The Banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1923-1933, March 26, 1933, Home Edition, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texte COTTON - m—— ; ‘ oS G sE "L S s I’Wl 01. No. 64. B\ inster Of German Cabinet Denies Accusations Of American Jews I‘l LL ANNOUNCES U. S. DEBTS STAND ower Co. Service Charge Abolished, Killowatt Hour Rate Is Hiked Il | | | | | | ‘ : 1 ! : Commis-| üblic Service o T , gon Chairman Says ?']' sl Annual Savings Will| { | Be $300,000 CHARGE 5 INIMUM 1 OF SI.OO IS PLACED| ew Rate Reductions Range All the Way From, 2to 6 2-3 Cents { ATLANTA P The Georgia | . g ¢ commission Satur-| ke orders imination of the | Pow¢ ompany's service | Biiee ed the kilowatt | P | g meter readings| il ledufting the 10| - pt payment discount . ¢ 51 minimum charge, witi| s scale of kilowatt hours; meing from 6 2-3 cents down toi . { cents for all over| 00 kilowatt hours per month. ! ¢ ites, deducting the| 0 1 ent discount, are $1 for| brvi ce, fice cents per kill s the first 50 killo-! at three cents pep killo-g 1 for the next 150 killu-i I 1 two cents per kill vatt ) f all over 200 killo { 4 .’ edule provides aj of sl.ll for the| ] « tt—with the 11| [ ff for prompt pay-) nent | Jame Pe chairman of the! 0 id the revision \\'il;| ffect t tnnual saving of| 100,000 t company’'s resi- | t industrial p;l-'; No Line Rental ‘ ] so provides for | t e rental charge | 0 tomer and changes| ¢ sing the (Ivnmndl t industrial (~on.~'um-i The 1 npany, in a rnu;:h" probably \\nul(l[ ] lally in income fr t customers, 37.’:.““0[ it customers, and| f dustrial customers ' ]‘”' t chedule. | in a statement,| paid ¢ t the next 30 clllyS} ¢ evising lrates on| F commercial snr\'-i jee ied which, “con-| F ductions growing| "’ f fssued Saturday, | 5 in aggregate sum% ! $£500.000.” i N 4 5 | t ry said it had not| vhat action w (mldi 12 telephone undi 3 | - v rates provided | E ind that eonly on! sidential electric- | i | ¢ hours—would the| e at present l E hedule of r;uvs_l : service echarge : linimum vh:n‘gel i first five kilu\\'utt‘ ? 8 assessed. { S > Kwright, p:’(»sid('ntt : ipany, said he had rtunity to stluly! ¢ but knew th(\\'[ . “very mmsidem-i ' don’t know ho‘.\’i ; soing to stand any | n in jits income.| ; nings have ('on«i ff and we are ini S¢ condition now | vhen these x'uwsf . resent Rates ‘ rates, deducting | nt discount for N of bills, are 315 2¢, 5 cents per kil-; i the firts 50 kilo-i‘ 3 : cents pep kilowatt | next 150 kilnwan{ # - cents per killo- | I over 200 killo-| : t¢s. deducting the 10] Chape, : L. are $1 minimum! : sraduated seale of) 23 cop B¢S, ranging from 6‘ . N to a littie over 2| Bos. : over 200 kii]uwattl Tollowin, | Mmpany figured the. B, e ; ) showing compara- | Yo > Which are those the 10 per . cent . —— "4 on Page Twa) FULL Asscciated Press Service. Beer Legislation May Provide Greater Revenue Than Had Been Estimated, Dr. Doran, Alcohol Commissioner, Asserts WASHINGTON.— (AP) — The possibility of more revenue than had been estimated from the beer “legislation bill was held out Sat urday by Dr. James M. Doran, .n --dustrial alcoghol commissioner, who said he would announce next week regulations permitting uses of wine ‘to flavor non-alcoholic drinks. | Calcuiations by the Treasury and | Capitol Hiil sponsors of the modi fﬁcation act placed the amnual re lturn to the federal Treasury from Beer alone at from $100,000,000 to $150,000,000. No very definife fig ures were added when wine was lincludcd in "the legislation. ! While vineyard operators have [shown no haste to take advantage -of the provision that they ecan ’scll 3.2 percent wine — on the ;gl'ound that no palatable product can be made with low alcoholic content—distributors of carbonated iwatcr drinks have asked for a rul [ing. ~ The plan is that full-content }wine, generaliy running about 10 percent, would be diluted to the legal limit, | Dr. Doran said, in announcing that regulations for this new pro duct would be ready for promul 'gation soon, it should increase the itax vield. At the same time he said the preliminaries to distribution of beer after midnight April 6 were | going ahead smoothly and that ' hundreds of thousands of dollars }:’m taxes had been received already ‘by the Internal Revenue bureau. | EPTING DISCUSSES \ : | -~ FAILURE DF BiLL : L ‘ . . Says District Senator - Knows Why Clarke ~ Economy Bill Died Representative Eugene A. Ept ing of Clarke county, in a state ment given to the public today de clares that the bill abolishing the offices of tax receiver and collec tor for this county and creating the office of tax commissioner was killed in the state senate “for rea sons which the senator from this district, (Hamilton McWhorter of Lexington) is in better position to explain than myself". In addition, Representative lEpt ing declares that he is being crit icised for the bill’s failure of pass age in the senate as part of “prom ised punishment” of him, and an effort by the power company 1o “ruin pelitically one who dares to promote legislation which is under sirable 'to this powerful public utility monopoly, which has be come larger than the state by which it was created”. The companion bill to the bill which was not passed by the sen ate, was adopted by both houses of the legislature. It provides for abolition of the office of county treasurer and creation of a county depository, subject to referendum vote at the expiration of the pres ent term of the county treasurer. The other bill, to which Represen tative Epting refers in his state ment, passed the ‘house. Both bills were sponsored, he announced some time ago, in an effort to re duce county expenses. Representative Epting says in his statement that senators Trom the district in which counties af fected by proposed local legisla tion are located, according to tra dition. lo.x after pagsage of such bills in the senate, Senator Mec- Whorter, who is president of the state senate, represents Clarke, Wilkes and Oglethorpe counties. Representative Epting's state ment follows: EPTING STATEMENT | “To the people of Clarke County:‘ “Repeated demands have iwmﬂl made of me to explain why one as Clarke county's local bills wag not passed during the ,session of the General Assembly. Some crit-i icism of your representatives, es pecially myself, has been made and is being circulated among you. | “Your representatives. Mr. Wood and myself, did everything in our power to secure the passage of the local bills. They were passed by the House and sent to the Sen ate on February 3rd. “Although we exerted every ef fort to have the Senate committee report these hills out for passage by the Senate this was not done, : . e . (Continued on Page Two) T'HE BANNER-HERALD s O PRes BB R e a 0 S, y B R B R s B Seee PRSNGSR RS, N b B aomeetd S S &p R TSO 3 R R v ¥ T O RIR % ¥ S RN T gt S SRS i NN & % TR OGN R e bR RS R T S R SR AR ; SR oo B A L e, R S . a 8 e S e S Ry '552555355?57:'..:1:2:::-;:.::EE:.-,'? | ROREIRR 7 AT R e -.*-‘:’:s:s:zigfsizi"gif' :\, A e °<§‘ e e SRRy RlB LGRS Aok e SRR 23 N R R ,’5@73"‘.::15:5:2‘35‘&'»5?\(-3’ 2 G CRORR L SRR R R R iPR e R R 0 o 0 e‘v@%@ R .(~3l§'g DR. JAMES DORAN Attorneys in federal departments found the question and answer game over . interpretations of the new beer bill still on. Among those asked Saturday were: 1. What about boats plying riv ers bordered by states with differ ing laws relating to beer? The answer was that they could carry sealed beer .n interstate cormmerce, (Continued on Page Five) COLUMBUS WONAN IS FREED BY JURY ”Mrs. Ruth Gamble Is Ac - - - - | quitted of Complicity in , Husband’s Murder COLUMBUS, Ga. — (#) — Mus, IRuth Gamble was freed Saturday {of charges of complicity In her lhusband's murder. { A superior court jury that heard ‘evidence in the trial for two days acquitted the middle aged widow ’and mother of two children after deliberating the case for about lthree hours. The case went to: ‘t‘he jury at 1:40 and it returned 'the not guilty verdict at 5:05. ' The state charged Mrs. Gamble hired a Negro to Kkill her husband, promising to pay S2OO for the crime when she collected his in surance. The Negro has pleaded guilty to the murder. : Judge C. F. MeLaughlin charged the jury only on the law of mur der and of acquittal, disregarding any possibility of a verdict of manslaughter. | A. Jones Perryman, solicitor general, closed his summation with] a demand that the jury convict the widow of murder and accede to her request that she be given the death penalty if found guilty. | Mrs. Gamble in her unswaorn [statement to the jury Friday, }which constituted the sole defense, | §usked that she be perngitted to ljoin her ‘husband in death if con victed. ! Defense attorneys attacked the{ story of the chief prosecution wit-‘? ness, Andrew Hunt, Negro, who! told his story against the widow’ lon the stand. Sentencing or[ | Hunt was deferred until Mrs.' | Gamble’s case is disposed of. I The defendant’s husband. J. R. Gamble, Columbus grocer, was! shot to death the night of Feb-! jruary 7 as he left his store on| | Buena Vista road. * | The Negro, Hunt, testified Mrs.l Gamble plotted the crime, providea the shotgun and promised him S2OO upon ¢ollection of her husoand's insurance. Mrs. Gamble . protested that “I 1 loved Robert and he loved me” denied she knew anything about the killing. and said she knew Hunt only as a Negro who had done odd Yobs around the house and store. She said her married life had been one of unbroken hap piness. 3 i REPORTS “UNTRUE” ST. PIERRE.— (AP) —Reports that the bodies of two men, be lieved to be those of Captain Charles Nungesser and Captain Francois Coli, French aviators ‘lcst on an attempted trans-Atlan tic flight, had been found on this lisland. were said to be “untrue” here Saturday night. 2 Athens, GCa., Sunday, March 26, 1933, ATHENG BOY KILLED . ¥ NEWSPAPER OFFICE 4 e 1‘ Charlie Paul Dies in Local . o | Hospital Short Time As-i ter Being Shot Through Heart 1 THREATENED TO | KILL D. D. BEUSSEE James Hansford Is Slmi'l . - By Whitehall Pollceman’ Saturday Night | ’ ) Charlie Paul, 21, died at an Ath- | ens hospital Sunday morning at 1| o'clock after being fatally wound- | ed by Policeman D. D. Beusse at’ the Banner-Herald office Saturday | at midnight. ‘ Policeman Beusse was attempt-! ing to arrest the hoy who had run| underneath a porch on the westl side of the building, when Paul turned on him with a butcher knife, and the policeman fired. Paul had attempted to kiil 'his mother, Mrs. Bunnie B, Paul, man ager of the Annex hotel, during a drunken spree,’ according to police. Mrs. Paul called police, but the boy escapéd and ran to Poss’s gas oline service station nearby. From there, he came to the rear of Lhul Banner-Herald office. Four policemen were searching for Paul when Policeman Beussg discovered him underneath the porch. The boy flashed thd butcher knife which- he had used in threat ening several people at the hotel! and service station, and told thf‘[ policeman he would not be laken, alive, ! Bernstein Funeral Home is in| ‘charge of arrangements., { HANSFORD IS SHOT PPoliceman Ace Bone shot and slightly wounded James Hansford in attempting to stop - a fight at a dance in Whitehall Saturday night at about 10:30 o'clock. Hansford was carried to the Athens General hospital where he was treated for a wound in the back. Policeman Bone surrenderad to Clarke county officers, and is being held under SSOO bond. - COMES TO AN END | e s | By BEN F. MEYER | Agsociated Press Staff Writer. | ATLANTA, Ga—(AP)—A tur llhulvnt week in Georgia politics, filled with developments of far !reuching political = interest, came to an end Saturday with the gov ernor—the central figure—in Flor ida for a week-end rest and resi dents throughout the state study ing the affect of the fast-popping activities. Briefly, the developments were: 1. Governor Eugene Talmadge, by executive order, forced the price of license tags for all motor vehicles down to a flat rate of $3. The former range was a $11.25 minimum for passenger cars to a maximum of $1,125 for a few large trucks. 2. The name of Marcus Mec- Whorter, chief of the tag division, was stricken from the payroll by Governor Talmadge who sald Mc- Whorter had been quoted as say ing he could not, under the law, sell tags at $3. 3. A great rush to -buy the $3 tags — authorities estimate 50,000 tags sold during the week at s 3— after the governor's order became effective. 4. Publication of reports that the State Highway board was (Continued on Page Two) : LOCAL WEATHER A A T T 3 STI M MBS L 8125 Generaliy fair Sunday and Monday; little change in tem perature. TEMPERATURE MHighewt: .0 .50 i 3080 LWESE .« .. ii. Tl eBB 88, et il aiiiis i B DEOPIIRES . . civi Balivae 2 0.0 RAINFALL PIBERER. . i ie ek Twine sß] Total since March 1....... 2.93 Deficiency since March 1.. 1.42 Average March rainfall.... 5.21 Total since January 1.....11.69 Deficiency since January 1 2.52 1 | v I L . - . Ciear Distinction Drawn | By Secretary Hull Be . . tween Nations Paying ! ’ Debts and Defaulters . FRANCE EXPRESSES Hull Statement Comes as France Decides to Start . - | Debt Negotiations 5 l By F. G. VOSBURGH | Associated Press Staff Writer , WASHINGTON,—(P)—A definite 'distin(-tion wag drawn Saturday by .[tho Roosevelt administration be |twm\n diseussing revision -of in !war debt with nations whieh have met their payments - and with France and other countries now in default. i This stand was made known ae ’thc State Department here, Secre tary Hull in answer to inquiries said: i “As to the governments that are iin default or have deferred theis payments cn the intergovernment lal debts I can not say at the pre sent time that we would sit in with those governments in futur: discussions of their debts)” Only Friday the British govern ment through Ambassador Lind say opened negotiation for revision 'of its debt on which full payment lhas been made to date . despite Great Britain's plea that the set ltlements should be changed. ‘ The Hull statement indicating a lless receptive attitude toward na trons in default was made at about 'the same time the French. govern ment was announcing in Paris that it would begin negotiations. for re vision of its debt with the. arrivas iof its new ambassador, Andre Le ferve De La Boulaye, who will take up his duties April 12, State department officials declin ed to indicate whether Secretary Hull’s statement meant that the I'iench case would be heard only ou condition that the installment of more than $19,000,000 now more tha» three months overdue be paid first. List Of Defaulters The defaulting governments on December 15 were: || ißelgium, $2,125,000 interest; Bs tonia, 21,000 principal (legally post poned) and $245,370 interest, France, $19,261,432.50 interest; Hun gary, $12,285 principal (legally post |poned) and $28,444.35 interest; Po ‘|land, $232 000 principal - (legally postponed) and’ $3,070 980 interest. | These sums totaling about $25, looa.ooo represented the first de faults on the American war debts, At the same time Secretary Hu'l made his statement, it was mads clear that the American governmen. will be glad to discuss with France or any other nation broad questions involving tariffs, exchange restric tions and other trade barriers with a view to insuring the successor ol !the_ forthcoming economic confer ence in London. t The cooperation of France is re garded as highly important. In re lcent months numerous quota limi [ (Continued on Page Two) f TODAY’S BEST : HUMAN INTEREST < STORY e e -t 5 eP 1 A o AUGUSTA, Ga. — (AP) — Time has marched on leaving fire horses behind, and therein arises promise that the bells of Bethany church will toll again. Forty five years ago the chimes were silenced by or ders of city council because the horses in a nearby fire sta tion habitually mistook their ringing for alarms and ran un der the harness racks. Firemen tried diligently to teach them the difference be tween fire bells and church bells but never succeeded. Fin ally the men grew weary of having their -steeds break out of their stalls with every church service and the council came to their relief. = < ! Now, there is not a fire horse left in Augusta and au thorities are considering the church petition that the order be removed. Business Increase of Ten or Fifteen Per Cent, Expected Soon by Willard, To Put Railroads Back on Feet Again CINCINNATI — (AP) — Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore and Chio, said Sawurday that an increase of from ten to fifteen pe« cent in their business woild make everything “all right” for the rail roads again. The a tions in tituted by Presi dent Roosevell, he added, should bring ‘“substantial improvement” within two or three months, with the récent bank holiday marking the bottom of the depression. Freight rates ultimately must go down, he added, but he said to re duce them now would ruin the roads, still carrying 70 per cent of the freight of the country. He had nothing to say about any possibility that the government might operate the roads. “I'm not despondent or discour aged about the railroads,” he said, as he came here to inspect Cincin nati’s new $41,000,000 Union Rail road terminal. “If the railroads could get ten or fifteen per cent more business, they'd be all right. Only the stockholders are suffer ing now”: . But as conditions are, he said the roads are handling only half of the business they are equipped teo Landle, “Before 1928 everyone was asking the railroads to provide more equipment, There was not too much then. There is, however, to much of everything now, and if this country was going to continue on a 60 per cent basis we would undoubtedl: ‘have to scrap some of railroads, iI don’t believe, though, that this Holds Conference of Rail way Experts and Con gressional Leaders WASHINGTON —(®)— Com- | plete enactment of Dlregident Roosevelt’s program by June ‘ is the aim of Speaker Rainey, | who declared his belief Sat- ‘ urday that “the depression will end when that is accomplished. Success so far, the speaker told newspapermen at a con ference, has been ‘“due to tre mendous—almost yYnanimous— popular support.” ‘ WASHINGTON. —(®)— Mcre of the Roosevelt speed was brought - {into action Saturday to hasten the draft of legislation for overhaul ing railroad law, a program the | President plans to put before con gress next week. > He called in railway c¢xperts jand special advisors. He sent for . |congressional - leaders. The first result was consent on the part of IChairman Rayburn of the house interstate commerce committee to [hold up his own rail legislation for inclusion into one general rail bill ! Next, Donald Richberg, general i counsel of the Railway Labor Ex !ecutives asgociation, emerged with lan announcement that his organ izatzion ~would -meet here ‘[hurs day to take a stand on rail re form. ] It developed at the White Housel |that two concrete plans have been‘ !put before Mr. Roosevelt. One | would have a federal coordinator with power to direct reorganim-l tiong and consolidations wholesale and to effect economy and eftlci-i | ency. The second would call for ‘pooling railroad interestd for re-l division into seven big systems. ! Main Proposals These two proposals stood out from a great number of plans for solving | lroad situation | which %ﬂn formation | privately ‘for s knd which are now being pressed to the atten tion of the President. i In the background of these is i the central program which was { aseribed to the President when |last at Warm Springs, Ga., before | taking office—a program for one {man direction of all transportation | agencies—rail, highway, air and fwater. This genegal idea was ad { vocated alwn in the veport of the} { transnortation committee nn which | twlt tha late Caivin Cnolidge. Al-] [ fred E. Smith and other pation ia!'\' known mﬁl\. ! » The seven-=ane n'an was brouehi up to the White House Saturiay bv Frederick A, Prince of Poston. ‘He and Robert Jackson, serretary of the Democratic national com- I - (Continued- on Page Two) A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday. %%g e e e R R R B sy By R g Bt : 5e E - & ] o e e i e § , P e e i R e T B PR i e 2 S:T:-:- Sl l/ e ] DANIEL WILLARD country is going to stay on a o 0 per cent basis.” BUSINESS BRIEFS WASHIGTON-— (AP)— Revenue freight loadings for the week ended March 18 were 449,712 cars, an in crease of 11,899 over the preceding week American Railway associa tion announced Saturday. Increas (Continued on Page Six) | 1 ' § ; S ———— . Body of Young Aviator - Will Lie in State After Arrival Here e \ Funeral services for Lieutenant Edward N. Hamilton, who lost | his life while on duty with the‘ Army Air Corps at Balboa, Pana lma Candl Zone, March 14, will be conducted from First Methodist {church this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The body of ‘the - young aviator will be brought to Athens from Atlanta Sunday morning and wﬂlg lie in state at the church from 1 o'clock until the hour of the fun-! eral, Lieutenant Hamilton will be bur fed with military honors. Five planes from Langley Field, Vir ginia, will fly here for the ser-' vices and will form an air egcort to Oconee cemetery for the fun eral procession. The planes will circle the cemetery, dropping flowers to the grave, after which they will return to Fort Benning, Georgia. The plnaes will come to Athens under authority of General Edward H. King, commander of Fourth Corps Area of the United States Array. They will be under com-’ mand of Lieutenant R. R. Brown and will arrive in Athens at about 3:15 o'clock. The planes are lo cated at Fort Benning for man euvers. . Dr. Lester Rumble, pastor of the IF.‘rst Methodist churéh, assisted by IRuv. L. B. Jones, pastor of 'Yuung Harris Memorial chureh, will conduct the services. Lieuten ant Hamilton was a member of | the First Methodist church. Thu' active pallbearers will be John| ißurns, Lawrence J. Costa, Law- | rence H. Costa, Joseph L. Costa,! ’Chappellf' Matthews, vernon ] 'Smith. Mell Stephenson, jr., Mil- | Imn Leathers. An honorary v.\t(‘n{t,’ | will comprise officers of the l'ui-j: [versity R.OO, 7T. C.. High .\;vhoul: iulﬂcers staff, American Legion, | Resérve Officers Corps, Order nf]‘ fDeMoluy. coaching staff, University | of Georgia; Prof. E. B. Mell, | principal of Athens High school; | Dr. W. W. Brown former ceach,! Athens High school; Ben T. Epps,l Epioneer Athens aviator who gave‘ Lieutenant Hamilton his first fly ling Ie: sons: Prof. Glenn W. Sut ton, Prof. J. W. Jenkins, Presi dent 8. V. Sanford, University cf Georgia; T. W. Reed, registrar of the Uriversity; Rupert -Maxwell and Nathan Cox, who were fellow students and athletes when Lieu-i tenant Hamilton was in schooi. | Lieutenant Hamilton is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Hamilton; two brothers, Ken neth J. Hamilton and “VVﬂ}lam 3. Hamilton; his grandparents, Dr. and Mrs. W. T. Hamilton; sev (Continued on Page Two) HXE EDITION f \ N 1 POLICE SHOW KEWa l 3 ! § Men Seem Fit and No Complaints Made. Ger man Officials Attempt To Disprove Rumors 7,000 COMMUNISTS | PROTEST TO CONSUL | e No Serious Disorder Oc curs as Crowd Stages Parade in New York By LOUIS P. LOCHNER : Associated Press Staff i Correspondent. l BERLlN.—(AP)—Captain Her= iman -Goering, cabinet minister iwi'_hout portfolio, redeemed his pledge Saturday to permit foreign |c,-m'ruspondents to see and talk to | prominent arrested Communists |and other members of the left in |order that they might satisfy | themselves that the prisoners were lnoither dead nor injured. The imprisoned men displayed lby the police showed no evidence | of having been hurt nor did they make any serious complaints. Captain Goering mads the pledge in an interview in which |l he asserted that he would “never lst.:md for persecuting a man sim ply because he is a Jew” and that ‘foreigners visiting Germany this summer wuold enjoy the fullest freedom. , Referring to protests in the :L'nited States against alleged mal« lu‘eatmcnt of Jews, the cabinet i minister said; “Every German | smiles when he learns that on next ’Mnnduy prayer - meetings will ba_ held in America.” | In their visits to arrested Com imunists the foreign correspond= ents were escorted by Rudolf Diehls, chief of the criminal po lice. They were taken first before the cell of Ernst Thaelmann, Communist member of the Reich=« stag and a presidential candidate last year. 5 i Physically Fit o “You'll observe that Thaelmann | looks physically fit,” the police chief said. “That he is not spirft=_ ually comfortable need not sur= prise you, for Thaelmarn does not | like it that he who regards him ' self as a political prisoner is in 'the same jaii with criminals. 1 ] “However, as he has been tho"‘ il( wder of the party accused of in—‘i, | citing the Reichstag fire, that cane (not be helped. Thaelmann further ' complains that he does not like l[he reading matter given to him.” Here Herr Thaelmann, who had stood quietly looking ut thé cor- # respondents, rather amllﬁedhf;; walked to his cot from which he took a volume entitled ““Jolly Tales From Swabla."” TN | He handed it to Chief Diehls, who said: “We can talk about that afterwards.” 5 The Communist leader decllnedt., to permit photographers to snap. him and also remainsd mum igs ward the correspondents. To the query, “Have you any complaint with reference to your food or physical well-being?' He ‘shook his head. He looked well. Gl In Chief Diehis’ office the eorss respondents next found Carl Von Ossietzky, a Jewish man of letters and editor of the radical Welt buehne; Ernst Torgler, Reichstag floor leader for the Communists; and Ludwig Renn, militant pati<. fist. ' 3 Tells of Treatment - Herr Von Ossietzky politely in« troduced himself to every -visitor. He stated that his treatment was no different from that accorded anyvbody tkaen into protective ars rest. He seemed to take his. situa< tion good naturedly. Herr Torgler specifically denied to the Associated Press that, ¢s reported, he had been beaten by & Nazi storm trooper. . “Nothing whatever happened to. me,” he said, “for I surrendered myself to the police.” e Herr Renn, who stood defiiantly in the police chief’s office, seemed uninclined to talk much but he did complain of the food. “These men could not be better cared for if they were under God's personal - protection,” Chief Diehls said after the prisoners had beem led away. “In fact some of thent would have fared badly if we had not arrested them protectively.. &::! man like Torgler has high human qualities, which fact will certainly, be taken into account.” e The police chief estimated tha§ (Continued on Page Twe) i

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The Banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1923-1933, March 26, 1933, Home Edition, Image 1