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BAG IS TORN LOOSE
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After Fatal Smashup
Late Tuesday
By STANLEY P. RICHARDSON
Associated Press Foreign Staff
MOSCOW—(P)— All three mem
ere of the crew of the Soviet
tratosphere halloon “Osoaviakhim”
vere killed between 3:30 p. m. and
00 p. m. Tuesday, several hun
red kilometers southwest of Mos
ow, near the village of Potiskyo-
The disaster was annouhced of
iallv. Wednesday by the Soviet
ivil aviation authorities after 24
wours of unconfirmed reports and
imors while a search went on for
} fliers who yesterday reported
hev had reached an altitude of
The official announcement said
he crew was killed while attempt
ng to land the great balloon.
The bhalloon bag broke away
m the gondola as it hig the
round in a hard Jlanding. The
ce of the concussion killed the
ee occupants eof the gondola
ind destroyved all the seientific in
truments abhoard.
Following the crash the bag tore
oose from the gondola and disap
eared into the-clouds.
Nothing had been heard from:
he balloon since Tuesday night
vhen it sent a wirelegs message
that it was trying to. find a land
ing field in a heavy fog, near Col
umna, about 75 miles froem here.
Airplanes, sent to direct the bal
loonists to safety were unablé to
find the great bag and its cargo of
men who ascended yesterday to a
height they reported as being
hicher than any before reached by
\ search of the Columna region
proved fruitless.
After reaching an altitude which
they reported as 67,685 feet, the
balloon crew radioed Tuesday night
t uld not determine their po-
Commandeyr Prokofieff, who took
in army balloon up 62,304 feet last
September had expressed belief
there was np cause for alarm. The
tft might have landed, he said
t me remote point,
The crew comprised Pavil Fedo
einko Andrey Vasenko and Ily2
Former Member of Legis
lature Wounded in Flo
rida; Store Owner Held
MADISON, Fla. —<(#)— Deputy
Sheriff H. C. Arndt, of Jefferson
ounty (Monticello) was killed and
Sheriff Lamar Sledge of that
unty was wounded Wednesday
" a shooting at a highway lunch
Yland near here,
Madison county officers arrested
Frnest Handley, operator of the
unch stand, and placed him }n jail
Sheriff G. L. Morrow of Madi
on county said Handley admitted
“hooting the two = officers, but
med he fired in self defense.
Pistols whiech the officers carried
not discharged, -
Handley, Morrow said, told him
Arndt wag creating a disturbance
‘U the lunch stand Tuesday night
‘nd that he went to Monticello
nd brought- Sheriff Sledge to the
blace t, take Arndt away.
Later, Handlpy' said, Arndt
“Tuck 4 girl employe at the lunch
stand Handley said Arndt ther
""ned on him and . threatened to
Sl him. 1t was then, he said, thd
“ fired twice at Arndt. The bul
‘l" struck the officer in the heart
‘ing him instantly,
Handley said Sheriff Sledge ther.
ned toward him with the state-
Nt "Well, you've killed Arndt
"1 now I'm going to kill you.”
tandley said he then shot the
“riff. Bullets strueck Sledge in
t jaw and the neck. He was
“Ken to the Thomasville hospital.
% condition was moy considered
Sheriff Morrow said 8 heriff
~“dze told him that “Handley shot
i ' cold blood: he didn’t have
" eXxeuse for it.” ;
"IVE shots were fired from
e s
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GREENWOOD, Miss, —(®)— At
torneys were hopeful today of
completing the jury: panel so that
taking, of evidence might begin on
the question of whether Dr. Sarah
Ruth Dean, left above, comely
woman physician, was glilty or
not guilty of the charge of mur
dering Dr. John Preston Kennedy,
upper right her former clinical as
sociate, by giving him a poisoned
Indiana Bad Man, Apparently
Resigned To His Fate, Talks
Swashbuckling John Dil
linger, Put Behind Steel
Bars, Loses Fierceness
CROWN POINT, Ind. —(AF)—
John Dillinger, the swashbuckling
Indiana bad man, tamed by Arizona
peace officers, was behind steel
bars in the county jail here today,
apparently resigned to his fate—a
fate which the state hopes will be
his execution for 'kKilling a police
man.
Apparently “deserted b his pals
who are reputed to have taken an
oath .to “kill coppers,” the desper
ado was brought back to Indiana
b} airplane and automobile Tues
day night and placed in a solitary
cell. :
At the jail, of which Mrs. Lil
lian Holley, the sheriff, is in charge
extra precautions were taken in
view of reports that Dillinger’s
gangster friends might try to free
him-. Deputies even stationed
themselvse atop the jail. Sheriff
Holley expressed confidence Dil
linger could be held safely.
In his cell, while the state made
preliminary plans to try him for
the slaying of Policeman Patrick
O'Malley during a recent $20,000
bank robbery at East Chicago, Ind.,
the gang leader began to talk, con
fessing, Prosecutor Robert C. KEs
till said, to robberies totaling over
$250,000. He -denied, however, he
had slain Policeman O'Malley.
“Dillinger,” said the prosecutor,
“is convinced he’s going to burn so
he's talking. He admitted bank
robberies at Racine, Wis., St.
Mary’'s, Ohio, and Greencastle,
Ind., and said that it was his boy¥
who liberated him from the Lima,
Ohio, jail.”
It was during the Lima jail de
livery that Sheriff Jess Sarber wa:i
shot to death.
All fight out of ,him, Dillinger
talked 'agreeably with newspaper
men and told them heghad learned
in St. Louis before &:e went to
Arizona, that John Hamitlon, one
of his henchmen, had been. slain
but the authorities discounted the
POry.: o
Hamilton is wanted in Chicage
for slaying a policeman, and offi
cials said Dillinger was attempting
to “eover up” for his pal..
whisky highball. : :
Directing the prosecution is Ar
thur Jordon, district ‘attorney (left
below, and presiding over the
trial is Judge S. F. Dayis, (right
below.)
Dr. Deen, smartly gowned and
slightly aloof, continued t, main
tain Wednesday the calm. she has
exhibited since the trial started
Monday. #
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| Department Store Sales
Jump 60.3% in Decem
ber Over November i
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i ATLANTA,—{/™)__. ‘The story of
a bustling increade in business in
lthp South last month in which re
!mu sales of the sixth federal re
isn‘w district reached their highest
ll(-wl in two years is told in the
December report of the fedral re-!
!s«‘rv(\ bank of Atlanta.
{ Department store sales in the
gdi.\‘trivt jumped 60.3 per cent over
}l\'ovombcr and were larger than |
lan_x,- other month since December
‘two years ago, A 21 per cent in
lcrcusc over department store sa,les]
'in Dcember 1932 was noted.
{ The business of the South also
}advanced along another front, with
| gains being reported last month‘
iover November in building permital
.in 20 cities. 1
Bank debits in the district in-|
creased 15.7 per cent from No
vember to December and were 131
| per cent greater than in Docemberf
a year earlier, 1
However, there was a. recession
in wholesale trade last month, and
operations of cotion millg in tha
' district were less in Decmnbm‘i
lthan in November.
i Building and construction con»!
| tracts awarded in the district de
creased from the unusually large|
total for November but were very
much larger than ‘in December
il93'.‘.
{ The report showed that in the
!ssix stateg wholly or partly in the’
| district principal crops producf'di
lin 1933 were valued at $558,494,008
| gain of 48.7 per cent over the val- ‘
{ue of 1932 crops. |
i The collection ratio for Decem- |
iber was the highest since April
|m3l. |
i Building permits issued in twen-‘
|ty cities were more than double
'thosv for November but were 24.4%
{per cent less than the total for
| December, 1932. Birmingham re-
Ipol'te{l an increase in value of 402.3!
lper cent. Atlanta permits de
ereased in value 48.1 per cent,
Athens, Ga., Wednesday, January 31, 1934
PROJECT ON EROION
MAY BE LOGATED IN
VIGINITY OF ATHENS
Land Studied Northeast
Of Here, Bounded by
Commerce Road ;
AWARD SAID LIKELY
Program Offered by Welt
ner Has Backing of
~ State Agencies
It is probable that an erosion
control prolect for the state of
Georgia will be announced within
the next week or two, with the
possibility of it being located in
the vicinity of Athens, ‘it was
learned here Wednesday morning.
Glenn L, Fuller, erosin expert with
soil’ erosion contrael service of the
United States department of in
terior, is now in Georgla inspecting
proposed areas and has already
commented favorably on a site
northeast of Atkens. f
Mr. Fuller has said that it is
probable that the state will be
awarded at least one of two pro
jects applied for through Chancel
lor Phillip Weltner and the board
of Regents of thg University: Sy
stem of Georgia. One of the pro
posed areas lies to the northeast
of Athens and The Banner-Herald
has been 'assumd that it is possible
that this section will benefit by
the awarding of the work. =
The land under. consideration. in
this section embraces roughly, that
land bounded by the Athens-Cem
merce highway, extending from
Commerce to Lilburn school, Hicks
community Wesley chapel, Poca
taligo Friendship church, Daniels_
ville, Meadows church and two the
south fork of Broad river along
the Seaboard ‘Airline railway to
Hull, and to the county line be
tween Clarke and Madison coun
tieg to United States highway 29,
and along the road into Athens.
This areas has not ben accept
ed for the project in Georgia, When
Mr. Fuller inspected it several days
ago, however, with Professors W.
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Church Representatives
Of Four Counties Meet
At First Methodist
Jamaclo Young People's Union
will hold its monthly meeting
Thursday night at the First Meth
odist church. The meeting, which
will begin at 7:30 o’clock, will be
the last bhefore the Christian Cul
ture Institute, to be held at the
same church February 716-18.
Jamacle Union is composed of
organizations from Methodist
churches in Jackson, Madison,
Clarke and Oconee counties and it
is expected that several hundred
representatives from churches in
these counties will atetnd the
meeting Thursday night.
The program for the meeting
will be divided between the young
people of Princeton church and
those of Young& Harris Memorial
c¢hurch. The Princeton group will
discuss the Bible while the Young
Harris group will discuss prayer,
(Continued on Page Three)
Birthday Mail at White House Tuesday
Breaks Record Even of Last Christmas
WASHINGTON—(#)—Across the
greatest pile of greetings = ever
known to modern times — from
crowned h e ads and humble—
Franklin D. Roosevelt Wednesday
looked back on what he adjudged
the ultimate of happy birthdays.
For him there was mixed in both
the memories of what proved a
rollicking - private party with his
“Buddies of 1920” but greater still
in his own words, the pleasure of
a “tribute through me to the
stricken ones of our great national
family.”
The great central hall on the
second floor of the White House
was the scene last night of the
president’s gathering with those
who have met with him wyearly
since his unsuccessful drive for
the vice présidency a decadle and
a half ago.
There were staged “stunts” for
the small group that took part.
Mrs. Roosevelt and several women
of the White House staff looked in
for a while, but later it became a
Gay Throng Of Over 700
- Honor President Here,
- Raise SI,OOO For Fund
Birthday Ball Makes His
tory for Athens and
* Other Cities in U.S.
ROOSEVELT SPEAKS
Tells Celebrants That "It
~ls Happiest Birthday
S OF Ny CiTRT AV
© By JOHN F. GALLAWAY
Woodruff Hall, scene of Univers
sity and civic athletic, social an{d
even religious gatherings for a de
cade, last night housed the big
‘gest birthday party Athens haj
éver known-—the biggest, in all
probability, that Athens ever will
know.
" They came from Boulevard
heights to University heights, from
Oglethorpe avenue to Oconee street
and when the double doors swung
shut behind the last guest the
Hage building held over 700 per
‘sons. It was a gay and joyful
party, whose merrymaking accent
ed the solemn quiet that prevailed
for ten minutes from 11:20 to 11:30
while the president of the United
States expressed his thanks to the
people of the United States for the
token of esteem they granted him
and the spirit of cooperation they
manifested in rallying to the cause
of the Warm Springs foundation.
" When the last worn ‘hickel and
the last -crisp check was counted
the committee in charge had prac
tically SI,OOO tp g to the founda
tion 'for its fight agairst infantile
paralysis. Added to this figure was
SSO received ' from Mrs. W. F.
Bradshaw whose offer for the huge
birthday ' cake donated by Benson
bakery and Arnold and Abney cli
maxed ten minutes of spirited bid
ding with Dr. 8. V. Sanford, pres
ident of the University of Georgia,
acting as auctioneer. The total
figure :was swelled even more
through the sale of tickets for two
autographed pictures of President
Roosevelt. One of the photographs
was pregented to Howell Erwin
sr., and the other to M. N. Tut
wiler.
The festlvities began last night
with a concert by the University
band under the direction of R. T.
Dottery. At nine thirty the Geor
gia Bulldog orchestr#: began the
first dance number of the evening
and for the mext hour and fifty
minutes the affair was ‘simply a
dance, but a dance marked by a
spirit of galety that has not been
seen even at college functions for
the past three years. Age limits
were dissolved and the dignified
waltz of three decades ago ming
led with the broken rhythms of
the post-wyar era and the gliding
slow fox-trot of 1933.
The hall itself was decorated
with the flags of the nation, and
covering a large portion of the
west end of the building was the
huge World war service flag of
the state university, with its thou
sand blue stars and sprinkled over
with its hundred golaen stars. In
the tiers of seats around the four
sides of the buildings were approx
imately one hundred couples whe
came not to dance but to share ir
the festivities simply by looking
on. For them it was not a time
for dancing but a time to do
honor to a man and a cause.
The hall was decorated under
theé direction of Professor Hubert
B. Owens, head of the landscape
department of the University and
he was assisted by Lawrence
Rambo, Dave Reed, Leon South
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| “stag” party. ‘
I There are traditional address of
“Mr. President” was more ofter
lforgotten than not, and titles be
came “Frank,” “Louie” “Mac” and
|“Steve.“ The latter three are Mr
;Roosevelt‘s secretaries.
‘ It was from this private party
|that the president excused himseli
| to address to the nation his thanks
{ for mdte than 250,000 messages of
| “Happy Birthday” and for the na
| tional campaign to aid stricken
| children that he saw blossoming
| from the 6,000 birthday balls held
{ throughout the country.
The White House Tuesday hume.
med with more activity than many
observers could recall since the
| first days of Mr. Roosevelt's tak
.ing office. ,
I In loaded mail trucks, by hik.
ers, . marathon runners, and fromw
visiting delegations the messages
of greeting arrived. In the pile of
presents were dozens of birthday
(Continued on Page Three)
CUMMINGS PLEDGES
WAR ON KIDNAPERS
IF GIVEN SUPPORT
WASHINGTON —(#)— Congress
Wednesday recelved from Attorney
(@eneral Cummings a pledge te
continue to make life as miserabie
as possible for the kidnaper and
the racketeer — if the people are
willing to proVide the money.
He reported to the house ap
propriations committee an “inten
sive” campaign agalnst “snatchers”
and other criminals and added
that it is meeting with "highly
satisfactory results.” He spoke of
a need for overcoming a “twilight
zone" between federal and state
anticrime authority.
J. Edgar Hoever, chief of the
justice department’'s bureau of in.
vestigation, in testimony delivered
prior to the Bremer case in Min
nesota reported that since passage
of the federal anti-kidnaping act:
“We have had 15 kidnaping
cases. Every one of them has been
solved.”
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INTERRAGIAL GROUP
Supports Erskine Cald-}
well Claims; Say Ne
groes in State of Fear
ATLANTA,—(#)— Btating thal]
Negroes at Bartow, Ga., are "livlnsl
in a state of fear,” the interacial
commission has added itg voice to
a demand for an investigation of
charges by the author, Erskine
Caldwell that Negroes have beer |
killed by white men in Bartow, i
“The sheriff of Jefferson Coun- |
ty is wholly right in demanding anl
immediate investigation of receni |
killings and beatingg of I\'egroeel
in and around Bartow”, the (‘om-|
mision said in a statement. {
Solicitor General Marvin Gross
has, said he would call Caldwell be
fore the regular term of the grand
jury in May to,tell what he knows
about the cases, put a demand has
been made for a special session of
the grand jury.
Superior Court Judge R. N
Hardeman said Tuesday at Louis
ville, Ga,, Jefferson county seat
that he would follow recommen
dations made by the solicitor gen
era]l who has not anonunced his de
cision regarding the special ses
sion of the grand jury.
The interracial commission is
composed of leading white and
Negro citizens of the South.
The statement said ‘“The roll of
recent Negro victims is as follows:
Will Walker, killed by the town
marshall, of Bartow on the night
of November 19th, Belvin Wil
liams, severely beaten by a group
of white men on the same evening:
Ernest Bell, killed and thrown in
t- a well on the night »f Decembar
31st; Sam Outler, severely beaten
on the same night. and an uniden
tified Negro, found on the roadside
ten days later. Further back, in
September 1932, there were two
floggings of Negmes, in cne of
which a girl aceused of stealing
clothes, was the vietim.
“The trouble in November grew
out of a drinking party involving
Willaims, Walker and a number of
drunken white men. X X x
1 The killing and flogging on the
i night of December 31st also grew
'out of a drinking party invelving
'two Negroes and two white boys,
going together ir the Negroes car
in search of bootleg whisky. x x x
“Since these tragedies so far
have gone unchallenged by the
ecourts and the white citizenship
the Negroes of the community are
living in a state of fear . . ~ "
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f‘Georgla Cotton Ginnings
Less in Only 11 Counties
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. WASHINGTON — (AP) — Only
eleven counties in Georgia ginned
Jess cotton in 1933 than in 1932, it
’was shown today in a preliminary
report by the census bureau prior
!tn January 16. .
. Total ginnings for the state in
1933 were 1,090,520 running bales
excluding linters compared with
852.779 running baleg in 1932
Ginnings for Clarke county were
4,732 in 1933 and 8,937 in 1932. “
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WASHINGTON—(#)— Secretary
Wallace above has extended the
cloging date for the sign-up cam
paign for 1934-35 cotton produc
tion control contracts to February
15.
The secretary said the action in
postponing the closing date from
January 31 was due to “unavoid
able delays in sending necessary
supplies to fleld workers and in
the work of county organizations
in pooling cottun options and car
rying on other sign-up activities.
HOOSEVELT SLAGHES
DOLLAR VALUE TODAY
Capitol Hill, Busy.on Oth
"er Matters, Expect Noth
ing Out of Ordinary
| WASHINGTON,—(#)— Armed
at last with the power he sought,
President Roosevelt left congresg
Wednesday to the simmering ap
propriations and St. Lawrence
treaty dispute while he set about
to devalue the dollar formally.
His monetary Jieutenants were
beckoned in to a conference con
gidered important enough to defer
the usual Wedyesday morning
meeting with the press until late
afternoon, .
Capitol Hill anticipated nothing
out of the ordinary, a dollar of at
least 40 percent less than the pre-
(Contlnued on Page Six)
ROUTE 15 GROUP
Representatives From 15
Counties GCather Here
Tomorrow at 2 O'clock
The recently organized '@ State
Route 15 paving assoeciation, which
'wafi formed here last week, will
hold its second weeting Thursday
!ufiornoun at 2 o'clock in the
Clarke county court house.
More than 100 residents from the
fifteen counties through which the
highway passes are expccted to
|be present at the meeting tomor
| row, according to Tate Wright,
¢clerk of the Clarke county com-
Imisioners. who is secrétary and
treasurer of the new association.
} The purpose of the organization
is to seek improvement and ulti
‘mate paving of state route 15,
which starts at the North Carolina
line, above Dillard, and rung south
through the state till it joins Fed
eral route no 1, six miles above
Alma., The road is one of the
state’s main arteries, passing
through Cornelia, Commerce, Ath
ens, Greensborg, Sandersville,
Publin, Glenwood, and Hazlehurst,
During the past week the (-ivi(j
leaders in each of the (fifteen
counties have been busy umusinfl;
interest in the project and com
piling information to be used ini
arguments to be presented statc]
and federal road authorities in ef
forts to gain some favorable ac-'
tion. |
J. H. Griffeth chairman of the
Clarke county commisioners and
president of the Georgia associa
tion of Countv Comissioners, was
named chairman of the associa.-
tion at the iast meeting, The com
mittee representing Clarke coun
ty includes: Joel A, Wier, Luther
Nelson, M, J. Abney. H. 'W. Nich+
olson, Dr. 8. V. Sanford, and C
M. Strahan. %
PREPAREDNESS C R Y
BINGS N GONGRESS
ON NAWY MEASURES
Horde of 5000 Planes
Would Be Ordered
Under Program :
JAPAN STARTS RACE
Minister of Navy Warns
Toyko Statesmen of
Possible Rupture
WASHINGTON— (AP) — A
horde of more thna 5,000 army and
navy fighting planes would be or
dered for the two services under
plans afoot on Capitol Hill Wed
nesday as a preparedness cry
rang in Congress.
Efforts’ aimed at expanding
America's righting forces were
seen on both the house and senate
sides. *
Chairman Trammell of the sen
ate naval committee said ha
would submit a favorable report
on a Navy bill similar to the Vine
son big navy measure . passed
Tuesday by the house.
The bill, virtually assured of
senate approval, wouid give the
navy 102 new warships and around
1,180 new airplanes by 1939.
Chairman McSwain of the house
military committee said he would
introduce in the next day or so a
bill to give the army air corps a
five year expansion program, in
creas'ng its planes up to 3,000,
Senator Robinson of Arkansas,
‘the, Demoeratic leader, - indicated
‘senate debate on the Trammells
Vinson bill would begin Thursday.
Considerable senate debate ap
peared probable before a final
ballot, however, as big-navy oppo
nents, prepared to make a fight.
Comparatively unnoticed as thy
Vinson bill swept through the
house was an amendment backed
by = “take the profit out war"
group
Proposed by Representative
Tobey (R.-Nh.) it would limit tg
ten per cent the net profit of
contractors assigned the building
of naval vessels or airplanes.
The house without even a record
vote approved a full treaty navy
of 240 ships by 1939, augmented by
the greatest air force in the histo
ry of the service. Naval officials
estimated the cost at $750,000,000.
Officials. indicated privately that
the increased effectiveness of the
ships would make the projected
fleet superior to the 1919 mnavy,
which 559 vessels were listed as
“fit for service.” %
e Ay e R
The army air corps expension
bill to be introduced by Chairman
MecSwain would increase its offi
cer persqnnel from 1,250 to 2,450
and its enlisted roster by about
4,500. The number of army planes
would be nearly doubled.
By GLENN BABB :
(Associated Press Foreign Staff)
TOKYO —(AP) — The minister
of the\navy told the house repre-*
sentatives Wednesday that new
auxiliary vessels of the Japaneses
navy would outrank those of the
United States at the end of 1936
and a member of the house of
peers declared that if navy men
had their wya relations between
the two nations would be ruptur
ed.
Admiral Mineo Osumi, the head
of the navy ministry, offered sta
tistics t oshow how the twe navies
would compare Bwhen the present
naval treaty expires. ;
The suggestion of the possibility
of a rupture was made by Kznki
chi Yoshizawa, former foreign
minister, during question ‘time in
the house of Peers.
He told his audience that if the
Japanese and American. navies
were to dictate the programs
with which their respective gov
ernments enter the naval confer
ence scheduled for 1935, “ a rupt
ure would be inevitable leading, if
the pessimists view is accepted,
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