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Peek Attacks Farm Administration Critics
FNETH NEU GOES
corgia Singer Expresses
Wish That He Will
Be Hanged
CONFESSED SLAYING
ouisiana to Ask Death
Penalty For Young
Former Sailor
NEW ORLEANS.—(AP)—Reit
ting an oft ‘expressed wish
hat ‘“they’ll hang me guick and
ot it over with,” TLouis Kenneth
‘eu. 26-vear-old confessed slayer
f two business . men, Tuesday
vent on trial for his life in crim
nal district court to answer for
+ hotel killing here 'of Sheffield
vk, sr., ‘of Nashville, Tenn.
Neu, a former sailor and cabaret
ntertainer, left his cell for the
ourt room singing an originai
allad with the refrain: “I'm fit as
, fiddle and ready to hang.”
He was recently adjudged sane
nd responsible for his criminal
cts,” by court-appointed psychia
rists, who agreed with Neu's own
im that he is “mentally no:‘-“
The state has announced inten~
hio f seeking the death penalty
the slaying of Clark here last
Septemebr, thus carrying out a
bact with New Jersey authorities
h surrendered Neu to New Or
lcans police on condition that if
he were mnot = capitally convicted |
here, he would be returned east to |
st trial for the slaying of Law-‘
vence Shead, Paterson, N. J., thea
1€ nanager. P
veu told officers who arrested
im in Jersey City last Septem
b hat he killed Shead and fled
South, killing Clark just a week
Jater in order to rob him of
clothes, money and an automobilie,
His return to New Jersey in
Clark's automobile resulted in his
Selection of a jury started in a
crowded - ¢riminal district court
m shortly before noon.
Two attorneys employed by rela
tives and friends in his home city
of Savannah, Ga., are defending
‘eu, who has repeatedly said he
“not interested” in making a
His counsel, however, have as
sembled witnesses to testify to his
detention in a Georgia insane
asyvlum and his discharge from the
my for mental disorders.
One of Ten Who Fled
Milledgeville Prison
Surrenlers at Capitol
ATLANTA, Ga.—(AP)—Féeling
certain he would be re-captured,
Jimmy Ricks, one of ten prisoners
Who escaped from the state prison
\lilledgeville Saturday, surren
ered to Governor Talmadge in the
ipitol and was on his way back
lo the penitentiary Tuesday.
He came to my office late Mon
ind said h® had decided he
ouldn’t make it as an escaped
isoner,” the governor related.
le said his wife lives here and
wanted, to see her but was
d to go near her home for
f capture.”
Talmadge said he communicated
the State Prison commission
arranged to give Ricks a
ort to visit his wife Dbriefly
e returning unattended to
dgeville.
le is the fifth of the prisoners
returned to custody.
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Europe Hums With Talk
Of Disarmament; France
Defaults Again On Debt
FRENGH TAND PAT
AGAINST NAZ! PLEA
New Cabinet Refuses to
Consider German Re
quest for Concessions
PARIS — (AP)— A third de
fault on the French debt to the
United States was confirmed by
cabinet Tuesday.
At the same time a firm stand
toward Chancellor Hitler of Ger
many was approved.
The government considers itself
self bound by the chamber's refu
sal to pay the United States a
year ago, and, since the situation
has not changed in the mean
while Joseph Paul-Bon-cour, minis
ter of foreign affairs, was instruc
ted to reply to that effect to
Washington’s bill.
The debt statement was presen
te« to the French government by
Andre Lefavre De Labceulaye,
French ambassador to Washing
ton.
The cabinet approved Paul-
Bouncour's vigorous declaration
that France would neither consent
to a German army of 300,000 un
less the Nazi storm troops were in
cluded in the tabulation nor grant
concessions in the Saar bLasin,
which Germany wantg returned to
her flag from the aegia of the
League of Nations.
The attitude toward Germany
will be formulated in detail at the
next cabinet session alter the
British say how far they will sup
port France and France's allies in
the matter. .
Likewise the cabinet awaits the
end of a series of conferences
which are being carried on with
representatives of the ittle enten
ke-Czechoslovakja , Rumania and
Yugoslavia— on the German
question. Incidentally, these con
versations were expected in diplo
matic quarters to bring Bulgaria
into harmony with the little en
tente.
JAMACLO UNION
PLANS INSTITUTE
Christian Culture Insti
tute to Be Held Here in
Early Spring
A Christian Culture Institute
will be held in the early spring
under the auspices of the recently
formed Jamaclo Union, the union
council announced today.
The union is formed of repre
sentatives of Methodist churches
in Jackson, Madison, Clarke and
Oconee counties and decision to
hold the institute was made at a
meeting of the union council held
Jast night at the home of Miss
Frances Hawkes on Lumpkin
street.
The institute will afford an op
portunity to the Methodist young
people of this section to study
under the outstanding educators
in the religious field. The Union
Council is striving to secure the
most noted religious scholars in the
South to direct the work of the in
stitute and conducting the class
work.
Monthly Meetings
Meetings of Jamaclo Union are
held monthly and the next meeting
will be held January 4, at the
Oconee Street Methodist church.
Over 250 represfntatives of the
various Methodist churches in this
gsection registered for the last
meeting, which was held at Young
Harris Memorial church.
week.
One of the outstanding features
of the next meeting will be a trav
elogue given by Dr. Lester Rum
ble, pastor of the Athens First
Methodist church, who recently
returned from a visit to the Holy
Land. During the program spec
jal music will be rendered by the
Oconee Street Young People’s div
ision.
Following the business session
of the council a fellowship hour
was enjoyed, during which delic~
jous refreshments were served.
The next meeting of the council
will be held at the home of Rev.
Frank Langford, Tuckston Metho
dist church.
BOOK SHOWER THURSDAY
A booK shower will be Biven by
the Atheng High School P.-T. T.
Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock at
the school building. Members are
urged to attend and bring books
which will be turned over to the
school ‘library, badly in.need of re
plenishing.
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lin seeking to determine Hitler's
stand on the European plang for a
new league of nations.
VAN GONFESSES
BURGLARIES HERE
Paul Griffeth of South
Carolina Held in City Jail
For Three Robberies
Paul Griffeth, of South Carolina,
was arrested - Monday afternoon
on Woodlawn avenue by Policeman
Clarence Roberts on a charge of
burglarizing the homes of Mr, and
Mrs. Thad Hawkins, Mr. and
Mrs. M. F. Fickett and Mr. and
Mrs. W. O. Payne on December
2. He confessed Monday night,
and Chief Charlie Seagraves says
he is wanted by Greenville author
ities on burglary charges. Griffeth
is being held in the city jail.
Griffeth was prowling around a
house on Woodlawn wken he was
caught. His procedure was to call
at various houses and see if any
one was at home. If no one was
there he went about his work; if
anyone answered the door, he
asked for a fictitious person, police
said. &
Mrs. Henry Pope called police
Monday, saying that Griffeth had
called at her house and that she
recognized him from the descrip
tion given by Mrs. Raisty, who
saw him on Hampton Court the
day when the first burglaries oc
curred. Policeman Roberts went
to Woodlawn, where he caught
Griffeth. When arrested, the man
had a loaded gun in his posses
sion.
Property which was taken from.
the Fickett's house was recovered,
rolice said, and they are on the
trail of the other missing articles.
Griffeth said he came to Athens
on the bus from Greenville, and
committed the burglaries while
waiting for the bus on which he
returned to the South Carolina
city. He is also wanted in Spar
tanburg for similar burglaries.
In one of the homes entered
here, Griffeth left a note: *“Come
up and see me some time.” Com
mented Policeman Roberts: “I
did.” 2
Firc Department Has
Three Calls Tuesday
The fire engines were called out
this morning at 4:00 o'clock to
Prince avenue, where\ a Rogers'
wholesale truck was on fire. The
blaze was extinguished shortly
and only slight damage was done.
Thirty minutes later the depart®
ment was called out to Harry
Hardy’s home on the Jefferson
road where a barn was completely
destroyed. :
_At 10:15 this morning a Negro
house on Hull street caught {ire.
One room and the roof were seri
ously damaged. Arthur Kittle's
house on Hall street was damaged
Sunday to the extent of approxi
mately S2OO.
IS OPERATED ON
Condition of Herschel Carithers,
popular Athens business man, who
underwent a major operation
Tuesday morning at St. Mary’s
hospital, was reported “fair” at
noon. Mr. Carithers’ many friends
wish for him speedy recovery.
Athens, Ca., Tuesday, December 12, 1933
PEACE TALK HEARD
IV BERLIN. LONDON
New - Reichstag, Solidly
Nazi, Holds Seven-Min
ute Session Today
(By the Associated Press.)
European capitals hummed’
Tuesday with talk of disarmament
and the possibility of° reshaping
the League of Nations. Interest
centered in London and Berlin.
Italian Under-Secretary of State
Fulvio Suvieh faced at least two
brilliant secial events in connec
tion with his visit to Berlin. They
were official ~ dinners at which
President Paul Von Hindenburg
and Chancellor Adolf Hitler were
to preside. |
In this manner the way, was 8
be paved for brass-tacks talks.
France looked to Berlin Tuesday
for further -details of the answer
to thé questions put to Hitler by
the French ambassador, Andre
Francois-Poncet, Monday.
M. Francois-Poncet asked des
tails of Hitler’s appeal for a Buro
pean peace plan built on a strong
and “equal” Germany.”
In London, Joseph A. C. Avenol,
secretary-general of the League,
continued his conversations with
British government leaders.
NEW REICHSTAG MEETS
BERLIN.— (AP) —The German
Reichstag met Tuesday for the
shortest session in its history—
seven and one-half minutes.
The new parliament was prac
tically a Nazi body; women and
Jews were completely absent. The
absence of Chancellor Adolf Hite
ler, who was “in Wilhelmshaven,
was equally notable. '
Herrman Goering, Prussian pre
mier, was re-elected president of
the Reichsiag and was the only
speaker. He confined his remarks
to recording a unanimous senti
ment for the nominations of hime
self and three vice-presidents.
Then he led the house in a full
throated *“Heil Hitler!” and ad
journed the session “until further
notice.”
REVOLT PUT DOWN
MADRID.— (AP) -—Authorities
throughout Spain announced
Tuesday that the Anarchist upris
ings in which 94 have been slain
and hundreds wounded in four
days of violence had been put
down.
Further, they said a threatened
gengral revolutionary striké had
failed. It was believed the govern
ment now will find it unnecessary
to declare a state of martial law.
Breaking out last F¥riday in a
series of bombings and riotous
demonstrations, the revolt spread
quickly through central and north
eastern Spain.
Violence reached its peak Mon
day in bitter clashes between gov
ernment troops and roving bands
of extremists, but there were only
a few scattered minor disorders
during the night.
A statement was issued in
which Socialists declared they had
no connection with the outbreaks.
|Cell' Replaces Open
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. Range for Cowboy,
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- Jailed as Murderer
‘ HUTCHINSON, Kas.— (AP) —
{An individual cell, closely guarded
has replaced the open range for
‘Jack Wisdom, 26-year-old cowboy
said by assistant County Attorney
lEli Eubanks to have sighed a
Istatement that he abducted and
slew Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pritch
lard. .
| The cell is in the Kansas State
[ reformatory where Wisdom is held
| for safe keeping. It was in the
reformatory that the western
Kansas cowhand admitted, over
1 his signature, the slaying of the
Wichita, Kas., couple because he
'i'feared prosecution on a worthless
182140 check he gave Pritchard, a
‘merchant.
| ®* The bodies were found in Okla
,homa. Mrs. Pritchard’s Sunday
and her husband's Monday. Wis
dom was arrested Sunday near Jay
in the eastern Oklahoma hills.
! Under questioning by D. J.
| Wilson, Meade county attorney,
'\Visdom denied he had slaim Em
ery Large, with whom he is said
lto have worked on the Levitt
{ Johnson ranch. Wisdom is under
| murder charges in the death of
Large.
—ESTABLISHED 1832—
FIMANCE. CAMPAIGH
OF Y.ML.C.A WLI
BE ENDED TOMIGHT
Field Thrown Open As
Workers Seek Funds
In Last Day of Drive
HAVE RAISED $3,406
All Workers Expected to
Attend Final Supper
Conference at 6:30
The annual finance campaign of
the Young Men's Christian asso
ciation ended today as seventy‘-
five werkers went out in a last
minute drive to reach the 'sß,ooo
goal, Since the eampaign started
last Tuesday morning a total of
$3,406 has been raised, .eaving a
balance of $4,594.
‘Until last night wockers can
vassed 'the city by & card index
system but this morning the field
was thrown wide open and it was
expected that the supper-confer
cnce. tonght at 6:30 o'cock at the
Y. M. C. A. building would re
ceive the iargest rzport of sub
scriptions -~ and ‘mwney received
since the drive started.
Monday's ‘report showed the va
rious teams had secured 59 sub
soriptions for -$431.50, raising the
tota| subscriptions to $3406.
PDivision Y, again won the attend
ance prize, -a delicious cake, while
the shoe soles for the most sub
seriptions were awarded Judge T,
¥. Green, sr.: for the splendid re
port he turned in, although work
ing single-handedly. The team of
Trussell and Hodgson took charge
of the money bag for the largest
team report and Division C. was
awarded the red feather for the
best all-round report.
Divisions Report
Report by divisions showed: Di
(Continued on Page Two)
Welles Says He Is
‘Not to Blame For
Conciliation Break
HAVANA —(AP)— Ambas
sador Sumner Welles of the
United Stategs announced late
Tuesday he would leave Cuba
by airpizne to resume his du
ties in the State department.
WASHINGTON.— (AP) —Am
bassador Welles .reported Tuesday
to the State department that the
breaking up of a conciliation pro
gram there was in no way due to
any action or interference on his
part.
Acting Secretary of State Phil
lips, after discussing the situation
with Welles by telephone in addi
tion to receiving official dispatches
from tne ambassador, issued a
statement in which he said:
“In-response to inquiries at the
Department of State, with respect
to certainm press reports from Ha
vana regarding the latest Cuban
developments, the acting Secre
tary of State, Mr. Phillips, called
Ambassador Welles on the tele
pione and received from him the
following - statement:
“‘As I have already informed
the Department the Uruguayan
minister came to me to request
my copeeration in his efforts at
coneiliation.
“‘I repelied that while I could
take no action whatever I fully
sympathized with his efforts and
should my opinion be requested,
would counsel a peaceful adjust
ment of all disputes through pat
riotic compromise.
“‘My conversations with the
party leaders have of course been
limited to this., In. my conversa
tions with Grau himself, when he
requested my assistance, I made it
thorouflhly clear that 1 could take
no part whatever other than that
of a friendly observer and that
the role of go-between was under
taken not by me but by the TUru
guayan minister’.” .
REPLY AWAITED
HAVANA.—(AP)—Cuba lookeld
to United States Ambassador
Sumner Welles Tuesday for a de
tailed reply to the charge that he
was responsible for the failure of
opposing political forces to con
fer on a conciliation plan.
Mr. Welles promised a full
statement Monday night after the
accusation had been voiced by
Benjamin Fernandez de Medina,
Uruguayan minister to Cuba.
“I lost 20 days work,” said De-
Medina, author of a plan to re
store political tranquility to tihe
island, “because Mr. Welles did
not deign to follow my advice.”
Mr. Welles said he acted only
as a frtendily observer in DeMe
dina's efforts. He expressed sur
prise at the Uruguayan minister’s
accusation.
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She “knows mgre about the NRA and the Recovery Act than most
anybody around here.” That’s what General Hugh 8. Johnson, NRA
administrator, said when a printed story recently emphasized that
Miss Frances Robinson, his assistant, was receiving a salary of $5,780
—some S2OO less than his own. They are shown at the Waldorf-As
toria in New York, where Johnson, in an address before the National
Association of Manufacturers, struck out at critics ot‘tht7 NRA and
the President’s monetary poli¢ies. | .
Enforcement Machinery
Put Into Action By NRA
Dry Cleaners Furnish One
Of Major Problems Be
fore Johnson
WASHINGTON.— (AP) -—NRA
set the machinery of federal en
forcement at work Tuesday on
nearly a hundred merchants, most
ly little ones, who refuse to keep
step with coded industry.
In the early hours of Tuesday
morning it ended a public session
at which dry cleaners from all
over the country who had not
raised their prices to the levnls
set by their code were given one
more chance to do so voluntarily.
A small handful complied, ten
or so asked a day’s time to con
sult with lawyers or principals,
the majority simply failed to be
represented, and a dozen, includ
ing the biggest, refused.
Some told NRA to bring on its
federal trade commission prosecu
tors, others pleaded that higher
prices would ruin them. And trade
commission representatives in the
room Jjotted down the names of
the objectors for further consider
ation.
Officials showed clearly their
recognition that this was a criti
cal pas Sage for NRA. The court
like session followed upon hours
of protests against schedules set
by the code authority, ranging
frem 65 to 98 yts, any objec
tors were- sm’arlnd’v:ualists, but
the bulk were linked ‘n an asso
ciation es cash and carry cleaners
who wantegt ' to keep a 40-cent
price. ¥
The authority charged this was
a “fraud” behind which they
charged much higher figures. They
accused these men of being the
cut-throats, the labor-sweaters
and “pirates” of the industry.
Not a defendant but argued
stoutly that he was for the code,
obeying its every word except
prices. And most of them favored
a fixed price, so long as it was
Trapped Under Water in Tube Filled With
Smoke, 7 Workers Face Death With Songs
KANSAS CITY —(AP)— Seven
bridge pier workers faced death
with songs before rescuers succeed
ed late Monday in saving them
frorg a smoke-filled ‘diving caisson
102 feet below the surface of the
Missouri river.
Certain that death awaited them,
the “sandhogs” joined in singlnx‘
as they lay face down in mud and
water to escape the choking fumes
from a fire below an air lock in
one of the tubeg lsading to the
surface. Rescue beat death by
only 10 minutes. The smoke had
descended to within a foot of the
bottom of the chamber, and had
‘filled 'all three entrance and exit
tubes.
Of the things which too} place
in the hour and a half th sy(oke
kept descending, the singing stood
out most vividly in the recollec-‘
tions of Ben Bradley, for 12 Yyears
a “sand hog.”
“Nobody said a word about dy
ing,” Ben recalled. “Nobody look
ed ag if he thought he was going
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—sc¢ Sunday
THREE BURIED
IN LANDSLIDE
Little Hope Held For Men
Caught Under Tons of
Falling Dirt
CHEROKEE, N. C—(AF)—Three
men working on the Skyline Drive
project between Cherokee and Gat
‘Mnburg, Tenn., were buried by a
sudden landslide Tuesday. ‘
Those buried were Edgar Smlley,l
Robert Brooks and A. G. Davis,
foreman of the night shift on which |
he and nine men were working.
It could not be ascertained im
mediately if those buried were dead
but men attempting to rescue
them held little hope.
Another man, CGrayson, was in
jured and was taken to a Knox
wville, Tenn., hospital. He suffer
ed a broken leg and other injuries.
The crew was working on a’ re
tainnig wall foundation about 200
feet below the highway. The wall
was to hold up the dirt poured be
‘side the highway for a parking lot
atop New Found Gap on the high
‘way between here and Gatlinburg
The Skyline Drive is a government
‘project. \ :
Members of the crew expressed
belief the slide was caused by the
freezing and thawing of the mate
rial packed for the parking place.
The men caught were those work
ing nearer the mountain.‘ The oth
ers were further away and sgeeing
and hearing the slide, had just
time to eseape. ‘
$2.20 LIQUOR TAX
WASHINGTON, — (AP) — A
federal liquor tax of around $2.20
a gallon was in sight Tuesday as
distillers prepared to object for
mally and vgorously to a major ad
ministration policy requiring the
uge of more grain and less molass
es for distiled alcoholic beverages.
,to die. But you got the feeling
anyway. What is that, what do
you call it? Telepathy! Yes. But
not a ql;y'chlrped . - « Everybody
Ijust sung and coughed and cough
ed and sung and coughed some
more.” 1
He couldnt recall the specific
! songs they sang, or who had pro
| posed the idea.
Rescuers worked frantically un
| der the direction of I. E. Hayes,
construction superintendent. The
problem was how to extinguish
| the fire below the safety’ door
without releasing the compressed
ialr which kept the muck from en
gulfing the men below.
A stream of water under high‘
pressure finally extinguished the]
flames, and the men were brought
up through an air lock chamber in
the usual manner.
! The men, all of whom made their |
way to the surface unassisted were:
J. J. Murphy, foreman, - Jack
Wright, Elmer and Ben Bradley,
John Lacey, Jack Smith and Rob
ert O'Dell, all of Kansas City. |
H2oME|
COTTON LIQUIDATION
5 PLINNED BY M
THROUEH NEW POOL
Holders of U.»S. Options -
To Be Advanced S2O
Per Bale
PLANNING FOR 1934
Peck Gets New Job of
Harmonizing Domestic
And Foreign Plans
CHlCAGO.—(AP—Liberals who
talk about federa] control of pri
vate business, and the methods of
some farm strike leaders drew
ceriticism Tuesday from George N,’
Peek, farm administrator, ln‘flh‘y;_
address before the American Farm
Bureau Federation’'s 15th ann\ifi‘ )*
convention. : i :
Peek is about to resign as farm
adminjstrator as a result of a diss
pute with Agriculture department .
liberals and take a new job at the
head of an agency that will try to.
find ways of disposing of agricul
tural surpluses. After saying he
believed the export field would re-—
ward “a very careful looking-in
to,”” he asserted: e
“There is grave coricern over
the expressions of a few ultra
liberals about the government tak
ing over private business. It you
‘want my gpinion—personally, net
officially, mind you—l would say
that this apprehension is unwar
ranted. Unless it hustles, the gov
ernment has more hay down now
than it will get up before it rains.””
“There is abroad in the land a
propaganda of more or less im
portance for doing, away with the
profit system. This means no
more and no less than doing away |
with the institutions under which
we have all grown up and pros- .
pered more or less. I am agains %z
‘the racketeers of high finance ? i
much as I am against the racket
ieers in the underworld. But tha
remedy lies not in destroying our
institutions.” i AR
} Of farm strikers: i
'+ “I do not protest against the hot
impatience of some farm Mfixfig
I do protest against their methods,
because I think they are futile.
And I protest against a strike
aimed at the President of the
United States and his adminis
tration—an administraiton which
honestly .is endeavoring to do all
that agriculture has asked of prev-.
jous administrations; that is to
say, restore equality to agricul
ture.” 5 é
WASHINGTON —-=(AP) — A
pool to liquidate the 2,400,000 bales
of government held cotton covered
by options to producers has been
formed by the Farm administra
tion. Sh }}
. Money borrowed from the Com
munity Credit corporation will ba
used to finance the operations of
the administration which said it
would advance holders of eottom
optiopg four cents a pound cr S2O
a bale on option certificates. .
The administration annowneed
that options to cotton farmers who
participated in the 1932 aliostment
campaign will be torwn-:dg{;f'”‘
county agents this week ‘along .
with the agreement through which
option holders may obtain. the
four cents initial advance on:op=
tions they hold calling for am’i
payment of six cents a pound.
The pool will be established te
hold the cottbn under a contracty
Approximately 600,000 cotton fare
mers elected the ‘“option-with
benefit” plan in last summer's
acreage reduction plan.
PLANS MAPPED ,
MEMPHIS, Tenn. —(AP)-— The
framework of the government's
1934 cotton reduction orsanization
was in the building Tuesday as the
men who heard Oscar Johnston of
the agricultural Adjustment ad«
mnistration explain the plan here
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LOCAL WEATHER
Cloudy, probably rain tonight
and in central and north pors
tion Wednesday, rising tempers
ature in central and north por- ,3
tions Wednesday and in Wt
west portions tonight. 3 :»;
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Highest. ..o eess sl asscaslißn
LOWERt. ... siava ey ...“.flfi
Mean. ..h iy dhiaes ......58.55%
Nortpikii.. iviass aosipy ..46&{;‘,‘%‘%
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Inches last 24 h0ur5.......s .flg
Total; gince Dec. L.....c-ee bR
Deficlency since Dee. 1.... .70
Average Dec. rainfall...... 44&5
Total since January 1......3238
Deficiency since January 1 14,74