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Vol. 101. No. 307.
Hoover’s Postmaster General Is Under Fire
HOUSE DEMOCRATS
SURE OF STRENGTA
OFHIND ROOSEVELT
cenators Not So Hopeful
About Support of
Entire Program
EARLY FOCUS SEEN
President’'s Message - Is
Expected to Bring
Attack to Head
WASHINGTON.—(AP)—Sure of
their strength, house Democrats
made it a’ point Tuesday to. tell
president Roosevelt his program
would be dispacthed there; but
the outlook was not so sanguine in
the senate for such matters as the
gt, Lawrence waterway treaty.
The senate was in recess, while
the President worked on his mes
sage advocating ratification of the
weaty and asking federal guaran
tee of principal as well as interest
of the farm' credit bonds.
Liquor regulation for the Dis
trict of Columbia was all the house
proper had to work on. Commit
tees ground away at tax and ap
propriation bills, and looked ahead
of the ‘other big item of extending
the Reconstruction corporation
Joaning authority for several years
and possibly adding a billion dol
lars to the agency's capital.
The ways and means committee,
where all tax legislation must
originate, heard Representative
Patman (D.-Texas) condemn tax
secrecy as “‘a badge of fraud.” The
bill tightening income tax laws is
expected to pe ready next week.
Advocates of the St. Lawrence
treaty in the senate profess con
fidence in - their ability to get it
ratified, and foes are emphatic in
denial. The Rooseveltt message
going up Wednesday should bring
an early focus. s X
Representative Crosser of Ohia
and four other members of the
house Democratic steering com
mittee comprised the group that
waited upon the President. They
spoke as one in giving assurance
of happy days for the administra
tion program, under the heavy
Democratic majority in the house.
The senat: ocean and mail in
vestigating committee, meanwhile,
heard from a Postoffice department
stenographer that he had burned
some files of official and personal
correspondence of the Hoover ad
ministration Postmaster General,
Walter F. Brown, on direction of
Brown's secretary. Note was taken
of the evidence for possible pur-
Suance later as the inquiry de
velops.
The senate banking committee
called Chairman Jesse H. Jones ot
the Reconstruction corporation to
appear late in the day for exami
nation on his proposal te extend
the life of the corporation ané in-
Crease its borrowing power.
A lull in senate activities Mon
day, when no major measures
Were ready for consideration, pro
vided opportunity for a series of
Republican moves and leaders act
ed quickly to prevent another ses
sion of mere debate Tuesday.
Almost as an atfermath of an
attack by Senator Robinson (R.-
Ind.) accusing” the President of
being “culpable and not frank” in
his budget message, ard a quick
defense by Senator Robinson of
Arkansas, the Democratic leader,
the Republican national commit
tee renewed its criticism of the
:ulministration,
I a statement the committee
irged a return tg {'edonomy,” and
dsserted that “an administration
‘*Pendent upon the dissipation of
bublic funds for its popularity
must keep on squandering money,
Ve if it has to start the printing
bresses to get money.”
‘An administration with such a
E‘\f"h’!‘:un." it said, “gets caught in
W€ momentum of its own spending
:}_'l funds itself unable to stop
'his side of destructive inflation.
Under thesle ecircumptances ‘con
trolled’ inflation is impossible.”
Much-Talked of “Battle in the Washroom”
Embalmed For Post erity in Winged Words
NEW YORK.—(AP)—The fam
% battle-in-the-washroom, in
‘ich some unkmown blacked
Senator Huey P, Long’s eye, was
“mbalmed for bosterity Tuesday in
Winged words.
YWen P. White, architect, who
litived the idea of striking off
* medal for the unanamed one of
the Sands Point, L. 1., episode,
h¢ forth with what he called a
Poem. One standa rims thus:
S 0 T sing the song of Muskel
lunge, :
The lobster, eel and crab,
The bulifreg in the puddle,
With his gift of gall and gab,
And I Jift o grame 4 legal booze
And toast the ha oy .
Who sent the fish pack to his mu
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
South Stands On Threshold
Of Prosperity Under NRA
NEW ERA BEGINING
- OVER COTTON BELT
Investigation Shows Mills
Humming With Re
newed Activity
By WILLIS THORNTON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent.
ATLANTA, Ga.—Cotton is king
again, jointly wearing a golden
crown fitted by the hand of Uncle
Sam.
All aeross the broad belt that
stretches from the plains of west
Texas to the eastern seaboard, the
miracle of something closely re
sembling presperity has been
wrought by the government cot
ton program.
Hundreds of thousands of farm
ers who have'nt known the look of
money for years suddenly find
themselves paying debts, buying
new clothes. True, Uncle Sam
paid for the ice cream and cake,
\and the party isn’t over. But it’s
a long time since this section has
lhad a party at all.
Here, as in the case of wheat,
the government operation is prac
[tlca]ly a guarantee of prices, like
‘that the Hoover administration
!tr!ed with its disastrous Farm
'Board.
But this difference is important:
To eat the government ice cream
and cake this time, the farmer has
’to cut his production.
The hope is, of course, that by
the time cotton land is cut to 25,-
000,000 acres (10,000,000 were lop
ped off this wyear), cotton prices
will rise enough, due to scarcity,
so the price need no longer be held
up at the taxpayers’ expense.
Now the joker in all this is,
that despite the plowing under of
10,000,000 zcres in 1933, the cotton
farmer raised practically as much
cotton as he did in 1932.
That was Old Ma Nature again.
The average yield per acre this
yvear was 2094 pounds as com
lpared to a 10-year average of
167.4.
Yet from Texas to Georgia they
tell you this: “If the ploughing up
had not been done, there would
have been such a terriffic yield
this year, and such a crushing
surplus, that cotton would have
fallen below 5 cents a pound, and
the south would have been abso
lutely and utterly ruined!”
As it is, the south is the most
nearly prosperous of any section
of the country. You meet the evi
dences everywhere.
A salesman covering rural towns
in northern Alabama told me
stores had been buying which had
almost empty shelves. At Auburn,
Ala, 92 percent of the crop pro
duction loans already have been
paid back.
A 15-year-old boy in Birming
ham, just in from the fields, tells
you, “I never seen SO many new
overalls and shirts in all my life!”
And all this money comes back
almost immeditaely to the cities.
At 'Macon, Ga. J. <C. Penney,
chairman of the board of the J. C.
Penney stores, will tell you that
increasing business rapidly is ab
sorbing the added expenses made
necessary by NRA.
His southern stores lead all his
others in sales—that gives a hint
of what is happening to the “cot
ton money.” Retail sales here led
the country in a Dbetter than 15
percent rise over the holidays.
Bank clearances here have been
increasing steadily since March.
Further, foreign business shows
signs of improving, says William
A. Dunlap, commercial agent of
the Department of Commerce here.
The most recent reports of the
New York Cotton Exchange show
that during the first four months
-of the present cotton season (Au
gust to November), world con
sumption of American cotton was
(Continued on Page Twa
With beefsteak on his eve.”
White read the poem Monday
night at a dinner attended by 200
Louisiana women. Mrs. Hilda
Hammond, leader of Louisiana wo
men dedicated to the “announced
task of making the Kingfish a
private citizen, made the princi
pal speech. Mrs. William De-
Young Kay, of the Newcomb col
lege alumnae, offered a toast in
Sherry, ending, “It won’t be long
now."”
Two womgn dressed as mammies
distributed copies of the medal,
now in the custody so the Ameri
can Numismatic Society in view
of the unnamed one's failure to
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Busy Atlanta, Ga., led all cities in improved holiday business . . .
and it knows what the textile code has done for the mills of the Pied
mont section.
U 5. INTERVENTION
COUGHT IN STRIKE
Milk Embargo in Chicago
Goes Intc Fourth Day
With New Outbursts
CHICAGO —(AP)— Federal] in
tervention was sowght in Chicago’s
milk strike, qlready marked by in
creasing outburst of violence, as
the embargo movement went into
itg fourth day Wednesday.-
The government's help was
sought in a suit for injunction
filed in %ehalf of the Meadormoor
Dairy company, an independent,
whose attorney, Charles M.
Schaub, charged that police offi
cers of village in illinois, Wiscon
sin and Indiana, were in collusion
with the strikers in interfering
with shipments and in dumping
milk
{An injunction to enjoin mem
bers of the Pure Milk association,
whose representatives called the
strike, from interfering with ship
ment was asked in the action, be
gun Monday before Federal Judge
John P. Barnes. An accounting of
damages and authority for placing
United States marshals on all milk
trucks coming into Chicago were
also requested.
Meanwhile negotiations to end
the tie-up of milk supplies, estima.
ted to be virtvally 100 per cent
complete, werg made Monday night
without success. A resumption was
planned Tuesday with the repre
sentativeg of the Pure Mik associa_
tion, demanding that all dealers,
including the price-cutting inde
pendents sign new contracts to
guarantee a basic price of $1.85 a
hundred pounds.
TRAINS HALTED
GRAYSLAKE, 111. — (AP) —
Waving flares to halt the engi
neers, a group of milk striking
farmers late Monday night halted
two Soo line trains in search of
milk bound for the Chicago mar
ket.
The first train consisted of pas
senger coaches, and*was allowed
to proceed. The second train, how
ever, had several baggage cars
attached. These were searched.
Although no fluid milk was found,
a number of cases of condensed
milk were seized.
Roosevelt Continues
Cut in U. S. Salaries
WASIIINGTON.— (AP) —Pres
ident Roosevelt Tuesday by execu
tive order continued the 15 per
cent reduction of pay for federal
employves for another six months.
In his budget message, the Pres
ident asked that the authority to
cut be changed from 15 to 10 per
cent, thus—congress willing—as
suring restoration of one-third of
the pay cut beginning July 1, the
start of the fiscal year. ;
Athens, Ga., Tuesday, January 9, 1934
NEU TO DIE FOR
CLARK MURDER
Savannah Youth Appears
In Court Wearing Vic
tim’s Clothes
NEW ORLEANS —(AP)— Louis
Kenneth Neu, 26 year old former
sailer and cabaret singer of Sa
vannah, Ga., recently convicted of
the hotel slaying here of Sheffield
Clark, sr., Nashville, Tenn., busi
ness man, Tuesday was sentenced
to hang 'by District Judge A. D.
Henriques.
His attorneys immediately an
nounced they would seek a new
trial through a state supreme court
appeal, but Neu himself displayed
the same indifference to his fate
that has marked his every appear
ance in court since his arrest last
fall. : <
Idly flipping a half dollar piece
as 'the sentence was pronounced,
Neu smiled at the crowded court in
general and then saluted the bench.
“Good luck to you, Judge old fel.
low, and Bood bye,” he said, and
turned away with his guards to go
(Continued on Page Three)
First Arrests Under
Revised Liquor Law
Made Here Monday
The first two arrests under the
new—or old, whichever way you
want to take it—liquor law, were
made last night by G. R. Kimsey,
C. C. Plampin, W. A. Crowe, all
of Gainesville; R. W. Davis, Bu
ford, and Rich Way, Logansville,
Internal Revenue men for the
Gainesville-Athens division.
The two men were Roy Tate
and Thurmond Sorrels, colored,
who were caught distilling four
gallons of liquor in Walton coun
ty, while 14 gallons were found |
concealed near the still. Under
the Revenue law of 1698, which
succeeded-—and supeyseded —the
prohibition act they were booked
on charges of illicit distilling,
possessing liquor which had no tax
paid on it, removing and conceal
ing liquor on which no tax has
been paid, and working at illicit
distilling.
The new law is much more se
vere than the Mrohibition aect, and
among the penalties which can be
imposed are the selzure for the
taxes due on land building, or ve
hicles used in the distilling, a pris
on sentence of from from _two
months to 2 years for any per
son furnishing any of the ingredi
ents, a fine of twice the amount of
the tax due, a fine of from S2OO to
SSOOO, three monthg to three years
—or all of these.
The old Prohibition law, and the
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—ESTABLISHED 1832
PARIS NEWSPAPERS
CHARGE MUSDER N
CTNISKY'S DEATH
Minister Quits Cabinet
When He Is Implicated i
In Scandal 1
TRUTH DEMANDED
Mass Meeting Called For
Tonight Before Chamber
Of Deputies
PARIS —(AP)— Huge forces
of mounted and foot police
were rushed to the Place Bour
bon Tuesday to surround the
cpamber of deputies and guard
it against a demonstration re
sultng from reports that po
lice had killed Serge Sta
visky, alleged swindler, to keep
him from talkng.
PARIS.— (AP) —Open charges
that Serge Sthvisky, founder of
the fallen Bayonne municipal
pawnshop, was slain by secret
service agents because he Kknew
too much involving high police
officials, were published Tuesday
in the Socialist Jopulaire and the
Communist Humanite.
Other opposition papers ques
tioned the truth of the statement
by authorities that Stavisky shot
himself in the head when sur
rounded late Monday near Cha
monix.
The newspaper Action Francaise,
calling for a huge demonstration
before the chamber of deputies
Tuesday night said,
“Down with thieves—down with
assassins.”
Premier Chautemps lost no time
in revamping his endangered cab
inet as a result of the midnight
resignation of Colonial Minister
%lbert Dalimier, accused by police
f indirect implication in the
Bayonne scandal.
He named Lucien Lamoureux,
minister of labor, to replace Dali
mier, Merchant Marine Minister
Eugene Frot going to labor, and
Under-Secretary William Bertrand
of the ministry of the interior mov
ing into Frot's position.
Thus, with Stavisky dead and
Dalimier out of the cabinet with a
(Continued on Page Three)
FINAL PLANG MADE
FOR PASSION PLAY
Two Performance of Re
ligious Drama to Be Pre
sented Wednesday
Final prearations and rehearsals
are rapidly being finished previous
to the presentation Wediesday of
“The Passion Play” by the Frei
burg Playesr under the sponsor
ship” of the University Theater at
the Physical Education building.
Dress rehearsal was held today
and from a brief view of it, its
gripping ana specatcular drama
seems to surpass anything ever
offered in Athens. Heinrich Ort
mann, who had been troubled with
a slight throat affliction, has re
covered entirely, and will be able
to put forth his best efforts in the
role of Christus.
According to Dr. Alfred E.
Wolff, director of the production,
the players has been greatly en
couraged by interest shown here
in “The Passion Play,” and have
been stimulated to offer what
promises to be their best perform
ance of the tour.
The matinee performance will
start at 3:00 p. m. and the eve
ning offering at 8:15. A few choice
reserved seats, may still be had by
either calling 897, or going down
to headquarters at the corner of
Washington street and College
avenue.
Prices in the afternoon are 25
cents for students, and 75 cents
for adults. In the evening all
seats are reserved and the prices
range from 50 and 756 cents to sl.
The Physical Education building
will be heated so that the public
will not be inconvenienced by in
clement weather.
LOCAL WEATHER
Mostly cloudy tonight and
Wednesday, slightly colder on
the coast tonight, light frost if
weather remains clear in south
portion tonight.
TEMPERATURE
BRI i i sess evsDBE
BOERE iho s iive ska 0
B 4 ek i ke 4 800
BRREE i e ik eei B
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .. .... .00
Total since January 1 ~ .. 1.81
Excess since January 1 .... .37
Average January rainfall .. 4.83
Talmadge Charges Sutton
With Defrauding Farmers
By Overcharge on Serums
Is Governor's First State
ment on Row in Farm
Department
HEARING NEXT WEEK
Veterinarians Accused of
“Racketeering’” By
Chief Executive
ATLANTA, Ga.—(AP)—Gover
nor Talmadge made his first pub
lic comment Tuesday on the dis
pute between G. C. Adams, com
missioner of agriculture, and Dr,
J. M. Sutton, state veterinarian,
who was dropped from the state
payroll January 1. ’
Dr. Sutton has obtained a tem
porary superior court injunction
restraining Adams and others from
interferng with his duties as vet
ermmarian and a hearing is to be
held next week.
The governor's comment Tues
day was in the form of an apicle
he said he had written for the
Statesman, a weekly newspaper of
which he js associate editor. In
the statement he said:
“The department of agriculture
can not operate unless the commis
sioner of agriculture, the elected
head of the department, can con
trol the actions of its employes.
“The main trouble with the
horse doctor’s row, as demonstrat-‘
ed at the hearing in the attorney
general's office last week, is the
control of biologics and the exor
bitant prices they wish to charge
for the serum and the biologics.
This is the milk in the cocoanut.
“Present at this hearing, and
gitting in the office with Dr. Sut
ton, was Dr. John W. Salter, for
mer president of the Albany Se
rum company, aifd also Dr. Peter
¥. Bahnsen, traveling salesman for
the Albany serum company.
~ “You will recall that this Albany
serum compnay, two years ago,
offered serum to the state of Flors
ida on competitive bids for 32
cents per 100 CC,S and came back
to Georgia and sold the same se
rum for 55 cents per 100 CCS.
They also sold stock in the Albany
serum company and solicited the
sale of stock in the Albany serum
company to other horse doctors,
hired and paid by the state to
work for the state and for the
farmers of the state.
“The inoculation of hogs and
cattle is a very simple . process.
School children are inoculated for
the prevention of contagious dis
eases by different ones who are not
doctors, but it so happens that a
certain cliqgue and clan, who are
interested in excessive profits, ar
gue that it is a terrible calamity
for a little runty pig or a lousy
calf to be inoculated by anyone
but a graduate veterinarian.
#Any intelligent farmer can read
the directions and with five min
utes experience inoculate hogs or
cows as good as any horse doctor
I ever saw.
“The farmers of Illinois, Indi
ana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Kansas,
Missouri and Michigan inoculate
their own stock. They don't have
any horse doctor racket up there.”
LOUISIANA VOTE
INQUIRY STARTS
EconomyTsG_iven as Rea
son for Delaying Election
To Fill Vacancy
WASHINGTON —(AP)— Econo
was advanced Tuesday by George
M. Wallace, assistant attorney
general of Louisiana, as the reason
for delaying a special election of
fi4 the vacancy to the house of
representatives caused by the
death of representative Boivar E.
Kemp.
Testifying to the house elections
committee in defense of the elec
tion of Mrs. Kemp to succeed her
husband, the assistant attorney
general was asked by Representa.
tive McLaffie, (D.-Ala.) why the
the governor of Louisiana waited
five months to call the election.
“An election is expensive and
the parishes, were broke and the
Governcr thought there would be
scme other election that could be
coupled with it Wallace said.
l “Was it true the ballots were
| printed before the election was
lcalled?" asked Representative Per,
kins (R.-Ny.)
“No, sir, the ballots were or
dered printed without the name
and it was printed in the night
after the committee met.”
Wallace said the approxmate cost
of an election in a district is
about $7,00 or SB,OOO.
FARMERS MEETING
A meeting of the farmers of
iClarke county will be held at the
courthouse here Wednesday morn
ing at 10 o’clock for the purpose
of discussing the 1934-35 cotton re
duction prograra. Farmers who
have not attended previous meet
ings are urged to be present at
this one. : el
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—sc¢ Sunday
IS MADE TARGET
BY FORMER WIFE
Y
r
By i
Rudy Vallee, famous radio en
tertainer, who hag been charged by
his former wife, Fay Webb, with
infidelity, cruelty and niggardli
ness.
MRS, VALLEE FILES
STARTLING CHARGES
Long-Brewing Marital
Storm Breaks Over En
tainer and Former Wife
LOS ANGELES — (AP)— An
avray of startling charges embrac
ing infidelity, vicious temper, vile
language, character assassination
plots and niggardly financial set
tlements were heaped upon Rudy
Vallee Tuesday by his actress
wife, the former Fay Wil;b, in a
suit for separate maintenance.
~ The brewing marital storm be
tweer: the young entertainer and
the daughter of the police chief of
Santa Monica, Cal., about which
warning signals habe been flying
broke in the form of a 21-page
complaint which was sealed by
court order for a time after being
filed in the superfor court here
yesterday -
At Vallee's own insistence the
seals were broken and the charges
became public. After he had read
them, the curly-headed singer, ac
tor and orchestra ieader, a recent
arrival in Hollywood to make a
motion picture, dropped a hini
that ar anti-climax to this initial
sensatiorr was in the offing.
“I will be very happy to classify
the answer to certain paragraphs
technically,” he said. “I hope ]
never have to do this. I have no
particular desire to blast the girl.
But certainly I will have to de
fend myself and bring out the
charges. I hope I do not have te
do it but if I do, we will let Mrs.
Vallee’'s own voice speak for itself
and her letters also.”
The dark-haired actress who re
turned to her home in suburban
Santa Monica several waakg ago
in an effort to regain her health
accused Vallee of indiscretions
with three women. She named
only one, Alice Faye, actress and
member of his troupe. The others
were designated ag Janes Does.
Mrs. Valle alleged the singer's
association with Miss Faye dated
from January, 1933, and became so
prominent the New York press re
ferred to it. She sa:a she confron
ted her husband, and Vallee and
his New York attorney both told
her the charges were untrue. Mrs.
Vallee said she believed her hus
band.
' Shortly afterward she came to
lCalifornia. and Vallee took his ore
chestca to Miami, Fla. where his
’wife claimed he engaged in “open
and notorious” association with
'Mlss Faye.
i Last fa:l. Mrs. Vallee said that
“'wilh brazen affrontery” he wrote
'a. note in which he said “Leonie,
‘my first wife, was a fine woman
and really loved me” and that he
thought he would have perfect
happiness in his third marriage.
The Santa Monica girls is hig sec
cnd wife.
Mrs. Vallee said that after she
returned to New York in the
spring of 1933 her husband, with
a “sinister motive,” placed a de
:}lce in her apartment by which
telephone conservations were
reeor icd. She said he wag unable
to obtain any evidence of infidel
ity on her part and so “in haste
and impatience” he threatened to
obtain a divorce in Mexico.
Pying her with liquor, sending
her gifts and writing affectionate
notes, she claimed he sought to
“lull” her into a false sence of se.
curity, meantime continuing his
(Continued on g’ue Three).
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OFFICIAL TELLS OF
DESTROVING FILES
BY BROWN'S ORDER
Correspondence of Former
Post Office Head Was
Burned, He Says
INQUIRY U .
Alleged Action Ordered
Just Before Democrats
Took Office
WASHINGTON. — (AP) == &
Paul Henderson, former assist
ant Postmaster General, told =
senate investigators Tuesday
that Postmaster General
Brown awarded about 5,000
miles of air mail contracts
without competitive bidding
after congress had specifically =
refused him this authority.
.~ By NATHAN ROBERTSON
WASHINGTON —(AP)—A post
office employe told a senate inves
tigating committee Tuesday that
some of former Postmaster genera]
Walter Brown's files, both official =
and personal, were burned a day
or two before the Democratic ad- g
ministration came into office last §
Mareh. A
This testimrony was offered upon
resumption of the long-underway
inquiry into air anr ocean mail
contracts by the committee headed :
by Senator Black (D.-Ala.)
James Maher, stenographer to.
Brown and half a dozen other
postmasters general, asserted hr,
had burned the correspondence a
day or two Dbefore inauguration’
day at the direction of Brown's
secretary. . 3
Correspondence of Preceeding
postmasters general was stored in
‘the department, he said, but all of
‘.Brown's was burned except what
he took with him. S
Maher was the second witness
iat the opening of the inquiry ng
mail contract awards under the
'Hoover administration. L
| The first, James J. Dunn, a
postal inspector, said an investiga
tion of postoffice files had dis
closed no correspondence to e!g
from rßown under the air mail sub
sidy law.
Maher named Kenneth Mmfi
Pherson as Brown's secretary m§
instructed him to burn correlponq;é
dence. : ;f
He estimated there were eight
drawers of personal correspond
ence and sixteen of official cor
respondence. 3
MacPherson, Maher testified,
“told me to destvoy the ones he
didn’t want to take.” <
“So I took them “own to the fur
nace and destroyed them,” he ad
ded. “They included both person
al and postal files.” e
Maher said MacPherson in-
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WOMEN DEMOCAATS
HELP IN ORGANIZING
%’Clarke County Unit of
Young Democratic. Clubs
i To Be Formed Friday
~ Fifteen Athens women have been
‘appointed by Miss Margaret Fort
'son, vice president of the Ceorgia
Division of Young Democratic
clubs, to serve as a committee to
help organize the women of Clarke
county for the Young Democratic |
clubs. -4
The list includes: Mrs. H. Al
Birchmore, Mrs. Walter Marbut,
Mrs. Murray Soule, Miss "Flora
Cox, Mrs. Malcolm Bryan, Mrs. @
L. L. Hendren, Miss Mary Fred
Broughton, Miss Julia Bra,dwelg,;;
Miss Julia Stovall, Miss BEugenia
Arnold, Mrs. Annie V. Bullard |
Miss Dorothy Fargarson, | Mrs: =
Pope Hill, Miss Beulah Singleton,
and Miss Caroline Vance. - i
The Clarke county unit of the
Young Democratic clubs of Am
erica will be organized Friday '
night at the Georgian hotel. The
gathering will be addressed by
William - Schley Howard, well
known Atlanta lawyer and so r
Fifth district congressma.. =
After the Friday night meeting
a membership campaign will be
held, and officers will then be
elected by the members. This is
the first meeting to be held with a |
view to organizing a Young Demo
crats club in Clarke county. =
An organization committee has
been appointed to promote the
meeting Friday night, Janus ;
which includes Arthu- §. Oldham,
H. H. West, David Michael, Cur- _
tis Stephens, Stokely Johnson,
Jack Martin, Preston Almand, Alex
Saye, James Hayes, ert
son, L. Dennis Penny, Jobn L.
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