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COTTON MARKET —— MIDDLING. coeu soee Svsii IS PREV., CLOBE . cee eese cons 12%0 _’ Vol. 101. No. 157 L T HE iwashington Lowdown — Rodney Dutcher L L Secret Conversation Blap for Charity Utilities Comfort velt and Maxim Litvinov mnegoti~ ated Soviet recognition, their con versations were kept as secret as the tomb. Neither the American nor Rus- Jan people were ever enlightened ag to the verbal promises those wwo clever bargainers made. But ity & disagreement oOver who promiged what which holds up trade agreements, debt settlement,’ and trade expansion between the two natlons. i ‘ t seems perfectly silly that the foderal Export-Import bank here, get up to finance trade with Rus-| sla, should go on twiddling its’ thumbs without ever turning a wheel. But just try to find oul; why! f various persons on the inside ¢l me the impasse 18 due to gabotage by anti-Soviet bureau crats here, a double-cross by M. Lityinoy, the Japanese decision not to start a war with Russia this year, a backdown on our own promiges, or a Russian desire 10 hornswoggle us on terms. This hodgepodge of explanationd doesn’t quite jibe. But the essen tia] difference now concerns the tams of debt settlement and the qmount and type of credite to be granted to Russia. The haggling seems due for a jong run, Litvinov told his Mos cow bosses that we had promised trade creditg at once and then, as. ter debt negotiations, certaln spkclal credits on whicl® Russia would pay high charges to wipe off her ofd obligakions.. Officla] American memory seems plank at that point. We're insist ing on some definite pay-off promises before granting credits. One also learns that the subordi nate officials in the State and Commerce departments ‘who con tact with Russia were violently op posed to recognition; that Sena tor Hiram Johnson—whose bill bar ring loang 10 debt defaulters spec ifically exempted Export-Import bank trade oredits —- was angry when bank directors publicly re solved not to deal with Russia un til she submitted an acceptable debt offer; that none of the dl rectors—whose resolution created the impasse — has ever been In Rusfla or in forelgn trade; and that the Roosevelt-Litvinov ses siong had a dampening effect on war sentiment in Toklo, which feared a secret milltary alliance. Whispers T get from some offi elale that Russia, badly needing copper and cotton when ghe fear ed war, reneged on debt promises hecause war clouds became less menacing may or may not be true Neither Roosevelt nor Litvinow Wil tell me a thing and all the others tell me too much. Sweet charity got little sympli; thy from Secretary Ickes when came in the form of the Duke ? 000 Endowment, protesting a $2,750, loan to a South Carolina count: for a municipal power plant whic would compete with the Duke Power Company. (The FEndow ment gets most of its money from electricity profits.) Ickes, sympathetic to municipal oWnership, privately insisted that there had been too mmen evidence of tleups between power companies and educational institutions, and hinted he didn’t ke the idea of a Private social agency appearing to fight “Power Prygtn batties. N When you gee the NRA publie Utilities codes, you'll again see how differently thig administration Tegards monopolistie utilities and ordinary competitive industries Which usually get what they want from NRA, The big fight which has raged on these codeg since last Novem- ! ber wag Concentrated on the elec tric light anq power code. At ne time power companies had 36 high-priceq lawyerg working here for them. Private utilities wanted the codßl '0 cover Publicly contrqlled devel °T‘m*mfl-~including TVA and Hoo- | ver Dam~hPr‘ause they -could then‘ SUbervise them through their dom inatiop of the code 'authoflty_ } They sought 5 43-hour week and I!f‘u\iszrms to Strengthen their com- PALY unions, mhe code will pro- Vide 4 40-hour week and a sls Yl'tlh‘mlll’n Wage, Publicly owneq Projects will be free from e codes, but you can :?XDW‘! R\\(ysp\»p“ to appeal to them vBT with him to meet the :g"f““’m«i hour standarqs, Inci ror Y, the Power bhoys kept ;r:r.r.:nr_v direct tq Roosevelt to pro ‘et NRA --narshness"‘ He laugh &d them off, w;[:.m f€mesis of {pha utilities was Soott op SO-headed Jack Garrett by o Colorago, Managing attor- D};n IR NRA ang General Coungel Seot Chberg:s righthand man, Wrote tC:jo;:;:f nflM .Wy M whosa OO first utility laws Yved manc " lAW practice in et 1 rage”, EhtS against gt fate ang otper cases, ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service MASS MEETING PROPOSES FAR-REACHING CHANGES IN PRESENT CITY GOVERNMENT Governor Says Abolition Of County Unit System Would Be Harmful ——————— DISCUSSES HISTORY —_— Declares Small Counties Would Suffer More Than Others LOUISVILLE, Ga.—(®#)—Charg ing two aims of his oppositoin were to abolish the county übit vote system and to reduce the number of counties to fifty, Governor Eu gene Talmadge said here today that “the lowest tax rates In the state are in the small counties” and that “the protection of the property owhers of our cities is the county unit system.” | “Under the present county unifl system,” the governor said, “Jef ferson county has two electoral votes; Glascock coynty two; Richmond county six and Fulton county six, “The opposition wantg tne couns ty unit system abolished forever, so that instead of Jefferson county counting one-third of Fulton or Richmond county, it would count about omne-fiftieth. Want Countieg Abolished “The opposition wants to abolish couties aill over the state. They don’'t say which counties they want to abolish. They lose sight of the fact that our lowest tax rates in Georgia are in the small counties. “The protection of the property owners of our cities is the county unit system of Georgia. ' “Higtory proves that all coun tries which have kept their strength and greatness have the land unit gystem of electoral votes.” Making the second campaign speech In his race for a second term in office, the governor said that “it 1s rather peculiar and unique that talk of abolishing counties and abolishing the county unit system would begin just at this time, when there are $26,000,- 000 in highway certificates due to the counties of QGeorgia.” To Repay Money “This money lg to be paid back,” he continued, “beginning in March, | 1936, and is to be paid back one tenth each year. | “I want to put the people on no tice now that if I am governorl in 1935, we will begm saving thati ‘money, and will have it ready toi ‘make the first payment in March.| 11936. | . “A very easy way to defeat these ‘highway certificates would be to! ‘abolish practically all of our coun- ! ities." | | Governor Talmadge sald that 'since he had been In office he had ‘reduced the indebtedness of thel state by $1,140,716.94. [ “T am also proud to state that‘ while this Indebtedness of the state wag being reduced, the taxes of the‘ state were also reduced $7,883,819.- 91 for 1933 and 1934, inclusive, ‘ “T am also proud to state that the salary reductions effected In 1933 of state employes were sl,- 116.956.54. “T am also proud to state that the total reduction In the cost of the state government last year amounted to $6,745.866.09.” More Efficient ‘ The governor added that while these reductions were being made, (Continued On Page Three) 1,500 Employes at & " Gadsden, Ala. Mill In Walkout Today GADSDEN, Ala.—(#)— Employes at the Dwight Manulacturing Co., cotton mill here, one of the South’s largest, walked out today, charging their employers had discharged five men for union activities. James Holland, president of the local union of the United Textile Workers of America, said 1,500 were in the walkout. He said the strike was called for today at a meeting heid at 11 p. m. yesterday, following the dis charge of five workers. The Dwight loca] was one of 35 in Alabama which had already voted to strike. Date for the statewide walkout is to be fixed at a meeting of representatives of the» state’s local in Birmingham ‘Sunday. | Picketing at the Dwight mill Ibegan immediately. Etate represnetatives of the United Textile Workers of Ameri ca were expected here today to aid in conducting the walkout and to confer with local union offici als. The Dwight mill was operating in two shifts, approximately 750 persons being employed on each shift. S Athens Lions Win Second Position In International Club-Sponsoring Contest JOSIE, THE PYTHON, IS STILL HOMESICK CHICAGO.—(P)—Josie, the Python, was and still is home sick. | That is why the reptile, | which is 25 feet long and | weighed 350 pounds when cap tured a year ago in the Malay jungle, refused to eat, attend ants at the World's Fair ex- | plained. { The hunger strike lasted from the time the snake was placed aboard a steamer at Singapore four months ago until yesterday when Frank Buck, the big game hunter, with the aid of fourteen assist ants, forced forty pounds of raw beef down Josie’s throat. Several of the feeders were bitten, but were not badly hurt. Josie is down to & mere 200 pounds now. s ) | | Five Persons Injured at Salzburg; Seven Nazis Are Jailed ‘ By WADE WERNER | Associated Press Foreign Staff VIENNA—(P)—Two mnew bomb ing outrages were reported in Aus-*; tria today, only a few hours after Chancellor Dollfuss had announced‘ a new anti-terror campaign wlthi the death mpenalty for possession of explosives. | Pive persons, four of them tour ists, were injured at Salzburg when a bomb destroyed the auto-‘ mobile of a member of the Doll-‘ fuss “fatherland front” organiza tion. ‘ Another bomb shattered many windows and slightly damaged al priests’ house at Buers, in western | Austria. ] Meanwhile the German legation‘ here issued a firm denial of re-} ports that the minister had been notified to prepare to return to Berlin and said such instructions are not expected. ] The car at Salzburg was park ed in front of a small tavern near the picturesque “Klosterbraeu,” a beer hall well known to most Americans who have visited Salz burg. The tavern was partially wreck ed and the automobile was blown to bits. The tourist members of the group were arriving at Salz burg from Graz. All were Aus trians. ‘ The fifth victim was a 12-year old girl who had just been gsent from home to the tavern for beer. Seven Nazis were jalled on sus picion in connection with the Salz burg bombing. | MOVIE PRODUCERS ~ FACE CENSORSHIP b Seven States and 133 Cities Have Boards to Pass on Pictures : By HUBBARD KEAVY HOLLYWOOD, Calif.—~(/A)—Mo tion picture prcducers, demanding the freedom of expression accord ed publishers and their klnsmen‘ of the stage, 'face censorship boards in seven states and 133 cities—4s percent of their proflt} territory. 1 Every foreign country, without‘ an exception known to Hollywood, also has censorship. | And now Hollywood, confronted with the severest form of censor ship ever devised—boycotting—is in the midst of its greatest ba.t-f tle. The threats have become co ominous that Hollywood has decided to go in for censorship at home, before the public has a chance to criticize its new pic tures. In some quarters in Hollywood it is believed that the industry’s answer to the reform elements will result in the abolition of all censor boards. In this country at least they say that, if future pic tures are as pure as the office of Will H. Hays promises, there will be no need for censor boards. Florida allows New York to guard the morals of the cinemas shown there, a law permitting theaters to accept pictures as New York accepts them. The seven states having official censor ship are New York, Ohio, Penn sylvania, Massachusetts, Virginia, ' Kansas and Maryland. Hollywood’s greatest argument against censor boards is that they are inconsistent and non-conform ative. Pennsylvania may cut a lscene from one picture and leave a similar soene in another. | Athens, Ca., Thursday, | July 12, 1934. Announcement |s Made At Meeting of Local Club This Afternoon 2,700 IN CONTEST Lions Club in Ohio City Noses Out Athenians By Few Points At the meeting of the Athens Lions club at the Holman hotel today, Dr. Stanley R. Grubb, president of the club during 1933 and part of 1934, made the an nouncement that the local organ ization had placed second in the International club-sponsoring con test, amassing a total of. K 499 points. The contest ended July 1, and the local club paced all other or ganizations of its kind in Georgia in the race, and was beaten out by a small margin by a eclub in Ohio. Had the credits for the or ganization of the Gainesville club been given, the locals would have had a good many more points, and it is possible that they might have wound up in first place. The Gainesville club was organ ized too late for it to count in the rating of the club for the past yvear, but they are off to a great start for the coming year, and may possibly win the contest, if it is held. | 2,700 Entered } The contest was held between 2,700 Lions clubs, and most of them are much larger than the Athens organization, but hard work and efficient leadership M‘i counted for the difference in the number of towns in which to or-‘ ganize clubs, and in almost every place that the movement waxl started, a club was organized. | In a letter to Rev. Grubb, Lioni Melvin Jones, secretary of Lions International, congratulates the; local club, and Dr. Grubb. The letter follows: J “Rev. Stanley R. Grubb, “President, Lions Club, ‘ “Athens, Ga. | “Dear Lion Grubb: | “It gives me a great deal of pleasure to inform you that your‘ club has won second place in t‘.hel (Continued On Page Three) | TISK N3O DA it Hugh Johnson Wants to Hand Post to Board and Retire to Private Life BY WILLIAM L. BEALE, JR. WASHINGTON — (AP) — The NRA hopes to wind up within 30 days its task of putting industry under codesl. Hugh S. Johnson, his whirlwind job of organizing done, wants to hand his post over then to a board and step back into private life. A basic code for small . uncoded industries employing about 2,000,- 000 of the country’s 24,000,000 in dustrial workers: was promulgated last night by Johnson before head ing West to speak tonight at Wat erloo, lowa. One of the last major steps in the codifying job, Johnson’s act left three courses open to small indus tries gtill uncodified: 1. They may merge with kindred codes already existing. ° 2. Get in under the new basic code. 3. If they stay outside, they must (Continued On Page Three) More Details Expected In “Wild Party” Trial Of Two Movie Workers LOS ANGELES.—(#)—More de tails of a ‘“wild party” that a wit ness saild was going on in a film extra's apartment were .anticipated today in the trial of Dave Allen and Gloria Marsh. Mrs. Pearl Owings, a state wit ness who was on the stand most of yesterday, faced cross exami nation today concerning her story that she entered the apartment of Miss June DeLong, movie extra, and found Miss DeLong, Miss Marsh and Allen holding what was described as a “wild party.” Allen is a former manager of the Central Casting corporation, an agency handling extra players for various studios. Spectators in the courtroom leaned forward, some cupping their hands to their ears, as Mrs. Owings was asked by Arthur Veitch, dep uty district attorney, to “describe ' thoroughly” the scene she said she saw as she entered the apartment iunbldden after her knock had gone unanswered, y FORMER ATHENIAN STATE CANDIDATE AT o sOO i Pl mr el . e . e I S ki A g il G e | R :5?55; sy B e s s b vl R i 4 i i o S e ) S R R Ay i 'HOWELL COBB T e e ———— HOWELL COBB CLUB l Citizens Sponsor Former Athenian for Attorney- Ceneral’s Office ALBANY, Ga—Friends of How ell Cobb here have lined up _solidly behind his candidacy for attorney general of Georgia and are mak ing plans to extend all the help they can enlist throughout the state. ILocal headquarters are be-! ing opened for distribution of liter ature and handling of the already heavy correspondence. Officers of the local club were elected to include: R. E. McCor mack, president; W.. B. Haley, M. W. Tift, H. T. Mclntosh, Rev. J, S. Winn, H. F. Armstrong, C. S. Baddour, W. J. Collins, H. B. Rob erts, H. E. McCollum, H, E. Davlis, Sam 8. Bennet, H. A. Peacock, Leonard Farkas, W. H. Burt, Judge E. L. Smith, Thos. H, Milner, Cru ger Westbrook, Mrs. E. B, Young,i Mrs. J. M. Barnett, Mrs. P J, Nix, and Mrs. W. L. Davis, vice presi dents; and Rosser Malone, secre tary-treasurer. Reports were made at the or ganization committee from almost every locality in the state which supporters of the Albany candidate said indicate his almost certain nomination for the office he seeks. Howell Cobb led a field of ‘four‘ in 1932 for the attorney general ship, receiving 8,841 more votes‘ than did the successful candidate, who had a narrow triumpn under the unit law which permits nomi nation by a plurality of the units in races other than those for gov (Continued On Page Threed 1 e et 1 A G AN i) 4 . A Sl R S President Roosevelt Begins Long Trip Teday ~ To Hawaiian Islands ‘EV FRANCIS M. STEPHENSON | BALBOA, C. Z— (AP) —Presi !dent Roosevelt begins today the longest run of his vacation cruise —one over the Pacific to Hawaii. The Cruiser Houston late this afternoon will swing into the Fa cific and start the 12-day trip which will take Mr. Roosevelt the farthest from home any president has been since Woodrow Wilson went to Versailles. | Cheering lanes of native Pana maians hailed the American chief executive last night when he was driven to the presidential palace at Panama, where hg was the dinner guest of President Arias. “The canal serves all nations in needs of peaceful commerce,” Mr. Roosevelt said. “The United States is, therefore, a trustee for all the world in its peaceful main tenance.” Mr. Roosevelt arose early today for a motor trip through the old city of Panama, before a luncheon aboard the Houston honoring Pres-j ident Arias. I S eramiutarpriri I Tk WIATHER LOCAL WEATHER Let imecnameihs i ; Mostly cloudy; probably lo- i cal showers tonight and Friday. | \ —————— . | TEMPERATURE ‘ . Highest.... «.o0 oese aekanßT.o | Lowest.... «-:e sees 0000.:70.0 j B . ... sivbianinasell b | Normal .... seer +:os sseet¥.o i RAINFALL | Inches last 24 h0ur5...... 0.00 ' Total since July 1..cc.0c.0e 8.47 Excess since July 1........ 1.71 Average July rainfall...... 4.96 Total since January 1......32.88 Exces since January 1.... 4.79 Three-Day Camg of 4-H Club Girls To Be Held In . Gaines Section Next Week Plans Are Discussed at Meeting Held Here This Week EXPECT OVER 30 Miss Lucile Turner, State Leader, Is Speaker at Gathering Here Program for the 4-H girls club camp to be held at Gaines next Monday, Tuesday and Wednes day, was discussed at a meeting of the girls’ council, held in the courthouse here this week. Repre sentatives from five communities were present and took part in the discussion. . Following the discussion, the meeting was turned over by Miss Ann Dolvin, county home demon stration agent, to Miss Lucille Turner, state 4-H girls club leader. Taking as her subject, “The 4-H Club Program for 1934, Miss Turner discussed in detail the many contests:which have already been started or are to be started for 4-H girls. More contests are either under way or soon will be than has ever been the case be fore in extension division. Contests Under Way The poultry, canning, style re-: vue and gardening contests are al ready under way. Others to be started soon are health, team demonstration, yeast spread and general excellénce contests. The regulations for each contest were gone over, with the girls evidenc ing the most interest in the three state -prizes—three trips to Chica go. A S4OO scholarship at some state college is also -offered as a national prize. In the health con test, the rules which are not set, the first prize is an airplane trip to Chicago. ? Present at the meeting were: Jimmie Martin, Martha Poss, Mil dred Lester and Pinkie Fowler, Oconee Heights; Mary Lou Ash ley, Alice Ashley and Letha Han son, University High; Ruth Pled ger and Ruby Jones, Princeton; Latrelle Flanagan, Mary Sheffer and Frances Crowley, Gaines; Lu cille LaCount, Holly Heights. Others present were Annie Mary Bolton and Hazel Stokely. Ten of the thirty girls present (Continued on page eight.) DRIVERS ON STRIKE ! :i S | Walkout Called for Mon . 5 \ day; Charge Employers “Double-Crossed” Them \ MINNEAPOLIS— (&) —Union truck drivers, charging thelr em ployers have “double-crossed them” have voted to go on strike Monday. Truckmen in St. Paul will vote tonight whether to join the strike. One of their leaders told the Min ' neapolis truck drivers at last ' night’s meeting: “St. Paul is with you. We have the same grievances.” 4 The meeting adopted & resolu tion calling upon other trade un ions of the twin cities to “rally to our support with moral and finan cial aid,” and to be ready for “sympathetic strike aection, if such becomes necessary."” Union leaders charged at last night’s meeting that employers lhad disregarded terms of the agreement which terminated a strike last May. Two persons iWere killed and more than 200 in- I (Continued on Page Two) k Organization of Holman . Hotel Corporation Made - . E In Athens This Morning The Holman Hotel corporation was organized here this morning with A. W. Hartley as president and J. C. Stiles as secretary and treasurer. | The corporation will take over the lease of the Holman Hotel and‘ continue to operate it under the] same management, Mr. Hartley and Mr. Stiles, as lessees, have been operating the hotel for sev-. eral months under joint manage ment, but it was today that the corporation was officially organ ized. | Both are experienced hotel men, having been in the business for a number of years, Mr. Hartley has ‘been manager of the Holman for ‘the past several years, and is prominently " kriown here. Mr. . Stiles hos been eonnected with the Holman for about six months, coming here from Mil ledgeville where he was in the same business. He has charge of a small chain of hotels in this section. A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—>s¢ Sunday CARTER BARRON IS GIVEN BETTER JOB NEW YORK —(#)— The ap pointment of Carter Barron, former Gedrgia Tech football star, as a district manager in charge of Loew’s theaters in seven, cities wag announced to day by Loew’s, Inc. J. R. Zogel, director of out lying theater operation for Loew’s, said Barron will have headquarters in Washington, D.. Qs | The seven cities in his dis trict will ‘'be Washington, Bal timore, Reading, Harrisburg, Norfolk, Richmond and Wil mington. | Barron is one of the noted { football-playing brothers .of Georgia Tech. He joined the Loew's organization in Atlanta. He has been in charge of Loew’s enterprises in Washing ton. Cathering Called to Dis cuss Bankhead Act; Cunningham Speaks WASHINGTON, Ga. — G. V. Cunningham, & member of the State Allotment Board, organized under the Bankhead Act, and also a member of the Agricultural Ex tension Service of the University of QGeorgia, was the principa)l speaker at the meeting of county agents, vocational teachers, and othrs, held here yesterday. Mr. Cunningham explained to the agents and teachers the ad ministrative rulings of the Bank head Act. The meeting was called to decide upon some method by which the new act might be ap plied in this district. T. L. Asbury, district agent, was in charge of the meeting, at tended by 200 people. It wag call ed by Mr. Asbury, who is connct ed with the Agricultural Extension service of the University here. Mr. Asbury spoke to the huge audience, discussing the office set up in every county together with the number of people to aid in the administration in each county. Those attending the meeting from Athens were J. H. Wilson; L. 8. Watson, Clarke -county agent; Professor J. T. Wheeler of the State College of Agriculture; Professor O. C. Aderhold, also of the College of Agriculture; E. C Westbrook, of the Extension Ser vice of the University; J. A. Evans, also of the Extension Serv. fce; and T. L. Asbury, "ARKANSAS’ GIRL R 1 Helen Spence Eaton Ful ' fills Boast, “I'll Never T Be Taken Alive” ( By HENRY N. DORRIS | Associated Press Staff Writer JACKSONVILLE, Ark.— (#) — The deadly aim of a trusty guard made good the boast of 21-year-old Helen Spence Eaton that she would never be taken alive as she at-l tempted her fifth escape from serv~l ice of two sentences for as many murders. Overtaken 24 hours after she es caped from the state farm for women after leaving a note sa.y-§ ing, “I'll never be taken alive.” Ar kansas' restless bad girl was shot to death by her special guard, IFra.nk Martin, Martin, himself serving a 21-year }sentence for murder, was exoner ‘ated by Coroner L, C. Aday who was told the former White River shanty boat girl reached for a large calibre pistol when tche was commanded to hoist nmer hands. I Thus the deadly fire of Arkan sas’ convict trusty guards, which ! (Continued On Page Three) ——————— . } “Mildred Rutherford | Day” to Be Observed . “Mildred Rutherford Day” will be celebrated here Mon day, July 16, at a luncheon at 12 o'clock at the Georglan hotel. Mrs. Lamar Rutherford Lips comb, chairman of the commit tee on arrangements requests the hostesses and patronesses to meet with her at the Georgi an hotel Friday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Refreshments will be served. S H:E ACTION RESULT CF | : i | 1S CESSATION OF BUS ] SERVICE IN ATHENS Calls for Restoration of Buses or Forfeiture of Company Franchise MANY ARE PRESENT Large Delegations Call on Council to Rescind Bus Action . Several hundred Athenians gath ered in the council chamber of city hall last night to protest cessation of bus transportation here by th® Georgia Power company after per mission was granted by city coun cil in a meeting last Friday night, lug service was abandoned Satur day at noon. X Starting out like most other mass meetings, the big crowd de cided to “get it all off their chests” ‘and passed six resolutions ranging all the way from asking mayor and council to rescind its action, to re questing Clarke's Trepresentatives in the lowe, house of the general asembly to amend the city charter ’to provide for a Ccommission form of government. That those attending were d2ep ly resentful of council’s and the Power company’s action was evi denced by the strong sentiment 'embodied in the various resolu~ tions. The upshot of the meeting was that Vane G. Hawkins, elected chairman for the meeting, was in structed to name a committes of five citizens to wait on the mayor and present the rpesolutions passed. ~ Every available seat in the coun~ cil chamber was occupled and np big crowd overflowed into the cor 'rldors. It constituted a cross-sef~ tion of the city, every ward being ‘amply represented. The audience ‘was a good-natured one that ape parently had a job to perform and was determined to perform it. It laughed at the jokes of the spaak ers and was not afraid to stand up ‘and vote when the time came. Eugene A. Epting, attorney and candidate for the legislature, ‘opened the meeting, In a brief statement Mr. Epting emphufi ‘the movement was not a polil one in any sense of the word but a civic problem to be solved. The question to be settled was not oune ‘ot politics but of public transpor tation for Athens, he declared, con itinuing that the meeting was not ‘called to condemn the mayor and council. He asserted that if the Power company insisted on holding on to its huge profits from light and power and ceasing the unprofitable bus service, Athens might take no tice of Lakelanda, Fla, Jacksonville, Fla.,, and Washington, D. C,, w municipal plants are operated at a cost of 3 and 2 cents per kilo watt hour against 8 cents, which he claimed Athens was paying. . . L. L. Laßoon, businessman, was elected chairman of the meéting but declined to serve on the igrounds that he was not familiar wtih parliamentary law, : Mr. Hawkins, federai court clerk here, was then elected chairman of the meeting, with W. Miiton Thomas, as secretary. All nomi nations were unanimous. The first speaker was Thomas J. Shackelford, attorney, who ecited the city waterworks system as & | (Continued on Page Six) Germany Anxiously . * & ¥ Sok Awaits for Hitler b L B Statement Friday BERLIN —(#)—A Germany more critically minded than it has been for months waited somewhat tense ly today for Adolf Hitler's own éx=- planation of the June ‘purging” of his storm troopers. o Some observers feel that when Hitler addresses the Reichstag to* morrow night he will be facing & major erisis of his chancellorship. Official statements have applaud ed Hitler's action in the execution of storm troop leaders, but many questions are unanswered in the public mind, and Germans are look ing to Hitler himself to answer those questions to thelr satistacs tion in his Reichstag speech. Storm troops wonder who is go* ing to guarantee that the Naz{ pro gram will be put into effect with ‘their pioneer leaders gome. At the same time many non® Nazis who hitherto have regarded iHitlerism tolerantly have now fal= len into doubt and want assurances as to the future. A widespread demand from the public to know what is really hap+ pening wwas apparent from & flock of official pronouncements against “rumeor-mongering,” U
