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fGOSEVELT GIVES CONGRESS ONE DAY AFTER
CONVENING THURSDAY TO PASS HIS PROGRAM
ird Transfusion For
Cermak Futile; Death
Victor Early Monday
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\MI, Fla. —(@— Mayor An-|
rermak of Chicago, the vie
of a bullet Giuseppe Zungal'a;
Fepruary 15 in an attempt
csinate President Roosevelt,
E ‘}_“,;_,H”' Nemorial hospital
Monday @t 6:57 a. m., east
standard time. |
th followed a series of com
;;‘,“u aeainst which the Chi
executive had rallied vallant
ime after time.
o fami and close friends
, at the bedside. Mrs. Floyd
lay, a daughter, was h-)»l(ling
¢ her father's hands when
oil. Vivian Graham, a grand
ghter, held the other. The sad
-4 little group remained in the
parlor of the mayor’'s room
e to the death scene for sev
\h. he wanted to live so much,”
Richey Graham, a daughter
And Mrs. Fran Jirka, another
ohter, added, “He fought so
1. He ‘didn’t want to die.”
ihers at the hedside included
erman Edward F. Kelly, South
k commissioner at Chicago, Dr.
erick Tice, Dr. R. C. Woodward,
erintendent “of the hospital,
walter Wright eof Chicago,
s, Clara DBeesley, secretary to
mavor, Joe Cermak, a brother,
k. John Kallal, sister, and Dr.
nk Jirka.
fay Cermak had ° previously
lied after three crisis ‘n his
dition. Colitis, threatened heart
ure and pneumonia beset him
quick successiop just as his
caing bhad begun to beleive he
uld recover from the rullet
'} s still were optimistic
turday but that night gangrene
eared in the right lung, that
hzed by Zangara's bullet, and he
] teadily weaker. A third blood
fusion was performed Sunday
an attempt to save his life and
ttempt to check the gangrene
$ made but the mayor did not
pond He lapsed into a com§g
night and shortly after
dnigift physicians said death
L matter of hours.
I'he mayor died peacefully. He
\ recovered from his coma.
t Sidney Morrigon of - Bt.
rtholomews Catholic ehurch,
20, had been praylng at Cer-
A he for a time before he
Meanwhile nother vietim of
ng lets lay critically ill
ospital. Mrs. Joe H.
Miam wciety woman whose
( und has become in
.
it Attorney N. Vernon
} id early Monday that
} € Indictment of Zang2ra
gree murder charge, wili
ight, “The’ jury is in recess
said, “and -as much as 1
‘ think of it, it is not a
L 'f recalling them but how
1 be recalled.”
On Special Train
vere made to take
Il’s body to Chicago on
Y traln, The tentative ar
ere for the train to
[ orhpm(E.S T
nil was shot the
E £ lary 15 by Giuseppe
" naturalized Italian
k 0 tried to take the
' ent-elect Roosevelt at
‘ eception in Bay Front
i : of the five bullets he
¢ crowd around tha
F found a mark but
he President-elect as
defleciod the assasin’s
2 his arm.
‘ itement prevailed as
: = out, Secret service
: € the President-elect’;
e forward, but Mr.
ring his own danger,
up the T Clalkatas
‘ irried him to a hospi-
Zungara was seized
. s and nolice and his
itimost ripped from his
Igry crowd before he
| shed to jail, There were
| him Kill him!” as of
d the assasin away
ene,
\ Siclans worked over
. trmak, he smiled gamely
- Roosevelt, “I'm glad
” € and not you.”
j g Was given a speedy trial
~Wlity defiantly and re
b ‘tences totalling 80 vears
) e s brought against
'Ves assault with attempi
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i The successor to Mayor Anton
Cermak of Chicago will be c¢hosen
'l)y and from the members of the
\Board of Aldermen. Below are two
‘members of the board, one of
which is regarded in Chicago as
!his most likely successor. They
im'e (top) Acting-Mayor Szymczak
and John S. Clark.
“TONY 15 DEAD.
CHICAED MUTTERS
Stunned City Officials
Thumb Legal Precedents
| .to Ascertain Successor.
! CHICAGO.— {AP) —A haggard,
|sad-eyed group of men — close
Ipersonal friends and political as
jsociz’ltes of Anton J. Cermak—
lended their incessant vigil at the
|mayor's oilice in the city hall
| Monday .
| The mayor was dead.
| As news services flashed word
gos the mayor's death to the world,
"~A]derman Henry Sonnenschein,
adviser and formerly confidential
isecertary to Cermak, turned from
ithe late mayor’'s private telephone
{with words:
| “Tony is dead.”
! Aldermen and others high in
lcity affairs looked at one anothery
?mumbled a few words and gradu
{ally filed out of the mayor's office.
|A few tears were manifest.
| Almost constantiy since Cermak
¥wus struck down by a bullet from
‘thc pistol of the assassin, Giuseppe
;Zangari, Sonnenschein and the
j others maintainea their watch.
| They -kept in close contact with
!the Miami hospital by telephone.
%Monday the vigil was over.
i Legal precedents were thumbed
iwith small success in seeking a
mode of selecting a new mayor o
iflll out the unexpired term of
Anton Cermak. .
{' Apparently political leaders were
{in agreement that there were
ithree modes of approach to pro
‘viding the nation’s second city
with executive authority in thg
lemergency. They were:
! Choosing of a mayor by special
ielection:
! Naming an acting mayor from
!memberhsip of the ecity council:
] Permitting the “mayor’'s cabi-
Inet” to perform executive duties.
{ The law governing -the present
i‘_ (Continued on Page Three)
THE BANNER-HERALD
ATHENS BAYKS WILL
OPEN GHANGE DEFOT
HERE TUESDAY AM.
Clearing House Banks
Here Announce Opening
of Depot At Old; Athens
' Savings Bank Bu*ding.
'HOURS ARE 9 TO 2;
S2O BILLS LIMIT
Depot to Stay Open Dur
ing Holiday to Aid Citi
zens, Business Firms.
Athens (Clearing House banks
Monday morning announced that
a “change depot” will "‘be e¢pened
Tuesday morning for the conveni
ence of cifizens and business firms
in_the old Athens Savings bank
Luilding on Broad street. 5
The announcement stated that
bills up to $20.00 denomination miay
be exchanged for bills and coinsg
of lesser denominations and that
the “change depot” will be open
each day from 9 a. m. until 2
p. m. as long -as the bank nroliday
is in force. :
The Clearing House statementis
made in a joint advertisement by
The National Bank of Athens ana
The Citizens and Southern Nation
al Bank in announcing that. in ac
cordance with the proclamations
of President Roosevelt and Gover
nor Talmadge, the banks will
transact no business @luring the
four day holiday ending March 9.
The Hubert ' Banking company
announced that algo in . accordance
with the national banking holiday
proclamations, it would ' not trans
act routine business until the
ciose of the four day period March
9 but the bank would remain apen
“for the convenience of our custo
mers” to make change only,
Athens Firms to
Co-operate With
Citizens in Crisis
Advertisements in Sunday’s DBan
ner-Herald carried announcements
from two leading Athens business
firms, The Piedmont Market and
Michael Brothers, Inc,, of their in
tention to co-operate fully with
citiens during the temporary fi
nancial stress.
Piedmont Market announced that
“In this particular stress fve beg
to assure wvou that we will gladly
accept your checks as usual in the
regular course of business,” under
the heading “Your Check Is As
Good As Cz2sh”.
Michael Brothe#s, Inc., adver
tised, “As an expression of our
-continuing and unwavering confi
dence in our. people, our institu
tions and our country, despite any
temporary situations that may
exist, we cheerfully invite you to
use your Michael’'s charge accounrt
freely. We will be only too glad
to nceept bank checks as payment
01 account and in payment for
merchandise purchased.”
NEW YORK—(#)—Smiles in
Wall street were worth almost
as much as dollars Monday A
banker got a rather hearty
giggle with the following:
Last Friday, he said, at one
of the savings bank branches
of New York's East Side, there
wis ‘quite a line of deposits
waiting to draw out cash. At
the end of the line a woman
appeared with a baby in her
arms.
“Please,” she asked, “will vou
let me go ahead?” '
Both men and women in the
line gave way, and in a few
moments the infant carrier had
her money. Shortly thereafter
another woman appeared, hold
ing a baby. She, too, went to:
the head of the line. "When
this had happened several
times, the paying teller put his
head out of the window and
closely scrutinized the baby.
“Nothing doing,” he said to
the wfoman with the finfant.
“Thig is the fifth time today
that baby has been up here.”
And it _ developed that a
thrifty = foreign-born mother
had been renting out her child
for 25 cents {o various women
who were in a hurry to with
draw their savings.
TODAY'’S BEST
HUMAN INTEREST
STCRY
Athens, Ca., Monday, March 6, 1933.
New York Clearing House Plans to Issue
Scrip For Depositors’ Use During Crisis;
Would Be Satisfactory Exchange Media
NEW YORK.— (AP) —What is
scrip, how does one gct it, and
how does one use it?
The answer to those questions
were being iearned by millions
Monday as bales of the freshly
printed emergency currency were
prepared for distribution.
Clearing House scrip, being pre
pared by the New York Clearing
House association, consists of pa
per certificates based on bank
deposits. They are issued by a
group of banks, rather than by
one banking institution.
Although details of the certifi
cate plan announced Sunday by
Mertimer Buckner, head of the
Clearing House association, have
not yvet been made public, it was
believed ti'e new medium of ex
change would be paid out by the
banks in lieu of the old. A depos
itor appearing at a bank to cash
a check wculd be given the. cer
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Ancient Wall to Be Trans
formed Into Japanese
Fortification. |
TOKYO, —(#)— Three Japanese
armies were turned upon Chinese
forces Monday in a campaign te
seize the whole eastern section of
the Great Wall of China, The Great I
pile which has been gurris&ned by‘
Chinese for more than 2,000 years |
is to be transformed into a iortifi-g
cation for the Japanosc-sponsoredl
state of Manchukuo. :
The Chinese were reponted muk-!
ing a desperate fight sto hold thul
wall, resisting much more strong
ly than they did in feeble attempts
to halt the victorious sweep of tha
Japanese over Jehol province. |
wanchiakow, one of the three im
portant passes in the wall south of
Jehol City, was occupied by the
14th infantry brigade under Maj.
Gen, Heijiro Hattori after Ditter
fighting. The Hattory vrigade toolz |
Longkow another pass, previously
after pushing southward frum{
Lingyuan, central Jehol City. |
Farther eastward the 16th In
fantry under Maj. Gen, Tadashi
Kawahara, which seized Jehol City
Saturday, was fighting its way to
to Koupeikow, the pass leading to
Peiping. On the east side the 33rd
(Conti=ued on FPage Three)
! The President of the United States |
| and the Governor of Georgia have pro- 5
claimed a Four-Day Bank Holiday which |
" will last through Thursday, March 9. Ac- |
' cordingly the Athens Clearing House |
i Banks can transact no business during
| said period. ;
| For the convenience of the Citizens of |
; Athens the Athens Clearing House Banks |
will open a “‘Change Depot’’ where bills [
| up to $20.00 may be exchanged for bills |
; and coins of lesser dencminations. The
“Change Depot’’ will be opened in the |
| old Athens Savings Bank Building on |
; Broad Street, and will be open from 9 .
| a. m. to 2 p. m., as long as the Bank Hol
i iday is in force. |
| THE NATIONAL BANK OF ATHENS
g THE CITIZENS AND SOUTHERN f
| NATIONAL BANK i
TO OUR CUSTOMERS:
. Under proclamation issued by the Pres
ident of the United States proclaiming a
legal holiday for all banks through Thurs
day, March 9th, this bank is forced to
suspend business until the holiday is
ended
For convenience of our customers, this
bank will be open for making change
only.
HUBERT BANKING COMPANY
(Private Bank—Notncorporated)
College Avenue Athens, Ga.
—ESTABLISHED 1832—
| tificates to the full amount of the
| cheek.
It would also be the money in
which pay checks were cashed, and
it would be accepted by mer
chantg, landlords, railroads and
others instead of the old cur
rency. Bankers said that since
the scrip would be accepted for
deposit at parvity by all clearing
house members, it would serve as
|a -satisfactory medium of ex
change. <
The certificates, which repre
<ent actual deposits, will be is
sued, it was believed, in denomi
nations ranging from $1 up. It
was the understanding here that
banke, when thev rveopen, migny
be permitted to pay out fractional
coin—-that is coins ranging from
pennies to “half dollars—to meet
the need for change.
Pending authoritative state
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| Atlanta Police Say Hen
| derson, McGee, Stanley
Slayings Solved. i
ATLANTA .—(#)—The congrega-|
tion of an Atlanta church luid‘}
{agide hymn books for shotgunsi
Sunday and cgplurca ‘a Negro
whom officers quoted later as
'con(essing two slayings and conr
ipliciry in a third. ‘
i Liputenant W. ‘A. Wells of the
'county police identified the Negro
as Rader Davis, 26.
Officers said Dayis told them he
broke in a suburban home a short
time ago, fatally wounded Mrs
|Sam H. Henderson with a shdt
zun, shot her husband and club
bed their baby and that he killed
W. E. Stanley, 78-year-old Rock
dale county farmer, and accom
panied Emmett Gibson, another
'{Negzo held here, when the latter
killed. Hamp McGee, recluse tax:
1 driver.
: The Rev. A. C. Peacock of Lhe
Central Christian church, a dceputy
sheriff as well as a minister, ad
journed his services when he was
informed of the presence of a sus
picious Negro in the vicinity, sent
|the men of the congregation home
for guns and himself led the
i (Continued on Page Three)
DANKS 70 RE-OPEN
10 MEET PAYROLLS,
CECRETARY STATES
Treasury Secretary Wood
in Says Where Possible
Scrip or Certificates to
Be Used For Payrolls.
IMMEDIATE ACTION
.~ PLAN OF TREASURY
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'Will Authorize Cash Issu
. ance Where No Means
. of Exchange Available.
g WASHlNGTON,—(®)—lmmediate
]smps to lighten hardship caused by
i the nationwide bank shutdown was
proimised Monday, Secretary Wood
in of the Treasury asserting that
banks would be reopened if neces
sary to permit payment of payrolls,
! He explained that fwhere pos
!.\iblc the payrolls would be met
| with clearing house certificates or
I serip issued by the local banks, but
lwhcre no such exchange means
lwas available, he woud authorize
{the issuance of cash to meet the
l emergency, :
| Woodin and his aids, the leaders
ol congress and President Recose
|\'l'll. himself were working hard at
iplans for action at the earliest pos
sible moment.
l At the Treasury, the officials
]Loncentmtod on drafting regula
'tions to put into effect the four
lduy bank Closing proclamation of
;thc president.
Representative Rainey, nexs
speaker of the house, summoned
a Dermocratic cacus Wednesday to
set up the controlling ways and
means committee immediately.
He and Senator Robinson of Ar
‘kansus the Democratic leader, both
iindicated immediate action on
whatever the President recommeids
Ifor the emergency, with a probable
recess then for a few days to work
!out i general program,
| Woodin said "we hope to have
leverything fixed today.”
Meets Governors
The president summoned about
{himm the governors of many states
:!': ©immediate cooperative plans
| with the national government,
’ At the capitol, senator Robinson
!:faid he understood the immediate
ll(-gislutiun to be brought up at ithe
lspm-x’u] session Thursday “will be
iluukin;.r toward the use of clearing
i house certificates by banks that are
lln moratoria to the extent of thei:
‘liquidity and authorization of a
:se;.n':-gatic-n of new deposits.”
| Secretary Woodin said the issu
'l:mcc of clearing house certificates
jto be used in the place of cash
lwould be local n each instance as
(would be script.
l He said there was insufficient
time for the government to issue a
ll:nirurm goript but that some med
|ium of exchange would be available
| promptly to the entire country.
i One of the first efferts of the ad
| ministration, he said, would be to
Iwork out a plan so that the use
iof checking accounts would be un
| bampered and this medium of busi-
Iness could, go forward as usual,
Woodin said that safety deposit
boxes and the postal savings would
iremain open during the banking
‘huliday. .
{ "He said that whether a clearing
| house certificate of one city would
be accepted by merchants in ane
other would depend upon the atti
itude of the person receving pay-
I ment but that he believed exchange
provision would be effected.
Huge supplies of certificates had
already peen printed by the Am
erican Bank Note company, in de
nominations of $5, $lO, S2O and SSO,
and every effort was being made
lto put the new system into opera
tion as quickly as possible, The
mechanical difficulties were enor
mous, but by Wednesday at least
or possibly earlier it was hoped
that banks in a number of cities
'would be paying out the new
“money.”
;l In the meantime, gold windows
it the Federal Reserve banks ths
I'll‘eusury and sub-treasuries, were
i closed, in keeping with the Presi
{dent’s proclamation and ali deal
ings in foreign exchange and inter
inatonul dealings in gold, silver or
;uu'rcncy were at a standstill in the
i United States. The principal for
{eign financial centers struggled
[with the problem of trying to re
[ sume international payments
| which were completely disrupted‘
| with official quotations on the dol
[ar lacking.
| On Gold Standard
| Some financial authorities were
linclined to regard the (‘nited
’Statcs as “technically” off the gold
!standard, although this was rieniedl
by Treasury Secretary Woodin in
I Washington.
The Wall Street security and
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Few photograph Saturday
caught President Roosevelt in this
pose, the gravity of problems con
fronting him deeply etched on hi
face, Acting with rapidity Sun
day, he conferred with his cabinet
and congressional leaded ind
then declared the four-da nat
ional holiday for banks, pending
the convening of the congres in
special session
FOUR DAY BANKING
HOLIDAY DECLARED
Is First Step of New Pres
.ident to Bring Order
From Confusion. ‘
WASHINGTON—(#)—The nation
Monday entered upon a four-day
modified bank holiday while Pres
ident Roosevelt, vesting himself
with war-time authority, axerted
the great powers of his office te
restore financial order out of econs
omic confusion.
The first step of a direct, prece=
dent-shattering offensive to bring
back the normal free exchange of
currency was taken Sunday night
by a Presidential proclamation
wuspending hanking operations
‘through Thursday, placing an em
bargo on exports of gold and pro
i hibiting the earmarking of gold
‘for foreign account.
l Monday Treasury officials pre
pared orders for the issuance ol
’mearing house certificates to be
tvsed as serip during the holiday
!;md Mr, Roosevelt and his advise
lers shaped an emergency legisla«
'tivo program* to be presented ta
icongress"in special session Thurs
day. .
l Governors who attended the in
auguration Saturday were called
Ito the White House hefore Xunch“
for a conference, with the .hanking:
lcrisis foremost of the topies for
discussion. The governors’ views
’were sought for the drafting 0!‘
Ithe remedial legislation ,whlcbl
|congress will be asked to enact
within a few hours after it meets
A quick succession of events
without parailel in peice time
brought forth two proclamations
from the White House Sunday as
'Mr. Roosevelt grasped the war
fix_time dictatorial powers he pledged
‘himself to seck if the situation
called for such bold action.
Meets Leaders
First he met with his cabinet
and then congressional leaders. A
proclamation convening congress
into special session at noon Thurs
day followed. Close to midnight
SR
(Continued on Page Two)
SMILES EVIDENT
AS LEADERS ARE
TOLD OF SECRET
WASHINGTON.—(AP)—A new
congress—the seventy-third—will
assemble Thursday at noon char
ged with che weighty responsibil
ity of meeting one of the most
serious crises in the nation’s proud
history.
At the call of President Roose=-
velt, issued Sunday in a brief
proclamation asserting that the
“public interest” requires its
presence, the Democratic-dominat
ed national legislature will meet
primarily to enact legislation that
will permit £n orderly reopening
of banks. 2
Before it in person, Franklin D.
Roosevelt may go with the pro
gram that he has drafted after
weeks of constant study for curing
the country’'s ills. That he will
depend upon his own telling ora--
tory to drive home to the legisla
tors his ideas, instead of the drone
of a reading clerk, has not defi
nitely been determined, but it has
been indicated for days that this
might be his policy. "
The first of the emergency pro
gram that will face congress is
near to readineds. In a brief mes
sage issued through a secretary
'following the proclamation, the
President said: /
“Anticipating the meeting of
congress on Thursday, I am pre=
paring an immediate program di=
rected to meet the present mone=
tary . emergency. It is, of course,
essential that the first business
before congress will be the pres=
ent banking and financial situa
tion.”
And, by his own movoments,
the President has allowed con=
gress just one day in which to
drive his program through. Tha
‘bank holiday which he proclaimed
@ few hours later will end Friday
‘morning and by that time the
President hopes that the climb
upward will have begun. If by
then the legislation has not been
jammed through, an extension of
the banking holiday may be
taken. P
T Program Secret e
~ What this program ° that has
‘been kept 50 secrét is no one oute
side of intimate advisors Kknow.
‘But through the long and tumule
tuous S unday the man
‘who occupies the White Ho%fl
carried on serenely, placating the
worries of those leaders in finance
and husiness whom he saw. Frowns
which they wore as they entéred
the White House had faded large
ly as they left. An almost frank
air of confidence shone from those
who had been permtited to.logk
beneath the covers of the “new
deal.” o
Once the banking situation is
out of the way, the problems of
congress will still be for from
solved, however. A final pockst
veto by President Hoover of the
independent offices bill, carrying
funds for the Veterans’ bureail
among other establishments, will
bring up early the question of
cutting allowances for the former
soldiers who have mnon-service
connected disabilities. o
The farm relief question, lefE
almost as it was six months ageo
by the expiring of congress, mq&@
be taken up again. TUnemploy=-
ment, foreclosures on farms “HAnd”
moderate priced homes, relief of
distress, war debts, tariffs, the
St. Lawrence waterway — all of
these and manifold other prob
lems awaiting the touch of tha
new administration. i
And, almost before it seia,,};{g
bearings, the congress may have
thrown before it a demand from
the Chief KExecutive—as he indi
cated in his inaugural address—a
demand for sweeping war-time
executive powers to carry on tha
fight against the depression, =
LOCAL WEATHER
Rain Monday night and
Tuesday morning. Warmer
Monday night and slightly
colder in west portion Tues<
day.
TEMPERATURE ;
Hlighest < ibe wids sragowss NG
LOWEBE i oo iidisig savaitii
MOAN % wiy o wvis wini s Hmnies u T
Nefmalii .o o oie oive oicas RN
RAINFALL e
Inehed. .0 0. @ oadases B a
Total since March 1.........0.00
Deficiency since March 1 .. 85
Average March rainfa11.....5.21
Total since January 1.......8.78@
Deficiency since January 1. 2,05