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Georgia To Take Loan Plea To Roosevelt
xteen Improvements Are
Listed For Completion If
Athens Gets SIOO,OOO Fund
sterworks and School_s‘
To Share Equally in !
Latest Proposal
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NSIDER BOND ISSUE
O a————
oint Committee to Ask
Council to Call Bond
Election in November
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Sixteen improvement projects on
he Athens schools and water-‘
orks were sent to the Georgia
üblic Works Board today by a
ommittee from the Athens City
ouncil and Board of Education
or consideration in securing a
100,000 loan.
The joing education-council com
ittee will appear before city
ouncil next Friday night and‘
rge that a bond election be called
n November. ]
If the bond election is called,
nd the people of Athens vote for
ssuance of bonds, city council can
hen place the bonds on the mar
ot. As Athens has an unusually
igh bond margin—unlike many
ities in Georgia—council can
ither place the bonds for sale on
open market, or sell them to the
ederal government.
While cost of the sixteen projects
mentioned today by the committee
for consideration .will greatly ex
cced the SIOO,OOO bond issue, the
group will ask city council to go
as far as possible to complete the
following improvements with the
tunds.
Of the waterworks $50,000 bud
cet, erect a new 500,000 gallon
elevated tank; install necessary
mains to connect the elevated
tank; erecy mew raw water pumps
and connection; install new clear
water pumping equipment; build
new clear water storage at plant;
build new coagulation basin, and
erect new efflueny connections sos
Mbare
Of the schools’ $50,000 budget;
build ten nmew rooms to the Ath
ens High school; add four new
rooms to Childs Street school; add
two new rooms to Chase Street
“whool: add two new rooms to
Barrow School; add two new
rooms to Oconee Street school:
erect a new school building for
Athens High and Industrial €chool;
build 2 new school building for
West Broad street¢ school; add two
new rooms to the BEast Athens
school, and add three new rooms?
to the Newton school.
DEFENSE BEGINS
KIDNAPERS’ PLEA
Trial of Alleged Urschel
Kidnaoers Enters Elev
enth Day
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA.,—(#)
The eleventh day of the Charles F.
Urschel kidnaping conspiracy trial
brought A. M. Cary Minneapolis
lawyer, before the jury to plead for
the Twin Citieg defendants,
Accused, of being the ‘‘money
changers” who sought to conceal
pary of the $200,000 ransom paid
for the oil man’s release, the five
—Barney Berman, Isadore ]Blumen
feld, Clifford Skelly, Sam Bron
ick and Sam Kozberg—have de
clared ‘they were unaware the
money was “hot.”
Cary enlarged on this theme,
citing the voluntary surrender of
the men to federal officers, and
brought up the legal question of
whether the conspiracy angle ex
tends to a kidnaping case after the
victim is released.
‘Circumstanfial evidence war
fantg conviction under the law’,
sald Carey, “but when it does not
exclude every other pdssible hy
bothesis except one of guilt, the
law imposes on you the duty to
declare the defendant innocent,
“A chain of circumstantial evi
dence is no stronger than its weak
€st link.
“These defendants are merely
Charged with wilfully, knowingly
and unlawfully possessing, con
cealing and exchanging the ransom
money. Money flows freely, and
€vidence that they exchanged the
money creates no presumption of
guilt,
“It is the duty of the government
o establish beyond a reasonable
doubt that they had knowledge of
the agreement to kidnap.”
KELLY CHANGES COLOR
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — (&) — A
strange looking spectacle, George
“Machine Gun” Kelly chafed in his
Prison cell here Friday as federal
4gents moved guardedly with their
plans to change his address to sim
ular quarters at Oklahoma City.
When captured by officers Tngfl
day morning he was smoothly
Shaved and hi¢ dark hair was
freshly dyed yellow. Atfer four
days in jail, he has a heavy dark
beard, eyebrows that are partially
bond and partially brunette and
(Continued on page seven.)
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
FULL Associated Press Service.
ACCUSED ADMITS
FIRING REICHSTAG
Marinus Van Der Lubbe
Makes Unequivocal Ad
mission of Guilt
LEIPZIG, GERMANY. _ () —
Marius an Der Lubbe made an
unequivocal admission of guilt in
the burning of the German Rgic-
stag building at F'riday’s session of
the case in which he and four oth
& ‘men are on trial.
Judge Wilhelma /Buenger an
nounced Van Der Lubbe would give
his own version of the burning;
thereupon the defendant standing
with drooping shoulders and down
cast eyes replied hasitantly and re
luctantly as Buenger on a basis of
an earler confession, drew a con
firmation from Van Der Lubbe.
“Do you admit setting fire your
self to the Reichstag?’ the judge
demanded. :
Almost inaudibly Van Der Lubbe
replied ‘yes,”
Later, in response to repeated
prodding, Van Der Lube added “I
had no intention of so doing when
I awoke that day. The idea came to
me ag I walked past the Reichsfag
at two o'clock I spent the after
ncon in a surburb returning to the
city at eight o’clock.
MORE FORD PLANT
JOIN STRIKE TODAY
Threat Made by Pennsyl
vania Workers to Picket
Dearborn Plant
' DETROIT—(#)—The Ford Motot
compuny, for many years free from
strikes, Friday was beset with
labor troubles in its assembly
plants ir Chester, Pa., Edgewater
N. J., and Richmond, Calif.
There was even a threat by the
Chester strikers to come en masse
to Michigan and picket the Ford
plant at Dearborn. If they should
carry out that threat, it would be
the first such demonstration there
by bona fide workmen. Twe
“marches” on the Ford plant were
attempted within the past two
years, one resulting in four fatal
ities, but both were directed by
avowed communist sympathizers.
Ford officials, who announced
Thursday that they were returning
to five days a week, abandoning
the four-day schedule which is one
basis for the strikers’ complaints
withheld comment on other de
mands, which include a $5 daily
minimum wage, a seven hour day
and union recognition.
Such recognition would necessi
tate a complete reversal of a Ford
policy that has never yet been®
violated, and which has been con
sidered an important factor -in
Henry Ford's’ refusal to sign the
NRA code.
. Meanwhile, John M. Carmody.
representing the national labor
board, prepared Friday to set be
fore employers from Detroit, Flint
and Pontiac the demands of sev
eral thousand striking tool and die
makers. He said he expected to
bring abou; a settlement that
would “provide a living for both
sides.”
The strikers Thursday night set
forth their demands as 5 per cenl
wage increases and a change in
the present 40-hour week to give
greater employment.
New Plan to Establish End of Dry Era
Worked Out by Department of Justice
WASHINGTON. —(P)— Justice
Department offcials have worked
out a plan which hey believe would
remove the last lingering doubt as
to when, ;f prohibition is repealed,
the last moment of the dry era will
arrive,
In spite of a Supreme Court de
cision to the contrary, some have
insisied that regardless of when
the 36th state ratifies the 21st{
amendment repealing the 18th, the
dry laws will remain effective until
the formal proclamation of the se
cretary of state is issued. ‘
Under the Justice departmenit's
scheme, the proclamation would be
given the same date as that of the
86th states ratification. If this plea
is used—a final decision has vet so
be made—officials say there would
be no doubt that prosecutions
brought for violations after the
36th ratification would ndt stand
in the courts,
However most officlals of the
department and eminent constitu
URGANIZED LABOR
THREATENS APPEAL
TONEXT CONGRESS
Head of Labor Federation
Savs Such a Step Is
Necessary
DEMANDS SHORT DAY
Labor’s . Opposition to
Relaxation in Wage
Raising Voiced "
WASHINGTON—(#)— Organized
labor Friday threatened an appeal
from the NRA to congress to se
cure a 30-hour work week in re-
covery codes.
William Green, president, gave
this notice at a pre-convention
gathering of some American Fede
ration of Labor members. Even
then, a number of NRA officials
were considering possibilities of
temporarily relaxing present stand
ards of _wage-raising and .hour
shortening efforts so far as they
affect the construction and allied
industries.
Green’s 30-hour week demand
virtually clinched the absolute op
position of union labor to any
‘'such plan, whether for the con
‘struction or any other industry.
NRA officials giving thought to
the problem also were quick to
emphasize that their considerations
must be reviewed by Hugh S.
Johnson before approaching the
stage of final drafting.
Green told the metal trades de
partment of the American federa
tion of labor Thursday that “the
slack in employment is not being
taken up as rapidly as conditions
demand.” He added:
Six Hour Day Remedy
“The one remedy that must be
employed is a six-hour day, five
day week. Unless fthe existing
codes are modified and the new
ones so phraged that they approxi
mate that level, then labor will be
compelled to go to congress this
winter as it did last session and
support a bill for a six-hour day,
five-day week.”
No code yet promulgated has
reduced maximum working hours
to 30 a week. At NRA headquar
ters, officials said the study being
given the construction industry.
including the possibility of grant
ing even higher maximum hours
than have yet been approved, was
founded on a desire to keep labor
cogts down in order to attract cap
ital investment.
With Johnson still in the hos
pital, labor difficulties continued
to dominate the NRA. though rou
tine work on a number of codes
including aluminus and banking
pressed forward. Senator Wagner
(D.-N. Y.) chairman of the na
tional labor bhoard, planned, if nec
essary, direct negotiations with
Henry Ford to encourage the re
opening of his Chester. Pa., plant.
It was closed after strike troubles
Talmadge Says Burns
Not to Get Clemency
While Out of Georgia
ATLANTA, Ga.—(AP)—Robert
Elliott Burns, who escaped twice
from Georgia chaingangs and
wrote what state officials called a
highly imaginative book about it,
can expect no clemency as long as
he remains a fugitive, says Gover
nor Eugene Talmadge.
Burns now is living ni East Or
ange, N. J., protected by the re
fusal of the governor of that state
to grant extradition after he was
arrested there.
From East Orange, where he is
in busniess, Burns filed his plea
for pardon through Murphy Hol
loway, Atlanta lawyer. He has
some time yet to serve on a rob
bery conviction. ;
|titional lawyers in private practice
here as well, beiieve there can be
no question but that the 21st
amendment will become operative
as soon as ratified, regardless of
the proclamation.
This group is firmly convinced
that sheould the question as to
when prohibition repeal took effect
{reach the Supréme Court it will
!rule that all laws enacted by con
igress to ' enforce the prohibition
amendment ceased to operate when
the 36th state lawfully ratified the
21st amendment,
{ In the decision referred to by
|the lawyers—the case of ex parte
‘!l)ilhm—the Supreme Court in ap
:])l‘OVinß' the action of a trial court
|pointed out that the ratification
{of the 18th amendment was con
lsummated January ‘l6, 1919, when
xlmo 36th state ratified. It added
{that the fact the gecretary of state
did not proclaim its ratfication un
[til January 29, 1919, was notmater
ial.
—ESTABLISHED 1832~
Athens, Ga., Friday, September 29, 1933
Georgia Opens Grid Season Tomorrow
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Three Athens boys will probably see #ction in the game tomorrow. They are: John Brown, upper
left, and Leroy Moorehead, lower left, guards, and Hugh O'Farréll, lower right, end. Graham Batchelor,
Georgia’s captain and right end, is shown at the upper right, and “Mope” Comiskey, center, ig the Wolfpack
captain and fullback.
. 0. C. OF GEORGIA
T 0 CONVENE HERF
Two Hundred Delegates
Expected at Meeting
~Here October 17-19
Athens will be host to the thirty
eighth annual convention of the
United Daughters of the Confed
eracy, October 17 to 19. Fully two
hundred delegates, representing
more than a hundred chapters of
the state organization will meet
here for the three-day session, ac
cording to Mrs. T. W. Reed,
president of the Laura Rutherford
chapter of Athens.
| Three general officers of the U.
D. C. have accepted invitations to
attend the Athens convention.
Among them are: Mrs. William
E. R. Byrne, president-General,
Charleston, W. Va.; Mrs. R. B.
Broyles, third vice-president gen
eral, Birmingham, Ala.; Mrs.
Glenn Long, recording secretary
general, Newton, N. C.; and the
state officers of t3o Georgia div
ision of the order.
The convention next month will
be the third that the U. D. C.
has held in Athens since its or
ganization in 1895. The fourth
annual convention was held here
in 1899, and the seventeenth, in
1912. It was at the latter meeting
khat it was decidéd to erect here
Winnie Davis hall, one of the
dormitories on what is now Coor
dinate college campus. The Geor
gia division was the first to erect
a memovial to Winnie Davis,
daughter of Jefferson Davis, pres
ident of the Confederacy.
A full program of work and en
tertainment is being ‘planned for
the sessions of the convention, by
the committees from the Laura
Rutherford chapter. All business
sessions will be held at Seney
{Stovall chapel, on Lucy Cobb cam
pus. 3
| Mrs. Reed, vice-president of the
Georgia division and a member of
.'the general education committee
‘of the U. D. C., has long been
prominent in the activities of the
order, not only in the Georgia
division, but in the -national or
ganization. As charman of the
general educational committee
she held one of the most respon
sible posts in the organization be
cause of the emphasis that the
U. D. C. has placed on its edu
|cational work during the past
| several years.
| She describes the work of the
U. D. C. as primarily the care
nd help of the southern veterans
of the War Between the States
and the assistance to -widows of
the men in gray. The order has
also stressed the importance of
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Three Athenians May
Play; Wolfpack
Fears Key
By STAR DUST
The University of Georgia foot-
ball team—an organization of boys
whe for the most part have had
|only one year's experience on the
ivarsity-——-will {naugurate the hard
est schedule in the school's his
tory here Saturday afterncon when
it plays North Carolina State.
New recduced prices will prevail
|when the teams meet for the first
time in their histery in Sanford
stadium at 3 p. m, tomorrow. Tick
ets for the opening game are
ipriced at sl.lO this year as com
'pared to $2 last season, and are on
]sale at Charles E. Martin's office
in the old Lumpkin Law school
[huilding, intersection of Lumpkin
|and Broad streets.
| Georgia will have a greatly im
|proved and more experienced team
|en the field Saturday than the
|team of 1932. North Carolina State
[is expecting its best season in
Iyea,rs. The Wolfpack opened its
[season last Saturday with an easy
17 to 0 victory over Catawba col
’lor:e——the close score resulting from
{the State playing mostly reserves
and holding up the power for the
Georgia game.
| Both Georgia and North Carolina
State are coached under the Notre
Dame system. Georgia, however,
has added a new wing-back for
mation to the eriginal system, and
it will be <shown for first time
Saiurday,
Two Good Backfieldg
Both teams have plenty of back
lfinld material. Coming here with
the State are Captain “Mope’” Cum
lisky, All-State fullback of last
,yeur, and Ray Rex, 210-pound full-
(Continued on Page Eight)
Cheer Leaders Prescribe “Jawjuh”
Spirit For Students At Pep Clinics
Cheer-leaders Davis, Green,
MacDonald, and Hunter are
seeing to it that that old
“Jawjuh” spirit won't be miss
ing from the University foot
ball gameg this year, and
“Fess” Dottery with his boys
all spruced up in new uniforms
is doing all he can to help out.
A pep meeting was held
Thursday night at the Coordi
nate college with the hundreds
of new girls staying ouy there
learning the yells and songs,
and the girls who returned as
sophomores and juniors this
vear getting them fresh in their
minds. The whole school turned
out for the meeting and, with
“Fess” Dottery and the band
furnishing: the musical back
ground, showed their pari of
town what real “Jawjuh” spirit
is, - ‘
WELTNER TO SPEAK
AT SERVICE SUNDAY
Eleventh Annual Student
Union Services at Pres
byterian Church
Chancellor Phillip Weltner, of
the State University System of
Georgia, will be the principal
speaker at the Eleventh Annual
Student Union services. The ser
vice, to be held Sunday evening at
8 o'clock at the First Presbyte
rian church, is under the auspices
of the University Voluntary Re
ligious association, of which E. L.
Secrest is director.
For ten years the union service
has been one of the highlights of
the university opening and many
prominent persons have addressed
the students, faculty members and
Atheniang who attend. This year,
as in the past, many of the larger
churches of the city will not hold
their evening services, in order to
cooperate with the student service.
In addition to the address by
Chancellor Weltider the program
for Sunday evening includes short
talks by students and several spe
cial musical numbers. .
Two student viewpoints of col
lege life will be expressed at the
gservices: Richard Winston, Ath
ens, a freshman at the university,
will speak on “Looking Ahead,”
and Miss Margaret Slaton, Wash
ington, a senior and president of
the University Y. W. C. A, will
talk on “The Years Between.”
The subject of Chancellor Welt
ner’'s address will be “Except God
Be With Him.”
Officials at the Cocodinate
college are going to have a
hard time keeping the gris
from ringing the bell for a
Georgia victory ' (which they
did last year) if the enthus
jasm evidenced Thursday night
is any indication,
Professors Davis, Green, Mac-
Donald and Hunter " will offer
their special course in Jawjjuh”
spirit for the Dbenefit of the
boyvs and upper-class girls Fri
day night when a pep meeting
is to be held in the University
chapel. A large crowd is expec
ted to attend this meeting—
particularly freshmen, Who
will have their rirst taste of
cheering ' their own dollege
seam Saturday afternoon in
the game with North Carolina
State.
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—sc¢ Sunday.
McKee’s Announcement
Upsets Apple Cart in
Race for N. Y. Mayor
NEW YORK.—(AP)—Joseph
W. McKee announced his can
didacy Friday for mayor of
New York city.
His announcement set at
rest one of the most vigor
ously played guessing games
that has struck New York po
litical circles.
McKee will run as an inde
pendent Democrat against
Major Fiorello La Guardia,
independant Republican run
ning under the fusion banner,
and Mayor John P. O'Brien,
the candidate of Tammany
Hall. Pt
For the past 72 hours some
word from McKee has been
sought desperately by the big
town, and four times the for
mér city aldermanic president
set an hour for announcing
his political intentions but
each time postponed it.
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Talmadge Says Reduction
Will Bring More Econo
my in Government
By BEN F. MEYER
| ATLANTA, — (#) — Georgia's
lincome from property taxeg is go
ing te be sharply lower this year,
but Governor FEugene Talmadge
says the situation is not serious,
but, on the other hand, will make
for- greater economy in govern
' ment,
“Ont of the best ways I knbw
of to reduce governmental expen
ses—to get economy in govern
ment—is to cut governmental re
venues”, he says.
Tax digests from the wvarious
counties generally this year are
showing a reductlon in assess
ments, which meang that there will
be a smaller amount subject to
faxation.
In addition, Governor = Talmadge
reduced the state’'s ad valorem
(property) tax levy from five
mills to four mils, which will cut
the siate’'s revenue from this
source «¢ven more.
’ Just how much of a reduction
the two factorg will bring has annt
‘been determined by tax experts at
the capitol.
In 1932, the aggregate value of
property for taxation was $933,-
043,022. The amount of state tax on
thig amount, including professional
and poll taxes, was $5169,922 in
1932, after deductions for defaul
ter's.
The digests themselves are ex
pected to show a decrease in val
uation of around 10 per cent. The
assessments for 1932 and 1933 in
Clarke county were $14,089,250 and
$12,256,750.
Georgia Will Cease
“Starvation Relief’
To Relieve Starving
ATLANTA, Ga.—(AP)—The av
erage expenditure per capita for
persons being supported by public
relief funds in Georgia will be
more than doubled October 1, says
Alan Johnstone, regional repre
gsentative of the federal relief ad
ministration.
At present the average Is $6.51
per month, he said here Thursday,
and “the government will not go
into partnership in any starvation
basis relief work.”
' He said the average would be
raised to sl2 in rural districts and
$lB in the cities.
“Relief should provide actual
necessities of life to those who
are destitute and unemployed,” he
said. “Starvation relief does no
good."”
He compared the average expen-
Aiture in Georgia with $35 in New
York city, S2B in Washington and
$32 in {Baltimore. Florida also has
Jbeen spending less than $7, he
said, but raised its scale Septem
ber 1.
, He asked Increased local con
dributions to relief work. ‘
' Miss Gay Shepperson, state re
lief administrator, said the Aug
wst relief roll, soon to be com
pleted, probably would show 60,-
00 families, or 300,000 persons
receiving held, against 50,000 fam
flies numbering 250,000 persons,
the month before.
JUSTICE OF PEACE
ELECTION SATURDAY
An election to name a succes
sor to the late Joe H. Lumpkin
as justice of the peace in the
Athens district will be held Sat
urday.
One polling place will be at the
Clarke county courthouse. George
T. Burpee, young attorney, and J.
Audley Morton, realtor, are candl-}
dates for the office. |
The following will hold the elec
tion: W. Milton Thomas, Preston
Almand, Mrs. T. H. Hawkins, jr.,
Mrs. H. B, Heywood, Mrs. J. H.
Griffeth, Miss Julia Slaughter ani
Mrs., Peter F. Brown.
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PLEATO BE BASED
O AN ANEDMEN
T 0 RECOVERY ACT
Ickes Rules That State
Constitution Forbids
U. S. Loan :
GEORGIANS HOPEFUL
Delegates Emphasize Fact
That No Outright
" Grant Is Asked °
ATLANTA.—(®P)—An appeal dl
rect to President Roosevelt in a fi
nal.effort to obtain a share of tha
$3,300,000,000 federal public works
fund for Georgia was planned here
Friday as a delegation from this
state sped homeward from Washe
ington with the refusal of publie
works administrators to waive ses
‘curity requirements on the loans.
s Ryburn G. Clay, Atlanta banker
and member of the Georgia public
works advisory board, said hope
would not be given up until Geor
lgla’s case had been presented to
the chief executive. 'When such
an appeal could be made was
problematical, since the president
is not due back in Washington
from Hyde Park until Oectober 5,
The plea ig to be based on an
lamendment to the Recovery Act,
sponsored by Senator Russell (D.-
Ga.) which Georgia public works
officials say gives the president
authority to extend benefits of tha
act, under such rules as he may
prescribe, to states, counties, and
municipalities notwithstanding anw
legal or constitutional restrictions
on the rights of such governmental
subdivisions to borrow.
The Georgians urged that funds
be released for works in this state
with the governmentretaining title
to the improvements wuntil the
cities and counties are financially
able to take them over, or until
rentals can pay them out, 1
The stumbling block holding up
Georgia loans ds a constitutional
limitation on the borrowing powes
‘of cities and counties which in nus
merous cases has made them un-.
able to put up the bonds required
as collateral for works loans.
Attorneys for the Public Works
board ruled Thursday, despite the
Russell amendment, that the Re
covery Act permits loans to be
made only on the basis of adee
quate legal guarantee. They dee
clined to carry the question to Ate
torney General Cummings for a
ruling. ;
Secretary Ickes added at a w
conference that the Public r%i
administration, which he heads, i§
“not concerned with state constis
tutional limitations”. He said that
granting funds to one state oute
right would constitute discriminas
tion against others which must
borrow the money, put up collate
eral, and repay it with interest.
A memorandum filed wlm'dt:C% =
administration by the Georgia dels
egates emphasized that the funds
were not sought as an oufright
grant but that in cases where a
constitutionally binding obligation |
is not possible they expected the
President to prescribe terms goflgé
ering reasonable protection for the
government, e ikt 0
Only One Approved = %
Only one public works loan has
been finally approved for tms';i
state, that belng $750,000 for &
school construction proya#f ; n »:%
Augusta, for which bonds*wd& s
jssued. More than $100,000,000 ifi
applications is on file and a large
part of that total has heen ap<
proved by the state board, which
said recently that onmnly a m
more than $7,000,000 was bondable
under the Georgia constituuomf?“,i};fl
Athenian Is Injured
When Car Overturns
—_—
Lamie Kesley, 21-year-oldv(fi%
enian, was badly hurt late Thurs=
day afternoon when the car Whie N
he was driving overturned on: the
Danieisville road, near Helican's
Springs. . S
Mr. Kesley was brought to Ath- =
ers by a passing motorist for
medical treatment, and then ear
ried to his home on ’M*
street. The Chevrolet automobile
which he was driving turned over
four times, and was practically
demoliched. s et
LOCAL WEATHER
Generally fair tonight and g
Saturday, except probably local
showers Saturday in mhrim’afi
TEMPERATURE oo
HIShONt o.en save wssa v iss RN
LOWESEt .ves wona save ainsfßil N
MEATH J.ds ansis wane s e RTR
Normal 0... .... ... a;0 000
RAINFALL ot
Inches last 24 hours .. ... 05
Total since Sept. 1 .. ,«.. 205
Deficiency since Sept. 1.. 148
Average Sept. rainfall ... 3.50 =
Total since January' 1 ~..288%
Deficiency since January 1.10.80