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About Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1934)
T o | cOTTON MARKET g i MIDDLING - -ee aoee it 10 D ;,.,,. V. CLOSE. ..o cacess <+ - 13V/ge /o 102. No. 206. ""“"—._i s ‘ THE ¥ (’/ Washington Lowdown e ) — Rodney Dutcher ../4-——————“'__ New Cabinet Member ! Boom Hopkins l Fair Prices ’_______-p“ [INGTON—There may be " cabinet member within the ;‘ it Ve If so, he wil be the i of Public Welfare,” or L mething very like that. [ one idea is thick in the local air b 1 New Dealers are sym ¢ Roosevelt has considered ].‘. o one is able to say that he is committed to making such b endation to the next con o I no means a new plan. Wwhenever government reorganiza esn discussed, there al heen folks to recommend b Department of Public Wei- One areument used now is that i ] e especially appropriate N ¢ Roosevelt administration. Three major factors are making i tnal issue at this time— khe mounting problem of relief hvhi will. be with us for a long i ¢ he administration’s forth bomir ocial security program, call for plenty of federal A on and an increasing endency in- the administration to ’ ers.a. chance to be heard . east faintly—along with in kustry, labor and agrieulture. pplementary , point made by i is that while the Labor k t is now theoretically a | ] for welfare items, Secre- It rances Perkins has emphati red it a départment “for ] ind labov .is playing such % iingly large part in the N )eal that it’ can stand a cab i ortfolio exclusively its own. e man commonly mantioned for t is Relief Administrator I Hopkins His: relief duties e an essential task of a ] welfare” department and I e prime ‘mover in the so ial security program as well as wlp production exehange i for the unemployed, which I of Upton Sinclair’s T may be expanded in a big ¢ cial security committee \ \ wdvise Roosevelt as to h islation,” one learns from i ird, is heading back to i e principles of last session’s Wagr Lewis bill; supervision over invest y of unemployment insurance, ( e pension, and any other I ill be provided, but states e allowed go work out their ( ethods. But the plan will F large part of the New 1 ogram. , me have untll recentty i ¢ ented officially only by t umers’ Counsel and staff f \ and the NRA consumers’ board. Each has made . fights against censorship and ! itural tendency of the two 3 strations to make them mere es-men” grms of the indu ‘ gricultural recovery - pro - bUI they remain only subordi lile units in two- agencies whose ins are to raise prices and con “ ntly are crippled in their ef ta to protect the multitudes of the chief — but unacknawledged alnt of the new consumer division Ol the National Emergency coun -118 10 provide a strong consum ' Influence against’ unjustified rices—tending to wreck purchas "2 power—which won't be domin fled by NRA or AAA and the Voices of industry, labor, and agri ‘Ulture, which sometimes mingle " the copsumer’s bleat and fomietimes qon't. g The consumer division, which "orks closely with the AAA and FRA units, and its consumer coun- W councils will — under present rojected plans—be ultimately ab- Forbed into the wprojected “publie Welfare department. Uso into it might go'the U. S. Public 1 alth Servicé ' from the rea department, c¢hildren’s ' m labor, office of edu a ! interior, and others. but ny internal squabbles : fought before the alloca . ‘0 cabine; member ever " I were naming this new “Partment, 'd eall ‘it ‘the depart &l the forgotten man.) g inything willingly. (Per i ¢ r Pope of Idaho was mak [ ®ch to the young Demo b here’ the other night E ‘'w he had put-through H. B 9 a bill about something or n the last day of congress. i the grace to announce: E ¢ gets up and leaves be 't this speech, 1 will con- T an intelligent man.” fappened that one of. the . ration’s bright young law " In the act of arising te telephone eall. And was red! : “r young Democrat friend E Who was present through ~ “Niire session hasn't managed ! in himself on other than : © grounds. After j; was . somebody introduceq him to it « (Continued on page six.) ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service Department of Justice Agents Enter Hubbart Kidnap Case Strike Holds Wider Grip On State Plans . Perfected for Speech of Governor Talmadge Monday Covernor Will Speak at 3:30 O’clock Monday Afternoon CROWD IS EXPECTED Chairman Hugh J. Rowe Announces Election Day Workers TALMADGE ON RADIO 4 The Clarke County Talmadge for Governor club announced today that the speech of the governor in his campaign for re-election, to be made at Rome Saturday from 3:30 to 5 o'clock, PEastern standard time, will be broadcast over WSB, the Atlanta Journal radio station. Carpenters were busy today erecting the platform in the rear courthouse from which, at 3:30 o’clock Monday afternoon, Gover nor Eugene Talmadge will make his final address of his campaign fop re-election. President S. V. Sanford, of the University Bystem of Georgia, will introduce Ggver nor Talmadge. Final plans for the speaking, ex pected to draw a huge crowd from Clarke and surrounding countles, have been completed by the frienas andg supporters of the governor. Hancock avenue, from College avenue to Thomas street, will be roped off, as will Jackson street from Hancock to Washington. This area will also be patrolled by offi cers and all traffic will be diverted so that those attending will not only be afforded protection from autos but also will be able to hear better. . To Have Loud Speakers Loud speakers will be set up at various points within the roped off area so that all can clearly hear the governor in his final per sonal appeal of the campalgn. The speakers will insure persons as far away as College avenue hearing (Continued on Page Six) TWO YOUTHS ADMIT SLAYING OF DENTIST CHICAGO — (#) — Two young Fergus Falls, Minn., men confessed police said@ today to the hammer slaying of their fellow townsman, Dr. John Schacht, giving revenge as the motive. The- pair, Palmer Swenson, 19, and his brother-in-law Robert Palmquist, 28, were quoted as say ing they Kkilled the 55 year old dentist in his automobile Tuesday night for what they said were his attentions (o Palmquist’'s wife, Alma. THe NEws IN A NUTSHELL The eyes of the newspaper world are again_focused on Howard Guilford, 40.’__former newspaper editor and leader of a fight for freedom of the press, who was slain today by gunmen evidently of a ring attacked by his publica tions. . The American Liberty League announced emphatically today that it is “enlistql for as many years as may be necessary” to en force its conception of the ,Con stitution. . Today President Roosevelt lis closely watching his recently ap pointed special strike board for a solution of the aggravating labor dispute. Five persons were Kkilled and twenty injured today by an earth quake at 4:15 a. m. which vio lently shook the town of Orleans ville, Algeria. Governor Talmadge predicted foday in an issue of the States man, just off the press, that he will carry practically every county in Georgia and asked that the voters support the men he has appointed to office. ' Mountainous surg cats as mes senger of death and destruction along Southern California beaches today as men labor to raise sand bag and wooden barriers against the tempestuous waves. A policy of being second to none in naval armament was defl- Lnltely committed itself teday by JQwh . 2 - As Workers Battle Police at Macon => .l ~..A...-,-m-:.‘..'., - ~,. ‘wfl*} [ B eo i NR O e R Rt s : e - ; L '"’":-,: * F o e 5 ‘“« A GERLRREE e | ¥ 3 R ¥ e t, G > 2 : 2 e e G G 23 G A e e K s O Mo, gute. OWO L g L Ror o , G ~ R e, DY, FRO R A e A L Ll o S "\,’&.,;;**, k. St ‘i@ 2 | e S I . S A N @ - M TTN ~3 25 . k. W 0l . B R g Lk T - g e % | E e o 5{ 5 S R T | B o B ; . b T e s S E ¢ ‘, i . . B a%zég I s B e g . .Bt v ey S e 5P o e e, BL TR \ e BREL L2B o RIS i R 3 (B R R i G L @ e g L T e ‘g\ *fi §F : A S g . BB b ol AR e : : % % R e et Striking textile workerg in a battle with the police at Macon, Ga., Wednesday, after’ the strikers had oveturned a truck at the Bibb Mills. The truck was occupied by non-striking workers, who were being driven to the mills. Expresses Confidence of Victory in Speech at Homerville HOMERVILE, Ga.— (#) — Ex pressing confidence in the suceess of his campaign for governor, Judge Claude Pittman -told a crowd here today that “the -present governor and the other members of the House of Talmadge have found out that the state of Georgia is pot for sale.” He declared that “the political tactics” of Governor Talmadge “have backfired” ‘and said that “the many secret promises of Tal madge and his managers and ad visers have been brought to light by those who doubted the motives, the sincerity, the ability and the intention to keep these promises.” ¢“They tried intimidation, but the people of Georgia will not be driven. They tried coercion and pleading but the note of insinceri ty was apparent to the people of Georgia. They promised roads, they gave Jjobs, but those desiring new roads found out that they have promised more paving than they canp ever attempt to start, and the friends even of those they gave temporary jobs during the cam paign realize that on September 12 their period of usefulness will be at an end. “In nearly every section_ into which I have gone recently, I have received reliable reports oh money being turned loose from a_hugh (Continued on Page Two) By Jack Braswell The Bankhead Cotton Produc tion Control act is quietly being boosted by the Farm Administra tion’s cotton' section to the farm ers for another year. , Dr. Vernon Jones, psychologist at Clark university, told the Am erican = Psychologieal association today that motion pictures* are demoralizing to children. He de clared that children's morals are lowered much mere readily than they are raised. X Martial law settled on Louisiana today at noon under® which the “Kingfish” * will begin his\ legisla tive committee investigation of “yice, lottery and graft” in the city of New Orleans. Walmsley, however, said that he would not surrender the city without effort. “We will make whatever steps are necessary at the proper time,” said the mayor. A committee of fifteen has been named, headed by Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, of Washington, to draft a unificaticn plan for the Methodist Episcopal church. Approximately 70 mnavy ecraft manned by 30.000 officers and men, will be based at Hampton Roads until the 15th of this month when the fleet shoves off for its return voyage to the west coast. Mrs. Lucy Sewox of Bartow, Fla., filed a complaint in the cir cuit court there, saying.that her little four-year-old daughter was (Continued On Page Three) ° —ESTABLISHED 1832~ Athens, Ca., Friday, September 7, 1934. { Fifty Men Are 111 . From Food Poisoning | At Soldiers’ Home L o anilie e L2t Sl e ! LOS ANGELES—®—III from |fouu poisoning, 50 men were con=- [fined today in the hospital of a !natlonal soldiers home here and more than 300 others were recov ’ermg from similar illness. 'The men were stricken shortly gafter the noon meal. They were |found on all parts of the home | grounds, some suffering from viol ’genl cases of nausea and fainting. iThe entire personnel of the hgspital | staff was recalled to duty and an { examination was hegun of some 2,- i(nm men who ate at the noon mess ' JAMACLO UNION | e | Frank Edwin Durst, of | Commerce, Named New ‘; President of Group Frank Edwin Durst, of Com ! merce, last night wag elected presi i dent of the Jamaclo Union for the lcoming yvear, in a meeting held at the Oconee Street Methodist ‘church. He succeeds Miss Geral i dine Noell, of Comer. Fred Birchmore, of the First Methodist church here, was re elected vice president; Frances Hawkes, also of First Methodist i church, Wwas re-elected secretary; Evelyn Saye, Young Harris Meth odist church, was elected treasurer to succeed Mr. Durst, the new Ipresldent, and Julian Price, of the First Methodist church, succeeds Frank Langford of Tuckston as publicity superintendent. The newly elected president of the Union has been one of the fore most workerg in the group for sev era] years, and filled the position of treasurer very efficiently. He i a member of the Commerce Methodiset church where he takes an gctive part in all church and re ligious affairs. .. Mr. Birchmore, who so capably filled the office of vice-president last vear, and who was re-elected (Continued On Page Two) —— e . Seven Officers in State ~ Are Cut From National Re-employment Service Seven offices were cut out of the National Re-employment Ser vice this week; the beginning of the ultimate weeding out of the smaller offices of Georgia that are not functioning properly, it was announced today by W. F. Pit tard, head of the re-employment office here. \ The elimination of the offices at Americus, Bainbridge, Brunswick, ‘Cartersville, LaGrange, Madison, ang Warrenton left only 15 district offices in the state. The counties that were served 'by the discon tinued offices have been distrib uted among the remaining ones. Four counties have been added to the Athens district, making a total of 13 counties services by the office here. Those added to this district are Greene, Taliaferro, Wilkes and Hancock. ~ The transfer of A. F. Scogin as supervisor of the Athens district to the Atlanta district was also announced. This will leave this district without a super visor and Mr. Pittard will work entirely on his won initiative, . | ! l : 3 | Defendant Clings to Orig { inal Story in Hour and .15 Minute Recital | ——RETm - ! BIRMINGHAM, Ala— #) —A !dramatlc denial from the witness i Stang is Harold Taylor's answer to | the state’s charge that he Kkilled i pretty Faye New, 19-year-old Ho { ward gollege co-ed, when she re :[sisted his advances on a lonely au . tomobile ride. } Taylor yesterday told the jury ! hearing his trial on charges of ;murder his version of what hap ,pened on that ride from which the girl never returned. He" clung | closely to his original story in his {one hour and fifteen minutes re i cital yesterday and ended with the fdenial that he killed the girl. He | faced cross-examination today. | Morel Montgomery, the defend i ant’s counsel, sought through ques | tioning to show that Taylor had Ino motive to kill the girl whom | he had.me¢ but a few hours before Ihe said jumped from his car and t Ak ‘ (Continued on Page Two) . John ], Wilkins \Will Be Honored by \ Employes of Mill While discontent reigns in many other southern industrial plants today a happy family of employes at Winder were greeting.the presi dent of the Bellgrade Manufactur ing" company and congratulating him on arriving at the sixty-eight mile-post of his life. i And tonight, at jthe home on Milledge avenue, employes of the Bellgrade company will join with the family of the mill’s president, John J. Wilkins, sr., whose birth day anniversary it is, in observance of the happy event. The office of President Wilkins, at the Bellgrade plant in Winder, this morning was filled with flow ers, put there by employes of the company in expression of their ap preciation of his thoughtfulness for them and his Kind treatment as employer and friend. Flowers from the employes of e (Continued on Page Five) 1 > ' LOCAL WEATHER S —————————————— e ——. ! Generally fair tonight and s Saturday. i —_—— | TEMPERATURE 1 BN Siah i ovin ey B 0 I B ity e s 080 [ TRE RSI T N | TR e .. 0D l RAINFALL { Inches last 24 h0ur5........ 0.60 ! Total simee Sept. 1........ .11 | Deficiency since Sept. 1 .. .61 Average Sept. rainfall..... 3.50 i Total since January 1......39.47 Excess since January 1 ~. 3.19 4 YEAR OLD - GIRL Dorothy Pearl Hubbart, Who Vanished Sunday, . . - g Still Missing OFFICERS HERE BUSY Couple Reported Seen at. North Georgia Tourist Camp Tuesday Night The long arm of the United States Department of Justice reached out today to bring Doro thy Pearl Hubbart, missing from her home on the Nowhere road since last Sunday morning, back to her parenis, Mr. and Mrs. Nat Hubbard. It also had another ob jective, the laying of a heavy hand on the shoulder of Clifforq Anth ony, accussed in a warrant sworn ou; by the father for Kkidnaping the 14-year old girl. The same branch of the federal service that threw Al Capone into federal prison; that ecompletely routed the ‘““Terrible Touhy” gang of kidnapers in the middle west and most recently snuffed out the life of the notorious John Dilling er, has decided the case falls un kder its jurisdiction. Today Nat Hubbard and his wife I\vho live in a little farm house just beyond Barrett's Mill off the Dan | felsville road in this county, were Ismi]ing for they had just been told ;thal Uncle Sam had decided to take a hand in the case and throw "his full resources behind it to in sure that justice is done. | Is Third Time . Firsy prominent newspaper pub licity was given the kidnaping case in the Banner-Herald several days (Continued on page twec.) MRS. COOO GIVEN Mrs. Martha Clift Re ceives Term of 20 Years To Life for Murder COOPERSTOWN, N. Y.—~(&)— Two women oof murder—Eva Coo and Martha Clift—pondered today the profit of killing a man for his msurance. “Little Eva" Coo was convicted late yesterday ,of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing. She dies, if no agency of law in tervenes, the week of October 15. Martha Clift, 27-year-old mother of two children, pleaded guilty to second deree murder, and was sentenced to serve 20 years to life. It was the testimony of Martha Clift, co-conspirator with ‘“Little Eva” in the murder of Harry Wright, that clinched the fate of the middle-aged Mrs. Coo, yet today Mrs. Coo said she held no ‘malice. The evidence at the trial was ‘that Mrs. Coo had taken out in surance on the life of her handy 'man, a cripple, and with Mrs. Clift, went with Wright to a de serted spot, slugged him over the head, and then signalled Mrs. Clift, at the wheel of a car, to run over him, to make death certain. | Canning Demonstration . Will Be Given at Curb i ‘Market Here Tomorrow l A demonstration on how to cam pears will be given at the curb market tomorrow morning from 9 to 12 o'clock, by Miss Katherine Lanier, extension specialist in lfood preservation. | The public is cordially invited (to attend the demonstration, and | stay as long as they like, Mlss | Arn_Dolvin, home demonstratio | agent for Clarke county, said. It. will be an informal affair, and the pears will be served on crackers |to those v itnessing the demon ' stration. ! At the close of the demonstra- Ition, the preserves will be given [away. Recipes and souvenirs will ‘l)p distributed among those pres ‘ent. Mrs. Bessie Troutman, in lcharge of the ecurb market, has cooperated with those sponsoring the demonstration,’ by donating a box free of charge. » WA A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday New Mediator ( e #h rx"‘* TTRNSW | Ai & i o v TRI Tl R Marion Smith, Atlanta attorney, who has been named by President Roosevelt as a member of a board of three to inquire into the textile strike. “DICTATOR” LOWE BIRDS FOR BATTLE Over 2,000 Militiamen Pour Into. New Orleans: Walmsley Has 1,500 NEW RLEANS.— (P) — New Orleans became a huge potential battlefield today as “Generals” Hughey Long and T. Semmes Walmsley took over the commands of gigantic peacetime armies. “General” Long’s state soldiers swarmed into New Orleans by automobiles, buses. and special trains from all over the state as Walmsley’s military staff grooemed his reinforced police manpower. Both Senator Long and Mayor ‘Walmsley professed the great clang of arms was to insure a “pure and peaceful” primary elec tion on September 11, Both have candidates in the field. “Kingfish” Long placed his faith in the full strength of the Louis iana national guard, estimated to total approximately 2,000 fully armed soldiers. Walmsley had 1,000 regular police and 500 others sworn in to aid them. Long charged that Walmsley also counted upon the aid of Col onel Guy R. Molony, a leader in Central American revolutions, to head a machine gun squad. This was categorically denied. 9 A citizens’ committee of 100 with an undetermined number cf volunteer deputies, hovered on the fringe of the major battlefield, dedicated to ‘“neutral action to preserve the purity of the ballot.” Protected by bodyguards and soldiers in his suite atop a sky scraper hotel, “Dictator” Long thundered that the city must be (Continued on Fage Two) Number Of idle Workers Is Increased by Strike in East (By the Associated Press) | ‘The ranks of the idle in the gen eral textile strike wroge somewhat above yesterday’s estimated figure lof 360,000 today as additional workers in New England either joined the strike voluntarily or were forcad ouy of jobs by the clos ing of plants. . Boston reports said 2,800 became jdle overnight in Rhode Islane, Massachusetts and New Hampshe ire. In the Lawrence, ' Mass, area, where 15,000 workers have ignored the strike call, a scheduled invasion of the city by out-of-town pickets not not materalize. Police guarded approaches to the city unde, in structions to preveni their entry. Eighteen automobiles and two trucks loaded with pickets said te be headed for Lawrence were es corted by police through Dighton, Mass.,, where it was thought they might establish picket Mmes. Pickets attempting to close mills at South Barre, Mass., met wlith rough treatment. Town officials refused them permission to park their cars inside the city ¥mits ang when, after parking outside the town, they tried to picket the mill, officials had them drenched with the mill fire hose. The Barre ‘Woolen company, however, an HOYE| Over 1,000 Strikers in Attempt to Halt Train At Exposition Mills - e y OTHER THREATS More Violence in Augusta District Threatened Yesterday ATLANTA — (#) — The textile strike held a wider grip on Geor gia mills today while police guard ed against further disturbances in the strike-torn areas. The closing of two plants of the Rome Hoisery mills and the Chep okee Hoisery mills at Rome ana the Berryton mill brought to 59 the number of Georgia mills shut down by the walkout and to 36,190 the number of workers away from their jobs. The normal! number employed in Georgia is 60,000. " An atempt by approximately 1,- 000 strikers to prevent a train from moving cars at the Exposition mills here late yesterday was the latest outburst in a series of disturbane ces which already have' caused three deaths and many injuries: in the state. Police used tear gas to clear ‘the tracks. ) Early Demonstration ; Textile workers from the warg= ous mills of the Atlanta district i.auged».an early mornlug demon~ stration at the Fulton Bag and Cotton mills, the only textile plant still operating here, but work was continued as usual.' A squad of po lice was on duty and there was no sign of disorder though pickets talked with the shift golng on duty and sought to turn back by argu ment workers entering the plant.. Across the state line from Aug usta, in the Horse Creek Valley section, a_ detachment of South Carolina guardsmen, numbering about 150. appeared last might at 7 o'cloek. The mills in Horse Creek Valley have been virtually unaffected by picketing during the strike and the troops’ visiy was saia to be a preca:tionary measure. All was quiet in that section yesterday. Mills opened quiétly today in Horse Creek Valley and in Augusta after a night of legendary alarms about the “flying squadrons” = Reports were finally traced down (Continued on page two.) BRENGCARD PAYS FOR 6-YEAR OLD CR OSSINING, N. Y.—(#)—Alphense Brengard has pald with his life for the slaying of a policeman on. a lonely Long Island road nearly six years ago, o He was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison last night for the murder-es Patrolman John Kennedy, Nassau county policeman. “Goodbye Mom,” Brengard sal® as he sat in the chair. 2 He maintalned his innocence until the end. # g nounced later that its plant would be closed as a safety measure, - In the Carolinas where seven strikers ang strike sympathizers met death yesterday in fighting. “flying squadrons” rested and rainy weather lessened the * én thusiasm of pickets. 5 Public. funeral services for five of the six killed at Honea Path, S. C., yvesterday were announced for tomorrow. Franeis J. Gorman, chairman of the strike committee, said that he would attend the fun eral and Norman Thomas, socialist leader, announced that he might speak at the ceremony. > - The lull in strike activities hows ever, did noy cause a relaxation'in guarg duty at South Carolina mills. Some 50 national guar@ companies continued on duty and occasionaX ‘reports of “flying squadron” visits | caused reputies to be hurriedly armed. l In Washington the members of ‘President Roosevelt's new textile strike board met with the Labor 'Relations hoard prior to their own ~organization meeting. They wers to confe, later with Secretary of 'Labor Frances Ferkins. = ~ The strike board announced it ‘would meet representatives of (Continued From Page Four)
