southern portion of the state ancl on" r-'nhower 1 i "Jl ap wireohot. and Parole Doard, by unanimous action, can parole a life termer at any time. Hcrron's attorney could not be reached for comment about any appeal.

However, circuit solicitor Leon Beaird said nothing was said after the trial about nn appeal. A brief disturbance occurred in the courthouse hallway when pho tographers began taking pictures as Herron was led back to jail Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Herron the youth's parents, objected to pictures. Deputy Sheriff J.

Stevenson, who was leading the prisoner, knocked the reflector from one newsman's camera. PICTURES MADE Several pictures were made. Police quoted young Herron aft er his arrest as saying he wanted to get even with Bonner for ex pelling him. "He picked on me," said Herron, "and I knew this would make him mad." Sheriff Bruncr Nix said Herron left home as if to go to class the day of the attack. Instead, he went to Bonner's house, Nix added.

The victim said she answered a knock at her door and gave entrance to the youth when he threatened her with a knife. Police said the youth then1 tore at the woman's clothes and at tacked her. Young Herron was arrested at a drug store a short time later after the woman gave nolice a description of her attacker. School Bus Crushes Calhoun County Boy PIEDMONT (AP) An 11- year-old Calhoun County school-l boy was injured fatally Thursday when he fell from the door of a school bus and was crushed be neath it. Highway Patrolmen said Elbert Lawrence McCarley who lived near Piedmont was standing in the door of the bus and fell out as the vehicle was being reversed.

rhe right front wheel ran over him. The school bus driver was identified as James Whfte of near Piedmont. Veracruz. Resto Rivas. secretary to the governor of Veracruz state, an-i nounced 14 deaths had been con-l firmed there, 12 of them in Jalti-pan and 2 in Minatitlan.

Earlier advices said 60 persons had been injured seriously in the state. One unconfirmed report by telephone from the chief of police of the city of Veracruz quoted him saying 48 persons had been killed in the city and 134 others hospitalized. Officials in Jaltipan, 30 miles inland from Coatzacoalcos, had said earlier it was believed seven persons were killed there. They said 80 per cent of the buildings the town were destroyed or damaged badly. ir it THE CAMELLIA Official State Flower There has been scant opposition to measure after a group of formidable-appearing lady camellia growers from the HIDE dant gave up, although he had a knife in his belt.

Herbert walked toward Krushek, not knowing Krushek held a .22 caliber pistol. Krushek said: "Don't come any closer or I'll kill you. Herbert kept walking. Krushek pulled the trigger. The revolver just clicked.

Jones fired and the bullet hit Krushek above the heart, killing him instantly. Polio Cases Rise To 155 Six more cases were added to the year's polio count Thursday, but four of them were delayed reports on victims stricken last month. The day's report brought this week total to 13 and the toll for the year to 155, almost eight times as many as the 21 cases on record at this time a year ago. Dr. W.

H. Y. Smith, head of the state Health Department's Bu reau of Preventable Diseases, explained that the final diagnosis on the four cases originating in July was held up pending labora tory tests. All six cases were paralytic, in eluding an 18-year-old Montgom ery boy under treatment in an iron lung. Two of the others were in Madison County and one each in Chilton, Hale and Tallapoosa counties.

Four of the victims had taken one Salk vaccine shot; another had the full schedule of three inoculations and developed a less severe paralysis, Dr. Smith said Only 35 of the 155 cases report-ted this year had the vaccine be-fore the disease struck. German Editor Dies MUNICH, Germany (AP)-Olaf Iversen, editor and publisher of Germany's well-known satirical magazine Simplicissimus, died in a hospital Thursday after a long! illness. He was 57. ADVERTISER TODAY Pare Pap.

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(ADV.) sion at the age of 50 instead of 60 or 65, whatever it is now. I hope I'm lying to you, but I say with this steel strike going on and all the people that are out of work, this country is getting into a crisis. "If I get elected I'll make sure there are plenty of government jobs for the people, and that's what Mr. Eisenhower should have done long ago." What prompted him to run for president? "It was in a vision, I hadn't planned it, but then I knew I was going to try. It's God's will." The Goat Man spoke nis views on foreign aid.

"Foreign aid should be. cut out, after all, we have been giving all these little countries money for a long time, and they haven't given us any- thing back. It keeps them fed, but we're going to go broke." On the space program: "I don't think man will ever rparh thp mnnn at Ipast not physically. Spiritually, maybe, not in body. If I'm put into office, I would stop the space pro- (See GOATMAN, Page 2A) if in its as in I AUSTIN, Tex.

(AP) A kid naper was shot and killed Thurs day after he had held a real estate dealer captive for 13 hours in a wild automobile ride. Police identified the dead man as David Krushek, 19, and said he was an escapee from a. correctional camp at Lake Tomahawk, Wis. They said he resisted arrest in a motel where he and a confederate had registered with their hostage. Police Chief R.

D. Laws said the other man is Larry Lee Radant, 19, of Wausau. Wis. Laws said Krushek and Radant abducted Marvin Braswell, Austin real estate man and City Planning Commission member, in El Paso, Wednesday night. Radant signed a statement admitting the kidnaping and that he and Krushek escaped Aug.

21 from the McNaughton State Correctional Camp, Laws said. Braswell said he was returning from Arizona when the two men robbed him of $25 at a motel in El Paso, about 9 p.m. Wednesday night. He said they forced him into a car and started across Texas, at up to 100 m.p.h. When they reached Austin, Braswell said, the men forced him to cash a check for $100 and he bought clothes for them.

Braswell said he persuaded the men to stop at a motel at the outskirts of town. After registering, Braswell said, he walked out leaving the men in the crowded office. He then called police. Detective Capt K. R.

Herbert and Sgt. Charles L. Jones walked into a dimly lit motel room. Ra- Tcar Gas Ron Is Board Members LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -Two powerful tear gas bombs were set off Thursday in the foyer of the school board headquarters while the board was holding a routine meeting upstairs.

Fumes filled the building and it was evacuated. There was no damage and no one was injured. The school board has been under segregationist fire for opening high schools under a token plan of integration. Five Negroes attend two schools with about 2,300 white students. A Negro janitor said he saw three white women running away from the front door shortly before he noticed the fumes, He said the women jumped into a waiting car which sped away.

I 4'- I in prison following a brief, closed trial. The youth remained quiet ubt apparently nervous as Circuit Court Judge Alton M. Blanton passed the sentence. Herron was arrested March 24, the day Mrs. Erston Bonner charged she was attacked.

Immediately after the trial he was returned to the Walker County jail where he has been held since his arrest. Blanton said a closed trial is permitted in rape cases in Alabama to protect the victim. Enough evidence was presented to the jury to fix elements of the case. It then deliberated about five minutes before returning the guilty verdict and fixing the sen tence at life. Blanton said he charged jury as to the legal definition of rape and possible punishment un der Alabama law.

Conviction of rape in Alabama can bring a sentence of from 10 years to death. The State Pardon Systems Decatur, Demopolis, Detroit in Lamar County, Dothan, East Brewton, Elba, Enterprise, Eu-faula, Fayette, Geneva, Geor-giana, Guin, Huntsville, Jackson, Jasper, Leighton, Linden, Millport, Mobile, Montgomery, Muscle Shoals, Oneonta, Orr-ville, Ozark, Parrish, Prattville, Prichard, Piedmont, Russell-ville, Samson, Sheffield, Syla-cauga, Talladega, Thomasville, Tuscumbia, Uniontown, Vernon and Winfield. TUSCALOOSA, Union Springs and Florence share in revenue from a countywide sales tax. Prattville, Russellville and Leighton have a Vi per cent sales tax. The others are 1 per cent.

Guyle 'Not Sure City Will Change Sales Tax MAYOR W. A. GAYLE said Thursday he is not sure whether the state's new sales tax law will require a change in the city's sales tax ordinance. "I talked to our lawyers about it a few days ago and they are looking into it," he said. HE SAID he plans further talks with City Atty.

Walter Knabe as soon as Knabe re- turns from the American Bar Assn. convention being held in Miami, Fla. But while uncertain whether the local tax ordinance would need revision, Gayle expressed me opinion mai our lax is more of a license than it is a sales tax." Eisenhower To Remain For 6 Days LONDON (AP) Half a million Londoners gave President Eisen hower a stirring welcome Thursday night as he arrived from West Germany to fortify the British-American alliance before September's Eisenhower Khrushchev talks. The greeting was unexpectedly warm and expansive for the late evening hour the President arrived, and threw askew the ad- vanue scneawe ot nis ride from London Airport to his night's lodging, the U.S. Embassy residence.

He arrived here 31 minutes late with his car crawling at times through crowds packed 20 deep along the sidewalks. SECOND DAY It was the Second day in a row that the President had tasted the warmth of European regard for nim- Wednesday, 300,000 had greeted him Bonn and vicinity. ic iKn ounn inursaay alter hours of talks with Chancellor 1I lf rrn 1 Konrad Adenauer in which he re iterated the U.S. pledge to "Drc- test the freedom and welfare of the people of Berlin." "I believe that we have achieved much," he told Adenauer in a message radioed from his plane. iow cisennower is to have six days of talks with the leaders of Britain- "This land I have learned 50 much to love." ROUSING RECEPTION The 'World War II chieftain turned statesman got a rousing reception from a London airport crowd police estimated at 5,000.

'Good old Ike great to see you. spectators veiled. Eisenhower grinned broadly. Prime Minister Harold Macmil- lan welcomed Elsenhower in sun ny, moderately warm weather when his orange-nosed jet landed after the 85-minute flight from Bonn. Macmillan remarked that the problems which face the Allies are difficult.

Eisenhower expressed hope that their talks will further the cause of world peace. "You are a president whose name was a household word to all of us before your election to high office," Macmillan said. SAME COURAGE "We have equal confidence that as leader of a great sister democracy you will carry through your task with the same courage and same success as when you were the general leading the Allied forces in World War II." Eisenhower, speaking without any reference to notes, said he appreciated the kind words. "I must say my deepest reaction and sentiment at this moment is that of extraordinary pleasure. true enjoyment to back here again in this land I have learned so much to love.

Here are some of my warmest and best friends," he said. "I did not have to come here to assure you or the British people that the American people stand with them strongly, firmly and de terminedly in defense of freedom and the dignity of man." "It is good that we can have the opportunity to' view these changing problems and to counsel together as to how to meet them," Eisenhower said. "I count on this being one of the most enjoyable and most fruitful journeys I have made in many countries of the world." Amid cheers and shouts of "Good old Ike," he drove off with Macmillan in an open car to Win- (See PRESIDENT, Page 2A) sir Walter nrver hud It to good. Travel Traliways to Ralegh Convenient schedules dally. Ph.

AM 4-S328. laughter and sometimes applause from the commission's. Especially, when he enumerated "all these' things I've been called." "They've called me a demagogue, whatever that is. A lightweight, an overweight, and The Montgomery Advertiser the otJier day called me a penny weight Folsom. "I've been called a stupid brat and one even attacked my looks and called me squint-eyed." Obviously enjoying himself," the governor smiled all through these anti newspaper remarks.

This plainly was no temper fit, which he has also been accused of throwing. Summing up the epithets he said lie had been called, the governor continued: "If getting better roads, bet-(See PATTERSON, Page 2A) Cities May Change Tax JASPER (AP) Seventeen- year-old James Harold Herron Thursday pleaded guilty to raping his ninth grade teacher's wife. He told police he wanted to got even with the teacher for expelling him from school. Herron was sentenced to life X15 Scheduled For Flight Today EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP)-The rocket ship X15, expected ultimately to zoom at 4,000 m.p.h.

100 miles above the earth, is scheduled to make its first reported flight Friday. With ace test pilot Scott Cross- field at the controls, the needle like black craft will go aloft locked under the wing of a bomh er. At 38,000 feet it will be dropped and will fly the power of its two rocket engines. Since the new state sales tax law goes into effect Oct. 1, they have only five weeks to revise their local act in keeping with the state law, AN ADDITIONAL one cent local sales tax is collected by the state for eight counties, Marion, Franklin, Limestone, Lawrence, Hale, Bibb, Pickens and Greene, and for one city, Haleyville.

Lauderdale, Colbert, Tuscaloosa and Bullock also have sales taxes but collect them locally, In addition to Haleyville, these municipalities have a sales tax: Albertville, Anniston, Athens, Brewton, Brilliant, Camden, Chickasaw, Cordova, Daleville, J- i Goat Man Scans Platform For Presidential Campaign A lot of Alabama cities and counties which have local sales taxes may change them to conform with the new state sales tax law. And if they do they'll pick up extra revenue just as will the state beginning Oct. 1. SOME OF THE counties which let the State Revenue Department collect their local levy along with the state 3 per cent tax may have to change their local law in order to keep on collecting it. Revenue Commissioner Harry Haden said Thursday there is some doubt that local levies are still good where they are tied in directly with the state sales tax.

.9 1 1 St A- Patterson Flails 'Bad Press9 At Commissioners Meeting By NOEL LEON The "Goat man," Chess McCartney, currently traveling on Highway 80 en route to California where he will seek presidential nomination, Thursday night gave some of his views on the government and general world affairs. In an interview at the site where he is harbored for the night 15 miles cast of Montgomery, he said his lawyers would handle his whole campaign and that possibly he would run on a "third ticket." He mentioned however, that he has many Democratic beliefs. "I may not get nominated," the bearded man said, "but I'll try, and give them a hard time. "Just like Teddy Roosevelt did. He came up against both par ties, and he won.

What would be his policy as president? I'm going to follow the 10 Commandments to help my fel low man, and let me tell you, nobody ever promised that before!" What would be the first thingj he would change? 'Til make sure every man and woman will be retired with pen-l President, Chancellor ISwap Kitchen ware BONN, Germany (AP)-Presi- By HERSCHEL CRIBB Advertiser Staff Writer BIRMINGHAM Gov. John Pat-erson flailed the "big city dai lies before the County Commissioners of Alabama Assn. here Thursday. "The price of being right is a bad press," the governor told the annual convention of the coun ty officials. Exhibiting a new soft glove technique for fighting his critics, the governor went into an ex temporaneous attack on the big city newspapers near the end of his prepared speech, borrowing a phrase from his predecessor.

former Gov, Big Jim Folsom he said "They cuss the man thai builds." "No administration can please 'em." Patterson's folksy, deliberately ungrammatical broadside drew dent Eisenhower and Chancellor I ivumau nuuiiauer extnanea gnus Thursday, Adenauer gave the President, as a present for Mrs. Eisenhower, an lHth century Meissen coffee ser- vice. The President brought, as a gift from himself and Mrs. Eisenhower, a set of Steuben glass plates with a floral design. "GOAT MAN" CHESS JIfCAKTXEY POSES WITH ONE OF 27 (H)-TS He Tlans To Tass Through Montgomery On Way To Coast In Next Few Davs.