The Banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1923-1933, April 22, 1932, Home Edition, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text- - (OTTON L oDLINS oag Dll6 pREVIOUS © - r No. 87 CARDEN CLUB SESSIONS OPEN HERE Buccessor 1o Hams Not Selected G6flL EXPECTED 1) MAKE CHOICE Il FEW DAYS TLANTA (AP)—The political in Georgia boiled with spec tion today to 10 who would be ed to the ['nited " States senate gueceed the late - William J. rris. pediction were made frpply,| e if privately by many, butl one man in position té speak th authority on the subject— vernor Richard B. Russell, jr.— g silent | His friends pointed out that h--i ver had made an appointment | rriedly in the wvacaneies which pas been called upon to fill. | he only appointment =he made mptly after the funeral of a de. bsed state official was that of a @ treasurer ad this was a mat of necessity Following the sth and the funeral of Willlam gpeer, state finatrieial activities gired appointment of a treas or a 8 soon as DOSS“)]P nad M. Ledford of Cairo wsa named. Predicts Delay Those close to the ‘governor ex. wssed the belief he probably had gched a decision on the appoint ent of a sueccessor to Senator arris but would delay making e announcement several days. Among those mentioned as pes ble appointees to the post were e widow Mrs. " Julia Wheelre arris, and Major John S. Cohen, esident and editor of The Atlan. Journal Major .ohen, a longe me personal friend of the gover or, has heen national committee. an in Georgia for eight years and cently was mnamed for another gnt.vear term Whoever is appointed would rve until a. successor is ‘elected the general. election in Novem rto serve the unexpired term of enator Harris, ending in = 19387. The Governor is expected to bhe. me a candidate “for the unex red term The Tules committee [ the Democratic' executive com littee is to meet here tomorrow imend the rules for the Sep. mber primary to ineclude the va ney in the senate caused by the eath of Mr Harris, Senator alter F, George must run for re fectic this falli because his term Many men have bheen mentioned £ possible condidates for the un. spired term of ‘Senator Harris, in idition to Governor Russell. This St Includes Congressman Charlas Crisp and Thomas W. Hard ok, former governor of Georgii, Nd former member of of the sen te-and Abit Nix, Athens attor. ey » i Mr. Hardwick, *“an attorney, of Ugusts, was in Savannah today N legal husiness He said there it he could not foretell his plans Ut added he had no desire to hold olitical office again, Russell Tosßun The possibility * that Governor Ussell will run* for the senate 45 expected in political clreles " talse 4 scramble for the gov- MOr's post, Mentioned as possibie Mdidates for governor, im such "0t are Eugene Talmadge, com “Hloner of agrieulture; Maynr ‘mes L. Key of Atlanta, whose "ohibition views have attractad JUCh attention; . B 4 Maddox of lormer Demeocratic state lairma Fdgar Dunlap, Gaines. o Attorney and . Leglon leader; Willi Battle "of Columbus; k £sßm John Wood: Orville Ol Macon; - tax expert and RN of the state house of rep ~ENtative Arlie Tucker, speak v the howse; Marion Allen, . O=eville legislator, and a host (e has made any statement L. donouncements are not b Ul the immediate sucz m 7 Senator Harris chosen. B % date for entries in f e es r June 8. Tom Nash Purchased By Atlanta Crackers & e — +"EW ORLEANS, La—(AP) o 0 Nash, former University »l fela All.Ameriean foot- Lk star. and bagehatl player, L Deen purchased hy the At. Aot2 Southern association :“'T“if Club. He is an out h_\f;-:; Wwill report to Atlanta v o today o Saturday, but " 2e" Red Barron sald he "hably would” mot e used ! the Birmingham series © Mlanta next week, ;“\“——_ w. REASURY FIGURES o ASHINGPON— (AP) —Treas -5010 Pts for April .20 were .w,1,-'_-'im 80; expenditures, $22 . i (<5 balance, $444(710,193. Apryl L oms duties for 26 days of U wepe 313,705,314.33. = : THE BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service A daughter of immigrant parents who can neither read nor write English, Joanna Xenos, 7 shown at her desk in top picture, hag passed from first to eighth grade in the vear she has been attending school in Chicago. Her father is a Greek and her mother is "Polish. Fre quently she assists teachers by instrueting pupils from & to 11 years old in reading and writing. In lower picture she is shown second from left teaching writing to ("lassmates. : o R e { S T, G o U ) LG e R Le | BRramaeet BUORERe R R SR | e ) > "§s’§~“€“*¥ s% Gl g,o BT R, ¢ TREReT SRR SR So ? 9 G S R : g oTR e S e R R rf\'t i st §; B ’3' CHE L e e (. s oS T e L g2l ] e e W R e 7R B e i T 0 T 5 A ‘~f:‘.-::§.i-f§;;:s§§:, R, SSPR S B 2 i N R R T £ ik S :':::”"7?; i hiognoNg R e : ! 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B 2 . g o B B T R R e | s G Al e SRR, S R A S R : i i iF 3 Ay R ' CEE— N i 8 B AR TeR e S & e s B o = i ng? ee 8 S s | B ter B R e £ ol R Bt ® s B il i BAITISH TARIFF WILL TAKE JUMP New High Tariff Will Be come Effective at Mid night Monday L s LONDON .—(AP)—Beginhing at midnight next Monday, the Brit. ish tariff wall against foreign products goes up to twice its pres ent height. The import duties advyisory com mittee recommended last night that the duty be raised from 10 to 20 per cent on almost every Kind of manufactured product im ported - into the country, effective at midnight, April 25. When: the new rates go into ef fect the orders previously issued under the, abnormal importations act, which imposed on ad valorem duty of 50 per cent on certain classes of . goods, will .be revoked. Most of the commodities affected will then tkae the 20 .per cent rate. Included in the 20 per cent cate. gory are machinery and toola other than . agricultural machinery, and electrical goods. - Others are textile manufactures except. yarns, apparel, boots, shoes, paper and paper manufactures, rubber and rubber manufactures, wood and wood manufactures, cer tain canned goods vegetables, metal furniture and numerous miscel laneous items. COLONEL ELLIOTT DUNN, SPANISH WAR VETERAN, IS DEAD i SR POMONA, Fla,-t’Al’)—("ulmml Flliott Dunn, chief of staff of the United Spanish War Veterans of Florida, died suddenly at his ‘home here Thursday. He was 65. \Colonel Dunn bore the distinc. tion of being & Congressional Medal of Honor man, and was captain during the Spanish-Amer ican war. FIGHT FOR MOONEY 10 BE CONTINUED Supporters Declare Fight For Freedom Not Yet Finished SACRAMENTO, Calif.—(AP)— As supporters of Tom Mooney gave notice his account with jus tice was not yet closed, filing clerks here shut the covers on another chapter of the convicted dynamiter's struggle for fredeom __the refusal of Governor . James Rolph, jr., to grant a*pardon. The Governor of California—the fourth before whom the Mooney case has been brought—declared in a 700-word decision announced at the state capitol Thursday he was convinced Mooney and War ren K. Billings, convicted accom plice; were guilty. . varied comment’ greeted the decision, but Mooney and his supporters were confident in their predictions the fight would go on. Among these was Fremont Ol der, San Francisco newspaper editor, who said: “The case is no more settled by Governor Rolph’s action than it was before he made it.” : Mooney himself, in a statement released by the Mouylders Defense committee over his name, declar ed the struggle had gained added significance, with the assertion: «phis makes me the outstand ing figure in the world’s labor movement and a symbol of the gtruggle of labor for its rights.” ARE YOU REGISTERED? All citizens who wish to cast pallots in the state primary in September and in the Presi dential election in November, must register not later than May Bth. in order to qualify all taxes must be paid six months prior to the general election; therefore May Bth s jast day to qualify. HITES OF PASSOVER ARE ATTENDED BY ~ VIANY HERE For the first time in the history of the loeal Synagogue almost the entire Jewish ecommunity assem bled. Thursday night at the Myer and Rachel Stern Center for the rites of the Passovep supper-ger~ vice known in Hebrew as the “Seder,” Ordinarily this rite s ob served for two nights hy the indi« ‘vidual families, but a number of congregations have began to ob .serve the second night as com: munity night. Thurgday night this most interesting and attractive con gregatonal Seder was held under the direct. supervision of Rabbi Ab raham Shusterman, with Mrs. Shus térman acting as chairman of the committee-in-charge. An unusually large number of guests, consisting of members of the congregation and students of the University of Georgia, attended the dinner and the service which began at 7. The large hall of the Community House was attractigely decorated in pink and white, with flowers, candles, wable decorations, following this general color scheme. Among the interesting objects upon the table was a large pewter plate designed especially for this Passover Ser wvice, which is the property of Mrs, ‘Simon Michael and which has been in her family for a number of gei erations. The service began with the lighting of the lights and the recitation of the blessing by Mrs, Abraham Shusterman. The rabbi continued the service with the reading of the appropriate prayers for the occassion. The ritual is arranged in question and answer form relative to the festival of Pagsover, The questions were re.- cited by Flora Levy, Dorothy Link, Raymond Lesser, Simon Michael, Cecil Michael, Milton Lesser and Emile Michael the answers were read by four students of the Uni versity of Georgia, Adolph Rosen berg, David Steine, Fred Solomon and Jess Goldman. Three appro priate songs were sung under the leadership of the organist of the of the choir, Mrs. H. M. MeKay— “America”, “God of Might,” and the special Passover number “Had Gadya,” Following the dinner the service wias drawn to a close by the benediction pronounced by the Rabbi, Appeal To Children As this Seder is meant to appeal to the c¢hildren there are a number of prayers and ceremonies which appeal to children particularly. Among these is the ancient cere mony of séarch)ng for the “Afiko: men,” a hidden piece of unleavened bread, This rite always arouses a great deal of Interest. It was found by Arthur Flatau jr, In the course of the service, Rabbi Shus terman spoke briefly about the ex perimenta’l nature of this service and the hope that the holding of a community seder weould become an lannual custom in Athens, He said that he felt that the wonderful lanendance at the first one and enthusiastic : response manifested by all present, numbeéring 95, that the permanence of the custom of having community seders could he taken for granted. The nabbi ex pressed a word of sincere appre ciation to all who contributed to ‘the success of the undertaking. Par ticular mention was made of the contributions, financial and other wise, of Mrs. Simon Michael, Mrs. Max Michael and Mrs. I, A, Solo mons of Savannah, who, although they were unable to attend the con gregational seder, . made substan tial ‘contrbutions in the form of money and focd. The rabbi also praised most highly the committee in charge of the affairs. This com mittee consisted of: Mrs, Abraham Shusterman, chair fman;; Mrs. Sophie Meyers, Mrs. Nona Meyers, Mrs. Aaron Cohen, Mrs. Jake Bernstein, Mrs, Rose Summerfield, Mrs. Ernest Michael, Mrs, Edgar Levy ,Mrs, Milton Les ser, Mrs. Sol. J. Boley, . LOCAL WEATHER g E. S. SELL, Ohbserver. ] e e e e Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday, possibly followed by showers Saturday in west por tion; not much change in tem | perature. 3 & ’ The following is the local | weather for 24 hours ending | at Ba. m. today: { TEMPERATURE TN 0 800 BRWEEE s 0810 BEAE kA S eIl RN o s s e, 84D l RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours .. ... T. | Total since April Ist .. .. 95 Deficiency since April 1 .. 157 rrAverages April rainfall .... 3.58 Total since Jan, 1 .. .. ..16.056 = Dutchncy since Jan. 1 ~ 156 —ESTABLISHED 1832— Athens, Ga., Friday, April 22, 1932 President .Of Garden Club Of . 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Lockwood, pres jdent of the Garden Club of‘ America, who i 8 here to attend the convention ot: the Georgia Gardoan club, is a former Athenian and has several relatives now residing in Athens. - Mrs. Lockwood will visit Mrs, e A. ‘Scudder, and -will address ‘the Georgia Garden Club meeting Friday, She will also be guest of honor at luncheons on both Friday and Saturday. Various other en. tertainments by members of the Garden club have also been plan. ned: X Mrs. Lockwood, who hasadmira. bly filled the role of president of the Garden Club of Amerieca, is a niece of the late . A, Scudder’ and Messrs., Charles and Frank | Edwards, all of this city. As the daughter of James M. | Edwards, who was vice president and‘ zeneral manager of the Louis. ville, New Orleans and Texas rail |road she spent her childhood in Memphis, Tenn. Under ler fath. er’'s direction this railroad was | built and operated wuntil it was | merged with the Illinois Central .| Her mother was Elizabeth Seud. | der, the daughter of Alexander | McLean Scudder, of Athens and I!Prineeton, N. J. Bornm on her - IN CLARKE DEATH MIAMI, Fla.—(AP)—Mrs.. Jessie M. Keith. Miller, woman flier, vir tually has been exonerated in the strange fatal shooting of her fiance, Haden Clarke, 41, but she faces further questioning in State Attorney N. Vernon Hawthorne’s attempt to clear up the case. Both Mrs. Keith-Miller and her flying partner, Captain W N Lancaster, were kept in custody last night. Hawthorne said he was convinced the woman was lin no way connected with the actual ' shooting but that he planned to question her and Lancaster further Ty t 0 determine if Clarke committed suicide or was slain i “While many things would sub stantiate a theory of suicide” Hawthorne said, “there are a number of facts which, taken either separately or together, hinder the final acceptance of that theory . Hawthorne would not say that| Lancaster, a British flier who has: taken part in several flying ven. tures with Mrs., Keith-Miller since | 1927, Had heen cleared of all blame| in the shooting. | x 'Georgia Labor Opposes . Sales Tax; Favors Beer E ——— i COLUMBUS, Ga. —(AP)— The iGeorgia Federation of Labor has |gone on record as opposed to the |cales tax bill ani the constitution.| [al amendment to deal with tax. | ling of intangibles, ' | ' Delegates took the action hmu: |yesterday in their convention ani| |the resolutions committee W!f?' 'handed for consideration proposals| inn ‘approval of the ()’C‘onnnnHuH‘ Ihe@r bill and the Ptaman compen. |sation measure. Leaders said the| . convention as a whole would stuilyl thé prohibition and soldiers’ bonus| questions involved today. paternal grandfather’'s - plantation the late Mordecai Edwards’ in the old home near Athens, hér baby days were spent in the beauty of old' gardens. A part =of her school days were spent in Athens, too, for she was enrolled at the Luecy: Cobb Institute. Later her |education was + continued . abroad where she journeyed in company with Miss Millie Rutherferd, one of her motliér's. s¢hoolmates. As a charter member of the Garden Club. of East Hampton, first vice president and later pres. ident she/was deeply interested in the work of the garden club. When the club became a member of the Garden Club of America her inter. est in the natfonal club was en. thusiastie. Under her direction the Ctarden Club exhibit in the New Work show was a marked success for three successive years. Mrs Lockwood was appointed’ one of ‘the vice .presidents of the Garden Club of America and lent her un. tiring efforts for the success of |the club, Upon recognition of hei {mbility she was elected first vice president and at the annual meet. |ing which was held in Philadel: phia she was installed as presi. ![nem of the @Garden Club of | America. - Robinson Favers e Trade Relations . - - With the Soviet ATLANTA, Ga.—(AP)—Senator Joe T. Robinson of Arkadnsas, Democratic leader, says the United States should give prompt consideration to establishment of diplomatic and trade relations with Russia. He made the statement here Thursday night-on his way back to Washington from the funeral of Senator - William J, Harris of Georgia at Cedartown. “As one feature in the policy of promoting amicable international relations and stimulating our for eign commerce” the Arkansas senator said, *“I believe that prompt consideration should now be given to the establishment of diplomatic and trade relations wish Russia.” Republican Will Be Candidate For Senate in Georgia, Athenians Say Georgia Republicans have defi nitely decided to have a cand.idate for the United States senate in the general election next November, it {was ldarned hers- Friday. - James W. Arnold, Republican na itional committeeman and W, G. ](‘tn‘nf-tf, chairman of the elghth‘ I:m authority for Yhe announce ment, | | Committeeman Arnoldf declares |positively that his party will have la candidate in the senatorial race, {but that it has not been yet decided |vhether the candidate will oppose §.<c-natc.r W. ¥, Georgé or seek to |fill the unexpired term of the late Senator W, J, Harris. 5 ‘ The Athens Reppublican lelgders :deolared that the Republican candi {date will make his mmm’on A platform ‘of ‘principles.’ “The ‘tfme has come in Georgia,” they :said, A, B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—>s¢ Sunday National Officers Praise Georgians Splendid Work TODAY’S BEST HUMAN INTEREST STORY DETROIT.—(AP)—T®n law yers litigated for 13 weeks to effect a dissolution’ of the part nership of Jacobs Schevitz and his uncle, Isaac August, principally because the part. ners hadn't kept books for ten years. ' - . Then the partners settled it all to their own. satisfaction in less than 30 minutes, They wrote on 98 slips of paper the descriptions of the 98 properties they jointly own ed, shuffled the deck and started aealing on a “one for you, one ‘for me"” basis, That finished, they called in their lawyers. “Everything’'s Jake nbow"” said Ike. “You'red ismisséd.” oEEK T 0 COMBAT MASSIE DEFENSE Honolulu Prosecutor Im ports Two Alienists to Examine Navy Officer By WILLIAM G. EWING HONOLULU.— (AP) —Seeking evidence to combat the insanity ‘defense of Lieutenant Thomas H. ‘Massie, the prosecution dug deeper into the field of medicine Friday while ‘the accused Navy officer and three others charged with lynching ~ Joseph Kahthth{l rested from the ordeal of the trial. With court adjourned until Sat. urday at the request of Prosecu tor John C. Kelley, two alienists imported by him from California made observations upon which to base their testimony. They are Dr. Joseph Catton of San Francisco, whose testimony recently helped to convict Winnie Ruth Judd of the murder of two women in Phoenix, and Dr. Paul Bowers of Los Angeles. Both arrived only Thursday: Dr. Bowers readlly stated the ebject of ‘his coming. Dr. Catton n‘?mﬂ to comment. it i Memories of the dramatic ap-. pearance on the witnesg stand of Mrs. Thalia Massie, wife of the accused officer and victim of a criminal attack to which Kahata wal allegedly confessed just be fore he was fatally shot with a pistol in the hands of Massie, were commented upon by Clar ence Darrow, aged chief of de fense counsel, ~ “I never saw anything like it)” Darrow eaid. “I've been in some pretty good court scenes, but nothing like that one., 1 was pretty limp when it was all over. I couldn’t sleep when I went to bed that night.” ~ Kelley, who had displayed some temper after Mrs. Massie angrily ‘destroyed a paper he had handed ‘her allegedly 'containing her ad ‘mission of differences with her husband a few months before the attack, grinned .at the remem brance of his actions. / ~ The two-day delayed obtained by the prosecutfon indics%ed the trial would not be finished before next. week, Massie and his. co-defendants, ‘Mrs. Granville Fortescue, his ‘mother-in-law, and E. J. Lord and Albert O. Jones, are charged with second-degree murder, the penalty for which is from 20 years to life imprisonment. .I“when the Republican party is »{bound in duty to give the many »imembers of the organization and |those whe sympathize with the party principles an opportunity to |be represented in eongress by one .|of their own number. Therefore, [it -has - been definitely decided to enter a Republican in the general election for United States senate lhext November, Whether he will be |a. candidate for the seat now occu |pied py Senator Walter F, George lor seek to fill the unexpired term |of the late Senator Harris ig yet {undertermined.” { | Tt is the purpose of the Republican leaders to back the candidacy of an |outstanding . Georgian whose sympthies are with the Republi |¢an party, and who the leaders be- IMevé; will win the election for the ,l senate, L : SRS e HowE EDITION PROGRESS SHOWN IN REPORTS OF STATE LEADERS By ROWENA W. SULLIVAN With many distinguished women present the convention of the Garden Clubs of- Georgia opened here at ‘Memorial hall Friday morning at 10 o'clock. : Memorial Hall was decorated with lilacs and large vases of other colorful flowers, making a brilliant background for the opening ses. sions, A The Garden Club of Georgia is meeting with the Carden Club of Athens, the oldest garden club n the South, y : As soon as the registration of delegates was completed, the meet. ing was called to. order by Mrs. Clarence (. Anderson, jr, of Sa vannah, the prdsident of the Gar. den Jub of Georgia. An invoea tion was offered by Rev, G. TI. Hiller, rector of the Athens Epis copal church. The official welcome of the Ath. ens Garden club was given by Mrs. C. M. Snelling, past president of the Athens Club, She welcomed the delegates to the University of Georgia, as well as to Athens. The response to this welcome | was given by Mrs. George C. Burrus, jr., of Columbus, i Mrs, . Lamar C. Rucker, of Ath. ens, presented the Garden Club of Georgia with a beautiful pres ent from the Athens club. The jpresent was a gavel, hound with silved. The wood in this gavel was taken from the famous Athens tree that owns itself. In her speech ’of presentation, Mrs. Rucker sketched a few of the historic as, sociations of this old tree. 2 President’s Appeal An appeal for all local garden clubs to conduct an “educational campaign against the deplorable habit of our country residents of setting fire to the woods,” waa made by Mrs. Clarence G, An« derson, Savannah, president of the state club, in her annual address. Such a practice, said Mrs, Ander« .son, “reduces our state to a char., red and desolate region, overhung with dense smoke, destroying val, uable timber, wild flowers aud beautiful trees.” She expressed the opinion that a concerted es. fort on the part of the Garden Club of Georgia ‘“‘would surely help to curb this wanton destruc. tion of the beauty and richeg of our state,” - Mrs. Anderson said that in af filiating with the National Coun cil of State Garden Club Federa~ tion, the Georgia club has been enabled to broaden its scope and put them in tcuch with the work of the othem state federations. She said that the Garden Club of Georgia has been “exceedingly fortunate in having the assistance and advice of the Highway De partment of Georgia and the Georgia State College of Agricul ture ip planning the planting 0& our highways,” Praises Georgia Club Mrs. F‘rederic R. Kellogg, pres. ident,of "the National Council of State Garden Club Federation, who flew to Athens in an airplane, said, “someone wondered why I should come to Athens in an air. plane, but 1 think that fiying would be the only appropriate way to come to such a heavenly country.” : A description of the National Council, its aims, size, and age, furnished the theme for Mrs, Kel logg’s address. Although. the Council is only three years old it has grown tremendously, accord ing to Mrs. Kellogg. Last spring the total membership numbered 42,000, now there are over 60,000 members. The exact number will not be known until sometime in June, however. ‘“The National council is organ ized likethe state clubs or federa tions,” Mrs. Kellogg said. “It has the same committees, including billboard, publication, member ship and dozens of others.” ... Mrs., Fellogg complimented the Georgia club by saying that Geor- * gia has more committees than any - other state and also has the best chairman that can be found. She was well pleased with the co operation that the club women of Georgia have shown' in the work. Subsistence Gardens That the council bulletin, which is sent to each club,” be: read thoroughly and a resume given by some member at a club meeg ing, was urged by Mrs. Kellogg as a means of understanding ex actly how the National counecil works. e “In the days of depression our minds have turned to more seri (Continued on Page Two.)

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The Banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1923-1933, April 22, 1932, Home Edition, Image 1