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| WASHINGTONt— (AP) — 'l‘hel
| olton crop this year was osti-!
mated Thursday at 12,727,000 hules;
of 500 pounds gross weight by the
Department of Agriculture. A
month ago an estimate of 11,947,-
900 bales was made. Last year's
crop was 17,096,000 bales. |
The yield is estimated at 162.1!
pounds per acre, (‘omp;u‘ed.withl
156.2 pounds indicated a month
ago and ~ 201.1° pounds |n'nducefli
Jast year. ;
Neviced figures of this year's |
acrenge were announced showings
the acreage in cultivation July 13
to have been 38,327,000 acres und!
that left for harvest as 37,589,000 |
acres, with a total abandonment |
|of 1.7 percent after July 1. [
The estimate of production this
- year by states follows:
Virginia, 28,000 bales; x\"Ol‘lh:
Carolina, 640,000; South Cfll'()“n"l,‘
$05,000; Georgia, 845,000; Ilorida,
15.000; Missouri, 285,000; 'J‘(‘nnos-’
e, 450,000; Alabama, 93(),0()0:}
’ Mississippi 1,150,600 Louiziana,
§10,000; Texas, 4,445,000; Oklaho- !
ma, 1,080,000; Arkanss, 1,260,000; |
New Mexico, 76.0000: Arizona, 82,- !
600; California, 126,000; all mhprs
states, 10,000; Lower California,
old Mexico, 13,000 (latter not in-'
clided in United States statisties). |
GINNING FIGURES
WASHINGTON— (AP) —Cot
ton of this year's crop ginned
prior to December 1 was reported
. Thursday by the Census bureau to
have totalledr 11,631,361 running
. bales, including 583,152 round
~ bales, counted as half bales, and
6,227 bales of American-Egyptian.
To December 1 last year 15,-
018,403 bales had been ginned, and
to that date two years ;,ago, 12,-
534,099 bales were ginned.
Giinnings this year to December
1 by states were: & &7
Alabama, 892,801 running bales;
Arizona, ' 46;548! * Arkansas, 1,163,-
981; California, 106,478; Florida,
15,233; Georgia, 815,435 Louisiana,
590,192; Mississippi, 1,095,359!
Missouri, 254,541;. New . Mexico,
53,453; North Carolina,- 616,223;
Oklahoma, 996,393; South Carolina,
(63,255; Tennessee, 384,525: Texas,
3,899,554 ; Virginia, 26,241; all
other states, 10,154.
Death Takes Son
Of Judge Gilbert
Of Supreme Court
\TLANTA, — () — Francis H,
Cilbert, son of Judge Price Gilberi
ol the Georgia Supreme «<ourt and
idely known voung Atlanta attor
ney, died early Thursday in a hos
ital here after an illmess of less
that 2 week. Death as due to bron
thial Pneumonia,
Gilbert had been married little
more than o month, He was 27
vears old, His wife was Miss Mary
Middleton to whom he was mar
ried November 5. The wedding was
one of the outstanding social events
0L the season.
He was born at Columbus, Ga,.
rad was a graduate of Boys High
chool here, He received his A. B.
degree from tue University of Geor
tin 1927 and was graduated from
he Law sschool of Yale University
| ). Since that time he has been
weticing law in Atlanta.
Besides nts wite he .is survived
1 parents, A and Mrs. S
Priceq Gilbert and 8, Price Gilbert,
Funeral arrangement will be an
ounced later.
PLAYS UNDER ALIAS
OKLAHOMA CITY.—( AP) —ls
A Peters wins the , Cklahoma
checker championship, you can be
lieve he’ll say nothing about it at
me Because of his family’s ob
¢ctions to his playing, he enters
lournaments under an assumed
nime. A. Peters is the alias.
Rebel Chinese Generals Turned Over
To Japanese Army by ‘Russian Troops
TOKYO.— (AP) —Su Ping Wen
and perhaps Ma Chan Shan—the
two Chinese generals who have
long bloeked Japanese domiraticn
of far northwestern Manchurii—
were reported Thursday to be
Prisoners of the Japanese army.
lengo (Japanese) News Agency
dispatches from Tsitsihar, the
north Manchurian headquarters of
the Japanese forces, said the Rus
sian authorities had turned the
two Chinese over to the Japanese
at the border.
General Su fled into Siberia
Sunday before the advancing Jap
anese and, was disarmed and in
irned with some of his followers
by the Soviet authorities.
One of the followers was said
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'WANDERWELL DEATH
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After an intensive search for
ceveral days, officials discov
re William James Guy, Welsh
oldict f fortune and accused
slayer of Captain Walter Wan
derwell (übove) in a darkened
shack in the Los Angeles river
hottoms. He denied the kill
ing. Wanderwell’s true name
is Valerian Johannes Piecznski,
once accused as a German spy
and interned at Atlanta duw
ing the war.
FAENGH GOLD 15
FLOWING T U 1 S,
{ $ T ~y
'Cheaper to Send. Cold to
i United States;;é%’han to
Buy Dollars Here :
NEW YORK, —(@)—- “The scales
of international settleménts appear
ito be tilting so sllgp%gu against
11-‘m.nce as to promise a_substantial
!return flow of g'OQ;(i:fig‘Olfl " that
icnunt}'y to the Unitedfifi'fltes.
This, if it oceurred, would mark
ja complete reversal in the direction
|ot the gold stream, For, in 15
| months, France levid a toll of near
’l.\- a billion dollars on America’s
lg()d reserves,
| strong possibility that gold will
be shifted in heavy volume from
the Bank France vaults to the Am
‘vrican Central bank is seen in the
|r9<-ent weakness of the I‘rencn
FFranc. At its present quotations of
I:n'numl 3.90 3-8 cents it is the level
where it is theoreically more Dro
fitable to ship gold here than to
purchase dollars.
The heavy flow to France startea
Hin September, 1931, following
!lung]and's abandonment of the gold
é::;:mdm'(]. By the end of that year,
French withdrawal from the Unitea
Sttes totaled over $360.000.000. Dur
ing subsequent developmnts I'rance
‘pon:.n'wd to pull heavily on
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RELIGIOUS LEADER
TO SPEAK TONICHT
Miss Carrie U. Littlejohn, prin
cipa) of the B. W. M. U. Train
ing school at Louisville, Ky., will
speak :ll!lht‘ First Baptist church
Thursday evening, under the aus
pices of the East Central Division
of the B. W. M. U. of Georgia.
The address will “begin at 8:00
o'clock.
The meeting will be conducted
by Miss Hennilu Hughes, vice
president of the Bast Central div
icion. She will be assisted by Miss
Floreid Smith, yvoung people’s
leader, 2
Miss Littlejohn is a ieader in
religious education, and is a noted
speaker. Members of all denomi
nations, especially *young people,
are invifed to attend the meeting
Thursday-.
march on Ssitsihar. Last July the |
Japanese said they had slain Gen- |
eral Ma, but a few days ago the’
Foreign office said it was not 30|
certain -of this. :
. At any rate, the man who called
!himself Gene szl Ma was reported
| by the Rengo Agency to be among|
the prisoners. |
i The transfer occurred Wednes- |
day night at the border city of |
Manchuli, the agency said, adding |
that 40 of the followers of Gen- |
eral Su also were . given over to‘
the Japanese. l
‘ Military circles believed the re- |
bel leaders would be court-mar
'tialed ‘and some of them charged
with murder. ; "
_These charges would be based
on the slaying of Japanese in
| northern Magchuria last Julv and|
THE BANNER-HERALD
JGPECT 15 SEIZED
IN WANDERWWELL
SLAYING CASE
! LOS ANGELES.— (AP) —ln a
|darkened shack near the Los An
igo!es river bottoms, police Thurs
day found William' James Guy, 24-
|,\'ear-o)d Welsh soldier of fortune
and suspect in the mysterious
Islaving of Captain Walter Wan
tderwell, globe-trotting adventurer.
| Wanderwell was shot te death
| Monday night at ILong Beach
i{ubo:n'd his dilapidated yacht Qar-
Emu.
i “I know what you want—l've
Jbevn expecting you,” said Guy as
pclice broke into the house and
!flushod their lights on' him. “But 1
ididn't kill Wanderwell. 1 just
| moved here a day or two ago be
icause I knew 1 would be suspected.
T was thinking of giving myself up
| —I. think 1 would have done it
Friday, but you -:éllows beat me
'to ft.»
| The widow of the ecaptain said
IGuy had threatened hLer husband
(over financial matters and had en- |
|gaged in a fist fight with him, i
Cuy was further linked with the |
'sln_\'ing‘ by two persons who were
|aboard the yacht when Wander
| well was slain. They identified him
las the mysterious “man in ;:ra,v"{
[who they said was the last man
|seen with the adventurer. Rd
{mlmd Zeranski, Hoeollywood (’am-’
leraman, and Cuthbert Wills, engi-
Inew of the yacht, said Guy talkedl
llike and appeared to be the man |
]who wore a gray suit and who had
inquired through a porthole for
‘Cfmtnin Wanderwell. St
| The suspect admitted he had en
ltered the Unitedl States illegally
land had voted in the last presiden-
Flal election T sata he was a na- l
Itive of QGardiff, Wales. e |
Alone and without food, young
Guy admitted he had been hiding
since last Tuesday morning—the
lday after the shopting, His arcest
‘came about through information
furnished police by the Los Ange
les Times, which had more than a
dozen reporiers weorking on ‘the
case. Guy was held on suspigien
‘of murder, ' et
i The vouthful - adventurer, Who
| (Continued on' page eignt.)
.
Soviet Apology for
! . B o, 0 h s
~ Anti-British Story
i d .
Declined by Russia
| LONDON.—(@P)—It was stated
authoritatively #Thursday that the
| Soviet government has refused to
[:u'u*th- to a British demand for an
i:x[n)lng)' for statements published
lin the newspaper Izvestia, official
| organ of the Soviet regime.
l The Izvestia article accused the,
| British intelligence service of hav
ling instructed its agents in Riga,
| Latvia, to obtain documents ‘“real
or bogus” establishing a relation
| ship between the Soviet govern
'ment and the Communist Third
Internationale. This was linked
with British claims of evidence
that the Third Internationale di
rected the recent hunger march’
on London and was working
|against the British rule in India.
The Russian reply, it was stat
ed, was to the effect the Soviet
| covernment cannot be held re-!‘
!,-I;><)ns'il)l§‘ for newspaper articles
on which the complaint w:\sl
| based. |
Councilmen Elected
When Small Vote Is
Cast Here Wednesday
With a total of only 55 yvotes
cast. Athens citizens confirmed the
results of the recent ecity Demo
cratic primary and elected five
unopposed councilmen here Wed
nesday .
H. L. Seagraves was reelected
councilman from the First ward,
receiving 11 votes; Emmett L.
Wier was elected from the second
ward, receiving 6 votes; W.oaß.
Bedgood was elected in the Third
ward, receiving 11 votes; S
Crymes was’ re-elected in the
Fourth ward \with 12 votes; and
A. M. Center was re-elected in
the Fifth ward, receiving 15 votes.
LOCAL WEATHER
Partly cloudy, colder in south
portion Thursday night, Friday
increasing cloudiness followed
by rain in extreme south por
tion.
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .... .. .08
Total sinee Dec.-1-.. .odisernoß
Deficiency since Dec. 1 .... .90
Average Dec. rainfall .. .. 438
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It took a wife, of course, ta
walk away with first honors in
i speaking at the Americin Farm
| Bureau Federation meeting in
Chicago. Mrs. John W, Jackson,
above, of Oskaloosa, la., does all
a regular farm wife’s work, car.
lring for two children, milking,
I(!:mning, churning, and does her
{speaking on the side.
HOLSE COMMITTER
ORFDS BFER B
Will Submit Measure to
House During Latter
Part of Next Week
WASHINGTON.— (AP) — The
house ways and means committee
Thursday sped its hearings on
beer, with a view to winding up
Tuesday and submitting a bill for
house action later in the week.
Chairman Collier announced the
plan for getting some form of bill
before the house proper without
delay.
One after another, the witnesses
for and against the legdislation are
to be paraded before the commit
tee, so that early next week it can
go into executive session to de
cide on the alcoholic content and
tax to be recommended.
Witnesses were told their time
for testifying would be limited to
ten minutes each. gt
“ Representative Stafford (Repub
lican, Wisconsin), as the first wit
ness *at the second day of hear
ings, said the people had approved
the Democratic platform for mod
ification of the Volstead act, add
ing that this “profoundly influ=
enced the vote in Wisconsin.”
“There is no need for me to
dwell on the economie adv.'mta'ges
which would come from the ré
turn of beer,” he said.
Athenian Visits Warm Springs; Almost
Gets Into Newspaper Photo, But Didn’t
By HAROLD MARTIN
Along with' a h2lf-hundred peo
ple representing various organizas
tions with a sprinkling of young
democrats who got their dates
mixed up and got in the wrong
line, 1 visited the president.elect,
Mr. Franklin D. ! ‘Rdosevély, the
other day. Fogdes o
Warm Springs, if the day I was
there could be taken ©as ‘typical
has for the past tweo. weeks been
a bhodge-podge, a jumble, &f ténse,
excited humanity. They ‘‘have
swarmed like flies from through
‘out the southeastern - states to
stand in a long and weary line,
smarch past the stoop of the little
white painted cottage, mutler a
few dincoherent words, wring the
hand of the mnext chief executive
and then scurry away to mount
waiting auto’s, limousines or fliv
vers to hurry home to tell of shak
ing the hand of the next president.
-“He looks so well,” they will say.
“He wears clothes just like the
Miller County High
School Burns Down
COLQUITT, Ga. — (AP)— The
Miller county High school build
ing here, together with all eauip
ment and many books belonging to
teachers and pupils was destroyed
by fire of undetermined origin at
8 o'clock Thursday morning.
" When the fire was discovered,
the auditorium was ~gutted and
the flames spread so rapidly that
B susivepat S eee " &
RS/ plfß n ] : o
Athens, Ga., Thursday, December 8, 1932
TALIADIGE TELL BA.
- TOWAIT FOR 53
AT TAGS
} BY BEN . MEYER
Associated Fress Stafi Writer
“ AYLANTA '—(AP)— Talk of a
70-day mid-winter session of the
state leg slature inereased in poli
".timl cireles Thursday with “publi-
Jeation of Bugene Talmadge's state-
Pment adyising automob’ls owners
Throt to huy 1933 lecense tags until
j!hv leg'slature has had opvertun
ity to cut their price to a flat rate
lof s£3 cach! '
, Under ' a conStitutional amend-
I'ment adopted November §, o spe.
4 ¢'al 10-day sesgion of the legisin
ture was ordered beginning Janu
fary 9, sos the”purpose of ‘naugu
rating the governer and a number
of other stute-house officers.
: Provision was made for holding
the regular ¢oday ceszion begin-
I n're date tn July, but the amend
;mrm alaé antherized the leg sla
| ture, vwith approval of the governor,
jto move up the dato oi the regu
{lar session. ' There has heen mueh
{ speculation lately as to whether the
legislators at their 10. day session
would decide to call the 60. day scs
| sion immediately afterward. |
The statement of Mr. Talmadge,
| the governor-eglect, which was
‘m{vdv public Tldawrsday morning.
| was supplemented by the comment.
“Tt means that 1 think the legisla.,
| ture should stay in session Jong)
| enough to pass a $3. tag bill.”
| The amendment providing for the
10-day session makes no provision
‘for enactment of legislation during
| that session, bhut_does permit in
ljt)'oduction and first reading cf bills
!and resolutions.
Mr. Talmadge, who is now com.-
missioner of agriculture, will go
into soffice the Saturday after the
legislature covnenes on Monday,
Janyary 9,
The comm’ssioner’s statement
w:l’? dictated while newspapermen
(Continued on Page Three)
Twelve Initiated
| o Je
By Gridiron Club
! .
.~ Wednesday Night
| ‘Three honorary .members and
| nine students, including three
|Athvns boys, were initiated into
| Gridiron, secret honorary society
’ni the University -of Georgia, at
ithe annual banquet at the Geor
| gian hotel, Wednesday night.
l Max Michael, prominent Athens
E:nturnv,\': Ed Everett, professor of
! English at the university; and 1d
| Danforth, sports editor of the At
i]:mtu Cleorgian, were the honorary
yimembers. taken in at \Wednesday
i night's banquet.
| Nat Slaughter, Stokeley Pound,
l;md Charles Reynolds, all of Ath
!‘ons, were among the students in-
Vitiated into the society. Others
}vmrn: Ham . Napier, Macon; Lu-
I cien Whittle, Brunswick; Delmar
[ Thompson, Tennille; Harry Steine,
| Warrenton; George Cope, Savan
inuh: and James Monerief, Sylva
[ nia.
| QGridiron holds three elections a
'yv:n', selecting outstanding s:tu-:
'd(-nls on the- campus and honor
f::x')‘ members from prominent
| Georgians.
vest of us, and when I shook hands
with him he said that he was glad
to see me and was just as friend.
1y as if he were common folks.”
They File Past
1 stoed aside and wateched them
file past. High-bosomed old ladies,
Nt}ar;ng-'!ha flowing wibbons of the
;‘?E‘E‘W.‘féfi’%"fi g Qhfi'? v l‘O]’)l"f‘.S(‘n.l(.‘q.
stopping "lang ough to deliver
Ylowepry littls ' speeches, prepared
for weeks. :in. _adyance, listening
confusedly at Yf;‘e president-elect’s
sow godrteous” i words in reply,
then . chased .om hy the hatsh
voiced secret-service men, to
whom potentate and commoner all
look alike. -
Simpering young ladies who
gushed and got confused and of
fered the wrong hand for the pres.
ident to shake. Pompous old gen
tlemen, the " high political muck
amucks ‘of their district, trying teo
look dignified as they waited in
(Continued on Page Seven)
GOVERNOR RUSSELL
CONFINED EY COLD
ATLANTA, QGa.—(AP:—Gove
nor Richard B. Russell, jr., was
confined to his home at the gover
nor's mansion Thursday suffering
from a cold.
His mother, who presides over
the mansion, said she insisted
that he remain away from his of
fice at the Capitol beeause of the
colds st ST
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If you should eh‘rp “Nice Kkitty!" in the Midgett home mear Dallas,
Texas, imagine your embarrassment when a couple, of fine c&tf’&t the
pole variety come nuzzling around, Jack Midgett, shown here ecarress
ing “Dot” while “Rumble” looks Gown longinely, likes them better for
home pets than Fersians or Angoras. Nothing like a couple of polecats
around the house, say the Midgetts, T e I
COLD WAVE GETTLES
DOWA DIFY TN
{ ATLANTA—(ATD)—Icy blasts
i rattled ‘Dixie’s teeth Thursday
as another :cold wave seitled
! over the South.
I North winds, driving down
; out of the bhlizzard.bound re
i glors of Canada, spread a chill
| from the Carplinas to Texas.
| Sub-freezing weather was
| promised sections of Louisinna,
| Mississippl and Alabama. At
, lanta was warned -against a
] freeze Thursday.
| ' By The Associated Press
i A premature thrust of winter
igent shivers up and down a large
| portion of thg North American
[‘continent Thursday.
i Striking suddenly from the
Canadian northwest, the cold
wave spread . from the Pacific
‘northwesi, across the west and
Imiddlewest, angd <¢ven into the
southwset,, bringing suffering te
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HUMAN INTEREST
STORY
DETROIT *~ (AP) —ls you
want action, go out to the
Highland Park police station,
say “pancakes” to Capt. John
Paffhausen—and then run,
For the captain spent a
good part of his day off var,
nishing the bathroom at home,
and then discovered he had
been using maple syrup.
“lI Lope the boys ui the sta
tion 4cn’t hear about it,” he
remarked as he paused in his
efforts to remove the sticky
stuff.
But Mrs, Paffhausen saw to
it that they did.
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! YORK, S. C.—(AP)—Mrs. Bea
!tri(:e Ferguson Snipes, 29-year-old
| convieted murderer and prospec
| tive mother, Thursday was sen
‘tenced to be executed April 7. Her
| attorneys served notice of appeal.
| Judge Thomas S. Sease denied
|Mrs. Snipes’ motion ‘for a new
iu-ial’ and pronounced the manda
{tory dentence that made her the
|first woman ever to face the elec
!tri(- chair in South Carolina.
| Mrs. Snipes sighed deeply and‘
lsat down heavily when Judge
| Sease SNumed her death date, She
‘was led back to her cell a few
| minutes later. ¥
| The woman was convicted of the
[murder of Ellistt Harris, York
| county rural policeman, who was
|shot to death in an argument that
'followed when he stopped an au
tomobile in which Mrg. Snipes
and her husband were riding to
!s(-;u‘oh it for whiskey. No whiskey
| was found.
Mrs. Snipes testified during the
' trial she is expecting her second
‘vhil(l to be born next month,
Asks Cotton Holiday
Until Price Goes Up
L ST. MATTHEWS, S. C.—(AP)—
Governor of all cotton growing
states have been asked by the Am
erican (Cotton association to issue
a cotton holiday proclamation tn
’ti: the price reacheg 10 cents a
lpound.
{ J. Skottowe Wannamager, presi.
dent of the organization, in an.
‘naun(‘inx the request for the proc-
Jlamations said the 1932 world pro
duction of cotton is the smallest
of any year since 1923 and that
the sale of manufactured goods
exceeds that of a year ago. He
said the world's supply of at pres
ent is 5,000,000 bales below the
supply of last year at the same
time.
World of Today No Mare Civilized L
| Than Ancient Rome, Says Lecturer
I The world today ‘s no more cive
‘u!zed than the Rome of the early
lcenturiem. according. to I, i on
i Feuchtwanger, * eminent SGerman’
!:wthor, who spoke in the Univerd.
sity Chapel this morning. |
' Despite our present technieal
ladvances, and despite the fact
llhfl! today the least eof us has as
{ much, or even more, than the Ro-i
jman emperors, We have not those’
| qualities that miike! for civiliza
"t:on. Mr. Feuchtwanger said. - 'Po-:
{day, we live on a national Fasis;
|we belong to our own group,
{ whether we want to o not; in
'Rome, there was no such distine
| tion. The state was deeply rooted
'ln its citizens, and they had no
word for ‘race”; people of differ.
efit races m&&tw @“2‘
tries held ' « . according to
V'the state serviee, o .
HeME]
INDICATION 1S GIVEN
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Al i | ;
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AFTER MACDONALD,
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PARlS.—(AP)—Premier Herriot,
in conference Tuesday with Prime
Minister MacDonald of Great Bri-»
tain, received the impression that =
England will pay the _595,560,000
due the United Statés on Decem=
ber 15.
The report was that lheA.Em-' i
mier left the conference disposed
to recommend to the French par
liament that this country pay.the
$20,000,000 interest due America
on the same date, but with ! the
stipulation that this wiil be' the
last pavment pending negotia-«
tions. o RPN b
It was understood that M: Her
riot told Mr. MacDenald that he
would have to consult parliament
before taking a. definite stand. . .
Mr. MacDonald told him, he
said, that public opinion in Eng
land favored payment tor rthe
United States. He told the British
Prime Minister that French opin
ion seemed to be against payment.
An official communique issue
after the conference said the_m
countries will continue independ
ent action with regard to the debts
but also will continue their efforts
to obtain by international co“p_pb}_fi-,
tion measures calculated to. pro
mote the economic restoration of
the world. ¥ e
$300,000 Suit Is
Quashed by Judge
As Being Immoral
CHICAGO.—(AP)~—The $300,000
suit for breach of contract brought
by James S. Clark of Mt. Kisce,
Ky. against Norman W. Harris,
Chicago banker, was dismissed
[Thursday as contrary to public
policy and based upon a corrupt,
illegal and immoral transaction.
Counsel for the young vice=
president of the Harris Trust and
Savings bank objected that Clark
had tried to capitalize on his wife's
alleged intimacy with Harris.
The judge upheld the argqment
and threw the suit out of court.
In his ruling Juwdge John R.
Caverly said Clark and his di
vorced wife, the former Dorothy
Funk of Des Moines, had operated
a “badger game” against Harris.
The suit was based on an alleg
ed contract made by Harris to pay
Clark SSOO a month for life, agreed
upon when Clark returned té his
Madison, Wis.,, home after ,a.lfi)
and found the Chicago ‘banker
with his wife. Clark divol'cgi';,%?
\and obtained ctistody of their two
children. vty
Athens Typographical
Union Votes Against
Five-Day Week Plan
Athens Typographical Unl.a)z‘, {o
595 voted 'Wednesday against.the
proposed five day week, President
Jewell Short announced. The five
day plan, adopted by the national
union and favorably voted:'em by
enough Yocal chapters to pass, will
go into effect on January 1, See
retary R. B. Moore said. The ob=
iect of the flve day week is to help
provide work for, unemployed
printers, it was said. >
ADOPT PLAN o
ATLANTA.—(AP)—Printer’s - 10,
cal unions in at least five' repre
sentative southern cities ' “have
voted in favor of adoption of &
five day working week. LT
- Locals in Atlanta, Chattanoo a,
Tenn,, Knoxville, Tenn.; Bifming
ham, Ala, and Little Rock; Ark.,
Wednesday night all went on' '»n’f-;fiv,.
erd for the shortened employment.
Memphis, Tenn., voted against the
five-day proposal but acted@ fay~
lorably on cne for a‘fl”:
half day week. & oyl e
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Art and culture, the speaker
continued, were more s’lgnifiégfgs
in the golden days of'Rome—t‘figfi;
afterwards, and in Rome, ‘unlike
our modern world, there wafi”l@t;
militarism. Two hundred thousand
Roman soldiers protected one hun=
dred million citizens, an average of
one soldier to a town. ' ?;;
Barbarism is, according *o Hert
Feuchtwanger the result w,‘-fx‘ the
destructive ' impulse, as disting=
uished drcm the social in
The predominence of these two
urges differs with the !'nd,
‘and when the social instinct s the
greater, we begin to get away
lfrom barbartem, - sdd '
“We have outlawed war, but we
have not outlined the warlike M
man. The religious person a¢ :
the doctrine that when a perses
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