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Vol. 101. No. 290
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AT O LICENSINR
IELSTA HEARING
pffidavit Claims City's
' Moral and Property
Value in Danger
DECISION THIS WEEK
Council's Action Deplored,
In Eleven More |
Petitions }
AUGUSTA, Ga.— (AP) —Addi
tional affidavits saying that Au
gusta’'s property and moral values
would be harmed by, operation of
the city council’s ordinance “lic
ensing” hard liquor sales here,
were presented Tuesday at an in
junction hearing before Judge A.
L. Franklin in superior court.
The city council passed an or
dinance licensing sellers of liquor,
and it was promptly attacked in
court, on the ground that it is in
conflict with Georgia’'s bone dry
liguor lawgs, and alse with the
st amendment to the United
States Constitution protecting dry
states from liquor shipments from
wet areas.
Judge Franklin allowed until,
Thursday morning for the filing
of additional arguments and briefs,
and said no decision on the peti
tion to mdke permanent the in
junction would be recahed beforel
Saturday. PFreviously, ne nad said
a decisiorr might be expected Fri-!
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Verbal Clash
W. P. Congdon, attorney repre
senting the city, and W. H. Flem
ing, seeking to make a temiporary
injunction order permanent, en
giged in a verbal clash at another
hearing Tuesday. Fleming was in
troducing a number of affidavits,
including one of his own, ‘when
Congdon raised the point that the
Fleming affidavit © was not in
proper form. KFleming said Cong
don was being “picayunish,” but
swore to the affidavit before Judge
Franklin and a notary public who
happened to be in the court room.
Eleven affidavits in all were
offered by Fleming. One of them
was from Virgil Hollingsworth,
president of a candy manufactur
ng concern; another from Eric W. J
Hardy, dean of men at the Junior |
College of Augusta and past presi
dent of the Georgia Association of]
Junjor Colleges.
Hardy said operaton of the ordl-l
hance would have a *very demor
alizing” influence on the 900 stu-i
dents of the college.
J. B. Davenport, druggist and'
lay leader in the Methodist church;
Mrs. M’ H. Hendee, district lead-‘
frof the Women’s Christian Tem-
Perance Unjon; Mrs. W. M. Dun
bar, widow of a former mayor of
Augusta, and M. B, Edwards, al
member so the county commission
and local agent of the Federali
Home Loan corporation, also made
affidavits which were presented by‘
| Fleming,
Following last week’s hearing
Julge Franklin said no permanent
INjunction could be granted unless
the petitioners could show that the
ordinance is résponsible for dam
iߢ to property. Unless the court
lakes action gaainst the statute,
it becomes effective on January 1.
REFUSES TO PAY
AUGUSTA, Ga—(AP)—W. L.
Powell, charged by the eity with
‘lling 32 peer without a city
Wholesale license, Tuesday re
fused to pay the $l5O license fee;
i o hearing in recorder's court,
and his attorneys charged the city
had no right to license beer under
Georgia’s bone dry law.
Mayor W, D. Jennings withdrew
the case from recorder’s court.
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Help While You Can To Make Christmas Happy For The Less Fortunate
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
HONEST LABELS ON
WHISKEY DEMANDED
NEW YORK.— (AP) —Dr.
Shirley W. Wynne, city health
commissioner, sought federal
cooperatipn Tuesday in his ef
fort to secure what he calls
honest " labels on #hisky bot
tles. i
Driving ahead with hig pro
posal to make vague labeling =
punishable here as a misde
meanor, he said:
“It is all very well for New
York city to prescribe that a
full staetment of contents be
included on the label, but the
only practical way to insure
the cortents of the bottles is
to exercise a supervision where
they are filled, and that is a
federal matter.”
Dr. Wynne had announced
he would make public this
week a “black list” of poor
and imitation whiskies.
BARNETT T 0 HEAD
. 5. SURVEY HERF
Government Establishes
Offices in Athens for Ge
odetic Work
—_——————
Captain J. W. Barnett, former
head of the state highway board,
will have charge of the government
coast and geodetic survey work for
Athens territory, it was announced
here today.
The Athens district, which in
cludes twenty-four counties rang
ing from the northern border as
far south as Putnam county, and
from the Savannah river to Gwin
nett county, will have headquar
ters here at tigg Chamber of Com
merce building. Captain Barnett
will be in Athens through Friday,
after which he will begin traveling
to the other counties. He will be
in Athens off and on during suc
ceeding weeks. ¥
~ Deuglas Flanigen, son of C. D.
Flanigen, will have charge of the
office for Clarke county. Other of
fices will be set up, according to
Captain Barnett, in the larger cit
ies of the district, including Elber
ton, Washington, Gainesville and
Toccoa.
The work to be carried on, Cap
tain Barnett said, consists of the
accurate mapping of the state,
Measurements of elevations, water
ways, ete? will be made by a staff,
of forty trained engineers. Other
section of the state are being
worked in the same manner. |
Captain Barnett willl make his
home at the Georgian hotel while
here'’ His family will remain in
Atlanta for the time being.
Pre-Holiday Trade
" Gains 18 Percent;
South Aided Most
NEW YORK.—(AP)—Christms3
trade for the first 15 days of Dec
ember showed an average increase
of 18 percent over the corespond
ing perido a year ago, a survey of
the nation’s leading department
stores by the National Retail Dry
Goods association shows.
The association reported that to
da yin almost every city Christ
mas buying was proceeding “at an
accelerated and highly encourag
ing rate.”
The average 18 percent gain, the
association said, compares with a
two percent increase over a year
ago in department store sales dur
ing November, as reported by the
Federal Reserve system.
~ Stores in the South, retailers in
farming and industrial areas and
several western trade centers re
ported the largest gain. ;
Leading retailers in Miami,
Fla., and Little Rock, Ark,, led the
list with increases of 38 and 38.9
precent, respectively.
The association reported that
trade in several of the larger met
ropolitan areas did not show cor-!
responding progress. Several Phil
adelphia stores reported gains of
from 5 to 10 percent, Detroit had
a 3 percent increase, and a .one
percent increase was estimated
for Boston.
SOUTHEAST LEADS
ATLANTA, Ga— (AP) —lm
proved commodity prices and gov
ernment checks received by far
mers for participating in the 1933
plow-up campaign are credited
with a major part in giving the
southeast a healthy increase in
business activity.
A 46.7 percent increase here in
bank clearings over the same per
iod a year ago was reported Mon
day -and brought comment that
this section has enjoyed the best
business of any part of the coun
try since the bank holiday last
March.
How Can You Resist Their Right to Recovery?
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Service Staff Artist, whose feature “Side Glances” appears daily in the Athens Banner-Herald.
INSUI.I. IS S[EK|NG ?Direct U. S. Loax} For
BEFUCEINBRTAN ~ Industry Being Studied
Dethroned American Util
ities Czar Must Leave
GCreece Next Month
{
ATHENS, Grecee.—(AP)-—Sam
uel Insull, dethroned American
utilities czar, plans to go to Eng-
Jand when his police residence
permit in this ecountry expiresi
January 2, it was reported here
Tuesday .
Local British authorities, in
formed of the report, said if Mr.
Insull applied no visa would be
granted him until instructions
were received from London.
The 74-%ear-old fugitive has
been remaining in bed most of the
time since he was informed he
| would have to leave Greece.
Originally, he was told his de
parture would be expected when
his permit would regularly have
expired, December 31. On his for
mal application, an extension was
granted to January 31.
Greek courts twice have refused
to permit the former Chicagoan’s
extradition to the United States to
face embezzlement charges based
on the collapse of his far-flung
utilities empire.
At the time he was granted an
‘extension, Insull was told his
passport would be ‘visaed to any
country he chose to visit upon
leaving Greece. His passport, how
ever, has been revoked by the
United States and it was pointed
out he would have to travel on
temporary papers.
Nevertheless, Insull was under
stood 'Puesday to be negotiating
in regard to his passport.
Athens, Ca., Tuesday, December 19, 1933
| Idea to Increase Payrolls
| And Activity Reported
| Gaining Strength
/ LR 4
By J. R. BRACKETT
Associated Press Business Writer.
WASHINGTON.— (AP) — The
idea of making direct governmen
tal loans to industry to increase
payrolls and activity, receiving
serious administration study, has
|gained strength because of the lack
lof new corporate and bank financ
ing from private sources.’
Ordinarily hundreds of millions
are lent to business and industry
annually in long term bonds or
common stock issues. Shorter time
bank loams have totaled similarlyi
huge sums. This year, however,
corporate financing is relatively
negligible and bank loans are low.
Some advocate the use of gov
ernment funds on a large scale to
furnisi an immediate supply of
purchasing power on a large scale,
withcut primary regard to the ac
tua! need of the industry. Others
urge federal loans simply .to the
extent needed to supply normal
needs«
In the first case, the proponents
view the scheme as an artifigial
energizer, arguing that }t is nec
’essary to start the. movement of
the slow-to-start but quick-to
’accelerate heavy wheels of indus
try. In the second 'case, it js ar
gued that the wheels will have to
start with only a normal push,
combined with the other stimula
tive forces being used by the gov
ernment. 4 ‘
In either case, attention is be
ing turned to the lack of capital. |
(Continued on Page Three)
s More Teachers in
' Georgia Get Jobs
' Under Relief Plan‘
i ATLANTA, Ga.—(AP)—The ad
| dition of 346 teachers to rural
| schools in 90 counties has in
| creased to 800 the number of in
| structors assigned by the Federal
;'Rellet Administration to work in
! Georgia. - |
The latest additions have been
| assigned to overcrowded schoolsi
‘jand to teaching children whose I
| schools have been forced to close.
| The others have been approved for
vocational and adult education
work, ‘
Salaries will come from relief
fonds, to be paid on the same
scale as that paid regularly em
ployed persons in similar work in
the same section.
Paul -Barrett. of the state de
partment of education who was
directed by State Superintendent
M. D. Collins to handle the re
lief education program, said appli
cations aproved were all that
were ‘on hand in proper form.
Counties assigned from one to
six teachers for regular scheols
include:
Appling, Atkinson, Bartow, Ben
Hill, Berrien, Bryan, Bulloch,
Burke, Butts, Camden, Cherokee,
Clarke, Clayton, Clinch, Coffee,
Colquitt, Columbia, Cook, Coweta,
Crawford, - Crisp, Dade, DeKalb,
Dooly, Douglas, Early, Effingham,
'Elbert, Emanuel, Fayette, Floyd,
Franklin,” Gilmer, Glascock, Gor
don, Grady, Hall, Habersham,
(Continued on Page Three) I
CHRISTMAS TRUCE
~ HALTS CHACD WAR
Paraguay and Bolivia Sus
pend Hostilities Until
January 1 -
(By the Associated Press.)
| Paraguay and Bolivia agreed
’Tuesda,v to halt their bloody war
lin the Chaco horeal until at least
the end of the Christmas season,
Both nations told the Pan-Am
erican conference, in session at
Montevideo, and its host, the Uru
|guayan | government, that they
|were willing to stop their hostili
|ties ‘until midnight, December 31,
| The League of Nations was in-
Iformed officially ; Tuesday that
IPara‘g‘ix‘ay and Bolivia had accepted
terms for the armistice.
| The League was informed repre
sentatives -of the two countries
engaged in the long Gran Chaco
warfare wogld meet soon at Mon
tevideo to negotiate conditions of]
peacé and security.
] The information was contained
{in 4 cablegram from Juan Antonio
IVuero, general secretary of the
|League of Nations peace commis
,slon now -at- La Paz Bolivia.
The message follows:
| “The president of Paraguay sent
}to the Chaco (League) commission
a telegram proposing first, a gen
eral armistice which would begin
December i 9 .at midnight and
which would last until December
30 at midnight, and,. second, an
invitation for the ccmmission to
convoke immediately a meeting of
the belligerents with the object of
negotiating on conditions of peace
and security. ‘
“Bolivia has accepted. The com
lmisslon is convoking the belliger
ents in a meeting at Montevideo.” |
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MYSTERIOUS SHOT
HITS MAIL TRUCK
WASHINGTON.~—(AP)—Posg-«
tal officials and police Tuesday
sought the answer to the mys
terlous crashing ‘of a bullet
early this morning into the
driving compartment of a Ma
rine Corps mail truck just back
of the White House.
A Marine orderly and his
driver heard no shot but sud
denly found themselves show
ered with glass from a shat
tered windshield and door
window. Police made an im
mediate but fruitless search.
The orderly was slightly cut
about the face,
A gufird on/ the Arlington
Memorial bridge said he had
heard someone shooting an
apparently high-powered rifle
either on Columbia Island in
the Potomac river or on the
Virginia shore, more than a
mile away froma where the
truck was struck, but police
found no one.
DINNER TO HONOR
SANFORD TONIGHT
Banquet Recognizes Pres
ident’s Work Towards
Securing Loan
~ Two hundred and fifty employeg
of the University will honor Pres
‘ldent S* V. Sanford at a subscrip
tion testimonial dinner to be held
tonight . in Denmark hall at §
o'clock. The guests will assemble
at 7:30 and dinner will begin
promptly at 8,
| The occasion is in recognition
and nonor of Ur. Saniord for his
vision, action and success with the
Public Works administration’s
loan and grant to the University
System. He played a leading role
from the inception of the W“ to
ithe President's appropral of the
project: Friday. afternoon.
' Dr. and Mrs. Sanford will be
the only invited guests. The others
who will attend are actual em
ployes of the University of Georgia
from the administrative dean down
'to the clerke of the departments,
Dean L. L. Hendren will preside
at the dinner, and Prof. W. D,
Hooper, secretary of the Universi
ty faculty, will speak for the fac
ulty and employes.
For the past 30 years this 62
year old educator has been con
nected with the University, first as
instructor in English literature,
later, as head of the school of
Journalism and then in the capa
city of dean of the Universiy. He
assumed the presidency of the
University two years ago.
~ He has long been one of the most
colorfui academic figures in the
South, for 25 years having been
the guiding spirit in Georgia's ath
letic affairs and a leader in those
of the South and the nation. If was
through his enterprise that San
ford field was built. He directed
the building of Woodruff hall, and
it was his unsparing efforts which
resulted in the stadium movement
at Georgia and the final buildigg
of Sanford' stadium, one of the
most beautiful football stadiums in
the country.
SEARCY B. SLACK
FIRED FROM PWA
Former Bridge Engineer
Of State Highway De
partment Scored
WASHINGTON — (AP) .—
Searcy B. Slack, engineer-examin
er for the Public Works adminis
tration in Georgia, has been dis
‘missed “with prejudice” by Secre
tary " Ickes.
~_ln his notice of dismissal, the
Public Works administration charg
ed that Slack told Georgia state of
ficials he wcould get @ $2,000,000
allotment from the Public Works
administration . for bridge building
in the gouthern state, if paid a five
per cent commission for drawing
up plans for the structures.
’ Slack, widely known authority
lOn bridges and former engineer of
the Georgia Highway department,
said Tuesday in a published state
ment “the Implication that I tried
to get a five percent commission
from “the state of Georgia for se
curing a federal loan is false.
“l have seen no affidavits made
by any official of the state of
Georgia; Secretray Ickes , in his
reported nmewspaper statement, re
fers to a letter that he had writ
ten me; I have never received any
letter from Mr. Ickes. '
“I made no claim to Governor
Talmadge of having any influence
with the PWA and no suggestion
‘was made of paying me any sums
or commissions for securing a
loan.”
The Georgia Yublle Works advis
ory board, in session at Atlanta
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GOVERNOR PREDICTS
FARMERS WILL FEEL
DAMAGING EFFECTS
Says All Lines of Business
Will Be Hurt in |
Search for Labor -
“UNFAIR TO SOUTH”
Government Turned Deaf
Ear to His Plea, Says
Executive
| ATLANTA — (AP)— Governor
Eugene Talmadge Tuesday attack
ed the scale of wages paid by the
Civil Works administration and
federal rrellef administraiion ‘and
said fi the wage rate is maintained
farmers and “practically ail ether
lines of private business in Geor-~
gia will be up against it for labor
next spring.” v
In a published —statenknt, * the
chief executive said: R
“I have argued to the federal aus
thorities in Washington the injus
tice done by having a scale of
wages different from scale that
private business is able to pay in
the same community. To this ar
gument they have turned deaf
ears.”
No Jurisdiction
He said he wanted it “clearly un
derstood that the governor of
Georgia has no jurisdiction over
the distribution of the money and
the scale of wages paid by the fed
eral emergency relief association
or thg Civil Warke administras
tion.”
The governor predicted:
“If the scale of wages paid by
the CWA and the emergency relief
work on roads continues the same
as it is now the farmers, little saw
mills, - and practically all other
lines of private business in Geor
gla will be up against it for labor
‘next spring.” \,fd
He made public a letter from
“Jack Whiten of Baxley,” who ask
ed the governor to take a hand in
the manner in which CWA funds
are distributed
Whiten said that in hig county
the ‘CWA had 270 on the payrool,
receiving $3.20 a day. “Any far
mer that I know of in my ecom
munity would be willing to work
for $1 a day at the present time
but because we happen to own a
few acres of land on which we
have to pay tafes we are termed
ineligible despite the fact that we
may be in worse need of a little
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CHRISTIAN CHURCH
REPEATS PAGEANT
Christmas Production to
Start Tonight at 8; Doors
Open at 7:30
The Empty Stocking Fund will
benefit to the amount of 50 percent
of the free will offering to be
taken tonight at the Christmas
pageant being presented at. the
Christian church at 8:00 o'cloek.
The production, “The Shepherd
Vision, was given Sunday tm
but so many people desired.to see
the performance that some had to
be turned away because there was
not even standing room as the
stariing hour approached, p
Tue remainder of the offering
tonight will be used in local char
ity iszses, and will be dispensed by
the church organization. The Sun
day night offering was given to
the Southeastern Christian Or
phanage at Atlanta.
Dr. Stanley R. Grubb, pastor,
announces that the church doors
will not be opened until 7:30, so
there will be no need for anyone
to come earlier in an effort to get
a seat, i
The pageant has a cast of fifty,
and is under the direction of Mrs.
L. L. Laßoon, with Miss Hazel
Poss as dramatic director.
LOCAL WEATHER
Cloudy, preceded by rain in
north and extreme east por
tions tonight, slightly colder
tonight, Wednesday partly
cloudy, slightly colder.
TEMPERATURE : o
Highest ... atis pain seastia:
Lowest “ses sese sess o-uo'.-. ‘
Meal/sees sias sses seos 88E
Normal I.vi 2ate e oon“'.
RAINFALL . .
Inches last 24 hoglu o eoes 83
Total since Dee. 1 .o o 0 oo 191 =
Deficiency since Dec. 1 wees I 8
Average Dec. rainfall .. vo 488
Total since Jan. 1 .. v ¢:838.44
Deficiency since Jan. 1 ....14.81