Georgia Historic Newspapers

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No. 238.
Vol. 101.
Germany Is Rushing Air Attack Defenses
Mrs. T. W. Reed Is
Elected President
By Georgia U.D.C.
Head of Laura Rutherford
Chapter |ls Elevated
Without Opposition
LAST SESSION TODAY
Athens Chapter Wins
Banner for Best Report
Submitted This Year .
Mrs. T. W. Reed was elected
qate president by the Georgia di
vision, United Paughters of the
confederacy Thursday afternobn.
mThursday morning the ILaura
putherford chapter, of which she
i« also president, was awarded the
sold banner for the best chaptel‘
repory submitted during the year. ‘
Mrs. John H. Andersgon, Histori
an General of the U. D. C, will
jeliver the principal address at the
Historical evening which will be
the las¢ session of the state U. D.
¢, convention here tonight afl 9'
gclock in Serney-Stovall chapel.
Reports on various historical
subjects will be made at the meet
inc tonight, and the new officers
¢elected this afternoon will be in
stalled. Crosses will be presented
at this meeting,
A buffet supper will be tender
ed the convention tonight at €
o'clock at the home of Mrs. Juliug
Y. Talmadge, by the local chap
ters of the D. A. R., Coloniai
Dames, American Legion a.uxl]iary.l
Bpanish-American Whar Veterans
auxiliary, and the Athens Wom
an’s club and the Athens Garden
elub.
Mrs. Horace Holden, Atlanta
formerly: of Athens, was elected'
to an honorary presidency of the
state hody at Wednesday's busi
ness segsion, the only person sc
honored " during the present con
vention.
A resolution urging Governor
Talmadge to do everything in™ his
power to have aged veterans and.
their widows paid back pensions
was passed. It also askedl the
governor to do something abou’
the sum unpaid for the burial of
veterans—expenses which a state
law requires be paid by the 'state.
Increased Membership ‘
Increased membership in the
Childret of the Confederacy was
reported with five new charters is
sied and enrollment increased by
25 members. It was alsc decided
that the U, D. C. be represented
on the hi-centennial tablt to be
placed in the state capitol at At
lanta, A large monument will be
erected at Jonesboro where hun
dreds of Confederate wveterans are
buried, a (ommittee to work ou'
Dlans to be named by Mrs. Reed
and report to the executive board
in January.
Delegates to the convention werc
guests Wednesday night at a din
ner given hy the University of
Georgia. The dinner, one of the
highlights of the convention, was
given in Winnie Davis hall wheh
Was a gify to the Unijversity from
the U. D. €. thirty-one years
ago. Mrs. §. V. Sanford presided
a 8 toastmaster and short speeches
were delivered by distinguishead
Buests,
It was a; the first Athens con
vention of the Georgia Division of
’;“" U. D. €., in October, 1899.
that the plans were made to erect
”7“ building. The people of Athens
Offered the organization ~ $2,000
‘oniribution toward the project
}th’“"""‘ it should be located, and
!."‘“ convention decided that the
t“l“n‘mri:ll building should be on
f\'v‘f""fill'xlslxs of what was then the
“lite Normal school.
Main Speaker
h‘lf‘»w_”\‘\r', ‘R.' Broyles, Birming
“::'“‘"”‘:(')'s ]D“nmpa] SPRSNEY. om ths
tureq ‘“‘}:‘l progeatn vt:hich sea-
Nos I\'in: ?Pfidfl'} night’s meeting.
o “rhy Smith Anderson, Mad-
BN, presided. ;
Commander McWhorter Milner
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Negro Is Lynched by Mob in Maryland;
Gov. Ritchie Blames Judge, Prosecutor
PRINCESS ANNE, MD.—(P)—
R“ST’O“'““’““Y for the lynching of
George Arwood, Negro who was
Iragzed fro the jafl here Wednes-
Gay night ang hanged from a tree
sear the town ' limits, "was placed
Thursday py Gevernor - Albert C.
Ritchie squarely on the shoulders
°f Judge Robert F. Duer and State’s
‘\r‘wrn(\y John B. Robins of
p"in(‘oss Anne,
Governop Ritche drected Judge
Duer, 4 member of the bench of
e N judicial distriet, and
Yale’s attorney Robims “to take
mmediate action to set in motion
o~ Necessary legal machinery for
e apprehension -of _those who
Vere responsible for or who parti-
Cipateq in the lynching."
Armwood, “brought back here
om Baltimore less than 17 hours
“Arler to face agousations of at
“cking an aged white woman, was
n-renohed from the pmtmg of 25
fate policemen Wednesday night
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD ¥
FULL Asscciated Press Service.
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DR. SANFORD AND i
SON TO GET U.D.C. |
SERVI |
| /ICE cnossssi
Dr. Steadman Vincent Sanford,}
president of -the University, andi
his son, Dr. Shelton P. Sant’ord,l
will be presented U. D. C. Service
Crosses at the closing session ofl
the Georgia' U. D. C. convention,'
which has been held here for the
past three days. |
These Service Crosses are |
awarded to distinguished sons ofl
Confederate veternas. It will mark}
the first time in the history of !
this state, however, that both sonl
and grandson were awarded the |
cross. Dr. 8. V. Sanford’s fath-|
er, Charles Vincent Sanford, al
captain during the War Between
the States, was a member of the
Erwin artillery, Cult’s battalion.
Dr. S. V. Sanford was a cap
tain of the Third Georgia regiment
tof infantry in the United States
volunteers in Cuba during the!
Spanish-American war. Dr. Shel- |
ton Sanford of Savannah, wasl‘
captain of the intelligence sectioni
for the First division, A, E. F, !
in France. ) !
The presentation will be made,
by Mrs. Frank Matthews, chair- |
man of Service Crosses, Georgia
division, U. D. C. ‘
A !
INLINDBERGH CASE !
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| Department of Justice to
Undertake Fuller, Co-or
dinated Probe
WASHINGTON. —(AP)—Recent
success in rounding up kidnapersl
has prompted the Department of |
Justice to undertake a fuller, co
ordinated investigation of the 20-
months-old Lindbergh kidnaping.
Sanctioned by President Roose
velt in his desire to consolidate all’
kidnaping investigations under the !
Justice department, the move fol-’
lows disclosure of the withdmwa]l
from the case of the lone income
tax investigator that has been’
working on it.
This agent, Frank Wilson, of
Capone income tax investigation‘
fame, was taken off the case this]
week by Elmer L. Irey, chief of
the internal revenue bureau’s in-|
telligence unit, and returned to his |
former duties with the unit's field!
office in Baltimore.
They refused to discuss the mat- z
ter further, but it was learned Wil
son's withdrawal had White House |
approval.
" At the same time Attorney Gen
eral Cummings, after conferences |
‘with the President, ordered J. Ed- |
gar Hoover, director of the Jus-!
tice department’s division of in-!
vestigation, to assume jurisdiction |
over federal activities in the Lind- |
i bergh case, with a view to g!ving|
New Jersey authorities full benefit |
of data on known kidnupers‘
amassed by the division since
passage of the ‘“federal kidnapingl
llaw. '
Officials said that ‘in taking Wil
son off the case, no cirticism of hisr
work was implied. {
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iSouth Carolina Wins l
From Clemson, 7 to O
STATE FAIR GROUNDS, Co
lumbia, 8. C.—(#)—South Carolina
outclassed Clemson 7 to ¢ in fheir’
Istate tair classic before a crowd ofl
14,000 here Thursday afternoon. I
l A fumble of a punt by Cathcart.‘
Clemson safety man, paved the |
way to the South Carolina touch
down early in the first period as
| the Gamecocks covered it on}
lClemson's 26-yard line. Mauney|
lflipped a short pass to Hambright
{who scored. Hambright kicked the
extra point from placement,
ad his body was finally left in a
gasoline-sonked pyre on the main
business corner.
The mob of more than a thou
sand men, women and youths,
stopped temporarily by a tear gas
attack from the state police,
stormed the jail, battered down the
heavy steel door§l and after ripping
mos¢ of the clothes from his body
and fastening a rope around his
neck, dragged the negro out into
the street.
! Eight defenders of the jail fell
[during the attack cug up by flying
stones and bricks. Among them was
Captain M. K. Johnson, head of
the state police, who was knocked
unconscious. Several members of
the mob were seen being carried
away but their number -and in
juries were not revealed.
’ Armwood was captured Monday
night near Pocomoke city as the
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MAX MICHAEL
Michael Chairman
Of Drive for Boy
Scout Funds Here
Max Michael has been pameqd
chairman for the Boy Scout drive
which will begin in Athens Tues
day with Preston Almand as di-
rector. This drive will last three
days and is to secure funds with
which to continue the Boy Scout
work in Athens. :
Since the advent of Hugh D.
Maxwell as Scout leader here last
May two troop charters have been
secured and three more are pend
ing. The other troop in Athens has
not been brought up to par but a
charter is expected sometime in
the near future. Plans for the win
ter include the organizing of more
’troops and activities program is
'to be announced later.
Dr. A. S. Edwards is chairman
of the Athens district Boy Scout
committee with Walter Wellman
as vice chairmam, Max Michael,
who is chairman for the drive, is
chairman of the Finance commit
tee. Abit Nix is Northeast Georgia
National . council delegate, while
Charles Joel is treasurer, and Rab
bi A. Shusterman district com
missioner.
C & S Bank Will
Make Loans on New
Cotton in - State
A loan of ten cents per pound to
the producers of 1933 cotton will
be made by the Citizen's & South
ern Bank at any of itg offices in
the state of Georgia, that organi
zation announced today in an ad
vertisement found elsewhere in this
paper.
The rate of interest wil be. 4 per
cent per annum, &nd no loans will
be made on cotton classing below
low middling. Only eight cents per
pound will be allowed on cotton less
than 7-8 inch and low middling or
Ibetter as to grade. ‘
Loans may be negotiated either
!direct with the Citizens & South
ern Bank or through the local
banks or warehouses.
Hamilton May Resign
Public Works Board
For Postmastership
ATLANTA —(#)—Published re
ports here Thursday said Thomas
J. Hamilton, chairman of the state
public works advisory board, would
resign shortly to become postmast
er of his home city, Augusta, but
Mr. Hamilton said that even i}
he should accept the postmaster
ship, there would be no reason for
resigning now. v A
The postmastership does not be
come vacant until Nov. 16Mwhe said,
and there would be no reason why
he should not retain his office on
the public works board until that
time, if he should decide to accept
the postmastership.
LOCAL WEATHER
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Partly cloudy with rising
temperature in interior tonight
and Friday followed by rain in
extreme northwest portion to
night and in north portion
Friday.
TEMPERATURE
Highont Z i iiais Rheh is 9:. 330
LOWeSt . iiudins veiliiine 490
MoOSD .« iuniviis Sl s, p0i4:00.6
Notllel 1.0 s wB3O
RAINFALI,
Inches last 24 hours .. ~.. .00
Total since October 1 ~ .. .95
Deficiency since Oectober 1.. .86
Average October rainfall .. 2.91
Total since January 1 .., ..29.56
Deficiency since January 1.11.82
Athens, Ga., Thursday, October 19, 1933
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Is To Furnish Drastic
Application of Principle
To Everyday Trade
Approval of Johnson Now
Necessary Before Any
Mill |ls Opened
By JAMES COPE
Associated Press Staff Writer.
WASHINGTON. — (AP) —'A
drastic application of the indus
trial control principle to everyday
trade is now under way, with
cotton textiles the proving ground
of the experiment.
From now on no man may start
a new cotton mill without appro
val of Hugh S. Johnson after a
committee of cotton men elected
to supervise operation of the in
dustry’s code have made recom
mendations. Not only that, but no
mill owner may increase his pro
ductive machinery without the
same approval, recorded in a cer
tificate bearing the administrator’s
signature.
~ Johnson approved regulations to
this effect Wednesday while Presi
dent Roosevelt and his recovery
aides worked hours over price
policies for retail stores. Thel
President’s decision on the retail
issue was not expected before Fri
day
The new rule for the cotton in
dustry, for so long as the code
continues .and the President ap
proves, requires, in exact language,
an administrator’s certificate “prior
to the installation of additional
productive =~ machinery by persons
engaged or engaging in the cotton
textile industry.”
Officials interpret the regulation
as closing cotton textiles te new
comers except through the pur
chase of existing interests and
says it means production may be
kept to market demand. i 1
The only thing -yet done that“
compares with the sweeping mas
tery of the new act is the produc-‘
tion allocation established by the!
federal government over the oil‘
industry, which as an exploiter of
natural resources, is regarded as
invested with a semi-public char
acter.
AIRMAIL ROUTE 15
BEING URGED HERE
Chamber of Commerce
Develops Plan for Plac
ing Athens on System
| Plans for an airmail route
ithrough Athens are being devel
oped by Secretary Joel® Wier of
the Chamber of Commerce and
Postmaster Paul Smith, as a re
sult of the announcement that the
airmail route from Charlotte to
Augusta had been temporarily dis
continued because of its being un
profitable.
- The Charlotte-Augusta line, ac
cording to Mr. Wier, was an ex
tension of the main route which
runs through the North Carolina
city on down into Atlanta. This
extension provided airmail ser
vices for Camden, S. C, Columbia,
‘and ended at Augusta.
“By routing the airmail through
Athens to Atlanta, a complete
circuit will be made,” Mr. Wier
said, “a circuit which will provide
not only Athens with airmail fa
‘cilities, but will put Augusta, Co
lumbia and Camden in closer
touch with the widespread net
work of the airmail service which'
converges at Atlanta.” |
~ The first runway at Epps’ field
‘wa.s recently completed and the
construction of a second runway
ibvill begin shortly after the foot
‘ball game between the University
of Georgia and New York univer
sity. It was deemed inadvisable
to start work on the second run
[way before Octobtr 28 because a
-large number of planes are ex
pected at the field over that week
end. This added construction in
creases Athens chances for secur
ing the airmali route, it is said.
- Letters will be written to Au
‘gusta, Camder? and Columbia offi
cials asking their cooparetion in
securing the continuance of the
route with the completion of the
circuit from Charlotte to Atlanta
via these cities.
“It will take time to aecomplish
this,” Mr. Wier said, “so we plan
to start work as soon as possible.
The necessary amount of investi
gation before any definite step
(will be taken by the government
will give ample time for the com
pletion of the second runway at
Epps' field.” .
Weltner Pledges University
System To Local Leadership
Program Throughout State
TALADGE HOPEFUL
ABOUT 1. S, FUNDS
Money Is Granted for
Four Projects in State,
Totaling $2,300,000 :
WASHINGTON —(#)— Governol
TPalmadge expects a way to bhe
opened for Geargia to share in the
federal public WOTKS program
through a $2,300,000 loan which he
sald Public Works administration
officials ‘have given virtual assur
ance would be made available fey
four projects in the state,
The projects for which the gov
‘ernor said the money was virtually
assured include a new state prison
in Tattnall county to cost $1,300,-
000 and three toll bridges repre
senting an expenditure of $1,000,-
000.
- While no precedent has been set
the governor said he believed the
action of the public works admin
istration officials cleared the way
for the state -to circumvent its
constitutional Timitations in ob
taining the federal funds. The lim
itations which restrict borrowing
power of Georgia local and county
governments heretofore have pre
vented the state from sharing fully
in the 93,300,000 public works fund.
. The proposed mew prison would
be built in Tattnall county where
the state owns 6,000 acres of land.
Two of the highway bridges would
be across the Savannah river, one
in Dincoln county and one near
Sylvania, county seat of Screven
couty, and the third over the Oc
mulgee river hetween Coffee and
Telfair counties. .
* The governor said no definite
policy was being set by the ad
ministration for states with con
stitutional restrictions in its con
gsideration of the Georgia projects'
put he wus hopeful a way had
been found to permit other self-
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BRANNON WRITES
~ ON FORCING BID
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Agrees With Culberson
l Two Bid Is “An Evil to
lße Tolerated :
] Editor's Note: This is the
| fourth of a series of twenty
| speeial articles written for the
| Banner-Herald by Robert M.
! Brannon, a distinguished au
| thor and lecturer on the com- |
’ mon sense of contract bridge. ]
' As I understand it, the Culbert
{son systm is the popular method
lof contract play in Athens. If I
am correctly informed, then this
article which will concern itself en
tirely witsh counting probable
tricks in the opening hand, should
be of considerable interest to my
;readers for probable and not
|quick tricks is the foundation rock
|of the Culbertson or any forcing
'suit bid of two. Get this because
it is most impor- -
fzuntmjus‘t because 3
'a hand contains @ »_,:5;;";:;__ :
certain number of x.?:«’ T
Quick tricks it
‘does mot neces
sarily qualify as sl ‘\%\ :
sound forcing bid %’%\QJ
The g overning e
princpile of any S
correct demand R
bid is the ability to % 4
meet safely the
various situations s |
that mayarise |
thereafter. Inas- 3
much as the re- - o
sponding hand is Brannon
required to keep the bidding oponi
until game is reached, the ol)vn-j
ing bidder must be fully fnrtifit-(];
to protect the partnership in case|
the partner holds practically :1'
trickless hand. Hence, the meas-|
ure of any sound game forcing bid|
ig ability of the bidder to ahswer]
satisfactorily the question, “whm‘ol
do we go from here?’ And this|
question cannot be satist’actoril_v‘
answered unless a player is able
to count; the probable tricks in
his hand, for probable tricks as
represented by uneven distgibution,
plus intermediates, is a more im
portant consideration than Aces
and Kings, as I will subsequent
ly show you. }
It is also equally essential that
you learn how to count probable
tricks for a rebid of your own
denomination, or for an. assisy of|
partner’s take-out. It is genuinely
astonishing that an operation sc¢
essentially simple as counting|
probable tricks in the opening|
hand should baffle so many pla_\'-’
ers, "They just don’t seem to be
able to get the hang of it. Hence
they get into all kinds of difficul
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Says Education Today Is
‘Too Much a Mechanism
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Of Escape
University Will Strive to
- Remedy Lack of Leaders
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| In Teaching
-COCHRAN; Ga.— (AP) —Chan
cellor Philip Weltner in an address
prepared for delivery before a dis
trict high school conference here
Thursday pledged the University
System of Georgia to a program of
local leadership development.
He said it was a waste of money
to give a student schooling which
“did nothing to make him aware
of the potentialities of his imme
diate environment and if it did
nothing to inculcate in him a sense
of responsibility for developing his
powers by promoting the welfare
of his community.”
He said education as practiced
today *“is toco much a mechanism
of escape,” tending as much or
more to send the student away
from his own country seeking his
own place in life as to keep him;
at home for the development of
that pace.
Is Shifting Emphasis
As the first move toward carry
ing out the program of local lead
ership development, the chancellor
said , the University System is
shifting the emphasis from indi
vidual service to community or
ganization in its ' agrichltural and
home economies extension ser
vice.
He cited the town of Ivanhoe in
Bulloch county, as an example of
the success of the new plan.
“Our county agent serves there
as the community’'s counsel,” he
said. “The community does the
job. A program of joint marketing
was established by trucks on
schedule time; a community ware
house was built where produce is
graded and’packed. A cannery and
meat curing plant were set up.
The agricultural program was di-‘;
versified 'to support these commu- |
nity enterprises. The social life ot‘
the community was enriched. A
telephone system has been install
ed. The community’s economic
base has been broadened and given
strength.. All we did was to en
courage local initiative and enter
prise. The demonstration at Ivan
hoe has been duplicated with
equal success at other points.
i “If our lecal schools could be
come community centers where
work of this sort might be project
ed the movement would take on
state-wide proportions.”
Not Equal to Task
He said there was a lack of
teachers equal to the task of build
ing up such programs around their
schools, and of local lay léadership
to carry them on—a lack which
the University system would
strive to remedy.
Such an effort, the chancellor
said, is being carried out at the
new Abraham Baldwin Agricultu
ral college for farm boys and girls
who plan to return to the farm. A
fundamental part of the program
there, he said, is development for
local leadership, and instruction
in the science of “rebuilding an
agricultural civilization.”
“The same note of local leader
ship will be struck with increasing
intensity in the aims and objec
tives of all our institutions.”
The normal schools, Waeltner
said, will make a fundamental ob
jective of preparing teachers for
service in such a program of com
munity development. |
MOVIE PRODUCERS
SIDE WITH ACTORS
IN SALARY PROBE
' HOLLYWOOD.—(#)—Joseph. M.
Schenck and Samuel Goldwyn,
veteran film producers, took up
the battle for the.actors and write
ers of the film colony Thursday
with the statement ‘“you can't
make a crime out of earning ca
pacity.” e |
. “I'da rather pay an artist $250,008
if he earned it than $2,000 if he didi
not,” said Goldwyn. i
The alignment of the two pro
lducers with the actors and writ
ers came after representatives of
(the film extras had joined in the‘
fight against the proposed motion
picture .industry code.
A telegram to President Roose
velt was sent by the board of the
screen actors guild, protesting the
third revision of the proposed eode
'by Sol A. Rosenblat, deputy NRA
administrator. The revised code
ifailed to eliminate provisions ob
'jectionable to the actors and
writers—the salary control board
and the anti-raiding clauses. J
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—>sc¢ Sunday.
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i many "’ That, privately, is the
title given by many Germans to
Dr Otto Meissner, above, politi
cal adviser to President von
Hindenburg, and before that to
President Ebert. This mystery
man never grants an interview,
never gives a statement to the
press, never appears on a pub
, lic platform.
Border Nations Tighten
Their Defenses Against
Possible Invasion '
(By the Associated Press.)
A chain of steel almost com
!pletely encircles Germany Thurs
'l(.lay—h:u-king with ecold metal the
’tm‘ms of treaties which bind her
within her rambling borders.
To stretch in almost any direc
tion, the land of- Naziism would
lhave to penetrate border defenses
thrown up with increasing vigil
ance since the war.
And only last month, still un-
I'satisfied despite heavy reinforce-
Iments all aloag the line, Austria
got” the approval of France and
’Great Britain to raise a special
body of 8,000 men.
These, it was explained, - were to
'be assigned to the specific duty
against ‘‘terrorist elements” with
in Austria on the German border.
But Austria’s big-scale prepara
tions for defense along the Austro-
German line are more than match
ed by those of which Belgium and
France now boast.
While men have been digging
and marching and arming along
the fronts of Belgium, Austria and
France, an ultimatum has come
out from Praha, Czecho-Slovakia:
“Any revision of the war trea
ties so far as Czecho-Slovakia's
boundaries are concerned can be
carried out only with military
force.”
, Poland, meanwhile, long ago had
Jet it be known that vigorous op
position would greet any German
'%ffort,s to revise Germany’s eastern
' boundaries.
’ Little Switzerland was heard
from in connection with arms and
larmaments Wednesday.
1, Reports reached international
circles at Geneva that the Swiss
'military leaders were te ask ex
traordinary credit of 8,000,000
gold fraucs ($23,800,000) to in
crease armaments.
SWANN APPOINTED
ATLANTA, Ga.—(AP)—Rev. J.
P. Swann of Cairo, prominent in
religious and educational affairs in
south Georgia, was named Thurs
day by Governor Eugene Tal
madge as a member of the state
board of control, succeeding Henry
T. Mecintosh ¢ f Albany. Mr,
Swann immediately took the oath
of office.
Bank Robberies During Past Year Were
Almost as Numerous as Bank Clesings
NEW YORK.— (AP) —Despite
the depressing effect of bank clos
ings, the underworld profession of
bany robbery flourished in the
United States during the year end
ed August 31, the American Bank
ers’ association revealed Thurs
day. d -
| James E. Baum, deputy mana
ger of the association’s protective
division, gave out this informa
tion:
Bank and trust companies in
the nation suffered 516 holdups
and 95 burglaries, and the loot
was $2.402,277 “during the fiscal
year.
The previous -fiscal year, there
were 554 holdups and 77 burglar
ies; total loot, $3,568,373.
The casualty list — criminals,
bank employes and bystanders
killed or wounded during reobber
jes or attempted robberies—mount
HOYE|
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Activities in Germany. Are
Answered by France
Watching Armaments .
RUSSIA, LEAGUE FLIRT
French Cabinet Headed
By Daladier in Danger
Of Being Overthrown
Developments in the situation
created by Germany’s withdrawal
from the League of Nations car
ried in Associated Press stories
today were headlined by an un
usual decree by Finance Minister
Von Schwerin Krosigk, in Berlin,
which indicates that Germany lis
getting ready in earnest to ward
off attacks, from the air,
All money expended by private
individuals or firms for advancing
Germany’s protections from air
attacks canh, under the decree, be
deducted 100 per cent from the
income in making income q.nd eops v
poration tax returns. .
“By the treaty of Versailles,”
the decrease reads, “Cermany was
forbidden to maintain - military
planes and hence we were denied
the most effective weapon against
aiy attacks.”
“All the greater importance at
taches to civil air” protections
measures calculated to insure the
population against danger of at
tacks from the air,” it continued,
adding:
“In the interests of the popula
tion ag well as the national de
fense such measures, must be most
widely encouraged, also by tax re
duction.”
I Protect Businesses
i The defense decree observes that
jair protection primarily concerns -
lindustrial undertakings, businegses
with a large number of employes
and house owners—all of whom
should take measures of protecting
Itheir employes, plants, houses and
{inmates. .
' Measures suggested include the
(huilding of bomb-proof cellars, ac
quiring gas masks, installing alarm
!arrangements, and Arilling squads
in -the use of defensive instru<
\ments.
| Mven for substituting concrets
floors . instead of wooden and
strengthening foundations by gir
ders, the tax reductions will be
granted.
In Vienna newspapers ignored a
warning carried in Czecho-Slovaks
ian papers that ‘“extreme tenden<
cies” in Austria must be gcurbed.
|Conies of the Prager Presse, own+
ed by Foreign Minister Edouard
Benes of Czecho-Slovakia, were
gcattered through Vienna simultan
eously with the visit there of the
foreign minister,
“Frier.lly relations -of Austria .
and (Cgzecho-Slovakia,” said the
Prager Presse, “can be effectively
furthered only if no extreme tend
encies such as have beer so loud
ly proclaimed recently win the up
!per hanl, ...~ ;
: “Economic Questions”
Austria’s Engelbert Dollfuss met
Bennes in conference and the gov
ernment press bureau briefly an
nouced that “economic questions
had been discussed”
Reports in Geneva said that the |
United sStates is studying the
question of recognition of Russia
has awakened new hopes in inter
national ecireles here that the U.
S. R. R. may be induced to join
the League of Nations. Recently
lolear indications have been given
|that the league is especially re
ceptive to Russian entry and that
Russia algo has been flirting with
the League.
In France, the big news was that
the cabinet, headed by Premier
Edouard Daladier had encounter
ed serious opposition in the cham«
ber of deputies over balancing the
budget and officials were frank in
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ed from 176 to 281. g
In 1982-33,/ attempted burglarics
totaled 52 and frustrated holdups
numbered 63. This compares with
54 and &5, respectively, for the
preceding year.
California led in bank holdups,
with 63. The year before, Oklaho
ma topped the list with 58. Thi&
year Oklahoma dropped to 30. .
Texas and Kansas reported the
most burglaries in 1931-32 —l€
each. The former forged ahead in =
1932-33 with 17. : "%
The embarrassing predicament =
of one ill-informed bandit gang in
an Illinois village last summer
was revealed. Tk
The bandits apparently had g g
been reading the newspapers. They e
made a daring attack upon a bank
whose operations had been sus-
pended some time before. They
got away.