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Newspaper Page TextcOTTON MARKET s, MIDDLING .« -« -s hiet I 8 8-l pREViOUS CLOSE .. ... 12 3:B¢c h/c. 102. No- 49. [\'wo More Plane Crashes Run Air Mail Fatalities To 8 RA Mowes For Legal Prosecution In All Code Violations Johnson Aides Seize Op portunity to Expand. Compliance Board v ’ ONE FOUND GUILTY Federal Officials Serve Notice on Violators in South Georgia WASHINGTON . —(#)—Fhe NRA moved Friday te have the law on persons accus d of Dbreaking its bules. At the beginning of a week end lull in other NRA activities, hides of Gen. Hugh 8. Johnson seized the opportunity for a quick expansion of a central code com pliance staff This augmented personnel plans to expedite cases for prosecution. It \is in line with Johnson’'s an nouncement that President Roose velt wants a more stern enforce ment of Blue [lagle rules. The NRA faces an ~extended siege of negotiation before its goal of . slashéd working hours can be attained, Two committees .of in dustrial leaders which were pleked to help Johnson wiork out plans to put more men tp work - postponed all definite action until next week. The administrator, . almegt ex hausted from ten days and nights of nearly continuous effort, during the big code congress, planned a wreathing spell before pitehing again into the task.of convineing the eode men that theéy have "to act, and act promptly. Widely divergent courses were taken by the two assisting com: mittees The one representing consumer’s goods contained men in agreement with Johnson's pla. They went to consult with their colleagues. There went to consult with their col leagues. There was an expectation that they would propose fairly (Continued on Page Three) State Forces Called For Pat in or Patrol Duty Al ine Area abama Mine Ar BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—(#)=Three companies of Alabama National Guard were mobilized early Fri day for patrol duty in the strik® stricken areas of Walker county, where more than 4,000.c0al miners have struck demanding the “check off system.” In announcing the mobilization order, Brigadjer (ieneral John C. Persons said, “No . violence has been reported *in the areas, but mobs have heen marching around trying to intimidate those men Who want to work. The troops Were called out upon the request of the sheriff of Walker county.” The mobilization order was is- Sued after Coloner Walter M. Thompson, of the 16th Infantry, and three other officers surveyed the situation Thursday night. The officers were = sent into the instructions from Gover or B. M. Miller, after Sheriff A. . Barrentine had feported the ! Walker - county out of " € sheriff reported between 200 ME3OO miners, armed with guns a 0 - clubs, had marched on the .C”"“ Valley mines of the Deßar celeben Coal company, in an effort oSt Workers ‘there” in tie Strikke. He said the StiNke 'situas Hor 08t serious.” Uproar 0vé;'~l~)-il—li;—ger’s Escape Grows; Official Accused of Locking Up Guard p— CHICAGO.—~ (#) —The uproar over slippery = John e Valkaway reached ” ‘@ e Friday With a charge that a fin -Berprint expept locked ‘& specisl Buard in g cell a few minutes be fore th itlaw escaped from the Crown Point, Ind., jail. .\lw,u‘.'.\'z:ilr. Judge William F. Murray o Crown Point, declared, This Dillinger uags t 8 v 0 sme » lischarged the March B s saying it “could not Propery, ‘vestigate the #4 ;’nd that 4 new grand jury would Ue (4114" . _Attorney General Philip DS & 0 Tndiang said at Indianapoliy that g Brown, 84, was the sl2ld ocked in. e skl Phi. S aed map testified to ‘m‘mmt Attorne Gererat mm»‘“ that Ernegt Blunk, paint ex« e A i bim “hefore 1 ra}g% ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service Over Half Million Dollars Of Highway Money Diverted For State Common Schools Missing Stavisky Gems ~~ Are Found by Police LOS ANGELES — &) — Babe Stapp, nationally-known automo bile race driver, and Al Savage and Ted Devlin, were charged with kidnaping in complaints. issued Friday by the district attorney’s cffice. They were charged with abducting James Lee, Los Angeles Examiner reporter, and John Ben nus, photographer, d Lee and Bennus were assigned to funerrl services for Ernie Trip lett, race driver who was killed on an imperial chief track last Sun day. The Examiner said “the kidnap ers openly admitted they had seized the newsmen and declared it was a direct result of the BEx aminer’s vigorous campaign against legalized murder on the race tracks of southern California.” 4i | 1 Four Hour Effort to Ef fect Compromise Ends in Failure By CECIL B. DICKSON WASHINGTON — (#) — House Democrats rode a veterans' aid bili toward certain, veto Friday after gseutfling ‘their | leaders’ plans to save the Roosevelt eccnomy pro gram by caucus rule. A four hour effort to bind the Democratic membership to a com promise ended in failure Thursday night. A majority stocd adamant for senate amendments to the in dependent offices “supply bill that added $350,000,000 for veterans and federal employes to its total The cauctg was told in strong words that the president was cer tain to vet, the bill if the house adopted the amendments, which would wreck the $400,000.000 econ omy act passed a year ago. But the lines shattered nevertheless. Doubt was expressed Friday by Representative Byrns, the Demo eratic leader, thay the house “in its préesent mood” could agree upon veterans legislation acceptable to the president. Both Byrng and Speaker Rainey; however, said at their press con ferences that the house would nin{ pass a bill over the president’s veto. Arranging to call up the veter ans’ amendmeny Monday or Tues day. as a part of the independent offices appropriation bill, Byrns said the first motion t, be voted upon would be on acceptance ol the liberalizations voted by the senate. il Representative | Byrns at, the caucus Thursday night offered a resolution to send the $942.,000,000 appropriation bill to cpnference without instructions. This met de feat, with 130 VQ.timz for the reso lution and 78 against. A two thirds vote is required to bind the Democrats. mhis final effort came even after the ‘Byrns resolution was amended 118 to 89 to. provide a restoration of 75 per cent of the previous ben efits to Spanish-American wai and World war veteran presumptive cases, ‘Speaking with vehemence, Cthair man Buchanan (D.-Texas) of the appropriations committee, who earlier had headed a delegation to the White House to obtain Presi * (Continued On Page Two® decoyed into the cell.” . Shortly , afterward, the guard was quoted as saying, Dillinger |appeared in the jail corridor, *arm ed with a machine gun. Blunk is free on bond on a charge of mis feasance. He and Sam Cahoon. another jail atthche, were arrested recently in connection with the ldesperado's etape. The atiorifey general's state lment was but one of a series of repercussions that ha.};e followed | Dillinger’s escape last Saturday. Judge Murray announced ‘that a special prosecutor would supplant Prosecutor Robert G. Estill' of Crown Point in the investigation. HEstill said he would oppose -the anpointment of a special prosecu tor. t Saving that ‘“the present grand jury could not properly investi ‘“;.»f, T —— " o } PR L Fourteen Per Cent of 1934 Appropriations Paid to Schools Today 'TAKEN FROM SURPLUS 'Collins Says Fund Will Be . Enough for Operation : Until U. S. Aids | ATLANTA —®)— Five hundred land twenty-two thousand dollars (of ‘state highways fugds—-part of !the surplus in the state treasury-— i Friday was paid tp the common | schiools of Georgia. : The amoung. represented 14 per lcent of the 1934 appropriations to | the- schools. - | Dr. M. D. Collins, state super iinmndent, said the money would ibe encugh to cover operation of lt}le needy school systems up to ‘the time that they can begin op lerating under a federal relief pro !g!‘i}m. under which the usual | school term will be completed with Yrelier money, i The state money came from a | surplus laid up by the state high {way board with the understanding ithat if the highway board neéded li* Ctovernor Talmadge would bor jrew in the open market to replace i the funds. > That plan will have the state the interest of the money at least until a loan must be made to re place it. S by e Heretofore the state-has had to borrow frem, two million to three ana " halr mﬁrﬁfiﬁ‘f‘m" a’ year tP s Aol “opérationd” ¢ It was considered unlikely by all officials ‘at the- capitol that the highway ' ‘board / would want its money back at any time soon in view of the statement repeatedly made by 'Governor Talmadge that he wanted a surplus fund of two million dollars laid up by the board by the end of this year. The governor has said he will ask the legislature to divert that mcney to the purpose for which if is now being temporarily used and to catch up other obligations of the state. Dr. Collins said he did not ex pect any additional loan to have been made' by the schools this term but additional money may be needed in the fall. ARNAMENTS REPORT WIDENS PESSIMISM Cermany Says in Newly- Published = Documents She Intends Rearming By Joseph C. Sharkey /Associated Press (Foreign Staff GENEVA,—(#)— Disarmament is an illusion, says Germany, hench she is going to rearm. But in a document published Friday for the first time she promised to be mod erate. - Wth disarmament reaching a crisis, the League of Nations is sued simultaneously in Geneva, London, Berlin and. Paris a col lection of all' disarmament docu ments exchanged Wy those govern ments. ; | Revelations through publication | deepened pessimism here over lprospects of . disarmament and Icom~erning; the political situation lin Europe, - ! France retorted to Germany |that the Reich had already begun itn rearm in defiance of treaties. { . Declaring he readiness to dis larm “down to the last gun,” Ger lipany maintans disarmament of ‘other European countries hinges lon the reduction of armaments in every country of the world, but “nobody beleves any longer in the i possibility of a +general interna tional disarmament.” The United States, as the su rest means of keeping ‘Americans (Continued on Page Two) |AUTO RACER FACES } KIDNAPING CHARGE i PR | PARIS—(/)—Some of the miss {ing jewels of the late Serge Sta visky, subject to an intensive de tective search, were found Friday ‘in the Orleans municipal qawn shop and were seized by the gov lernment. - The gems, valued at 1,200,000 francs (approximately - $78,000). were pawned by an associate ot lStavi;‘.-::—; for 200060 francs (ap proximately - $13;000.) - Athens, Ca., Friday, March 9, 1934 WOMEN STUDENTS UNIERSITY COUNGIL RESIGNS AS PROTEST Coverning Body Says in Open Letter Functions Are Hampered CONFERENCE HELD Authorities Feel That Satisfactory Decision Can Be Reached : ' Resignation of the Student Council and Judiciary board of the woman's Student Government as socation was announced today in the Red and Black, student pub-' lication of the University. V,T)‘\g;\, college paper’ saia 1; had received a letter,frnm the women’s goVei'nQ_ ing body saying;. "We-_;ca{xp(_;t. function without the full support of the student body, the house di rectors, and the achool authori ties,’ The publication quoted Mrs, A, Rhodes, dean of womenh, as say s - “No one is Authorized to accept the resignation of the council ex cept the Student Government as sociaton itself, the Dbody whigh elected it.” ~ “Any resignation will have to be presented at a -formal meeting of tha association. 'The judiciary board, which wha appointed by the' ‘Couneil -ean tirn in their resig [,’na.'ﬁon to that body but the coun cil itself cannot resign to the au thorities.” y | Dean R. H. Powell of Coordinate college was quoted by the paper as saying: “Complaints have come to me about the Judiciary board decis jons and they have said that the student government was personal in is action.’' Now . eur student officers have reflred and It is necessary for us to return for the time being to government. by the authorities. T hope, however, that we shall be abTe to establish again, in the near future, a form of student government that will be satisfactory to all -of us,” Due to the fact that President 8. V. Sanford is ou¢ of the city no definite indication as to what ac tion would be taken in the matter could be obtained. A meeting of freshman and- so phomore women was held at the Coordinate college and four mem bers of the two classes were e ected to confer with Dean Powell and other officials on any matter of discipline. The students elected were Mary Etheridge, Atlanta, and Amy Slo cum, Macon sophomores, and Ka (Continued on Page Two) Bankhead Cotton Bill Ex pected to Pass Despite Republican Opposition WIASHINGTON, —(®)— Debate on legislation invelving, a new principle —the Bankhead-Bulkley cotton control vill—was pushed in the house Friday with a vote on passage due Saturday, Supported by the administra tion, a large pereentage of cotton growers and textile manufactur ers, the measure is expected by its advocates to pass despite certain Republican opposition The bill limits cotton produc tion in the season beginning Au gust- 1, to 10,000,000 bales; pro vides authority for the Secretary of Agriculture to restrict produc tion next year, and for the presi dent by proclamation tos continue it for a third year if necessary to bring about stabilization of prices. Representatives bankhead D. Ala), co-author with his brother, Senator Bankhead (D. Ala) await ed opportunity to tell the house the obejets of the bill are: “To reduce to normal size, the abnormally excessive carryover of cotton. “To give effective application of the trade law of wsupply and de mand so as to stabilize the price of cotton. 0 “To reStore and maintain the price under the law to the place where it belongs in the price level of general commodities, And there by reasonably assure to \ootton (Cuda9s eSud uoo pPINURUOD) WITH FULL MILITARY HONORS it i HTIR G . eke R I i f"3.'-&'-?#’?s::‘;%»‘:'mi ‘!r}xpupn : ! 5 ‘!‘;“i ; ‘.‘:‘-;‘ ! ”"!’[il““...é 11 Ji{ 3' 151 'E,,‘.f‘vi ui“‘“ﬂ.‘(i.‘”"]‘ S A e ;;‘szn.s;n3:4;‘;:\;»*,.;;‘«,lz.te;lf\:.ﬁssixg.sriiv R T Ay T(e[ it L k‘iﬂ e ‘ R T{i"ﬁii i’i"was{:'\‘ il“f.‘i’.i""”“'ﬂ"‘ I‘§'!f‘.‘ésl“;'l’-.'taﬁi ;-t"';é%’?‘ L‘ i n-..vn*;“;:‘[\ ‘ =r:».'*‘.-,xﬁﬁ,{!&i“‘pgtsiﬁg»f ‘ gl R {%n!g-..;y,;;yi}‘;’f'“»_‘,,*“gt\!;aaf.gﬁ (ki\éf" I :m.'..‘t"l'*!:‘-‘ﬁ'i ‘ SQ \ ’f”ﬁé’“’%é | ! \.Ui“%&‘ @\’»\ih“,.‘q:;;!niy |Hﬁ l'}él,{f"i; a ‘.4. |} 1}‘(;;"5{“‘ b‘g -\ |é} T 'I:Y i 's} ,‘ h mhii 'lz?'\“?s‘aﬁe\: :a;effhy:sg;;zaézzz!e‘:gﬁ il iJn :a;ii:v it i i S ' ii R ERHR & A3laE Rt R dle TR ity gißit bl : ;zﬂ:;,,«;{'anhg.",;ﬁrf i {%Esm.igﬁ \;znr‘és g‘ﬁ; d «"f@t i.ﬁp%‘,‘,}!ﬁl}ii{r‘ﬁgigi.i!!ﬁ‘l'ﬁ';w'i‘;'ilﬁ"%a;xi’liitii'*:}t;f:ii'ﬂ'.;" i URP LR AR BB R fé‘:ss"vv.if-nt.‘-..~iii""':.|'¥.?W",Y“‘ ;1}5,'4; o "i!i""!'kli» i’qﬂ it Y i "~l i‘s i l‘!.:ifflil;‘lh l'i!”l‘;!i?;bh'.if'? gty i(R At . ‘ §'g?s’zg’ﬁihi'g-'!‘;!»‘-f:!i}u,.jﬁ.;; Hhii it o E ;:;‘sl(,’!.t"x;aﬂv,"'i\gj,V'h‘_'u,ei;;‘;'.zii ‘J(‘ e iis,z \i*‘_,”“'gqj"‘:‘-’-} - e B l Eit J st a‘T iJt LN ‘v:“h i i el HHERTH Sil RT i ‘ RW R LGI b o *iv il ’! i \sﬂ’ ‘t“aa!t;fa‘:!‘g;::*f‘az%?s;sé‘i’ul}‘ama};!'«\ it Ml T J-’ij.'ff*lt.’m]*‘iifi 544“3"?] ,l:f;-?’J? ﬁ.‘ ﬁ’*vi*fz;!’éé! i'?i:,!‘fii???"i&i-‘i‘i’”‘;‘2“-!"'! i aiﬁ‘;ﬁhw e "’v!"-’['ééflhm‘iir‘?‘ il ! ﬁs:@aﬁifi*r@%f*f’iﬁiﬁ' 1' iel ii?y}uﬁi'.;a;:w;r“;‘!;'gfa?%%tzf!f i 13‘."5?’!“ ]& o S3:"-53"'3?431,4“?3553“” u'l:’f“-fi‘?if‘ oA il “mitAR et (s R Aplten e ekl isa pEdi R s IMLoI eel it e LA E“! 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Ll ~“t;. ~l\"ilh‘ﬂel',';.&l‘7"“‘;»;"?li.liu, il 1, = 14 '"Ttiizrzi.::@nix;ﬁ:." i 1 AR eo <l Buisiness Gains In February Reported After U. S. Survey Expansion in Industrial Production Creater Than Usual Seasonal Rise WASHINGTON. —(#)— A more than usual business gain in Feb ruary and a moderate improve ment in January were reported Friday by the official “survey of current business” by the govern ment, “The expansion in industrial production”, the repory said, "“has been greater than the usual sea sonal rise for this period, and the statistics of car loadings also show a favorable trend in primary dis tribution.” Although employment and pay rolls declined between mid-Decem ber and mid-January, preliminary datag as of mid-February indicated an improwement in private em ployment and payrolls. There was an advance of threa points in the adjusted index ol industrial production in January to 78 per cent of the 1923-25 average. Retail sales data indicated a de cline in January of ahout the usual proportions, following she greater than seasonal increases of Decem ber. Construction contracts have tend ed to lag since December and the geasonally adjusted index has de clined following the rapid rise in the last four months of 1933. Foreign trade statistics revedled a decrease in exports in January which:was only partially account ed for By seasonal factors and a rise in jimports. ; Commodity prices have tended upward in recent weeks. The wholesale commodity price index was nearly 5 per cent higher in the week ended February 17 than in (Continued on Page Three) LOCAL WEATHER Cloudy, probably rain in south and central and rain or snow in extreme north portion tonight and Saturday; some what colder on the coast to night and in northwest por tion Saturday. TEMPERATURE HEE . oe. wIBO O e e ) MU i v vnen aeva ..h4.0 ORMERL 0 e ey Tare 000 RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours .. .... .03 Total since March 1 .. .... 3.32 Excess since March 1 .. ..’176 Average March rainfall ... 5.21 Total since January 1 .. ..10:42 Delicieney, Sineé. JANUary i hit | CREDIT OF $300,000 ' ESTIMATED NEED FOR ' RE-EMPLOYMENT HERE i Word that $300,000 credit could ‘be used in Athens to Increase em- Jployment 5 per cent, was sent the IFedeml bank by the local Cham ber of Commerce, in answer to a irequest for information concerning { the amount of credit which could be used herse, it was disclosed this morning. : ; Twenty per cent of the funds, it granted Athens firms, will be loan ed by the Federal Reserve bank, the resy by the Reconstruction Fi { nance Corporatlon. { Telegrams asking for similar in { formation from the banks were also received this week, it was re vealed, The banks reported that at 'the pregent time, they were In lable to make any estimate. OPPONENT BACKS F.D.R. ON TARIFF Republjcan Chairman of Commissions Would GCrant Power Asked WASHINGTON—(#)—A Republi can — and chairman of the tariff commission at that—went Roose velt foilowers In congress one bet ter Friday in advocating that the president be given even more tar iff c'hang!ing power than he asked. It was before the house ways and means ¢tmmittee, which placed the reciprocal tariff bargaining bill second only to the Bankhead cot ton bill thay was before the house proper at the time. The senate plugged tn the bill to list cattle in the law as a basie commitdity. Robert Lincoln O'Brien, a Hoo ver appointee to head the tariff ¢ommission, advocated letting the executive put articles off and on the free list,a point not embraced in the bill through which the ad ministration wants to maneuver .a foreign trade revival. As to domestic .trade, one of the periodic governmental surveys this forenoon reported business im provement of a moderate sort for January and an above-average for February. The senate banking committee halted hearing on mar ke regulation to vedraft the Flet cher-Rayburn by Monday, when testiminy-taking will be renewed. A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday oTHIKERS IN GUBA - FACED BY MILITARY Mendieta Warns That Strike Breakers Will Go On Under Protection HAVANA—{®P)—President Carlos Mendieta moved qnder the guns of the Cuban military Friday to set tle Havana's paralyzing strikes. The president warned the strik ing port workers that unless they returned to their jobs by noon 250 strike breakers would go on un der governmeng protection, All strikes, a high official said, will be broken “with full army protection” if arbitration fails. Drastic measures were deter mined upon as the government was confronted by the sudden walkout of 1,100 employes of the American owned Cuban telephone company yesterday. The labor department spurred efforts to reach a sclution of this preblem Friday. Adding to the eritical nature of developments at the docks Friday were continued cries by leaders of the confederation of labor for a complete general strike. Havana was generally quiet dur ing the nighy and early Friday, but Marl, Perez, 41, wag wounded gravely when a bomb police said he was placing on a downtown street corner exploded in his hands. Soldiers, Cuban marines and po« lice patrolled the streets. Thirty-three thousand telephones in Havana and 6,000 more in the provincial area were silenced by the strike. Six radio stations closed down. Editor of Chemistry Magazine and President Of Capital Rotary Club Addresses Students Science is dominating the new competition, Dr. Harrison =FE Howe editor of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry and pregi dent of the Washington, D, C., Ro tary club, declared today in a lec ture at The Univergity of Georgia. * Research is creating 'new pro ducts for new purposes and new uses for old products and business is - recognized and accepting the new order. Buying and selling is no longer based on personal reasons. “In the old days. when one want ed refrigeration he. bought ice,” Mr. Howe said. “The New Com petition brings us a range of re frirevants from ice through dry HUGE BOMBER FALL 3 T DATOM BEACK ONE KILLED N 0K EASTERN PILOT DIES « > Is Blinded by Snow, But Saves Mail When Forced Down ' DAYTONA BEACH—(#)—Private Ernest B. Bell was killed instant- - ly near here Friday in the crash of an army bomber ma.nb'gm 5 within a few minutes after it had taken off from the local airport headed south. A Lieut. W. M. Reid, pilot, and Floyd Marshall, a private, were i jured. The motors failed and the plane fell in a heavily wooded #ec tion two miles south of this city. Since the army took over the mail flights, seven other army pil ots have been killed. The séventh | fatality came near Chardon, Ohio, this morning when Lieut. Otto . Wienecke, flying from Newark, N. J., to Cleveland, crashed in the midst of a snowstorm. : Private Bell's skull was ecrushed. He never regained consciousness after the crash. Marshall suffered a broken arm and bruises and was rushed to the hospital. Lieut. ‘inom was the least seriously hurt of the two. injured. He refused to ' go to the hospitdl for an examina ‘tion until he had made a report of the accldent to authorities in Jack !s‘cnvme and Miaml. - 47 The twin-motored craft took off from here at 8:46 a. m. bearing mail for Miami. It was the regular army airmail plane on the route. It had not yet had time to gain altitude after rising from the local airport when its motors failed and it eraghed into the woods south of. the Daytona Beach-Deland road. : Private Hell was the plane's me chanic, Private Marshall its’ navi gator, and Lieutenant Reid its pilot. B Ak Four bags of air mal I the plane were saved intact and j turned ‘over to’ the local ‘postmas ter to he sent to Miami by traim. Bxamination showed Lieuténant Reid te have suffered no injuries aside from shock and . slight bruiges. ~After the <crash he res. turned to the airport and superin tended the business of % the mall and salvaging the wrecka. ed plane. : ¢ b agnd Lieytenan; Reid was one of"the gay crew of army avlatorg" . stopped at Daytona Beach .a.f weeks ago, made formation fli : ‘over thé city and were enteW‘ by 'the municipality tn their flight northward after attending air ma neuvers in Miami e Army officers from Jucksonville and Miami were ekpected here to investigate the crash. s RS e CRASHES IN STORM CHARDON, 00, —(@— Army air mail pilot Otto Wienecke, flying from Newark, N. J., to Cleyeland with the mail, erashed to his death in the midst 'of a heavy snitw squall this, morning on a farm northwest of Burton, near here. Chardon is about 20 miles di rectly east of Cleveland. Y A The plane was destroyed,: but ten bags of mail ‘were salvaged and brought to the postoffice: here. John Hess, a farmer in ‘whose pasture the plane crashed, s#id he and several neighbors heard the plane’s motor about 5 a. m. «(E. Ss. T.) It apparently was spaf tering, and Hess rughed .out in time to see-the crash. Fa The crash was reported to &rmy mail headquarters in Cleveland, (Continued on Page Seven) jice with a variety of hign{x.:-f.u‘ : petitive types of equlpmentvggx wide range of temperatures.” '3'-1 - Dr. Howe exhibited mod%* rived from cottch cellulose apnd ‘wood pulp, such ag rswon, artificial table covers decoratea papers du- *'i co type lacquers, and m ; jackets. DanßeE "~ Aerated rubber sponges, ' tar ‘nish proof alumninuly, mirrers. ‘molded products from m;{é flexrible wood and rosgone wens & %ﬁ so shown as direct resuits of stientific research in the effort t¥ improve on old produczs.k,‘g“»"ﬂg;; Prof, C. J. Brockman of the Uni. versity of Georgia Chemistry’ | fff partment introduced the speaker.