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Washington
Lowdown
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Rodney Dutcher
3 The Brain Trust
I Causes Alarm
I Four-Letter Word
Banner-Herald Washington
Correspondenit
WASHINGTON-—The inside his
sorv of the Brain , Trust would
pe one of the most fascinating
varns ever written.
" But no one is likely to tell it.
mhose who could do the job ara
involved in too many confidences,
iralousies, double-crosses. intriz.
yes, and personal vanities.
Most brain trusters have proved
more valuable than most politici
ans. Many are here at personal
sacrifice because of a yen for pub
lic service. But any idea that they
all operate harmoniously and hold
~ommon beliefls without friction 13
2¢ absurd ag if applied to any con
slomerate group of men in posi
tions of influence,
They have been putting on as
pretty a performance of backstage
strategy, backdoor propaganda, and
gquabbling among themselves as
anv group of politicians ever gath
ered here. 3
Justice Brandeis or Prof: Felix
Frankfurter could tell you a lot
about it, since most® brain trust
ers pay them obeisance and many
take their troubles to them. But
they won't.
The hand of Prof. Raymond A.
Moley can sometimes be seen if
vou watch sharply enough. Moley
still has a close stand-in with
Roosevelt, pals with some members
of the “trust” he once headed, and
edits a magazine in which he can
say what he likes. ;
Although he primarily blames
Secretary Hull, his old titular boss,
for his departure from the Wash
ington scene, he thinks certain
other brain trusters helped it
along., Don’t be gurprised at any
thing wyou read about Charles
W. Taussig, administration sugar
(‘uba adviser—or even Rex Tug
well himself—which hight indicate
Moley animosity.
A month or so ago, Moley edi
torially panned another top-rank
hrain truster — who went un
named—for eertain public utter
ances which were quoted. Subse
quent backstage uprear, based on
report that Moley was out to “get”
that gent, gtill reverberates. Al
though Moley remained in New
Vork, his friends and enemies here
had #ome heavy skirmishes.
General Johnson's attribution of
“Communistic purpose” to the
Darrow board has caused some
alarm, asg ‘it indictes the general
raay be running out of unhack
neved adjeetive. . . . The second
Darrow report was “ledked” when
it went to the White House, lest
it he held up until NRA prepared
withering ecounterblasts.
When Secretary , Maclntyre of
the White House staff telephoned
to locate the “leak,” Darrow pro
fessed ignorance, but added: “T
mean I'm glad some of you people
couldn’t suppress this and mess it
up like youm did the first report.”
NRA has just started its own
newspaper, a “house organ” call
ed “The Blue Bagle.” It will tell
all the news of what's going on in
the recovery program—all the of
ficial news, that is « +
Menu at Johnson's NRA birth.
Aay party for the firat 85 employ
es Beer, hot dogs, sauerkraut,
roMs. (Ahout 150 of the first 85
turned up.) . . . Bulk of NRA
employes chartered a steamboat
for an outing down the river.
Headed home, the boat rammed a
lifehuoy ‘and was held up a couple
of hours, arriving back about 1:30
a. m
Of = thousand huge busts of
fieorge Washington given to of
ficials by Congressman Sol Bloom
when he was running the Bicen
fennial, the only one that can be
found now is in the new office of
Postmaster General Jim Farley.
Rig moment in Congress came
when the super-elegant Senator T.
Ham Lewis made a certain four
letter word acceptable in the best
circles—only J. Ham woud have
such power — as follows: “Mr.
Pregident, T think this is-a mo
ment such as comes in the life of
rvery government when America
must—to use a sidewalk expres
“ion. most easily understood in its
meaning hy ecitizens who are not
rarticularly interested in refine
ment of expression—when Ameri
‘7 must gshow ‘guts.’ This phrase
s now understood where action is
called for.”
Then there’s the story about
the college student who answered
the examination question, “Who
is Rexford Tugwell?” He wrote:
‘Tugboat Annie’s husband.”
Copyright, 1934, NEA Service, Inc.
INTERNAL FIGHT
HAVANA — (®) —An internal
fight in the powerful ABC political
‘ociety, whose ranks were shat
fered by machine gun bullets last
Sunday, split Cuba’'s cabinet to
day
The issue was continued sup
port of the government headed by
President Carlos Mendieta.
o 2 N SN
PREPARDNESS
AUGUSTA, Ga—(#)—With the
mercury hitting the middle nineties
afire was discovered burning in
the grate at Solicitor General
George Haing' office. Office work
“rs theoriged the fire was started by
accident, G
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
Net Is Tightened About Poderjay
ATHENIANG RALLY
BEHIND LEGIONS
POOL. PARK PROJECT
Businessmen Discuss Way
To Raise Money to
Complete Pool -
GUESTS AT SUPPER
Dr. Moss Heads Commit
tee to Consider Plans
« To Raise Funds
Hope that the first unit of the
American Legion recreational cen
ter on Lumpkin street may be com
pleted by August 1, so that Athen
ians may enjoy ths facilities of the
swimming pool and bath house be
bore the hot weatker is over, was
strengthened last night when ovar
100. members of the Legon and
local businessmen met on the site
of the .project to talk things over
at a steak and chicken supper.
There was little fanfare and
trumpeting- for the gathering was
for business purpmse and it got
down to business almost at once.
The meeting unanimosuly en
dorsed the appointment of a com
mittee to devise a way to borrow
$20,000 or $25,000 quickly to com
plete the pool and bath houses by
August 1, and on motion of Abit
Nix the committee was named, to
be composed of Dr. W. L. Moss,
Mayor A. G. Dudley, James White,
Harry N. Heins, of the ILegion
Post, Tate Wright, clerk of the
county commissioners and county
attorney and Lamar C, Rucker,
city attorney and attorney 'for the
Legion here,
Mitchell Presided
Frank Mitchell, past commander
of the [Legion post, presided over
the meeting and outlined the pro
gress made so far. He said that
the pool is about half finished and
that some $23,000 has been spent
for labor, materials and purchase
of the property, with the labor be
ing furnished by the government,
Mr. Mitchell pointed out that when
the pool is completed, it probably.
can accommodate 1,000 persons at
one time.
Weaver Bridges, also a past
commander of the Legion, cited the
pool at Gainesville as evidence that
the pool could be made to pay,
saying that the municipal pool
there last year netted about §4,-
000.
The first speaker, Abit Nix, sug
gested that city be asked to pro
vide the money needed to complete
the pool. Mayor Dudley followed
Mr. Nix, and, after voicing sup
port of the project, outlined the fi
nancial condition of the city and
‘said that the matter of the city fi
nancing the pool rested with city
council. He also said bankers he
tad talked too said they would be
glad to provide the money if any
legal plan could be worked out,
Three main plans drew the most
discussion,
Under one plan the monay would
e borrowed from banks along the
same lines as were used by the
University and Dr Sanford to build
the stadium. That plan called for
friends and supporters of the pro-
(Continued on page six.)
ST. CLAIR ADMITS
DOCTOR’S SLAYING
Refuses to Tell Motive
For Crime, However;
Waives Extradition
NEW ORLEANS.—(£)—If the
statement of Harold St. Clair
stands, the motive for the slaying
last week-end of Dr. Homer L.
Meyer, 55-year-old wealthy den
tist of Eldorado, 111, will never be
known. ;
“] will go to the electric chair,
but the reason why I killed Meyer
will go with me,” said St. Clair,
30-year-old bespectacled ex-con
vict of Ohio, to Chief of Detectives
John Grosch, after St. Clair's ar
rest as he stepped from a taxicab
Thursday night in uptown New
Orleans.
St. Clair, studious and talkative
after a fashion, told New Orleans
officers he killed the Illinois den
tist, but after an intenese grilling
he would go only so far in details
of the slaying.
Illinois authorities had said that
they were unable to assign a mo
tive for the murder of Meyer and
expressed the opinion that he had
peen tortured and killed.
Theories of abduction, robbery
and swindle entered into the
northern investigation, but au
thorities were cergtain of nothing
except that Meyer disappeared and
Ihis body was found Sunday in a
clump of woods near his farm
with two bullet holes in the back.
St. Clair said he kad no inten
tions of swindling the dentist.
ife denies he robbad Meyer and
said that if Meyer Wwas robbed,
someone else did it. He said he
would waive extradition and
would willingly go to Tlllinois for
an immediate trial.
Couple Held in Vienna in Tufverson Mystery
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The spotlight of a puzzling international mystery was turned on Capt. Ivan Poderjay (left) and his wife,
Margaret Suzanne Ferrand (right) as police of two continents investigated the mysterious disappearance
of Agnes Tufverson 10 days after marrying Poderjay in New York last December. Poderjay and his new
wife are being heid by Viennese police, who say they must relcase the couple unless tangible evitlence is
discovered against them soon. (Photos transmitted by radio.)
DRESDEN OFFICERS
PREFER NO CHARGES
Say Pilot of Sunken Ger
man Ship Could ‘Not
Avoid Accident
KOPEVIK, Karmoy Island, Nor
way—{(P)—Officers of ths German
liner Dresden testified at a mari
time inquiry into the liner's loss
today that they had no charge to
prefer against the pilot who ap
parently by misunderstanding
took the wvesgel into waters for
which he had no pilot's certifi
cate.
The Norwegian pilot, named
Jacobsen, however, was well ac
quainted with the fiord where the
liner rammed into. a rock Wednes
day night with 1,000 vacationing
Nazis aboard. \
“This is my first mishap,” said
Captain Wilhelm Petermoeller of
the Dresden. “I cannot . under
stand how it happened.
“I reproach myself for:not being
on the bridge before the accident
but T had been on continuous duty
for 49 hours because of mist and
bad weather and intended to take
a few hours of very necessary rest
when we reached clear, guiet wat
ers."”
While the court heard evidence,
the disconsolate passengers of the
Dresden made tbe best of their
enforced presence here. They were
geantily clad as they waited a boat
to take them back to Germany.
Many of the women still wore life
belts and some continued to weep
hysterically. : :
A recheck of the death list re
vealed only two women lost their
lives in the wreck Wednesday
night, Earlier reports said four
were victims.
A report of the findings of the
court will be sent to Germany.
Youth Is Killed in
Auto Collision Near
Valdosta Thursday
VALDOSTA, Ga—#)—A head
on collision of two automobiles at
Five Points, near Valdosta, result
ed in the death of Emory Dampier,
12 years old of Valdosta, and the
injury of ten perscns.
Some of the occupants of the
two cars are unconscious and those
who were conscious late yesterday
were unable to explain the acei
dent. The injured encluded:
Mrs. Charles Dampier, mother
of the dead boy; Mrs. Love Sims,
who received serious internal in
juries; Bert Dampier; two small
Dampier children; C. P. Rouse and
his son of Ashburn, Ga.; J. p.
Ezell of Atlanta; Mrs. C. Lanier
and Mrs. Cifford McDonald, both
of Valdosta.
The Dampiers, Mrs. Sims, Mrs.
Lanier and Mrs, McDonald were in
one automobile and the Rouses and
Ezell were in the other.,
CHILD ABANDONED
~ ATLANTA— (#) —Sonny was at
play in his new home today; his
father was in jail and his mother
‘Lfree on her own r=cognizance.
The 11-months-old baby, police
Icharge, was left with a Negro wo
|man by his parents Mr. and Mrs.
C. H. Hatfield, in abandonment:
~ESTABLISHED 1832~
Athens, Ga., Friday, June 22, 1934
Harvard Frosh Lose
Shell Race Despite
F.D.R., Jr.’s Efforts
NEW LONDON, Conn.—(#)—
With President Roosevelt look
ing on, the Yal freshmen to
day defeated Harvard's yearl
ings in the annual regatta here
today. Franklin Roosevelt, jr.,
is a member of the Harvard
frosh crew,
As the shells crossed the fin
ish line, the stern four of the
Harvard boat, of which young
Roosevelt was one, bent wear
ily over their oars.
From the refleree’s boat the
president took a hasty glance
at his son, thea the launch
turned and headed wupstream
for the start of the Jjunior var
sity race.
PRINCE OF WALES
HAS BIRTHDAY
Heir to British Throne
Will Be Forty Years Old
Tomorrow
LONDON—(A)—He doesn't look
it, but the Prince of Wales is 40
yvears old tomorrow.
Busier than ever and graver of
‘mien, the heir to the throne of
‘the British empire does not get
‘much relaxation these days. Con
tent with his modest bachelor ap
artments at St. James' palace and
hs country place at Sunningdale,
he has devoted himself in recent
‘months to the campaign for re
moving slums throughout the Bri
tish Isles,
Society gets little chance nowa
days to couple the name of the
world’s most eligible bachelor with
some stately princess or lovely
lady of the realm. His royal high
ness works hard at his job.
He took time off this week to
attend the Royal Ascot race meet
ing with the king and queen, and
the other night he slipped away to
the military tattoo which as been
drawing tens of thousands a night.
On that occasion he characteris
tically declined to enter the royal
box and few knew of his presence.
His emgfi missions which earn
ed him the title of the “world’s best
traveling salesman,” ~ have been
taken over by his younger brothers
—the Duke of York, Prince Henry
and Prince George.
The prince appears to be in
deadly earnest about the necessity
for clearing up the slums, a gigan-
(Continued on Page Six)
Plans Being Made to
Establish Community
Cannery in County
Plans to starA a community
cannery at Winterville are being
pushed here by J. H. Wilson, county
vocational teacher, and the ERA
offices. The cannery will be the
first one established in Clarke
county in recent years.
The cannery will be open th®
year round, and will can fruits,
vegetables and meats. During the
school term the cannsry will be
used as a laboratory for the stu
dents. Mr. Wilson will be in charge
of the factory, if 1t is started up.
* The board of education is sup
plying the mat<rigls, and the ERA
will supply the workers, both for
setting up the cannery dnd for
running it after it has been start
ed, : !
LEGISLATOR ARE
(RDERED BY LONG
“Kingfish”” Returns From
Washington and Louisi
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LBATON ROUGE, La.—{(P)—Sen:
ator Huey P. Long, the Kingfish,
today was telling the legislature
what to do and at last reports they
were doing it. J
From palatial memotfal lobby of
the great and magnificent $5,000,-
600 capitol to the governor’s pan
elled and ornamental office and
then to committee room where he
took complete charge, he sauntered
and dictated.
The house of representatives
passed the biennial appropriations
bill amounting to $111,5662,503.41
and included in it an item of $15,-
750,000 as a relief fund to be raised
if the legislature passes tax pro
posalsg advanced by the Louisiana
tax reform commission and the
administration of Governor O. K.
Allen.
The taxes were under consider
ation at the week-end today as
the legislatorg planned to Yecess
and go home for a brief rest.
There was a bill before the
house to authorize Charity Hos
pital at New Orleans to borrow
$8,000,000 fromx the Public Works
administration for a new hogpital
building:
This has met months of opposi
tion from¥ physiclans and others
who raised objection to the com
petitive pay beds in the hospital.
Long took command and said
the bill was no more. He announ
ced that in its stead there would
be an amendment to another bill
which would carry the charity hos
pital plan and that his plan would
provide for an increase of 25 cents
in the $1 present corporation fran
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First Summer Day
Ushers in Real Heat
Over Most of U. S.
(By The Associated Press)
So this is summer! .
The first day of the new season
was ushered in last night with
“real summer .weather” over the
nation.
.. There were several heat pros
trations in New York state and
city, where the mercury mounted
to 89.3. A boy was killed by
lightning at Elmra, N. Y., and a
bather was drowned off Rockaway
Point, N. Y.
Six forest fires burned in Color
do, two of them attributed to
lightning.
Dr. Ernest Hanfstaengl, adviser
to Chancellor Hitler, went toa Mes
sachusetts Beach for a swim yes
terday, escaping the heat—and an
anti-Nazi demonstration at Harv
ard, his Alma Mater,
There were scattered thunder
storms in the Great Lake region,
Ohio Valley, Northern plain states
and northern New England,
SERVICES FOR WOMAN
ROCKMART, Ga—(#)—Funeral
services were held here this morn
ing for Mrs, C. E. Baker of At
lanta who died Wednesday. The
services will be held at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Nettles and
interment will be at Austell, Ga.
MORE THAN NINETY
ATTEND LIONS GLUB
CELEBRATION NIGHT
R. L. Whitelock and W.
T. Ray Honored by
Local Club
PILOTS ARE GUESTS
Past Presidents Night and
.
Ladies Night Observed
By Club Dinner
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Over 90 persons attended the
gala celebration of Athens. Lions
last night at a dinner in the Hol
man hotel.
The meeting was a combination
affair, honoring Mr. Ray, inaugu
rating past president’s night and
receiving the members of the Pilot
Club international, some fourteen
of whom were guests of the club
and R. L. Whitelock, formerly of
Athens, but now of Anderson, S. C.
The evening was greatly enlivened
with entertainment, stunts and
fun-making for it was also “Ladies
Night.” :
Dr. H. W. Birdsong, a past
president of the club, presided over
the meeting which marked the end
of the year for the administration
of Dr. Stanley R, Grubb, president
and the beginning of the term of
Dr. 8. C. Moon, who will succeed
him. Two other past presidents,
Arthur Oldham and Mr. Ray, also
came in for their share of the
‘honors as former executives.
I The invocation was given by
‘Ra.bbi Abraham Shusterman to
start the program. Rabbi Shus
terman is a member of the Rotary
club.
Immediately after the invocation,
Dr. Birdsong presented Henry
'Rosenthal and designated him as
Tail Twistgr for the meeting, an
office he will assume officially
'when the new officers take up
their duties later in the summer.
| Since the meeting gave prom
ise of being a tumultuous one and
the Tail Twister, among his many
‘other duties, is supposed to pre
‘gerve order, Mr. Rosenthal was
presented with a police badge of
authority and a double-barrelled
shotgun stréamlined like one of
John Dillinger’'s weapons, to en
force his authority.
He carried out his job at inter
vals throughout the meeting much
to the merriment of the great ma
jroity present and the sorrow of a
few whom he cracked down on.
Mrs. John Taylor and Mrs.
Cleve Poss delighted the guests
with a musical selection, Mrs,
Poss accompanying on the piano.
Miss Hazel -Poss- then gave a
reading and followed with a solo.
Mr. Elmer Kirk pleased with a
solo which was followed with a
duet by Miss Poss and Mr. Kirk.
In a short talk Dr. Grubb told
of hig apreciation for the coopera
tion of the club during the past
year probably the most active in
the history of the local club, and
paid tribute to Mr. Ray, He point
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ATTEMPT ON LIFE
OF HITLER DENIED
Government Press De
partment Issues Denial
To Persistent Rumors
BERLIN. — (#) -—— Nazi agents
swept swiftly through = Germany
today tracking down and spiking
rumors that an attempt had begn
made to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
So insistent: were <the reports
that the government press depart
ment took dognizance of them by
issuing a denial.. - -
A sifting of the rumors discloged
one fact. Somebody took a pot
shot at an.automobile en route to
funeral services Wednegday for
Frau Karin Goering, wife of the
premier of Prussia and. government
minister. ;
The bullet was not fired on the
road Hitler traveled-to the fun
eral and apparently was not in
tended” for him or any other high
official. ;
Hitler had been to Neudeck for
an important conference with
Fresident Von Hindenbursg.
LOCAL WEATHER
Fair tonight and Saturday.
The following weather report
covers the 24-houp period end
ing at 8:00 a. m. today:
TEMPERATURE
Higheat: ..x sots Bues svee 950
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours.... .. 0.00
Total singe June 1........ 5.26
Excess since June 1....... 2.24
Average June. rainfall..... 4.10
Total since January-1......30.34
Excess since January 1,.., 2.60
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With indications of a govern
ment upheaval in Japan, the
next premier is likely to be Gen.
Issei Ugakl, shown above in a
new picture. He now is gover
nor general of Korea and ‘is
strongly supported by the liberal
factions, who would consider "his
elevation a great victory over
the militarist cliques.
ICKES THREATENG
STATE ALLOTMENTS
Will Rescind Action Un
less Men Are Put to
Work Immediately
WASHINGTON.— () —Secre
tary Ickes has threatened to re
scind the allotment of $1,500,000
for the construction of prison
buildings at the new Georgia State
prison at Reidsville, in Tattnall
county, Georgia, unless immediate
steps are taken to get the project
lun’(’ler construction “With men on
the payrolls at job sites.” ;
I The secretary Thursday rescind
ed 97 allotments for. non-federal
public works projects and warned
‘that 563 more in every state ex
cept Idaho would be withdrawn
‘unless immediate = action toward
putting men to work is taken. The
Reidsville prison building project
was among - those threatened by
the secretary.
Other projects in Georgia which
Ickes threatened to withdraw were
for an alms house at Gainesville,
$32,000; high school at Marlow,
$21,400; and water works at Un
ion Point, $38,000.
The 97 projects withdrawn to
taled $8,217,042 and the 563 threat
ened added up to $158558,517.
In a statemetn Ickes said, “So
far as PWA is concerned these 563
projects are all set and ready to
go and have been for weeks. The
money is available. All that ve
mains is the most important thing
—putting meén to work,
“The 663 projects are neither
under contract nor are they being
advertised for contract, two es
sential steps in getting them under
way. These projects are estimated
to produce 93,000,000 man hours of
direct employment, or 20 percent
of the total estimated direct am
ployent that will be produced by
the non-federal phase of the Pub
lic Works program.”
. Most of the recessions were re
quested hy recipients because elec
tions to authorize issuance cf
bonds to secure the loan had not
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Work Will Begin on
Sandy Creek Erosion
Project Next Week
Actual work on the Sandy Creek
soil erosion project will begin next
week, according to Loy E. Rast,
soil erosion director here.
‘Mr. Rast also announced this
morning that bids on a warehouse
for storage of the equipment to
be used in the work were put out
this morning, and that the imple
ments would be moved right away.
A warehouse is expected to be
decided on today or tomorvow,
More equipment for the soil
erosion work is coming into the
local offices every' day, and by the
time the work begins, it is ex
pected that a full supply will be
on hand.
The surveying and field work
will be the first done on the pro
ject next week. After that is fin
ished, the more -difficult work will
be done on the $300,000 project.
Mr. Rast said that rain gauges
were being set up nmow in the wari
ous communities in the section.
H. E. Dasher is in charge of this
work.
G. A. Crabb, who is connected
with the project here, visited the
Monticello project today. It is ex
pected that he will bring back
some interesting and helpful re
ports that will ‘aid the workers
here. | L
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By HENRY CASSIDY
NEW YORK—(#)—Three iétters.
written by the missing Miss Agnes *
Tufverson were brought forward =
toward, llke words from a tomb,
to refute Captain Ivan Poderjay’s
defense that their's was a :
age of convenience. A ,gg
The letters showed thaf Miss
Tufverson planned to abandon W@f
brilliant legal ecareer in Am&r!%fi:j’
and to spend the rest of her life
abroad with the Jugoslavian solds+
ier of fortune. . i S
From Vienna came pretq#fg
against the prolonged imprisons
ment of Poderjay and the w
of Viennese authorities that they
must release the man soon ulfi'fi}fé
a specific charge is lodged.
Contents of Letters .. ==
In one letter dated December 8
—four days after her marriage and
12 days before she vanished—Miss
Tufverson wrote to Miss Helenm
Havener of the Saturday’s Chii=
dren club, declining an invitation
to be a director of the club, and
sayving: E
“I am leaving the latter part of
next or the week thereafter for .
London, England, as I expect to
live the rest of my life there”’—y
this is contrast to Poderjay’'s story
that they married only that she -
might not be a gpinster and plan<
ned to part soon. oy
. On the same day, Miss Tufvers
‘son wrote to the hoard of direes
tors of the New York County
Lawyers' association, resigning g
Ia member.
Urged to retain the membership
which he had held seven years,
Miss Tufverson wrote again De<
cember 12;
~ “The only reagon for my resig
nation {g that T am leaving very
shortly for London, where I expect
to .reside indefinitely.” e
Completes Chart
Captain John H. Ayres of the
missing persons bureau, seeking te
weave the net tighter about Poder=
jay, completed a chart of the acti
vities of the self-styled officer
and his bride from December 20
to 22—the vital days in the in=
vestigation, B
On December 20, Captain Ayres
gaid, Poderjay bought sedative
powders and 200 razor blades. = =
That evening, Poderjay and Miss
Tufverson went to a Hudson :llv!:g -
pler and then returned to their
apartment, where Flora Miller—
Misg Tufverson's maid and '&’
last to see her alive — found the
couple sorting papers. 2y e
“Clome back tomorrow,” ‘‘Miss
Tufverson told her. “No, come
day after tomorrow,” interjecte 5
Poderjay. The mald left—and Miss
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PLANS FOR ROUTE
| AT swwsg
I Barbecue to Be Held
E g
June 29 at Country Club
l Grounds 2V
| Forty directors of the Route 18
Highway association have ‘been
'mailed invitations to attend a bar
' becue here June 29 by the m
'ber of Commerce. e
| The invitations were mailedqé;i
vesterday, and every dimmflfif
received one is expected to attend.
At the barbgcue plains for ng.
the route will be dlscussed.w
route is paved it will complete an
all-paved road to Florida, through
Georgia and the Middle West.
Those expected to attend are: -
Judge A. L. Hatcher, C. D. Roun<
tree, W, C. Brinson, and 'We il
Flanders, of Wrightsville; Jamea
L. Glenn, jr. and J. M. Cannon,fi};
Dublin; Gordon ;Knox, W. F, Hine
son and Robert, Harrison, of Hs -
zelhurst; Guy O, Stone, Glenwosa;
Will Smith, Clayton; J. C. Turner,
Jefferson; J, A. Mcßae and-J. } ,
Douglas of Alamo; W D. B orton,
Mcßae; R. M. Dunn, Baxley
Cox and J. C. Littlefield, of Folks=
ton; J. H. Griffeth, Athens; F. M,
Reeves, Corneliay Judge Frank
Gabrels, Clarkesville; M. O. %
gins, Baldwin; W. S. Elder, R»&:
Nicholson and Dave Weatherford of
Watkinsville. e
L, L. Davis and Dr. J. C. Ver«
ner of Commerce; E. T. Boswell,
Siloam. e
F. E. Boswell, J. C. Williams and
H. D. Goodwin, of Greensbores M
H. Tappan, White Plains; Gol.l’i‘%
D. Watson, Watson Springs; &‘R%
Miller and W. B. Harrison of Spar
ta; G. W. Doolittle and W. &
Wommack, of Sandersville; A 8,
Cumming, Warthen; I M. Peas
cock, Harrison. & “f
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