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Freezing Gales Add To Terror Of Numerous Fires
As New Cold Wave Sweeps Down From Northwest
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Georgia Director of NRA
and AAA Says Worknls
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“People’s Program.
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TURNS SATURDAY
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Citizens Expected to Re
port Violations; Not to
Use Inspectors.
Dr. Andrew M. Soule, director
of the national economic couneil
for Georgia, left early this after
noon for Washington, D, C., where
pe will attend the coniere&ce of
all state directors of the uncil,
elled by Ernest C. Walker, head
of the national economic council.
The meeting will convene ‘Wed
nesday morning *at 9 o'clock and
will continue through Saturday.
The first two days will be given
over to discussions of NRA activi
ties, while the latter two are re
served for affairs dealinfg with the
national economic council. ‘
Dr. Soule will get to Washing- .
ton one day early, he says, in or
der to arrange some special con-‘:
ferences regarding the NRA worki
in Goergia. 1t 1s understood that
presilent Roosevelt will_be pres- |
ent at several of the sessions of
the conference to aid in instruct-J
ing the state directors.
General Hugh S. Johnson will
be in charge of the NRA meetings,
while Mr. Walker will direct the
discussions at the economic coun-
Cil.
Before leaving Athens, Dr, '
Soule announced that pnew offices
for the council i Atlanta would
be in the Citizens and Southern
National bank building. He' ex
pects to move from the present
location” in the old postoffice
building abqut Kebruary 6. |
In my contact with the .Ol‘san-f
ization,” the state director declar
ed, I am gratified with the re-l
sponse of the peoplé and the good
will shown toward the NRA. In
the 300 cases of code violation
which have come up for settle
ment, 1 have noticed only one
man who showed an indifferent
attitude.” He added that the ma
jority of the cases came about beq
cause of a difference of opinion or
misinterpretation of the code.
For the benefit of those persons
Wwho do not yet understand the
workings of the code, Dr. Soule
asks that it be made clear that it
is the privilege and duty of all
Cllizens to report code violations
to his office in Atlanta.
“We do not use inspectors in
this work,” he said, “and it is
Very necessary that the people
tooperate with us.” Anyone wish
gto reprot a code violation
should secure a blank from the
’?t‘“‘!‘»\‘l U. S. postoffice and to
fill it out as directed. Any person
may make a 4 report on another in
“I“\”iw' of business.
tome of \" . hl!‘ed. oo g:OOd e
jome of simuly_complaining, but
E v OOoperation and aetive sup
;ghf.‘“.“:,”l,;’]” far toward righting
We ‘”' .’”b that are being done.
st e interested in the fair and
Man gg ent to Wik SN HAHS
added, €ll as the big one,” he
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Ouly Survivor of Family Whose 10 Sons
Fought in War of ’6o’s Is Visiting Here
The only surviving member, ex
°®Pling grandchlidven and great
sfandchildren, of @ family - @
Vhich ten song served in the War
Setween the States, is visiting in
Athens now. She. i -Mrs. William
"¢ of Atlanta, whese husband
: [ the sons.
Sl E. Bone and Mrs.
ored Bone, fiving near Boggs’
ar?l at that timer e theanbee
dren, sixteen of whom
%24 to manhoog and womanhood
o osons and six daughters. All
(€ 80Ns served in the Confederate
o) and only one was wounded,
o ÜBh another : died of sinkile
"% during the way, :
Bar. 2Fticle publighed in ' the
Cour T Herald (then the Clarke
e Y Banner) on May: 10, 1895,
motha. . Ctter received by the
v from General Lee, a letter
Ve T Was destroyed by fire.
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R . 1863, asking that one
! ‘s be given a furlough
ang " that he might come home
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Gap Milired Bone, Athens,
the ~. ¢ Madameé: Four letter of
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A tragic echo of the prohibition
era resounds through federal
court in Denver in the trial of
Henry Dierks, above, former fed
eral dry agent, charged with
slaying Melford Smith, 19, in a
scuffle over four ounces of wine
in a 1931 raid. The state
charged murder against Dierks,
who is defended by U. S. at
torneys.
COMMITTEE NAMED
10 GET R.E.C. LOAN
Seek Charter for Corpora
- tion to Liquidate Athens
Securities Companies.
A committee to secure a charter
and devise plang for the formation
of* a mortgage loan corporation te
borrow R. F. C. funds for the li
quidation of the Georgia Securities
company and the American Secu
rities company here, was named
at a meeting€ held Saturday in
the offices of Edgar Dunlap, state
counsel for the government agency.
The committeg was selected at a
meeting attended by holders of
approximately $300,000 in deben
tureg of the twg Athens institus
tions, Named on the committee
were 'C, C. Kimsey, president of
the Bank of Corneira, Tate Wright,
E. R. Hodgson, Frank.C. Shackel
ford, vice president of the Georgia
Securities company and attorney
for both companies, J. A Alton
Hosch, Gainesville, R. S. Parker,
Atlanta attorney for the Georgia
Power company and H. W. Cald
well, dean of the University of
Georgia Law school.
After a charter hag been Secured
a president, board of directors and
other officers will be selected. As
sets of the two securities compan
jes will be appraised by officials of
the Reconstruction Ffnance corpo
ration and upon this appraisal the
amount of money to be loaned the
securities companies will.be based.f
The securities companies grew
out of the failure of the old Geor:
gia Natonal and American State
banks here in April 14, 1925 ahd
it is hop*a to secure enough funds
from the RF.C. to pay from 20 te
25 per cent on the debentures out
standing, W. I 'Abney, president
of the Geogrgia Securities company,
said. Dr. N. G. Slaughter is pre
sident of the American Secutities
ocmpany and Mrs, Alvie Hill is se
cretary and treasurer of hoth con
cerns.
set a noble example in devoting
your ten sons to the service of the
country and in encouraging them
to defend their homes. We need
every good soldier we have in the
arms‘. If we allowed all to return
who are needed at home we should
soon have no .country and no
homes. I sympathize with you in
your anxities and privations, but
I trust your kind neighbors in the
patriotic state of Ueorgia will not
permit you to want while your
brave sons are doing their duty
manfully against the enemy. I am,
very respectfully, youry obedient
servant,
“R. E. LEE, General.”
Mrs. William Bone was the
former Miss Martha Sailers and
is visiting Mrs. O’Kelley on
Lumpkin street at present.
Other Clarke county families
which sent large numbers of sol
diers to the war and which are
mentioned in the Banner article
include the family of Mr. and
Mrs. Wiley Thornton, who had
ten sons in the war also, three in
the army of Norfthern Virginia
and seven in the army of the
‘West; the Elder family, Who sent
twelve members—eight of whom
were brothers and served with
the Clarke Rifles—two of these
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Message From Roosevelt
Brings House’s Approval
On Senate-Revised Bill
Monetary Measures to Gc
to White House for
Signature Tuesday.
CONGRESS RELAXES
House to Take Up Navy
‘Bill; Senate Has St.
Lawrence Treaty.
WASHINGTON. -—(#)— A tele
phone mesgage from President
Roosevelt sufficed Monday to have
the house unanimously accept the
senate-revised dollar devaluation
bill, + o
Inasmuch as the recess of the
senate for the day made it impos
sible for Vice President Garner to
sign ghe document, however, it
can't go to the White House for
the Roosevelt signature into law
until Tuesday.
~ The president had speaker Rai
ney on the wire just bpefore the
house met, told him the senate
three-year time limitation on the
$2,000,000,000 stabilization fund and
his dollar revaluation powers was
all right with him, and the speak
er straightaway had the house ac
cept the senate bill by unanimous
consent.
Meanwhile, the administration
poised itself for use of'the stabili
zation fund in foreign exchange
idealings. Lacking any agreement
‘with Great Britain, some responsi
ble officials pondered the need to
be prepared in event of exchange
hostilities between the British
pound and American dollar,
~ Their part virtually over for the
present, members of house and
senate meanwhile had a cut-and
dried day for relaxeq handling of
lesser affairs after a succession of
major moments last week.
With the senate Monday taking
the holiday the other branch took
Saturday, the house calendar com
prised the committee recommenda
tion against seating either Mrs.
Bolivar E. Kemp or J. Y. Sand
ers, jr., from Louisiana.
h‘hat out of the way, the repre
sentatives look forwardto passing
the Vinson treaty Navy bill Tues
day. The senate reassembles then
too, with the St, Lawrence water
way treaty with Canada still wait
ing debate and action.
While biting winds swirled
around the capitol, the majority of
the legislators spent much of their
time in the warmth of ther offices
working on mail and like necessi
ties.
Hearings on an omnibus bridge
bill began, one of those bills that
carries authorization for bridges in
spots all over the country.
A senate committee heard from
Frank T. Hines, administrator of
veterans affairs, that 486,926 veter
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One-Third of Wrightsville
Beach Lies in Ashes
After Fire. .
WILMINGTON, N. C. —(&#)— A
third of Wrightsville Beach lay in
ashes Monday, destroyed by a fire
which roared through the island
summer resort 10 miles from here
on the wings of a southwestern
gale. S
Even before the community had
taken full stock of its loss, esti
mated variously at from $500,000
to $1,000,000, plans were underway
for rebuilding. One hundred and
three buildings, including the 162-
room Oceanic hotel, were destroy
ed by the fire Sunday. '
While the ashes still smoked,
Mayor J. H. Taylor called a
meeting of the board of aldermen
for Monday to discuss pl;ms for
rebuilding. He said he was con
sidering asking the state civil
works administration for workmen
to clear away the debris.
Mayor Taylor's estimate of the
loss was $500,000. An official of
the Tidewater Power company
which owned the Oceanic hotel
and ,a nmumber of other buildings
estimated, however, that it was in
the neighborhood of $1,000,000.
The fire began from an unde
termined cause abeut 12:30 p. m.
in the Kitty cottage, a summer
boarding house, spread to the
Oceanic hotel and under the im
petus of the wind roared up the
north end of the island. It burn
ed tw, hours and a half.
Most of the buildings were
frame cottages occupied only dur
ing the summer.
From Kitty cottage mnorthward
only about 20 buildings were left
standing. The spread of flames
southward was checked.
The tire was the most digastrous
in the @ history .of Wrightsville
Reach and the worst in this sec
tion since that which devasted
Wilmington in 1853.
Athens, Ca., Monday' January 29, 1934,
Austrian Home Guard
Launches Finish Fight
- Against Nazi Attacks
VIENNA —(#)— The armed
Fascist Heimwehr lined up
with the government of Chan
cellor Engelbert Dollfuss Mon
day in an announced ‘finish
fight” against the Nazis.
Rallled to the cause ,by
Prince IBrnst Von Starhemberg,
leader of the Heimwehr, or
heme guard, members were én
joined:
“Every leader down to the
last man must hencsforth im
mediately avenge every Nazi
attack. If legal authorities fair
tc mete out iusiice take the
law into your own hands.”
There was little t; indicate
that Heimwehrmen need fear
authorities would mot “mete
out justice,” for Vice-Chancel
lor Emil Fey was quick to ap
prove the prince’s order.
DILLINGERS DEFIANT
FACING EXTRADITION
Small Army of Midwest
ern Officers in Tucson te
“Get Their Man.” §
TUCSON, Ariz—(AP)—Defiant
even behind jail bars. the. “Dan
gerous Dillingers” of Indiana Mon
day confronted a small army of
midwestern pecae officers who
had moved into this city over the
week-end intent on ‘“getting their
man.’.’
Backed by Governor B. B.
Mouer’s promise that they can
have John Diilinger, gangster
chieftain, and his henchman, Indi
ana authorities expedited extradi
tion papers to the governor in
Phoenix and looked over the jail
ed men they have accused of a
series of robberies and slayings.
Three Indiana officers and Rob
ert Wilgus, an eye witness of an
Bast Chicago, Ind., bank robbery,
in which a police officer was Kkill
ed, headed the parade of authori
ties who have claimed the out
laws. 1
Clarence Houston, Prima county,
Arizona, attorney, said extradition
may be slow, as he expected Dil
linger to throw every possible ob
stacle into the way. Conflicting
claims of Indiana and Ohio may
have béen ironed out, he said, and
this may help speed proceedings.
Another Indiana officer, Matt
Leach, state police chief, agreed
to allow Lima, Ohio, to have three
members of the gang, Harry Pier
pont, Russell Clark and Charles
Makley, on charges of slaying
Sheriff Jess Sarber last Ocotber.
Sarber was shot during an attack
on a jail wh’h' resulted in Dil
linger’s release.
Leach said he will also demand
Miss Mary Kinder for aiding in
the prison delivery of 10 of Dil
linger’'s henchmen at Michigan
City, Ind. September 26.
Two other women arrested with
Dillinger and his men—Opal Long
and Ann Martin—Leach said will
be turned over to whoever claims
them.
An attorney for the‘ gangster
promised to fight to prevent re
moval of the desperadoes hefore
court actions have settled dis
posal of nearly $40,000 in cash
taken from the men. Surety com
panies have filed attachments
against the money in behalf of
robbed banks.
Negro Woman Shot
Four Times Sunday
By Her Son-in-Law
James Smith, colored, who shot
his mother-in-law, Lizzie Goss,
four times Sunday afternoon was
arrested in Atlanta this morning,
and was to be returned to Athens
this afternoon.
The woman was rushed t, the
General hospital where she was
treated for the shots—one on the
right side of her face, one on the
right side of her head, one on her
left arm and one “on her left
shoulder. After receiving treat
ment, she left the hospital.
When Plainclothes men Wood
and Nelms reached the scene of
the shooting, Smith had fied. Smith
was cook for the Seaboard Airline
bridge gang.
Word was received here today.
by Chief of Police Seagraves that
the Atlanta police have found the
car which was stolen from Cloves
Crow over the week-end. Mr.
Crow sent a Negro boy with the
car to a sérvice station to have it
repaired, and the boy took it home
» iem———.
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—ESTABLISHEDG 1832—
DELADIER ATTEMPTS
TOLIE UP CABIET
I FRENCH SHAKELP
Public Confidence Shaken
By Financial Scandal;
Chautemps Quits.
HERRIOT. OFFENDED
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Premiership Offered tc
Three Others, But All
Decline Honor. :
PARIS, —(#)—Edquard Daladier
was entrusted Monday with the
task of forming a sort of ‘“pub
lic safety” cabinet for a vigorous
house-cleaning «of financial scan
dalg and restoration of shaken pub
lic confidence in the government,
The new cabinet will suppant
that of Camille Chautemps which
resigned Saturday.
- Dbaladier, mihister of war in the
;Chautemps government and for
mer- premier, was summoned to
Elysee palace by President Lebrun
early Monday after three others
had -declined to accept the pre
miership.
Seventy-one-yesr old Doumer
gue, former president, decined to
acedg to the president’s request
Sunday. Hg said he was too eld.
Then Lebrun turned to Jules
Jeannery, but he refused to at
tempt to form a government which
eould restore political tran-quili
ty—as asked by the pres.dent—be
cause of ill health.
~ Ferdnand Emile Bouisson iater
was approached, but he declined
alse.
Lebrun had hoped 9 bring In
~some big non-political figure
‘whose personality -and prestige
might allay the nationwide agita
tion*as a result.cf ihe ccllapse of
the $40,000,000 bayonne bank
scandal and resultant charges of
officiat implication.
In connection with Daladier’'s
selection instead of the veteran
champion of * war . debts fame,
‘HBdouard Herriot, mentioned pre
viouSly, it was pointed out that the
former is stronger than Herriot in
the center,
Daladier is referred to by his
admirerg as a ‘“strong, silent” man.
He hag been strong for frontier
fortifications and wants to extend
France's so-called “iron ring"”
along the Belgian border. Daladier
frequently has pleaded for more
funds with which to strengthen
the defenses.
Daladier will have to turn to the
center in the chamber of deputies
for support, because of hig recent
sharp break with the socalists. It
has been said frequently that a
center coalition government sooner
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William E. Hoover
Dies in Jacksonville;
Funeral to Be Here
William Edward (Biil) Hoover,
16 year old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry B. Hoover, former Atheni
ans, died at his home in Jackson
ville; Florida, Sunday afternoon at
12:36 o'clock after a brief illness.
He is survived by hig parents,
both well known in_Ath&s where
they lived for many years; grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Hill,
Savannah and an aunt, Mrs. Rufe
Turner, Athens: »
| Services will be conducted Tues:
'day afternoon at one o'clock at
the graveside in Oconee Hill cem
ietery by Dr. J. C. Wilkinson, pas’
tor of the First Baptist church.
' Pallbearers will be Guy Firor,
Paul Hartley, Roy Cooper, Charles
Hadaway, Hugh Davis and Charles
ißerryv close friends of the de
ceased. Bernstein Funeral home is
in charge of arrangements. Pall
‘bearers will meet Tuesday at the
Central of Georgia depot at 12:35
o'clock when the body will arrive.
Mr. Hoover lived in Athens un
til eight years ago when his par
ents moved to Florida. Since mov
ing to Florida, he had visited his
aunt, Mrs. Turner several ti}ues
and du.ing these visits and renew
ed and strengthened the friend
ships he had in Athens and by his
attractive personality had enlarged
that circle of friends.
He was ga leader in his school
work and activities in Jacksonville,
being a member and president of
the senior class of the Jackson
ville High school, president of his
school fraternity and a member of
the football team.
. The many friends in Athens of
Mr. Hoover's parents who are
well known and popular here, will
deeply sympathize with them ip
the loss of their beloved son. In
his own circle of friends, his death
will leave a keenly felt void by
those who knew and admired him.
Last Preparations Made
For Roosevelt Birthday
Ball Tomorrow Evening
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President, Roosevelt
Wereckage of ltalian Mail
Plane Found on Braziliar
Coast Monday. :
FORTALEZA, Brazil — (AP) —
[taly’s premier trans-Atlantic air
mail plane crashed on the beach 12‘
miles south of here Monday and
was found by a Pnn-/\nwri«-:m‘
airways mail-and-passenger plane |
whose pilot said he believed three
of the four Italian fliers escaped
death.
The wreckage of the tri-motored
Italian airplane was. sighted at
about 7a. m. by Beart Saurs,
pilot of the American Airliner.
He was unable to land the air
liner, -filled with passengers and
mail bound for the United Sjates,
but circled low ahove the spot of
the disaster. g
He reported by radic that he
gaw three men standing beside the
smashed trans-Atlantic ship. His
message indicated there had been
no - fire, '
Quickly he wrote a note:
“Help coming.” e
He tied it to a weight and drop
ped it beside the beached men.
They waved back. !
Burnett Boyd, manager of the
local Pan-American airways port,
immediately ovganized rescue par
ties to start to the scene by motor
launch and overland by foot.
The Italian plane was attempt
ing to = carry the air mail from
Rome to Buenos Aires in three
days in an ambitious test run. The
airmen had crossed the Atlantic
from Dakar, French West Africa,
only to lose their position and
wander aimlessly along the coast
in the darkness seeking a landing
place.
The plane, which left Rome early
Saturday, had been due in Buenos
Aires Monday. It left Dakar early
Sunday, and reached the Brazilian
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LOCAL WEATHER-
Fair and colder tonight, cold
wave on the coast and in ex
treme south portion with low
est temperature 16 to 20 de
grees in south portion tonight;
Tuesday fair, slowly rising
temperature in west portion.
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RAINFALL .
Inches last 24 hours ...... .00
Total since January 1 .... 2.73
Deficiency since January 1. 1.96¢
Average January rainfall . 483
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday
Two Photographs of the
President Received By
Dance Chairman.
NATION CELEBRATES
Athens Exbected to Aid
Fund for Warm Springs
Foundation.
Two photographs of President
Roosevelt, autographed by him,
have been received from Wash
ington by Cuyler Trussell, city
wide chairman of the Birthday
Ball to be neld here Tuesday night
in Woodruff hall at 9 o'clock.
These photographs were to be
framed and displayed in a promi
nent place in the city sometime
today, so that everyone might see
them. A drawing will be held at
the ball and the winners will re
ceive the pictures. All proceeds of
the celebration will be sent the
Warm Springs Foundation.
With the ball tomorrow night,
citizens from every walk of life
are anxiously coming forward and
declaring their intention of aiding
in the worthy work, represented
by the affair. The names of all
those buying tickets will be sent
to the President, and inscribed in
the boko at Warm Springs which
contains names of those contrib
uting to the Foundation. *
Over 5,000 balls are being given
throughout the country Tuesday
night with a double purpose—that
of | celebrating the President’s
‘birthday and contributing to the
aid of those unfortunates who are
afflicted, as he once was afflicted,
with infantile paralysis. The
money received from all these af
fairs ‘will be sent to Warm Springs
and used to care for patients who
are unable to pay for their treat
‘ment or who can afford to pay
for only part of it.
It is hoped that enough will be
secured through the Birthday
Balls to set up a real charity
ward at Warm Springs, where
anyone suffering from the dread
disease may go for help regardo}
less of their financial condition.
If this is done, not only will
Warm Springs be the mecca fori
thousands of people—but it will
begin tovrival the famous spas of
Europe, authorities say. |
“It is up to Athens,” said Mrs.
S. V. Sanford, co-chairman of the
women's committee with Mrs. T.
H. McHatton and '‘Mrs. W. F.
Bradshaw, “to see that our quota
is filled. In other parts of the
country cities are giving these |
balls and sending all the proceeds‘
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Twe Are Held in
Slaying Aged Man
In Madison County
DANIELSVILLE, Ga. — Howard
Armour, 50 year old white man,
and Lloyd Dean, 21, white, were in
Madison county jail here today
pending investigation by a coro
ner’'s jury into the fatal shooting
Sunday night about nine o'clock of
J. R. (Bert) Nash, a 60 ~ year
old boarder in the Armour home
Armour and Dean have made
no statements conecerning the
death of Nash and, according to
reports, there were no witnesses.
Nash was shot once with a shot
gun, the charge killing him in
stantly,
The shooting took place in the
Armour home about seven milpgs
north of this city where both Dean
and Nash were staying. An in-
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Woman Physician Ordered to Trial For
Alleged Murder With Poisoned Highball
GREENWOOD, Miss. —(#)—The
bizarre case of Dr. Sarah Ruth
Dean, 33-year-old child specialist,
who the state says killed Dr. John
Preston Kennedy by giving him a
poison whisky highball, was order
ed put to trial here Monday.
A bhattle every ‘step of the way
in eircuit court before Judge S.
F. Davis was indicated in pre
trial statements of opposing coun
sel.
District Attorney Arthur Jordan
announced the state will demand a
verdict of guilty and Defense At
torney A. F. Gardner said the
“state will have to prove it.”
Dr. Dean, slender and olive
complexioned, has been at liberty
under bond since before her in
dictment on ‘the murder charge.
She was ready for trial, but she
has remained in seclusion attended
by a trained nurse. “She has been
laboring under a terrible strain”
said Gardner. .
Speculation over the evidence to
HOoME|
TEMPERRTURE HERE
EACHES NEW LW
OPS 47 DERDEE
Joint Dangers of Cold and
Fire Take Heavy Prop
erty Toll.
' The temperature in Athens .
" dropped forty - seven degrees
. Sunday night reaching a ‘new
low mark for this winter, The
sudden change from the balmy
. weather of the past week found
' Athenians unprepaved for tho}
| bitter cold which was accom
| panied by high winds.
i E. 8. Sell, United States
| - weather bureau official here
. reported the lowest tempera
. ture between the hours of
} eight o’clock Sunday morning
and the same hour Monday
morning wasg 23 - degrees, a
tumble of 47 degrees from the
high mark Sunday of 70 de
. grees. ;
Little damage was reported
‘ in Athens from the intense
cold and gales which swept
| many parts of the nation. The
| lowest temperature = recorded
| previously this wintéer was 26
degrees on December 17, »
l By The Asociated Press
| Unexpected and unheralded
| winter came back to the South
Monday on the wings of frigid
blastg which had their origin in fur
away Alaska and Northwestemn
Canada.,
The tumble of the mercury was
‘as much “as 53 degrees in some
| Southern areas following a Sun
day of spring-like weather and
temperature -up in the 60's and
70's.
Icy gales struck suddenly in
many other parts of the naton also
Monday in widely seperated places,
‘the cotd wins fanned numerous
fires and three persons- were
burned to death. Many were ‘in-
Jured. Damage estimates ranto
seven Igures, The extreme cold,
felt throughout, the North, hamp
ered fire-fighters. :
At Troy, N. Y,, the club house of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
burned down, killing twqo sleeping
men, sériously burning a third,
%‘hree—year-om Mary Logoviana
lost her life when flames consumed
the cottaga of her parentg at Ham
monten,, N: .J.,, her mother was
burned as she vescued two other
children,
Row after row of frame struc
tures fed gale-fanned flames along
the waterfront at Canarsie, on
Jamaica Bay, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
seven firemen wery injured. A sec
tion stretching for half mile was
destroyed. The bitter cold wind
whipped icy spray from the water
of the hoses back into the faces of
the fire fighters. > ]
At Anderson, Ind, fire that
started in a six-story bank build
ing spread over a half block of
the downtown district and' raged
for six hourg before firemen could
bring it under control. The tele~
phone office was destroyed and
the city ‘was without communica
tion, Several firemen and police
men were injured, ‘others suffered
exposure,
The four-story mill at Fall Riv
er, Mass.,, unoccupied but formerly
a cotton textile factory, blazed
rapidly in the face of the wind and
help had Ito be summoned from
neighboring towns to prevent
spread of the flames to nearby
properties.
Wrightsville beach. a summer-
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be offered in the strange case has
set the citizenry of this fashion
able delta city on its toes. =
Especially has this been' pro
nounced since Attorney Gardner
hinted of a romance in his public
statements.
“Ruth loved Preston, not wisely,
but too well,” Gardner said.
At the time of Dr. Kennedy's
death he was reported to bhe plan
ning to “2-wed his former wife—
they were divorced—who is here
for the trial.
The former wife, Mrs., Bessie
Barry Kennedy, made a hurried air
trip from Panama to Jacksoß,
Miss., at the time of the illness of
Dr. Kennedy, but arrived several
hours after he died. S e 4
The prosecuting attorney said
that it had not been decided whe
ther she would be summoned as a
witness. Y S
The state charges that poison
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