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i 101, No. 88.
lamadge_ Demands Barnett And Vereen Quit As
State Highway Board Defies Him In 2 to 1 Vote
ICONALD LEAVES
rn HOME PLEASED
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ich Understanding on
reements to be Sought
t Conference
Review MacDonald
nference With French
clegation Wednesday
FRANCIS M. STEPHENSON
socated Press Staff Writer
ASHINGTON — (AP) — The
.1 States and Great Britain
1 up Wednesday for a * seven
¢+ world economic recovery
ram. embracing tariff reduc
s and higher silver prices.
besident Roosevelt and Prime
ister MacDonald ended their
orsations with a declaration
hinderstanding on agreements
o sought at the June world
jomic conference.
ven a 5 they said goodbye, the
brican and French economic
rts attacked the problems.
Roosevelt and Mr. Mac
bld declared for the following,
statement distributeed at the
te House
ncrease in the general lev:
bommodity prices.
-ofientation wf commercial
luction of tariffs, quotas uu’d
hange restrietions.
rld expansion of ‘créar:
apital expenditures by govern
ts to stimulte business.
tablishment of an interna
al monetai standard.
rovement « the status of
leir conversations “showed
our two governments were
v v like purpose and
se, similarity of method'’ at
e objectives
Is Optimistic
inting that “between the cup
the lip are many slips,” Mr.
Dorald \Wold anewspapermian
e left the White House for
on that. hi conversations
een “fruitful in a- way 1
believed possible when 1
¢
6 same enthusiasm over the
s of the Anglo-American
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ond Trial on Prepared
s Day Bombing In-
Ctment Is Started
N FRANCISCO o (AP) -
. Mooney's second trial
! ge of complicity in the
francisco Preparedness day |
bing of 1916 opens here \\’ml-j
ndications it may luw‘
p ect into the state su
{ It, with a «-onsequen(]
¢ on and (l(-f(rn.wl
minute prepara-
J O'Gara, assistant dis—l
¢ during Mooney’s
nounced he would
‘O the Supreme court to pre
the tria nless dismissal or|
P tow dismissal resulted |
b Wednesday's hearing, i
oney spent 16 years in|
e brison after (-un\'ic-l
) v in the bombing,
p ersons were kill(’ll.i
Le ecently insisted he
" mg-dormant infilict- :
‘ was set for tl'iul,i
5 Wednesday, before Su
; Ous H., Ward.
3 ted a second trial
"¢ ellegal, because he said,
PTEY's guilt was adjudicated
3 § conviction in 1916.
said he would act!
“totect the good name of Cal
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DePres, above, may be forced to
return to Devil’s Island, French
penal colony, from which he
made a sensational escape soms
nronths ago. Desidero was cap
tured in San Francisco by immi
gration authorities whom he
‘had evaded in entering the U, S.
LARGE GROWDS AT
ATHENS REVIVALS
Four Churches Holding
Services This Week
With Visiting Ministers
l Large crowds continued to at
tend Athens’ four revival services
Tuesday morning and night.
Dr. W. H. Faust, pastor of
Gordon Street Baptist church, At
lanta, is conducting the services
at Prince Avenue Baptist church
at 10 o'clock each morning ang 8
o'clock each night. A special mu
sic program will be given there
Thursday night by the male cho
rus of Prince Avenue church and
East Athens Baptist church.
s+ Rev. C. F. Johnston, evangelist,
is conducting services at the Free
Methodist church which are draw
ing large crowds. The services
will continue several days.
At the First Methodist church,
Dr. C. Ray Jordan, pastor of High
Point, N. C., Methodist church,
continued his services Tuesday and
Tuesday night and Dr. R. A. For
rest is attracting large crowds at
services underway at Central Pres
byterian church.
At the Central Presbyterian
chureh Tuesday morning and night
Dr. Forrest preached two sermons
of great power. At the morning
hour, basing his remarks upon the
story of the entrance of the Chil
dren of Israel into the promised
land, he pointed out the secret of
victorious Christian life is the cir
cumeision of the heart in putting
away the filthiness of the flesh.
At the evening services he spoke
upon the vision of Zachariah, mes
sages of comfort to a depressed
people in the face of an impossible
task. The congregations were
large, the attention and interest
fine—and two members, husband
and wife, were received on profes
sion of faith.
Services each day this week,
8:00 a.m. over the radio, and
10:30 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. at the
church. 4
Christianity was not meant for
weaklings; the cross is not a com
pulsory thing, but is borne only
volunteers, declared Rev. Jordan at
the First Methodist church Tues
day night. 3
A large crowd attended the ser
vices Tuesday night. Rev. Jordan
discussed “A Christian’s Most
Despicabla Enemy,” at the 45-in
ute service Wednesday morning.‘
He is preaching twice daily, at
10:30 a.m.. and 8:00 p.m. |
Rev. Jordan used as his text
Tuesday “Ye who do not take up
your cross and follow Me are not
worthy of Me.” |
The preacher denounced the
“pitiful souls” who accept their
fate with “Well, everybody has his
cross to bear.” Everybody has
troubles in this world, but trouble
is not a cross as Jesus interpre
ted the term, he said. Everybody
has burdens, but burden is not a
ecross as Jesus interpreted the
term. Practically everybody has a
“thorn in their flesh” (doctors are
here to cure them), but a thorn is
not a cross as Jesus interpreted it.
. “We must be willing to give our
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TREAGURE TROVE AT
BOTTOM OF SEA 15
FOUND BY SALVAGERS
Reported Fortune in Gold
Taken From Hulk of
Ship on Which Lord
Kitchener Perished
15,000 POUNDS IN .
GOLD IS RECOVERED
America’s “Wizard Lock
smith” Reported Aiding
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Salvage Operations
(Copyright ..1933. By. .The. As
sociated Press) !
NEY YORK, —(P)—A treasure
in gold that has lain at the bottom
of the sea since H. M. S, H. M. S
Hampshire sank with Earl Kitch
ener during the World War is fin
ally being salvaged, said reports
received here Wednesday,
Apparently authoritative advices
said that a salvage ship, working
off the We«t Orkney Islands at
the scene of one of the war's ma
jor tragedies, brough to the sur
face Tuesday 15,000 pounds (ster
ling in gold—the first batch of
the treasure in the Hampshire’s
strongboxes. Scenes of jubilation
took place among the overjoyea
salvage crew, the advices said, aw
the yellow metal was exposed on
deck to the rays of the sun for the
first time in almost 17 years,
- Details of the salvage operations
were lacking, Little publicity haa
been given here to any recent at
tempt to raise the Hampshire's
strongboxes. It was recalled, how
¢ver, that Charles Courtne 7,
known as the “wizard locksmith,™
sailed from New York for Europe
April 8 on a mysterious mission
in connection with a treasure
bunt.
Courtney Silent
Courtney, who has been called
on before to aid in opening safes
from suknen ships, refused to dis
close the object of his journey, bus
one report said that he would take
part in an eXxpedition to obtain
Hampshire’s gold. '
It was almost 17 years ago—-
June 5, 1916—that the Allies wers
stunned by the loss of Kitchner,
who went down with the cruise:
Hampshire a few minutes after
the vesrel hit a German mine of:
teh Orkneys, a group of islands
north of scotland.
Kitchner, famous statesman an:
field marshal who had won ac
claim as one of England’s great
soldiers by his exploits in Egypt,
India and South Afriecs, was then
serving as British Secretary for
War, He was on a secret mission
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FLORIDA GOVERNOF
GIVEN BEER BILL
Signature Withheld Pend
ing Tax and Regulation
Measures to Follow
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. —(AP)—
The Florida legislature Wednesday
legalized manufacture and sale of
3.2 per cent beer and wine in
Florida and sent the legislation to
Covernor Sholtz for his signa.ture.'
~ Three bills passed by the senate
and amended slightly by the house,
made up the legalization struc
ture, after the senate accepted
house amendments shortly before
adjournment Wednesday.
A fourth bill, passed by the sen
ate and setting up a regulatory and
taxing system for the Dbeverages,
is under consideration by a house
sub-committee and wds not re
ported Wednesday.
Final action by the legislature
on the beer and wine bills marked
the end of a three weeks' attempt
by proponents toward their pas
sage. ?
Governor Sholtz, who has advo
cated passage of beer and wine
bills since the legislature conven
ed was advised of the senate’s ac
tjion. ; }
“I shall be forced to withhold
my signature from these three
legalizing bills until a tax and reg
ulation bill is passed and given to
me,” he said. ;
“] ecannot sign the first three
bills until I know what is in the
fourth and how '_thy*munz:etm
and sale of beverages is to be con-
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‘Athens, Ga., Wednesday, April 26, 1933,
Jimmyv and Bride Shy at Crowds
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Shunning the fanfare in which he once gloried as Mayor of New
York, Jimmy Walker is shown as he and his bride, Betty Compton,
edged their way out of the back door of the Town Hall in Cannes,
Y France, after their wed‘dlng ceremgny.
Rehearsals Over, Pageant Depicting the
History of Georgia From Oglethorpe’s
Landing Will Open Thursday in Savannah
By MARK TEMPLE
Associated Press Staff Writer
SAVANNAH, GA. — (AP) —
Georgia's bicentennial clebration,
a pageant dipicting the history of
tisis state since Gereral Ogletho pe
Innded on Y:zmacraw Bluff tere
200 years wgo, gets uvnder way
Thursday.
Fehearsals have ended, thius
awns hive Fuictused tickets, and
more than 2,600 residents of Sa
vannah and surrounding territory
are ready to step on the big stage
at municipal stidium to do their
perts.
Edmund H. Abrahams, chair
man of the executive committee
of the bicentennial commissicl of
the city of Savannah discussed
the more serious aspects of the
celebration.
The breadth and liverality of
spirit which actuated the distin
guigshed Englishman General James
Edward Oglethorpe, too lead a
band of pioneers into a wilderness,
and to hew from its forests a do
main such as the Empire State
of the south, “may readily be
recognized as the masterful man
Say Negro Caused
Racial Disorders
in Which 3 Killed
DADEVILLE, Ala. —(AP)—Four
county officers blame Ned Cobb,
one of five Negroes accused of’()as
sault with intent to Kkill, for pre
cipitating racial disdrders in which
the officers were wounded and
three Negroes slain near Reeltown
last December.
Testifying at the trial here
Tuesday, %the offidens said | the
trouble started when they went to
the home of Cliff James, Negro
farmer to attach some livestock.
Cobb, they said, was among a band
of Negroes present and declarad
“Sheriff Kyle Young hasn’t enough
deputies to take them mules.”
It wos Cobb, said Deputy Sheriff
Cliff Elder, the first state’s witness, |
who fired the first shot which;
struck the officer in the leg. In
the .subsequent battle between the
deputies and Negroes, Elder’s three
companion officrs also were |
wounded. Before the disturbance
and resulting hunt for those im
plicated ended, James and two
other Negroes were killed. The |
four officers told substantially the
same story of the troubles. ’
Elder also identified Judson |
Simpson, Alf White and Clinton
and Sam Moss, the other Negmeb'
on trial, as among those pr;sent"
at the James Home. Simpson |
later taking the stand in mm‘
behalf, denied he was there during|
—ESTABLISHED 1832
ner in which the founding of Sa
vannah was accomplished,” Mz
Abrahams said. ¢
“Designed as a bluffer against
ithe expected invasion of the Span
iards, General Oglethorpe estab
lished at Frederica, near Savannah
a fort, and using this as a base,
crushéd the power of Spain for
ever at Bloooy Marsh, and estab
lished the English speaking lan
the southland.” \
Mr. Abrahams scouted the
story that Oglethorpe's band was
made up of criminals, as is some
times heard. Instead, he said, all
she prospective colonists had to
meet the approval of trustees and
no criminals or convicty were in
cluded -in their ranks.
“The benevolent scheme of the
‘trustees for colonization of Geor-
Azia ineluded: within ts scope such
unfortunate Englishmen, who
through stress of financial eir
cumetances, desired to try their
fortunes in a new world.”” he said.
Bue the real picture of the be
nevolent and just Oglethope is
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Railroads Ask Rates
Be Left Alone Awhile
ATLANTA. —(/#)— Stating that
the present is ap inopportune
time t 0 change rates, representa
tives of several railroads operating
in Georgia have asked the State
Public Service commission to
leave the 3.6 cents per mile basic
rate in force while they try out
other plans to boost railroad reve=
nues.
The railroad men appeared be
fore the commission Tuesday in
regard to a recent order in which
the commission requested the rail
roads to show cause why the
rates ‘should not be lowered. The
commission proposed a rate of 2
cents per mile for one-way, and
three cents per mile for round
trip rates, with travelers being al
lowed to buy mileage books for 1,-
000 miles at sls, or one and one
half cents per mile.
Lions Meet Thursday
Night at Eight O’clock
Athens district Lions have been
called to meet Thursday night at
eight o’clock at the Georgian hotel
by District Deputy Governor W. T
Ray. This meeting and dinner
will ‘take the place of the usual
Thursday luncheon meeting. |
Delegations from Decatur, Dah
lonega and Bufcrd which will hej
present at the meeting and hear
addresses by International Direc
tor W. K. Charles of Greenville,
S. C, and Marvin Pound, Sparta,
Ga,, governor of Lionist in the
stathe i e
RULES ANNOUNCED
0 SELECTION N
ENPLOYNENT CANPS
Wright Says Applicants
Will Be Interviewed on
Thursday and Friday in
Athens
RESERVE OFFICERS
TO BE USED ALSO
Clarke County Quota for
Conservation Corps s
Fifty-three
Regulations gphve.uing enlist
ment in the Civilian Conservatioy
Crops were announced Wednesday
by the Clarke county committec,
through Tate Writght chairman.
An order by Major General King
concerning enlistment of reserve
crops officers for duty at the
camps wau also made.
The two statements follow:
. “The Georgia Relief Adminis
tration through Herman DelaPer
riere, director, has appointed as
the Clarke County Relief Com
‘mittee under recent Congressional
‘actlon, the following: Tate Wright
‘Chairman; C. M. Strahan Leßoy
Michael Robert Hanna, Joel Ware
tMrs. Julius Talmadge, John
,Welch, and A, G. Dudley.
“This committee announces that
preliminary applications for en
preliminary . applications for
enrollment in civilian Con-
’vatlon Camps (the Clarke
County quota being 53) will he
received at the office of the Ath
ens Chamber of Commerce on
(Thursday,x CAprit 27th ;aht'f‘ Friday.
April £2Bth, between the hours of
’9 a, m, and 4 p. m. No application
will be received: except through
the above office. )
“Admission to the Contervation
Camps will be confined to those
qualified as follows:
“1 Unmarried men between
the ages of 18 .and 25 years.
2. Young men have been de
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PROF. HOSCH GIVES
MEMORIAL ADDRESS
Praises Lee’s “‘Sense of
Duty” Virtue, Shown by
Work After War
By CARL HANCOCK
Using as his subject, “Tenting
on the Old Camp Ground,” Prof.
J. Alton Hosch, of the Lumpkiz
Law school, delivered the annual
Contederate Memorial day addrest
at the University of Georgis
chapel Wednesday morning.
The speaker opened by asking
the question, “What does this day
mean to you?’ The theme of hia
talk was an answer as to what Me
morial day should mean to every
person.
“The South fougnt tor principles
which are just as important today
as then,)” Prof. Hosch declared.
He mentioned state’s rights as
being one of those main princi
ples. “This 18 no time for a re
newal of hatreds,” the speaker ad
ded. “Sectional antagonism is oA
the wane, due chiefly to the
Spanish American and World Wars
which have helped so much to heal
this breach.”
In speaking of Robert E. Lee
Mr. Hosch named Lee’'s ‘sense of
duty’ as his greatest virtue. He
spoke of Lee's actions after the
war in accepting the presidency
of Washington college f@t $1,500
a year, in preference to the “big
money” jobs he was offered.
“It is the traditions which we
should strive to maintain” the
speaker concluded. “We must
show that we have not lost those
traditions.”
Miss Dorothy St. Clair, of the
College of Education faculty, ren
dered a violin solo during the ser
vices, and Dr. J. C. Wilkinson,
pastor of the First Baptist church,
gave the invocation and benedic
tion.
Mrs. T. W. Reed, president of|
the Laura Rutherford Chapter of |
I TU. D. C., presided over the serv-!
|ices, Dr. 1. L. Hendren, dean ofl
(the University of Georgia, intro-{
' duced the speaker : {
'+ Winners of the prize essays ‘on
|“Sidney Lanfer” in the Clarkel
| county schools were presented and
{awarded their prizes by Mrs. Pau!
| Hadaway at the conclusion of the
| program. e
A. B. C. Paper—-Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday.
ROAD BOARD GROUP
SAYS GOVERNOR HAS
NO POWER TO FIRE
Vanishes With
Pastor-Father
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It was for love of Miss Ezia
“Patsy”’ Holdridge, abaove,
daughter of an Oklahoma
farmer-preacher, that the Rev,
Sharon C. Iloman of Spring
leld, Mo., deserted his wife and
two children., Miss Holdridge,
21, and the pastor, 35, vanished
together,
SOVEET, BRITAIN
IN TRADE BATTLE
To Last as Long as British
Subjects Are Prisoners
In Moscow
LONDON, —(®)— Great RBritain
and Soviet Russia were at grips
Tuesday in a severe trade bar
slated to continue at least as long
as two British subjects are held
prisoners in Moscow,
Its cost to the two countries in
gocds alone probably would total
nearly $100,000,000 in a year, that
being the approximate value of
the trade now at a standstill be
cause of embargoes.
Great Britain's 80 per cent ban
on Russian imports went into ef
fect Tuesday night and simultan
eously Russia retaliated with o
complete embargo on British im
ports and other drastic restrictions
on British shipping and commerce.
Great Britain proclaimed its em
bargo last Wednesday when a
Soviet supreme court imposed
three and two year sentences on
L. C. Thornton and William L.
MacDonald, British engineers wha
were convicted of sabotage and es
pionage against the Soviet Union.
The week of grace accorded in
sufficient time, however, for some
Russian cargoes to ileach British
ports, There were a number of
ships which raced here in time ta
escape the ban.
Last To Enter
The steamer Volgoless, {rom the
Black Sea, had the distinction of
being the last to enter the Lon
don region before the embargo be
came operativee. Two or three
other Russian ships already were
discharging cargoes at lLondon
docks.
The goods chiefly affected by
the British embargo are bhutter,
poultry, cereals, oil anfl timber
from the Soviet Union. Informa
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LOCAL WEATHER
M_
Probable showers Wednesday
night and Thursday.
TEMPERATURE
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RAINFALL
THOhRE. .. . i i e R
Total since April 1......... 3.08
Excess since April 1....... .03
Average April rainfall...... 3.58
Total since January 1.....14.72
Deficiency since January 1., 3.45 |
HS*E
EDITION |
Department Agrees to 5
Of 12 Recommendations
Of Governor But Disa
grees to Some
REFUSES TO FIRE
B. P. McWHORTER
Claims Georgia Statute
Gives Board “Full Power
And Authority”
ATLANTA .—(P)—Governor Tal=
madge Wednesday demanded the
resignation of Chairman J. W,
Barnett and Commissioner W. C.
Vereen of the state highway board
when they refused to “concede any
power in the governor to control
the personnel of the department”.
Chairman Barnett and Commis=
sioner Vereen were the two mem-=
bers of the hoard signing a Jetter
to the governor, agreeing with him
in part with recommendations he
has made, but refusing to accede
to his demands for dismissal of
certain of thg“;)ersonnel. Commis=~
sioner Jud P. Wilhoit did not sign
the ietter to the governor. |
The governor's request, however,
was conditional on the two mem=
bers of the board insisting upon
their position on the budget in
which they took the position that
the board “does not concede any
power in the governor to controf
the personnel of the department.”
~ The paragraph in the gover
nor's letter to .Chairman Barnett
and Commissioner Vereen, in ref
erence to the request for their
resignations read: 5
| “In view of the fact that you
insist upon running the Highwayv
department in violation of the law,
I hereby request the resignation
of both of you as members of the
State Highway. board.” 1
Further down in the letter ap
peared. this paragraph:
“Of course, the [dAbove request
will not be insisted upon should
your board s€e fit to carry out the
original recommendations made in
the budget for this quarter.” :
Two To One Vote
The governor, in his letter,
noted that Commissioner Jud P.
Wilhoit, the other -member of the
board, had not signed the rep}y.j%,
He szid that Wilhoit told him per= "
sonally he had voted against the
hoard's actionh in rejecting five of
Lthe governor's 12 suggestions.
The governor sald Mr. Vereen
had told him he would resign at
anv time he could not cooperate
with him in the discharge of his
du‘ies as a member of the High=
wav boayd. D
“Under your: views of the law,”
the governor wrote, “the budget
act is a nullity and the gover_no{*r,
is merely an official to automati=
cally stamp what you present””
In reiurning the budget, he lhfiw'
formed members of the board that
road work of necessity would stop
automatically but the responsibil
ity was in the Highway board and
no¢ the governor.
{ Wilhoit Statement 2
’ Wilhoit, the third member, In a
|statement shortly after the letter
[had gone to the governor. said:
; “While T do no concur in every
|respect with the recommendations
i‘nr‘ the governor regarding thyg,
|highway budget for the periods of
{ April 1 to July 1, 1933, many of his
| suggestions are in line with boli-.
}oies which 1 have sought to put
|into effect since becoming a mem-=
ber of the Highway board, and it
appearing to me that we must ac
cept the recommendations in whole
or reject them in whole, I shalt
[ruvor accepting fhis recommenda~
'tions and return to his desk the
ihighwuy budget for this peried im
'line with his suggestions.” .
. The two board members reports
nd to the governor that the%
agreed with five of the 1Z recom=
mendations he had made b\'lt_ff
ugreed with the other ic»
of those agreed to was the con
‘tention of the governor that there
‘were too many meployes of the va
rious divisions and that the board
‘has notified 125 that they would
he discharged. = iy
The high points of the highway
board’s reply follow: i
1. Chairman J. W. Barnett,
whose salary was reduced to $538
per month by the board on March
23, acceded to the governor's de
mand that his monthly pay be
cut to SSOO. L niean
2. Commissioner W. C. Vereen
and J. P. Wilhoit agreed to re=
duce their expenses for the eup=