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About The Banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1923-1933 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1933)
FRIDAY, JULY 21, 1933. FRIDA Y, o e e e P RS ety | n £ e Soctety | 7. || and PERSONALS | EdifoeodNl:on:l galial:gl:a tfi::x? e . Mrs. Morgan, Early ! Lucy Cobb Student, Revisiting Athens Miss Agnes Morgan of Atlanta is making a visit of several weeks {0 Miss Mary Bacon on Hill street, and refreshing her acquaintances with the Athens of her girlhood. Miss Morgan will be remember ed here first as a pupil at Luey cobb Institute, and later as a teacher in the institute's primary department. After two years of teaching in the institute she was remmmend-‘ ed by Miss Rutherford to Superin tendent Slaton of the Atlanta public schools. Beginning in one of the primary schools she was advanced te the head of the Latin department in the Girls’ High school and %was later made prin cipal of the Slaton school, retiring with honors at the end of the al lotted period of years. Miss Morgan is much interested in the changes that have taken place in Athens, and finds much pleasure in renewing her acquain tance with the friends of her girlhood. These friends are cor dially invited to call upon Miss Morgan at 629 Hill street. - - » Mrs. Wilkins Honors - Mr. Thomas }. Wood One of the “season’s loveliest social events was the beautiful prom party Thursday evening at which Mrs. John J. ‘Wilkins, jr., entertained in compliment to her brother, Mr. Thomas J. Wood, jr., of California, who is her house guest. The spacious Wilkins home .on Milledge avenue presented a gala picture with * nearly fifty guests of the High school set. A wealth of exquisite garden flowers Aeco- | rated the long colenial porch, re flecting the rich color scheme of, the indoor picture. The lovely lawn with spreading oaks and luxuriant foliage made an ideal setting for the proms. During intermission delicious refreshments were served and the ! voung people had a jolly good time, The chaperons. were Mr. and "Mrs. John J. Wilkins, sr.,| Mr. and Mrs. John J. Wilkins, jr,,. Dr. and Mrs. John A, Hun nidutt, and Mr, and Mrs. James White. * - - MISS BEVERLY BENSON ENTERTAINS FOR GROUP OF YOUNG VISITORS Miss Beverly Benson was the delightful hostess this afternoon entertaining informally a few friends at rook in honor of there popular visitors, Miss Mary Alice Roan of Atlanta, Miss Carolyn Redd of Tampa, and Miss Alma Gray Harber of Macon. Vari-colored garden flowers ar tistically arranged decoarted the living and dining room where the tables were grouped for the en joyable game, followed by delic ious refreshments. * * % Dr. and Mrs. Douglas Ander son and little daughter have re turned to Florida after a visit to‘ their mother, Mrs. R. M: Ander-| son. s ® B Mr. T. A. Burke spent the week-end in Athens with his son and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.. Al bert Sams and his granddaughter, Anita Sams. Mrs. Burke return ed to Washington with him Sun day evening, after 'spending a week with Mr. and Mrs. Sams and Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hodg son.—Washington News-Reporter. * * * The Rev. and Mrs. Scott Enpes‘ will spend the week-end with Mr. and Mrs., George Crane enroute from a visit t 6 Mrs. Buckner of i“;u'unnuh to their home in Corne ia. . 0 Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Michael Wwill spend the week-end in Ma con., a 8 % Miss Nan Latimer, of Tignall is the guest of Miss Helen Grif feth. ‘ —e T R e LIQUID - TABLETS - SALVE Checks Malaria, in 3 days. Colds first day, Hn,d‘ohu or Neuralgia in 30 minutes, . FINE LAXATIVE AND TONIC | Most Speedy Remedies Known | » = SeR : : B E L RO et TR TR |et e B TASTE GOOD ANY e W, B R L e B 1 A E v Vel o Lol et et TR IR LA Far sy {,E,?S‘:“,\.,.\\\ N S ?& £ g : l-{:%:f_- \ . :% 7 Efgff::. ‘:,':j:Q;I;if:: 2 ; | Vet WY A e L W R it TAN WS e R e : ‘. 5 S a/flf——- ’ . M 0452%2 W e iit l M THE DEEPEST WORTH : Z e These are the things that I prize And hold of deepest worth: Light of the sapphire skies, Peace of the silent hills, Shelter of forest, comfort -of the grass, Shadow of clouds that swiftly pass, And after showers The smell of flowers, And of the good, brown earth— And best of all along the way, Friendship and mirth. —Henry Van Dyke. * * * —————————————— e ——— PERSONAL MENTION o ——————— Miss Mary Bickerstaff leaves Saturday for St. Simon’s to attend Miss Betty Gibbs' huose party. o . * Mrs. Paul Gaertner and little son have returned to Detroit fol lowing a visit with Mrs. Gaert ner’'s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Rowland, at Beachhaven. . & » Misses MaNita Bullock and Frances Forbes are spending the week-end at Camp Chattooga. |- - - Mrs. R. H. Bickerstaff and Miss Margaret Bickerstaff are in the mountains of North Georgia, where Miss Bickerstaff is recup erating from a recent severe ill ness of malarial fever. .» . I Misses Annie and Lucy Linton have returned from Washington, iB, Q. . L . ‘ Miss Margaret ‘Bond has return ed from Birmingham, Ala. 2 l. * . Friends of Mrs. J. I. Lambert | will regret to learn she underwent ! an appendix operation Thursday | lut the General hospital. y - . - l Mrs. Robert Hancock of Maconl |arrived today to visit Mrs. Henry | Reid for several days. * * * ‘ Miss Laura Blackshear will have ias her week-end guests, Mfs. | Clarke Rogers and Misses Kather ine and Laura Rogers of Demo rest, and Miss Dorothy Holliday of Fort Moultrie, S. C., and Mr. Pope Blackshear of the U. S. Military Academy, West Point. * .‘ * ‘ Jack 'fil’ller celebrattd his fifth birthday Friday. ‘ .» * | Ben Jones, jr., will observe his | birthday Saturday. ‘ ’** * i Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Martin,} 1 Miss May Seahry Kendricks, of| West Palm Beach; Mrs. Wesley| | Fain of Atlanta, and Miss Frances| Honea of Carnesville, are spend-| ing this week with Mrs. Fred| Leathers, returning to their re spective homes Sunday. ; -.- ; ' Miss Mary Alice Roan'of Atlan-} | ta is visiting Miss Beverly Ben tson. : . ® ’ |+ Miss “Carolyn Redd, of Tampa, 13'1 !(the guest of Miss Laura Smith, | COTTON SPINNING REACHES NEW HIGH , (Continued From Fage One) l . |ing the month or 301 hours aver [age for each spindle in place. Cotton growing states showed Jth,e most aectivity. They had 19,- ‘076,226 spindles in place of whichi 117.593.128 were active during the month whirling an aggregate of 7,- !046,039,942 spindle hours or an av erage of 369 hours for each spindle in place. "Phis compared with New Eng land states where 10,796,098 spind iles were in place with 7,242,362 ac-l tive durng the month. These op lerated in aggregate of 2,074,829, !438 spindle hours or an ave:age of 192 hours per spindle. I‘ Both North and South Carolina set up new records by each oper 'ating well over 2,000,000,000 :spindle‘ hours during the month, South Carolina leading all states with 2,- 431,494,565 active spindle hours. It ‘also had the highest average ot lactive spindle hours—42B for each {in Dplace. g | e ——————————— BLINDFOLD ARTIST i eet A e O N SIS BT e 1 [ L o Lo L X o e L R R N : -:v:-:-:-:r‘},"lfi:-“:-n.-‘.,:A:.-. SRR e Captain “Rube” Perkins, above who will perform a number o blindfold feats here next Friday and Saturday under the auspices of Athens merchants for theit “Pre-Inflation” sales days. Captair Perkins has appeared in severa’ scuthern cities recently, driving ar automobile about the city, walking on the ledges of the tallest buile ing, playing checkers and pool, anc giving a knife-throwing exhibitior while his eyes’ are tightly band aged, GOVERNOR SELECTS NEW MEMBERS FOR STATE COMMISSION (Centinued ¥rom Page One) if a majority of each branch of the general assembly declare that the said commissioner shall be Te !moved from office, his term of of fice shall expire.” All of the new commissioners were in the governor's office at the time of his annauncement “Here is the new Public Service commission,”” he said waving his hand as he handed out his order of suspension. , The new commission held a meeting in the governor's office shortly after they were named and elected Wilhoit chairman. They also elected J. M. Forrester, 29- lyoar-old attorney of Richland as | secretary succeeding Robert N. Springfield. Springfield has been secretary for eight years. Knight issued a brief statement saying “my conscience is clear. 1 have undertaken in every instance to discharge my full duty.” Wilhoit resigned as a member of the Highway board td take the place on the Public Service com mission. The governor said he had not yet selected a successor for the Highway board. | ’ Goode is a former state senator. Huiety is an alderman in the city of Atlanta and a member of the governor’s staff. . Charles of neglect of duty, and of aiding and abetting the *“Geor gia Power company in obtaining land maintaining a “monopoly,” and of betrayal of the public trust were among those contained in the lengthy ouster petition, | ' The petition filed with the gov ernor on June 6, said the commis-l ‘sion “has wholly failed to carry out the purpose for which it was created, and by its acts of misfeas ianco and malfeasance has betrayed ‘the trust which is reposed in it and should be removed from publie office.” \ Charges Denied Responding to the charges, the commissionérs denied they had| neglected thelr duty and cited a long list of rate reductions in vari ous utility charges in support of their denial. As for the charge that the commission authorized the Georgia Power company to obtain a mono poly through purchase of elantrical generating and distributing plants, and water power sites, the com missioners replied that they had ns authority to prohibit any wtility from . purchasing power plants and franchises. The commissionars de nied ' they permitted the full amount of such purchases to be added to the capital structure of the company for rate makinz pur | poses. I All of the commissioners ingisted |{ley had watched the publie’s in terest in all rate clags, and had sought always to make the rates | for vtility service as low as possl hle. ;' As for the charge that the com | mission permitted a “fraud” on ‘!the people by valuing the Georgia | power company’s properties at 15152,000,000 for rate making pur |poses, while the company returned its properties for taxation at $45,- 000,000, .the commlssio;lers said they had no authority whatsoever | over tax assessments against the company and thdat this was a duty lof the comptroller general. They introduced testimony showing ‘that numerous items must by law be allowed to go into the rate making value of a company’'s prop-| erties that are not subject to ad i valorem property taxation. ‘ The petition charged the. power | company engaged in a mercantile , business “in competition with the |, Jegitimate merchants of this | ; state,” and that this mercantile } business loss $144,402 in 1931 “which loss has been passed on || to the public.” 1 The commisioners replied they , had no authority to say what|, business the Georgia Power com- | pany should engage in, and- all denied that the mercantile losses had been passed on to the public. : The commissioners emphasized : that the losses had not been al- |, lowed in considering operating P expenses of the company. Replying to the charge that the 5 commission had issued false state- l ments to mislead the public con- |, cerning estimated savings to cus- |, THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA | tomers through rate reductions, the commissioners introduced tes timony that the savings were greater than they i‘had estimated *{ them . Most of the ouster petition dealt with the Georgia Power company’s activities and rates. Agreement - Attacked A power exchange agreement between the Georgia Power com pany and the Alabama Power company, both of which are con trolled 'by the Commonwealth and Southern corporation of Delaware, was attacked by the petition. The commission said the agreement, under which the Georgia firm pays more for primary power obtained from the Alabama company, than the Alabmaa firm allows for “dump” or waste power from the (ieorgia concerns, was advantag eous to Georgia customers. They said the arrangement saved the‘ | Georgia Power company the cost of erecting additional power gen erating equipment on which the law would permit a fair rate of return. The commission also introduced testimony of various industrial plant experts who said rates in Georgia were lowar than in othes states. It was brought out also that the uniform system of rates in Georgia, whereby all customers in the territory of the Georgia Power cmopany 2re given the same rate for a given eclass of service, are highly advantageous to smaller cities and to rural communities. Domestic rates, the commission contended, are gener ally lowe¢r in - Géorgia than in other cities of the southeast, Chairman Perry has been a member of the commission for 22 | vears. His present term expires December 1, 1935. He is 58 years old. He has been chairman since 1926. The chairman’s salary is $5,000 per annum. Other commis sioners receive §53,600. Knight became a member of the commission late in January, 1928, He is a former preacher. He was vice-chairman. His term expires December 1, 1937. He is 56 years old. Did Not Testify Woodruff, who did not testify at the hearing after suffering a col lapse necessitating his removal to a haespital, became a member of the commission in 1926. He was re-elected last fall and his term runs until December 1, 1939. He is 55. McDonald, blind since child hood, was elected to the commis sion in 1922. His present term expires December 1, 1935. He is 41 years old. Felton, the youngest member of the commission, was appointed to succeed the late Calvin Parker of Waycross by Governor Russell, |He went on the commission early in 1932 and in the last campaign won a six year term which runs until December 1, 1937. He is in ; his 31st year. | Goode has been active in state| ' politics for many years. He has |served in the state house and sen ate. He is an attorney and native of Carnesville. He is 50 years old. : Davis is 60 years old. He has | served several terms in the state ! legislature. He has also been post | master at Meigs. Daniel, known familiarly in po |litical cricles as “Tobe” is a na i\'tive of Troup county. He is a {lumberman and served several | terms in the state legislature. Huiett is a native of South Car olina. He has lived in Atlanta since 1919. He is an Atlanta al derman. | Wilhoit is an attorney of War | renton. He was appointed to the Highway board by Governor Rus | sell and took office in 1932. He is a former newspaperman. He has |served in the state legislature. He is 42. “The evidence also demonstrated | that the light and power rates of lall of the power companies in | Georgia were 100 high, ' “The evidence also demonstrtaed a high valuation of all of the property of the public utilities for ‘|rate making rpurposes. This was |especially noticeable when the re turns of the public utility property | for taxation were obgerved. i | “The evidence also developed {that the members of the Publie | Service commission had exercised |no diligence in procuring intelli |gent valuation and keeping pro k gressive valuation on the public utilities over which they had sus | pervision, 10l “The evidence algo showed that Chairman James A, Perry alter {nated with the Georgia Power company in using a voung {lady from the Georgia Power company as secretary., To clarify (the above statement, Mr. Perry |hired a young lady as secretary who was then employed by the Georgia Power Company. This young lady worked for the Publte Service commission for a few months and would then go back to.] the Power company, then be,_‘re'.l called to the Public Service com mission where she has worked un til this date. “The evidence also demonstrated that Mr. A. J. Woodruff wrote let ters to bus companies suggesting the employment of his son, Wil liam Woodruff, as a lawyer by the bus companies over which the Public Service commission had su pervision and control. | “The evidence also demonstrateg that A. J. Woodruff and Walter C McDonald had requested the issu ance of passes to individuals by ‘bus companies over which the Public Service commission has su pervision and control. ~ ““The evidence demonstrated and it was admitted by Jule W. Fel ton and Perry Knight that they| rode on and used passes on the railroads and identification cards. on busses. { Only Protection | “The only protection that the public has in rates an service from|, public utility companies must. be |, through the public service commis- | sioners of Georgia. ‘ “The Public Service commission. ers do not act solely. in the ea-] pacity of Judges but they arej agents of the public to see to it} that the strong do not encroach| ’RI B bel ety | ON AND OFF | l .THE SCREEN | = Constance Bennett el [ | smmsmesm s T ; R TR R 'f. ‘\ e R ‘ 3 B s gt e {e R ¥ . i e g - T e wy : SR P 3 3 e SRR e B e S i b 5 | P & 1P R f e o >3 Lo 3 T S 5 32 | 2 B 2 ‘L R l ey A - T e 13 T | RS o AR 5 -""E"'::i"‘;il;"‘;,:, '5 »;»_ e :‘ ’;' g B R e TR e e TN | |eA e | |R R g | i te % A R 1 o G, | Cd o '-.:;5‘3;. a 8 ‘ G e o | §ii ‘3,, . OF course;, you know. the Con stance Bennett shown above, the beautiful aetress who always looks s 0 chic om the screen, but now meet her in an informal moment, The picture below shows Miss Bennett, her gorgeous locks wet and unkempt, drying herself | after a dip in a Hollywood swim ming pool. She's the wife of the | Marquis Henri de la Falaise, ] former hubby of Gloria Swanson, ' Text of Governor ’ . . Talmadge’s Dismissal o 14y Order on Commission 1 (Continuea ¥rom Page One) ) ! ilhe members of the board extolling ;lhe large amounts they had saved ithe public on rates showed that“ | | they were incorrect. | ‘ “Fvidence also developed showed that on December 28, 1930 the ’l'ubli(- Service commission of I(‘.mn'giu adopted the emergency linn,reusu of railroad rates without a single exception, ‘““rhe evidence also showed 'that Georgia enjoyed a peculiar dis tinction in this respect, as most of the public service commissions in other states muade long lists of exceptions, “The evidence also showed that the members of the commission is sued statements taht they <ould not have done otherwise than tc adopt the emergency rates in their entirety., This unanimous state ment by the five members of ths Public Service commission demon strated beyond dcubt their incom petence and total ignorance of the law in approving or disuppru\'ing‘ | freights rates, | “Tthe. evidence showed thal“ telephone rates had been greatly increased in this state from their pre-war levels, and that no effort had been made by the Public Ser vice commission to lower them, “The evidence wurso demonstrated that issuance of stocks:and bonds | was granted by all members of the Puublic Service commission to some of the public utilities with out proper consideration by she Public Service Commission, The astronomiczyl day formerlyl started at noon, but nuw stars at midnight, l — e — e ; upon the weak. | “They are also agents of the | public to see that monopolles con |summated in this state do not op | press the people. ! ' “Moses in delivering a charge to | the sub-judges of Israel, beginning 'lin the 18th chapter of Exodus and | continuing through several chap { ters made the following statements: Thou shalt not wrest judgement; |Thou shalt not respect persons; | neither take a gift, for a gift doth "b]hld the eyes of the wise and pervert the words of the righteous «“Whenever these fundamenta | principles of law are violated in- || justice is done. ” “For the above reasons and con sidering® all of the evidence de veloped in the hearing, T am of the opinion that all of the members 0! the Public Service commission 0 (Georgia should be suspended un ‘til the regular meeting of the gen eral assembly of Georgia. “James A. Perry of Lawrence ville, is suspended from the Public Service commission and his place ig filled by Jud P. Wilhoit of War renton. «walter C. McDonald of Augusta L is suspended from the Public Serv- 1 ice commission and his place I filled by 'J. B.- Daniel of LaGrange Perry Knight of Valdosta is sus pended from the Public Service commission and his place is filles by Tom Davis, of Meigs, Ga. [ Albert J. Woodruff, of Winde: Ga., is suspended from the Public }‘Bervlce commission, and his placc js filled by George L. Goode, o Carnesville, Ga. L “Jule W. Felton, of Montezuma Ga., is suspended foom the Publl Service commission, and his place is filled by Ben T. Hulett, of At ’mg&" 5i e S 3 ! | LEADING SHARES ON NEW YORK MARKET | | OFF FROM $2 TO $7 ; (Continued From Page One) | ;‘E‘vstml the closing. ‘ | Just after the close of the m;n'—: | kets Thursday and at the direc- | ltiun of President Roosevelt, Wal- | lace -restored the requirement— | |suspondod last Ocober—that the b eot it i Michael’s Bargain Basemen - Summer Close-Outs | ' Bring to you unheard-of fine values in Merchandise you need for NOW---and for Early Fall. 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