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Newspaper Page TextCOTTON MARKET - |DOUNG Lt i 12 1-4¢ lOOIOUS CLOSE -« = 12 3-8¢ L ———————————— 'Ol- 102. No. 34. ireﬂßa_gg__l_'_l_(_)_r_r}gHw Aged Women, Burning 10 To Death torms Menace Mail Flying and Shipping wt In Cotton Surplus To Nine Million Bales Forecast LG INFIRNARY 1L 1 WIDNS ves and Daughters ‘of! Veterans of '6o’s Die In Pennsylvania FIVE OTHERS SAVED Jb-Zero Weather Halts Ffforts of Firemen to Rescue Occupants BROOKVILLE, Pa. -—(AP)—Ten omen, widows and daughters ot il War vetérans, Were burned | “!‘"m;: in a fire that destroyedl . intirmary of the Pennsylvania Home early Tuesday. There were 15 women 4n the one orv frame building, one .of & ', un at the institution, when the . started and five of ‘them oo rescued as firemen battled e flames in bitter 18-below-zero Nine of the bodieg of the t(‘nl ictims had been recovered from! )¢ rning embers M Mary B. Hutchinson, super htengent of the home, and fire en said they were unable to de rmine the cause of the blaze als hough they asserted they thought b bezan somewhere near the cen pr of the building. The home is operated by the Vomen's Relief Corps, of I'(_\xm bvlvania, a charitable organizas Phe far-below-zero temperature 1 ze fire hose, nozzles and fll‘ei Igs and greatly hampered the; vork of the firefighters. ost of the patients were' in irmm wvomen who apparently were essly trapped as the flames | forth \ stromg wind whipped up* the f nd attendants worked hero -1 to rescue the helpless wo-l They carried out five, bundling Loer blankets and overcoais to protect them from the freezing But a wall of flame, growing ever hotter, blocked efforts to get at L emaming ten. Ti ‘tims, ranging in age irom 64 to 94, all were widows, Ignte or cousins of Civil War velerans, had no opportunity. to flee from their -hospital beds as ¢ fire started about the 'middle of llding and swept through ibl ¢ bodies, some burned almost‘ vond - recognition, were found flddied in the ruins ' ‘he ten women who werg burn- | . Setley, 75, widow of P Y¢ n, Tionesta, Pa. IS Jenny Sowers, 94, widow, “ynoldsville, Pa, f Miss 1 ida Crampton, 65, daugh -88 Martha Moore, 74, daugh baxter, Pa a Mary Perry, 76, daughter, VPa : M larvin, 81, sister, Ve : “lizabeth Loveland, - 76, Voscow, Pa, - -Oristie Bobst, 64, daugh o orence Roberts, 86, cous- Hlaly. Gannon, 80, widow, fa, ‘ McGrady, Reynolds irned about the head, o “Hnued on Page Five) Georgia Refuses to Givm ged With Abducting His Own Child, Now Dead e e ATLANTA, Ga.—(fP)-—~Requisi -500 for the return tg Connecticut % Raymong Wrinn on a charge of Slicting his smap daughter, who Qed in hig arms in a hospital ?';f‘.-‘. Was denjed Tuesday by Tom e executive secretary to ¥ernor Bugene Talmadge. wder g foyy days ago held that x)}l » Should not pe extradited, Core. 4 the mattep open for dens. CHICUt officials to present a o ¢ the defendaut's Shaten: fore, 2t his formes it S 'kr Made an effops to see the 1;:? hearing Tuesday morning £ St of Connecticut wasg not o ¥ented ang Wrinn returned - "™ position jn gn office of an ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Athenians Invited To Attend Meetings Of Press Institute Convening Here Wednesday sLASH OF COTTON SURPLUS FORECAST ' Administrator Says Re | sults in South Have Jus " tified Control Program WASHlNGTON.—{(£)—Reduction of the cotton surplus to eight or nine million bales under the agri culture adjustment act in 1934, is forecast by Chester C. Davis, ad ministrator. Testifying before a house appro priations sub-committee on the agriculture department supply bill, Davis said the acreage reduction program in 1933 cut production by 4,000,000 bales. Individual checks, he said, were mailed to 1,042,000 farmers for plowing up their cot ton, adding: : “I think the results in the South have justified the cotton pro gram.” Davis estimated that 90 percent of the acreage was gﬂected by the reduction campaign. ’ Up until December 31, he con tinued, about $80,000,000 had been collected from the cotton process ing tax while more than $160,000,- 000 was pald- out. “Phere is every reason to be lieve,” he said, “that the proceeds from the processing tax. will pay all of the cotton program expense; with the exception of the pay ments ih conection with the cot ton-option pool, which are to be met out of a special fund known as the Bankhead act fund, which runs to a total under the Bank ‘head act, of approximately $60,- 000,000.” Davis said about 45 percent of American cotton was domestically consumed, with 55 percent being exported. He expressed the belief that despite increased growth of cotton abroad, the United States would continue to hold its foreign market. Discussing the cotton reduction program for 1934, Davis said: “The program for 1934 aims at a reduction of approximately 40 (Continueéd on Page Three) Coordinated Work In Agriculture For ~ University Sought Agricultural heads of all the units of the University system be gan a three-day session at the College of Agriculture this morn ing, to coordinate all the agricul tural activities of the system. Re search units, including the experi ment stations and research de partments of the colleges, will or ganize to develop such informa tion as can be used by people of the state, and instruction and ex tension forces will prepare them to distribute the wanted informa tion efficiently and speedily. Approximately 75 were present at the initial session today, includ ing Chancellor Philip Weltner, Paul W. Chapman, dean of the College of Agriculture; Harry L. ‘Brown, director of agricultural ex tension service; H. P. Stuckey, Georgia experiment station; S. H. Starr, Coastal Plains experiment station; and J. G. Woodruff, pres ident of Abraham Baldwin col lege. ? . assistant to the warden at the Atlanta federal penitentiary. The case was marked closed. The mother. of -the cflild, in | charges she brought at Milford, IConn.. said she had searf:hed for five years for her daughter, and ilea.rned of her whereabouts only { after her death. Wrinn said that when he and the child’'s mother were separated by a divorce decree the court or dered that the child live with the father one week and with the mother one week, alterenating in definitely. The first week, Wrinn said, the child spent with him, and at the (Continued on Page Five) Full Associated Press Service Addresses by Well-Known Newspapermen to Be Open to Public TO CONVENE 4 DAYS Arthur Brisbane to Be Washington Day Speaker All Athenians are invited to at tend the open meetings of the Georgia Press institute, opening Wednesday at the Henry W. Gra dy School of Journalism at the University of Georgia. Three of the nations outstanding Jjournal ists are to address members of the state press association meeting in Athens for four days and mem bers of the institute committee have opened to the public the meetings a¢ which Arthur Bris bane, Drew Pearson, and Marlin Pew are to speak. The civic clubs of Athens are cooperating with members of the Press association and urging all their members to hear these ad dresses. Abit Nix, president of the Chamber of Commerce, said Tues day that he was confident that the attendance this week would be the largest in the history of the edi tor's meetings at the University ' The committee .in charge oi ‘plans for the institute asked Mr. Nix to extend their invitation 10 the Chamber of Commerce and to ail civic organizations. A reception at War Memorial hall, on the University campus will open the program here Wed nesday evening with the first ses sion for visiting newspapermen being held Thursday morning in the auditorium of the Commerce- Journalism building. The address by Mr. Brisbane nationally known editorial writer, ‘will be in Woodruff hall Thursday ‘morning at ten-thirty. It will be the annual Washington Day ad }dress at the Athens colleges. Be cause of the unusual interest man lifcsted in Mr. Brisbane’s appear ance here and the large number of Athenians and out-of-town visi tors who have signified their in ‘tention of being present it was lnecessary to schedule this part of [une‘ program for the building with lthe largest seating capacity on the | campus. ) A luncheon is being given for Mr. Brisbane Thursday at the Georgian hotel, with the Atlanta Georgian-American as host. Mr. Pearson, journalist at the national capital and co-author of “Washington Merry - Go-Round,” will speak Friday morning at ten thirty at the University chapel. Saturday morning Marlin Pew, ed itor of Editor and Publisher will adrress members of the Press as sociation and Athenians at the chapel at ten-thirty. ROOSEVELT FAILS * TO BLOCK BONUS President Expresses Op position to Cash Pay ment Now ; Vote Certain . WASHINGTON.— {(# —Despite expressed opposgition by President Roosevelt to cash pavment of the bonus, the 145 signatures neces sary to get that proposition before the house of representatives were obtained Tuesday afternoon, and a vote March 12 is certain. Speaker Rainey was authorized Tuesday by the President to say }lhat the Chief Executive would not approve the cash payment of tthe bonus at this time. An hour after he had returned from a conference with the Presi dent at the White House, Speaker Rainey summoned newsmen to state: “] am authorized by the Presi dent to say this is not the time to pay the bonus and that he can not approve any legislation to that effect.” The announcement Wwas made after 131 members had signed the Lundeen petition to force a vote in the house on the cash payment of the bonus. Only 14 additional names were needed. Speaker Rainey and Represen tative Byrns of Tennessee, the Democratic leader, previously pre dicted that if the 145 names were (Continued On Page Five) Athens, Ga., Tuesday, February 20, 1934. {l, 5. SPENDING FOR FISGAL YEAR LEAFS PAST FOUR BILLION House GCets Recommen dation of 62 Million Dollars for Agriculture SOUTH BETTER OFF Cotton Belt Shown to Be .In Better Shape Than Other Sections WASHINGTON — (AP) —Fed -eral spending for the fiscal year leaped past the four billien dollar mark Tuesday to the accompani ment of a recommendation to the house that $62,225,000 be allowed the agriculture department and farm credit administration for the year beginning July 1. ‘While the senate and house again called up the naval construction and tax ' bills respectively, Presi dent Roosevelt dwelt on more im mediate questions for censideration at his afternoon session with the “emergency council” advisors. . To fulfill his estimates of Re covery program outlays for ﬂg vear that ends June 30, some §s7 000,000,000 would have to be spels between now and then. Me'anwhili the treasury statement showed a surplug of over $600,080.000 there due to the immense dollar deval uation profits. The appropriations commbttee, in recommending the agriculture supply bill that the house will send to the senate on the heels of the $258,000,000 tax bill to be passed Wednesday, authorized the post of “undersecrtary of agriculture.” Destined for it at a higher salary, is Rexford Guy Tugwell, now “as sistant secretary.” The agriculture adjustment ad ministration has used less than a tenth of the $100,000,000 it has, sc no appropriation was included for that agency, which will pay over $830,000,000 to farmers during the coming fiscal year. : The people concerned with cot ton are in better shape was illus trated by the latest spinning in dustry report. It showed that last month operation was at 98.5 per cent of capacity as against 73.5 in (Continued on Page Five) Sanford, at Capital, Hopes For Decision Soon on PWA Loan WASHINGTON —(AP) — The hope that “entamglements” in the contract of Public Works money to finance a building program for the University System of Georgia would be ‘disposed of and con struction started in 30 days was expresked here by Dr. 8. V. San ford, president of the University of Georgia. . Dr. Sanford, Dr, H. W. Cald well, dean of the law school and ‘Marion Smith, lawyer, member of the board of regents, came here Monday for conferences with pub lic works officials. They sought modification of certain provisions of the conctract drafted s+ by the PWA which they said conflicted with Georgia law. ‘ Sanford said. he would seek to have each unit of the University system assume the responsibility for the indebtedness incurred in the construction of building at that unit. The contract provides that work must begin within 30 days after it is signed. An allotment of $3,680,- 000 was approved to finance the program. Bk LOCAL WEATHER Fair tenight and Wednesday; freezing temperature to the coast tonight; slowly rising temperature Wednesday. TEMPERATURE FHGhONE ivvs i bai ieih awnstd.o Lowast i W SOV S asnseskd 0 MERN. 55 3G b Sika vBB S NOTHBL. ioi s i dans ol O RAINFAtL Incheg last 24 h0ur5....... 0.9 Total since Febfuary 1.... 2.8 Deficiency ‘since February 1 .7 Average February rainfall.. 5.1 Total since January 1..... 5.5 Deficienc® since January 1 2.8 —=ESTABLISHED 1832 . ; g | e R 5?“% pooa ex£ e R i oSR ei i ] e - Thoe g R 1 | i O B PRy o Y ’ ; ; : 63@%;@ S i ) df{ gl T : : : e oRy oAI e N GoS b e i B e % ' . 3 | ogl g s W i W e g i : ; eg@"bl oWU “g: oy g* S ’-} ; 1 R Ll e kTB vl R % ®ol k% 3 *i; G 5 i | o e S G BERTE RS ey iy : ; - W e e (R BVVE PR b 3 E.R e R Rf; ‘i e 4 . 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He's gshown below resting on a narrow ledge atop Campanile Basso, a peak in the Itarian Alps. And at the extreme right you see him on his way up an almost vertical cliff in the same mountains. 5 Brussels Becomes Mecca For Sorrowing Belgians Albert's Body Taken to Palace With Procession Of 100,000 Following By ALBERT W. WILSON (Associated Press Foreign Staff.) *BRUSSELS.—(#)—Brussels be came Tuesday a mecca for the mourning. Sorrowing subjects of Albert I, King of the Belgians, poured by the thousands into the black draped capital and to the palace where lay the body of the mon arch who fell to %is death while mountain climbing Saturday. | Royalty from other lands came, too, and knelt at the bier to which the body was borne in the fantas tic light of torches Monday night. Persons of all ages and social circumstance formed a silent, so ber line outside the palace, to be marshaled in by police for a last glimpse of one they knew as the “knightly king.” The palace will be open for the same purpose Wednesday. The body will be removed Thursday to the old cathedral of Saint Gudule for ‘the .funeral services. Burial will be in the royal crypt at Lae ken. Queen Elizabeth, broken by grief, looked for the last time upon the face of her husband and king before the body was remoyed from the royal chateau at Laeken in the gathering dust Monday. The 32-year-old Crown Prince Leopold, who will become King Leopold 111, Friday, walked behind the gun carriage which bore the body of his father along the three mile route to the palace. After the procession had left the chateau between .massed, silent thousands, automobiles carried the widowed queen and her entourage ahead to await the body at the palace. ® Before reviewing the body, the bereaved queen received personally some ‘of the visitors who came to offer condolences. Afterward, she retired to the death chamber in the chateau and knelt in prayer beside the body of the king, ‘ NO CLIMB WAS TOO STEEP OR TOO PERILOUS . FOR BELGIUM'’S SPORTSMAN-MONARCH GANG “FINGER MAN FOR TOURY SOUGHT Member of Gang Confess * es Part and Implicates Others in Kidnaping CHICAGO —(AP) — The alleg ed “finger man” in the $70,000 John Factor kidnaping was sought Monday as a result of dramatie “inside” story of the ahbduction told by a Tennessee rifleman, who lturne(l big city gangster. S Joseph Silversq, part owhner of The Dells roadhouse in Morton Grove, 111., near which Factor was snatched last July 1, was the mae hunted on as acewsations by Isaac Costner, young Tennessee gang | ster, that it was Silvers who help ed members of the Roger Touby |gag locate Factor the morning he | was kidnaped. i Prosecutors said Silvers might { be charged with being an accesso-. ry to the abduction. He is some where in Florida, police said they were informed. : | Costner, recently arrested in Baltimore with Basil Hugh Bang hart, told his story as a witgess Monday for the state at the sec ond trial of Roger Touhy, Albert Kator and Gus Shaefer, thereby violating the traditional gangland Jaw, by talking in a court of jus tice. Costner not only identified Touhy, Kator.sand Schaefe r as memmbers of {gxﬂng that kid naped Factor, but frankly confess ed that he had been with them, accepting later from Banghart the comparatively nominal sum of $2,300 as his share in the snatch. He named Charles (Ice Wagon) Connors and Andy McFadden as other members of the gang. “The Touhy's” he testified “had several places wHere they met— one in Park Ridge, one in Glen view and other places. I was in N m“ (Continued on Page Six) ~ % vlnoglm A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—sc¢ Sunday OCEAN MAIL NOW IS STORM CENTER \Many Contracts to Car riers Under Investiga " tion Said to Be Void -~ WASHINGTON.—(#)—The ‘“col lusion” storm which grounded holders of airmail contracts, whistled ominously Tuesday about the heads of ocean mail carriers. About 40 of the 45 ocean mail contracts made during the post master-generalship of Walter Brown in the Hoover cabinet are properly “void,” according to Sen ator McKellar (D.-Tenn.), because of competitive bidding was lack ing. Brown was called back Tuesday for further testimony before the senate mail investigating commit tee. The former postmaster gen eral said in a statement Monday that 20 ocean mail contracts dur ing his term were “awarded by open competitive bidding.” The Hoover administration pos tal chief described as “without justification” charges of conspiracy in letting air mail contracts. As for the ocean mail, Brown said: “All “but one of these contracts were let to the lowest responsible bidder whose proposal met the specifications.” . McKellar contended that in the {Continued On Page Three) Seventy-five Books Already Received | For Prisoners Library by Lions Club By F. M. WILLIAMS Solitaire, for long termed the “prisoners pastime” will find real competition in Clarke county Jjail if a movement sponsored by the Athens Lions club is successful. The |Lions areé attempting, with the cooperation of citizens, to es tablish a library for the county jail. — “The books collecteg will be plac ed in the hands of Sherif Walter Jackson who will be in charge of the library. A committee from the Lions club will pass on all books selected, and any colume which might he detrimental to the prisoner’s morals will be ex cluded. ' Although hooks that deal with ATLNTIC SEABOARD LASHED BY STORM; NEW YORK SUFFERS i g AT I 1 Army Flyers Find Going Difficult on First Trips With Mail BUSINESS HALTED Nation's Largest City Is Completely Tied Up By Heavy Snows (By The Associated Press) Winter tripped the northeastern Seaboard Tuesday, paralyzing Transportation and endangering shipping. The noted western riding a gale which reach a velocity of 45 miles an hour in New York city, lashed the coast as far south as Phila delphia. It was accompanied by a sharp drop in temperature. A fishing schooner, the Hoke Leslie was sending up distress signals off C'uttyhunk, Mass., coast guard station at about the time an 8. O. 8. was flashed from the Northern Sword, bound from Norfolk for Boston. The Northern Sword‘'s plea for help said she was. drifting ashore off Winthorp Head. Coastguards rushed aid in answer to both pleas. The heaviest fall of snow ac cording to first reports was in Connecticut where a 28-inch fall at New Haven turned workers back to their homes after a vain strug gle of a few blocks toward their places of business. The New York Stock exchange opening for trading was postponed ¢ until 11 a. m,, because of the heavy snow storms throughout the New York area, by The New York Curb exchange posted similar notice of an hour's delay In the opening of trading, as did the Securities section of the New York produce exchange. The, New York Cotton exchange fixed 10:45 as the opening hour. - New York was frozen in, held fast in a sheating of ice and snow that paralyzed the complicated transportation system serving some 10,000,000 persons in ' the Metropolitan area. An army of 35,000 men, equip ped with shovels dnd picks, chip~ ped and scraped to open streets. Apartment house staffs swung axes to chop away ice sealing hea vy street doors; subway travelers stood knee deep in rolling drifts of snow below street level wait ing for trains that didn't come on time; not a wheel turned for hours on the Long Island railroad; the Twentieth Century Limited was nearly two hours late. It was the worst predicament New York city has found itself in for years. And it was still snow= ing. 5 Beginning Monday night with rain that turned to snow, the storm blew throughout the night. Tuesday morning the thermometer dropped to 9 degrees, freezing solid the layers of wet slush. It was the coldest February 20 in 31 years. Long Island was virtually isolat« ed. Frozen switches and drifts completely stopped the Long Is land railroad and bus lines. Snow plows were unable to clear the highways, covered some places t 2 a depth of five feet. At Northport, every school was closed. Twenty policemen were marooned at Rosedale railroad station. ] As for the railroads -nothing moved from 7 a. m. to 9:30 a, m. (Continued on Page Three) the hair raising exploits of some “wild and woolly bandit,” detec tive stories, and other novels of this nature will not be placed in the library, the Lions and Sheriff Jackson would like books that are not too “dry” and uninteresting. Boogs such "as “David Copper field,” “Pilgrims Progress,” and others of high literary value. will be greatly appreciated. : : ‘While the movement has only been under way a short time, and Athenians have heard little about it, some seventy-five books have already been received. The Lions have set no definite number of books to be collected, but wish te (Continued on Page Six)