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Vol. 100. No. 270.
HOOVER OPPOSES SUSPENSION OF DECEMBER WAR
DEBT PAYMENTS: URGES SURVEY BY COMMISSION
JT4ENS T 0 OBSERVE
THANKSGIVING 1N
USUAL MANNER
Athens was all set Wednresday
{o observe Thanksgiving = day in
the usual manner, hunting, foot
pall, church gervices and just sit
ing around home, reading and
Jistening to the radio.
The children will all be. home,
e University as well. as city
schools closing. The banks will
aheerve a holiday and the postof
fice. will malintain the usual holi.
day schedule. e !
The city schools will not re-open
mtil Monday, but the University
will resume . classes Friday. but
wlll he suspended Saturday for the
amual Georgia - Tech football
game. "
“Mail will be delivered in the
tusiness district at 8:30 ‘e@'clock
Thursday morning and . the de
gatching department will do full
quty. The special delivery service
and the delivery of mail .at the
general window from 12 until 1
gclock will be maintained, Post
master Paul I. Smith. sald. No
deliveries will be made. in the
rural cections nor In the eity resi.
dental sections, but eity mail col
lections will be made. |
Special services by A .t h en s
churches and the annual football
gime between Athens . High and
(lainesville High are the outstand
ing items on Athens’ Thanksgiving
program. A large number of stu
dents will spend the day at their
romes and many Athenians will
visit relatives and friends in other
communities, st e
The Forum “class at the First
laptist church will hold special
wrvices at 10 a. m, Thursday for
the church, and the public js in
yted, Fritz Thompson is presi.
dent and Dr. J. €. Wilkinson, pas
tor, is teacher of the class.
The Tirst Presbytérian church
vill hold special services at 11 a.
m, with the Rev, Robert Camp
bell, student pastor, 'in charge.
An offering will be taken for the
Thornwell Orphan’s home, The
publie is invited, ke ¥
Thanksgiving will be observed
with special programs Wednesday
night iat the Prince Avenue Bap
tist churech and the Kast Athens
Baptist chureh. At the Frince
Avenue church Dr., T. W. Tippett
will lead the services, which be
gin at 8 o'clock. Special music
will form a part of the program.
The IBast Athens services begin
at 7:45, with the Intermediate de.
partment of the Sunday school in
charge, Miss Mildred . Childers
will preside.
Students at the University ob
served Thanksgiving with a speci
il service Tuesday night. . James
1. Hardwick, Southern Regional
sceretary of the Young . Men's
Christian association, was the
frincipal speaker,
The Young Harris Senior Ep
worth T.eague held a , short
Thanksgiving devotional at . the
fose of an oyster supper and en.
tertainment program at the church
Tuesday night.
Announcement ig made that all
Athens cotton warehouses will be
tiosed Thursday.
. .
Nazis See Signs
Of Hindenburg’s
Enmit “‘fi?ing
nmity Subsid
EERLIN —(/)—Adolf Hilter, the
Fascist advised President ~ Von
llJllzlt‘llhlll‘g‘ Wednesday the forma
fion of a government en a parlia
mentary basis was both impossible
‘nd undesirable, and the cabinet
‘risis could be solved only with a
‘abinet directly responsible to the
Presidential authority.
Hilter tola the president such an
Hhoritarian bacinet should be au
thorized if necessary “.to govern
Vithout parliment, The Nazi saia
sic was ready to head.such a gov
ffhment and place his movement at
the disposal of the chief executive
for this purpose, .
The Nazi leaders indicated they
believed Hindenburg was, weaken-
Mg in his opposition to Hilter. At
iy rate they said all the doors haa
been left for further negotations.
Train WMmpf
I Branded As Hoax
SAN FRANCISCO. —(AP)— An
‘leged attack on a guard. .of,Pres
ldent Hoover's special train the
lsht of November 7 has been
roved a heax, Southern| Pacific
*llroad company officials announ.
ced,
. Dan O'Connell, chiet of the
Toad’s special agents, said Charles
E Fish, a right-of-way man who
flagged the train at Palisade, Ne
-1204, and told a story of being
Yhoi ana stabbed by two men. had
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MAX MICHAEL T 0
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MAX MICHAEL
Max M:chael has accepted thei
chairmanship of a eitizins com. |
I_niltoe to promote . the loecal Boy |
Seout program, it was anoum-@d'
Wednesday. ,
Mr. Michael wil be assisted hyl
several bus.ness and professional!
men. The chairman is a native of!
Athens, 2 graduate of the Urniver
sity of Georgia and Columbia Law
school and member =of © th¢ legal
firm of Green and Michael., He s
chairman of the board of trustees
of the Athens CGeneral hospital, a
trustee of {he University of Ceor
g Y. M..C. A. and president ofl
the- Congregation, ~ Children of!
Jurnel,: i e
',,.rlu;?difiéfigsirg‘ the hasis v 'his‘
interest. in. Boy .Scout aetivitiés
Mr. Michael said: )
“First, I am interested in boys,
wspecially my own boy. 1 believe
they should have all the pleasures
possible so long as these pleasures
can be made constructive. Scout
ing is a happy game; boys greatly
enjoy it and it teaches Ihingsl
which help a boy to make good.
Scouting gets over to the hoy
through play, the idea that he
must good. Scouting gets over to
the hoy through play, the idea that
he must be on the square, trust.
worthy, helpful, brave and clean.
Scouting is open to all boys, the
poorest as well as the rich. It ex
empts neither race nor creed.
Scouting is founded on the princi
ple that character is developed hy
having = satisfying experience, to
gether with a standard of living by
agsociation with a man and other
boys. The habit of the daily good
turn teaches a boy to be good
without his realizing that by doing!
good, he becomes good. I
- “Character in the individual (~it_|
izen is fundamental if America s
to stand the crime wave and ('on-}
quer the depression. Scouting can
help tremendously to deveclop thisl
character. (1 am deeply intorostedl
in relieving bodily suffering umdi
give much time to our hospital|
program locally. One execellent wa_\'l
to prevent suffering is to teach
people how to live so that tlh".\'l
will have strong bodies. SPnutingl
teaches personal health habits|
most effectively. There are a'most
a million Scouts in the United
States., Surely one million boyvs
can't he wrong."” |
Col. M. G. Michael
To Address Union
Meeting at Monroe
Col M. G, Michael will deliver the
Thanksgiving address at a union
service of all the churches of Mon
roe to he held in the Monroe Metnh.
odist church Wednesday night.
Commenting on Col, Michael, the
Walton News said “Although »
leader in the Hebrew syvnagogue or
his adopted city, Athens, Mr. Mich
ael is cosmopolitan in his religion,
filling engagements for other
church organizations - throughour
this section, giving particular time
and attention to missionary socle®
ties among the women. He is 2
gentleman who is well posted on
affairs in general and has, through
the years, been ~ close student of
men and matters.”
Col. Michael recently addressed
the Monroe Kiwanis club.
SAVANNAH REALTOR
KILLED IN WRECK
_ SAVANNAH, Ga. —(#)— A. }{.l
Barrington, well known real es
tate dealer, was fatally injured
ithis morning at 1:30 o'clock when
‘his automobile left the road and
struck a tree near Isle of Hope, &
suburb -of Savannah ‘where Mp.
Barrington lived He died shortly
after being placed In an ambu.
a .m% was alone when the ac
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THE BANNER-HERALD
EXPERT SAYG POWER
HOLDINGS WORTH
5200.000.000
‘ ATLANTA, — () — Professor |
[Hf_'m\\' Riggs, noted authority'onl
lutxlity property valuations, said to—"‘.
|«lu,\' that if an inventory of all prop
(m‘ty owned by the Georgg POWPI‘!
lcompany were made it would show |
{that the cost of reproduction less |
f(lopre('iutinn “would be substantially ‘
Ii“ excexess of $200.000,000.”
The professor testified Wednes.
day hefore the Cieorgia Public s..,—_l
vice commission in jis hearing nnl
an order to show «ause '\vhy its
rates on electricity should not be
revised gnd its service and demana
l(h:n'gfl.u; eliminated.
i *“I am sure that if a sintilar esti
imate were made of properties used
':md useful that such an estimmel
iwould substantially exceed 0185-’
!000,000" Briggs said. g
He said that jn arriving at the
II:nt:m- fgure he had excluded ail
|mnsidoratian of undeveloped hydro
|plants, the unfinished plant at Fur
{man Shoals near Milledgevil]e.‘
| water rights on all undevelopec
Iprnpertios. and all lands o physicai
:pi.’mts still owned by the company
'at all small steam plants the
{nqn-,pmnnr of which has been writ-I
ten off the books of the company,
' He said he also exeluded twelve‘
| Power plants now owned anal
!wholly or party in use, “Regara
ling whiech 1 woud require more tun}
irformation.” |
The aged professor and former |
t head of the University of Michi
’gan’s department of civil engi
neering, was a witness for the
Il’owm’ company. He said he had
"been requested by the company
Im make an inspection of its prop
erties after the Public Service
lmmmis.efion ordered the company
to show cause why its rates should
not be revised, and its service and
demand charges <liminated.
Throughout late Teusday, the
professor discussed his inspection
of the properties and gave volumes
of technical evidence in the hear.
ing. His appearance followed tes
’timony that industrial power rates
had not decreased in proportion to
lmtvs for other classifications of
i customers. ‘ I
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lilincis Assembly
Votes County Sales
Tax in Emergency
SPRINGFIELD, 111. —(AP)— An
optional county sales tax, not to
exceed one per cent, was voted by
the Illinois general assembly today
to supply funds for relief of llw'
unemployed and unfortunates otl
the state during the next seven
months. ‘
The sales tax will be in force in
those counties taking advantage of
legislation only until’ July 1, 1933.
as the bill was limited to the pre
sent emergency,
In addition to approving the sales
tax which was passed by the house
of representatives earlier in the
woek, the senate today approved a
$17.000,000 non.referendum - bond
issue for relief of the needy in
(‘ook county and another bill per
mitting other counties of the state
to issue bonds amounting to siX
times the total of their share of
the state gasoline tax for relief
purposes, |
All of the measures were sent
to Governor Louis L. KEmmerson
for his signture.
Fishing Schooner Is
Found, Crew Missing
NORFOLK, Va—(@®)— The fish
ing schooner Rappahannock, which
was capsized Monday night by a
storm in the Potomac, was pivk-:
ed up by a coast guard patrol bcutl
and towed to Reedville, Va., Wed. |
nesday, coast guard headquarters
here was notified. i
No trace of the crew was r)und,:
according to the report. ]
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LOCAL WEATHER |
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warmer, possibly rain on the
coast tqnight, Thursday cloudy
with probably occasional light
rain, warmer in south and ex
treme east portions and colder
Thursday afternoon in north- |
west portion.
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 h0ur5........ 0.00
Total since November 1.... 2.1%
Deficiency since Nov, ...... .08
Average Nov. rainfall...... ..89
Totul since January ..... ..M
Athens, Ca., Wednesday, Nowember 23, 1932.
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The blimp is swing:ng low andhgs picked Bob Steele, movie stunt
man, off a galloping horse by a rpe ladder. ‘Just to make it harder,
Bob carried a man on his back at the time. .Because of his weight
and tae high wind pressure, Steelée was unable to climhb up to the
car—had to hang on for several miles before” he could be set down
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ROAD BOARD FiLES
BAD CHECK CHARGE
Three Shreveport Con
tractors Indicted by Ful
ton County Grand Jury
_ ATLANTA—(#)—Ashton Glassell,
J. W. Bannerman and = Enimett
Cochran, -contractors of . Shreve
port, Ta., were indicted here Thes
day by the Fulton county grand
jury on _misdemeanor charges in
presenting what were alieged to be
worthless checks to the Georgia
State Highway board. ‘
Glassell and Bannerman ' were
listed as president and assistant
yresident respectively of the Glas
gell_.Cochran company of Shreve
rort. !
Captain J. W. Barnett, chairman
of the Highway board testified
before the grand jury. ‘The good
Jury was informed the checks, to
taling $21,500, were submitted to
the highway board as bonds sup
porting bids. The checks were
represented before the grand jury
as being certified by the First Na
tional bank at Shreveport but that
when presented for payment were
returned for lack of funds and the
bank was quoted as saying no
such checks had bheen certified by
them. ;
In Shreveport Glassell said the
¢hecks were plainly marked *cer
tified: by the Glassell.Cochran
company when properly endorsed”
and that “they were not cectified
by the bank.”
Gilassell said payment on the
checks was stopped when his com
pany disagrecd with the Highway
poard over revision of specifica
tions on a contract on which hils
firm was low bidder and that the
poard made no effort to cash the
checks until 50 days after they
nad been given.
The sheriff's office here cald
tond for each had been fixed at
$7,500 and that warrants for the
arrest of the mey would he for
warded to Shreveport,
Gainesville Team to Battle Athens |
High Here Thursday in Grid Finale
By F. M. WILLIAMS |
The Athens High Maroons will
close the 1932 football season here
Thursdyy when they meet thein
ancient rival, Gainesville High.
The game will starg at 3 o'clock
sharp and the admission will be
75 and 60 cents. The Athens High
School athletic field will » tht
scene of the contest. -
The game will
e W, be the last one
" $ for ten of the
2 O S § {Maroons. TIO se
zo 7 R ] finishing their
5 ] careers Thursday
3;}* ‘@R S are: Harold Ipps, |
" “Brick” St on &,
. A4B @ {Ben Yow, Mack
Loe L Burpee, Tom Ab-
S ' B {ney, “Red’ Lavis
g % Carey Wilson,
k f ; Leon Almand
¥ Randall Bedgood,
T S and Roy Cooper.
Eight of °these
| L fboys are rezulars
I. and the others ale
F. M., williams valuable <ubsti.
tutes and wiil likely see plenty of
action in the game Thursday
So far the season has not been
a very successful ome but 1 Vic-
BAEWERS EXPRESS
FEAR OF BANRSTERS
Believe Syndicates GCet
‘ting Ready to "‘Muscle
In”" After Repeal
| By C. P. WILLIAMS
Associated Press Staff Writter
WASHINGTON,—~(#)—Big brew.
ers, believing Their rainbow of antl
prohibition %em\jment has a barreil
of beer at the end, already have
begun to lay their prospective trou.
bles at the government's doorstep.
The worsti of their fears, as ex
pressed to Dr. James M., Doran,
director of industital alchol, is the
gangster,
Representatives of some of {twe
largest breweries, including Rup
pert's of New York, and Anheuser-
Bush of St onis, have talked
with Doran within the last few days
They told him they feared the
gangster, with his machine-like or
ganization “was getting rez;(’ly to
“muscle-in” on the. business ana
asked the gowernment to undertake
strict permit enforcement if beer is
legalized.
Some brewers, meanwhile, have
aroused beer advoecates In congress
by saying that they must get ten
cents o glass to make a profit,
- Representative O'Connor (D., ‘N,
Y. )i who~eame *lo Washington
iTupsday with Governor Roosevelr,
lProsldmn.olect. said “lh{lt is too
high and they are not going to ger
‘away with! in"
b AL the price of beer is too high,”
'he asserted, '‘The average man
ill not be able to buy it and that
I\\'ill cut down federal revenue.
' “We are not going to have any
profiteering, or stamp out one beer
racket tc let another flourish.”
!lnry bver Cainesville will make It[
{cne that the hoys can look hack;
'lnpon and ke proud of. They imvoi
llost games this season but they|
| have mever quit trying and I‘!ght«;
| ‘ng. The team has had very little|
| suppert” from the student body of
| the school and the spirit among
ithe students has been poor.
| Every player on the list will be|
.IN’MV to play Thursday oxcepti
{Bon Yow, regular guard, out with
'an injured knee. This is the firstl
'| time since thve second game of‘
| the year that the entire backfield|
'ihas been ready to play at one]
‘time, If Yow was able to play the |
'ltosm would stand u better ch:‘.nm\!,
lof winning then they do. As it ie|
';they have @« good chance o upszet |
the dope and eome out on the big,
'end of the score. I
.|' Tuesday Coach Howell Hollis
.{vent the first team through the
| first serimmage of the week, and
einlso the last bfi}'j}} 7%
: ‘When t” 7“ '}“ blows
.»IThmday ‘some ' e best high
. school football players in the state
| will have ended their careers.
1,000 DELEGATES AT
* CHURCH MEETIG
.
I The followirg Athenlans are at
tend.ng the North Georgia Confer
len(-o of the Methodist church,
South, in Atlanta which unened
Wednesday ::'wl continues through
Sunday:
!‘}l,,\'. J. W. Veateh, .Rev. Lester
Rumble, Rev, John Tate, Rev., L.
B. Jones, Rev. H. O. QGreen, Rev.
;Hl‘.,:n‘lwvll Kerry Rey, DL L. IIH;;ood.\
Rev, W. B, Ditard,"Dr, 1. C, Ward
l:l.'n\'. Dr. N. G. Shaughter, Mias‘
i Ruby Andcrson, Miss Lilla Tuck.
Mrs, Claude Tuek, Cobb Lampkin,
and Arthur Oldham,
'ATLANTA — (APF — Means of
raising §1,260,060 to pay the in
debtedness of, Wesleyan college and
the annual budget of $219,927 con-
Irronted delegates to the sixty-ninth
jannual session of the North Geor
,gia conference of the Methodist
lEniscopnl church South as they
gathered for their first meeting
I\\'ndnosday night, |
‘ More than 1,000 delegates arel
i expected to be present when Bish
lop John M, Moore opens the meet-!
{ing at the Wesley Memorial church,
| The conference will contlnue‘
Ithmugh Sunday evening, when, in
lnn probability, pastoral appoint-l
ments for the coming year will be
| announced. :
The conference will be called
upon to pass on the suspension of
;Dr. Rembert G, Smith, former pas-
Ivor at Sparta who was suspanded
|a year ago at the last conference
imr “high unministerial conduct.”
[(?hurch leaders said he would be
reinstated if the Presiding Elder,
‘Dr. W. H. LaFrade, jr., tveports
“nothing againgt him.” |
Support. o the plan of ralsing
'the $1,250,000 fund for Wesleyan
was pledged Inst week by the South
l(‘,eorgln conference at their annual]
meeting in Albany Similar action
!w:m predicted hy this eonference,
Sermon by Moore
I The conference w'll suspend
ihuahwss Thurgday morning to hear
la Thanksgiving sermon Dy Bishop
I Moore X
i The Rev, H, C. Emory. presiding
| clder of the Gainesville district, the
llll*\'. W. M. Barnett, of the La.|
I(‘:mngv distriet and Dr. George L.
lKlng of the Rome district are
‘slated to return to pastorates in‘
the face of the conference rule lim
iting service as presiding eliers xaltl
four years,
Other presiding elders in the
conference who have not complet.
ed their four year tour include tho,,
Rev. J .W. Veateh, Athens-Elber-|
‘ton; Dr. R. L. Russell, Atlanta;
Rev. Nath Thompson, ecatur-
Oxford; Dr. .W. H. LaPrade, jr.,
Augusta; Rev, J. R. Turner, Dal
{ton; Rev. W. T. Hunnicutt, Gris-
Ifin, and Rev. Marvin Wllliams,'
| Marietta. {
Former Lumberjack
Will Sit in Senate
As Jones’ Successor
SEATTLE,—~(#)—A former lum.
berjack Major E, 8. Grammer, here
tofore unknown in political com-
Ix)any. was preparing Wednesday to
take up his duties as United States
\senator from Washington.
The general white-haired lumber
| man was named yesterday by Gov
'ernor Roland H. Hartley to fill out
Ithe unexpired term of the late Sen
ator Wesley L. Jones, who until his
Ideath last Saturday had represent
ed the state since 1899,
Grammer’s appointment gave the
Republican mnumierical control of
the senate during the short session,
and perhaps adoed another sup
porter to the cause of liquor law
repeal. Althcugh the major refused
tc commeit himself, close friends
sni: “He 1s convinced prohibition
‘s a failure,”
The new genator will end his ae
tivities in the senate on March 4,
when Senator-eléct Homer T. Bone,
a Democrat, who decisively defeat
ed Senator Jones in the last elec?
tion, will take offiec. i
Roosevelt Is “Governor”
To White House Ushcis
WASHINGTON—(AP)— Though
‘he came to Washington in the ca
pacity of President-elect, . Franklin
'D. Roosevelt is “goverfior of New
| York” to the White House ushers.
I They have no doubt that he will
{pe their boss after March 4, but
[ the protocol, etiquette book or
whatever controls such things
does not find “president.elect” an
‘official rank. : £3
So. - Mr. Roosevelt was, ,:&‘
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GENERAL GLASSFORD
! WASHINGTON --(AP)-— Con
,l:'.ress soon may be asked to help
{the ragged young fellow that
{rudges along the highway or
’snoakw a ride on a freight—a wan
{ dering boy out of a job. )
l Government officials,“fixing the
number at thousands in a rough
count, say that snever before have
$0 many young men, hunq"y and
ill-kept, been subjected to the
harsh and bruising contacts of life
on the road.
Work for the wanderer is hard
to get, they add. Communities have
all they can do with their own
needy, The coffee, bread and beans
of charity are running low.
! Convinced that this life es strug
gle. cannot but leave a scar, the
nutional capitai’s former chief of
police—Brigadter General Pelham
| . Glassford—plans to take the
whole problem to congress and
scek a federal appropriation,.
“It is estimated that there are
clpse to one million of these wan
dering men and boys now on the
road,” he said in consenting to ehad
a movement' for their relief.
“Fully 90 per cent of lhem are
.under 385, Some 200,000 are mere
boys.
“These young men, most of them
Ifi--)m respectable and substantial
ifiunilies, have been cast loose{
| from their jobs and home by the
depression, . . . Right now they‘
’nm swarming over the south, the
southwest and the Pacific coast.\
I'Phe tndividual states cannot affordl
'to care for them from their own
I relief fimda v
| “Being forced to wander as they
are they soon will become broken
in health, or diseases, and in many
imses criminal or degenerate.”
The children’s bureau of the La-~
Ibor department, by suggesting
ways of making home more attrac.
'(lvu and “the road” less so, has
undertaken a campaign to keep
I!‘ouths under 21 yeawg from joining
the vast hobo army,
i s S et S e
TODAY’S BEST
HUMAN INTEREST
STORY
R ik iiadishessiboss sil
L R SO 1< PR W ST RSO K S 2 e
MIAMI, Fla.—#)—The tele
phone rang in a local news
paper office, g
“This is 8. D. Wallace, and
you have a standing classified
ad for me. llnsert ft today
please.”
The newspaper employe fol
lowed instructions. That night,
a vagrant puppy with a yearn.
ing for travel and adventure,
wag returned to Wallace in a
more or less bedraggled con
dition,
The pup, wWwhose series of
runaways attest his desire to
roam, has. left his bed and
board at the Wallace home so
often in the last few months
that his owner keeps a stand
ing order at the newspaper for
insertion of a “dog lost” ad
vertisement.
SEVEN AUBURN GRID
STARS ON SICK LIST
AUBURN, Ala. — (#) — Seven
members of Auburn’s champion
ship football machine, including
Captain 'Jimmy Hitcheock, were
on the “sick list” Wednesday
with slight cases of influenza, the
latest victims of a mild epidemic
that forced Auburn authorities to
close down classes Tuesday until
after the Thanksgiving holidays.
Others players reported ill were
‘Holmes, « Ariail, . Grant, Hutson,
Rogers and Wood, forcing Coach
Chet Wynne to call off practice
until Saturday. ‘
I also were Coaches B‘egerl
DEMOCRATS CONFER
WITH RODGLVELT
[N PROPOSITION
WASHINGTON, — () — PreW.
dent Hoover today declared hima
self formerly opposed to suspension
of December 15 payment d@ qu
war debts and recommended thnat
congress create “an agency to eXs
change views'” with d(-btouw
upon international financial obli=
gations. ot g
To congressional leaders assems
bled by him in the cabinet rooma’§
the White House, President Hoo
ver suggested such an agency to go
over the field but without authoris
ty to revise or cancel any of the
eleven billion owed this eounzry.
Immediately after the extraordi- ,’3
nary pariey adjourned, President- i
elect Roosevelt and Democratic
participants in the White House I;
discussion settled down to go over é
the situation. e
Théodora Joslin, a secretary to
FPresident Hoover, this afternoon
directly denied a report (not cars
ried by The Associated Press) that
President Hoover had invitea
Franilin D, Roosevelt to confer
with him again Wednesday - upon
ithe war debt problem, but m'ag‘s the
pregident-eect had declined, =
| “Phat report 1s untrue,” Joslin
‘sam, g
He added that a conference earlier
’[between Secretary Mills and the Pre
sident-elect was Rot for any such
purpose, but had been arranged at
the White House parly between Mr,
Hoover ana Mr. Roosevelt . Tuesday
(night., SLT i
Talks With Mills
At press conference a little later,
IGovernor Roosevelt said his dis
cussion with Mills had been in. the
'nature of a continuation of Tues
‘day’s conference at the Waita
House and that the secretary had
not brought an invitation for an
other visit to the White House
Wednesday.,
The Democratic legiislators
steered clear of any committment
on President Hoover's suggesiea
commission. LR
Out of the chief executive's ex
traordinary consultation with
Franklin D. Roosevelt—from which
the president-elect departed with.
out commitment—there emerged
Tuesday night a statement attrib=s
uted to the administration that
England would make no debt pay
ments to the United States after
December 15 unless her plea ior
reconsideration is met. iy
With this was coupled a report
ed suggestion from the president
that the war debt commission be
revived to initiate a thoreugh
study of the subject—a course
which has been vigorously opposed
lin congress where rests the final
word. I
* As the 13 senators and represen.
tatives linvited to Wednesday
morning’s white house parley
gathered, and as the president=
elect turned to meetings with his
political allies, the impression
gained headway that Mr. Hoover
might propose as a compremise
the Pedexamination asked = by
Europe, with no extension of the
one-year moratorium. g
Swirl of Debt Talk i
The swirl of war debt tallk
Tuesday swept from the fire-lit
quiet of the white house red room
to the smoke filled hotel rocm of
the New York governor, where at
midnight he talked with Democrie
tic chieftains from capitol Hill,
There the president-elect wass
reported to have told his conferees
‘that Mr. Hoover and Secretary
Mills had informed him that Great
Britain would meet its December
15 payment of $95,000,000, M
would demand a new study of the
question before paying furthers
Should refusal to pay ensue the
administration was pictured a 8
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Athens-to-Augusta
Highway Is Graded
Under New Contract
ATLANTA.—(®)—The Bankhead
highway from Atlanta to the ‘Alas
bama line and the “Florida short |
route.” with the exception of 138
miles will be completely —undeg
contracts included in the SI,OOO.
000 awards to be made by the
State Highway board Wednesday.
Other important traffic af'&l‘w
which will be nearly completed by
contracts to be included $n the
awards will be grading on the Ats
lanta-Macon - Savannah highway
except for a short stretch'™ im
Twiggs county while the unpaved
portion of the Dublin-Savaj L; »
road will be reduced to 14 miles.
The projects to be awar “,gwxi, .
cluded: e s
McDuffie county, 12 miles grac
ing, Thomson to Washington,
completing grading of the AISEIE
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