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VOL. 99. NO. 141,
LR DEATHS ARE
IPORTED IN STATE
a 0 HEAT WAV
Three Are Drowned And
Man Collapses in
Courtroom
MIDWEST SWELTERS
AS MERCURY SOARS
Heat Record in Middle
West Nears All-Time
Marl, Is Reported
ATLANTA, Ga.— (AP) —Four
deaths in Georgia during the past
wo days are attributed directly
or indirectly to the high temper
atures that have ranged from 95
here to 100 in Macon.
Homer R. Thompson, 39, died
here yesterday from a heart at
rack that the attending physician
said was brought on by the heat.
He collapsed while waiting in
police court to be called as a
witness,
The other three deaths were
caused by drowning while seeking
surcease from the heat wave.
Mrs. J. J. Black; jr., of Mari
etta, and John G. Jones of Elber
ion, drowned Tuesday night. Ten
vear-old C. M. Hart, jr., drowned
vesterday in she Satilla river
near Waveross. %
DRYING UP
ATLANTA, Ga-—(AP)—C. F.
Von Herrmlann, meteorologist of
the Atlanta Weather bureau, to
day said prdctically all of Geor
gia was suffering from lack of
rain with no relief in sight before
Saturday.
Northwest Georgia, from Atlan.
ta to Rome, is the driest part of
the state with e¢rop conditions
“serious,” Mr, Von Hermann said.
Atlanta and vicinity has received
but .17 inches of rain this month,
the driest June in 52 years. Some
cotton planted in the northwest
sectio nos the state has not come
up.
“Atlanta was short 11,94 inches
of .rain for the yeaw,’® Mr. Von
Herrman said. The average rain
fall here from January 1 to June
2% is 25.07 inches and until to
day but 13.13 inches had been re
corded since the first of the yeap
“This city is 2.89 inches shoit
for June,”
The southern and eastern sec
tions have not suffered as much
as the north, Mr. Von Herrmann
said, but some crops including
tobaceco, corn and fruits, have
been damaged hy the drought.
Littie Relief
Showers along the coast and at
scattered points in the interior
vesterday helped some but did
not bring the relief needed, the
meteorologist reported, Savannah
had .30 inches of rain, Augusta
.36, and Gainesville .28,
Millen continued the hottest
spot in the state, reporting by
telegraph, he -said, registering
104, Augusta sweltered at 102
degrees, Columbus and Monticello
at 101, Macon and Rome at 100,
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Over 1,400 Are
Registered For
Summer School
Fourteen hundred and twenty
five students have registered for
the University of Georgia Sum
mer school, it was announced' to
day by T. W. Reed, registrar.
This is about the usual regis
tration, Mr. Reed said. .3 vesper
musie service will be held in the
chapel Sunday afternoon at 5
o’clock, ) 3
The following program will be
given: Stite Gothique, Boellmann,
Choral, Menuet, Priere, and Toe
cato; Christmas in Sicily, Pietro
A. Yon, by Mary Webb Alyea;
Aria (“Scipia”) Hear me ye
Winds and Waves, Handel, by
Glenn Crowder Stables, accom
panied by Gladys M. Coile.
Prelude and Fugue in C minor,
J. S. Bach, and Christmas Resur
rexit, . Ravanello, by Mary
Webb Alyea; Down Here, Brahe;
| Passed by Your Window, Brahe;
Her Rose, Whitney Coombs, and
Melisande in the Wood, Goetz, by
Glenn Crowder %bles, accom
panied by Gladys M. Coile.
Ave Maria, Bossi; Primitive
Organ, Pietro A. Yon; and Teec
cata, Pietro A. Yon, by Mary
Webb Alyea.
LOCAL WEATHER |
Furnished by the Government |
Bureau at the State Teachers !
College, E. S. Sell, Observer, |
for 24 hours previous to |
8:00 A. M. !
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TEMPERATURE
Hipheat. o ..o s 3080
Lowellt /0t o 0 (5o IRO
Madl . il .. BB
Normal. . .0 i . oo 10D ‘
RAINFALL |
Tnehed, . it i kion sengh OOF
Total since June 1........ .89
Deficiency since June‘l... 2.61
Average June rainfall..... 418
Total sinee January 1.... 1872
Deficiency since Jan. 1.... 7.01
DAILY AND SUNDAY-—l 3 CENTS A WEEK
ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE
Danish Airmen, Overdue
For Hours, Make Forced
Landing On German Soil
Pretty Women Nearly Immune
To Skin Cancer, Doctor Says
ST. LOUIS —(#)— Pretty
women are almost immune
from cancer of the skin, ac
cording to Dr. Joseph C.
Bloodgood, clinical professor
or surgery at Johns Hopkins
university, Baltimore,
“Pretty women,” he said in
an address before the clini
cal conference of St. Louis
clinics last night, “usually pay
particular attenti n to the
skin over their bodies, espec
ially that which i 8 exposed
with low-neck dresses. It has
virtvaly come to the moint
that less clothes mean a less
er chance for cancer.
U 3. WILL SPEND
200 MILLION FOF
COAST DEFENDERS
No New Battleships Will
Be Built; Construct
Eleven Destroyers
By FREDRICK G. VPSBURG
| WASHINGTON, — (&) — The
amount called for in naval con
structon under way today totals
more than $150,000,000, and the
navy is making ready to let con
tracts which will raise it above
$200,000,000,
Estimates from both coasts are
expected on the 11 destroyers due
to be started next. These—costing
$4,000,000 to $5,000,000 each—were
authorized in 1916, but congress
failed to appropriate funds for be
ginning work until the last session.
Seven 8-Inch gun crulsers at
|317,000.000 each are in varlous
stages of construction, as well as a
$19,000,000 aircraft carrier and
three submarines, at $5,000,000;
i($4.000.000 and 3,297,000,
The aircraft ecarrier Ranger, is
under construction by the Newport
News, Virginia, Shipbuilding and
Dry Docks company, while the
'three submarines are all being
built in New England.
The United States is building no
new battleships as it already has
the 15 allowed under the london
naval treaty, But 30,000,000 worth
of modernizing is to be done on
three of them—the Mississppi, New
Mexico, and Idaho,
Today’s Best
;UMAN I.NTERES.'-I'*
Story
EVANSTON, 11l L.— (#) —
And it’s the airplane “Peep
ing Tom”.
Sun-soakers in the solarium
atop the new Y. M. C. A. have
become provoked at rude pas
sengers in low-flying air
planes who lean out windows,
wave handkerchiefs and stare
with mirthful faces,
So a towel-clad delegation
marched downstairs yesterday
and demanded that air lines
change their courses.
65,000,000 CROP
VALDOSTA, Ga. —(AP)— To
bacco warehousemen here tenta
tively estimate this year’s Geor
gia bright leaf tobacco crov at
not more than 65,000,600. Their
forecast is based on reports from
their own agents and reports »of
railroad agents. Whether the crop
‘will reach this figure depends
upon rainfall within the next ten
idayS, the warehousemen say,
Broken Leg Halts Political
Career Of “Eagle Of Spain”
MADRID—(#)—The stormy po
litical career of Major Ramon
Franco, Spain’s only trans-Atlan
tie flier and a candidate for the
national assembly, was interrupt
ed today by a broken leg..
He was delivering a campaign
address at a theater in Toro Del
Rio, near Seville, last night when
the platform buckled and buried
him under a mass of planks. He
‘was dragged out and taken to a
first-aid station where it was
found he had suffered a fractured
right leg and lacerations of the
‘body.
His bosom friends and mechan
ic, Senor Rada, and an army cap
tain also sustained minor injuries
in thé accident, Major Franco was
‘afering such pain that he could
not be mavg‘to a hospital in
THE BANNER-HERALD
“But despite woman’s nat
tral protection against can
cer, she is not immune from
internal forms of the afflic
tion, which annually takes a
tremendous toll.”
Women smokers, he said,
stand a smaller chance of
contracting cancer of tne
mouth then men smokers, for
they place more emphasis on
care of the teeth, '
“In the last ten years,” Dr.
Bloodgood said, “I have not
séen a woman who smokes
and cleans her teeth regu
larly become a victim of can
cer of the mouth.”
CONTINUE TRIAL
OF OFFICERS IN
MEXICANS' DEATH
Deputy Crosby Defends
Fellow Officer on Stand
In Trial at Ardmore
ARDMORE, Okla,—(AP)— Ce
cil Crosby today defended his
fellow former 'pg;ce officer, W.
E. Guess,.on trial for the slay
ing of Emilio Cortes Rubio and
Manuel Garcia Gomez, young
Mexican college students.
Crosby, the first defense wit
ness, testified he told the youths
and Salvador Cortes Rubio, their
companion, he was a deputy sher
iff and that he wrested a weapon
from Emilio before the lad was
shot to death by Guess.
Crosby took the stand after the
state had called three witnesses
at the morning session and rested
its case.
Detailing events leading up to
the shooting on a dark residential
street here June 7 whep the three
Mexicans had stoppd their car
while driving to Mexico from St.
Benedict’s college at Atchison,
Kansas, Crosby said he and Guess
had been looking for automobile,
thieves, ’ e
His staement that he identified
himself as an officer conatlicted
with testimony given yesterday
by Salavador Cortes Rubia, a
prosecution witness,
Crosbv said he did not see the
actual shooting. Crosby also is
charged with the murder but
Guess is peing tried first,
Clenna Collett Becomes
Bride of Edwin Vare, |r.
GREENWICH, Conn.— (AP) —
Glenna Collett, five times Nation
al Woman’s Golf champion, today
is the bride of Edwin H. Vare,
jr., of Philadelphia.
The wedding took place near
here yesterday at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. George S, Wallen.
'he couple met 10 years ago and
Vare often has played g01f,6 with
Miss Collett. Migs Collett says
married life will not interfere
with her career on the greens. ,
Collections From Fuel
QCil Tax Shows Increase
ATLANTA —(#)— The Comp
troller General’s office annotnced
today fuel oil tax collections for
May totalled $1,156,781.46 as
compared with collections of sl,-
092,762.44 for April,
The May 1931 figure also rep
resented an increase over that for
May 1930 which was $1,149,873.10.
The revenue was from the state’s
6-cent per gallon tax on gaso
line and its-1-cent per gallon tax
on kerosene.
Seville,
The Major’s misfortune solved
a perplexing problem for the gov.
ernment. Only a few hours be
fore it happened the Ministry of
| Interior had ordered him to cease
rscattering leaflets from his
|plane calling on the voters ‘o
| support. the “Republican Revolu
| tionary party” in the elections of
!Sr.nday.
{ He has frequently ‘attacked the
government in campaign address
les, accusing it of being reaction
{ary and demanding sweeping
radical reforms. More than thai,
in his capacity as chief of the
air corps he is prohibited by law
from active participation in poli
tics—a problem wheh the govern
ment feels has been u{fied at
ATHENS, GA., THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1981
SECOND PUNE TO
SN HTLITC
THE PAST TWO DAVG
Gatty and Post Arrive at
Moscow ; Will Continue
Round World Flight
BERLIN.—(AP)—Otto Hillig and
Holger Hoiriis, trans - Atlantie
fliers, landed at Krefeld in the
Rhineland late this afternoon
after a 32 hours flight from New
foundland and re-started for Co
penhagen, their goal, an hour and
a quarter later. :
The airmen, several hours over
due on their trans-Atantic hop to
the Danish capital, made a forced
landing at Krefeld tanks at 5:30
9. m {1:808. m. K. 8. T 8
and despite their fatigue, took off
for Copenhgaen at 6:45 (12:45 9.
m, R 8T
The fliers said they had lost
their way and had flown over
Spain and ¥rance, thereby ex.
hausting their fuel. Otherwise
they could have made Copenhagen
nicely. ,
LAND AT MOSCOW ;
MOSCOW.— (AP) —Wiley Post
and Harold Gatty, American
round-the-world fliers, landed at
October airdrome from Berlin at
§:3o.p. m, (10:30 a. m., E. 5. T 3
The fliers, who are on a rapid
fire trip around the world, left
Berlin at 7:38 this morning Ber
lin time (1:38 4. m. W, 'S. ' T.)
for the 950-mile lap of their trip
of which two legs have now been
completed.
The airmen made the 950-mile
hop in slightly less than nine
hours. . They have now covered
about 5,000 miles of their 14,000.
mile circuit of the world which
they hope to compete in ten days.
Their nex tgoal is Irkutsk, 2,600
wmiles from Moscow.
October airdrome is on the
edge of Moscow. .
DAY OF REST -~
NEW YORK.—(AP)—Wiely Post
and Harold Gatty were expected
to spend the night at Moscow,
where they landed on their aerial
race against time around the
world today. :
Their representatives here said
today’s 925 mile hop from Berlin
to Moscow was planned as a sort
of day of rest between the gruel
ing flight across the ocean, com
pleted yesterday, and the 2,600
mile flight to Irkutsk, Siberia,
which is the next leg of the jour
ney.
CONTINUE FLIGHT
BERLIN—(#)—The first trans.
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Magistrate Jean
Norris Removed
Frem N. Y. Bench
NEW YORK—(#)—Magistrate
Jean Norris, first woman to be
appointed to the magistracy in
New York, was removed today hy
the Appellate division of the St
preme court.
The five justices of of the Ap
‘pellate division retired to <pn
sider the charges of malfeasance
at noon today. Within an hour
they came back with the decision
that four out of five counts of
malfeasance brought by Referee
Samuel Seabury, investigator of
the lower courts, were sustained
and Mrs, Norris was removed
from the bench.
Mrs. Norris was charged with
being unfit to hold office her ac
cusers declaring she had altered
court records, permitted her name
to be used in a Nieasta advertise
ment, been unnecessarily harsh
with prisoners in women’s court
and ecommitted other unfitting
‘acts.
No Evidence
She took the stand for four
hours in her defense yesterday.
While she was under cross exam
ination, Referee Seabury 'charged
she had convicted one girl de
fendant of being a wayward mi
nor, although there was not “one
scrap” of common law evidence
against her,
In the case of a girl charged
with vagrancy, the jusitces found
Mrs. Norris prejudiced the de
fendants’ right by altering rec
ords. They condemned as “tn
judicial econduct” her purchase of
stock in a bail bonding company
which operated in her court.
They declared she put a 20
year old girl on trial without ben
efit of counsel without informing
her of her constitutional rights
and that “for money she sanc.
tioned the explaiting of her po
sition for the advertising of a
cemmorcial product.”
_Aside from swallowing hard
once or twice, Mrs, Norris gave
no visible evidence of the shock
dealt her by the decision.
—~ESTABLISHED 1832
IIMSON WILL ShIL
FOR EUROPE TO MD
REPARATIONS OFFER
Second Cabinet Member
To Sail Saturday For
European ‘Vacation’
STATE SECRETARY
SAILS FOR ITALY
Mellon Changes Vacation
Scene From London to
Paris; Is Silent
© WABHINGTON,—(#)—A second
cabinet member arrangeq today te
sail fop Hurope to participate in
the final negotiations for a one
year suspension 8f international
wapr debts.
| Secretary Stimson twho recently
announced along with Secretary
Mellon that he would spend his va
cation in Europe this summer, de
wided to sail Saturday on the Conte
Grande for Nables, ‘
Meantime, Secietary Mellon was
changing his “vacation” headquar
ters from London to Paris and a
tight-lipped silence fell upon
Yashington officialdesn regarding
the progréess of plans for carrying
out the moratorium.
- The reply of France to the Pre
sideént’s proposal was being studied
by Mr, Hoover and Secretary Stim
son, but details of the supposed
vounter-proposal of that country
were not disclosed,
Another Proposal
Another proposal designed to re.
lieve Germany by the grant of a
short term credit loan of 31000,000(,-
000 to the Reichsbank to tide it
over to the end of the Month was
before Federal Reserve and Treas«
ury officials, These Negotiations
included also the Banx of England,
the Bank of France znd the Bank
for International settlements at
Basle,
Governor Eugene Meyer, prior to
a meeting of the Federal Reserve
board, declineq to comment on re
ports of the joing credit arrange
ment, .
. The credit movement is supple
@mentary to the . Hoover debt plan
ang was regarded in some official
circles 4s a step not only necessary
to promote Kurope economic stabi
lity, but also as a further evi
dence of good fath in a sincere ef
fort to remedy the German credit
stuation,
LOOK TO MELON
WASHINGTON —(#)— Wash
ington looked today to Secretary
Mellen for a contribution toward
solttion of the delicate situation
that has arisen over the morator
ium proposal.
. Official acceptances of the
principle had been received from
all the larger powers involved,
with the biggest ° rough spot in
the immediate road bein g
France’s counter proposition.
Secretary Mellon has been “va
cationing” in England, Facts and
figures he obtained in a series of
conferences with officials there
played a considerable part in
President Hoover’s decision to of
fer to suspend war debt and‘rep
arations payments for a year.
And now Mr. Mellon, through
in England, is extending his “hol
iday” to France. i
. Diplomatic circles here felt pos
itive the Secretary of the United
States Treasury would discuss
the French attitude with the
proper officials. There were ex
prossions of hope that possible
objections couid be met without
intvolving the United States in
Etropean politics.
The immediate difficulty ap
peared to be desire on the part
of France to retain the uncon
ditional reparations payments for
actual war damage. The French
note was held secret here, but no
one denied that unconditional
reparations were involved.
On this point, President Hoover
said in announcing his plan that
the United States would suspend
collections on war debts due it
provided the other interested
powers agreed to a holiday from
“aljv intezgovemmfptg] payments
Present Status
So far the situation is as fol
lows:
Germany accepted the proposal
gratefully and unconditionally.
Great Britain approved it in
spirit as well as in letter,
~ Ttaly endorsed it cordially and
completely without “political res
ervations.”
v;l}\_\iéir"i; approved uncondition
ally, -
_ Bulgaria expressed apprecia
tion. : _
France submitted the counter
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HEALTH QUIZ
By Athens, Clarke County
Department of Health.
18. How are infant mortality
rates computed and what is the
1930 rate for Clarke county?
Answer
If in a @given community, 80
babies under the age of one year
died for every 1,000 born, the in
fant mortality rate would be 80.
The Clarke county rate for 1936
was 71.1.
19. How do the colored and
white infant mortality rates of
Clarke county compare in 19307
Abit Nix Elected Director
Of Rotary International In
Austria Convention Today
SEVEMAL NEW BILLS
RE INTRODUGED A
SOLONS BEGIN WORK
Harris Measure Would
Add 3,000 Miles to
Highway System
ATLANTA, Ga.— (AP) —lntro
duction of new bills began today
shortly after the Georgia legisla
ture began its second day’s ses
sion.
Approximately 3,000 miles would
be added to the state highway
system under a bill introduced by
Senator Roy Harris of Louisville.
This measure would make the
Neill-Traylor highway map offer
ed at the last session of the leg
iglature the official state aid
road map of Georgia. The pres
ent state aid system has about
7,000 miles.
President W. Cecil Neill in
troduced a bill to change the reg
ulation for holding primaries by
making the Presidential and the
state primaries on the same day.
This measure was passed by the
state senate at the last session
but failed to pass the house. .
Bills to regulate the practice of
law in Georgia were introduced by
Senator John Wesley Weeks of
Decatur, Ga., and -others. These
would make the bar regulations
tighter and would prevent, the
practice of law by corporations.
New Distrcit
A bill introduced by Senator E.
E. Dekle, of Valdosta, would cre.
ate a new senatorial district by
dividing the sixth district, which
Mr. Dekle represents. Under the
measure, Echols, from Lowndes
county, would remain in the
sixth distriet, and Cook, Berrien
and Lanier counties would be
transferred to a new district to
ba known as the 62nd.
Arrangements for the inaugu
ral pf Governor Richard F Rus
sell, jr., on Saturday will be di
rected by a joint committee of
house and senate members ap
pointed in accordance with a
joint resolution. The committee
members are Senators Moore, of
the 47th, and Peterson, of the
15th, and Representatives Gray
son, of Chatham, Beasley, of Tatt
nall, and Cochran, of Thomas.
The legislature would meet on
the first Monday in January in
stead of the fourth Monday in
June and the governor would be
inaugurated in January instead of
June, under a measure introduced
by President Neill. -He had a
similar measure in the last regu
lar session.
Joint Session
The house and senate in joint
session at mnoon canvassed the
votes of the last state general
clection which officially showed
that Richard B. Russell, jr,, had
been chosen governor. Results of
the election were the same as
those carried in the unofficial
counts last fall., The meeting to
day gave official status to the re
sults and paved the way for the
induction of the officers into of
fice headed by Richard B. Rus.
sell, jr,, as governor.
The inaugural ceremonies will
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DUNN FAVORS THREE
TO REFEREE BATTLE
CLEVELAND. — (AP) — Dick
Dunn, promoter of the forthcom
ing Schmeling - Stribling heavy
weight championship fight, said
he would present the names of
the three men he favors as ref
eree and judges at a meeting of
the Ceveland Boxing commission
today.
Dunn’s choices are George
Blake, James J. Corbett and Bob
Edgren, chairman of the Califor
nia Boxing commission,
The promoter will ask that on
the night of the fight these three
names be placed in a hat and one
drawn to act as referee, The
other two would be judges.
Discuss Plans For Handling Of
Cotton Crop By Co-Operatives
WASHINGTON,—{(®)—PIans for
cooperative handling of cotton dur
ing the coming crqp year were dis
cussed today at the annual meeting
of the American Cooperative asso
eiation,
The question of financing was
one of the major problems, The
association will decide on the
amount to be asked from the farm
board. Officers and directors are
to be elected. The meetng will con
tinue through tomorrow. :
The Cotton Stabilization corpo
ration will meet either today or to
morrow. A decisien on a sales poli
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NAMED DIRECTOR
_ Abit Nix, president of the
Athens Rotary club, today was
elected a director of Rotary In
ternational at the world con
vention in Vienna, Auystria,
Four otner Amerzcans were
elected as directors at the meet
ing. Mr. Nix has served Ro
tary as a former governor for
this distriet.
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Trade Commission Shown
Propaganda for Schools
And Nation’s Papers
’- WASHINGTON — (#) — Evi
dence showing tke extent of dis
tribution of electricity and gas
propaganda material tg schools
and newspapers in various parts
of the country was introduced to
day in the Federal Trade com
mission’s public utility inquiry.
A chart showing that in 1927
in Ohio 186,000 “electricity and
gas gamphlets" were distributed
to schools was introduced by
‘William T. Chantland, assistant
to the chief counsel in charge
of the investigation. Illinois and
New York were next in line with
1125,000 and 114,195, respectively,
for the same year. The total for
Now England, exclusive of Con
necticut, was 165,000.
| ‘Reports of state public utility
information committees and bu
reat: were quoted to show that a
large percentage of their material
sent to newspapers was accepted
‘and published or was “reflected
in the editorial columns.”
The report on Illinpis for 1921
said that’ “helpful editorials ap
peared literally by hundreds.
In Florida it was stated that
“about 60 per cent of the nows.
papers print the committee’s ma
terial which averages about 900
inches a month.” About 20 per
cent of the newspaners were said
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WIFE IS FREED OF
HUSBAND’S MURDER
| GAINESVILLE, Fla. — (#) —
Mrs. ellie Pierce was free to
day to follow her normal pursuits,
fol)l'owing' her acquittal on a
charge of slaying her husband,
James F. Pierce, at their home
‘here May 21. :
She convinced a circuit court
jury Pierce was shot accidentally
during a family argument, after
[he had .threatened %o kill her
son by a former marriange. The
| state %ased its case on a $3,000
double indemnity insurance policy
on her husband’s life. :
oy for stablization cotton next vear
)may be made,
Carl Wllams, cotton member will
represent the Farm board, ~
Disturbing Factors
' PARIS,—()—The United States
and its 3,000,000 bales of cotton
controlled by the Cotton Stabiliza
tion Corporation and cotton co
operative associatons were the dis-
Lturbing factors at today's closing
&sesslon' of the International Cotton
Congres s L
The x??fié‘q, States Federal farm
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| Friday; Moderate Easterly
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ALONG WITH FOUR
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is Former Governor OQ’%
This District And
Local President 3
An Associated Press dispateh N
to The Banner-Herald from Vien.
na, Austria, today announces the
electibn of Abit Nix, of Athens,
as .a director of Rotary Ifiternas
tional. o
Mr. and Mrs. James L., Sextom
and Mr. and Mrs. Nix are ate’
tending the convention of Rotar
jans in Vienna, the former as a
delegate and the latter as altera
nate. Mr. Nix is one of five Am.
ericans elected to the directorate
of Rotary. He was nominated for '
the office some time ago by the
Athens club, of which he is’fifi
former president and subsequent
ly endorsed by the Georgia dil-ié
trict over which he presided at
ong time as governor. ¥
The dispatch from Vienna to!e?
lows: .
AMERICANS NAMED
VIENNA. — (AP) — Five
Americans were elected today
to the directorate of Rotary
International. S b
They are: F. A. Shaffer,
Globe, Arizona (law); Robert
Heun, Richmond, Indiana
(building); Dr. Joseph W.
Jackson, Madison, Wisconsin
(medicine); Abit Nix, Athens,
Georgia (law), and Wclmg
‘Wapthall, San Antonio, Texas
(railroad). i 1%1,‘;‘%
Mr. Nix has been prominent im
Rotary since organization of %’
Athens club several years ago,
He was the club’s first vice-xn‘m‘waf‘é
ident, succeeding C. D, Flanigen
as president. He soon became &
factor in the Georgia-Florida dis
trict and when the Georgia clubs
were formed into one distrmt,;‘“)_
was elected the first governor. =
Mr. Nix ig an alumnus of the
University of Georgia, where.he
was a member of Sigma Chi .-1"‘;
ternity; Phi Beta Kappa honorary
scholarship society; Sphinx and
Gridiron clubs. He is a deaco: ‘gn”
the First Baptist church, is a for
mer referee in bankruptcy for the
Athens district, former president
of the Georgla Sunday School A 8
sociation, former president of the
Athens Chamber of Commerce, and
is past master of the Athens ;h
sons, past chancellor commander
of the Knights of Pytbias, @ {f;
at present exalted ruler of the
Athens lodge of Elks; past .'
mander of the Knights Templara
In his business affiliations, M
Nix is a director of the Athens
Manufacturing company; Tals
madge Brothers and companyy
Inc.; Hinton Securities company;
Athens Building, Loan and Invests
ment company; Fidelity Loan’ 'f
Jnvestment company; Price Pro=
vision company, Inc,; Bens Jfl‘
Inc.; Athens Photoplay compa &i
Georgia Amusements, Inec.; Geors
gian Hotel company, of whlch'-;_
is vice-president. He is a member
of the law firm of Erwin, Erwin
and Nix, and is a trustee of the=
Georgia State Teachers’' college
and Mercer university.
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Atlantan Is Slain 4§
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By Four Negroes; '
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, evenge Is Motive
' ATLANTA.—(®—R. B. iHarsi ™
‘well, 34, was shot and fatally =
woupded early today at the eors
ner of Fraser street and Georgia =
avente when four Negroes fired =
into “an automobile driven by Pa=
trolman H. J. Waters, Sonie
Last night Waters had shot and
killed M. C. Pitts, Negro, he,»"
ported was intoxicated and maka =
ing a disturbance near the same
corner. When he attempted to
arrest Pitts, the officer said, the
Negro grappled with him ¢ ng.
tried to obtain the officer’s gum.
About midnight Waters ywas =
‘making his rounds in an \
mobile and at the reguest of Har.
well and Ted Veal offered to take
them home, When passfi
the spot where Pitts had been
killed another automobile passed
the officer’s car and its ocetpants
opened fire. o
Seven shots were fired, Waters
reported, one striking Harwell | n
the back. L
To Hear Communication
Plea For Manchester
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ATLANTA, Ga— (AP) —Judge"
E. L. Rainey of the State Pris-"
on commission announced oday
the commission will hear the ples
for commutation of the death sem~
tence of Earl );x,anfihen%terg uly
instead of July “&f‘ ‘*' 5
announced, Lo A s