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Newspaper Page Text\/O'. ]OO NO 3' “ °F VISSING ROYSTON LD FOUND EARLY THURSDAY Came to Athens on Bus When Parent Sent Her To Purchase Book ALL-NIGHT SEARCH ‘ IS CONDUCTED HERE Little Girl. is Found in Hancock Avenue Home Here Thursday A.M. Mary ‘A]ice Sartain, 8-year-old novston child found adventure in \thens Wednesday night while an nxious parent, A, O, Sartain, was conducting an all-night fruitiess search for his little girl. The <hild disappeared from Roy ston Wednesday, and it was learned that che had taken the bus for Athens. She arrived here after dark and left the Union Bus sta-. tion ot the Holman immediately af ter the bus arrivec. Police and other interested per cone, spurred on by Mr. Sartain, carried on a fruitless search for the child throughout the nignt Wedresday, buat ' it was not until carly Thursday meorning that the child was found at the of W, I. Doolittle on Hancock avenue. She was last seen watching a group of children play games on Lumpkin street in the direction oa the =.. A, L. depct, For nours thaw section of the city was the scene of a =zearch for the missing child without ‘success. Then, the father ehausted and almost hopeless from hours of worry went by the police station and sat down wait ing. Eariy Thursday wmorning = telephone call from the home o! Doolittle wag answered by the police They were told that a HNttle ghn who said she was from South Carolina, homeless and friendless, was there, It was Mary Alice, She had told the Doolittle family that her parents were deaad, and askea them for lodging for tne night. Her father, upon héaring that Mary Alice was alive, and safé, rushen but Hancoeck avenue for her, A Tew minutes later she was en ner way hack to Royston, The little child was sent by her father to buy a hook Wednesday afternoon at Royston, He gave her sixty-five cents. She went to town and was waiting at the piace where the bus takes on passengers when it arrived at Royston from Hart well. Mary Alice boarded the bus and when the drives took up tickets she did not have one. She asked (Turn To Fage Two) SUPERIOR COURT TRIES. NEGRO ON MURDER CHARGE Case Occupies Entire Ses sion Today; Three Oth ers Sentenced Trial of James Howard, Negro, on a charge of fatally shooting Al hert Wood, Negro employe of the Seaboard railroad here Dec. 23, oc cupied the entire attention of Su perior court today. Testimony in the case had not been finished early this afternooin. Wood, alias “Word”, died at a lo cal hospital a few days following the shooting, Wood resisted being robbed by Howard and anothar Negro, according t 0 testimony. Willie Davenport and Plumer Flder, Negroes, were found guilty on a charge of robbing J. L. Clot felter's store here of $25.80 and were sentenced to serve from 10 to 20 vears each in the chaingang. They were tried jointly. Walter Cook, young Negro, was found guilty on a charge of burg lary of the Quick Tire company here, and the yury recommended that he be punished as having committed a misdemeanor offenses Judge Blanton Fortson had not acted on the recommendation early Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Nellie Clec Hanley was awarded a first decree verdict in divorce proceedings against her husband, Norman- Hanley. . LOCAL WEATHER | Furnisked 4y the Government | Bureau at the State Tea hers ; College, E. 8. Sell, Nbserver, for | the twenty-four hours ending at | 8:00 A. M. | Forecast For Georgia: Mostly clondy = with mild . temperatire Thurscay night and Friday, probably showers in northwest and extreme north ' portions; gentle south erly winds. 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B A BSR R S SRR R R s s S e SRS B e W : e S s A e W s i G eS R i e 3B S s g PR R e SRS ’?v-q,w‘ Bk AR R R e O R S s s s S R ey R AR e S :}:2:5:3%55:5:5‘{? SR N A S LA 2 -::::EtE:_:.:Z;.;‘;I:Z:f:t::;:_f.:!-f;:::;;;:::- G e R e ,‘;f”,,.’.’r’ %; B e SAE ; PR e f o B o B g R e R 8 oon s s e b aosaes 2 o Helen Joy Morgan, shown atove, today was convicted of second degree murder in the slaying of Leslie Castell, her garage mechanic-sweetheart in the Flint, ‘' Michigan, court house. The trijl judge senten ced her to serve from 20 to 25 years in prison. Miss Mor gan chiimed self-defense. The state declared the slaying was caused by jealousy. MIGHIGAN HEIRESS SENTENGED 10 20 YEARS FOR WUIRDER FLINT, Mich, — (AP) — Miss Helen Joy ' Morgan, 27-year-old heiress, was convicted Thursday of second degree murder for the slaying st April 23 of Leslie Casteel, her garage-mechanic sweetheart, and immediately was sentenced to serve from 20 to 25 years in prison. Judz2 James S. Parker of the circuit court, in passing sentence, recommmended 20 years. Miss Mergan, who screamed de nials of presecution charges at the close of the trial Wednesday, re mained calm as the sentence was pronounced, Her mother, who has been hér constant court compan jon, alse was unmoved. Casteel was shot to death on a lonely road. Miss Morgan told po lice she shot him as they strug gled “for possession -of a pistol with which &y had threatened her while they sat in an automobhile. Athens Woman Sues Express Company as Result of Accident * BRUNSWICK, Ga.—(AP)—Mrs. Leola Flanigan McDorman, of Athens, Ga., has named the 3outh land Express company here de fendant in a damage suit filed Wednesday in the Glynn superior court. The suit follows an accident June 10 in which the plaintiff charges a freigiit bus of the ex press company struck an automo. bile in which she was riding. 'l‘hei suit declares Mrs. McDorman was a passenger in an automobileJ owned by Claude A. White of Athens. \ 4 Mrs. McDorman is the wife of Clyde D. McDorman, president of the McDorman-Bridges Funeral Home. B.Y .P. U. Convention Hears Attack By Rev. Lee on Prohibition Law Breakers ATLANTA,—{(#)—Rev, Robert G. Lee, pastor of Bellevue Baptist church of Mempkhis, toid the Soutn-{ wide Baptist Young People's Unton convention here - today that “the only reason we have law-breakers if we do-—under prohibition is that this law has crossed desires and purposes of a trade that has always peen the chief law-breaker of the jpation”. * The memphis minister who trained as a youth in the organiza ton he was addressing, urged Bap tist youth to take up the fight ror prohibitery liguor laws because “you can’t find one zood thinz that can be said apou: the liquor traf fie,” ¥ . Liquor, he said, has wiped naticns from the eartr, caused men to dis icard honor and women 17 discard eirture.” b WINTER DECIDES 10 GET TOUGH,” COLD WEATHER PREDIGTED Weather Bureau Indicates Spring-Like Warmth is Due for Quick End WASHINGTON FEELS HOTTEST JANUARY 13 Colder Weather Likely to Cet Started Tomorrow, But ‘‘Not So Cold”’ { By The Associated Press | | s Winter, looking like an old man! |?lft’,'!‘ a bad night, squinted” at thel ith( rmometer Thursday, rabbed his | gi-yu; in disoelief, snatched angry-' fly at the cepring flowers tungled: }in his whiskers, and decided it was ;timc to get tough. ¢ | 411 scason he has ucted like g " hothouse geranium instead of a fierce fellcw wuit:. nair on his ches:, Grass has sproutea where snow snouid - :all, Zephyrs have sung sblizzards should howl. Rainbows have sparkiea warmly in =iies tha: shoula be choked with dead gray clouds. The plough has slid through Itho soft so:l that should be frozen i’rm K. ’ '1"0(1:1_\' winter sounded of'f { (through his profit, the Vveather {bureau) that he was about to take |the upstart spring or a ride; bui he spoke half-heartedly, unconvin cingly; like a 1929 bull In a 1931 market, Colder Tomorrow In the midwest where the ola blusgterer is usaally up to his hips in snow at this time or the year tne ‘i.\'(,)‘d was around to put an extra ishot of anti-freeze in the radiator and take the comforter out of the mothballs, It will be colder, wintex hissed adding sotto vooe, winter mfrlble cold”. In eastern America where spring uompee yesterday there was talk of colder days ahead starting by tomorrow. Winter’s dereliction was feit keenly at lake ilaeid N. Y., where in winter sports, watched at 60-de sree breeze wipe away the Adiron dack snows, Wasghington, D. C, Never knew a January 13 to be as hot as yes terday’s 75 degrees. Flood and wicked wind brought ‘trouble and death to parts Gs tig south where the death list of Tues ’ day’s twrster reached eleven, 300 Laymen Attend Methodist District Meeting Here Today World Activities Discuss ed by Morelock; Veatch ‘Presides Nearly 3({3 laymen of 90 churehes of this section attended the an nual Kingdom Extension Institute of the new Athens-Elberton dis trict which was held in the First Methodist church here Thursday. G. L. Morelock, Nashville, head of the laymen’'s work in the Meth odist church in the South, deliv ered the principal address of the morning session which began at 10 o'clock. He discussed the world activities of the church in regard to the missionary work fostered by the Methodist church. Rev. James L. Veatch, presiding elder of the' Athens-Elberton district, presided. ’ Other speakers during the mor ning were Dr. Wallace Rogers, Atlanta; Miss Elizabeth Work man, Atlanta; Mrs. Richardson, Lavonia, and «A’rs. Claude Tuck, Athe'ss. Willis A. Sutton, Atlanta, and Louie L. Morris, Elberton, divis. ion lay leader and editor of The Hartwell Sun, were the principal speakers of the afternoon session. The Athens-Elberton district in. cludes 36 pastors and 15,000 mem. bers. Dr. N. G. Slaughter is lay leader of the Athens division of the district. ‘ “It has filled asylums and pri %sons" he said, x x x “and has nevex ibuilt a church X X X or a school x x| X an orphanage ” 5 t He referred proponents of “beer for prosperity” to Germany, “the |‘biggest beer drinking nation in ‘ne world,” To those “who would end unemployment with liquor” Dr. T.ea i;—oferred to England “with legalized liquor and the dole.” l The minister said “I acknowiedge ‘that the amount of bcotleg booze is ‘murdorously prevalent x x % hut 1 know you' can't pack as much li quor under the seat of a ¢ar as you l‘can in a freight train.” " He sald there is bootlegsing in lmany industries and tha' ‘“we didn’t start law breakiiz ine Jday [Mr. Volstead's name was ertered in ‘who's who”,’ e : Athens, Ca., Thursday, January 14, 1932 | em———— " BRIAND IS LEFT - OUT OF NEW ' FRENCH CABINET G Do e— WA, T ety e, @ o P BRI 2 0 e e e G S S e SR eWS RN B R AR e RS B e TR SSR et o B g'?%‘fx o = BB :é SRR R caaa . B LT L Y 00l PR S e e B R 5 e s R S S S AN & e - %3 P A B W T 2 ; e 3 ,"15': §3ﬁ 2 3 B SOSREER de TR i ] b S g -' & Si 2 A 8‘ % i g Bed : e : i :55;§§§§%§ e ; a ’ o 32 3 X :B % A : R % A s L e, - N T & B R X B Boonnh ' e e 4 O e B L SR i A * - 1B A ¥ ! o B 1 3 % S 2/ Ly - - Py The new cabinet of France, selected by Premier Laval and approved by President Doumer today, does not include Aris tide Briand, active in French politics for many years. Briand, broken in health, will retire to his farm at Coeherel to devote his time to resting and fishing in an effort to mend his phy sical condition. s BV PRES. DOUMER Aristide Briand Left Out Of Cabinet; Tardieu Goes Into Service PARIS.— (AP) —Plerre Laval, one of the youngest of French Premiers, began his preparations for the coming intern_atf’onal con ferences Thursday with a new cabinet of youth, The new cabinet, the eighty seventh under the third republie, was approved by President Paul Doumer Wednesday night. In piage of the veteran Aristide Briand, foreign minister for the last six years and called the “Peacemaker of Europe,” M. Laval himself will occupy the Foreign office as well as the Premiership. For Minister of War to succeed the late Andre Maginot, the Pre mier selected his former mentor, Andre Tardieu, noted French journalist and disciple of the late M. Clemenceau, Tiger of France. On the shoulders of these two will fall the chief burden of the coming reparations and disarma ment conferences. M. Briand, veteran of many con. ferences, prepared, meanwhile, to g 0 back to the serenity of his farm at Coeherel, and his fishing, in an effort to mend nis broken health. Mrs. Benson Sets Course in Answer To Mrs. Williams Candidate for Congress From Seventh District Replies to Dry Leader : MARiE"I‘A, Ga. —(AP)— Mrs. ‘Regina Rambo Benson, announced ‘congressional candidate from the ‘Seventh district, has written Mrs. Marvin Williams, state president of the Women’s Christian Tem perance Union, in defense of a “one-plank 2 prohibition referendum platform that she considers “the issue of the 18th amendment should not be beclouded by any other.” Yesterday Mrs. Benson made public a letter in which Mrs. Williams expressed “amazement that in announcing your contem=- plated entrance in the race for congress,: you ignore many of the great national questions such as the peace of the world, relief of unemployment, farm relief, etc., and state your position upon only one great subject, prohibition.” Mrs. Benson said she had re plied to Mrs. Williams that “ev- eryone knows that T am in favor of the peace of the world, relief of unemployment, farm relief, ete. but they do not know hew I, and many Christian thinking men and women, stand on_the subject of the 18th amendment and 1 pro. pose to give them a chance to eX press themselves” She added she believed she was working in the cause of temper= auce and had “never taken a drinks of whisky” and was opposed ta —ESTABLISHED 1832— oMITH, AODSEVELT ARE HEADLINERS AT “VIGTORY DINNERS” New York Governor Talks i Over WOR; Al Smith | Speaks From WAAB GEORGIA DEMOCRATS - GATHER IN ATLANTA \ ——— John W. Davis to Address . Georgia Dinner Over | Radio Tonight NEW, YORK—(AP)—More than fifty « “victory dinners” by Demo crats in thirty three states tcnight will lend fresh impetus to Demo cratic pre-convention politics by affording an opportunity to nearly all of the pgrty leaders to be heard. Governors, senators, CONgress members, national committeemen and past, present and future can didates for offices up to the Pres idency will speak at one or an other of the banquets. The dinners are for the purpose of launching the campaign for $1,500,000 tq wipe out the party deficit, and to enable the party to open twe Presidential campaign. !‘ In the east, Democratic interest is divided between the dinner here, '.’xt which Governor Franklin D, Roosevelt will speak, and the one ‘;r Boston, at which former Gov ernor Alfred “E. Smith will be P heard. Governor Roosevelt's address will be heard over station WOR which will broadcast thé entire speaking program from 9 until 10:30 p. m., eastern standard time, and Mr. Smith's speech in Boston will be broadcast from 9:30 to 10 p. m., by station WAAB. | A national hookup between 9:15 and 9:30 will carry the address of John D. Davis, key speaker at the New York banquet. Mr. Davis was Democratic nominee for Pres ident In 1924 and now is general chairman of the campaign. NEED WAR CHEST o GICAGO —(AP)— Need for a $1,500,000 war chest if the Demo eratic party is to hold-and in crease its gains made since 1928 was stressed by Jouett Shouse, chairman of the national executive committee, at a luncheon of the party’s lllinois “victory commit tee” today. - ). Calling attention _to what he termed the woeful lack of or ganization and the depleted condi tion of the party’s treasury prior to the 1928 campaign, he said re markable results toward stabili. (Turn To Fage Two) ROOSEVELT AND ° MURRAY LIKELY TO FILE IN S. D. Covernors of New York And Oklahoma Seen as Almost Sure Candidates YALLBY CITY, N. D—(AP)— State Democratic party leaders said they looked to the North Da kota Democratic convention, open ing 'l‘hursdgy, to bring Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York into the open as a Presiden tial candidate. In view of sentiment in favor of the New York governor' At county conventions, they said they re garded Roosevelt’s endorsement by the state convention as a cer tainty. Heads of the North Dako ta party planned to communicate results of Thursday's vote to the governor as soon as completed. . A majority of the delegates to the convention came instructed to vote for Roosevelt. Members of the state Democratic central com mittee, meeting Wednesday, ex pressed themselves unanimously in favor of Roosevelt. Rcosevelt will be asked by a resclution of the couvention, said Fred McLean, «Grand Forks, secre tary of the party, to announce his candidacy so his name may be placed on the North Dakota Pres !dentﬁal preference ballot at the March 15. Primary. Confidence was expressed by MclLean, who re cently returned from the national Democratic committee meeting at Washington, that Roosevelt would grant permission to be entered in the primary. George T. Murray of Berthold a 4 he intended to present the aame of his brother, Governor William “Alfalfa Bill” Murray of Cklaliema as a Democratic Presi. dential candidate. Athenian Supports Cobb for Farm Board WASHINGTON.— (AP) — The name of C. A. Cobbk, of Atlanta, head of the Southern Ruralist and Progressive Farmer, an agricultu ral publication, was placed before President loover Wednesday by Senator Harris, of Gecrgia, for a future place on the Farm board. Harris was accompanied to the White House by A. S. Nance, head of the Georgia Federation of Labor, and Phil Campbell, head of the Georgia State Agricultural Extension department. Both en dorgsed Cobb, Link Mellon’s Name, With Oil Concession, Big Colombian Loan MRS. CARAWAY HAS NO UNUSUAL “MISSION” TO PERFORM AS SHE SUCCEEDS HUSBAND IN SENATE | i i PR o PR T )e R g o AR R ) SRR \ 5 Bl 8, T R e VERERERR | i 3 SL 3 B S g e | 3 :}"ﬁ £ \l’-‘. B P b e 3 S et | e > G B . B BN e B i '-.;‘,'5,,.‘ ﬁ(‘ %}” )k IR i L e A 3 RERenans & - \ Ny e * o A 5 bt | - RO 3R B, 5 £3 T { 3 B e § Lo { T e B 5 | AN TR R ; | b BR3B S o i 5. 78 3 R R F m%& g G R ) i o R R B y i i SRR N e i e 3 PR N e vAR Bes 2 2 V“N,'"""w';:‘: il 000 ee S g *W e g M . 7 *%\b a 3 00l G BTSN S T G? S TR e e ee e R R g m"‘m«.,. S = 4 ' B o S aero s 4 T R o MR eeSl i L 3 %P ”&w B R 8 Sre ‘A”M,l\\,m A ¥Ro eYo ’ 8 | N e B S S R e o o e R 7 g N LL A R SRy 3 L ) "ﬁ”@“’*‘%%%%’?? S % G R SIOY CLR : s sy e AT RS SRR, B et e R 4 i . = y i ! 3 e o e ot T .. kil MRS. CARAWAY By ROBERT TALLEY NEA Service Writer. (Copyright, 1932, NEA Service, Inc,) WASHINGTON.-~A woman's job in the senate isn’t to . represent the women and - children of the United ‘States or to attempt any gpocial misgions, for there are none that f man cannot perform just as well. Her first few weeks as a sena tor from Arkaneas has convinced Mrs. Hattie Caraway, only active woman senator in the nation’s history, of this. She has had only one predecessor, the aged Mrs. Rebecca Latimer Felton, of Geor. gia, to whom a chivalrous south. ern governor gave a speclal one. day complimentary appointment back in 1922. ‘“People often ask me,” says Mrs. ercway, “if 'm not plan ning to become especially active for measures and appropriations in behalf of women and children. Well, I'm not; there's no need to. “The men in the senate are just as much interested in such welfare maiters as a woman would be. And why not? They are fathers, they are interested in children just like mothers are, I know in my own case, my hus band werried just as much about Arnold Replies To Questions of Governor Russell Representative Favors a Special Session for Cot ton Legislation ATLANTA—(AP)—State leg fslators, being polled as to their position on the calling of an extra session of the general assembly to enact a cotton control measure, are divided in their opinions. State Senator Walter Perkins of Millen, chairman of the state committee on acreage control, said his poll of 89 of the state’s 207 members of the house and 52 members of the senate, showed 81 favor able to calling of the extra ordinary session. Representative O. H., Arnold an nounced today he has written Governor Russell declaring that nearly 100 per cent of the farm ers in (Marke county favor a spec ial session of the legislature for the purpose of enacting legislation fTurn To Page Two) Texas Girl is Scriptural Champion of Atlanta Convention of B. Y. P. U. Units ATLANTA —(AP)—Fern, Huser, 15. year-old Fort Worth, Texas, girl, is the champion scriptural swordsman of the Baptist Young People’s Union. ' She won the sword drill contest held last night as the feature of the Southwide B, Y. P. U. con wention in session here. Bobby - Walker, 14, of Memphis, won second - place. Mrs. J. E, Lambdin of Tennessee conducted the drill and awarded the winners with Bibles. The dvill is in knowledge of scripture. It gets its name [rom B. Y. P. U. teaching that the Bible is the Christian sword., A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday, 4 our three boys as I did. It is like ly, of course, that a woman may be better informed on such mat ‘ters, but I am sure the men have ime interests of women and chil ’dren just as much 'at heart.” * ¥ . Mrs. Caraway, seated at ' her desk in her private office under a huge framed picture of Woodrow Wilson, expounded some of her unusual philosophy:’ Q. Why is it you have never made a speech in the senate? E A. Because there is a lot of ‘talking _done there now, and I don’t think we need any more . « . but I'm not saying I'll never make a speech. Q. Have you ever made a spech | Q. Have you ever made a speech ‘rallies or the like? 7 A. I never made a speech in my life . . . but I've done an awful lot of listening. Q. What do you think is the duty of a woman in the senate? A. To do just as a man would do; to represent the whole people of her state and not any particu lar group. Q. How does it feel to be a member of the senate? A. Not véry much different than I have felt for the past 20 years; (Turn To Page Six) Life Sentence is Meted Out in Ky. Mine Murder Case William Hightower, 77- Year Old Miner, Hears Verdict Emotionless By R, H. HIPPELHEUSER - MOUNT STERLING, Ky.—(AP) William Hightower, Harlan county labor leader, was convicted by a jury in cireuit court here today of complicity in the deaths of four deputy sheriff mine guards at Bvarts. His sentence was fixed at life imprisonment. The verdict was the same as that given Willlam B. Jones, sec rdtalry;, of the miners union at Evarts of which Hightower was president. Jones, first of nearly thirty defendants in the case, was convicted December 10. Hightower, 77 years old, and for forty years a coal digger, heard the verditt read without emotion, The jury took his case late ves terday and deliberated in all about two hours and 40 minutes, The Texas girl scored 102 cor rrect answers to Biblical questions. ‘Bobby scored 55. More than 2,500 voung people from B. Y. P. U. units in 18 states are attending the convention. Ses sions are devoted to group gath erings at which methods of or ganization, enlistment and study are discussed. Dr. F. F. Brown, pastor of the First Baptist church of Memphis, told the young people and hun dreds of visitors last night that Christ is a contemporary of mod ern Christians. He spoke on. “The Baptist Mes sage” and said the message is that . is Abreast of Our Ti 1 { | l | \ s 5 ) |UL B : l | ! | I OtERe I i d 3 t ] | e nN TH.A AB m“ ‘% U 3 i | e e A | Rep. Patman Says Mellon j | Used Influence to Put = | Over Foreign Loans } l WASHINGTON — (AP) — Tha ina,mu of Secretary Mellon ‘was linked today with testimony in< | !.»:.glving the granting of an ‘oil { concessighk by Colombiz to an Ama= "erlcan concern immediately after ta large loan had been madg by =i American bankers to ‘that country, 3 While the senate finance coms 1 mittee was seeking information: from the State department which™ might tie the two transactions to gether, Representative Patman: in his impeachment efforts was i | charging that Secretary Mellon ~had a hand in influencing the loan. { | Testimony before the ‘senate committee already has brought out that the State department sought to influ¢nce American bankers to make the loan to Co ‘ lombia. 3 It was told today that the Barce oil concesgsion was granted to the South American Petroleum com. pany, in which the Mellon owned Gulf Oil company is largely in terested, on June 20 of 1931, and that the loan was made on June 30. 49 Demands Documents Senator Johnson of Californis demanded of the State department documents that might be in Its hands relating to the transactiom. ' Department . officials offered to glve them to him In confidence hut he refysed to accept them im that way. § o i ~ Patman, a Texas Democrat, in bringing his charges against Mel« lon, quoted a letter from a South American saying President Olaya Herrera of Colombia had announ ced publicly Mellon would assist In the credit extemsion if petro< leum difficulties were settled. “In the conversation the Presi dent of Columbia spoke about the situation of his country, t.t)wkiilh\,s Mr. Mellon said that if he would arrange the petroleum business difficulties in Colombia, that Co= lombia would develop itself into & much better credit condition, let= (Turn To Page Six) e CONSUMPTION OF COTTON IS LESS THAN LAST YEAR Census Bureau Figures Show Decrease During December Over Last ‘3O WASHINGTON.—(AP)—Cotton consumed during December was reported Thursday by the bureau ‘to have totaled 415, if_jﬁ baleg of lint and 44,491 of rs. comired with 428,870 and 52,687 in November last year, and 405,518 and 43,522 in December, 1930. Cotton on hand December 31 was held as follows: RS E In consuming establishments, 1.« 630,543 . bales of lint and 262,675 of linters, compared with 1,441,165 and 221,042 on November 30 last year, and 1,655,537 and 249,519 on December 31, 1930 . In public storage and at com presses, 10,425,945 bales of lint and 50,399 of linters, aompared with 10,695,797 and 45,952 on Nov ember 30 last year, and 8,375,943 and 79.104 on December 1, 1930., = Aged Man Killed a; » Train Near Madison J. A. Fisher was killed instantly by the Central of Georgia train No. 26, a short distance from Mad. ison Wednesday. The man was deaf and did not hear the ap proaching train. He was walking toward Macon. Mr. FRisher was eighty-five years of age. He %went to Madison on the Georgia rails road, SR HAVE YOU NOTICED - - That phrase beneath our name-plate which reads: “Established in 1832"? There is something disting= uished attached to that ‘which is old. This is particularly trae of a newspaper. It means that the commun ity and the publishers have stood as ong in the forward march. of the area served by such a paper. The Banner-Herald is a hun drec years old. Think of it—a century of faithful effort to re flect the activities of a town and city whose importance to the intellectual progress of

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The Banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1923-1933, January 14, 1932, Image 1