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\Warfare Breaks Out Over Naming Successor To Admiral Moffett
KEY TO DISARMAMENT IS SOUGHT
['lub Owners Optimistic On Eve Of Baseball's Annual Spring Opening
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ervice Aviation 4
ILEY ON STAND ‘
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rigible Macon s leenl
inal Inspecion Before
aiden Flight i
WASHINGTON. (.»\l‘)—-~llvports|‘
navy officer who is nop a;
¢ named successor to
ke Admiral William "A. M()ffvt[i
m of the AKron trugvd_\'m'
f of the bureau of :wrml
] I ouched off the lnng—|
( contest between the;
\ s and the flying |
( he service. ‘
i Bingham, president of
National Aeronautical zlsso—}
t and former Republican
from Connecticut, assert-
T 1 he has “dsclared war
to keep an aviation
! ! mand of its air ser
'he aviation forces are gather
ehind Captain John L. Tow-
L a veteran of the Navy trans
flight of years ago, for
T post. Bingham and as
€S USSe that Towers was
man recommended "by Admi
\Moffett as his successor.
1 fl enthusiasts also are
ed ey said, Navy officers
0 Ity is seamanship, are
nt upo iking full cnl}imund
\ ¢ aviation branch and to
1 r ends will put one of
ir ow numbel in charge of
of aeronautics.
¢ mes - are - undrestood
V en recommended to
pL¢ Swanson and the same
( that none of these
! ever had actual airplane
WILEY TESTIFIES
hsHURST, N. 3 (AP) -
! Commander Herbert
\ Muesday told the naval
g into the wreck of
\kron that he now believes
sed by ‘‘the severe
i few seconds be
gible crashed was
el tail striking the
I he based his opinion
that he had not felt
| l 'w through the con
the *“feel of the
different from any he
xperienced before, and
! not be sure of the
( i which events oc
-1 before he was washed
P into ‘the water.
he had thought the
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ORGIA HALL MOVE
CLARKE GAINING
EADWAY EACH DAY
ent in Clarke county
3 the quota assigned for
! t Warm Springs is
entum daily. Another
held Tuesday morn
ieorgian hotel by the
I the committee head
! G. Dudley to
3 quota,
e committee mem
. canvassing but a
substantial sum was
¢ proposed that Geor
-lat is to be known as
E i 8l Warm Springs.
has been highly com
’ President Roosevelt
“xpected that the entirve
I be announced as rais-
V. weeks,
esident Roosevelt has
i to Warm Springs
' ood of more “than ten
gl has become the
fiter of the nation for
tspecially since Roose
i Minated and elected
i He will continue to
and Warm Springs at
I Year and these visits
i the eyes of the nation
-
Sbrings is destined to be
: ol the greatest medical
: ! the nation and the peo
‘hens and Clarke eounty
"t 1o have their share in
: ng, so all are urged to
v to the fund for Georgia
THE BANNER-HERALD
FULL Asscuciated Preés Service.
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Freight Train Added
As Business Improves
ATLANTA, Ga.—(AP)—The
Southern Railway announced
that c«ffective Tuesday an ad
ditional daily freight train
had been added between Ma
con and Atlanta due to in
creased business on the line.
Heretofore there has been only
one freight train between the
two Georgia cities.
NATIONAL PASTIME
BELIEVED DUE FOR
COME-BACK 1N 33
Hot Competition Seen in
Both Big Leagues. South
ern Opens Tuesday
By HERBERT W. BARKER
NEW YORK —(AP)— An un
precedented number of the might- |
est players in the game will be onl
jthe sidelines when, 15 clubs, base-'
ball’s upper-crust, open the major'
league season Wednesday in eightt
cities, |
Through injury, illness, or some
other cause, such famous figures
as Kiki Cuyler of the Chicago
Cubs, Travis Jackson of the New
York Giants, Del Bissinette of the
Brooklyn Dodgers, Don Hurst of
the Phillies, Rogers Hornsby of
the St. Lcuis Cardinals and Dick
Coffman of the St. Louis Browns
will be conspicuous by their ab
sence when the firing begins.
And four others, Glenn Wright
of the Dodgers, Pinkey Whitney of
the Phillies, Jimmie Foxx of the
’hiladelphia Athletics and evep
the great Babe Ruth himself were
listed as doubtful starters,
But despite the impressive toll
the injury jinx already has taken,
every club in the National and
Ametican leagues faces the new
campaign with optimism and hop«
—and a few with real confidence
‘ The greatest shuffle of player
talent in the history of the game
has left both leagues with appar
ently justified prospects of the
closest pennant fights in years.
Hotter Competition
The world champion New York
Yankees, with their “varsity” un
changed and their reserve power
holstered by such promising play
ers as Brennan, Van Atta, Weber
and Walker, remain the club teo
beat for the American league
bunting but Washington, the
Athletics and Cleweland’s Indians
'9l] are prevared to give the title
lholdersx much greater competitionr
than they got a year ago. Wash
iinglon. led the youthful shortste -
Joe Cronin, bartered players wit™
reckless abandon during the off
season and emerged with what
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ATHENS MOTHER IN
APPEAL TO LOCATE
HER MISSING SON
Mrs. Bessie Chandler, of
Athens Tuesday appealed to
the newspapers of the sout
east to assist her in locating
her son, Norburn, aged 13, who
disappeared from his home
here April 4.
The lad was described by his
mother as having been dressed
in dark blue trousers, light
blue shirt, blue zipper jacket,
when he disappeared. He is
five feet, 8 inches in height,
weighs 141 pounids and has
brown eyes and light hair.
Norbun was to have met his
. mother at the Athens High
school on the afternoon of
April 4, after he he had gone
home from his own school,
Childs street, where he is in
the sixth grade. He was seen
waiting at the High school,
Mrs. Chandler said, but was
not there when she arrived.
The Chandler residence is 198
. West Dougherty street.
Norbun is believed by his
mother to have caught a ride
* out of the state, possibly to
Birmingham, Ala’, where he
has a ball player friend whose
name shé could not recall.
‘Norbun left home once before,
_ after a short visit to Atlanta.
- Mrs. Chandler appealed to the
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As if in toast to the new deal which his father sponsored, John Roosevelt, son of the President, up
ends a battle of “three-point-two” to quench his thirst while attending the Hunter Trials, Bradley Farms,
Md. That's John at the extreme right.
ADOPT FORMAL PLAN
FOR EXTRA SESSION
Poll Is Taken on Basis of
Session Expiring After
12 Days
I A session of the legislature of
| not more than 12 day<, on a per
!diem basis, is the a.m of advo
lcates of legislative action on beer
ifor revenue, it was revealed here
Tuesday by Representative Eu
{geno A. Epting of Clarke. \
i Al the same time, Mr. Epting
ls.n‘d he has been notified by Rep
resentative Reese Watkins of
| Oglethorpe county, that he will
Ivotu for beer at a special session.
Mr. Watkins was reported to have
urged Governor Talmadge in At
lanta Monday to call a special ses
sion. Comment is being nlade
| throughout the state on the re
ive\rsul of sentiment in rural sec
|4tiuns, heretofore regarded as the
{ last bulwark of the drys. Among
!tho legislators in this section
Iwho will vote for beer are Miles
Collier of Madison, Roy Thrasher
of Oconee, and B. W. Boyd of
Greensboro, all Talmadge counties
in the last gubernatorial cam
ip:;ign.
| Mr. Epting said Tuesday that a
formal application to the gover
nor to call a twelve-day session
for beer legislation went out by
mail from Athens Monday night.
Thesc agreements will be address
tcxd.tu the governor, and include
the promise of the signors to vote
for beer and adjourn the session
at the expiration of twelve days.
'"Phe session will be on a per diem
basis, Répresentative Epting and
other advceates havirg been con
| vinced the governor will call a
session under such a plan.
FLOOR LEADER URGES
[ GOVERNOR TO MAKE CALL
ATLANTA, Ga.——(AP)—\Redifi-
Atrihution of state income and pas
lsage of a beer hill in a special
session were urged in Atlanta by
Representative Roy Harris of
Richmrn2 county, who said he
came to the capital to present to
tHe governor a plea to call the
assembly.
He proposed diversion of $2,500,-
000 a year from state highway
funds to other purposes, the loss
to be made ¢ in part at least by
passage of the automgbile license
tag bill favored by the house at
the recent regular session, and by
a measure to stop gasoline. “boot
legging.”
“It would be a shame to call an
extra session to consider only beer
legislation,” said Harris, “when
the State Asylum at Milledgeville
‘has not been able to pay its gro
cery bill since January and Bts
ereditors are about to cut Off the
institution from further credit,
and when public . schools al over
the state are being forced to close
because they do not have any
| money. Sk e e i
S R dlath -t et
Foo e PR - S
Athens,, Ga., Tuesday, April 11, 1933,
“BARMAIDS? NEVER,”
YELL BARTENDERS IN
WARFARE FOR UNICON
NEW YORK —(AP)— Bar
maids? Never! L4y
Until the last mug is scut
tled, the Bartenders’ Union will
stand on a principle: The hand
that rocks the cradle shall
never tap the beerkeg.
“Take women into the
union?” shouted President
John Speciale of Local No. 3,
his expression one of horror.
“They've gQt no business be
hind a bar!”
“Just imagine”’—he waved
his hand—"just imagine a wo
man going into the ice box and
rolling a keg aroynd. No, she
couldn’t stand it.”
Highway Department
Shguld {-l l)B‘ Cut
0 ave big Lut,
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Gov. Taimadge Says
By BEN F. MEYER
Assiciated Press Staff Writer.
EASTMAN, Gh.—(AU)—Gover
nor Eugene Talmadge says the
State Highway department em
ploys “too many” engineers and
that their number could be re
duced one-third and the highway
system still be given proper sup
ervision.
Speaking at the commencement
exercises here Monday night at
the Dodge County High school,
the governor said that to 'his
“utter amazement”’ he found *“300
engineers® on the payroll of the
Highway department.”
For about 10 days, the chief
executive hds been studying the
April-May-June budget of the
State Highway department and he
gave a broad hint in his speech
that it would be reduced.
To the governor, whe said he
had carried every militia district
in Dodge county in every state
wide race he ‘ever made, his ap
pearance here was somewhat of a
homecoming.
He has lived for many years in
the adjoining county of Telfair
where he farmed and practiced
law and in the throng which at
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" LOCAL WEATHER
Cloudy with showers Tues
day night and probably Wed
nesday morning in sdytheast
portion. Cooler in north por
tions Tuesday night.
e S it
TEMPERATURE
BHGHOM . i o soo e o 8050
SOWEL o vds T b s e sBIO
MeRI L s . s v kisins vonsstl
Nopmßlo ot v, 69,0
: RAINFALL ;
Inches last 24 h0ur5........ 0.00
_ Total since April 1........ .91
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oL ESMEN REPORT
NEW Y MEMBERS
!
Lamkin Division Forges
Ahead With 21 New
‘Members and $391.50.
|
| The second report meeting in
the Athens Y. M. C. A. member
ship campaign Monday night was
attended by 51 salesmen. The
meeting was marked by enthusi
asm and determination to drive
steadily ahead. Reports showed
that memberships were being se
cured from a number of individu
als who are not included on the
prospect lists.
l It was agreed that while the
salesmen should interview those
whose names are included in the
prospect lists and whose cards
they have selected they should
i not . pass up individuals that they
|might think of or meet whom they
lthink might be interested.
Division “M,” with E. E.
YLamkin as manager, forged ahead
'in production by 21 memberships
land subscriptions for $391.50. This
;division angl Division “C,” man
aged by Major Colley and Dr. J.
|C. Wardlaw, led in attendance
| with 13 salesmen present <€ach.
| High production hongrs for both
| memberships and the amount of
lto go out and thorough sell those
lmo‘ney involved went to sules-‘
ip:n‘tners E. E. Lamkin and Eu
' gene Lumpkin of Division “M.” ‘
! The report of last night's meet-}
iing' totaled 37 memberships and
15 subseriptions for $641,
| In appealing to the s:ilvsmen{
| whom they see, General Manager
!Ahit Nix-: referred to thg very es—i
:fwtive work being done by mem
:hvl‘s of the Y. M. C. A. staff.
| The program of the assocation is
'{lwing fitted to the needs of all
igl‘uups of its membership regard
{less of age or position.
f In connection with his reference
'to the sacrificial service being
;rvndered by the staff he inform-‘
{ed the workers that no regular
| salaries are being paid, but that‘
lthe members of the staff had got
'ten together and have arranged
!that for the good of this vital
'eause they are going to get along
iun the association's income with=
{nllt increasing its indebtedness. He‘
{referred also to the fact that the
[ association’s operating budget has
ih(\en decreased cver 50 percent to |
‘help meet emergency needs.
| Additional cards were taken by
|a number of salesmen and they
lleft the meeting with a spirit of|
| determination to make the best|
possible report as they again as-|
’semble Tuesday night at 6:30 fonj
ttheir third report meeting. |
Ciearing House Banks
To Close Saturdays at 12
Beginning Saturday, April 15,
the elearing house banks of this
city, the Naticnal Bank of Athens
and the Citizens and Southern
National bank, will close at 12
o'eloeß noon on Saturdays during
Cooking Schocl Opens in Seney-Stovall
Chapel Tuesday; Celebrates Forty-first
Anniversary of Rogers Stores Founding
It's a far ery fßm the one store
opened by the late L. W. Rogers,
in Atlanta, Ga,, on April Ist, 1882,
to ‘he nearly four hundred stores
almost two huandred of them with
wear markets, which make up the
prosent day preat organization o
the Rogers Stores, all of which arc
joming in the forty-first anniver.
sary celebration df this pioneer
grocery firm, marked in Athens by
the staging of a mammoth cook
ing ‘school "at the Seney-Stovall
Chanel.
Almost from the founding of the
first store, it is pointed out, Mrvr
Rogers realized that expansion to
many units would make large
buying possible, In those days the
operation of more thdn one store
by the same individual or compa
1y was an untried adventure, so
the start was» not so easy as it
might appear today.
o“The people of the Southeast
had been accustomed to buying
their food from other established
merchants, and the most difficull
problem confronting the new or
ganization was that of making the
people want to buy from the Rog
’ers stores” said Scott W. Allen,
’present head of the big Rogers
iorganization, in referring to the
Imrly days of the company,
I No Bad Accounts
Very obviously Mr. Rogers had
the right idea for overcoming this
handicap, for queting from an in
terview given by him in 1810 we
learn that ‘staple - articles werc
marked down below actual cost te
‘get peaple accustomed to coming
to our store. “They Kknew the ar
‘ticles were worth more money, but
they were suspicious, and had to
he coaxed and rea‘sured. What's
the matter with these goods was
the invariable question. But the
cash arrangement accounted so:
Itlw low prices we were able to
i(il:-lrg('. We turned over our goods
Talmadge’s Lack of Leadership and
Opposition to Measures of General
Welfare, Ham-Strung Session - - Park
MACON, Ga, —(AP)— Govern
or Talmadge, the representation of
rural Georgia and lobbyists are
plame for the general,assembly’s
failure to get at the ills of the
he termed the railrue of the recent
legislative sessjon.
Addressing students of Mercer
University, he said most of the
blame for the general asembly’s
faiulre to get at the ills of the
state must be laid at the door of
Governor Talmadge’s “lack of
leadership and actual opposition to
measures of general welfare.”
Criticizing the rural representa
tion, he said the assembly failed
“hecause itw as made up of Geor
gians—true representatives of the
people from whom they came.”
He assailed the organization ot
the legislature with its members
“elected by a wpinority of the peo
rle of the state,”” and declared
the influences of lobbying “pushed
and pulled the members from sid:
Home of Justice
Agent Dynamited
In New York City
NEW YORK—(AP)— A dyna.
mite explosion early Tuesday
wrecked the front of the home of
William Geisler, Department of
Justice agent who is engaged in
confidential investigations here for
the government.
The blast broke windows in 15
houses nearby and threw a resi
dential neighborhood of Elmshurst,‘
Queens, into panie. No one was
hurst.
Geisler, who said he say three
automobiles speed past the house
shortly before the explosion, re-.
fused to tell detectives the nature
of the investigations he has been
making.
“They are of a confidential na.
ture,” he said. |
Ceisler’'s wife and daughter were
asleep and he was sitting in hil;
living room when the blast roeked
the neighborhood. It tore the
shattered every window in it. The
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—sc Sunday.
cuickly, making a small profit, bul
a sure profit,”
“Then we do not have to charge
off bad accounts, which are insep
erable from the operation of many
other :tores. Guar profit comes
from the advantage we have in the
original cost price from buying it
large quantities, from lower
freight, because of bulk shipments
and from the saving on bad ac
counts.”
“This situation applicable twen.
ty-two years ago when there wers
only thirty Rogers stores, holds
true today,” Mr. Allen pointed oat
“They are the fundamental prin
cipals'® he said, “upon which
chain stcre organizations have
been built,”
The year 1896 marked the .first
year of expansion. From that tima
on, as may be seen by the record
of growth given below, expension
wag very rapid; in 1893 1 store;
1900, 9 stores; 1905, 14 stores,
1910, 37 stores; 1915, 54 stores:
1920, 103 stores, 1925, 218 stores;
1930, 408 stores; 1931, 372 storeg;
1932, 382 stores,
. Thirty-two stores in Alabama
were sold in 1931,
In addition to the 382 stores
operated at this time, there ‘was
179 meat markets operated by the
company.
“Although expansion in tha
numbeér of units is not sp rapid at
this' time as it has been during
some stages = the tendency today
is teward super-stores,” said Mr.
Allen, *ln other words, rather
than have two or three small units
in a neighborhood, recent devel
opments have proven that one
large, efficiently operated store,
composed of several departments
is the more profitable.”
At the death of Mr. Rogers in
1914, Mr. Allen became general
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‘to side until the poor fellows didn’t
know which way to turn,”
~ Representative Park dsserted
the legislature did not represent
equitably the people of the statuy
but rather the rural minority.
“The trouble was that the legis
lature was composed of Georgians,
men who reflect the character of
‘the people from whom they came,”
he continued. “If we heard men
murdering the king’s English,
talking coarsely or using profani
ty, it was because that is what
Ithey are accustomed to and they
were representing the people who
sent them. .
“I'm not talking so much about
the entertainments ‘and liquor
parties—certainly there was a good
deal of that in the hotel rooms
and some of them got pretty wild
—but of the lobbies and their in
fluences brought to bear upon the
legislature, And that was becausa
of the character of the legislation
before the body.”
Austrian Dictator
Joins Delegates of
Germany in Italy
VIENNA — (AP) — Chancellor
Engelbert Dollfuss’s flying trip to
Rome Tuesday, where German
government leaders already are
visiting Vatican and Italian gov
ernment chiefs was linked in some
quarters with Premier Mussolini’s
campaign for revision of post-war
treaties, ;
It brings together representa
‘tives of the three principal nations
which have been displeased with
the frontier lines set up after the
world war. It also brings togethe:
the leaders of three dictatorial
governments, Chancellor Dollfuss
having rued alone in Austria for
the last month’
An official ‘announcement Mon
day night said Dr, Dollfuss would
visit Mussolini. There were rum
ors that he would talk with Cap
tain Hermann Goering, Nazi mem
ber of the German cabinet, who is
in Rome, concerning the establish
ment of an auxiliary police force
in Austria similar to that institut
ed in Germany under Captain Goe.
rnig’s direction. e
Dr' Doilfus is going to Rome for
the same announced purpose that
MACDONALD'S PLAN
FOR ISUAMAMENT
AEINE CONSIERED
Roosevelt Seriously Con
sidering British Proposal
As Possible Key to Euro
pean Disarmament Dead
lock :
THREE INVITATIONS
HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED
Violation of Paris Peace
Pact Would Bring World
Consulation
WASHINGTON.— (AP) — The
Roosevelt administration is seri
ously considering a possible key
to the European disarmament
deadlock, the proposal of Ramsay
‘MacDonald of Great Britain un
der which the United States and
~other signatories to the Paris
'peace pact would agree to consult
together in event of a violation.
In the forthcoming international
‘economic conversations here in
which the British Prime Minister
And former Premier Edouard Her
riot of France, will take part, the
idea. advanced at Geneva as a
part of MacDonald’s widely dis
cugssed disarmament plant will be
gn important subject of discuss
-sion. G
If ‘the United States should
agree to this extension of its re
sponsibility under the pearce pact
and the French should feel such
American action would sufficient
-4y insure their security against at
tack, officials believe Freinch obs
Jections which have acted to pre
vent agreement at Geneva, might
|dlssolve sufficiently to . permit
some definite accomplishment. -
Three of the nations invited to
send representatives to Washing- -
ton have definitely accepted. Oth
«ers are expected to fazll in lne
soon. Canada is the third nation
in addition to Great Britain and
France. Canada will be represents
ed here by Prime Minister Rich
ard B. Bennett, it
In the conversations on how to
‘better world conditions, President
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HOGPITALS CRARITY
MAINTENANGE URGED
Grand Jury Recommends
Modern Airport; Asks
Further Economy
Recommendations that the ‘eoun
ty continue funds for maintéining
charity at both the Athens Gen
eral hospital and Fairhaven sanita
rium, and that the Clarke Cig\lh‘ty
Board of Commissioners make any
further savings which they find
possible, were included in the
Clarke county Grand Jury report
here Tuesday morning.
The "jury also urged the county
to proceed at once in building a
modern airport with all the faeili
ties for freight, passengers, and
army purposes.
“We find from the report sub
mitted by the Commissioners that
both our hospitals are being con=
ducted in a very economical man
ner, for which we feel the Corm
missioners and hospital oifiqern
should be commended,” the repoct
said. “We feel that the: cost to
the taxpayers of maintaining
charity patients at bothk hospitals
is being helé at a minimum, and
we recommend that furnds for this
work be continued.” T
In regard to the racent salary
and wage cuts of officers and em
ployes under jurisdiction of the
board, and a request to slfm
cers whose salaries and fees are
fixed by law to accept a voluntary
cut effective July 1 made by the
Commissioners, the Grand Jury
concurs in the actions of the
Commissioners, and recommends
that the Commissioners make any
further savings which they #find
possible. & ;,&
Urges Airport
“Since both army and eco Qf
cial airport service is developing
rapidly, and routes are selectet
for such service upon the basis
airport in operation, and not :