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cOTTON MARKET e ‘ | MIDDLING .. -+ .. ve ee 12 8-8 c \ PREVIOUS CLOSE .. ... 12 3-8 Vol 102. No. 52. Officials Fear Dillinger Plans Raid on Jail Fifth Annual Amateur Cage Tourney Opens Here Tonight GHTEEN TEAMS [N - AMEHERALD JEFEOENT MET FOUR GAMES TONIGHT Mayors' Goal - Shooting Contest and Prizes for Sponsors Features By CARL HANCOCK i Gixteen crack hagketball teami and hundreds of their supportem] are anxiously awaiting the gong. tonight that will usher in the fifth annual Northeast Georgia ;Indo-‘ pendent Amateur tournament . | Athens “Y” and Statham Ath letic club will open hestilities to night at 7 o’clock on the ¥. M. C. A., court with three other games carded in an eveuning of pl&y t.hat‘ will give the fans more than ,the‘h'; money’s worth. o Other Tuesday battles brm: to gether Gratis, one of ‘th.l;guufneyf favorites, and Neese at 8 o'clock, Watkinsville, another seeded team, and Maysville at 9 p.. m., while Carnesville and Bishop conclude the days' play at 10 o'qlook-' The remaining games of the first roung will be played ‘Wednesday night when Colbert and Carithers hattle at 7 o'clock, Commeree and Sanford play dat 8:00, Cornelig. and Athens Athletic club tie up at ¢ p. m., and Winterville and Craw ford finish the first round of play Wednesday at 10 o'olqok.*L' New Features The tournament, sponsored by the Y. M. C. A., and the Athens Banner-Herald, will introduce two| new features this year, a goal shooting contest between the may ors of the towns represented in the tourney, an? a kind of popu larity contest between the spon sors of the various teams. i 1 In the first event, eAch mayot will be given 20 shots from the free throw line, and the three highest scorers will qualify for the final test, which will be held Sat urday night prior to the champion ship game. Each mayor will have his preliminary trial between the halves of the firse game that his! team plays. e | Mayors who have already enter- | ed the contest include A. G. Dud ley, of Athens, representing the ‘Y, E. B. Wilkes, of Santord,i Dr. E. H. Kenimer, of Bishop, Glynn Cobb, of Carithers. H. F. Gaulding, of Colbert, John Harde ran, of Commerce, Worley Hardeman of Neese, and W. R. Colle, the proxy choice of the Winterville mayoy, N: O. Mes Waters, who has a physical han dicap. Nameg of the other mayors to enter will be announced later. Prizes For Sponsors In ‘the other feature, the spon- Sorg will receive credit fOl‘ tourna m:-x‘n game tickets sold to fans in their town, provided the name of the town ig written on the ticl'(et‘ apd the sponsors receiving the highest number of points will be Blven suitable prizes, Many of the sponsors have al rady been selected by the teams The list follows: Miss Rena Fdge, i‘,lffns‘ “Y" Miss Mndora Kirkpa oo for Bishop, Miss Mattie Sue (~""Mlnu, for Carithers, Miss Le- | (*:,;O i{ardmim, Colbert, Miss Mary i\'l_;rff:g.‘fnr Commerce, Mrs. Colye Hopovorth, for Nesse, and Miss Other . 2-demen for Winterville oy bonsors will be &nnouncied L Other Prizes ‘ e firms have * generously ndaled prizes fop players, may (Continued Op Page Threel ELBERT NEGRO TO GO TO THE CHAIR FRIDAY FOR CRIME M John Downer, Elbert county Ne- Bro, will gdie in the electic chair Priday, The state prison' commis. SOO Tuesday, declined to 6 recom- Tend ol mency for him. Downer “ag given the death Penalty threg Years ago for at ‘ “1 Elbert county white res 1. National guadsrien were v ied to Elberton to protect the Negro gy, M a.moh: Latet he was o ught o Athensyand placed in I‘:s\A 1.\{;1135, jail. ne O cang. i S been fought _Tough gstate and federal courts ™ Downer's attorneys finalily ot 2 New teinh ARCEERE change - Venue the trial 'was held in Tex_ ingtop and hg was a - found f"dihy. Judge Berry‘ g". 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Their discussion was held almost simultane ously with the issuance of Fresident Roosevelt's orders curtailing army air mail operations. Tuesday Secretary Dern named Lindbergh on a committee to investigate army flying congditions, it . Army Mail Flying Coming Under Close Investigation Restaurant Operators To Hear Code Expert Here Wednesday Night A special meeting of restaurant owners and operators will be held Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock at the Georgian hotel at which time Code Expert Lassiter will explain in detail the code of fair competition for the restaurant in dustry as approved February’ 16 by the Presidest. It is important that all persons, engaged in operation of restau rants, lunch rooms and boarding houses attend this meeting. The term ‘restaurant” as défined in the code includes any establishment which, for compensation, prepares and offers food for consumption either on any of its premises, or by catering and banquet service, or by box lunch service, or by curb service and customarily serves ten peoale a day. New York Customers To Get Argument on .. Tax Instead of Goods NEW YORK.— (#) —Customers who drop in at New York stores at 2 p. m. Tuesday, will get an argument. 3§ A mass demonstration against a proposed two percent sales tax ‘n New York state has been arranged for that time. Grover A. Whalen, chairman of the sales tax com mittee of 1,000, announced that the stores would cease selling for five minutes and present their customers a 14-point argument against the sales tax. . e s e GIRL DIES Miss Grace Sheridan, 18, die this afternoon at a local hospital, from a bullet wound in her fore head. She was rushed to the ho. pital by RBernstein’s ambulan: from her home on First street. Funeral arrangements will be an nounced later. i‘:arly Morning Blaze Brings Death List in New York Tenement Fires to 17 in Month NEW YORK.— (#) —An camy’ morning tenement house fire from which two Negro women leaped to death and a boy to critical injury brought to 17 Tuesday the nuni ber of victims of tenement house fires within the last month. The women, Mary Blake, 58, and her daughter, Mary, 17, leaped to the sidewalk and were ~instantly killed after flames had cut off ac cess to a rear fire escape. Calvin White, ten-year-old grandson of the elder wmoan, was tossed out a window by the women before they leaped, and was injured so severe ly that he may die. Twenty families were made homeless as the fire destroved the 05 five-story tenement on Edge ec ' avenue in upper Harlem. _The fire was the fifth to strike mm _tenement building in Lindbergh, = Chamberlin And Orville Wright on Hearing Committee WASHlNGTON.—(#)—Secretary Dern Tuesday named a special committee of aeronautical authori ties, including. Orvme Wright, Charles A. Lindbergh and Clar ence Chamberlain, to investigate the army carrying of the air mail. At almost the same minute that Dern and Lindbérg’;y,yere discuss ing the survey last week, Presi dent Roosevelt’s letter curtailing army ajr mail 'fl'ylp{%; criticizing the air corps for 'its failure to meet the emergency, and suggest ing that some plan be adopted by which the efficiency of the air gorps would be' improved, was made public at the White House. He asked it especially to con sider “such flying instruments as are deemed necessary for efficient navigation and night, beacon, and radio controlled flights and land ings,” and 1n considering person nel to weigh “their training and experience in cross country flying, in night flying, blind flying and in instrument flying, and their under standing and employment of the instruments referred to above.” Major Gereral Hugh A. Drum, deputy chief of staff, was named chairman. Other meémbers are: Major Gen eral Benjamin D. Foulois, chief of air corps; Major General George S. ‘Simonds, commandant of the Army War college; Major General John W. QGulick, chief of coast artillery, and Brigadier Gen eral, C. K. /Kilbourne, assistant chief of staff in charge of war plans: : 2 All army members belonged. to the\ “drum board” which surveyed air corps activities at the time last summer that the air corps —— (Continued on Page Six) ' Norman Blake, son and brother of she women who were Killed, was returning from work at the time the slimes began leaping ‘high into the air shortly before 2 ‘a. m. He saw his mother and sis ter at a fifth story window and shouted to them to try the back ‘fire escape. They disappeared from the window, V‘?ut returned ishortly, shouting: “We can’t make 0o : . “Wait for the firmen,” he called, as the seream of fire engine sirens was heard. ; Hysterical, and pressed by the flames at their back, the women tossed the child from the window and then leaped. The firemen said that had the women waited a minute more they ‘could have been saved. The fire men assisted about 100 persons from the buildings - Athens, Ca., Tuesday, March 13, 1934, COREN 15 OFFERED POST A 3 DEMOGRATS NATIONAL TREASURER Editor of Atlanta Journal And Former Senator On Way to Capital COTTON DEBATE ON Bankhead Bill Worries House as Senate Ends Work on Treaty WASHINGTON.— (A —John S. Cohen, president and editor of the Atlanta Journal, has been decided upon by the administration ‘for treasurer of the Democratic: Nat ional committee. 53 o At the same time, Mrs. Cather ine Conner, Democratic Natiomal committeewoman ftor Kentucky, resigned a position with the fed eral emergency reliet administras tion to retain her comfittee place. Meanwhile, President Roosevelt was looking around for a mnew chairman of the national commit« tee to replace Postmaster General Farley. The White House has said Farley would quit as soon as a successor could be found. All these developments resulted from the President's disapproval of committee meinbers holding government positions, Goes to Washington Cohen, former senator from Georgia, is understood to be en route ‘¢ Washington to talk over the . situation with- Postmaster ‘ndtional chairman. i r Farley said Tuesday as he left General Farley, the Democratic the White House that Cohen has been decided upon for the treas uryship. The office became vacant when Frank C. Walker, of New York, resigned to head President Roose velt's national emergency council. At the capital Tuesday senato rial predictions had a “for and against the administration” com plexion, the Democratic leaders counting on batteringi the house bonus bill and St. Lawrence treaty foes as confident of their cause. ‘ The treaty vote comes Wednes day. The bonus vote, no one yet knows when. Should either the( treaty be ratified or the 82.200,0001 veterans proposition accepted, there would be many surprlsedl members of the senate. | Bankhead Bill Up For the house, Tues{ay’s worry was the Bankhead cotton control bill. Unless efforts to get ballot ing on it by nightfall succeed, the adminigtrationists will make a strong play to send it to the sen ate Wednesday. Behlna these major propositions waited miscellany of other mat ters that kept committees alert. One group arranged to study the reams of grand jury testimony on War department contracts, the taking of which led to a 15 to 8 jury vote late Monday against re turning any indictments. Army air and postal officials strove to perfect plans for re sumption of air mail flying. Sec retary Dern took the ,army per formance to date as a subject for investigation by a special commit tee, including. Orville Wright, Charles A. Lindbergh and Clar ence Chamberlain and army offi cers. The proposed communications control bill had a lacing from Walter S. Gifford, American Tele phone and Telegraph compar chief, who contended it meant “a regimey of public management - private property.” Legislators from both sides of the capitol conferred on revision of the margin-trading sections of the stock market control bill, to shape the proposed legislation for passage. i LOCAL WEATHER Fair tonight and Wednesday with rising temperature, The ' following weather re port covers the period from 8 a.m. yesterday to 8 a.m. to day. TEMPERATURE HIBRMEE . o S i 4,0 Lowellh: .0 i s w3BOO BEORN 5. Al e 420 Negrill. oo v i Vs cinpinia .0 RAINFALL Inches last 24 h0ur5........ 0.00 Total since March 1........ 3.33 Exdess since March 1...... 1.09 Average March rainfall.... 5.21 Total since January 1......10.43 Deficiency since January 1 1.84 Retail Merchants To Meet Thursday Night To Form . Permanent Code Authority GIVEN HIGH POST BY ROOSEVELT, B e el R S - A e R PS A R Be A e o DU - T r‘.‘,‘¢§ B T B L ’»'-I’:‘.'f»:—:'."c-'.'-"'»:i"'t-'?;;-'f*i’ 5 % R X BR R 5 .:‘.;l-.<v.f%;;-{c?,:-,f?-::fit;-;. o R RRS IIR ot P B T T e 0 R B 0 R T T S k -‘.,;.,-_}.,_.‘.-,;.z;.;-g’}x:{‘_.;.zsy.-,-\A‘.;‘.s-'.;c»; Rt LR PR R SRR B R R R Bg e R T B e s b SR e Bt Re A R R R Ry gR . A R s R e BRI e T g SR e e John S. Cohen,, Atlanta publish ®%r, who today was named as the ddministration’s. ohoice for treas erer of the national Democratic committee. DALY 3 SAVED FROM CAPSIZED DESTROVER r - Rescue Efforts Redoubled ~ After Survivors Report 8 More Still Alive By GLENN BABB SASEBO, Spain— ) —Rescue efforts were redoubled frantically after three Sseamen, helped to safety from the torpedo boat To mozuru, which capsized Monday with 113 men aboard, declaredi eight others still were alive in the engine room. ‘ The three men rescued, mem bers of the engine room crew,‘ were unable to walk after they were taken to a hospital. They‘ were reached through an air holel‘ drilled through the stricken ship's hull as she lay keel upward. Milk was handed them to revive their strength. ‘ Then, while a tremendous cheer went up from those working grim- Iy at the rescue, the sailors es caped through a hatch and floated to thd surface. ’ It had been feared that all aboard the tiny ship—her tonnage was only 527, although she carried armament to match many vessels twice her size—were dead Wwhen she was found in a sinking con dition Monday. But, as the cruiser Tatsuta tow ed her bottomside up toward port, anxious seamen aboard the Tat suta heard faint poundisg. They listened. It was repeated. Faintly, then louder, the ham mering within the Tomozuru was continued through the five hours required to haul the torpedo boat to Tawagaura, five miles south west of the Sasebo naval base. Setting to work frantically, me chanics and steel workers began cutting an entry through the To mozuru's steel hull after she reached port. | T—h_'efifl!:st heartening rescue was effected within a comparatively short time.: Work Starts on 30 Booths for Use in Food Demenstration Work on erection of the thirty booths to be used in the Woman's Club Food Show and Manufactur ers Demonstration to be held in Michael’'s Town Hall from March 20 through March 23, has already begun, with carpenters being ke busy putting up the frames. The show this year is expected to be the largest ever held in Athens. Classes will be held every afternoon from 3 until 5 o’clock; at -night special entertainment features will be presented, and a large number of prizes will be given away. The show will be opened next Tuesday night with a moving pic ture program, showing the Qro cesses in the making of bread and a band program will be giver, Following this, those who wish tu may dance. Supervising this work for tl;e Woman’s club are Mrs. T. F. Green, sr., and Mrs. H, B. Ritchie. ‘ - Croup Selected to Be Representative Body For Trade Here ATTENDANCE URGED Session to Begin at Eight O’clock at Georgian Hotel ' By JACK FLATAU A most important meating of local retail merchants will be held Thursday evening, March 15th, at 8:00 o’clock at the (eorgian hotel. The object of this meeting is to organize a permanent local Retail Code Authority governing opera tions by ‘merchants under the Retail Code. On March Tth, a temporary au thority was granted to Athens 10- cal Retail Code authority by the National Retail Code authority on an application made to that board by Leßoy Michael, as temporary chairman, and Joel Wier, as sec retary, and in the letter granting temporary authority a great amount of information was asked for that can only be given to the national authority as a result of the meeting proposed. Entitled to Membership Under the regulations issued by the National Authority the follow ing divisions of retail trades in Athens are entitled to member~ ship on the local Retall Code au thority: i (1) Retail clothiers and furnish ers. y F (2) Department and drygoods stores, including dealers in wo men’s clothing and accessories also millinery, pleating, hemstifCh ing and general merchandise stores. x (3) Retall furniture stores. (4) Retail hardware stores. (5) Limited price variety stores. (6) Musie merchants. (7) Retail shoe stores. (8) Gift and art shops, novelty stores, etc. (9) Book and stationery stores. (10) Paint, wali paper and glass stores. (11) Luggage and leather goods stores. | (12) Miscellaneos stores, includ ing news stores, news stands, also news dealers selling at retail, This does not ilnclude stands selling newspapers only. Sporting goods stores. The personnel of the National Retail Code Authority is composed of representatives from the nine natiomral retail trade assoclations which sponsorcd the retail code and it is advised that the local Code Authority follow as near as possible the organization plan of the National Authority and that members of the local authority be members of their respective nat jonal trade associations, provided there are such members for their respective divisions of ‘trade. Each Represented In the organization of the local Retail Code Authority there shall be one representative of each div ision of the retail trade as classi fied above, but each division is to be permitted only one vote. The following stores are not included under the Retail Code, but the list is subject .to later modification: Agricultural implements, auto mobile accessories, awnings and tents, baked goods, barber shops, beauty parlors, beverage shops, building supplies, coal retailers, drug stores, dry cleaning, eßg stores, feed stores, food stores, garages, grocery stores, hair dress ing stores, ice establishments, jewelry stores, job printers, lum — o (Continued on Page Five) Government’s Income for Fiscal Year Past Two Billion Dollars as Expenditures Drop By WILLIAM L. BEALE WASHINGTON —(#)—The gov ernment’s income for the flscal year—it ends July 1-Tuesday passed the $2,000,000,000 mark while expenditures stood at $4,- 444,687,000, Regeipts from last July 1 through March 10, the latest day available, were 82,001.9?.165 as compared with $1,293,522,909 in the same period last year. The biggest items in the increase were miscellaneous taxes—swolen by new levies and distilled spirits revenue — which jumped from $548,908,000 last year to $1,035,- 581,000 this year. : Agricultural processing txaes, not in effect last year, have sup? plied $230,818,000. - » Customs receipts climbed from $175,707,000. to $233,228,000. ¢ Income tax payments continued to lag behind last year with com A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday LAURA LA PLANTE SEEKING DIVORCE ~‘° e umeeacnsessese e R R S o B e 5 & e 3 ST & BAN S o * g §B R g B B A S :a:qq-pfi:fgz:::a«:-;.:‘-1.:'35"‘ A B G % R B e Sl SREaT a 0 B O o e} 2 oo L SS W g s g R e e T 8 e e e PR RN R R R S R '3!11 . 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'VIENNA IS TENSE; COUP ANTICIPATED With Dollfuss at Rome, Austria Grows Anxious ~ Over Possible Uprising | By WADE WERNER (Assocated Press Foreign Staff) VJENNA —(AP) — The pace of ‘events in Austria quickened sud denly Tuesday as Chancellor En gelbert Dollfuss sped toward Rome | to confer with Premiers Musso-‘¢ lini of Italy and Goemboes of Hun gary. ' Just before he departed, the lit tle chancellor-—who also is minis ter of defense and minister of for eign affairs—handed the portfolic of defense to Prince Schoenberg- Hartenstein, who until then had been only under-secretary for de fense. . This move strengthened the Prince’s position in respect to Vice Chancellor Emil Fey, who other wise would far outrank the under secretary. % Significant Move Simultaneously with the signifi cant promotion — significant be. cause Fey is a leading figure in the Facist Heimwenr and there are all manner of rumors reward ’lng' what the Heimwehr may do in Dollfuz’ absence—unverified reports ciffulated in Vienna said large contingents of the regular army were massing between Viep na and the Cgechoslacakian bor der where Fey lately has been concentrating Heimwehr ' troops. (homp guardsmen.) For days it has been rumered that druing Dollfuss’ absence the Heimwehr would engineer some sort of a group. PARLEY OPENED ROME — (AP) —_Talks expect ed to have a vital bearing on the future of central Europe began Tuesday. Tomorrow they will de velop into Danubian-conference in which the leaders of Austria and (anglqued on Page Six) ‘parative figures of $382,822,000 and $393,612,000, Bu:' March payments have shown a sudden purt. - In the first ten days of March the income tax payments wereg $24,615,580, against $10,272,698 last year. Government expenditures, which climbed steadily from July through January, dropped off sharply in February and so far in March are running behind February figures. In the first ten days of February the government spent $248,436,000 In the same March period outlays were $206,915,000. President Roosevelt's budget es timates of expenditures this fiscal year exceeded $10,000,000,000. With only $4,444,000,000 spent to date, more than half the entire amount remains for spending before June 30 to fulfill estimates, Mr. Roosevelt estimates that on June 30, 1935, the public debt will reach $31,834,000,000, : Indications Hint at Possi bility of Daring Move By Jail Breaker WOMAN IS SOUGHT Factor Case Comes Back Into Limelight With Slaying of Connors LIMA, Ohio.—(P)—A ‘growing apprehension that John Dillinger, whittling jail breaker, may dare to lead a raid to free an impris oned pal, made trigger fingers nervous in Ohio Tuesday.: Several signs pointed to the poesibility that Dillinger may be bent on liberating Harry Pler pont, doomed murderer, from tho ‘county jall here. Plerpont helped free Dillinger from the same jail last October 12, slaying Sheriff Jess Sarber in the act, and Dillin ger undoubhtedly would like to re turn the favor. | Other Indications Besides that, there were these indications: ¥ 1. The disappearance of a Leip sic, Ohio, woman. Police said she is known to have communicated ‘with one of three Dillinger hench n-n held here. 2. The brief announcement of Judge E, H. Everett, “We have received direct word that Dillin ger is on his way here with armed ‘men.” 3, Recurrent alarms concerning automobiles gupposéd to carry Dillinger. s The trial, of 'Charles Makley, ‘held here with Pierpont and Rus sell Clark for the slaying of Sher iff Sarber, proceeded Tuesday with the selection of a jury. Pierpont has already © been convicted and Clark’s case comes up later. The person most earnestly sought was the Leipic woman, at whose home six members of the Dillinger mob visited shortly be fore the Sarber slaying. Officials were unable to trace her. Police Captain John Stege said in, Chicago he was informed Dil linger and a womar companion stopped 'in Indianapolis Monday, asking directions to Lima from =a Negro woman. 1 CONNORS SLAIN CHICAGO.— #) —Charles “Ice ‘Wagon” Connors, one of the Touhy gangsters long hunted for the kidnaping of John Factor, was found shot to death in a remote sectfon of the southwest side Tuesday. = FACTOR’S SON GUARDED : LOS ANGELES.—(#)—Four de tectives guarded Altvin Factor, S wvear-old son of John (Jake the Barber) Factor, Tuesday to fore stall an attempt by gangsters to abduct him. Lieutenant Leroy Sanderson, and three other detectives were assigned to guard the child day and night after authorities said they learned through “underworld sources” of a plot to seizé Alvin and compel his father, himself a Chicago kidnap victim, to pay ransoms. HUNTERS TO MEET TOMORROW EVENING TO ORCANIZE HERE Hunters of this section will meet tomgrrow night at 8 o'eclock at City Hall to rorm a permanent organization looking towards the preservation of game in Georgia, and especially this area. 0 ‘The meeting will be pesided over by E. E. Lamkin, named tempor ary chairman at a meeting held last week by Lewis Wright, offi cial of the state department of game and fish. : Over 300 have been notified of the meeting and Mr. Lamkin asks The Banner-Herald to tell all in sterested persons they will be wel ‘comed, whether of not they have been notified. A permanent chair- ' man will be elected at this meet. ing. £ The game and fish department feels that @ preservation cam paign in behalf of Georgia’s wild life will get nowhere without cooperation from the sportsmefn . themselves and for this reasom, it is fostering simitar organization all over Georgia. ¥ Co Two Flying Cadets Die In Texas Plane Crash SAN TONIO —(AP)— Flying cadets Nelson C. Samuels-and J. W. Carson of Kelly feld were in stantly killed Tuesday when their ship crashed three miles north of Camp Bullis, . R
