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Newspaper Page TextCOTTON MARKET msesns smat MIDDLING 5. vu tn euee, o 18%g PREV. CL08E.... .v.. ....12%0 Vol. 102, No. 308. THE Washington Lowdown i) —— By Rodney Dutcher A Single Hope Lobblyist - Dish Boss Tells 'TEm Bannner-Herald Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, — Enemies of .onomic security measures are re ing on a single hope—talking em to death. Roosevelt’s idea is to throw his jportant -legislative proposals to ongress consecusively, giving apitol Hill time to clean up each ne before it gets the next, This rocess saves stalling, sidetrack g, and mutilation — when it Forks. ) Most of the administration «owd hopes unemployment insur nce can be rushed through rap {ly in that way. But cuns-rva ves are secretly working to head \at issue into a maze of com ittee hearings and complicated iternative proposals. They take their cue from th 2 usiness men's meeting at White ulphur Springs, which recom jended a ‘national system"”— nd a lot of time to consider t. P G—— Even temporary delay would lease the lobbyists. The Wag er-Lewis unemployment insurance cheme, which Roosevelt and his conomic security committee has dopteq in principle, lets any state et up its own job inzurance svs .m and consequently requires ac ion by states. Two thirds of state legisliturcs re meeting about now and Iriends ¢ the Wagner-Lewis idea would ike to jam the measure through his month, so those bodias can act oW, If passage is put off they argue he system virtuaily will be de yed two years. The anti-security lobbyists would ot stand a chance, however, f o onsideable group of liherals{ asn’t asking for a mor: advanced vpe of ‘national” unempluyment\‘ wcurance system wh.ch would be wore closely supervised from ‘ashinton and would be uniform all states. e | Many alternatives to the Wag er-Lewis schemes are proposed] v as many dalfferent liberals even Dr, Tugwell has his own cheme. The objections to a ‘na ional” scheme now are, chiefly, \at the hard, complicated job of | «orking one out in detail would L.ke much too long; that states hould he allowed to lead the way ith experiments, whereas it would e dangerous to adopt an untired ational scheme which might flop; nd that the Wagner-Lewis meas re, providing a payroll tax on emg lovers to be remitted when they ontribute as much under a state! ystem, is best planned to with tand a test of consitutionality. And you have on one strong roup of New Dealers not to play ito the hands of the clever “Old’ ealers.” While Joe Byrns of Tennessee getting acquainted with the eaker's gavel, details are leaking ut which begin to indicate just ow he got his mitts on the thing. Its now clearer than ever that ie administration was all lined up 1d ready to toss the amiable, el erly Joe to the crocodiles ang turn er the speakership to the up-and ming Mr, Sam Rayburn of Texas Farley, Joe Guffey, Boss Ed lynn of New York, Jack Garner, aymond Moley, a White House cretary, and several other practi il gents who operate snccessfullyj *hind scenes were in on it. l The idea was to get large Demo atic House delegations from blgl ates—New . York, Pennsylvania, =w Jersey, Illinois, Massachusetts hio, and so on—held uncommitted any candidate and then to bust rough for Rayburn with as muny! 'W members as coulg be persuadedl €v should vote for the ‘“‘adminis- | ation man.” I Congressman John McCormack ofl assachusetts, under this plan, was be floor leader. If you think Roosevelt was una-} (Continued on Page Five) THE NEws IN A NUTSHELL Sunday school attendance at the cal churches vesterday was 4eh better than the preceding Unday, but is still below normal. The Clarke county Superior urt disposed of thirty divorce S¢S this morning prior to the 0N recesgs. Dr. T. W. Tippett, who re- MY was elected secretary of € Georgia Baptist Sunday “hool department, and who took “r his duties January 1, will €2k to the officers and teachers the Druid Hills Baptist church ‘Night, As was requested by the propo “Nts of the proposed waterway °m Cumberland Sound, Georgia, "d Florida, to the Mississippi Ver, the hearing which was ‘hedujed for January 12 has been Betty Gow Is Given Severe Grilling 2,200 Acre Federal Subsistence Farm Near Whitehall 1s Planned OPTIONS ON TRACT ACQUIRED; T CARE FOR 100 FAMILIES Property Runs From Road Through Whitehall Back Towards Athens. ANNOUNCED TODAY Some of Families to Work in Cotton Mill, Others on Farms. ATLANTA. —(#)— The Georgia Relief administration today an nounced it had acquired options on 2,200 acres of land in Clarke county, mnear Whitehall, with a view to establishing a subsistence farm project similar to others now being developed in the state. The Clarke county project would take care of approximately 100 families, it was said at the office of Miss Gay B. Shepperson, state administrator. Titles to the land are being investigated and purch ase of the land is expected to be made as soon as this work has been completed. The project contemplates a sub sistence farm program in connec tion -with industry, similar to those now under way in Putnam, Harris, Irwin and Grady counties. Some of the families will be given part time employment in a cotton mill and others will work on farms. L.and for the subsistence projects in the latter four counties al ready has been purchased and the work of selecting families for the settlements is under way. AMOUNT UNREPORTED It was revealed here today that options on the land above was ac quired from the Whitehall Cotton Mills,s Inc, and James H. Towns, The amount of money involved was not made public. R.. L. Vansant, Atlanta; W. T. Bennett, of the Agriculture col lege, and local attorneys had charge of planning the project and securing the options. The project is a federal work and it is not thought that the ‘Agriculture college wil! be con nected with it. Voting Begins Toda ng Begi y By Public Employes . In Saar Territory By MELVIN K, WHITELEATHER Associated [Press Foreign Staff SAARBRUECKEN, Saar Basin Territ\or:\'——(ﬁl’)——\'uting began today in the history-making Saar pleb iscite, ordered 15 years ago at Ver sailles. Five thousand public employes cast their ballots in a ‘“dress re hearsa}’ of the mass voting next Sunday. They were allowed to vote early because they must work on th.n‘ rezular election day. i In effect, it was a vote for or against Adolf Hitler, just an army corporal when the powers which won the World War decreed that the Saar, after 15 years of super vision by the League of Nations, should decide whether to return to Germany, unite ¥ith France or re-. main under the League’s guidance. Most observers freely predict a reunion with the Reich. NEW DEAL VERDICT WASHINGTON, —(#P)—ln its first decision of Federal New Deal Legislation, the supreme court to day held invalid the clause of the National Industrial Recovery act under; which the government is at tempting to curtail oil production. By Jack Braswell postponed indefinitely. in a case involving the recov ery of a case of beer, the Georgia court of appeals ruled that the courts “will ‘not sustain actions for the recovery of property the possession of which is illegal.” Members of both parties today expressed concern over the pros pective increase of the public debt. Representative Dies of Texas today anonunced en attempt to supplant the AAA program with something “@lametrically” differ ent. Most of the cash balance of $6,- 697,860.85 that Georgia entered the New Year with has been allocated to special funds to meet contract -5 & —— \‘ (Continued on Page Seven) ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service dcene of Lindbergh Kidnaping /v N e . WEP o 8 88 - v Nt WY o This is the setting for the kidnaping of Charles Augustus Lind bergh, Jr., that the state will describe in the trial of Bruno Haupt mann at Flemington, N. J. The kidnaper entered the nursery o) the second floor of the Mindbergh home near Hopewell, N. J., b means of a collapsible ladder as shown above, The baby may have been fatally injured when the ladder broke as the kidnaper descended Passengers, Crew Saved As Liner Runs Aground VOTERS LEAGUE WILL MEET THURSDAY AT 4 The Athens League of Women Veters will hold a very important business meeting at the home of Mrs. H. H. Cobb, on Milledge avenue, Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock. The state chairman of the Lea gue, Mrs. R. L. Turmaw asks that the Athens League take some definite action on the child and labor amendment before January 14. The newly revised constitu tion of the local League comeés up for adoption at this {neetlng and several other matters of impor tance will be brought before ¢he members for action or considera tion. Mrs. Paul Morrow, president, urges all members to make special efforts to attend the meeting. Refreshments will be serv;d by Mrs. Cobb, for which each mem ber will bring ten cents." VANSANT TO SPEAK AT SCHOOL TUESTAY Rural Rehabilitation Di rector Featured Speaker At Terracing School. R. L. Vansant, director of rural rehabilitation for the GERA, will be the featured speaker at the University College of Agriculture’s terracing school tomorrow. Vansant will speak at 9:45 on “The Place of Erosion Control in Rural Rehabilitation.” Dean Paul W. Chapman, of the Collegs of Agriculture, will welcome ths ap- (Continued on Page Two) l Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury at “Trial of Century” SRR s ¢ > B B ; %Y TR s G e g e Y R i }i di E 2 o ’a%’s" i ; e : ; BB e L 3 LT R S : R b el 9 %%‘* ey ! disss A : i, | e e L . it 3 Sg o S A e el PR L e T 223 AR s foq BN a 0 \fi 7 ' '8 L. &= ¥ b o .j} R s R : g B R ...-;;fjif,;é Ll e s L §ST T R o TR S ; b T Vi goA Y’ s & by L\ F eAI 8 L - f 0 T&oies " W il r |=e:o;’ . b P i L o e e . % 2 A ; o v | S 4 : ; g g g e e L el TH G | & S - o i o ol 2 A 5. % " S 7 ,’A__‘ A 3 R b g ,)_-:f,-"‘,. s, e ~,,;.,-’? : Z e S .- e ';ﬁ:'?:"':;:: o 5 : e P o TRy T o g 5 e B 3= e % el %{?} Ti W %‘v‘h; e s e eSS, @ T te s ; ﬁ)"” e - % 5‘4.4 {X’ ¢ s %“:’N’: /21~,5/ 4‘,,5 %g,’ e 2 ‘?ﬁ,y%\ /;;’; C e s G A a 1 o ] E . 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Bn_mo Hauptman, on charges of murde ring Charles Augustus Lindbergh, jr. Here they are, seated in the 1;")" foxdml.‘ e coucr; rocom at Flemington, N. J. Back row, left to right, are Robert Cravath, Elmer Smith, Philip Hockenbury, Mrs. Mary relsford, Liscom C. Case and Howard Biggs; front row, George Voorhees, Mrs. Ethel Stockton, Charles F. Snyder, Verna Snyder, Mrs. Rose Pill, and Foreman Charles Walton, ar, > One Man Dies in Lifeboat Of Apoplexy, However, During Rescue. By TED GILL Associated Press Staff Writer. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) MIAMI;, Fla.— (&) —Snatched from danger by two rescue ships that ploughed through heavy seas to answer a call for help, passen gers of the stranded Ward liner Havana reached safety today while the black-hulled steamer remained fast aground on a coral reef in the Bahamas. One passenger, identified as Rob ert Rittenhouse of Brooklyn, N. Y., died in a lifeboat of apoplexy —the only fatality thus far ac counted for in the shipwreck. An incomplete check did not account for one passenger and Captain A. W. Peterson of the Havana said one member of the crew was missing. The ship struck the reef early Sunday morning while most of those on board were asleep but the passengers arriving here to day on the freighter El Oceano said the impaet when the linar grounded was so gentle that many of them were not awakened. Another rescue ship, the United Fruit steamer Peten, sped toward Havana with other passengers taken off the Havana. The EI Oceano came into port here wita 38 of the 51 passengers on the ship’s list and some of the crew while the Peten carried 11 passen gers and members of the erew. The {ransfer of the passengers to the El Oceano was carried out in heavy seas without mishap ex cept for the swamping of one life boat which was struck by a large wave. A woman and her two chil dren were swept into the water, (Continued on Page Five) Athens, Ga., Monday, January 7, 1935. Roosevelt Asks Congress , For Greatest Peace-Time National Defense Budget WHAT CONGRESS IS DOING TODAY T e L 5 1 S By The Associated Press SENATE Convened at noon to hear Pres ident’s budget message. Expected to hear speeches by Senator Long (D.-L.) and Sena tor Clark (D.-Mo.) HOUSE Convened at noon to hear presi dent’'s budget message, Ways and means committee Democrats continue selecting dem ocratic members of standing com mittees. NEW BILOXI MAYOR TAKES OFFICE TODAY Mayor-Elect John A. O'- Keefe Uses Deputies to Gain City Post. BILOXI, Miss.—(#)—By execut ing an early morning coup with armed deputies sheriff and citizens Mayor-elect John A, O'Keefe garly today took office and ousted his political foe, Mayor R. Hart Chinn who declared he would not give up the office because he considered the new mayor unqualified to hold office. ? - No shots were fired and Mayor O'Keefe declared that the citizens, at least 150 of them, were unarm o - w 1 O'Keefe was glected to succeed Chinn with the change in the city administration today but hig qual fications had been challenged by Chinn on the claim that O'Keefe had not paid his taxes within the (Continued on Page Two) Roosevelt Requests Congress to Continue 3-Cent Letter Rate WASHINGTON — (AP) — Pre- 'senting estimates showing an in crease in post office costs, Presi ‘dent Roosevelt Monday asked con gress to continue the three-cent rate on non-lecal first class mail He ‘said allowing the three-cent figure to lapse next July 1 would cut $75,000,000 out of posta] reve nues. Budget estimates fixed the cost of the post office department at $697,224,053 for 1935 and $725.307,- 569 for the 1936 fiscal years. Postal revenues were estimated at $82,- 099,063 less than expenses in 1935 and $80,282,569 in 1936. The department asked $37,500,000 next year for foreign mail trans- | portation and $10,700,000 for do mestic airmail transportation. | President’s’ Message to Lawmakers Today Asks Better Equipment. LARGE INCREASES New Warships for Navy and Planes for Army Are Big ltems. WASHINGTON—(®)—In Ameri- ca's greatest peace-time national defense budget,. President Roose velt today asked congress to ap propriate $792,484,265 for the army and the navy .in the next financial year, With this- cash, Mr. Roosevelt projected in his budget message to congress new warships, new planes and a better equipped army and navy. : - The budget called for an in crease of $180,000,000 over the cur rent year's $612,785,756 of outlays by June 30, and represented more than $300,000,000 increase over the amount actually expended on na tional defense in 1934, Explaing Request The president explained his re quest in these words: “This increase is due to the cure rent policy of dongress and the ex ecutive to miake up for the delay by the United States in meeting the provisions of the naval treaties (Continued on Page Seven) MORTON 15 NAMED FORENAN OF JURY Clarke Superior Court Be gins Session “'Here This Morning. ' J. Audley Morton was elected ‘lforeman of the grand jury for the January term of Clarke Superior court when it convened this morn ing. Judge Blanton Fortson is pregiding over the session of the court which began ‘trial of divorce cases after the grand jury was or ganized. : i The court will devate its atten tion to tridl of divorce and other civil cases’ this week, after which it will begin trial of erimina] cases. The grand jury #s organized this morning is comprised of the follow ing: J. A. Morton, foreman; L. L. Laboon, C. A. Trussell, J. M. Story, A. F. Winston, Mose Gor don, James R. Tuck, D. D. Quil lian, G. C. Pittard, Paul L. Glenn, Charles 8. Taylor, J. Y. Talmadge, C. D. Flanigen, sr., M. N. Tut wiler, Bruce T. Scoggins, C. 8. Coile, L. C. XAmett, R. 'T. Yar brough, John M. Fowler, Morton S. Hodgson. ; Thirty divorce cases were dis posed of by the court prior to the (Continued on Page Three) A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—sc¢ Sunday Nurse on Stand Al N SR P RS L 2 R BSOS R L . G v oy i ¥ 1 ; S e B o S N e Al AN R SRR N e S SN N R b SRR L ‘l\ L RRET R GRS AR N AR - S R o b i K ot S L S ’.“.\.‘\ “&’ 8 « ."". X o Cad FUDODONN. | [N :’ O N el BETTY GOW PLANS LAID TODAY FOR BIRTHDAY BALL Committees Hold Lunch eon Meeting At Geor gian; Set Date As Feb. 1. Tentative plans to hold the Roosevelt Birthday Ball on Friday, February 1, at Woodruff hall, with admission price at $2 per couple and $1 for TUniversity students, were made at the 1 o'clock lunch eon meeting at the Georgian hotel today of the advisory, finance and student committees for the ball, appointed Saturday by Chairman Bob Gunn. The date was set for February 1 instead of January 30, the pres ident’s birthday, because of the difficulty of securing an orchestra on that day, the Georgia Bulldog orchestra having an engagement in - Albany for the thirtieth, and hav ’lng offered their services free for the ball here. Besides, it was }pomted out by President §. V. Sanford of the University, that ’ Friday night would be a more suit able date for a dance in Athens. Plans were tentative due to the fact that a double-header basket ball game has been scheduled for Woodruff hall on February 1, and definite announcement will be held up until it can be seen whether this conflict can be ironed out. : Heads Ticket|Sales | Mrs. Lamar Rucker was namedj head of the ticket sales and she will have general charge of all sales. Charles E. Martin will see about the printing of the tickets. Mrs. Rucker is to name various citizens to work on different com mittees to sell them, and repre gentatives from the city and county will be recruited to organize into groups for this purpose. She was nominated by Abit Nix, and on} (Continued on Page Two) LOCAL WEATHER Occasional rain tonight and Tuesday, slghtly warmer Tues day in west and north portions. TEMFPERATURE Highost .aa ok i il g Cowhet.. .7 »oovain wias 15399 W o i e R R NOHERY. iovs Aisi i bas R 0 1D RAINFALL Inches last 24 hours.... .. .10 Total since January 1...... 1.04 Deficency since January 1.. .08 Average January rainfall.. 4.83 ForreicN News ON THUMBNAIL By The Associated Press LENINGRAD.—The >vernment announced ‘‘many passengers were victims of a rear-endj\collision Sunday between two express trains enroute from Leningrad to Moscow.” Apparently no foreign ers were zboard 'either train. SAARBRUECKEN.—Voting be gan in the Saar plebiscite. Civil empoyes, who will be busy next Sunday when a vast majofity of the citizens ballot, go to the polls today and tomorrow. Only minor disorders attended final campaign rallies yesterday. ROME.—An accord reached be tween ¥France and Itlay was hail ed as a bulwark to support peace in Europe and as opening a pos sible way for Germany’s return to the League of Nations, Sy HYE| ! 1? ‘ l ) 5 g Star Witness for State Admits Telling Others Of Lindbergh Plans | IDENTIFIES CLOTHES S £ lName of “Red” Johnson Mentioned Frequently - In_ Questioning ] By WILLIAM A. KINNEY j (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated | Press.) : ] FLEMINGTON, N. J— (B) — lßetty Gow, nursemaid to -the slain baby, Charles Augustus Lindbergh, jr., today identified the | garments worn by the baby on its last night in the Lindbergh. home and admitted, under cross-exami= nation, that she ‘“probably” told others of the Lindberghs’ move- I ments. The little Scotch nurse took the | stand as a star state witness when |of the trial of Brune Richard Hauptmann, Bronx carpenter ac cused of the murder, and was still under cross-examination when ,tho luncheon recess was taken from 12:30 until 1:45 p. m. ; Direct Questioning . Her direct questioning broughs out the finding by her a hundred vards from the Lindbergh home' ot a thumb guard wor®¥ by the baby, a point through which the state hopes to prove the baby was killed in Hunterdon county. Edward J. Reilly, chief of Hauptmann's defense counsel, added significance to the thumb guard when he held if Up and™ boomed at the nurse: “Are you sure you didn't drop this yourself?” Miss Gow froze into defiance as she shot back the words: “1 aid not.” Acknowledges Telling She acknowlgdged to Reilly a probability that she had told “Red” Johnson that the Lindberghs plan ned not to return from Hopewell to Englewood on Monday, Febru ary 29, 1932, as they would have done if the baby had been well. She also acknowledged to the defense a telephone call between herself and Johnson the fatefu) night of March 1. Johnson called her while the Lindberghs dined, she said, in response to a mess gsage she had left at his home. She (.ontinued on page three) Nestor of American Stage Dies in New York of Pneumonia .~ NEW YORK —(#)— Dr. Georgé Pierce Baker, Nestor of the Ame erican stage, died yesterday in New York, the city where scores of the students he trained at Hare vard and V¥ale obtained fame a® playwrights. X The 69-year-old creator of the famous “forty-seven workshop” at Cambridge came here three weeks ago for treatment for high blood pressure, but pneumonia was im cause of death. He had been live ing at Silver Lake, N. H., since his retirement in 1933. Out of a course in drama known as English 47, Dr. Baker evolved the workshop during his 36 years at Harvard. His chosen students would pen plays instead of”theses; then see thelr efforts stand or fall in the little theater at mnearbg Radcliffe college. CAMBRIDGE.—SBir Alfred Ewe ing, scientist, whose decipher ng of a code message from Germany for delivery to the Mexican gove ernment was held vcesponsible b 9 Lloyd George for the United States entrance inte the World war, died at the age of T 9. 4 BERLlN)—Respansible ‘ejrcles denied unconfirmed reports that two Nazi storm troopers attempte ed to kill Chancellor Hitler Dec ember but failed, wounding of killing Hitler’'s chauffeur, how+ ever. 5 £EN BELGRADE.—Because the Ore thodox Serbian Christmas come# 13 days after observation of the day in the United States, little King Peter and all of Yugoslavia celebrated Christmas today.