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Newspaper Page TextCOTTON : MIDDLING .& .. .. .. . 6 3.40 PREVIOUS CLOSE .. .... 6 5-8¢ Vol. 100. No. 285, ROAD FUND DIVERSION BY ASSEMBLY FORECAST Drys Plan Bitter Battle Against Beer FEBRUARY MEETING - I ' | SCALLTOMNS - i | | IGANT BEER it i . : ) e SR ! | WASHINGTON —(AP)— A call| for 4 national conference of**firo-| pibition organizations to “mnhilizei the dry sentiment of America and| o defeat” repeal and modiﬁcntioni movements was aecided on Sﬂtur-i day by the board of directors of | ihe Anti. Saloon League of AmnH-{ ca. | The conference, under the plan]| snnounced by the group, would he& held in. Washington February 14| 16, and ‘invitations' will be sontl the Woman's Christian Temper- | ance Union, church and social sm‘-z vice hoards and commissions. ! The action of the hoard .follow- | ol sessions of the League in \Vhi(’hi the organization mapped its stradt. | ecy for what its leaders térmed “:1i new war against the poisonous in toxicating liquor traffic.” I While a committee on (‘nnituli il was heariig wine advocates, the Leagne leaders planned an ng-' cressive repeal-resisting campaign, with no guarter given to any trend toward modification. With promise of a definite pro gram to be announced soon, the leaders were talking of a nation. wide organization down to the last voting preecinct to bring pressure in the 1934 congressional elections; i repert to constituéncies on the ction of every membher of con gregs; and a * nation-wide came paign of youth-edueation in prohl. hition ‘prineiples. Mean Business Such comments as “we have just hegun to fight,” “we will see this thing through” and ‘this is no time to retreat or temporize were heard from éhe dry leaders hoth in public address and private comment. Dr. Arthur J. Barton, of Wil mington, N. 'C., chairman of the league's executive committee and pres’dent of the national confer imee of organizations supporting the eighteenth amendment sug gested the possibility of a new po. litical party titled by some such name as ‘‘progressive constitution al party.” He said that in such a party all “moral and progressive” forces of the country *“could unite on issues that really mean something” and could “fight for principles instead of hecoming an aggregation of subservent politicians seeking and adopting every political expedieni (Continued on Page TFour) Chief Seagraves eagr | o \ Warns Punchboard \ Owners, Shoppers —_— | A warning to punch bhoard oper dtors in Athens and a reminder to‘ Christmas shoppers to be double tareful with packages downtown ind also at their homes was made Saturday by Chief of Police C. E. Seagraves, ; Several persons have been opera ting punch boards in Athens, thus Violating the state law, Chief Sea graves stated. He has instructed embers of the police department 1 watch out for these, request that they be dispensed with wherever ftund, and to make eases where the oWwners. fail to comply. l ’ In the wusual rush of Christmas | - *hopping some persons are apt to } ?"‘l\'9 packages in automobiles ana i unlogked places at home, there - v expesing them to vagabonds - and also to persens operating Q| | "Christmas racket”, . Chief Sea. " firves explained. He urges . that - double precautions be taken in or der that no losses may be incurred. It case of thefts the police depart {‘l"ll( should be notified immediates Banner-Herald Writer Almost Joined Murdered Wanderwell en Long Cruise By HAROLD MARTIN Captain Walter Wanderwell, ddventurer, soldier of fortune, and fccker after thrills in the earth’s Tar places was a man of exception “l" personal charm. There was “omething about him that lured nén, a dash, a devil-may-care “pirit, taht made men follow him when they knew the following liight lead them into danger. My acquaintance with the man whose body was recently found “hoard an old rum runner which e was fitting for ome of his ‘ruises after “adventure and Wealth”. was brief but it left a lagh Sd Rl g e 657 L S S N M e s THE BANNER-HERALD FULL Associated Press Service. Citizens of Marietta Find Method to Insure Christmas Toys for Poor Kids - MARIETA, : Ga. hier ) A knockout punch from no less a per- ‘ son than old Santa Claus himselr | has heen dealt the Christmas de- ! pression in this north Georgia c-i(v.! and. all hecause of a clever iden ! which met with wholehearted mm.i muanity sugoert, l As a result there is a new ana | thriving busg.ness, officially lismli as the Saniwa Claus service station, | a new ciy-wide «<lab of boys um:i girls known as “The Happy Hea:t Bal\'(‘r.:, ine,,” more ‘sm.lvs! and fewer lines on’ the faces or| of fathers and moihers, a new leei- | ing of cooperation and brother- | hocd and renewed hope on the part | of the poor children that Santa may | come after all, | i It ali started when I'rank Mel- | lonsfurniture company executive, | and cthers, recognized an economi- | rroblem, and proceeaea to do some- i thing about it. t \ . . | “How about these poor kids"| ‘\\ns the questicn. } l “A municipal toy shop,” was the! answer, J ‘ I' So the word was passed ﬂrmmd,i “Bring in your old toys,” the spon- | sors =aid, "No matter how broken or soiled. We will fix them wup.” And did the people respond? William Murray, wealthy proper CHARGE MURDER IR CKELETON MYSTERY Man Arrested in Florida After Fitzgerald Skele ton Is ldentified FITZOERALD,; Ga. — (AP) — Sheriff G. Eddic Ball left here ISaturday for Jacksonville, Fla., to iretarn Lewis: W. White , who 1s ‘wanted in Ben Rill ‘county on a |warrant charging murder as a re |cult of the finding of a human ‘skeloton near Double Run, about 20 miles northeast of here. ‘ The skeleton has been dentified, lt}m sheriff said, as Walter Koker. | The warrant for the arrest of l\\’hite was sworn out by Mrs. L. M. Koker, mother of Walter Ko ker, The sheriff said that Walter ]Koker disappeared about July 15, ,this year. 2 No inquest has heen held In connection with the discovery ot the human bones, the sheriff saiq, He added that Mrs. Koker, who had played the role of a detective, said that the shoes found with the human bones were identified by a cobbler as the ones he had solea for Walter Koker just prior to his disappearance.- Other identifica. tions, as to clothing and other feat. ures, have been made, the sherif? said, i White and Xoker lived in the same community in the William son Mill district of jßen Hill coun ty, their homes beisg on opposite hills between which flowed a small stream, LOCAL WEATHER Cloudy, probably oceasional rain Sunday and Monday; not much change ni temperature. TEMPERATURE . 1 Highebkos od “8a s inive 7ive, . 480 LOWEbi v okt 42.0 l MeWlc .o div iidsiss =BOO Nty Rl Lo o s +...400 ‘ RAINFALL Inches up to:5:00 p.m...... .48 I Total since December 1.... .56 Deficiency since Dec. 1.... .84 Average Dec. rainfall...... 4.38] Total since January 1......46.28 Deficiency since Jan, 1.... .55 of finances had dd me wandering ]ahout the country, marking time until the opportunity presented it self to come back to complete my education at the University of | Georgia, then half-finished. In [ Miami, after some days of wander ing about, sleeping on the benches and doing oda jobs for whatever meagre meals I could pick up, 1 saw an ad in a Miami paper an nouncing that the “Wanderwell cruises” were recruiting. It seem ed an oppectunity to find a snug harbor somewhere, where I would be assured of food and a place to sleep: 1 sepght . apt the place ty owner, gave the use of a hulld-i Ing, A ten cent store gave the dec-‘ orations. A second hand furniture dealer loaned a stove, A coal compa. ny gave some coal. The xity dona-i ted the clectricity. Hardwhre firms gave paints, hrushes and glue. 'l‘hci five company, with sereechling of sirens and ringing of hells attend ed the opening. And the Happy Heart Makers started to work, But the grown-ups liked the ides S 0 maen that they started to ‘“‘ehis. le” in. So now open house is plan. ned in the even.ngs, with those who will invited to come to the toy snop, there to sit, and talk, and mend. ' Men already turning out new legs for doll house chairs, whiie mothers with grown daughters sew somewhat wistfully on tiny dresses tor battered Mary Anns. Others are carefuly gathering lists of the poor and the names of the echildren who otherwise would he forgotten, And on Christmas Eve, m‘im"tT) the midnight service in the little ivy ciad Episcopal church which was bailt long bhelfore the War bhetween the States, these sanfe grown-ups nlan (o slip about the little town, having behind theshappiness which would have been lacking had it not heen for the idea of a Christmas toy shop, 4 COMMITTEE TURNG NOWN PAY SLASHES B R . Appropriations Commit mittee Refuses to Cut i ’ i U. S. Employees’ Pay | WASHINGTON g(AP) — A sharply cut money bill, for the first time in many years carrying less than a billion dollars for the Treasury and. Postoffice depart ments, was recommended to the {house Saturday by its appropria tions commitieec, Decreases that brought the totat for these two .big departmenis down to $961,416,000 for the next fiscal year extended even to the |coast guard, although Rear Admi ‘ml ‘Harry G. Hamlet , the com lmrmdant. told the committee he ex “10(‘(9(] greater rum-running acti 'vitios in the next two years. Hamlet said legalizing beer of low alcoholic content, which the house ways and means committee is now onsidering “will have no effecr whatever on the smuggling of dis tilled spirits into the United States from the sea.” However, the appro. priations committee recommended that his branch’s allotment for 1934 be reduced from the $28,172- 000 for this year to $25,772,000. The bill also extended for an- other year many proyisions of the cconomy act passed last session, among them being the enforcea furlough of 8 1-3 per cent for an employes in the two departments. The committee rejected Presi dent Hoover's recommendation for an additional 11 per cent pay cut ]‘Quezon’s Request | For Indepence ' At Once, Resented WA§HINGTON—(AP)—- Resent ment was expressed in senate eir. cles Saturday over a request by Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine senate, that congress .pass a bill providing for immedi. ate independence for the iglands or no bill at all, The utterance was contalned inj a cablegram from Manila to fhoi island mission here and brought immediate reaction at the Capitol | that freedom without a transitiong period to allow the islands grad ually to become economically as well as politically independent was out of the question. Chairman Bingham of the sen ate territories committee, which favorably reported the pending Hawes-Cutting bill, granting funt independence ir about, 18 years sald he would “fight to the last ditch in the interest of the Fili. pinos themselves” any measure providing immediate freedom. | Senator Cutting (R., N. M.), who kvith Senator Hawes (D, Mo, wrote the hill now before th: sen ate, said congressional sentiment for gradual independence #2ad pro gressed to a point where it would be useless now to try to get theough . one EE AR R. O O e % R Athens, Ga., Sunday, Pecember 1151932 DANMAGE BROUGKT BY SNOW D 51557 TOSOUTHLAN | NEW ORLEANS—(AP)— Snow, |sleet and hard cold rains hrousht i(‘.amage and discomfort to wide 'spread sections of the south Sat. !urd:xy. | A few scattered spots had mild lweather, but the ecld ave hung !on stubbornly in a half dozen Dixie |states and no immediate gener#l | relief was in prospect as the Wea | ther bureau here predicted con tinued rains and helow-normal temperatures in the Gulf region funtil toward the end of next week. i Sharing in the Dblizzard that i brought snow generally throughout |the country from California to !New York, the mid-south was wis. ited by a sleet storm that disrupt ]ed power and communication fa cilities, blocked highways and lhalted traffic in a few ecities, I At least one death was reported |in Arkansa& as a result of the cold |when a hitch-hiker tentatively identified as W. 15. Rogers of Tu. pelo, Miss,, was found on the high |w:ly near Osceola, dead from ex posure. The thermometer dipped to 28 at both Little Rock and Fort | Smith. More snow was predicted. Sleet Damage | In Memphis and the vicinity ) power lines were down, street car service was cnippled and trainl schedyles went hay-wire as sleet and ice damage was counted atl several thousand dollars. A one inch rain was general over Ten. nessee, | I Snow fell in Texas and OKla= lhomn and a sleet storm swept over |north Louisiana and inte north Miisgissippi, leaving a sheet of ice that accounted for several injuries. Piedmont Virginia was blanket |ed with snow with the fall reach ing two and a half inches in lplaces. In conirast, New Orleans had a freak spell of summer weather Saturday. The city basked under a thermometer reading of around 72 Florida also had clear, warm weather generally, although slight ly colder weather was forecast for Saturday night. ! Cold steady rains were general elsewhere in Dixie. 3 ’ WIDESPREAD SNOWS SAN FRANCISCO—(AP)—Geog. raphical conceptions of what the weather should be were overturn ed Saturday by California temper atures lower than some Alaskan readings by the reported appear ance of a waterspout in San TFrancisco Bay and by -cold in the far west from the Canadian bordet to the Mexican line. Point Barrow, Alaska, in the Arctic Circle and the northern most American se@®lement, report ed the mercury stood 30 below zero this morning. It was 7 below zerq at Lake Tahoe, Cal, Friday night 1 (Continued on Page Four) Says Congress to Beat One Hoover Sugoestion WASHINGTON — (AP) — If Speaker Garner knows his congress one of President Hoover’s recom mended regrouping of federal agencies—that involving rivers ‘and harbors work—is not likely to be come lew. The speaker said Saturday, as numerous house members . were seeking support for resolutions they intend to introduce to prevent the shifts, that “he sentiment of congress is aginst” transferring rivers and harbors and flood con trol work from the War to the In terior department as Mr. Hoover proposes. S o)l ONOP ) < Earl L :FJ and rBYJY UatSmpog § | Christmas Eﬂ! i: Seals S 1932 7 L ol v Wn{’c‘; | ‘ vf\_ r’ i 2% |WA 0 poc R R l 2 Shopping Days SPIDER IN BITTER 18-DAY FICHT AGAINST TIME 3 » BSRR -. s R i Ry, g ‘f: 3 } ! A g 2 PR R " NS g E oD% e . ‘@ i o - £ RR R S $ % R B il e 3 % 3 S B A . S ‘s\ 5 3 3 3 /.0* SRR =AsDRR e R R : L‘< R e % ‘;s ; & e ' - I o e ; X & e R o 8 E S : = § o 2R B TREg COre A A 3 o 3 % £B. % 2 X o R ¥ R 8 \~§ SRR s, WX 553 S B 3 .‘,, 3 SRS AR 2 PSSR \/‘ 5 Ao 2 3 e SRS e e PR R K e SR R : 3 ; SRR g PP o P ZER TROk R 1 S g | A RAR R Y i 2 R % : : el e o o Sy R PO SRR eoY % b 5 P ’ SRDER % T %% F R | NG £ R e G s | ﬁfv‘ e e e :o B B o R 3 ‘r Q. 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The spider e R G & %;;,_ e omehow entered the clock face RN s nen very small, and now has .;; ocssss R R 3 grown too large to agcape £s¢ \b R i '4% " entigt t the Municipal Univer. : C R S K 4 k. ; G N | sity of Akron have taken clocl 3 B & & spider and gll to the university : : lahoratories for study, 1 l | | Bank Suspensions Drop; Many Are Recalled to Work by Plants ROGERSVILLE, ' Ala—(AP)—A new note of optimism sounded here Saturday night as business men looked forward to the new vear and the increased business when construction of the lock for dam Number 3, on the Tennessee river navigation project is begun. The announcement that Stevens Brothers of St. Paul, Minn,, had been awarded construction for the lock with work to begin about January 1, brought smiles on all sides. : The lock, 360 feet long, 60 feet wide, and 37 feet high at the dam site, will be constructed before the harrvier to deepen the Tennessee river is thrown across the stream. The successful bid for the lock was $738,000, while the project as a whole is expected to cost ap proximately $1,5600,000 and will ex tend the year round navigation of the Tennessee river for many miles above here. " RE-OPEN DIVISIONS AKRON, Ohio.—-(AP)—Several departments_of the Miller Rubber products division of B. F. Good rich company have been re-opened, o J (Continued on Page Six) TODAY’S BEST HUMAN INTEREST STORY METTER, Ga. —(AP)— Dr. R. L. Kennedy was called Fri. day soon after a Dublin to Dover train had demolished an automobile at a crossing. He was asked to hurry-—a woman had been killed. The doctor ran to the scene and helped extract the body from the wreckage. Every car of the train ex cept one had passed over the woman and her body was de capitated and horribly mang led. But Dr. Kennedy identified her at once. It was his wife. She wag driving home when the train struck her car. Mrs. Kennedy was 25. Funeral ser vices will be held Sunday. . i Twenty-three Bodies g Are Taken From Mine HARLEW, Ky, —(AP)— Twenty | three bodies were removed from its | gas-filled ipterior, the Zero mine at Yancy, near here, was sealed shur | Saturday and rescue téams left the rit in.the belief all the vietims of Friday’s underground exposion haq been accounted for, . The bodies of the last of the trap ped miners whose lives were snuff ed out by the tragedv were brought to the sarface Saturday, placed in ie2 T b Postmaster General’s Silk Hat to Cost U.S. Taxpayers just $3,500 WASHINGTON.— (AP) —A high hat—Postmaster General Brown's — is the reason the Pottofﬁg&_,d\;‘m»rtmc‘nt - bougnt two expensive alitoraobiles this year instead or ohe. The first machine was in tended for the use of the cab inet officer but hc- found that while in it he had to do one of two things to wear his silk hat: bend over or hold the topper in hic hand. Otherwise it jammcd against the car loof. He got another car, and cubordinztes, who wear high hats only occacionally, have bcen using the low topped car for gzneral utility purposes. The ctory came out Satur day when hearings on the an nual Postoffice 'supply bill were made public. Before the explanation, however, there was some tart criticiem of the (Continued on Page Kour) ALBERT EINSTEIN SAILS ON OAKLAND ON VISIT TO U. S. . BREMERHAVEN, Germany. -—J (AP)——Before sailing Saturday, on the steamer Oakland for the Unlt-‘ ed States, Prof. Albert Einstein said he hoped no summary action would be taken against the Am erican consular official who sub. jected him to questioning about his political heliefs when he applied for a visa this week, The professor is going to Cal-' ifornia where he will resume his research work at Mt. Wilson ob versatory, and later to Princeton, N. J., where he will become head of the school of mathematics of the institute for advanced study. ’ The professor said that so far as he was concerned the question iing was a closed incident., The ‘unstioning resulted apparently from a protest by the Woman Pa. triot Corporation, which asked, that the eminent scientist be bar-| red from the United States, as-| serting that he was a Communist, “Thhe trouble with hearings of} that kind,” the professor said, *is that you don’t realize until some= time has passed just where the in. quisitor is trying. to get under your skin., I suggest in the future con- | suls put pins in their victims’l chair so they will feel stuck from' the beginning.” | HOLD THOMASVILLE CITY RACES FRIDAY THOMASVILLE, Ga. —-(AP) — Three men have qualified for the race for mayor to be decided in the Democratic prirrary next Friday. A. E. Overwon, justice of the peace, was the Jast to announce Lothers are W. E. Veverly, former councilman, and 'T. B. Dobbins, | councilman. i There are fourteen ersons qual !ifiod in the races for aldermen. CLUBMAN DIES JACKSONVILLE. Fla, —(AP)— Torrest J. Hyde, prominent local | resident, clubman and, public lead. A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢c Sunday. RATE EXTENSION ASKED BY ROADS ' Commerce Commission ls ! Asked to Extend In . crease Rate for Carriers| WASHINGTON.— (AP) — The nation's larger railroads Saturday asked the Interstate Commmerce commission to extend after March 31 the rate increases now in ef fect but to eliminate the \man which sends the revenues into a pool from which needy carriers can borrow. The increases, in the form of' surcharges on freight bills, were approved last January by the com mission to run until March 31. In its petition Saturday the Am erican Railway association asked that the surcharges be continued | indefinitely, asserting that refe- I nues have declined so much that | carriers operating approximately half of the class one mileage can not pay interest on their bonds. It presented a tabulation show ing that as a group only the Po cahontas railroads, carriers serv ing the coal regions of Virginia and West Virginia, had a surplus after meeting fixed charges during the eight months ending August 31. These roads had a surplus of |521,490,367 while sozuls in every other region of the cuontry com bined had a deficit. These deficits were fixed at sl,- 482,827 for New KEngland carriers; $42,276,311 for Great Lakes region; $8,832,952 for the Central Eastern region; $42,735,000 for the South; | $67,324.013 for the Northwest; $9,- 057,840 for the Central Western region, and $24,692421 for the > Wactiiseak | (Continued on Page Four) Congressman Brand Is ‘ Confined to Hospital ATLANTA .—(AP)—The Consti. tution, in a special dispatch from Washington, says the office of Cengressman Charles H. Brand of Athens, has announced he is con fined to a “sanitarium in a general rundown condition” and probably would not be able to take up his official duties until after the Christmas reecess. Judge Brand's physician, Dr. Sterling Ruffin, who attended former President Wilson, said his patient was showing improvement but it would not be advisable to leave the sanitarium for a week orl more. Veterans Compensation Will Furnish e Battle Royal; Skirmish Lines Form WASHINGTCN. — (AP) — A congress pledged to drastic cuts in federal expenses soon will econ front what may be the makings of a battie royel—the question of what to do about veterans' bene fits, tackled this week by a joint committee of house and senate members. Aligned on one side is Frank T. Hines, veterans’ administrator, and others urging reductions and ways to make them in the annual billion dollar bill for relief of for mer soldlers of all wars, including ‘3.'5 e g :.—-:' 2 -,w :‘ff-;"-?w P OVOCATES SINGLE THERGURY FOR AL FUNTS ATLANTA, Ga.— (AP) — Thé. Atlanta Constitution says that letters the paper has received frm members of the legislature “appar= ently establishes beyond any doubt” that the logisl.‘turp at its forthcoming session in 'Januavg will pass an act to avert High= way funds/to other state departs ments and agencies. ; Fifty-two letters were received by _the paper during the week since a card from Representative W. W. CGoodwin of Washington county advocating diversion was published. Of the total 43 favor diversion, four are definitely op posed and five undecided. The letters = received included one from Senator J. (. Dean of Terrell county who said he got only advocated diversion strongly but added that he believed ail state fuhds should be thrown into a single treasury and used as they are needed. ! ATTACK DIVERSION ATLANTA, Ga-—(AP)—A state ment attacking any further diver sion of state gasoline tax funds from the State Highway depart ment was issued here Saturgay by the executive committee of the Georgia Petroleum Industries com mittee. . iy “The general expenses of thae state are supposed to be paid by a system pf taxation which is uni=- ltox-m and applying to all classses alike, and it is manifestly untair, and ag we see it, unconstitutiomal, to single out one class of people and one industry and requira them to pay more than half of the to tal expense of operating the stata government,” the statement. said. it was signed by R. E. Hedgson of the Standard Oil company as chairman, and by G. Everett Mil~ lican and T. E. Horton. s Pointing out that one cent of the tax already goes to counties and another cent to the state schools, the statement said this diversion amounted to $4,500,000 last year ‘“or a tptal diversion of almost as much as the entirs amount collected by the state in the year 1931 in the way of ad valorem property tax.”™ . L 10 MEMBER BOARD ATLANTA, Ga.— (AP) -— The Atlanta Journal quotes = Sewell Courson of Soperton, member of the last state senate and joint author of a measure to inerease the Highway board membership that was defeated at the lust ses= sion as saying that effort. would be made to pass a similar' bill ag the next session. : * “After talking to a great many new members of the legislature, i find a majority of them in favoe of this legislation being passed at the next session,” he said. The Highway board has three mesn ¢ bers. He proposes a 10-membe ' board. . Atlanta-Eatonton ' Highway May Honor Children’s Author ATLANTA, Ga.—(APJ=Mrs. As MeD, Wilson says the Uncle Rea mus Memorial association will cons sider plans at its next meeting t&f = make the Atlanta-Eatonton high= way a memorial to Joel Chandl ; Harris. She is president of the | Uncle 'Remus association, == = Dr. Willls A. Sutton, superin= = tendent of Atlanta schools, Sug gested the plan at the meeting Friday of the memorial ‘' associa= tion. e o Mrs. Wilson says the plan 3 & ; be considered as the asse "w contribution :to the Geosgia 1—; Centennial celebration. The next monthly meeting of the asse i will be held the second Tuesday im January. s Ao Joel, Chandller Harris — Uncle Remus—made his boyhood home in Bztonton. He lived here in his' later life, ke gathered 1o oppose any W in - existing benefits and. . some seeking more, are following cw the evidence put before theM committee by Hines, who appeared Saturday for the second consecu= tive time. e Outlining a new national policy, . based primarily upon elimination of benefits to former s”, % whose disabilities are not services connected, except for these. im need, judged from the viewpoint of a balanced budget and 1 nal policy, merits “mest careful cos sideration” by executive

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The Banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1923-1933, December 11, 1932, Home Edition, Image 1