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No. 84 \rmament Dissension Ready T o Flare | ittle Commencement To Begin Tomorrow At University e FESTIVITIES JIEE EEK-EXD L CCISIoN e Dances to Be Held ¢ Woodruff Hall; Mal Hallett Playing THRONG EXPECTED use-Parties and Other Features to Attract Many Visitors nree dances on Friday evening, gaturday afternoon and even mbined with sixteen frater ' use parties, other ‘varied ainments, and two baseball . with Auburn, will consti ( the University’s brightest and est social occasion of the year itle Commencement week-end. ot only will this affair attract versity students and members - jety's vounger married set whout the state, but many .of-state guests have = already fied their intentiongs of at- I It is expected by the n-Heller council, that some ! sons will dance to the es of Mal Hallett and his hestra, in Woodruff hall this By engagin Mal Hailett and rchestra to furnish the music the affair, Joe Thomas, Jesup, sident f the l’:m-Hellenio‘ Incil, is bringing @ nutionally-; bwn band to Athens. The Hal t ganization recently com-{ ted a long engagement ~at the uisville hotel in Louisville, Ky, pre it adcast nightly over tion WHAS On Southern Tour or the past two Weeks, the estra has been making a Sou in college tour, playing for ring dances at Washington and e, and Virginia PolytSchnic in ither colleges at which rche v will be heard are phama, North Carolina, and A ling to President Thomas, o e three no-breaks at t Friday and Saturday ening affairs, with the Pan ile grand march coming at Friday. There will be no il no-breaks at the Saturday Lt m tea dance, The setting for the dances will SWamp scene, using the Oke loKee area in south Georgia as ' Ut Cypress trees and will be painted all vund the dance floor, and thous 'S of feet of crepe ' paper will [ US€¢ Tor the solid blue canopy °r the dancers. The decorations © VelNg put up by members of ! Aandscape Architecture club, & Richard Dupree. Athens, . EEeatmont ind Hubert B. late professor of - irchitecture, is faculty = 'nd’s festivities will k. ened by the Georgia- E ieball game, Friday at ) “anford field. At 7:30 E elican club will hold a “-dance at the Georgian ho- L Dale and his Bull -8 the music. The e In Woodruff hall \ t b. m. and continue % Hold Open HQUSe g uffet guppers and oh e [ follow the Friday it Hvity will- begin early morning - with special eakfastg, Until the “Hed on Last Page) ake B;‘va—ill Be Candidate For State Legislature Joel, well known L L prominent in frater ) €, today announced ‘ candidate in the mary for the state entatives and that INcement would be Wwill be held Sep . the general election In a previous ] was a candidate, ’ L e by a margin of six - he said, some of k t*d for only one : €ad of twn, thus . ofs. 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Wirt charges he heard sensational stories of a Brain Trust “Red plot.” Seated in the rear are Dr. Wird (right) and his counsel, former Senator James Reed, Memorial Program Announced By Daughters Of Confederacy Tammany’s Hostile Braves Close in on Chief John Curry NEW YORK—(#)—The circle of hostile - Tammany braves clyséd in on John F. Curry Thursday, with a majority of the chief council call ing for his scaip. : A meeting of the executive com mittee was called for 5 p. m., Fri day to act—if Curry has not ab dicated—on a motion to depose him as Tammany chieftain, But silent John, who has met with a curt refusal all demand that he resign, insisted he would not quit, asserting: “I saild that last week and the week before, and I say it again.” The revolt against Curry, hasten ed by the Fusion victory in the last eity election, reached its peak as the insurgents announced. that a majority of the executive com mittee had signed a petition ask ing for Curry's resignation. HIGH SCHOOL ROTG IS INSPECTED TODAY Col. William L. Reed In specting Officer; Rating Announced Later The annual inspection of the High school R. O. T. C. was held at the Athens High drill field this morning, beginning at 9 o'clock and lasting until after one. Com pany drills, squad drills, and in spection of companies and indivi duals were some of the events on the program. ’ Calonel Villiam L, Reed was the inspecting officer of the local mili tary unit. He is R. O. T. C. offi cer of the fourth corps area, and this year was his third as in spector of the Athens unit. Col onel E. K. Smith, assisted by Ser geant D. L. Turpin, is military commandant of tle High school. The rating of the school will be an nounced later. The following is a list of the personne! of the military depart ment: The staff consists of Major Bob Kimbrell, batialion commander; Captain William Chandler and First Lieut. Lacey Mangleburg, adjutant. The personnel of the band is as follows: . First Lieut, Wade Cooper, See ond Lieut. Bob Dottery, First Sergeant T. B. Sullivan, Staff Sergeant and Drum Majer David Exercise to Be Held Next Thursday Morning in University Chapel Confederate Memorial Day exer cises will be held in the Univer sity chapel on Thursday morning, April 26, ay 10:40, it was announc ed today by Mrs. T. W. Reed, presi dant of the Laura. Rutherford chapter U, D. C. which has ar ranged the program, Mrs. Reed is also president of the state body. Harold Patterson, Atlanta, for merly of Athens and son of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Patterson, will de liver the principal address. ' Miss Minnie Cutler will present a violin solo, acompanied on the piano by Miss Lucille Ximble, Following the exercises in lhe chapel, the soldiers’ graves in Oconee Hill cbmetery wil be decorated and members of the University R.O.T.C, will fire a salute, after which taps will be played, . The complete program for the occasion is ag follows: Prayer, Dr. W. H. Wrighton; Violin solo, Miss Minnie Cutler, | accompanieqd by Miss Kimble; In | troduction of speaker, Dr. 8. V. Sanford; Address, Harold Patter son, Atlanta; Delivery of prizes by Laura Rutherford chapter to win ’nors in essay contest; Decoration !of soldiers graves; Firing of sal iute; Taps. : { The Laura Rutherford chapter is sponsoring an essay contest, and prizes will be awarded each School in the city and county for the best one from that particular group. The subject chosen is “Robert E. Lee— !The Man and the Educator.” The !winners will be announced on { Memorial Day. i The committee in charge of ar- rangements for the exercises con=- sists of Mrs. R. L. Patterson, Mrs. Paul Hadaway, Mrs. C, B. Daniel, Mrs. C. C. Kimzey, Mrs.- Tom Com er, and Mrs. E. J. O’'Kelley, Mrs. T. P. Stanley and Miss Mary Lou Wier are in charge of the chapel decorations. The . Confederate 1 (Continued on last page.) ! | LOCAL WEATHER | P e ‘ Partly cloudy, probably ! showers in south portion ’ Thursday night; Friday fair, ! cooler in north portion Friday. l The following weather re | port covers the 24-hour period ! ending at Ba. m. today: TEMPERATURE 3 Highest .... «c:s sets M T l R o iy iy Voo 880 LMem .. wesyrerd ..815 |, Womal ... ....000es eia iR i RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours «. «ss T. Total since April 1........ 2.18 Excess since April 1 .. ... .10 Average April rainfall...... 3.58 Total since January 1 .. v..1k1& Athens, Ga., Thursday, April 19, 1934 ROOSEVELT 15 TOLD OF CRIGIS N COAL FIELDS OF ALABANA Southerners Alarmed by NRA'’s Wiping Out of Wage Differential COUNCIL ASKS AID Tell President That Blood shed Is Imminent; Treops Stand By BIRMINGiHAM, Ala—(P)—South ern industrialists, fronkly alarmed and dismayed that the NRA nad virtually wiped out the wage dif terential between North and South in the coal industry, Thursday mapped plans for state meetings to bring cohesive action to resist further restoration of parity. . An appeal from the Southern stated industrial council was dis patched to President Roosevelt by telegraph ~ Wednesday, apprising him of the grave situation existing in the Alabama coal fields and urging immediate action to settle the controversy. “Racial strife and bloodshed art| the imminent effect of the situa tion,” said the telegram to the‘ president, “and order is now being partially maintained by national guard.” In. each of the states which speakers declared were threatened with elimination of wage different ials redueing the activity of ins dustry, meetings. will be held with in two weeks. v , Meanwhile, an ominous quiet pervaded the strife torn areas of IJeffarson county today with 21,- 000 miners in the astate idle and steel helmeted national guardsmen on duty at one mining camp. National guardsmen als, were kept under arms at the armory here to dash to any point at which disorders, which peace officers ,and military both freely predict should develop. The first blood in the sgtrife that, except for two weeks has prevail ed in Alabama's coal fields since mid-February was spilled yester day -when a- Negro picket was killed. & white miner seriously wounded and two men beaten, DOUBTS NRA'S STRENGTH CHARLESTON, 8. C.—(#)—Be lief the natiogal recovery adminis tration should devote its energies to refining the codes and effecting a rigid enforcement of them rath- (Continued on Last Pagé) MCARGON TO HEAD ATHENS GUN CLUB Prominent Athenians Or ganize Skeet Club; ‘Be gin Work Immediately G. V.. McCarson, local agent for the Texas Oil company, was named president of the newly formed Athens Gun club at its organization meeting last night at the Holman hotel. Some thirty prominent Athen ijans were present at the meeting, and all expressed a desire to co operate in the new undertaking. Bannon Jones was made vice president of the club, and J. T. Parker was elected secretary and treasurer. A board of four direc tors was also named. They are Dr. H. B. Harris, D. D. Quil lian, W. D. Beacham, jr., and W. A. Sams, jr. A committee composed of Mr, MecCarson, Mr. Sams and H. T. Busbee was._ appointed to locate a site for the skeet, * to - buy the traps, and to work out the by-laws for the-club. » It was decided that an initiation fee of three dollars would be charged each member, and the list will be held open for new members for some time, it is stated. According to tentative plans, members will be charged 25 cents per round for shooting and non-members will be charged 40 cents per round. It was planned to hold the shoots on Saturday afternoon every two weeks at first, with the possibility that the shoots might develop into a weekly affair. Officers of the local gun club plan_to ask wholesale and retail concerns here to help in sponsor ing the new project. Some eight or ten concerns have already pledged sums of money to help build the skeet, and others are (Continued on Last Page) -—ESTABLISHED 1832 Ohio Governor Threatened In Attempt To Force Him - To Save Dillinger’s Pals JUDGE ENLIVENS CANNON'’S TRIAL WASHINGTON —(#)— The trial of Bishop James Cannon, jr., was enlivened Thursday by a statement from Justice Peyton Gordon that Robe;'t‘ B’ IMcNeill. chief . coungel for the Southern Methodist church man, was attempting a speech out of turn - “for tne benefit of the jury.” . i The tilt between the Justice and MecNeill came . during arguments over the ‘admissability of testimony by 2 defense witness. McNeill, in contending the evi dence should be admitted, refer ~ad to the prosecution's conduct ol the .case. Justice Gordon suddenly. leaned forward: in his chair anpd said gharply t, McNeill: “If 'vou want to prove anything bring the stenographer up here to the bench, ~ “We're not going to have any more of these speeches for the ben efit of the jury.” GARDEN CLUBS IN ANNUAL MEETING Athenian Members of State Executive Board; Convention in Atlanta ATLANTA, Ga—'(#) ~—Coming just “at the time this city's dog wood _and spring flowers are in full “bloom, approximately 400 prominent women ' from all parts of the state were here Thursday for the sixth dnnual conventjon of the Garden Club of Georgia. Besides the dogwood that fills the residential section, the beauti ful’ gardens of ~ many prominent citizens arp full of fresh blooms. One of the features of the con vention program is the tour of the gardens this afternoon. The convention met here on the invitation of the Iris Garden club. Mrs. Thomas Berry of Rome, state president, presided, and gave her report this morning. Also on the program was an address by Alfred C. Hottes, associate editor of a garden magazine and presi dent of the Men's Garden Club of America. | The convention dinner will be held tonight, and Friday morning officers will be elected and the guests once more will visit local gardens: ) The: state executive board held a meeting Wednesday ' night at the residence of Mr. G. Arthur Howell. The board is made up of officers and committee chairmen, including Mrs. George Burrus of Columbus, Mrs. .W. D. Hooper and Mrs. J. V. H. Rucker of Athens, Miss Irene Davis of Tho masville, Mrs. Lamar Rucker of Athens, Mrs. William T. Heard of Columbus, and Mrs. Joseph Speer of Augusta. PALMISANO HEAD OF MASONIC CLUB Newly Organized Group Eiects Directors and For mulatzs Program Gaspar Palmisano was elected president and W. A. Capps, vice president of the newly organized Masonic club at a meeting held Tuesday night. E. O. Kinnebrew, ‘lYom Jackson, C. 8. Taylor, -Dink’ Martin, Bill Pittard-and- Fred Ball were elect ed ‘as ‘a- board of directors. The meeting - was “held- at Masonic Temple and attending Masons were enthusiastic over formation of the club. | A plan of work was outlined and icommlttees on programs, Masonic | research, Masonic school, civic | welfare, fellowship and refresh | ments. : Charter meinbers of the club are E. R. Harris, W. A. Capps, G. Palmisano, Lloyd Florence, B. S. Dußose, L. O. Price, George Storey, C. L. Basham, P. L. Holliday, H. Cutler, Abe Yudel son, W, O. Bolton, H. C. Doolit tle, Harry Patat, A. O. Bishop, E. L. Hill, J. P. Knowles, J. W. Jarrell, T. Harmon Jackson, A. E. Davison, E. O. Kinnebhrew, F. J. Ball, Dink Martin, Tom Jack son, C. S. Taylor, Bill Pittard, J. W. :Cook; D: W. Lochlin, C. F. Crymes, 8. 8. Thomas, Abit Nix, and George Stone. . The next meeting will be held at the Masonic lodge Tuesday, MR Notorious Qutlaw Appar ently Behind Plot Disclosed Today RUMORS CONFLICT One of Gang That Rob bed lllinois Bank Today Said to Be:Dillinger COLUMBUS, O.—{#)—A threat on the life of Governor George White apparently emanating from Dillinger - gangsters i{s -under in vestigation of postal authorities, the governor revealed Thursday. The threat was made In a letter mailed in Chicago and signed by “friends” of Harry Pierpont and Charley Makley, Dillinger gang sters under sentence of death in the electric chair for slaying Sher {ff Jess Sarber at Lima. Governor White disclosed the letter said that ‘if hs did net. par don “Harry and Charley” before the execution date, July 13, he would not live put his term in of fice. ' . : “I turned the letter over to the Postmaster Nate McCoy of Colum bus and he submitted it to postal inspectors,” the governor said. Received Last Week The letter was received a week ago Tuesday. Tt was written on the stationary of a St. Louis Hotel (Statler). The governor said he was not alarmed by the threat "as T still ‘have g, few months t, liye before Judy -AW mpabiacncs s : The governor's name and ad dress was crudely printed on the envelope but the letter, written in longhand, was evidently disguised. White said. there would be na increase of the guard at the exe cutive mansion. The guard was posted sevqra]l weeks ago when the Dillinger gangsters were removed from the Lima jail to the Ohio penitentiary. Pierpont and Makley are to be electrocuted for sglaying the Sh\'-‘ iff when they raided the Allen county jaii and liberated John Dll-‘ linger, their chieftain, wh, was (Conginued on last page.) Finance Committee Of YM.CA. Wil Meet Tonight at 6 Members of the Y. M. C, A. board of directors who com pose the finance committee, will meet tonight a; 6 o’clock at the association building to make thelr report on contribu tions in their efforts to raise $1,480 to meet current obliga tions which must be paid this month, Of the amount needed S4BO is for semi-annual interesy and SI,OOO for the annual curtail ment of the building mortgage. At the first meting the com mittee reported $185.50 had been raised. The committee will be glad to receive contributions of Ath enians to the fund. The committee s composed of E. R, Hodgson, E. E. Lam kkin,- M. G. Nicholson, Sam Nickerson, T. F. Green, Jr., Morton 8. Hodgson, George H. Thornton, N. G, Slaughter, Tate Wright and Abvit Nix. Overseer of Christian Cathelic Apostolic Church Thunders Defiance at His Enemies | ZION, Ill.— (&) —Wilbur Glenn lVoHva. proclaiming himself a | two-gun - man from away-back, | buckled on his shooting irons | Thursday and thundered defiance lto his foes. i To the 2,000 persons who crowd ed Shiloh tabernacle Wedneesday ‘nlght, the overseer of the Chris | tian Catholic Apostolic church— !whn still contends that the world {is flat—saild: ’ l “You people had better watch lout for me. Onece in Melbourne, " Australia, a real mob of 150 men ’surrounded me and threatentd to ! kill me, but I walked out unharm ed. “l was brought up as a gunman, When T was a boy I used to carry {two guns. I am heavily armed inow, and Tll kill a man at the ]drop of a hat in self defense. Countless guards, armed to the iteeth. surround me. They have orders from me to shoot at a sec- ]ond‘s warning. ! “Threats, veiled and otherwise, ihave been made against me. Let A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—>s¢ Sunday BRUMBY’S FORCES “DEFEND”’ CANAL WITH THE U. 8. FLEET, OFF WEST COAST OF CENTRAL AMERICA.— (&) —Powerful sub marines moved = northward from the Bay of Panama Thursday to defend the Canal Zone against a “hostile” fleet. - j : ~ Steaming southward to encoun ter these undersea cruisers was the armada of the United States fleet, greater in strength than any fleet that ever engaged in a naval battle. . STE Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves, on the dreadnaught California, commanded the attacking force of nearly four score fighting ships, dreadnaughts, aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers and auxiliar ies. Somewhere at secret dispositions was the mightiest submarine force ever engaged in such a problem, together with the newest and fastest of American scout cruisers, under command of Vice- Admiral Frank Hardeman Brum by, of Athens, Ga., on the U, 8. 8. Indianapolis, - . = OUTDOOR SKATING T 0 BEGIN TONIGHT Entre Nous Club Sponsors “Rink’”” on Hancock Avenue . | The first outdoor - skating rink in the history of Athens will be opened here tonight at 8 o'clock, whén the Entre Nous club, eom posed 'of members of the Young ’Business Girls club, entertain at a gkating party. The rink will be located between Jackson and Thomas streets, on Hancock ave nue. ; Admission for anyone wishing to skate will be 10 cents, and moth ers and fathers who wish to ac company children may do so with out any cost. However, children will be perfectly .safe, as the block will be roped off, and the Entre Nous girls will take care of any child who is not old enough to do so for himself. Girls of the club will be glad to teach anyone how 'to skate, free of charge, it was announced to day. Officers and members of the club are Mary Harris, president; Nina Ginn, vice president; Nellie Mapp, secretary and treasurer, and Lulu Young, Lucy Young, Martha Car ter Storey, Katie Ruth Pope, Lil lian Irby, XKathleen Porterfield, Louise Dale, Henrietta Ginn, Mar- (Continued on Last Page) Mrs. McCurry Speaks At D.A.R. Convention WASHINGTON. — (#) — The Daughters of the American Revo lution set aside Thursday as a gréat one for vice presidents, ar ranging to elect seven from a field of eleven. # Behind the balloting for the vice-presidents general, however, there was political . talk plenty about next year's election of a new president general. Accomplishments of the Georgia division during her term as state regent were reported by Mrs. Julidn McCurry of Athens, Ga., Thursday. Mrs. McCurry is one of the candidates for a vice presidency. Slih . thpse who make them .act, and I guarantee to kill any hundred persons. I've got enough guards to Kkill that many. in a few sec onds.” Voliva’s war cry was his answer to the dissension that has arisen since he threatened last Tuesday to “crack the town wide open” by closing the schools, after his canddiates for the school board had been defeaated. His foes drew blood Wednesday when the public school was open ed despite the overseer's edict. Onias W. Farley, whe was elected president of the school board against Voliva’s c¢andidate, de clared this was only the start of the drive to end domination of the city which Voliva has exer cised since he took over the man tle of Alexander Dowie, first head of the church, two score years ago. “The people of Zion are fed up with Voliva's dominance and in solence,” said Farley. BAITISH WILL SEEK MEANS TO PREVENT FEARED ARMS RAGE Efforts Spurred by French Contention That Talk - Is Useless . JAPAN STIRS DEBATE Restatement of Policy In China Thought Directed At Americans (Associated Press Foreign Staff) LONDON — (# — Fighting to stave off a feared race'among_ the nations to rearm, British leaders began Thursday a I{eneWed_ s&ms;- gle for some basig of agreement. They were spurred by the Frénch contention, stated in a note to Lon don, that Germany's increased de fense - appropriations. have smash ed all hope of disarmament through bilateral negotiations, ! _' Authoritative sources said Brit ain is 'determined to continue ef forts to obtain at least a iimited arms convention. i Amid ‘these moves Thursday, the London Press, in a pessimistic vein, topped accounts of the French note with such headlinesg as: \ “Grave Disarmament Crisis “Divect. Arms Talks Killed,” “Dis armament Deadlock” and “France Blames Germany.” R l “Refreshing Candour” The Morning Post said tke [French memorandum is a “waft of refreghing candour, ioosed into the sultry, suffocating atmosphere of make-believe” and ends once. and for all the hollow pretense that dis armament ig either safe or pose sibe under existing conditions, The definite French position was revealed in a British government “white paper” which told in 7,000 words the story of how European nations have sought to reach a basis for an arms accord. The paper was released after London had received in the note from Paris a demand that a full disarmament conference resume discussions where they were drop ped last fall. g Delegates to the conference left Geneva, after the withdrawal of Germany from both-.the Parley and the, 'League of Nations, hoping to find agreement through diploma tic exchanges. Seeks New Solution But leaders were forced Thurs day to cast about for some' new solution, wirth the French coneclu sion that (ermany’'s moves . have “rendered vain” all separate Fran co-British negotiations. In her new budget, Germany made proyision for increased ap propriations for army, navy and air forces. 4 { The opinion that the Italian-plan now is the only remaining hg for European dirsarmament was expressed widely in unofficial quar ters which sajd, however, that ne communicaiion wag planned »&Ei Premier Mussolini, originater: of the Italian plan, on the subjeét.. ™ The Tltalian plan was communi cated by Premper Mnssolini te Sir John Simon, Britisih foreign secre tary, January 4, and suggested a partial rearming of Germany, re formation of the League of Na tions, and supervision of the armat ments of other powers. MEEs FRANCE WANTS PACT PARIS — (#) — France again is seeking a military alliance -with England to prevent a threatemed disastrous Europefn arms race. “Faced with German admissions that they are rearming in defiance of the world,” a high offlclaf;% Thursday, “France is unable to tie her hands unless she is assured Grea; Britian would be on her side in case she were attacked” % EXPECT CLARIFICATION LONDON—(#)—The British gov ernment expects an immediate clarification from its ambassadors in Tokyo of the reported Japanese foreign ofice warning to the world to keep its hands off China and the threat to resort to force to carry out this policy. . i This expectation was announced at the foreign office where it was learned that no official communi cation had been received. o British official circles said they regarded as unwarranted alleged Japanese fears that the United States, Great Britain, or other powers would seize upon special influence in China. e A Japanese ban on in jonal aid to China. it was held, would be a direst violation of the nime-
