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COTTON MARKET
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Vvol. 101. No. 292,
Civil Works in State Likely to End Soon
Al Sections Of Nation Report Increase In Pre-Christmas Business
FHORGIA MERCHANTS
31 BIVING 15 FIR
10V THAT OF 1020
Aid Given Cotton Growers
Is Credited With
Boost in South
Brisk Christmas Shopping
Reported: Purchases
Of Higher Type
(By the Associated Press.)
The cash registers of the mer
chants in America’s principal cities -
apparently are playing a happy
pre-holiday tune of Dbetter busi
ness.
The Kellys, the Smiths and the
Jonses and the others are laying
thei ioney on the counters for
Christmas ggods in larger num
hers than they did a year ago, an
mofficial survey revealed Thurs
} leaving retailers with the im
pression that there is a Santa
Claus after all.
All sections of the country re
ported business “on the up and
Best in Years
Retail association executives in
New York city said a definite in
ease over last year was shown.
W mm _J. Pedrick, president of,
the Fifth Avenue association, said‘
it looked like the best pre-Chrisl-}
mas season in several yvears. |
Brisk Christmas shopping was
so reported in Chicago, where '
State street merchants were opti
mistic that last year’s sdles would
be topped.
The survey by sections showed:
South—“A. great deal better”!
tharr last 'year, was the way the
Atlanta, Ga., merchants associa
tion reported pre-Christmas busi
ness. Other Georgia sources said
Isiness was picking up in the
smaller towns, with increases in
telephone installations and build
g permits. Memphis department
Slores said they were running 20
Percent ahead of & year ago, cred
ing the government’s 10 percent
itton Joans for much of the ad-
Prices Better
"Christmas business is far ahead
of last vear, due to better cotton
nd tobacco prices,” sald Willard
Dowell, secretary of the North
Carolina Merchants’ association. »
Fast—The Albany, N. Y., Cham
ber of Commerce heard that daily
dollar receipts in retail stores were
generally up, in some instances as
high 2s 25 percent. The Baltimore,
Md, chamber’s informal survey
indicated that business was better,
“ome merchants deseribing sales
4 the best in three years.
Pittsburgh, Pa., SFpstment
Store sales were up 14 percent,
With an expected gross of $8,000,-
W 0 compared with $7,100,000 a
Year ago. Now Jersey department
Slore increases were averaging
about 15 percent,
Streets Thronged
Middle- West—Downtown streets
in Milwaukee thronged with shop
bers, and 7,000 sacks of outgoing
hail went out one day this week,
tompared with 6,121-@ year ago.
A survey of 23 Ohio cities showed
that 22 of them were enjoying 10
025 percent. During the first two
Veeks of December Indianapolis
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Hoboes and Hitch-Hikers Will Get Support
From Government If They Want to Reform
~{OLUMBUS, GA.—{(#)—Hoboes |
4nd Hiteh-hikers, the kind that |
Ve formed the habit, will have |
e strong influence of the govern
s" t after January first to aid
°M in mending ther wayssand |
in one spot. i
: [ransient bureaus have been ini
ition several weeks but l)o-‘l
~.ing on January first a special |
Ut will be made to aid those
Wio are attempting to wander overi
‘¢ country by thumbing autoists
l 'boing on trains, it was an-i
nced here by W. N, Crofton lo- |
! bureau manager, '
“Cussing the plan to end thosv!
.actices at a conference here with |
\. .mbus Phenix City Ala ~ and|
y 'Bee county officials, Crofton |
'*d the influx of hitchhikers |
~14 hoboes during the past sm'm'nl!
e has constituted a menace to
y’ bublic. He asked and “‘fl?"
.. ised the cooperation of lomll
. ‘ttals in referring these people
the bureau. 1
There are five bureaus in Geor
Have You Done All You Can To Make The Needy Happy On Christ
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
Athens Churches To Feature
Christmas Theme Sunday In
Special Services And Music
Announce Pregram
For Woodruff Hall
Celebration Sunday
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Fire Chief E. F. TLester will de
dicate the Community Christmas
'treg in honor of hig late assistant,
JI. Q. Cobb, at the Community
IChrlstmas services in Woodruff
hall Sunday afternoon, from 2to
5 o'clock.
Following Chief Lester's remarks
Mrs. Cobb and her young son will
place wreaths upon the tree which.
is being named in honor of their
husband and father who originated
the idea of having the firemen re
pair broken toys to be given the
poor children of Athens. ]
Old Saint Nick himself will be
present to distribute the presents
which will be clustered around the
beautful tree, already felled and
{ waiting to be decorated, to the
ipoor children of Athens. Scooters,
dolls, tops, and other toyg will be
given out through the Empty
Stocking fund. Fruits and nuts and
candy will help make this a real
Christmas for the poor people of
Athens—and there’'s no light like
that which shines in little girl's
eyeg as she gets her first glimpse
of the doll Santa lefi her.
l Are you doing your part to bring
that light into her eyes? To bring
that smile to her lips? To make
her little hands meet in joyous
claps? It's not too late to help. If
you have anything—money, c¢lothes,
food, toys or what not which you
think will make somebody happy,
either bring them to the Salvation
Army headquarters or call 1481
and workers with the Fund will
come to your house and get them.
! Music will be furnished by a
choir of 150 voiceg consisting of
members of the choirs from various
churches thoughout the city
Christmas carols will fill the air
ag the best voices in Athens join
for a mutual cause.
And after Christmas the work of
the Empty Stocking Fund will
continue, as fuel, food and clothing
distributed through ths organiza
tion is being used by the poor peo
lple of Athens. The work however
lis not being done haphazardardly
__each family to be helped is in-
Ivestigated first, and ‘their actual
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gia, located in Atlanta, Savannah,
lMacon, Augusta and Columbus.
They are not likely to be flooded
with requests for free transporta
ton when the new plan ig inaugur
ated. When Hobo John’ with a
hankering for distant fields that
seem greener, apples at one of the
baureus he will find the govern
ment not so green, A little work
will be thrown in with the ticket.
Crofton said he believed the gov
ernment agency would be able to
find work for appiicants in order to
enable them to Secure funds for
their transportati-n,
! The state relief administraton in
|Atlanta hag declared to give figures
on the number of transients being
handled in Georgia or other details.
Information from the individual
bureaug however indicate they have
been doing a ‘“‘good” business,
The Atlanta bureau recently was
reported to be handling approxi
mately 50 men transients daily.
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Plays, Pantomimes And
Pageants to Be Given
During Holidays
CAROLS TO BE SUNGC
| First Program to Be Friday
. Night, Last One On
| Christmas Day
|
. Christmas music, special ser
‘mons, pageants, pantomimes, and
plays with Christmas theme will
feature the holiday services at the
Athens churches, i
| The First Methodist church will!
‘offer a special program yf Christ
mas carols at the Sunday school,
and Rev. Lester Rumble will de
liver sermons, using subject mat
“ter in keeping with the holiday
theme, at the Sunday morning and
night services.
I A cantata will be given by the
choir at the Firsy Baptist church
on Sunday morning. The title of
it is “The Incarnation” by George
B. Nebin. Dr. J. C. Wilkinson
will deliver a special Christmusl
! sermon,
Having already given their pag
eant, the holiday services Sunday,
at the First Presbyterian church
will be confined a program of car
ols by the choir and a sermon by
the Rev. E. L. Hill,
A Christmas tree program for
the children of the Sunday school
will be given in the basement of
the Christian church, Friday eve
ning at 8 o'clock, Christmas music
and @ sermon -by Rev, Stanley
Grubb will feature the Sunday ser
vices.
Cartledge Preaches
The importance of minigterial
relief for aged preachers will be
stressed by Dr. S. J. Cartledge at
the Sunday services. The same
afternoon, a party to gather gifts
for the community’s poor will be
given. The choir, augmented by
other well-known Athens musici
ans, will offer a special program
bf Christmas musie. Those partic
ipating will be Miss Nolee May
Dunaway, organist, Miss Edith
Hodgson, Prof. Roosevelt Walker,
Mr. and Mrs. G. Audley Walker,
and Miss Eulalia Vaughan,
In addition to the Sunday morn
ing services, a play, “The Little
Boy Nobody Wanted,” will be pre
sented Saturday night at the Young
Harris Methodist church. The
play is written around ‘the return
o Christ to a small Centra:
FEuropean town seven centuries
ago. The play is being directed by
Mrs. L. B. Jones. Those taking
part are the Rev. and Mrs. L. B.
Jones, Francis Jackson, Leonard
Hale, L. T. Hale, Virginia Dillard.
Mrs. H. F. Wilkes, Virginia
Wilkes, M. D. Hazen, Bob Hamil
ton, H. C. Stephens, Dr. Albert
Timm, Anita Eidam, Mr. and Mrs.
H. K. Brackett, and others. The
pageant, entitled “The Nativity”,
presented last Sunday, will be
given again this Sunday.
Special Program
The East Athens Baptist church
will offer a special Christmas pro
gram Friday at-8 p. m. It will
consist’ of Christmas music, three
plays, a pantomime, and a special
offering for the empty stocking
fund. The fitst play will be
“Chrigtmas Spirits”. Those taking
parts in it are Cornelia Nevins,
Pauline Berryman, and Lee Haw
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Athens, Ca., Thursday, December 21, 1933
RECOVERY OFFIGIAL
HOPE FOR PEACE IN
(LEANING PRIGE WAR
New NRA Schedule of
Prices Go Into Effect
Friday Morning
COSTS SCALE DOWN
Cuts Range Downward
From 20 Percent on
Peak Charges =
WASHINGTON.— (AP) —NRA
officials Thursday watched tor'-re"-
actions to the new price schedl_fl'e"
ordered into effect Friday T
dyers and cleaners all over the‘
cquntry, hopeful that objections,:»,
virtually all opposing groups had
been met. ,
Instead of drafting a differential’
in favor of cash and carry, stores,’
the NRA ordere® a horizontal cut’
in all of the schedules promulgat-:
ed a month ago amounting to
roughly 20 percent, with the pros
vision that cleaners giving high‘-*
quality service should remain at;
the old price levels, displaying a.
special Blue Eagle insignia to
identify them as producers of
Grade’ A work.
This was the first time NRA had
stepped into the field of quality
differentiation and reactions to
this experiment were particularly
sought.
Instead of issuing a complete
new schedule of prices for each
trade area in the country, NRA
made public a table ,of reductions
in minimums which showed a 20-
cent cut in all prices above 95
cents, with a gradually decreas
ing reduction from that point.
The net effect will be that where
the price of cleaning a man’s suit
under the former schedule was 95
cents, the minimum for low qual
ity units will be 76 cents. In place
of 85 cents, the low price will be
70. The 65 and 75 cent prices will
be replaced by minimums of 50
and 60.
Early action was expected to
create a special board which will
hvae the duties of constantly
studying the ecect of the new
plan and of reporting on results
to the code authority and to the
administrator. Hugh 8. Johnson
intends to have this board made
up of members of the industry.
An important provision for flex-
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FUND FOR WORK ON
AR FIELD APPROVED
Local CWA Office Has
Not Received Official
Notification
ATLANTA, Ga.— (AP) — The
Georgia CWA board Wednesday
approved the construction of a
new airplane landing field at La-
Grange and improvement of the
present field at Athens, it was
announced by William Cummings,
head of the aviation branch of the
CWA in Georgia.
The board allotted $76,000 - for
the employment of 578 men on the
airfield at LaGrange, and $20,000
for the employment of 212 men on
the field at Athens.
State Senator J. Render Terrell
represented LaGrange in securing
the approval of the project from
Mr. Cummings. The latter point
ed out _that the LaGrange field
occupies a strategic position for
the military branch of the govern
ment as well as the Department
of Commerce, and would make one
of the finest landing fields in the
state.
Local Civil Works Administra
tion offices have received no official
notification of the approval of the
airport project, it was said Thurs
day morning by Mrs. Frank Cam
stra, administrator. It is believed
that word from Atlanta would be
received sometime late Thursday,
and that work will begin next
week. '
The Clarke county offices have
received word to put to work only
186 men, and whether the men to
be put to work at the airport will
increase this number, or whether
they will be engaged in addition
to those already working, has not
been determined,
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isiaan senator, whose income tax
is reported to be under investiga
tion by the federal government.
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Kingfish’s’ Income Tax
Is Under U. S. Scrutiny
WASHINGTON.— (AP) — The
Evening Star said Thursday that
the federal government has just
renewed an investigation into in
comes paid by Senator Huey Long
and others affiliated with his Lou
isiana political machine.
Speciai agents of the Internal
Reveénuc bureau started such in
quiry in 1932 but this was said by
the paper to have been suspended
several months before the end of
the Hoover administration. -
A. D. Burford, who directed the
earlier investigation, went to New
Orleans about two weeks ago in
charge of a force of agents who
have orders to make a thorough
probe of Long's finance and those
of a number of his political allies
insofar as income taxes are con
cerned.
Action in the case came close
upon the appointment, of Henry
Morgenthau, jr., as acting secre
tary of the treasury and the @Ne
sumption by the latter of personal
direction of Internal Revenue mat
ters.
Morgenthau’s transfer of Inter
nal Revenue and secret service
jurisdiction from an assistant sec
retary to the treasury’s office re
sulted in the resignation recently
of Thomas Jewes, an assistant
secretary.
Elmer L. Irey, chief of the in
telligence unit of the Internal
Revenue bureau, whe has general
supervision of the Long investi
gation, and Guy Helvering, Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, re
fused to discuss the Louisiana in
quiry. Helvering -explained that
all investigations of the bureau are
“confidential.”
LOCAL WEATHER
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Fair tonight and Friday,
slowly rising temperature in
north portion. .
TEMFERATURE I
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BOMNIRY ... v i Ryl
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 h0ur5........ 0.00
Total since Dec. 1.....:0000 2.99
Excess since Dec. 1........ .50]|
Average Dec. rainfall...... 4.38
Total since January 1......34.52
Deficiency since January 1 14.01
HATS OFF TO DOCTOR SANFORD!
That was a most fitting climax to the successful
activities of Doctor S. V. Sanford in connection to the
federal allotment of $3,700,000 for improvements and
enlargements to the physical equipment of the Uni
versity System of Georgia—the “fitting climax” re
ferring to the dinner with which he was compliment
ed by the faculty and others connected with the Uni
versity last Tuesday evening. i
It was strictly a “family affair”, being limited to
those connected with the institution, which, indeed,
rendered the occasion really more personal than
would have been possible in the event of a public
gathering. The University personnel wanted an op
portunity to give expression to the love and affection
in which the executive head of the institution is held
and to pay tribute to the rare skill and ability that
he :xhibited in the successful culmination of negotia
tions with the public works administration for the
large fund that was sought in behalf of the system.
So, Doctor Sanford was wined and dined by his as
sistants in an intimate and touching manner and, we
daresay that, in years to come, this glowing testi
monial of admiration and esteem from his fellow
waorkers will constitute’ one of the most precious
reminiscences of his long and varied career as an out
standing educator.
While the general public had no active part in
Tuesday’s affair, there is nevertheless universal grat
itude to him in this community for this masterful
stroke in behalf of the University. The expenditure
of nearly $1,000,000 of the fund at the Athens units
of the system will unquestionaply mark the dawn of
a new day for the University. We are not informed
relative to the exact manaer in which the money will
be expended, but with the enlargements and improve
ments that so fabulous a sum will finance, it goes
without say that the scope of the University’s use
fulness will be broadened to a point far beyond the
most ambitious dreams of those who for years have
devoted themselves to planning for its future.
Indeed, it is quite probable that the venerable Uni
versity of Georgia will now assume the dominant po
sition among southern universities to which her hon
orable traditions entitle her—that of the south’s lead
ing institution of learning. ;
For this magnificent achievement, Doctor Sanford
does not claim credit; on the contrary, he praises the
effectiveness of the efforts of the Board of Regents.
That individual members of the board did labor un
tiringly, we are positive as we are not unfamiliar
with the fine ambitions that the board has for the
system and partcularly for the Athens units, for
which we are grateful; but reliable accounts indi
cate that when the outlook was not very bright, it
was Doctor Sanford who at the psychological moment
delivered a stroke that brought about consummation
of the deal. So, our hats are off to Doctor Sanford,
president of The University of Georgia, and perrenial
champion of the cause of education.
Draw Tentative Plans
For New Buildings on
Campus of University
Tentative plans for location
of new buildings to be erected
on the University of Georgia
camifs with funds to be re
ceived from the Public ‘Works
administration have been
drawn and will be submitted to
achitects for their approval
within the next few days. De
tails of the plans have not
been announced, pending out
come of conferences with the
architects.
The work will be done with
the portion allotted the Uni
versity here, $938,000 of the
$3,700,000 Joan and grant
awarded the Board of Regents
for the University System.
Over $50,000 of the $938,000
will be spent on repairs,
BROKER EXPLAINS
24-HOUR ABSENCE
Jesse L. Livermore Says
He Was ‘With Friends’,
Then Claims Amnesia
| NEW YORK — (#) — Jesse L.
{Livermore, prominent Wail street
operator whose disappearance led
lto fears he had been kidnaped, is
safe at home again after an ab
sence of a little more than 24
hours. >
He awoke in a room in a mid
town hotel Wednesday afternoon,
| saw a newspaper which told of the
]search being made for him, and
immediately took a taxicab home.
There he told police and depart
ment of justice agents that he had
been “with freinds.” Later police
reported Livermore told them
that frem the time he had left his
office around 5 o'clock Tuesday
| afternoon until he awoke in the
hotel “his mind had been a blank."
His disappearance, however, was
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A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—sc Sunday
TRAINS WRECKED IN
NFW HAVANA RIOTS
Demonstration Against
Platt Amendment Takes
Form of Wild Outbreak
HAVANA, — () —The trains
coming into Havana with sup
porters for the government de
menstration Thursday against
Platt amendmeny were wrecked by
unidentified persons'with at least
two deaths and several injuried. .
. Passenger train No. 2 was de
railed near Agutar with the death
of a trainman.
A wrecking train sent Sagua al
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The Best Laid Plans of Men With Mice .
Gang Aft Agley — (Scotch for Court)
By DALE HARRISON
NEW YORK.— (AP) —Readers
with nervous stomachs are sol
emnly adjured to pursue this
chronicle no further., The matter
under discussion is one not calcu
lated to cheer the finicky or please
the fastidious.
For those seekers after infor
mation who do not turn from life’s
facts, here they are, §s they cur
rently apply to John H. Muller, a
furniture salesman now in his
thirtieth year.
Mr. Muller entered a restaurant
and sat himself down to a bowl
of soup. From the soup he pulled
a—hold everything!—mouse.
So much for that.
Mr. Muller enfered another res
aturant and sat himself down to
another bowl of soup. Out came
another mouse.,
And again, so much for that.
M. Muller entered still another
restaurant and sat himself down
to still another bowl of soup. Odd
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Hopkins to Reduce U. S.
Projects to Comply
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Administrator Will Not
Help to Cause Any =
Labor Shortage =~
' WASHINGTON,—(P)—The civil
{'Wnrks administraton may bring
}its projects in the extreme south
ern part of the country to an end
by February 1, % i
Discussing the labor problemx of
planters in that section, Harry L.
’Hopkins. the adwgnistrator said
IThursday that some of the projects
in the citrus elt of Florida may
)not last more than another Wweek
lor two. The CWA is now consider
!inp: the labor situaion put te ifs
!fuur or five citrus growers. Hop
kins said the number of men ins=
volved is not large.
' The CWA plans to reduce ecivil
‘works jobs in the South as sgon
as time for cotton planting comes
'around. This starts late in Jan
{‘.::::‘y n the extreme South and maost
of the cotton ig planted by May 1.
l Hopkins said he intends to see
(that there Is no shortage of labor
in rural areas. He expressed ths
belief that despite complaints the
' benefits the laborers would ge¢ for
I\he winter monthg would outweigh
lany objections. They are being
'paid 30 cents an hour on high
'way work, he said, the same scale
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Held Services For
Miss Della Prather
Thursday Afternoon
Suceumbing to a long iliness,
Miss Ida Della Prather, 170 Nan
tahala avenue, died at her ho *
vesterday, shortly past meon.
She was 56 years old and livm
her life in Athens. i
Funeral services were hfifl&;
the Young Harris Metw,‘f
church this afternoon, of which
she was a member. Rev, h&
Jones officiated, and was agsisted
by the Rev. Lester Rumble, pas
tor of the First Methodist church.
Interment followed at Prospeet
cemetery by Bernstein w
Home. ~ Yufsd A
~ Miss Prather was well known in
Athens. She took an active inter
&est in the Young Harris Methodist
church, and in Sunday sch
work. T Sk
\ Pallbearers were C. A. Fom;
Francis Jackson, H. C. Stephens,
G. H. Bell, R. F. Thomas and
Lewis Warwick, The remaining
members of the board of stewards 3
of the church were honorary pall=
bearers. ; Bt i
Miss Prather is survived by her
mother, Mrs. §. V. Prather, Ath
ens; three sisters, Mrs. W. D.
|Hinkes of Sycamore, Miss Rose
Lee Prather and Miss Susie Pra
ther, both of Athens; and two- bro
thers, Frank and John Prather
who also reside in Athens, She
leaves five nieces and one nephew.
ly enough, his enjoyment of his
favorite food once more was in
terrupted by a mouse. it
This, in the opinion of coms
plaining witnesses Thursday,
might easily have - become a life
work for Mr. Mulier had it not
been for a wary- restauranteur
who prided himself on never m
ing served soup with mice in-if.
Muller, aecording te this restau
ranteur’s account, was. inclined to
make much of the matter, g
talked of actions. at .law.
restaurant - owner ..made. lively
apology both for the. soup and
for the mouse, whereupon Muller
(according to the charges) agreed
to swallow his wrath and humilia
tion for a cheque in the sum of
$l5O. g
The restauranteur gave Muller
the cheque but—if the figure will
be pardoned—smelled a rat, He
followed Muller from the ca
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