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. COTTON : ~ g g,;ge“i‘f;os'g:.:'.".:.':'.::::2ls:: 0 No 3 FULLETS FROM WOULD-BE ASSASSIN, FIRED £ AT ROOSEVELT, CRITICALLY WOUND CERMAK Jl7f BUGINESS JIAGER [N EIBB PAASED BY HOUSE unty Co:fi;n#isflsioners to lect Manager and Fix is Salary HOOL CODE BILL WINS DISAPPROVAL { Prohibiting Sale of onvict Labor Goods in tate Introduced PAN ( (AP)—A bhusi ¢ or Dibb county was 7 hill passed Thurs : he Ceorgia house. B n Bibb delegation in the e sponsored the bill. The unty husiness manager will have ! complete control over coung f nd will be responsible B ¢ county commissioners, The comuuiissioners are author } to clect the business manager d fix I salary "' i makes several other 1§ the county government, 1 commissioners to fix . i of all officers except ¢ the re determined by the " oners and the grand jury, bd cives the board the functions hich have been exercised by the i ommissioners. The Gieorgia school code com- B<sion revising the entire h chool system of the state, ted unfavorably Thurs to t ouse hy its committee b cuoat Representative Nixon of Irwin, hmitted minority report. He ( of the authors of the bill. 10 -hill W placed on the ecalen f msideration later in the A bill prohibiting the sale of made goods and merchan ke in Georgia was introduced in B 0 v Representative Gil- Bl ( Bibb Giiller I his bill was intended f the importation and ( mvict-made goods from ) fn s REQUIRES REPORTS ATLANTA, Ga—(AP}—A bill hich would require all political lvisions of the state to make r ( ts of their financial pnditio passed Thursday by f tate T & The spe r of the bill, Senator ( Brunswick, said its [ d enforcement would ) ollar of expense” and w the state and citizens real picture” of its ion. \ divisions of the state towns, school dis fare tes, would be re -4 i annual reports to ; ditor, Reports on ( ndustries operated 3 p vil divisions also would | { ] E ympanies :u-\-(-pting; PRED S | Ohtinued on Page Two) | ALLULAH FALLS LINE BANDONMENT SEEN ASHINGTON—(P)—7, F. Gray, he Tallulah IFalls i piny, Thursday asked Commerce commis i lon to abandon the " 1 7 miles lonz and ¢ ( elia, Ga., to Frank \. D 's. Roosevelt Refuses to Let Miami Assassination Attempt Halt Address p—p By LORENA HICKOK { ) WITH MRS. ROOSE- ! \CA, M. YA | I, she has a hanit | ) he has said she | inklin D. Roose- | ) way to Ithaca 10 make " g speech of farm and home | university. Oking tired, she! i iess thzn u\'nf fiving word that an! 1 five shots into a "ding her husband at | b day night, i time, however, she | the telephone with | ect had broken | t to his mother, | “ver the- telephone | wiiott, in New York, ; 10 Groton schogl in | t telesram request- | g Roosevelt hnys.} . nd John, be told in.; ) y assured that theirs right. | * all right, for whichi : Very thankful,” she | shy | I‘\.' I,[ See Ap reason | © lOt go to Ithaea asl FULL Associated Press Service. CHICACO MAYOR NEAR DEATH BT T R 3 % SR i= R £ R R e 2RO S SRERLLET 2 B 2 s ..;.»,{?. 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' ——— Favrof . : 2 5 Mavor Anton Cermak Thursdav s wound i 3 5 iarsday morning w ; vounded in a M i 5 as reported i 3 1 Miami hospital, Cermak e critically would-be assassin wi o lak was one of five vieti i R 1 10 tried to murder Presid t ’ i ims of a th onclus g : i sident-elec > : on ot is speech i < nt-elect Roosevelt at was unhar < hin Miami Wednesd : a v narmed. ” ay nighnt Roosevelt Critically Wounded, Cermak Worries More Over Paying School Teachers in - Chicago Than Over His Own Condition MIAMI, Fla—(AP)—The fol lowing bulletin on Mayor Cer mak's condition was issued at ' the hospital at noon: “Mayor Cermak is resting much easier, has slept part of the morning (pulse 98, temper ture 99, respiration 14); no un favorable developments have arisen to the present time.” ENROUTE WITH PRESIDENT ELECT ROOSEVELT TO NEW YORK.— (AP) —Traveling away from Miami, the scene of his at tempted assassination, President elect Roosevelt Thursday sent the following message he had prom ised to President Hoover about condition of the vietims who got his shots: “Have just visited hos pital and seen the patients. The BANDITS LOE IN POLICE BUM FIGHT One Killed and Three Are| Captured Hour After Bank Is Looted ! l PHILADELPHIA —(®)— Within an hour after they had held the cashier prisoner and looted the First National bank of suburban Ambler, four Bank bandits Thurs day fought a thrilling pistol bat tle with police, armed with suvn ’machine guns. { One man was killed, three others [Continued on page two.) i ‘I am supposed to do. There is nothing 1 can do by staying here. There would he no point in my going down tiaere, for he is leav ing for home in the morning. Be {sides, I have a habit of doing things I have said 1 will do. “As soon as 1 get to Ithaca 1 shall find out how Mayor Cermak is, and the others.” | 'Mrs. Roosevelt received = the Inows Wednesday night from her j daughter, Mrs. Curtis Dall, as she i.was entering her house in East 65th street. l ‘Her only comment was, “This is ‘what happens to you if you are in public” life.” She put in a long distance call _for her “husband, ‘whom she found at the hospital in Miam{ with Mayor Cermak, and, while waiting for the ecall to be Icompleted. went in and told his mother what happened. e Although Mrs. Roosevelt's party had reservations on a regular pas senger train their car was cut out during the night and made into a sald, however, th thhtgfi& was A THE BANNER-HERALD fmayor had a fair night as did Mrs. | Gill. The other three are on rapid iroad to recovery.” ! Talking over the incident with members of his party on the train, Mr. Roosevelt said he found “Tony Cermak still talking business at ['the hospital Thursday and very 'concm*ned about the pay for the school teachers.” The I'resident-elect seemed un concerned about himself and the five shots fired at him. He was deeply grieved about the five per sons who received the shots. Professor Raymond Moley, war debts expert, accompanied Mr. Roosevelt on the train northward. The diminutive hater of govern ment officinls, CGuiseppe Zangara, (Continued on Page Two) SAPANESE TROOPS MOVING ON JEROE Roads Southward and Westward Seem Alive With Nippon’s Soldiers ! MUKDEN, Manchuria,—(AP)— gßoads sonthward and westward {from this most important Manchu irian city are alive day and night ]with Japarese and Manchukuo troops moving steadily toward po ‘sitions, whence “they will “jump off,” probably within two weeks, !for the long-awaited invasion of i Jehol province. { . The drive along the 200-mile I front is expected to bring the big |gest Sino-Japanese clash since ’tighting bewan in September, 1931, { with the capture of thus city by the i Japanesze, ! The combined Japanese-Man iohukuo force is expected to- total ' 50,000, half of them tested Japan |o>w veterans. They will oppose labout 150,000 loosely organized ; Chinese. : ! The Japanese command has di j verted = its ablest officers from lother parts of Manchuria to lead ‘tho drive. ' The modern mechanical branch its of Japan's powerful war ma ! chine, airplanes, tanks and armor ’od motor cars, are - being fully | mohilized. , l The Japanese assert that the wife of the Chinese governor of lJehol, (teneral Tang Yu-Lin, is be ]ing held as a hostage in Peiping to make him offer fierce resist ;an(‘o to fheir troops. They accuse Marshal Chang HsiaofLiang. the ! north China war lord, of holding Tang's wife at. his headquarters in the ancient Manchu imperial cap itsl, which is about 100 miles south of Tang's eapital at Jehol city. ; Japan declarés she is not at war with China and describes the Je hol drive as merely a “policing” operation. Its aim is to bring Je | hol under the w% s ifiei Jap -1 P =ll9 3 . i O Athens, Ca., Thursday, February 16, 1933. SENATE TOVOTE - - TODAY AT THREE P M. DN REPEAL Robinson Predicts Blaine Resolution Will Pass in Senate THINKS HOUSE ALSO WILL PASS MEASURE No Forecast on Vote Is Forthcoming From Dry Law Defenders WASHINGTON.—(AP)—Another mile-stone in national prohibition was reached Tharsday as the sen ite approached a vote on the ques tion of repeaiing the Eighteenth amendment. By agreement the senators fixed 3 o'clock for a.ballot on the Blaine repealer, modified to provide for ratification by state conventoins and minus its authority for con gress Lo outlaw the saloor. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, who led the drive for these changes and adopt ion of the measure, predicted the Blaine resolution would muster the necessary two-thirds veote to send it to the house. Robinson also expressed ' the opinion the house would approve it. The first day of the session the house defeated by six votes a yesolution calling for outright re peal. No forecasts came from the de fenders of prohibition who had made a determined e:ort tc pre vent consideration of repeal at this session, Denver Citizens May Organize a \yigilagnte Group DENVER. —(#)— Formation of a citizens' vigilante committee similar to the Secret Six in Chi cagdo may be the outgrowth of the kidnaping of Charles Boettcher 2nd, wealthy young Denver broker and scion of a pioneer Colorado family. i Suggestions such a committee be formed among the wealthy and prominent citizens of Denver to met an apparent influx of gang sters and hoodlums were made to members of Boettcher’'s family Thursday by influential friends, a family spokesman said. | Police and Department of Jus tice agents continued their search for the missing man and for the‘; ahductors who have held him tm"; $60,000 since midnight Sunday. | SETTLE ON DOYLE AS NEW U. S. MARSHAL ATLANTA, —(£)—A dispatch to The Constitution from its Washing ton correspondent Thursday says “it is definitely settled” that Id ward B, Doyle, mayor of Warm Springs, Ga., will be named United States marshal for the Middle District of Georgia, The correspondent asserts the appointment will be made by Franklin D. Roosevelt, warm friend of Doyle, and “is regarded as a personal appointment of the President-elect, he having indicated lis desire to have Mr, Doyle fill th» place, to which both Senator: George and Russell have agreed.” Kansas City Extortionist Takes Own Life When Cornered in Victim’s Home ‘ KANSAS ClTY.—(®)—Outwitted by a 19-year-old nurse maid from |the Gzarks and the -wife of tlmf banker whose 'home he had in-| vaded, an extortionist took his lire as police cornered him in the home 'of Crosby Kemper, | The extortionist, identified by police as K. W. Lattin, 34, unem-! 'ployed son of a rooming house proprietor here, voiced threais of| ' death against Mrs. Kemper, and| Wilde, the nurse maid, and Mrs.‘ l Kemper's 9-year-old daughter, Sally Ann. ' ~ Safing he .wanted slsjooo, be| terrorizezd the household, which! Aincluded three other women, allg servants. | Before firing a bullet through | ‘his head in an upstairs nursery | as police closed in on him, "l.iltth\l picked up a Christmas card whlcn| had been sent to Sally Ann a,nd‘ and upon it scribbled: : “Goodbye mother. ‘ can’t stand to see you starve” § _'His mother, Mrs. W. M. Towers, ~—ESTABLISHED 1882— ' If' ‘Talmadge Tells | ! - . . Georgia Motorists ! Q' > 9 | To “Sit Tight 4 ATLANTA, Gta.—(AP)—Cov i ernor Eugene Talmadge at a i press conference Thursday l morning said: ! j “The people may have gotten thé impression that the tag ! bill was doomed. Tell them to 1 hold tieir ground and not to t © buy. thélr tags yet. There are ' two v,:umrl,_ long weelis yvel un | til March 1." % The date for purchasing 1923 i amo tags in Georgia has bheen ¢ extended to March 1, The scn- I ate Wenesday tabied the house i auto tag bill carrying rates of from $3 up. Asked what woula happen f the legislature did not pass a tag bill by Mardh 1, Governor [ Talmalge <aid: i *“That's '3 jleng way off yet.” ! g o 3t il HOOVER TO ACT IN BARK RIS \Detroit I)_;::s—i:ors Able To Draw Money—First Since Saturday { DETROIT.—(AP)—Some of De rtroit‘s millions of “‘money in banks” becomes “money in pocket ’books“ Thursday for the first time ]‘slnce last Saturday noon. Added .encouragement to citi jzens hard pressed for cash because of the eight-day bank holiday pro e¢laimed by Governor Willilam A, ‘Comstock last Tuesday morning ‘(mfi‘: in the announcement that ll’resident Hoover would ask con gress (o cnact emergency legisla ltion which ~ would relieve the {banking situation in Michigan. | Executives of Détroit banks said they received that assurance in telephone conversations with the !Presfident and Secretary of the i Treasury Ogden L. Mills during a lconference here late Wednesday. Al but one of Detroit’s banks were reopening Thursday, but per mitting only emergency with ldrawals. The maximum any de 'positor may withdraw until the lend of the extraordinary “heoliday” inext Tuesday is five percent of lhis balance. | | The aggregate thus made avuil—i inhle, however, is estimated at $25,- {OOO,OOO in Detroit alone. .\hmyl |timos that amount is on hand. i Numerous protests have been| ‘registered with the governor, pur-‘ ticularly by outstate bankers. | ISOme insisted Detroit banks shoultli be forced to remain closed for lhel lfull eight days. Others urged that, ithe holiday bhe rescinded untirc-ly.l ’Some wanted it extended. | The governor's answer was that !"local gond‘ltions are a determining factor. If a banker is convinced it is best for his community to open his bank, the State Banking ldepartment will not interfere.” l The Detroit bank remaining closed Thursday was the l*l\ion' Guardian Trust company, the in- | stitution whose condition m-ovipl-! |tated the drastic action, , ATLANTAN KILLED ATLANTA,—(#)—NobIe J. Dick ersan, 28, unemployed, was killed «dWnesday night when struck by a street car, Police said Dickerson was lying on the track and was struck before the motorman could “top the car. , |age, became hysterical when In'l |formed of her son’s death. | Seated beside a small coal stnva‘ ;m her rooming house she moan- | cd, “All that I have in the worl.‘.’ ‘yifl gone.” | The extortionists plot to sum-l }mon home ¥emper, president ot 'ithe City Bank and Trust com 'pany, and obtain the money from him failed when the nurse maia ‘iordered upstairs by the gunman, {locked herself in a hedroom wiml tthe child and telephoned police. Previously she had heen forced 'to call the bank and leave wm‘d’ | for Kemper his daughter was ill. | | Mprs. Kemper's calmness quiotodi ‘lh@ gunman until officers arrived. | “You’'ll get your money all right,” jshe said, “But don’t worry abou! Y | Brushing past her, the police drew ‘one shot from Lattin. The ]bumgbu‘ma in a wall, he fled up-| stairs to end his life. : Mrs. Carl Kelly, one of the two *l‘ tbs rooming house of tundiel Baie mßhaMOtes. .. v i INAUGURAL PLAN ~ IRE REVAMPED T 0 - GIVE PROTECTION Many Plainclothes Men Are Added; Uniformed Force Augmented $25,000 AVAILABLE TO POLICE CROWDS Secret Service Delving Deeply Into Past of Would-Be Assassin . WASHINGTON.— (AP) —Plans lfm- protecting Franklin D, Roose velt at his inaugural here March 1 were being revamped Thursday {:w a result of Wednesday night's attempted assassination at Miamdi, with expectation that congress will be asked to increase an . ap propriation * far ‘Thandling crowds during the inaugural parade. The “public order committee” arranged to “greatly increase” the forece to be brought here from out side to supplement local police. Major E. W. Brown, superin-. ‘tpndent of police, said it had been planned to have 75 plainclothesmen come here from eastern and mid western cities in addition to 200 uniformed men from Baltimore. l' The force of plainclothesmen also will be greatly increased. It is also probable the number of se cret service men to be detailed to duty in protecting the President by the Treasury department will |also be inecreased. Congress has appropriated $26,- 000 for special expense in hand ling erowds at the inaugural of which enly about SIO,OOO was to have been spent for police. Tederal: agencies, meanwhile, l were -concentrating Thursday on ‘finding out all they could about [Giuseppe Zangara, the Miami gun ‘man. ! “Plain Anarchist” I W. H. Moran, chics of the se cret service, said the assassin was “just plain anarchsit and individ ualist oppozed to all authority,” according to reports n,-(-e-ivyd by him. l Reports from agents at Miami !shuwed that Zangara had been in |this country a number of years and had been in Florida three months, going there from Pater son, N. J., where he had been a bricklayer. ' Chief Moran said every effort of the secret service was being put forth to trace antecedents of the assassin, and learn all about per sons with whom he has been as !flm'l:ned in recent years, ! The chief said the investigation 'by his men thus far had not di ,vulged anything to contradiet i Zangara’s assertion that he had no l accomplices, As the reports came in, the se cret service again strengthened the guard at the White House which protects President Hoover., The President showed great concern over the attack on the President elect and made frequent inquiries yas ta the progress of the investi- (Continued on page two.) Large Percentage of Peach Trees Damaged ATLANTA.—(#)—Manning Yeo mans, state entomologist, has' re ceived reports that large percent ages of buds on peach trees .n sev eral sections of Georgia were Kkill ed in the recent cold weather but he would give no prediction as to the 1933 crop. Yeomans’' reports were that 80 per cent of buds on all varieties of peach trees in the Cornelia sec tion were killed, that 65 per cent of Elbertas, seventy per cent o J H. Hales, and 90 per cent of Hileys were damaged in the Thom aston section; 80 per cent of El berta buds and 90 per cent of Hileys in the Gay section, and 20 per cent of the Elbertas in the Fort Walley vicinity. | LOCAL WEATHER Cloudy, probably followed by rain Thursday night and Fri day. Slowly rising tempera ture. TEMEERATURE Bighest .o .. . i 880 Lewent o OVi v .....:38.0 Meun... - T, B 0 NOPke: G bihs vvies L 5046800 RAINPALL Inches last 24 h0ur5........T. Total since February 1......2.57 Deficiency since February 1.. .00 Average February rainfa11...5.13 Tota] since January 1......5.04 Deficiency since January 1..2.45 A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢c Sunday. Chicago Mayor Near Death; Five Others Wounded In Shooting BLOCKS MEASURE | AR e A "_ o “ )‘i N e T B e B R TR e o R N SN . | BB N e SR % . o é R S -.:1:1;7:1'1:1:1:::1:15-?5:1:3E-:“"fl‘!’%flffifii:}:‘ 2 g S R a L | B s SR | S -.‘?,’:iiisfj'??ifi;i;f"f'E.‘,.;ErS;E?ZE::;'-;"s;;;;:.;;E;Eféfi_fiis’;:é,fifzg'?;i». S i ‘?;‘:3,;2352153;5{15;5;?;5?3:'*“i‘i-’:ifi"o"ii'*i’}i?-?? S | R U RN S R T | BEEeme NS | 5 .-:;‘g'c-fffff‘-f?.v.:5?513:5:3:5:«.-35-'.:-“1‘ & |R e : i g KX | A \oo ~ 4 i B L 7 P D! | g ~ 1 0 ' turiree » a | | issociated Press Photo Senator Borah, Idaho Republi can, Thursday blocked a bill in the senate calling for exclusion or ex | pulsion of alien Communists. The {bill had been presented in view of Ithe attempt on the life of Presi dernt-elect Roosevelt in Miami, Flcrida, Wednesday night. SUPREME PEMTY DUD BY ASSISSIS ?Slayers oT-L_i;oln. Car . field and McKinley All | Were Killed | W. R, WALTCN .. Assocated Press Staff Writer CHICAGO, —(®)—For the secons ,timp in history an assassin has Itired at a Roosevelt—without fatal result, Wednesday night at Miami, Fla., T resident-elect. Franklin D. Roose velt narrowly missed being shot as }tho bullets meant for him struckh | four other persons, l In 1912 at Milwaukee, Wis., the | manuscript of a speech he was | about to make and an eyeglass saved former Presdent Theodore Poosevelt from what would pos ¢ibly have been a fatal wound, The Milwaukee shooting occurred on Oct. 14 during the Presdential campaign of 1912 when the former President was a candidate on the Progressive ticket, He had just left his hotel to ad dress a political meeting and was standning in his automobile ac knowledging cheers of admirers when Joe Schrank, New York saloon keeper stepped forward and fired. Went To Hospital The bullet struck Roosevelt n the brest but it was deflected when it hit the bulky manusecript and thae eye glass. Although he was wound ed Roosevelt made his speech. Af terward he came to Chicago and was in a hospital for a week. Schrank was committed to the hos pital for the insane at Oshkosh, Wis. Assassns of Presidents have all paid the supreme penalty for their crimes, John Wilkes Booth, the actor who stepped ont on the stage of I'ord’s theater at Washington on (Continued on Page Two) Appropriation of $1,000,000 Will Mean Drastic Curtailment, Regents Protest | By FRANCIS CARPENTER | Associated Press Staff Writer I ATLANTA,—{A)—The Universi ity System of Georgia has taken a prominent place in the legislatjve picture with the assertion of the il'.n:n‘d of Regents that several in i stitutions must be closed if Gover | nor Talmadge's $1,000,000 appro priation to the system is approved, The Regents, speaking through a member from the state at large, Philip Weltner, and Earle Cocke, secretary of the board, told the Ihouse appropriations committee late Wednesday $1,500,000 was an “irreducible minimum” for the uni versity system appropriaton and any figure below that would force curtailment of operations. Chair man Mundy of the house appro | priations committee, said flum— gents had given him a statement containing a list of institutions af fected by the reduced appropria H2ME EDITION Cermak Rushed to Hospi tal in Miami by Roose velt, in Auto ; ELOOD TRANSFUSION IS GIVEN TO WOMAN Clippings on McKinley Assassination Found On Attacker ‘ By FRANCIS M, STEPHENSON MIAMI, Fla. —(P)— A gunman who “hates” all govemment‘,% to assassinate President - elec| 'Roosevelt here Wednesday night ‘and failed as the five shots he fired istruck five other pemgs, one of them Mayor Anton Ceérmak of Chicago. T e With an old fashioned .32 calfs ‘ber pistol Guiseppi Zangara, a na ttive of Italy, shot wildly int»‘ghe, crowd gathered about the automo= bile of Mr, Roosevelt in the ple ‘lturnsque Bay Front Park just as the next President had conciuded ‘a brief speech. i '~ Mayor Cermak, standing Jjust !behind the Roosevelt ecar, was ;among the first hit. A bullet lodggd in his gbdomen. . 4 3 ’ Shocked and startled by the gun play, Mr. Roosevelt waited to;g_@p‘k‘ up the Chicago mayor, and ssped ‘to. the hospital, with him. He re !mamed there to visit the other vies tims and cancelled his | train)ides parture for New York umtil Thurss «day. Firing blindly into the throng ‘(lm assassin made his five shots good. The other wounded are: . Mrs. Joe Gill of Miami, wife of the president of ‘the Florida Power and Light Co, shot' in abdomen. Miss Margaret Kruis, 'of Newse ark, N. J,, shot in hand. & William Sinnott, New 'Yorz poe liceman, shot in hand. T Russell Caldwell; Miami, shot In head. All of the wictims except Mrs. Gill were declared hy physicians to have a “fifty-fifty chance” for recovery. Her condition was critl= cal, Y 3 Uttér Confusion Utter confusion prevailed for ‘& few minutes as the crowd millea about, Secret service men. .and police pounced on the gunman. Women sereamed. Looking back from his car, Roosevelt waited for Cermak to he lifted in his earn, waved reassuringly to the crowd and told those near: *“Tell them I am all right,” d Returning to the yacht of Vine cent Astor from which he had just landed from a fishing crudsg‘f‘thc President-elect early Thursddy ise sued the following statement: “L am deeply moved by the serfe ous injuries inflicted upon my friends and I am remaining in Miami to learn Thursday morning of theit condition. I am entire ly unharmed.” g Pregident Hoover immediately communicated with Mr. Roosevelt by wire. He said: | “Together with every citizen I rejoice that you have not been in jured. 1 shall be grateful {9 you for news of Mayor Cermak's con= dition.” % The President-elect replied: “I deeply appreciate your mess sage, Mayor Cermak is [resting but his condition 1s still serious. I will wire you in the morning after T have been to the hospital.” Gruelling examination on ' the (Continued on Page Four) |for that year, Cocke said they |could operate on $1,500,000 by rigi® -;oconomy. T I]‘ Only the University of Georgia, *|the State College of Agriculture *jand the State Teachers college of -jAthons, Georgia Tech, the Ceorgia | State College for Women at Mil | ledgeville, and the South Georgia .i’]‘enr-hers college at Statesboro ! | could operate under the suggested »151,000,000 appropriation, »| Other schools having about one > thalf enough to operate would be the > | Georgia State Woman’s college at xl\’aldosta, the North Georgfixm -tlege at Dahlonega; the Georgia . {Normal and Agricultural% e’(Negro) at Albany, and the Gex $ - |gla State Industrial college (!{nfi&) lat Savannah. Ernmy | The schools. the regents state- L Iment said could not be oper |included the Georgia State Collegy 1 for Men at Tifton th% S L “'.‘;'_;;‘.. 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