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Thousands Jam Opening of Wynekoop Trial
Vlovement Started To Establish Fratemity Row On University Campus
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sanford s Considering’
Plan Advanced By
Student Groups
Cost of Centralizing of
Houses Estimated at
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About $450,000 ;
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A movement has been flt&l‘tedl‘
by members of men's fraternities
at the University to establish a
“Iraternity Row” on the campus,
the project to be financed with
public Works administration fundg
under the classification of housing
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projects, i
If all of the eighteen men's fra
ternities enter into the movementi
and the loan, which would be self-‘
liquidating, 1s -granted - by the!
PWA, it will mean a minimum ex
penditure of $450,000. according to
.
estimates. IBach home, modern in
every way ana built to house
thirty members, would cost $25,-
000, tenative estimates show,
No prévision has been made toj
include women's rraternities, at
least not in the same unit Withi
the men's organization. It hasg also
probable that several fraternities
who have invested heavily in their
present homes, will ‘not . come. in
to the plan, which would be pure
v _voluntary. ;
It was indicated that if success
i, achieved by sponsors of the move
ment they may enlarge it to include
women's [raternities, loecated at
some other part on theé Universi
t campus
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Two plans are being considered
for location of the project. One is
to group all of the men's fraterni
ties' in one unit, the other to place
them around, four or five in a
group, in various lecations. All
locations however, would be on
University property.
The list of male fraternities in-
Cludes Alpha Lambda Tau, Alpha
Tau Omega, Alpha . Epsilon Pi,
Alpha Gamma Rho, Chi Phi, Chi
Psi, Delta Tau Delta, Kappa Alpba,
| Kappa Siema, Lambda Chi Alpha,
. Phi Delta Theta,, Phi Epsilon Pi,
¢ Kappa Phi, Sigma Alpha Epsi
'on, Sigma Chi, Sigma Nu, Tau
Epsilon Phi and Phi Kappa Alpha.
Women's fraternities are Alpha
Delta Pi, Alpha <heta, Alpha Sig
ma Phi, Chi Omega, Kappa Delta
ind Phi Mu.
It will be necessary for the
s fraternities to secure per
-1 on of their national officers.
betore the plan can be pressed.
‘~" " permission’ is secured it
Vould be necessare for the various
‘t iternities wishing to have a
‘ome on the proposed “fraternity
) ! to sign agrements insuring
use of the home built for
! for a time long enough at
n nal rental to liquidate the
project.
_When these qualification are met
f esident Sanford will be in a
hosition to present the petition,
, h some chartered organiza
_ uch as the Alumni associa
r similar group, or by form
= such an organization, and re
-3 t the loan.
“bonsors of the plan point out
: ‘-v“».‘w'nivn(‘o to members in
’ tizing frateenities on the
; is. thus placing them near
: classrooms, dining hall, gym
m and the wcene of various
: ity activities.
e plan ig in its first stages
_ “evelopment and nothing defi
: © tan be decided pending receipi
: missioni from npational fra
.My officials by the local chap-+
1o enter into tHe plan,
Regzents’ Selection
Of Official Delayed
e riiaanening
‘TLANTA —(#)— A meeting of
"¢ board of regents of the Uni-
Sty System -of Georgia at
W 4 new secretary-treasurer is
e selected has been postponed
Tom Friday to Jan. 22, it was an
"Uunced Thursday at the board’s
T secretary-treasurer’'s post
Vas made vacant by resignation of
- ‘Ocke, why has become man
-2T of the Atlanta office of the
"eConstruction finance corporation.
* "umber have applied for the
YOSt A published . report here
_fursday gaig lazie Bashinski.
Yell-known Dubiin resident, is
M9ng those mentioned as a pos
ib = lwpg&%fi‘d Ammu_( e
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
Johnson, Dissatistied With
NRA Reemployment Volume,
Seeks Still Shorter Hours
‘Conservatives Estimate
- Only 1,500,000 Cot
} Jobs Under Codes
WORK IS TEMPORARY
Way Must Be Found to
Aborb PWA and CWA
Workers in Spring
By JAMES COPE
WASHINGTON —(#)— Dissatis
faction with the volume of reem
ployment achieved by NRA through
its code regime showed itself
Thursday the underlying cause of
Hugh 8. Johnson'’s intention to
try for a general further shorten
ing of work hours,
Conservative estimates of NRA
officials on the employment in
creases actually attributable to
codes in the manufacturing indus
tries, they say, do not exceed 1,-
500,000 men.
This does mnot include the sub
stantial increases in trades and
service industries which are not
accurately ‘estimated. However,
it is the manufacturing industries
which officials feel must be count
od upon to take the lion’s share of
permanent employment.
Public works @and civil works
are now carrying a load estimated
at 4,000,000 men or more. This is
temporay work, most of it to end
in the spring.
Administration quarters assert a
feeling that if real, lasting recov
ery is to be had, industry must
find jobs for a large proportion of
these men once the civil works ex=
penditures are cut off. There is a
certainty also at NRA that such
reemployment can not be forth
coming within the year on pres
ent schedules.
While the spring situations is
not regarded as especially critical,
normal reemployment must be
well under way befcre next win
ter, or, with the unemploved ap
parently counting on federal relief,
budgetary plans to cut down on
extraordinary expenditures possibly
could be shot sky high by né&w de
mands on the treasury.
Much reliance is being placed by
the adminifration on the project
ed vast federal expenditures with
in the nex{ six months to swing
industry into high productivity
again.
Many officials believe one fund
amental problem tHit must be
solved before that can happen is
the restoration of normal credit
flow, with private capital moving
again through the banks into in
dustrial financing. So far all sug
gestions of the alternative, recon
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HENRY FORD QUOTED
PRAISING NRA IDEAL
Motor Magnet Tells In
terviewer Plan Could
Be of Great Benefit
NEW YORK—. (#)— The New
York Times, in a dispatch from
Detroit Thursday, said Henry Ford
expressed complete belief in the
ideal behind the NRA.
The dispatch recounted an in
terview ,obtained by Harold N.
Denny of the Times staff in one
of the offices of the Ford engl
neering laboratories, and the mo
tor car manufacturer was quoted
as saying of the NRA:
“There is no possible way for
them to do any harm,” and later—
“the NRA is being improved. We
believe absolutely in what it is
trying to do. There were possi
bilties ot harm at the beginning,
but somebody with good sense
seems to have stepped in.”
Further on, he was quoted:
“So, up to the present time wae
have believed absolutely in the
ideal behind the NRA. But the
NRA hasn't tackled the funda
mentals yet, there’s been too much
selfishness in the support of it.
Some interests thoughy they could
use the NRA to start a new trade
trust and run owut the independ
ents.
“Well, it didn’t work. But NRA
didn’t stop them—the independents
did. You can't” sqifish people out.
Independence is pary of every
American. And it has not been
responsible for any of our ills—our
loss of independence is what
causes trouble, o
“Bu; if these supporters of the
NRA keep on trying to crush com
petition they'll get left. Compe
tition furnishes the incentive for
veb?le to rise, for genius to come
up.’
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Earl McMahon, left, and Walter
Detrick, right, were captured in
the Chicago suburban home
where ‘“Handsome Jack” Klutas,
“‘college gang’’ leader, was slain.
McMahon was wanted for sev
eral bank robberies and Detrick,
member of the Dillinger gang,
was one of the ten convicts who
fled Indiana state prison in
September.
“Box Score” Gives
Record of Officers
. In Gangster Fights
INDIANAPOLIS —(#)— On the
wall of a room in Indiana state po
lice headquarters is a “box score”
of the grim fight to round up
members of the “Dangerous Dil
linger ‘Gang,” led by John Dillin
ger, a bank robber, and composed
largely of convicts who escaped
last September from the state
prison.
The score gheet was started by
Patrolman Eugene Teague whose
name was added to it when he fell
fatally wounded Dec. 20 during
the capture of Edward Shouse, gone
of the escaped felons, at Paris, TIL
On the wall Teague penciled
the word “convicts” and opposite
this word he entered to their
“credit” the names of officers kill
ed by members of the gang. The
officers listed were Jess Sarber,
TLima, Ohio, sheriff shot when
Dillinger was liberated from the
Allen county jail, and Detective
Sergeant William Shanley of Chi
cago, shot by a man identified as
John Hamilton, one of the escaped
convicts. When Teague was killed
while capturing Shouse his name
was placed on the wall.
Below the convicts’ sfore is the
score of “police”. Ty their credit
has been placed the captures of
James Clark, Harry Copeland,
Shouse, Hilton Crouch, Walter
Detrich and James Jenkins. Jenk
ins was shot and killed by a civili
an in Brown county, Indiana, a
few days after the prison break.
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2Young Democrats of
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' County to Organize
' = Here Friday Nigh:
'« Here Friday Night
I A Clarke county unit of the
| ¥oune Democratic clubs ,f Ameri-
Ira will bhe organized here Fridav
at a meeting at the Georgian hote)
at eight o’clock.
The gathering will be addressed
by Willlam Schley Howard. promi
nent Atlanta lawyer. The publie is
invited and young people especial
ly are urged to be present.
* Athens women have taken an
active interest in the formation of
the local club, and a committee
of fifteen members has heen se
lected to work with the group. |
After the Frifhy night meeting
a membership campaign will be
held, and officers will then be
le]octod by the members. This is
the first meeting to be held with a
view to organizing a Young Dem
ocrats club in Clarke county. |
Several of the senior Democratic
leaders in Clarke county have been 1
invited to sit at the speaker’s table
at the meeting, inecluding Judge
Thomas F. Green, Col. M. G.
Michael, President S. V. Sanford.
Andrew C. Erwin, Abit Nix, T. J. |
Shackelford, Judge Henry C. Tuck
Judge Blanton Fortson, T. W‘
Reed, Mayor A. G. Dudley. J. T.
Pittard and Judge J. D. Bradwell ‘
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LONDON—(#—A Reuters (Brit
ish) news agency dispatch from
| Vienna Thursday said it was ru
mored that the so-called Austrian
Ilegion. comprised of Austricg |
Nazis who have left the country
land gone to Germany since the
ladvent to power of the preseni
Austrian regime, had_ crosged the
[frentier into Austria ndar Kuf
—ESTABLISHED 1832—
Athens, Ga., Thursday, January 11, 1934
HOME OWNERS GET
s 000 WERE. N
SSOCATON L 0
Farm Loan Office Has
Been Unusually Busy
Since January 1 |
PLAN IN CONGRESS
Would Guarantee Both
Principal and Interest
Of Farm Bonds
Nearly ' $120,000 has been bog
rowed from the Home Owners'
Loan corporation and the National
Farm Loan .assti:iation by the
farmers and other home owners of
Athens and Clarke county since
early last fall, when loans firsy be
gan to be made,
Thirty-two home owners in this
county have received loans amount
ing to more than $85,000, according
to Lee Bradberry, county apprais
er. Two of the largest of the,aei
have been closed January 1, Mr.
Bradberry says. 3
The farm loan office has been
especially busy since January 1,
according to H. O. Epting, Clarke
county secretary-treasurer for the
National ¥Farm Loan association.
He announces that in all 18- -loans
have been completed, amounting
to $32,100, and that eight of these
loans, for $13.200, have bheen closed
since the first of the year. The ab
stracts have jus¢ begun to come
in in large numbers, Mr. Epting
savs. |
Pending are 30 other farm loans,
which, when completed, will put
dome $77,000 into the farmers'
pockets or help to pay off old
mortgages. ;
The states of North Carolina
South Carolina, Georgia, and Flor
ida comprise the Third Federal
Land Bank distriet, and loans in
this district are handled through
the Federal Land bank at Colum
bia, S. C. Officials at Columbia
(Continued on Page Three)
HIT-AND-RUN AUTE
KILLS NFGRO HERE
Body of Will Harris Found
In Ditch This Morning
On Jefferson Road
Will Harris, aged Negro living
just off the Jefferson River road,
was killed by a hit-and-run auto
mobile driver Wednesday night
about 7 o'clock on the Jefferson
road a short distance beyond the
city limits, a coroner's jury decid=~
ed this morning.
The Negro man, employed at the
residence of Mr. and Mrs. S. C.
Upson, was found dead in a ditch
on the right side of the road about
50 yards beyond the residence of
Lee C. Bowden this morning at 7
o'clock by Eddie Brown, Negro.
An inquest was conducted by
Coroner J. F. Shepherd and the
jury’s verdict read, “We, the jury,
find the deceased came to his death
by being hit by an automobile
driven by parties unknown, the
automobile not stopping.”
The jury was composed of Dr.
J. C. Holliday, foreman; Ellison
B. Stone, Lee C. Bowden, W, Mil
ton Thomas, A. H. Brackett, and
G. W. Nash, bailiff.
Dr. Holliday’s examination
showed that a lick on the back of
the head Kkilled the aged -Negro,
and that it may have been caused
either by an automobile or a fall
on the pqvement.
Heard Impact
J. T. Fulgher, one of the wit
nesses before the jury, said he
heard a car, strike something in
front of his home last night about
7:30 o’clock. He said he looked
out the front door and didn’t see
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LOCAL WEATHER
Increasing cloudiness and
warmer tonight; Friday rain
and somewhat warmer,
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Average January rainfall.. 4.83
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social life member of the Woodmen
of the World in recognition of his
civic and judicial activities.
MOSELY HONDRED BY
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DANIELSVILLE, Ga. — (#) —
Judge Berry T. Moseley of this
city, judge of the superior courts
of the Northern circuit, has re
cently been elected a social life
member of the Danielsville Camp
of the Woodmen of the World by
a unanimous vote of the members
- In hgs yesponse to thie honor
bestowed upon him, Judge Moseley
approved the work of the local or
ganization and expressed his
pleasure at being made a life
member.
Judge Moseley has been a civic
leader in this community for many
vears, and is prominently known
throughout the state as a leading
‘jurist. He numbers his friends by
the hundreds.
At the same meeting of th~ W,
0. W. camp, W, D, Meadow was
ingtalleq as counsul commander t¢
succeed Prof. J. G. Colbert, Othe!
officers installed include: J. E.
Bond, advisorys lieutenant; J. T..
Baker, banker; H. T. Sanders
financial secretary: A. L. Mann,
escort; Ralph Sanders, watchman;
F. G. O'Kelley, sentry; and O. L
Power, ©O. D. Searborough and
Paul White as®auditors and man
agers.
The impressive ceremony was in
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[ RAIL-BUS FIGHT
Question of Rates Is Sore
Spot in Transportation
Hearing at Capitol |
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ATLANTA, Ga.— (AP) — Thej
rail-motor carrier controversy over
rate reductions has been bmughtl
linto the open at the Public Ser- |
'vice Commission's inquiry into‘
charges of railroads in Georgia.
, The question, sore spot in the}
‘field of transportation, entered the
hearing during a verbal exchange
’between J. E. Tilford, chairman
of the Southeastern Freight asso
!clation, and Smythe Gambrell, at
ltorney for the motor lines. ‘
| The clash developed When the}
‘question of the “honesty” of truck
competitive rates computed by tho:
railroads was raised. |
| “Isn’t your real purpose to put
these low rates in just long'
‘enough to break the little fellows
‘and drive them off the roads, and
‘then go back to the old ra&es?”{
Gambrell asked Tilford. |
. “In my judgment the law re-‘(
'quires us to raise rates back to a
’paylng level after the purpose of
meeting competition has been ac
complished,” Tilford replied. “Of
course we would maintain the)
gcompetitive rates if the competi-l
tion remained a threat.” |
~ Tilford said in reply to a ques
‘tion that the railroads endeavored“
to mnever establish a competitive
rate that was not compensatory, |
adding that “it would be foolish
to cut rates below cost.” |
‘ Asked if it were not the purpose!
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PAGIFIG {5 SPANNED
BY 3IX NAVY PLANE
N TODAYS FLIGHT
Move Swiftly Over Course
After Difficult Take-
Off From California
WITHOUT TROUBLE
One Plane, Momentarily
Separated From Others,
. Rejoins Squadron
SAN ERANCISCO.—!(.IP)*-—. The
siXx navy planes flying to Honolulu
from San Francisco were within
385 miles of their goal at 2 p. m,
(EBT) Thursday, the twelfth na
nounced. The planes were roaring
along at 92 milegsan hour,
The six silver-winged planes,
which streamed out through San
Francisco’'s Golden Gate at 2:22
p. m. (Pacific Standard time)
Wednesday after a difficult takeoff
from the bay with their heavy
loads, roared swiftly -along their
course, apparently without trouble.
Messages picked up by the Naval
station here shortly before mid
night said Lieutenant Perry's
plane had become ; separated from
the others again. He notified Lieu
tenant Commander Knelfer Me-
Ginnis, chief officer of the flight
!and pilot of the 10-PI: “Not in
sight but am in vicinity and will
attempt to rejoin at once.”
Another message picked up by
the naval station shortly before 2
a. m. said Lieutenant Perry's
plane was back in formation.
The planes were well past the
half-way mark shortly before day
break. 3
If the rate of speed maintained
since the start was continued the
six officers and 24 enlisted men
making up the crew were expected
to reach Honolulu about noon (or
2:30 p. m. Pacific Standard time),
approximately 24 hours after their
start.
At 6 a. m. (Pacific Standard
time) the squadron was 1,314 nau
tical miles (1,513 land miles, from
San Francisco and had been inithe
air more than 15% hours.
“Everything going fine,” said a
message from Lieutenant-Com
mander McGinnls. MeGinnis said
he had sighted the aircraft tender
Wright, stationed abeut 600 miles
from Honolulu, at 8:21 a. m.
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‘Bank Crash Should
Have Been in 1930
' ave in 1930,
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} Investigators Hear
WASHINGTON—(®P)—WhiIe Ed
sel Ford waited to testify, Alfred
{P. Leyburn, chief national bank
‘examine:, told senate investigators
Thursday the bank ecrash would
have come in 1930 instead of 1933
|if leniency had not been ordered
‘h_v J. W. Pole, comvtroller of curs
lrenoy in the Hoover adminstration
; After the investigators had pro
’duood a number of orders issued
by Pole directing leniency in ex.
iumining bafiks, Leyburn said he
lhe]ieved the crash would have
i been less serious if it had been
iallowed to come in 1930.
The evidence disclosed that ona
of Pole’s orders told examiners to
“disregard market depreciation in
]bonds not in default.”
| “To what extent have events‘
justified thay policy?” Senator
Adams (D.-Colo.) asked. |
“If it hadr't been followed,” Ley-l
llmrn said, “we would have had
| the crash in 1930 instead of 1933. ‘
It had to come.”
“Would it have been better Inl
1930?” Senator Couzens (R.-Mich.)l
asked. ‘ |
! “It couldn’s have been worse,"”
!the examiner replied. “In my opin- 1
| jon we would have been better oft
if it had come in 1930.” |
' Edsel Ford followed and told
| senate investigators the Ford Mo
itor company had $32,500,000 on det
| posit in the Guerdian Bank group
|of Detroit when it was closed b_v}
| the Michigan bank holida_v' |
; Ford, son of Henry Ford, and
i president of the motor company.‘
said it maintained large deposits |
iwith the Guardian national hank]
| of commerce and the Unian Guard- :
llan trust company.
When the banks were closed
early the morning of February 14.1
11933. he said, the company had de
| posits of $15.000,000 in the first of |
' these two. His statement left the
’inference the bhalance was in the
trust company. i
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DEMOGRATS SHOW
CTRENGTH 1N TESTS
Senate Reverses Itsali To
day on Restrictions On
Liquor Imports
WASHINGTON —{(#)— The ad
ministration triumphed in two
congressional tests Thursday, the
genate reversing itself on the re
strictions against liquor imports
from nations remiss' with debt
payments, and the house granting
unhampered right-of-way to, the
bill extending the Roosevelt econ
omy powers.
On word from the White House
of disapproval for the Clark
amendment imposing highey levies
on alcoholie imports from the debt
defaulters, the senate changes iis
mind on a 44 to 30 vote, This prac
tically assured the house wouldn't
have a chance to adopt the dis
puted clause, but Speaker Rainey
had predicted to reporters bhefore
anyhow that it would not share
the senate view.
Other Republican objection, the
house Democratic leadership suc
ceeded on a 261 to ‘212 vote in
clamping on a stringent restriction
of debate to protecy the powers
given the presidgnt to curtail fed
eral spending, including veterans
payments.
This signified easy and fast
going for the legislation to the
senate, where tS more liberal
rules will mean more lengthy at
tacks. ‘
On petition of 28 Democratic
congressmen, Representative Clar
ence F'. Lea of California, had te
call a party caucus for late Mon.
day for consideration of patronage
matters. He heads the caucus
committee,
LOUISIANA ELECZTION
WASHINGTON—(#)—The house
elections committee, after hearing
evidence for four days in the
Kemp-Sanders contest over seat
ing a representative from the Sixth
I.ouisiana distriet, adjourned to
prepare its report.
Chairmar Kerr (D.-N. C.) asked
attorneys to present their briefs
nefore Monday, at wkich time he
said the committee would hoid an
executive session to consider the
contest.
U. S. Survey of Southern Forests Aids
Herty’s Experiments in Making of Paper
SAVANNAH, Ga.—(AP)—Sfr
vey parties are counting and meas
uring the trees of half a dozen
Southern states as a part of the
national forest survey authorized
by congress several yeasr ago.
Figures they compile will be of
particular importance to those
interested in developing the manu
facture of paper, as a result of the
work of Dr. Charles H. Herty in
developing white paper from Sou
thern pines. ;
Captain J. F. Eldredge of New
Orleans, regional director in
charge of the work, came here for
a conference with local officials
interested in the survey. He said
the appropriation made by con
gress, recently was, increased from
emergency funds to permit a
complete survey of the active na
val stores region of the Southeast.
“The immediate objective,” the
regional director said, “is the sur
vey of 11,000,000 acres of forests in
southeast Georgia, a unit of 9,-
000,000 acres in northern Florida,
NEAR RIOT BRINGS
CALL FOR RESERVES
IN CHICAGD COURT
Deputies Quell Throng
/Attempting to Enter
l Trial Chamber =
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' DEFENDANT IS CALM
| A
; Selection of Jury to Hear
Charges Against Dr.
| Wynekoop Begins
By MAURICE E. COI.LIN_S" :
Associtapd Press Staff Writer.
CRIMINAL COURTS BUILD
ING, CHICAGO.— (AP) —A near
lriot broke out among 2,000 specta
tors Thursday as Dr. Alice Lind
say Wrynekood entered the crim
inal courts building to go on trial
for the death of her daughter-in=
law, Rheta. ! A
Some trial fans had stood in
| line since 7 a. m., and the lines
!oxtended from the fifth floor court=
lroum downward for three floors.
An emergenéy call brought a.
score of deputy sheriffs and bai
liffs to assist those already strain
ing to keep the lines steady. BY
‘tho time they arrived the specta
tors were screaming and shout
ing.
l The ‘trial officially opened with
the prosecution asking the death
‘panulty for 62-year-old Dr. Alice
for the death of her daughter-in
law, on an operating table,
Her features composed but her '
| face a ghastly white, Dr., Wyne
| koop sat calmly at her counsel's
\mblo. Her expression did not
| change when Assistant State’s At
‘mrnoy Charles Dougherty asked
the first venireman whether he had
any scruples against inflicting the
death penalty if the woman phy=
| siclan were found guilty. He re=
!plied in the negative.
Nor did she show any expres=
sion except one of intense interest
when Dougherty recounted the
charges in the indictment againsg
her. The prosecutor said that the
state would prove that Rheta, tal
ented young violinist, came to her
death at the wilful hands of her
mother-in-law. ~ v
Dougherty recounted how Rhe
ta’s body was found in the base
ment surgical room of the Wyne=
koop mansion last November 21.
He said he would prove Rheta
died from a bullet wound through
her heart, from an overdose of
chloroform, or from a combination
of both.
The Jostling, pushing, and fre
quent violence of the crowd caused
Judge Joseph B, David to 'ord(x'
the building cleared. Chief Bailiff
James Gabriel announced the pub
lic would be excluded from the re
mainder of the trial. i
Dr. Wynekoop's daughter Cath
erine, ~ also a physician, accoms«
panied her on the last stage of the
walk to the courts building. One
of the first to greet her was her
son, Walker, a young business
man. g ¥
Her other son, Earle, husban@
of the slain wag Rheta was miss
ing from the court room. Dough
erty said BEarl had not been sub
poenaed by the state, and defense
attorney made no explanation of
his absence. ;
Each venireman was required
to say whether he might be in
fluenced by the prospect of the
death penalty, the relation of the
defendant and the victim, @'»
Wynekoop’s age, her profession,
the appearance of policemen a 8
witnesses, or a dozen other p!;liis
of the case. o e 3
3,000,000 acres in South Carolina,
1,000,000 acres in North Carclina,
4,500,000 acres in southern Alaba
ma, and 5,000,000 acres in south
eastern Mississippi.” wy
The actual field physical invens
tory will be carried on by 14 pare
ties of three men each.
Working on foot, the men are
counting and ‘measuring trees, take
ing the height, rate of growth,
volume in board feet, and record
ing the presence of %Turpentine
crops of various stages of working,
estimating the volume of pulp
wood, of stumps, of poles and pil
ing. They expect to complete the
field werk in Georgia and Florida
within the next 10 months. i
Young trees below saw timber
and the rate at which they are
growing are being recorded. The
director said it would be possible
when the survey is completed, to
give the paper industry an authers
itative account of the resources
available in the state and the Pate
of production which can be main
tained on a sustained basis.