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COTTON MARKET s MIDDLING.... eoas svk sRN PREV. CLOBE. .\ sviiy vonns IRV 80. 102. N0..282. THE Washington ashingt Lowdown e A By Rodney Dutcher v—_—-'——_—_—‘__ | Work For Nothing it's Happened Before Wrong Again /———__—_\ v\\‘)\S}![N(‘lTON — #ales of woe gre again the order of ‘the day as voul correspondent makes his ounds. The recent national slump in anployment is reflected here, Large pumbers of gevernment employes are contemplating the Christmas gason as just a period when they iy be out of jobs. About 600 AAA workers, half of shem in Washington, are quite sure gout it. Many NRA people feel tieyre (just living on the brink, And the Home Loan boys anq girls pve had the willies ever since (hairman Fahey announced no more avplications for loans would pe received. AAA folks who are dropped keep wling me they're being let out so the AAA chiefs will have a nice jitle kettle of patronage to dish ot to returning congressmen. This sory appeals to my suspicious na wre, charpened by vears of experi amce here. But there’s no shred o proof, ang those released are mly temnorary emploves who were pred for 60 davs. The burden of work at AAA fluctuates. Far more bizarre is thé case of parly 1,000 Alcohol Tax Unit agents, backbone of Secretary Mor genthau's effort to lick the boot lgger, who are working without py, after failing in the.new civil ervice “horse sense” tests to which ey were subjected as a result of genator McKellar's famous rider desicned to chase Republicans out of the service. Morgsnthau in vited the agents to stay at worl o a gamble that a repentant con gress would fjam the old dunce c= down on McKellar's ears by r storing their jobs along with bac pay. Official guesses are that at lea: half the liquor consumed in 19% tas been -provided by bootlegger: Tox reiurns have been gisappoint | ing. Ana one doesn’t have to b h sour o'd cynic to suggest that th recarious position of the thousan arents will tempt a certain per | eentaze to sell out to the bootlee eers during the holiday s®asor Tour guess is as zood a= mine a to how manv Christmas turkev il be provided by bootleggers for these hard-pressed orphans of the McKellar brainstorm, | e \ Serving without pay, however “ fo't anything new in the govern ment service. When you're lucky | enough to be hired here, you may | 20 two, three and even four or ive weeks without a salary check | while vour appointment is being made official. In most cages that oesn’t happen, but one hears o' sough such cases to indicate they're common. Redg tape and bungling arve chiefly responsible Muite 2 few folks, arriving here for ok in happy exuberance, have gne hungry before matters were fraightened out. Another hard luck story reaches e from the Fed¢ral Housing Ad :“3Tf:?7'“?:f‘:n_ where the large mail e staff was moved across the et to the Department of Justice's ld criminal {dentification bureau. The distance being so short, mov :y veren't hired and the dav [t Was assiened to moving files, :;3"“!1; machines, desks and so , ur men to a 1400-poung file, r l" to believe my informants. ‘ards in Jim Farlev’'s gorgeous %W Postoffice building, which ?‘ FHA, wouldn’t allow files |'® taken out on small trucks "Mough the front door, the only one " level, so the bovs had ” the files down from loading [ "10'ms, wheel them over cobble flanes ang otherwise have a horri {Continued on Page Six) B THE News IN A NUTSHELL By Jack Braswell 2 L WSS re approval for the retention ;:," Bankhead act through 1935 (8 heard from the Hinton-Brown - uunity yesterday . | TesDonding to encore requests, o o osenthal and “Mut” Bush R irn to the air tonight at _hieves who stole $1,500 worth from the Winder, Ga., de i eing searched for in sev ' Surrounding counties. .. € first formal dance of the ~. Vil be given by the Sigma raternity Fridav evening with y, corgla Bulldogs providing ,‘_{”‘L"'r‘ rule for the municipalities fene. 512 and a new system de- B & sihft the cost of gov fm~:~g',§ from real estate were s cd here at a meeting of the "“ distriet. oo " Dudley said today that b, citizens might be interest ' & munijcipally-owned electric ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service Senate Probe Brings Developments Home Rule For Cities, New Tax Methods Discussed Here LOCAL GOVERNMENT Mayor Key Says Associa tion Outgrowth of Ne glect by Legislature LEGISLATORS ATTEND Mavor Dudley Imnressed With Municinal Power Ownership Proposal Home rule for the municipalities of Georgla and a new system of taxation which will shift the cost of government from visible prop erty, where it now rests, to forms of wealth which under existing conditions are escaping taxation, were chief among the questions discussed at the tenth district con vention of the Georgia Mayors As sociation here today. Speakers representing the assoc iation declared that adoption of new tax methods by the state would benefit all units of govern ment, including counties and school districts, and that other objectives of the association would not con flict with the interests of other overnmentaj units. Dudley Presides Mayor A. G. Dudley, a vice esident of the association, pre ded and Mayor James L. Key, f Atlanta, president of the or anization delivered the principal ddress, Mayor Key declared the associa fon of mayvors grew out of the ecessity for an effective, united ‘roup of representatives of muni ipal officers, to protect the in erests of the towns and cities vhich have not heretofore been :afeguarded in the state legislature lue, he admitted, to the negligence »f the municipalities themselves. | The meeting, held in the coun-i ~il chamber of the city hall, c]nspdl at 1 o’clock for a barbecue at thol Elks club. ‘ Other speakers, in addition to Mayors Dudley and Key “'el".! Senator-elect Lamar C. Rucker of! Athens; Senator-elect John W./ Carrington of Winder; Repr(‘son-i tative-elect Carlisle Cobb of Ath-i ans: Representative-elect Morgan Smith of Madison county; R@T)ro-! sentative-elect Robert McWhorter | of Greene county; Tate “"Tixht.l Athens, executive secretzlr.'v‘-tf‘f'«fls'l (Continued on Page Six) l Roosevelt Reaches Washington Today ———— WASHINGTON —(#)—President Roosevelt returned to the capital today from Warm Springs to con tinue his task of preparing a leg islative mrogram for congress. Vice President Garner met the president at the train together with Secretaries Hull and Wallace. Mrs. Roosevelt, who left Warm Springs in advance, also was at the station to welcome the presi dent home. The group posed for a few min utes on the back platform for pho tographers before Mr. Roosevelt entered his automobile for the drive to the White House. The first order of business was juncheon and Mr. Roosevelt re served the afternoon for callers. power distribution plant as. a means of saving the city and tax payer money. ) It is understood that Germany agreed to allow $30,000,000 worth of American cotton to be sold in the Reich if the United States buys the same amount of nitrates and other German products. Indications were today that the NRA will undergo a radical change that will make it a much simpler attempt at cooeration be ~nmernt and business. The greatest amount, $1,500,000, that the resent highway board his contracted for since it took office, will be let scon. Ambassador Norman _H. 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Associated Press Writer “Interviews” Sleep Victim Ruth Cowan Tells of Wild Amazement in Eyes of Patricia Magunrez By RUTH COWAN - (Copyright, 1934, by the Assogciated Press.) bk CHICAGO.~— () —Wild amaze~ ment, almost terror, shows from the eyes of Patricia Maguire as she struggles to awaken from her long “sleep” of two years, hine months and 22 days. ‘ I saw this girl, whose case ten tatively identified as lethargic encephalitis or sleeping sickness has baffled medical science, a year ago, and I saw her today. I saw surprising signs of im provement apparent even to a lay man. I saw definite signs that conaciousness had returned in part. I witnessed tests. - | I saw her gurgling, gasping struggle to break through a terri ble barrier and speak-—and I have and deep feeling she will succeed eventually. | A yvear ago the pretty 29-year-} old girl's eyes had the vacant look of the blind. The pupils were cloudy. -Today they were clear eves of hazel and they have vis ion. I know she saw me as I stood by her bed today. I sensed she was aware of the presence of a stran ger. She kept her eyes on me as I backed away. =~ Last year her eyes rotated aim lessly. Even so I thought she saw a little for she squinted one eye the better to clear the vision in the other. But she did not hold her eyes steadily. Today they are steady and even ly focused. Also there's expres sion. Her mother, Mrs. Peter Miley, who has never left her side since she lansed into a coma February 13, 1932, picked up a school child’s slate. She said: «T will prove to you that Pat can see and read.” In chalk she wrote: (Continued on Page Bix) Husband Reads in Bed, Harlow Wants Divorce LOS ANGELES.—(#)—HaI Ros son, film cameraman, among other things reads in bed untfl late hours, so his actress-wife, Jean Harlow, wants a divorce. Miss Harlow explained in her complaint, filed In supe=ior court here yesterday, that after losing sleep because of ‘Rosson's read ings, she has founi herself unable to act her film roles to the best of her ability. " Rosson. who Is expeeted to re turn to Hollywood soon from Eu- Athens, Ca., Thursday, December 6, 1934. ——GLORY?—o TO OLD GEORGIA e ——— You may talk about prohibition Or better still repeal Discuss it from every angle Until there’s woe or weal. And after all the discussion It's just prattie-prattle-prate For Georgia is now in glory She’'s the Bootlegger's Empire State. —R. E. Peal, Godfree Re-elected Woodman Commander James D. Godfree has been re elected consul commander of ths Athens camp of Woodmen of the World for the next year. J. B. Tanner was elected advisory lieu tenant; C. C. Bridges banker; B. O. Dunaway, escort; T. E. Dun away, sentry; J. F. Bridges, watchman. E. J. Wigley, W. C. Wood and H. W. Hubbard were elected au ditors; M. D. Watson, financial secretary; and Coyle Brown and Harold Hardeman, postmen. Installation of the new officers will be held in January. HORD & DAYS Tt CHRISTIAS R S & RN N ot be N s , oK, W w B 2 % ot {otks QI o % e\, Ry eIR N N ';:;f_r_‘;‘g s R S ! 4 s, RN ?'.-‘r:a& fi % }*f?fif?f{ ) AT A :: : a\\ 5 ( ; Z & ; 3 # % R X 3 o WSy - . S :.:,::l“ i A ‘ 8 sR L ¢ i gPN k- Cirat s N Y A N aci P . 2 N et Dt R e T Ssu Y_ el & N \g N g s & K . 5 P R R e N e e A 5 . %}?’fif& S e o RN ; i “We want more money—and we want it before Chrisimas!” 1 } ; | . | Gl ' Group . Tried in Moscow, ~ Leningrad for Death | Of Sergei Kiroff - WOMAN IS KILLED Only Five of Arrested - > » - " . ~ Persons Manage to ; Escape Penalty | By CHARLES 8, SMITH ~ Associated Press Foreign SBtaff. | MOSCOW —()—Sixty-six per sons, including one woman, had paid with.their lives tdoay for the assassination of Sergei Kiroff, Red leadér - and -friend of Joseph Sta lin. | The ,66 - were tried in Moscow and Leningrad yesterday and sum marily, executed. .The . ashes 'of Kirpff, himself, were sealed with preletarian pomp and ceremony- in the wall of the Kremlin. The official announcement of the execution was brief. It said that 'a woman named Zinaida Buligina was among those executed in Moscow. Just what connection the 1 66 had with ~the crime, a(‘tually| committed by a discharged former Soviet” emplove, Leonid Nicolieg, was not ‘specified. e Property Confistated The list of the condemned show- ‘ ed a duplication of family names and middle: names ‘in’ three cnses.i indicating that brothers had been exectited. All the property of thosel put to death was. confiscated. No light was thrown on the orl-’ gin of those executed, although lt, was indicated they had entered Russia. . through . Poland, Latvia,! and Finland. i In all, 71 “enemies”’ of the gov-| ernment were arrested. Only flve{ of them escaped execution. These five were held for further ques-| tioning. o New “terror” decrees, invokedl because of the nation’s anger at Kiroff’s slaying “last’ Saturda_v,‘ were carried out to the letter. There weré no “déferise attorneys, no prosecutors — and no appealsi were allowed. e I Terse Announcement : A terse government -announce-; ment of the executions said 3Ti were put -to death at Leningrad (Continued on page eight:) { LOCAL WEATHER | e il et op s 05, st Cloudy tonight and Friday; l possibly oqqqsipnal rain in ex treme south portion; not much change in temperature. TEMPERATURE FUBRIE: ... avadisrnrn s s 540 T i v s e iBO P e eSD Nottml. ... coii sove oso . 470 1 . 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Top photo shows how gliders were being towed just be fore the accident, Eaton being in that at left. Below, the wrecked craft is taken ashore. ’ Japan Given Warning By Norman H. Davis Today GOD REVEALED TO ALL MANKIND ee I eel e B . OS i e 5 N The Nineteenth Psalm opens to us two books, from which man may read and in which he may find re velations concerning God. The Book of Nature gives us a strikin3l and arresting revelation concem-f ing God. “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the tirmament} sheweth His handywork.” The! Book ,of Law gives us just as grip ping a description of the purity a,ndi perfection of His righteousness— “The Law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.” | Christians believe that when Je sus came into this world He made a new revelation of God, for He interpreted God’s life in Human ‘Form, as He moved about in the midst of men engaged in the or \dinary pursuits of life, For nearly ,twenty centurles art, in all of its forms, has labored to perpetuate the story of His life: Poetry has lavished all of its epfthets and ' music. has contributed every con | ccivable note of its scale to repeat !this the sweetest story that the iworld has ever heard. Murillo's picture poem, “The Immaculate Conception of the Virgin,” which is one of the master-pieces in the Louvre at Paris, should rank with Milton’'s “Paradise Lost” in the tremendous thrill 1t gives to the human imagination; and the vivid portralture of the “Adoration of the Shepherds” is the master-piece of Rembrandt, and he has made it pulsate with life until the very lieht coming from the Holy Child dims the shepherme’ lantern; and Raphael in the “Sistine Madonna' in surpassing himself, has surpass- | ed all others, and reached the ult{- ma thnle of art. This time of the‘ year our minds ang hearts arg turned to the birth of the Christ, as the revelation of God to man. The Garden club i{s engaged in| (Continued on page eight.) ‘1 No Trace of 11im Party Is Found by Searchers HONOLULU.— () —Weary but willing naval searchers went on relentlessly today in the hunt for Flight Lieutenant Charles T. P. Ulm and two companions, missing since Tuesday when lack of fuel forced their trans-Paecific mono plane into the ocean. Pilots of a dozen navy seaplanes plotted courses over 200,000 square miles of the. adjacent Pacific which has been combed the last two days for the {li-fated flfers. Not until all hope has vanished will the search epnd, =~ A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday Ambassador Cites Danger Of Scrapping Wash ington Naval Pact LONDON — (#) — Japan was warned by Norman H. Davis to day that by scrapping the Wash ington naval treaty she would en danger security, create suspicion and force the world into a costly naval race. ; The American ambassador-at large also announced for the first time that President Roosevelt has proposed ‘“a substantial all-round reduction in naval armaments,” Since no agreemene vo reduce has sen reached, the envoy said in a speech before the American Cor respondents association, the United States strongly advocates continu ing the Washington and London treaties with their assurance of “equality of security.” (Japanese spokesmen have ser ved notice that Japan will denounce the Washington treaty, which gives the Far Eastern nation the small er end of a 5-56-3 ratio.) The speech was the first co oprehensive public pronouncement of the American pusition since the tri-party discussions opened. It is considered of high ssgnificance. ~ The Washington conference “put an end to a ruinous naval race,” Davis said, and established ‘“a (Continued on Page Six) ForeicN News ON THuMBNAL By The Associated Press GENEVA — The league council approved a financial accord over the Saar territory reached by France and Germany under its auspices and leaders hilaed it as’a great step forward future.peace in Europe. BUDAPEST—Hungry decided to lay before the league of nations the expulsion of hundreds of Hun garians from Yugoslavia and their alleged mistreatment. MOSCOW-—Russia, after putting to death 66 of 71 “white Russians” charged with plotting terrorism, buried with high honors Sergi Kiroff, Communist official who was assassinated at Leningrad last Saturday. Sro e et v ‘—-—-—N - A"i. L - o TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras —An ‘b e i ey ST essas PR e T E__li(")'_"_%%_@ | ~ e 1 & » ¥ ¥ i !Ewdence Received Shows | Du Pont Sent Powder | | To China in 1929" ,B_Y WAY OF HOLLAND i Heated Exchanse Occurs Between Sen. Clark and I lrenee Du Pont | Rv rusrLES P. NUTTER | WASHINGTON— (#) —Evidence { that tht Du Pont company sen’.:@ ! shipment of powder to Holland in | 1979 for re-shipment to China -— while an embargo was In effect against sending munitions directly to China—was receiveq today by | senate investigators, v l Mreated exchange between Senas jtor Clark, Democrat, Missouri, and llronep Du Pont was climaxed by an assertion from the senator that | it was not necessary for the United | States to get in the World War i“ex«‘-r pt to protect the munitions i makers profits.” P | He also told Du Pont, a mumni~ i tions manufacturer, that the latter i was not “running this inestiga | tion.” & ki No Beneficial Effect It starteq when Clark contended that powder had wno’ beneficlal ef= sect on mankind S e i “Did you feel that way dqtm the war,” Du Pont asked. - “Certainly,” Clark, who served with the A, BE. F., replied. “Na= turally when we got in the war we needed powder, tut I don't agree it was ever necessary for us to get - in_pxcept to protect the mwmitions’ ‘makeys profits.” ’ o) . “Do you mean,” Du Pont said, “that President Wilson was drag ged into the war at the instance of munitions makers? We made our profits before the United States got into the war.” “T mean” Clark said, “that the United States throughout the war and before we entered it followed a course of action of selling to the Allies which set into motion a chain of events that dragged us into the war,” 8T No Indication 92 Stenhen Raushenbush, chief in vestigatoy for the senate munitions committee, told the committee that state department files showed mno indication the department had sug -2 e ke (Continued on Page Bix) : Y o Mrs. Gillis Will Go RPRE To Court Tomorrow WASHINGTON —(#)— The jus= tice department said today that Mrs. Lester M. Gillis, widow of George “Baby Face” Nelson, will appear in federal court at Madl son, Wis., tomorrow to answer charges of having violated proba=-. tion. ' Mrs. Gillis pleaded gullty last | May t¢ harboring John Dillinger iand To amy Carroll after Dillins ber mcbsmen escaed a federal net iat Little Bohemia Lodge, Spider | Lake, Wis. \ A suspended sentence of 18 | months. was given her, and she was ' released on probation. Last June ! 12, the probation was revoked and }a warrant issued. ° Eg Officials said Mrs. Gillis. was ' moved yesterday from Chicago to ' Madison. said. Disrupted communm%’;f{ lines prevented an accurate esti mate of property loss or canualt@ag.’.a < he CALCUTTA—The congress party rejected the report of a British. parliamentary eommittee which. recommended establishment of & - federation of self-governing Indian republics with, however, certain. vital powers reserved to the wie= eroy. s AR ~ PERPIGNAN, France.—A small ‘boy died and more than 40 other ‘persons were injured in a panie which followed a fire in an ime provised motion picture theates, formerly @ barm. - ke ol o B K ::“;‘ throughout Italy paid homage o a coffer containi fiw&% . 'St. Nicholas, traditional original ‘of Santa Claus, on the 1582nd an ot xRS L s
