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/' o COTTON MARKET “D{HE'\;': . .11%c REV (,LQSE..H e et B, 102 No. 83 ankhead Bill On Roosevelt’s Desk; Approval Assured « U.S. Venture ini Compulsory Control | Of Industry ¢TILL UNDER FIRE it Regulations on Sales Contast Hotly l Debated | e 1 ASHINGTON — (i) == The nkhead cotton bill was at the‘ o House Wednesday for the _ed touch of a presidential ;.r,“u;:' the government’s first pture into compulsory control of major industry. coneress stamped - its accep e on the measure Tuesday wen the house approved the con rence report. The purpose i& to raise and sta lize cotton prices 'and slash a £, surplus by camuelling far sto hold their production .to 000,000 bales for the 1984-36 sea .!uu\’w:' Bankhead (D-Ala) co ithor, calls..the measure a “new nd mark in agricultural legisla " President Roosevelt favors principle, and 95 per cent of ti tton farmers want it. opponents say its swingg open e door to regimentation of all ag ulture Democratic JAttack. Their - final ineffective sally Jinst the bill was led Tuesday . 2 Southern Democrat, Repre ntative Busby of Mississippi, ith the assertion it spelled “irre iovable surrender” of farmers’ ‘hts to regulate production. Planless agriculture - ‘condemns v South and our farmers else here to external poverty,” was e retort of Chairman Jones (D --bxas) of the agriculture eommit- Restoring the bill virtually to e form in which the house orig plly passed it, that = chamber pted the conference report 235 ) 105, # 50 per cent ad valorem x on over-quota production _ is e big stick the. measurs holds jor producers. - The tax {8 to be least H cents a pound. The blll calls for guotag based (Continued on Last Page) ‘ i | TRIKE PICKET IN | I | ALABAMA KILLED ational CGuardsmen Call-t ed so Prevent Sabotage Of Company Property ! BIRMINGHAM, Ala. —() —The | I3t fatality in the strike of 21,00(‘1 03] miners in Alabama was re orted Wednesday from: near Leods\ hile national - guardsmen were loved into another - section of fllerson county to’ prevent sabot be 0 the Tennessee Coal, Iron and dilroad company’'s watdr mains. \ Neg identified " as’ BEd Eng ind, was killed by a special de eriff near lLeedsat the Red lamond . Coal company's - mine i ittempted to reopen- this Reports received here sald the eg of a group of pickets, hen ordered to move on, pulled Veapon on the officer, after once 4Ving made a threatening gesture. The specia] officer. whose name A disciosed and a compan " then digarmed .eight or ten jl CBloes - who wepe carrying Ulguns : -loaded . with . “rimmed’ .Y movement - -of -.-tpoops to Bewat 15 accomplisher in . 1 the troopers had "inted guard before either the ‘: £ { public was awarae ;' mobilization, e 3 t to disrupt the wat . 4h of the Tennpssee Coal, ) Gallroad company, near which = supplies the ) e industrial setup. W Trep I Tuesday by officers, 1 1 plot was learned early INANCE COMMITTEE OF Y. M.C.A. RAISES §lB5 OF SUM NEEDED e —————————— v o finance commitee of the <L C. A Wednesday report -2 that glßs of the $1,480 which St be paig on obligations by »1. ‘SSociation thig month has “*D raised. Of the amount Teeded, S4BO is fop semi-annual ‘nd 51,000 is for an -4l curtailment gmyithe build -6 Mortgage. \fr Sos the X, M. €. A, " Will help the association o B€ present financial string ao 9T requestad to give v | COntributiony $e any mem . °Lothe finanes committee, L tomposed of E. R. i oson, B, B Lamkin, M. G. boo 01 Sam Nickersoh, T, . ', Morton 8. Hodg- N o CUte H. Thormten,. Dr. ;M'-* SNauzhter, Tage Wright ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service DIRECTS FESTIVITIES FOR SPRING DANCES I e e oy ORI e e . Lol . 8 R b 8. g . 3 AR b oa . & e g E 4 T R caa g G o B B a e R g W R T o v%fi : e ; - o R R e ;- LR i i%‘?’ G L T s : o o o % 3 v : g o B - 5 5 0 ‘ . , . s : e S P 4 s K 5 . 5057 b e > Joe Thomas, Jesup, president ot the Pan-Hellenic' council at the University of Georgia, who ig ir charge of arrangements for Spring Dances, better known to Athenians as Little Commencement, Preparations Made At University for Festive Week-End About 1,500 ‘people are expected | ta fill Woodruff hall this week'a*er'rd‘ for the Little Commencement dan- | ces, arranged by Joe Tho{flaé',% Jesup, president.of the Pan-Hel lenic council. This will be 3 greater number than has ever at tended this affair in the past. Thomas has engaged Mal Hal-! lett's nationally-known orchestra | to play for the regular dances P‘i‘i-i day and Saturday evenings, and the tea dance Saturday afternoon ~‘ Mal Hallett has just completed‘ an engagement at the Kentucky hotel in Louisville, Ky., where he! broadcast over Station TWHAS nightly. The orchestra is on ai southern college tour now, and the schools at which the band will. be| heard are Washington and Lee. V. | P. I, Alabama, North Carolina, and Davidson. & The Okefenokee swamp in southi Georgta will furnish the motif for, the dance decorations, which arel ‘being. put up by the Landscape Arehitecture club, of which Rich- | ard Dupree, Athens, is president. . It is planned to cover the en tire dance floor with a solid can opy, of blue paper, and ‘have cy press trees and Spanish moss painted along . the sides of the dance floor. which is f‘r\ represent a lake in the center of the swamp The hard stand will be at the east end of the floor. and it. will bhe surrounded by special swamp dec orations. An innovation will be the use of lighted fraternity emblems over the hooths which will be along the four walig of Woodruff hall A special issue of the Red and Black will be .distributed at the Friday - night dance. It will fea ciule Loa rotogravure supplement that will be devoted entirely to the ocecasion. l In addition to the three Little Commhencement dances, fraternity heouse parties, various other social entertainments, and two Haseball games with Auburn, will feature the week-end's activities. " Officers ,of the Pan-Hellenie council ~and their guests are: President Joe Thomas, Jesup. with Miss Madeline. Harlan, Tampa !Fla..; Vice-president Paul Lindsey. i"\flanta, with , Miss = Ann Abney, Athens: Secretary’ Pete Morgan, LaGrange, with Miss Wilena Zach ary, ‘Atlanta: and, Treasurer De- Nean Stafford, Washington, D 0, ’With Miss Weldon Seals, Wayeross. First of Weekly Outdoor Skating Parties To Be Held Tomorrow Night From 8 to 10 Athens first out-door :‘.{aiingll party will be held Thux’sdayv night. .k Members of the Entre Nous | olub an organization of the Young ’ Women's Christian association, | has obtained permission from cityi: council to hold weekly skating | parties on Thursday night on the . paved block between Thomas and | Jackson streets on Hancock aven- | we. This is the bloek in which The Banner-Herald is located. The weekly parties will be he!di‘ to raise money to send delégatesi to the elub to their summer con-{ ferenc2 in - Tennassee. | - gkating will start at 8 o'clnckl and will continue until 10, withy music being furnished by MeDor ;M-Bfldmv _An admission charge of ien cents wii be collected [rom TRODPS NECESSARY 10 PUT DOWN RIOT 0¥ LOUSIANA MD™ Maddened Citizens Try t Take Confessed Killer Of Young Girl STORM COURTHOUSE Million Dollar Courthous¢ Protected Against At tack of 5,000 SHREVEPORT, 'la. — (AR) — Natignal guardsmen Wednesday shielded the million dollar Caddo parish courthouge after a storming meb Tuesday night attempted un successfully to lynch Fred Lock hart, 38, the artificial butterfly salesman who confessed to attack ing and killing 16-year-old Mae Giffin. Remnants of the original mob of thousands of angry men milled about the courthouse - containing the jail this morning. but officers expected the national .guard to control the situation without fur ther difficulty unless the crowd is augmented by groups from the country . i BEarly Tuesday night Sheriff T. R. Hughes of Caddo parish an nounced Lockhart had ' confessed to luring the young woman away from the home of her mother, Mrs. Maggie Peters, a widow, and slay ing her. Small erowds and groups of men about the jail became un manageable after the confession was made known. Mob Grows to 5000, { The crowd grew rapidly into a ’vas{ milling throng estimated in inumber from 3,000 to 5,000, led by iseveral hundred shouting and tcursing members who took posses sion of the basement and first floor lof the courthouse, threw bricks, | wielded clubg and cut fire hose un itil the national guard from Shreve port began assembling in the base ‘ment of the courthouse after mid l night. By two o'clock the rioters inside the building had been driven to the outside and the howling mass began a breaking up precess. Under orders from Govérnor O. . “Allen, Colonel Hollingsworth Continued on TLast ‘Page) Col. Reed to Inspect High School R.O.T.C. . Tomorrew Morning The annual military inspection of the Athens High school ROTC will be held tomorrow, “beginninfl at 9 o'cloek, and ending about one The unit is to be inspected ,by‘ Colonel Willlam L. Reed, ROTC | officer of the Fourth Corps Area. Yearly inspections are held to determine rating of the school's military unit. Every institution ir ‘the United States which supports a military department is inspected ‘annually. Inspection includes regular cere monies. individual inspection of equipment and verson, company drill, platoon drili, squad drill, phy sical training, manual of arms, and gkirmish drill of the section and lsquad. Third vear military Btudents, those in the genior class, are in spected and examined in all theo |retical subjects, military discipline, | military courtesy, military sanita ition, first aid, rifle markmanship, !'scouting and patr:lling, map read !ing, musketry, combat principles, iand National defense act. Tomorrow's inspection will be the third successive year that Col onel Reed has been the inspecting officer here. Since being detailed by National headquarters to the Fourth Corps Area as ROTC of ficer in 1931, he has had the Ath ens school in his territory. | Colonel Reed is a veteran of two 2“'3’""" having served as a second | lieutenant in the Spanish-Ameri |can s®r, and as a Colonel in the { World War. He entered the Mili ‘tary Academy in June, 1893, and ‘registered as a native of +New | York, Colonel E. K. Smith: is com lmandaut of the high school ROTC, {and Sergeant D. L, Turpin is his fnssistant. . : 2 svorybody wearing @or calryibs skates but mothers of children skating are invited free of charge. The party will be carefully super vised by members of the club. As it is unsafe to skate on the streets after nightfall, members of this club decided to try to secure a safe place where evervbody, es specially’ voung bpeople who work during the day and who like to skate, could enjoy this form of recreation. The block will be roped off and policed and it is ex pected a large crowd of young people. will take advantoge of the club’s offer. Entrée Nous club officers are Mary Harris , president; Nina Ginn, vice president, Nellie Mapp. secretary and treasurer, and Nell ' Loyd, program chairman., Athens, Ga., Wednesday, April 18, 1934 PRESENTS KIWANIS RULE AT TOCCOA R K b t! ti G L } = coa clut Ath grot Ju rule of t “y vicesé prase enouy we f) of ‘¢ treas. kepy ‘never a ‘syn preciq but w ly—w [son tc selves May« troduce of the vited t meeting pressed of Athe boring- Presid Univers! He poin Rule is times, a day in t' - Descri) enthusias velt-and Presiden nation's Golden 1 ‘American the little “Some ‘money tc meng und The amot cent of the War,” he’ cent of t tions. Car here at h Americans what we le and other worthless 'n ned to pay The speal Ickes, statir ‘resentative ism, and W& straightforw: “We are | ‘conclusion, ' who, in ou» constructive deny Roosevy things and put them top familiar thin, ‘hard to unds have produce( (Continue LOCAL e Probably o showers toni’ not much ok ture. The follow port covers ¥ ending at 8 2 TEMPI Highest.... . Lowest.... . .. Mean ... ... Normal: ... . RAI? Ifiches last 24 Total sihce: A Excess since # “Average April Totla sinee Jan —ESTABLISHED 1832- FOUR DIE IN CRASH 15 P HIPTES City Planning Issue T 7 T oought Up A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday 'SEVELT AR CRY JCANMS P)— A cam v Republican 1 lines was after an at of President ousin, Col. deal is not y,”” said Col= . It is reac can.” Iger and po element of Roosevelt m Tuesday m ‘as the “ational Re- NE League to Petition Mayor To Revive Commission And 1925 Plan . ADVISED BY OFFlClAI;, : Engineer-Secretary of At lanta Commissiorny - Urges Action i By Mrs. Sara Rucker Lynfl&r The Athens League of Women Voters decided Tuesday t, petition the mayor to revive the city plan ning commission and to set the whole city plan, devised in 1925; im motion once more. sl g gea This motion was passed follow ing addresses by Raymond W. ! Torras, engineer-secretary of the City Planning commigsion of At lanta, and Dr. J. M. Reade. The regular meeting of the league was held yesterday at 1 o'clock at the Holman hotel. ik ‘alled other iong ‘hem rmer assis as second Mr. Tcrras discussed briefly ‘the working of the commission in At~ lanta, This group is made up of nine members appointed by the mayor: six from the city at large and three from city .council. The commission has an appropriation of $12,000 a year from the eity, 1 is compoead of the tollm-, wtp” (oning, heautifica .. education and element of ship plot snces and lake the ranism ana onal » 1 with the housing *. Torras - stated, aid, $5,000,000 is slum and model ¢. Thig program is slums and develop facilities. Biyey . the speaker ad .. take hold of the already been done it here, ‘and to eon definite action fi¥ veade followed Mr. program and spoke ijone by the Athens sommission in 1925. m, he said, went to i, and had -an act eave the city power ' io bring a city ar- ot eamg,” Dr. Reade made a complete / with blut prints by the city. Singe & project has lain - had with him the ibited them with «ex> t was suggested she t a committee to pe- Aayor that the com viewed and the‘M" set in motion once regular members p following —were jestg at the luncheon: m Foster Wother- Ru‘h Turner, Miss ragon, president of oW, De, Je . B 8. Edwards, § .C. Moon, B. ¥, Wright, ©W. T, . Stanton Forbes. Jenkins, second. vice oslded in the absence a\ Morrow, preslde;pti i read the minutes of ting in the absence of Joel, secretary. f % am was in charge 31 VanNoy, who spoke eation program for the proposed iabora for the eity in co ith the University, af she introduced the rar,” she said, “‘was. d to me by General ion of the NRA. v 1 m some time ago ask-. would bhe possible for » a competent speaker pning, and he recoms . Torras most highly.” 18 regular business sesi-: » ‘group, Mrs, Wi & 1d the legislative re- s to be a Democratis eld in Clarke county wur the purpose of nom ree county commission érs must - qualify flifi llector by May Ist! to by vote in this elections in either .the state primary in September leral election November wed on Last Page) i «a Candidate Vice-Presidency ' in D.A.R. Election JGTON —(@)— Political ‘ened at the congress of . iters of the Ameriean | here Wednesday in n for Thursday's m&u ose seven vice presidents ‘om a list of eleven. = the candidates are Mrs. nson MeCurry of Ath ind Mrs. Zebulon Judd of \la. kit ngress voted today fe ichool girl from each of ates to Washington next b patrintlo plisxiioniee S sk Goy GUN
