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Newspaper Page TextCOTTON MARKET MIDDLING .. .. -o oo oo o 9V PREVIOUS CLOSE .. .. W Vol. 101. Mo 191, Cﬁzens Counci Oyganizéd To Suppgrt + Community Center Pro]ect STORM KILLS 47 AND BLOWS SELE OUT 5 FIRST DEFINITE STEP I PROGRAM 1) UNFY INTEREST i American Legion Invites‘ Engineer to Examine Situation Here SUPPORT IS PLEDGED Three Possible Ways of Securing Necessary Funds Are Listed s Organization of a permanent committee, to be known as a Cm-l sens ‘Council, was formed last night at a meéeting of sixteen rep resentatives from civie, fraternal, and religious groups in ‘Athens, for the purpose of arousing unified interest among these and slmilal‘i organizations in a "communityl center” project. The community center idea is} the outgrowth of a projeet that‘ has been discussed in Athens for many years and embodies plansi for a community playground, swim ing pool, and an auditorium which it js honed will eventually become part of the commumnity center. The meeting Thursday night at the Georgian Hotel was the first defir‘te step in a campaign that is expected to unify the cooperation of civic-minded groups in the city and to arouse public interest in what was described as ‘“a challeng ing opportunity to Athens.” Officials Invited An invitation has already been tendered by the American Legion, latest and most ardent supporters of the community center, to the engineers of the State Relief Board to visit Athens for the pur pose of making an examination of the facilities here and the possi bilities of the success of such a program. As deseribed to the Cit izens Council the community cen ter would be ' a self-liquidating project, requiring an original in vestment of approximately $50,000. Three methods of securing funds for carrying out the program were listed, either through a loan from the federal government di rectly to the city., through a loan from the National Recovery Ad ministration in its ' program of public works, or through a loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. In any event ' the sanction of the ecity of Athens, through the mayor and council will be necessary. One of the pur voses of the meeting Thursday night was to” determine whether such publiec support could be en listed as would justify making a tefinite plea for funds to begin ;“Ol'k on the first units of the pro ect. Unanimous Support Unanimous support of the pro gfam was voted by 'the committee 2s individuals and they offered to resent the idea to the organiza tions which they represented. D. Weaver Bridges, elected permanent thairman of the group, declared that it cannot be the work of any e group; the cooperation of all tivic organizations will be neces sary if the plan is to succeed, but he added ‘hat if this support is not given, the people of Athens will miss an opportunity that they may never have again. He urged that members of the council work f“ overcome the general apathy that has been tendered similar Irojects jn Athens, saying that the Necessary funds could be obtained but only through a concerted effort of interested citizens. Mrs. Rufug Turner was elected Pérmanent secretary of the group and instructed to invite participa (Continued on Page Three) De Cespedes Dissolves Congress Friday; Calls for New Elections on February 24 By JOHN P. McKNIGHT HAVANA —(#)— Taking a firm Erip on power, provisional Presi dent De Cespedes Friday issued @ decreel wiping out all vestiges of the ousted Machado regime, dis -olving congress, and calling new elections for Feb. 24, 1934. The measure, signed with the “abinet's approval and effective jr"-'h"diately, cdeclared unconstitu tional the Machado administration and its acts since May 20, 1929 When Gerardo Machado was inaug- Urated President for a second term. All international obligations are 10 be ohserved, however, even though contracted since that date. The action followed a wile- Sbread clamor for a tho#ugh hnus‘P-oleaning of the regime that fell two weeks ago. : ATHENS BANNER-HERALD FULL Associated Press Service. Goes on Trial i i b = B RSpSSEESR s [F e e B TEoEae ‘v:sisisiziefsie:'?.;?:s:fzs?%fis%zisisisisizéﬁésﬁzg | B RO, | s R L . T ~ o E i e e o o R R e =g o Rl o o I A 2 p N 5 SAN oy os T e T RR e W, BB B iR Gm e R R i SRS S e B S B CeEoEL % s TR g T =£ N b 4 T e oy ..:'-;::55::" R LR R p b g"’w s o G i i R " R 2 PR - ot eoB & : e e A ¥, SEEan RN e g ¢ Semenn i SRR T MR |SR R | iEso dRS S R MR e LSI S e R O T S e R N O ; SRR ¢ o e - S Lo g ¥R S : e T G e e | David A. Lamson, press repre | gsentative at Stanford University, is shown entering the ecourt house at San Jose, Calif., where he is on trial for his life on a charge of murdering his wife, Allene Thorpe Lamson, in their cottage °.on the university campus. 1 'Prosecutlon Invokes Aid | Of Medical Science as Murder Case Starts ’ SAN JOSE, Calif.—(AP)-—The 'state invokes the aid of medical science Friday at the outset of its efforts to prove David A. Lamson beat his wife to death in their Stanford university campus home last Memorial day, bringing ‘to a tragic end an apparent idyllic love romance. Four days of legal maneuvering over selection of a jury ended Frhursday with seven middle-aged men and five women accepted by both sides. Two alternate jurors, | both women, were chosen, The prosecution announced it would first call Dr. Milton Saier and Dr. Blake Wilbur, autopsy surgeons, to testify regarding the four wounds found at the base of the skull of the attractive 28-year old campus Y. W. C. A, secre tary. Dr. Wilbur is the son of Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford and former Secretary i of the interior. At the preliminary hearing two months ago physicians testified there were three cross lacerations and one diagonal wound at the base of the skull, made, the state charges, by Lamson weilding a 10-inch length of iron pipe which later was found in a bonfire the accused man had been tending in the back yard of. his home the morning of the tragedy. tion of United States Ambassador Sumner Welles, who, in his capa city as mediator, has maintained that it is necessary to continue constitutional forms. Secretary of Justice Carlos Sal adrigas pointed out that although the government maintained Ma chado acquired pewer through a virtual doup d’etat and hence un constitutionally, all foreign obliga tions contracted by Machado and all legislation passed in the last four yvears would be considered as “things done” and therefore still in effect. The decree, which Dr. De Ces pedes signed after an extraordi nary cabinet session at which a commission of Havana university l'm‘ofesnors made a number of pro- I & ” | | ' |Says' U. S. Official and Congressman in League With Old Board | ANDERSON DISSENTS | M R iMacon Publisher Puts a Different Construction On Vinson's Letter l ATLANTA, GA.,—(#)—A ruling that Georgia’'s Highway depart iment is a seperate legal entity 'with functions unaffected by any change of personnel in the High |\vay board has been wired to Gov ]ernm‘ Talmadge by Attorney Gen-‘ ieral M. J. Yeomans. t The telegram w#as sent to Wash ington where the governor may ’stop for further conferences aboutl the tied-up $10,000,000 federal road |fund allctment foi Georgia enroute homeward from the Century of Progress exposition at Chicago. | Yeomans, in his ruling, dpclaredi ]that the Highway board and the | Highway department are separate llogal entites and that a change in ‘ the personnel of the Highway board idoes not affect the functioning of lthe Highway department as far as federal funds are concerned, The ruling followed on the heels ‘of a statement which - Governor Talmadge gave over long distunce teiephone to his secretary here | Thursday charging that Represen tative Carl Vinson and Thomas H. MacDonald, director of the Federal ißureau of Roads, were “lined up with the old Highway Dboard” which Talmadge ousted in a bud get dispute. The legal tangle. that followed the ouster resulted in tie ing up the federal highway funds. “Up To Roosevelt” Thursday, in his statement, Gov ernor Talmadge said he had _faith in the ability of the Georgia con gressional delegation to obtain the 'state's allotment though it might be necessary to appeal “directly to the President.” He said he had per sonal assurances of both Senators George and Russell that they were ‘“unqualifiedly contending for re j lease of these funds to Georgia on ithe same basis as they are released S|to other states.” ' He referred to Representative Vinson being quoted as being in ifavor of getting the funds ‘in any , lway that we can” and to corre : Ispondenoe between Vinson and l]Captain J. W. Barnett, ousted |chairman of the board of Highway _‘eommissioners, discussing Highway 1 !af fairs. ;| He also mentioned that he had r |declined an offer by W. T. Ander » | son, publisher of The Macon Tele graph and Macon Evening news, to ; |go to Washington in an effort to | |obtain the funds for Georgia, 1| The publisher Thursday night ; pissued the followng statement on , | his posoition in the matter: “A few weeks ago, when the . imartial law was in operation in - |the Highway department, Con . |gressman Vinson came to my office, ,{and among other things tallked e yabout the $10,000,000 special federal _|funds. He said it was very impor _|tant to get this money for Georgia, e |and that if MacDonald couldn’t let |it come through. Vinson belied un . {der the public works act that the President could appoint a personal , |representative to receive the money , (and represent the President in its , | expendture, and have .it come . | through. “Congressman Vinson suggested that T take it up with Governor Talmadge, and after getting a copy of the public works law and read ing the paragraph bearing on the special representative feature, 1 wrote the governor and after out lining thé law, offered to go to Washington in an effort to get the money for Georgia, Different Construction “Next morning the governor phoned me and said he appreciated my interest, but that he thought the money would be forthcoming, ete.; That Vinson had been op posed to the money coming to !Gec-rgla and he would send me a copy of a letter Vinson had writ ten Barnett to that effect. “The next day the governor did gsend me a copy of the letter from Vinson, whichk contained the quo tations above given by the gover nor, T dd not put the same con structon upon Vinson’s letter as the governor did. but let the matter drop, as I felt that in making the lnfrer to try to help I had gone as far as I could” The Atlanta Journal said Con gressman Vinson, from his home in Milledgeville, declared that the letter of June 15. had no bearing on the present highway, situation lweiause it was written before the (Continued on Page Three) 5 kL i!4~ e Athens, Ga., Friday, August 25, 1933 McCullough Reunited With Son After 21 Years, Only To Die Quickly For Murder Convicted Slayer of Baker Dies in Chair Friday At Milledgeville | FRAME-UP CHARGED ‘ Reunited With Son Just Before Paying for Crime " § In Electric Chair 1 MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga—(AP)— Andrew McCullough, Fayette county farmer, was electrocuted at the state prison farm here Fri day for the murder of William B. Baker, former president of the At ‘lantic Ice and Coal corporation of Atlanta. He went to the electric chair at 10:58 a. m. and was pro nounced dead at 11:05. A few minuies later Eugene Key, Houston county Negro, also paid with his life for the slaying of his wife Katie, near Perry, Ga., a year ago. He sat down in the chair at 11:08 and was pronoun ced dead at 11:19. “] have been in a lot of trou ble,” MeCullough said, as he made a statement shortly before the electricity was turned on, “but I have always believed in' God Al mighty. I didn't believe he'd al low an innocent man to suffer. k. “But I am being Kkilled in a ,frame-up. I never shot at Mr. ‘Baker. I never wanted to hurt him. “The one I shot at was his son.” Dr. W. P. Baker, son of the slain man, was also wounded when his father was killed at their plantation in Fayette county. %’ recovered. ' £F “Who did kill Mr. Baker?” War den Proctor of the state prison lfarm asked. Evades Answer “Well,” McCullough ' freplied, “When I shot at Dr. Baker my son took the gun away from me and emptied the gun in Mr. Ba ker's direction but I didn’'t see no bullets hit.” . Alvin McCullough, son of An-~ drew McCullough, has been sen tenced to life imprisonment for his part in the killing of Baker. He is serving his sentence at the prison farm here. Roy MecCul lough, another son, whom the! father saw Thursday for the first time in 21 years, is also serving a sentence here. 3 McCullough remained calm un til the end, going to his death with a prayer on his lips. He talked freely with those who witnessed «the execution, among them Chaplain E. C. Ad kins of the prison and his attor ney, Frank Bowers of Atlanta. Calling Bowers close to him, ‘McCullough asked the attorney to ‘see that he was buried in Atlanta. Bowers replied that might not be possible Lecause of finances. McCullough asked that he bei ‘buried in his execution clothing, ‘which he had worn for sometime, consisting of a dingy blue denim coat and trousers and rouxh‘ shoes. He asked that his good | clothing be given to his sons. ‘ “Whiskey did it,” McCullough ‘told Bowers. “I had been drink ing considerably that day and what actually happened is not all clear to me.” . ® The execution was held up an hour because of a break in the Yower line. He was given two shocks of current. ' He asked that his two daugh ters who live in Atlanta be asked not “to think hard of the boys.” As the cap was being applied, Chaplain Adkins talked and pray ed with McCullough. | ‘Trusts God’ “Now do vyou really trust in God?” Adkins asked. “Yes sir,” McCullough replied. “It’s natural,” MecCullough con tinued, “to have bitterness in your heart when somebody’s ‘done (Continued on Page Six) Key Fears Dictatorship If Recovery Program of Roosevelt Is a Failure ATLANTA, Ga.—(AP)—Unless President Roosevelt's re-employ ment program succeeds, Mayor James IL.. Key of Atlanta fears a dictatorship might be the alterna tive. | Addressing members of the Ju nior Chamber of Commerce here Thursday on the eve of their block-to-block canvass to —enroll’ business firms under the NRA, the‘ mayor said. i “I am not an alarmist, but I see a dictatorship as a possibility and Ido not hesitate to approve the attitude of the government. TODAY'S BEST HUMAN INTEREST STOGRY e e LEONARDTOWN, Md. —(&) The story of a crippled boy’'s heroism in rescuing a woman and five children during the height of the storm at Piney Point, Md., was brought here Friday. The boy was Robert Hedrick, 20, of Falls Church, Va. The identity of the woman and children was not learned. So rapidly did tha water rise at Piney Point, the tip of land between the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac river, that many of the summer colonists at the resort were trapped in their homes. In a small rowboat, Hedrick went from house to house warning the residents they had better seek higher ground. He discovered the woman and children marooned in one of the houses and put all of them in the boat, There was not room for him, 80 he plunged in the water, swam from tree to tree, haul ing the boat after him each _ time he reached a tree, A rope attached to the prow of the } boat wag tied around his waist. When he finally reached % higher ground, he was ex- | i ; | - . 1 Ful “ ‘ , | NRA Headquarters Say Hard-Hit Firms May Use Symbol Temporarily l By JAMES: COPE WASHINGTON.—(AP)—A pro visional use of the Blue Eagle in signia by stores and factories claiming special hardships would be wrought them by full compli ance with the President's agree ment was decreed Friday by :he covery adminisrtation. l Themas S. Hammond, executive director of the NRA campaign division, ruled that a white stripe with the word “provisional” print ed upon it should be pasted across the Blue Eagle in such esta.blish-] ment pending decision on whether‘ the exemptions asked would be accepted. After decision, either the bar may be removed or the i(eagle will have to be taken down. i This order went forth as the administation began examination Ltof the retail druggists’ code, call |ing for the longest work hours | yet proposed by an trade or indus itry since the industrial control movement was started. The druggists asked a b6-hour work week for ordinary employes, with no limit whatever on phar macists, outside salesmen and 'other special classes. They claim ‘ed such hours were necessary be | cause drugstores kept open much |longer than ordinary retall estab-‘ lishments. | Store operation hours were set !hy the code at 0. Minimum wages | | were left at the prevailing sl2 to |sls range, depending upon popu ;lutlon of the community. | The rest of the retail trade, ex {cept food, which remains to be | handled separately, asked a 44 to | 48-hour week in hearing completed ;Thursdmy night. That code, how | ever, is due for further overhaul |ing in committee sessions. i now they have just as much right to draft property and money. “The employer who does not come into the NRA will find him self working under a permit, a matter which will be harsh but fair. Why should one employer, who is meeting the provisions of the recovery program, be forced to faoce the unfair competition of one who does not?” The mayor said people number ing between 50,000 and 60,000 are on the relief rolls in Atlanta and must be fed by charity every day. (Continued On Page Three) FEDERAL RESERVE l 5 WARNED CREDIT \| 1 Senator Thomas Says That Disaster Looms Unless Action |s Taken TREASURY IS HEALTHY Inflation or Resignation Are Not Discussed At Conference WASHINGTON,—(#)—The Fed eral Reserve system last week tried to make $35,000,000 in new credit available to American busi ness but was warned today by Sen ator Thomas (D-Ckla) that with out additional action “there is in evitable disaster #&head.” For months the 12 Federal Re serve banks have limited their op erations to purchasing from com mercial banks, government secu rities. The theory is that federal re serve currency or credit thus will replace the goverument securities in bank vaults, and since the cur rency and credit bring in no in terest while idle, they will be leaned. Last week, the 12 central banks purchased $35,000,600 worth of se curities. The week before; the pur [chase totaled only $11,000,000. Wrote To Black ' [Before .the statement was issued on last week’s operations, Thomas wrote Governor Eugene R. Black of the Federal Reserve board that there must be “courageous” ac ton “along lines which the federal reserve has heretofore opposed.” “I have sopn&ored since 1931 bills for issuance of treaury notes to lbring the urgently needed relief to our people,” Thomas wrote. “How |ever, I was defeated in these efforts by the Federal Reserve, who were directed by large Wall street de flationists, | “Under normal conditions, 1 ’wou]d not propose direct issuance of non-interest-bearing Treasury ‘notes. However, when it is neces sary X X x reputed standards must give away to national necessity and ‘ solvency.,” ‘ . There are no direct statement as‘ to whaty the Federal Reserve would do in the new week Friday enter ing its second day. | More Favorable ‘ Some pointed out that the twelve central reserve banks already held $2,094,000,000 worth of government securities, $243,000,000 more than on August 24 last year. It was added that although this method of ex panding currency had been tried previously without full success, general conditions now might be more conductive to benefit from sizeable open market purchases. ~ Hugh S. Johnson, industrial ad ‘ministrator, recently disclosed that he had a plan in mind that would make more credit available, He conferred with Reserve officials. There was no indication, though, that the step up in open market operations had any conneetion with his plan. / Numerous influential members of congress have been urging Presi dent Roosevely to use laws to issue more currency. When that idea was advocated to him again recently, he smilled. He might have had open market purchases in mind. SILENT ON INFLATION HYDE PARK, N. Y, — (AP) - Secretary Woodin assured Presi dent Roosevelt Friday of a healthy Treasury well able to handle the $3,300,000,000 public works program and as he left his conference at the summer White House he an nounced that neither inflation nor his regignation had come up. The President also seny out word through his secretary, Steph en T. Early, emphasizing that the two speculative topics—inflation and the resignation of Mr. Woodin —had not received any considera tion during the over-night visit with the Treasury head. Mr. Woodin gave particular at - (Continued On Page Three) LOCAL WEATHER e ) Fair Friday night. 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Her hasty decision to wed the ltalian nobleman, whom she had known only two weeks, was a mistake, she sald. Farm Administrators Seek To Learn How Much Cost Is on Consumer WASHINGTON. —(AP)— Farm administrators want to know, just how much the processing tax and 'the NRA. code for the cotton tex tile industry is costing the con sumer and whether it is cutting down consumption of the chief crop of the south. They want to determine whether there is a factual basis for claims ‘of textile representatives that mills ~are being forced to dlose down ‘because of a combination of the two recovery measures. ~ They are skeptical and made no ‘bones about their skepticism ;Thurs‘day is calling an informal ‘hearing Sept. 7, when they will lopen inquiry into changes in costs recorded in the last two months. George N. Peek, chief adminis trator of. the farm act, who called ‘the hearing, sald that in addition to the gomplaints from the textile industry, numerous complaints have been received from consum ‘ers that “prices of cottor goods have gone up faster than the pro cessing tax and NRA code justify.” Ag a result he intends that the hearing shall also determine whe ther the processing tax of 4.2 cents a pound, in effect since August 1, is being used as “an excuse= of profiteering and pyramiding.” ~ If the informal hearing shows that there is evidence of decreased consumption, profiteering or pyra miding, it will be followed by a formal hearing, after which the processing tax could be reduced. Peek said that he does not be lieve a reduction is justified. International Wheat Meeting Conquers Tariff, Price Difficulties in Agreement LONDON —(#)— The United Kingdom provided thé stand ard of wheat prices set forth in the agreement reached to day at the International Wheat conference. The price of wheat agreed upon—l 2 pre-war gold French francs per quintal or at pres ent exchange about 87 Ameri can centy a bushel—is based upon an average of all grades of wheat coming into all parts of the United Kingdom. When this price has been maintained for four months wheat import ing countries agree tocuttheir tariffs. 5 it s A . LONDON — (#) — The lntern_a'- tional wheat conference conquered tariff and price difficulties Friday MISSING BOAT £5 B " I 1} 'r:, i Toll Likely to Run Beyond Already Known Death List of Over Forty:~ ¢ MISSING BOAT SAFE City of Birmingham Gets To Port Safely After . Terrific Struggle : By The Assoziated Press ’ The Atlantic seaboard’s tsi‘ﬂfy’ing”' storm had blown itself out Fri 5 but from northern New York to North Carolina there mma&uﬁ devastating floods, stupendous property damage and a mounting deah list. e The death toll reached 47 as re ports from hard-hit areas trickled in and the prospects were that it would go even higher, - Coast guard cutters still sought the motorship Solarina, a 226-ton craft missing off the Carolinas with 12 persons aboard, the ship, .bound. from Winyah Bay, 8. C,, to Souths port, N, C,, first was reported safe in a South Carolina cove, but Fri day a checkup disclosed nothing of her. . There also was a possibility that some smaller craft off Virginia [wem missing and that a thorough investigaticn of some water-logged resorts would disclose additional casualties. ! o Hundreds Homeless - Hundreds were made homeless in southwest Philadelphia as the swirling waters inundated an area of “teyi “square miles. The Philadel phia airport also was under water. Water was receding from the marooned Camp Achvach for boys and girls at Godeffory, N. Y. and Port Jervis police reported there no longer wis any danger to lives there. - i ‘ After leaving New Yg;'k ‘the storm, considerably lessenéd in in | tensity, struck' out over Nova ‘Scotiu and the gulf of St Lawrence, causing a violenf elec ‘tricul disturbance but umé dam age. i ] The death toll by states stood as follows: New York, 2; New Jer sey, 10; Pennsylvania, 14, Mary= |land, 10, and Virginia, 11, ’ | SO § oo i SAFE IN PORT t SAVANNAH, GA., —li(f)— The S, 8. City of Birmingham was safe in port Friday after flirting with disasier on the dangerous lh’ﬁﬁﬁ off Cape Hatteras. i Passengers, including a veteran mariner, said the vessel was saved from poining wrecks hulk in: that | “Graveyard of Ships” only by the ' supper seamanship of ‘Captain | Hammond anpd his crew. )‘ ’ | The Birminghsm endouintered | Wednesday's hurricane in the. worst lplace on the whole Atlantic sea ]board. She was tossed about like a | scow and part of the time hugeé ‘waves submerged her decks but she came through with only one cass lualty aboard. | O. B. Strong, superintendent of !Savannah schools, was hurled 'against a rail as the ship luprched and one rib was broken. . - I The heighth of the storm was {met off Diamond Shoals, a -sghort distance north of Cape Hatteras, at 11 o’clock Wednesday night, The | lurching of the ship caused cargo ito shift and the Birmingham be |gan to list at an eight degree angle, Stcering Difficulg At Ak Waves poured through the state rooms, and the skylights on the huricane deck and the ship’s stores were badly damaged. Steering was done under greatest difficulty be cause of the heavy seas backwash ing from the shoals just off the starboard, b Captain H. M. Fleetwood, a mas (Continued on page six.) ’ by arriving at a final® agreement ‘which ties in wheat imposting na. tions with a broad program ‘de signed to boost ‘the price of the grain by - eutting production and stimulating consumption. Gai il The chief barrier to this agree ment had been ' the question of how high the price of wheat must go before the importers would lower their tariffs. This problem was met by a compromise. ' . The exporters, who had deméands ed that tariffs be lowered onee wheat had stood at 82 cents'a ‘bushel for four months, acceptéd a price of 87 eents instead. 'The importers had been demanding 9¢ to 95 cents. el | i _Ef:w‘ 3 v