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L ———— | e . fl e -‘\’. PIRE T E R e e B A Ril L oMo)e s L e R . R WL s :;:;5;7;55;.::;:?-.3. i :eib o i R S 74y o A A { 5 - ¥ £ gt Ol e i | o i i;'.f*'*zz"lfii.<.;':w,.- L W e & i 2 L et TR R ) ! S . . -ig ;_'"“'é\ SN i ’ M Aet SRR . COTTON MARKET et it el MIDDLING.... «evo oo ...nl2c | PREV. CLOSE.... .... .....12'/ch Vol. 102, No. 297. THE Washington Lowdown _'—— By Rodney Dutcher i Call Me ‘“Joe” g Helps A Friend | Winning Smile Banner-Herald Washington Correspondent Copyright, 1934, NEA Service, Inc. WASHINGTON~—"Don't call me ‘mister'—call me ‘Joe’ or ‘Uncle Joe'l” That's the mext speaker of the House of Representatives talking —the Hon. Joseph Wellington Byrns of Tennessee. If you like, you may also call him “good old Joe Byrns,” There was once an “Uncle Joe” Cannon- who Wwas a famous speaker. But he was famous for being hard-boiled and iron handed. “Uncle Joe” Byrns will never be famous for anything like that. Except for the seniority prece dent—which takes members of Congress right up to the top if they can get the voters to keep them here long enough—Joe Byrns primarily owes the certainty that he will succeed the late Speaker Henry T. Rainey to a popularity built up through years of Qeing kind to fellow members and doing favors for them. For instance— Last year, Congressman Mark Wwilcox of Florida was desperately worried over what Republican Leader Bert Snell always con temptuously called “the snake house bill.” This was a measure to develop the Everglades into a nice, pretty park. The up-and-coming Con gressman Ruth Bryan Owen had been defeated by Wilcox because she hadn’'t been able to get any thing done about it, and Wilcox safd just leave it to him, Wilcox would have been out of luck if it hadn’t been for “Uncle Joe”, who was majority leader. Byrne got¢ the bill out on the floor. The Houes spent a whole day on it—and passed it. _ As majority leader, Byrns could do all kinds of things to help peo ple. As chairman of the Democra tlc congressional campaign com mittee this fall, he sent money and speakers around and helped Dem ocratic candidates everywhere. Many who won feel they owe a debt to him—especially the new members. A movement started in admin istration ranks to keep Byrns out of the speakership and install Sam Rayburn of Texas. Dr. Raymond Moley and his pals here were in on it. It seemed that “Uncle Joe” was 65 years old, rather feeble in lead ership, and not very New Dealish. And that Rayburn was quite New Dealish, young, vigorous and much more likely to be able to Kkeep firm hands on the House while jamming through New Deal legis lation. / A less popular man migat have lost out against such opposition, despite the fact that Joe was being returned to the House for his 14th consecutive two-year term and thus had 01l the seniority rights, But scores of members signed nledges for Byrnsg and Vice Presi dent Jack Garner couldn't gain much ground for his pal Sam, and Roosevelt disereetly kept out of the fight. Rayburn recently withdrew and lefi the field to Byrns. The Pennsylvania Democratic members had plumped for Joe in & body and thereby decided the issue. Thev're all congressmen ¢lected in 1934 or 1932 or 1930. Joe Byrns is a great fellow for Sk (Continued on Page Two) !@ll Tooay's Santa Cravs SToRY \\\' ! By Jack Flatau This is the final of a seri¢s of five Santa Claus stories written by Jack Flatau, to be read aloud to children. The Banner-Herald hopes its little friends have enjoyed them. Santa Claus has beea mighty busy an day today. Tonight he's ¢ot to make his trip all around the world and bring his toys and Presents to everybody. His little gnome-helpers have been runming here and there, get ting all the packages into his air blane and seeing that everything’'s all ready, You see, now Santa uses an ajrplane because he can get around to see a lot more people because it's so much faster than the sleigh and reindeer. Of course, he still has his reindeer ang sleigh, MW weather he can't use the ol PR e so, that he has to- ag rt out real ATHENS BANNER-HERALD A YULETIDE THOUGHT Tomorrow is Christmas Day, and once more the Christian world is about tc pause and, in solemn rever ence, testify to its faith in the teachings of the humble Nazarene. In our march toward eternity—sometimes it resem bles a mad rush—we are all too prone to lose sight of those priceless virtues which He, whose nativity we ob serve tomorrow, established with a life of purity and sanctified with an ignominious death. But no matter how far afield we wander, the advent of the Yuletide invariably re-awakens our finer emotions and stirs into activity those generous impulses with which we all are endowed, despite evidences of human fraility, to which, unfortunately, we also are heirs. ; So, as we stand on the threshold of another Christ mas, let’s make the most of it. Imbued with the Christ mas spirit, which is really big enough to crowd out bit terness and other manifestations of human perversity, let’s spread joy and gladness in every quarter, and, for getting petty animosities, endeavor to catch the spirit of the angelic hosts as they sang “Glory to God in the high est: on earth, peace, good will toward men.” Holiday Death List From Accidents on Increase as Christmas Day Approaches Airplane Disasters Add to Mounting Number of Tragedies. FOG, SNOW HEAVY Auto and Train Crashes Also Predominate on List of Fatalities. ‘ By The Associated Press Death intruded on the holiday scene today as reports of airplane disasters were added to g formid able list of accidents and trage dies. These were the stories of death: Ventura, Calif.—An airplane was reported to have erashed in flames in a raVine near here. ‘A search ing party saw flames but was un able to descend into the gorge un til after daylight. Elko, Nevada—A pilot and his passengers, two girls and a boy, were sought after their plane dis appearcd in fog and snow. Rescue parties faced frozen drifts and icy winds in their gearch, Pittsburgh—After playing Santa Claus to her brother's children, Mrs. Kathryn Schoch, 37, crazed by the recent death of her own son, turned a revolver on th sleeping forms of six of the fam ily, killing all but one. She then committed suicide by drinking poison. Her sister was found‘ slain at Dunkirk, N. Y. ‘ Wilmington, Calif. — Lost in 9 heavy fog, Elmer R. Hunt, 29] drove his car off a pier, his wife and two children drowning. Hunt escaped. ! Lincoln, Neb, — An automobile, crashing into @& truck, brought | death to four. e l Medora, Ind. — Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Eshom and their nine months-nld gon, driving home from Sunday school Christmas exercises, were killed when their ecar was struck by a train. Pittsburgh — Four persons died | when a bus, carrying travelers home for Christmas, was in col 'lisirm with an automobile. Delaware, O.—Two fast trains, bhearing Christmas passengers and mail, crashed, killing three mem pers of the locomotive crews. St. Louis — A student pilot’s Christmas present to his room mate. his first airplane ride, ended in death for both when the ship ' crashed. Sunbrieht, Tenn. — An air mail pilot. Russell Riggs, was found dead in the burned wreck of his ! plane atop biz Pilot Mountain. ; Mazatlan, Mexico — Hope Wwas i (Continned on Page Seven) early, and all the little boys and girls ought to go to bed early to night so he won’t have to wait out- | side their house, Santa doesn't. come to houses where the little boys and girls are awake, S 0 when he finds a house where they're still up he just has to wait outside until they’re gone to bed. But before we tell you too much about that, we want to finish tell ing you about Santa’s list. He keeps it in a great big book and in that book there's the name of every little boy and girl in the world. There are a lot of litile gnomes who take care of this book and when the helpers in the dif ferent towns radio what they've found out, the gnomes write it in the book. Then all Santa has to do is look there and see what the bovs and girls ought to-get. . Now, the way Santa decides what 3 Big S S - ¥, S 4. » b oy , 4 . r r '- v+ 32T 41¢ 1 Full ‘Associated Press Service JOHNSON-AICHBERG FEUD NEAR CLIMAX Showdown Likely in Near Future As Quarrel Grows Warmer. By STANLEY P. RICHARDSON Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, —(#P)— A sued ibetween two outstanding figures of the New Deal—General Hugh S. Johnson and Donald R. Richberg —moved toward a showdown to day. It flared hotly into the open over the week ¢nd when it became known that Richberg, director of the National Emergency. council, had written the Saturday evening Post a warning. He said he would nold it “legally responsible” if it oublished anything reflecting on his reputation in a series of ar ticles written by Johnson which it expects to print shortly. The former NRA chief in Okml gee, Oklahoma, Immediately ac cused Richberg of attempting to use his position to interfere with‘ the freedom of the press. He loosed one of his explosive phrases, | “Just a symptom of the ants of conscience in his pants,” was his tescription of Richberg’s letter. I - ‘Donald is a high official, If he _hinks there is libel in this narra ‘cion, why doesn’'t he stand on his legal rights in a suit for libel and not attempt to use his position to| threaten the freedom of the press.’ “When 1 was catching all the dead cats that any one had to| throw I never sqealed or tried to Scotch thém in a single case.” Johnson’s articles are expected to start early in the New Year. ‘The quarrel throws new light on the intensity of the emotions and| differences that markeq NRA’S in ner councils as it began its era otl transition. The split started when Johnson was head of NRA and| (Continued on Page Five) Nationally Known Track Coach Named L. S. U. Grid Mentor BATON ROUGE, La.—(#)—Ber- | nie Moore, Louisiana State Uni-l versity freshman football coach, | has been appointed head coach for | the Tigers, succeeding Captain 5 Lawrence “Erff” 'Jones who re- | signed after his argument with | Senator Huey Leng, it was an- | nounced today by Dr. James M., | Smith, president of L.S.U. % Moore has drawn national rec- | ognition at Louisiana State by building the Tiger track team into the intercollegiate champions with such stars as Glen “Slats” Hardin, the star hurdler and quarter miler and the giant Jack Torrance, of shot fame, both Olympic players. He was also scout for Jones in the football department *here he has shown well. b | Moore was seclected as head coach from a field of a half dozen well known coaches who were. mentioned as likely to be ap- I proached for the position. Captain Biff Jones resigned a week ago after he had had an ar gument with Senator Long in the dressing rooms between the halves of the LSU-Oregan game because Loneg demanded permission to make a tdlk to the boys between halves. Coach Jones refused this and went threugh with his diagram instruc tions instead. ~ Presidont Smith said Moore was the chofee of tha plavers and the ‘university ath!odcmwgndl. o«t Commenting on the appointm ‘Senator Long said. “he was the gelection of univer ~officials and ~ p *a*;«- e Athens, Ca., Monday, December 24, 1934, THE CHRISTMAS MIRACLE o B X ’fi} ; 3 ; o S ] i i i £ (Tl = NARE E- i B SCS *%@# PRI P IR , A O SR Rt Y TN . 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The light that shines on the child’s face at that moment is a glowing bit of proof thst, once in a while, at least, life can live up to its fair promises. Life doesn’t do that very often, once you leave childhcod. And al though a child has no especial reason to surmise that painful fact, those delightful weeks just before Christmas are always tinged with just a faint shade of doubt. There will be fine gifts, of course. and lots of fun, and all that—but the heart of childhood is pretty cautious. In the back of the young ster’s mind there is always that unsopken fear that maybe, this year, things won’t turn out to be quite as satisfying as they're ex pected to be. That fear, it should be added, This Is His Night ".—p o F kS o e R B = / | ¥ 1Y | a 5 ig [ T ] . : L SPBR. R BG- " % ) oit e o ! o e i ‘ 3:‘;’3\;,3_&5',, ,W« r ;. : e o A é g P o . . 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The child’s anxiety goes fatrher than that. It is more like a first faint glimmering of that dreadful suspicion of the world’s inherent coldness, which only adults really achieve. So, as we say, the youngster takes that first look at the tree and the gifts with just the shadow of a lurking doubt, Then there comes into the eyes that heart twisting look of delight, of belief, of complete and unalloyed happi ness. Life, for once, is living up to its advance notices. ‘ To watch that Ilook, as the| youngster unwraps some long-: wanted treasure or glimpses al quite unlocked-for surprise—to see a small human being made thor-i oughly and unquestionably happy‘ —is pretty nearly the greatest, ‘privilege that Christmas can! bring us. 1‘ Banner-Herald Will Have No Christmzs Day Issue As Per Custom Following a custom which the paper has observed tor many years, tue banner-resald will not pubusn a paper tomorrow, Christmas day, $0 that employes may spend. the day with their familes or triends. The regular editions will be re sumed Wednesday, In making this announcement, the Banner-Hera.d also wishes to take this opportunity to wish for its large family circle of readers and aavertisers a most joytul Christmas and increased prosperity during 1935, To its legion of little friends of the school pages, it extends an es pecial wish that Santa Claus will be good to them and that they will find their every desire fulfilled to morrow morning. L Athens Production Credit Association To Meet January 9 The Athens Prodiuction Credit association will hold its annual meeting here January 9, in the city court room in the Clarke county courthouse at 1 o'clock, it was announced today by G. C. Pittard, secretary of the associa tion. - Invitations will be sent to 250 farmers in the five counties thaf the local association serves, but nearly 500 are expected, Anyone who does not get an invitation, and is interested in thé meeting, are invited to attend, Mr. Pittard said. New directors for the ensuing yvear will be elected at the meet ing, and a complete report of the yvear’s work will be made, it was also announced. A speaker, representing the Pro duetion Credit Corporation of Co lumbia, will be present, and the report of the year’s work will be made to him. The speaker, who was not known today by Mr. Pit tard, will give an outline of the set-up of the Farm Credit Admin istration of the third district, the method of control and operation of the production credit associa tions. and will give an explanation of the association’s operating statu ment from organization through December 31 of this year. The local association is com posed of 170 members, and has been doing great work during the last year, according to the secre tary. To date, approximately 95 percent of loans made by the as sociation have been collected, from about 90 percent of the bor rowers. By the time of the meet ing, nearly 100 percent of loans are expected to be collected. “There are none of the Iloans that appear now to be total losses,” ‘Mr. Pittard said.this morning. ~_ The directors of the association ldnring 1934 are J. R. Westbrook, president, from _Madison county; from Banks county; O, M. : ;’ 2 Lfi‘*fi"""" fi'}“ R RN e R W & i Yy e il o s BN ST Y T J e oy : AR L L f ey o B PAR R Bl b 7 2 e ‘ LRN TP 0" . STyl e o YT / R o Y : R 4 BB\ LT oiy SR ; P, T A Y e // o PRI e S SR % Wi 00 OUR fuki A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday Holiday Spirit Invades Athens For Christm; PILGRIMS FOUR INTO TOWN OF BETHLEHEM BETHLEHEM,—(#)—Thous ands of Pilgrims, white and black and representing a score of demoninations, poured into this little market town in the Palestine hills today to observe the birth nearly 2,000 year ago of Jesus Christ. Many of these modern Pil grims game by automobile over the broad highway from Jeru salem, eight miles away. Both here and in Jerusalem tonight the air will resound with the singing of Carols and ringing of bells as the age-old rites’ begin, The climax of ser vices 1n many churches will be reached at midnight (5 P. M.,) E. 8. T.) in the Church of the) Nativity, built ovsr the spot where the holy child is believed to have been born. CRAZED WOMAN 15 SLAYER OF FAMILY Mrs. Kathr;n Schoch Kills Five Others and Then Drinks Poison. PITTSBURGH, Pa. —(#)— The paper bells and tinsel garlands that made Walter Dempsey’s home ready for a happy Christmas, grace a house of tragedy today, for all Dut one of the family of. six are ‘Qead; slain, police say, by a wom an driven mad by the death of her own son, In addition, the woman herself and her sister are dead in the mul tiple Yuletide tragedy. Coming to the suburban home of Dempsey, her brother, Mrs. Kath ryn Schoch, 37, of Dunkirk, N. Y, a trained nurse, made the family merry with gifts for all, but in the night shot them with a pistol and ended her own life with poison. Five of the Dempsey family died in the shootings yesterday. The mother alone still lives. A pitiful note, telling how she‘ could not have her little seven year-old son with her to enjoy Christmas happiness, was found by police who said it held the expm-] nation of the motive for her act. It read in part: ‘ “0, dear God, it’s hard to do all this but I just cannot go on any longer. Not to feel my darling boy’'s arms around me nor hear his precinrus voice makes living unbearahle,” At Mrs. Schooch’s apartment in (Continued on page elght.)) LOCAL WEATHER Cloudy with rain in central and north portions tonight and in north portion Tuesday; slightly warmer tonight and in northeast portion Tuesday. TEMPERATURE ¢ HlGhOst iiie ivis ¥eei sverbßil TOWEBE .5 hiidi s nani D BMORN ioai Sossvstd syiv eMO NOYMBY i cnvdivani seshßm RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours .. «.. .00 Total since December 1 .. 1.96 Deficiency since Dce. 1 ... 1.32 Average Dec. rainfall...... 4.3 f Total since January 1 .. ..49.86 Excess since January 1 ... 1.24 Forrien News On THumMBNAIL By The Associated Press - LONDON—England was prepared for its gayest Christmas in years. Restaurants received special per missino to remain open an hour later than usual on Christmas and New Year's Eve. Fog closed in over parts of the city. BOURNEMOUTH, England. — Postal authorities introduced sing ing to speed up the work of hand ling a flood of Christmas mail. The employes were authorized to sing any “lively” song, but “séntiment al” songs were - banned, on the gounds thay they slow up the work. : BERLlN.—Germany's traditional role of Santa Claus in a commerci al way to the world is being usurped by Japan. 1930 to a little more than 13,260 H “E?fiflc\?/lfi’ El . ' £ 4T Business Concerns Havu%fl 5 : e Best Shopping Season in Several Years. = ettt e SUPPLIES FOR NEEDY TR oo Thousand of Happ& Tots Anxiously Await Visit ' of Santa Claus. . = e ——————— TR By KATHERYN SEAGRAVES With thousands of other towns and cities, Athens is awaiting the annual visit of old Saint Nick and this one promises to be the hap piest Athens has seen in several yvears from a financlai point of view, as well as otherwise. y decorations of holly, wreaths, 3 ; tinsel beam their welcome while thousands of tiny tots will crawl into bed tonight with fond expec tations and high hopes. e For months the storeés . i shown signs of increased acum and early this morning the streets took on the appearance it usually has on average Saturdays and by mid-morning parking places in the busienss district were at g premis um with traffic greatly increased Merchants are expecting a fl@ of last-minute shoppérs who forgotten that present’ for Aunt Sue or Cousin SO-And-So and the stores will be kept open late. to night to try and ‘take care of the riaply, - N res R S Business Increases e Getting off to’ a ‘slow :start ears lier in thé month, ‘increased o’% mism and' rénewed confidence in better conditions, December Swlll mark the high water mark for lo cal stores’ and -buginess’ houses since that - mightmarish day. back in October,” 1929 .+ .. Lt The fincreased - business: Is fiof confined to any. few lines, but afl have shown:. marked. bencfits -a last minute check-up today by % Bannerslferald showed, - Many of the merchants - who already had bought - their. Jargest, stocks . years, have been forced to wire oF phone urgent . callg for additional stocks. -And from, the way tc&% started . today,, . these addi = g stocks will he ,yirtualy closed out or greatly de¢pleted by the time old ° Santa Clans malkes his rounds late tonight. . .. -~ B The. Post’ ‘Office i hu% with agtivity, long lnes standing before each window, as ' olerks work at lightning speed, gettinfi'% late packages, Christmas eard letters to home-folk or friends in other cities. ‘? Acting-Postmaster Dave Am; (Continued on Page Five) . South to Have Warm Christmas, But East And West Will Shiver By The Associated Press =~ While the deep South, b-% fairly warm temperatures, -made ready today fer a merry Christ mas, the north took one M@ . at the thermometer and ducked under cover again. It was 2 below zero at Green Bay, Wis, early to day—and anly 9 above at CM There wasn't much prospects of a sunny Christmas in‘ the. United . States, according to 'the weather man’s predictions. e Milwaukee was row also with a 5 and Detriot had 6. Grand Ra and Des Moines had 18 each—but in Miani the thermometer stood at 73. Jacksonville had 46, and New Orleans 58, . A Memphis reported a 48 and‘,,fi tle Rock had 50 early foday: At lanta and Augusta, Ga:, ‘had ¥; Birmingham, Ala., and Mmon& i 46; and Savannah, Ga., and Ment gomery, Ala,, 52, « ; general exports for this year abon 25 per cent under 1933. b R et o T N 8 BETHLEHEM. -~ Thousands of Pilgrims of many denominations came for special Christmas serv ices. The chiming of bells m the Church of the Nativity, -ove the spot where Christ is believed ' tv have been bornm, will be m cast to London as part of (&n"* pire broadeast. . L ROME—The cry of. “Boun'Ngs tale, Signore,” or in effect * J Christmas,” rang out in Rome. Sueh bl st poni with a “handbut,” an old RO custom of Christmas gift-givi 'u St ‘t R e Ty g v it
