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Washington
Lowdown
By Rodney Dutcher
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Timing and Placing 3
Flu Grips Capital
Congressmen Hide
WASHINGTON —The timing
acing of Miss Gertrude
nli p](ll ng
wein's Vvisit to Washington prob
yly was the most appropriate oc
yrrence in the history of the New
eal.
A few days before Congress
pened, if historians were onto
neir jobs, would be known as the
gughouse Period.” Miss Stein
irived plop in the middle of it
nd gave utterances in speeches
nd interviews which were prompt
y seized upon by hopeful persons
ho insisted here was a person
ho spoke the language of the
iew Deal. Nobody was in position
o deny it. .
It turned out at the last moment
ihat Roosevelt hadn’t been any too
Lure just what he was going to
propose to the new Congress.
He knew in a general way, of
ourse, but everybody was hazy as
to details and most of the New
Dealers suddenly found themselves
frantic with ~ cabinet commitee,
qubcommittee, and other meetings
and conferences which left every
body tired and short-tempered be-l
canse everybody was burdened
with altogether too much work. |
Mr. Roosevelt's faculty for let
ting different people go away
from him with different ideas as
to what's really in his head didn’t
help calm the situation at all. Lots
of things had to be smoothed out
and understood all over again.
A couple of holidays and twe
half holidays came along, meaning!
days off for all government em-‘
ployes, and the big shots, so heav-j
ily dependent on the small fry,
found that an added handicap inJ
getting things done.
Naturally, nobody could Keep'
track of what was going on around |
him, which made it all the easier
to believe Miss Stein Wwhen shel
spoke in her well-known tongue.
Meanwhile, influenza bec'ame]
more common around town than
at any time since wartime, and n¢
end of appointments were cancel«
ed. Don Richberg was down with
it, though that didn’t keep him
from rushing from bed to Cleve
land for a speech.
Few New Dealers were in shape'
for much celebrating when New |
Year's Eve arrived, though the
boys and the girls in the lower
strata. of government service man
aged to provide the capital a full
quota of noise,
You couldn’t find anyone here]
Who wouldn't wisecrack that Gen
eral Johnson should have paid
Richberg for the publicity resut
ing from exposure of the ‘“Assist
ant President’s” threat to sue for
libel if Johnson wrote any false
hoods about him. The exchange of
compliments between the two men
was a highlight of the “bughouse
period.”
Johnson's line about “the ants of
ctonscience in his pants” was the
most quoted one of the month and
even Richberg laughed hard at it
and told his friends he thought it
Was pretty darned funny.
Another amusing sidelight in
the feud is to be seen on the wal
of Richberg's study at home, where
2 photograph of Johnson, presen
i‘;‘l’ lot so long ago, bears the in
-8 {Lmon from the general;
To Don—without whom NRA
m.\.,rl\\'(»nh] have meant a thing.”
U\iY?gm:.:; li” ; keeping _with every
things ‘ Was the discovery that
one haxj ].lmtwl m_unum.ent. Some
gr’\]d_m_’ltl‘”'f"‘ 107 patinum-tipped
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siang gpo 4Mn:,’,.1.v .h.l,\')l‘.le the Rus- ‘
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eral state rp "(19 date as the gen
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Clstogy R. J Plscharggng from
dealer, arresteq Tocuglomt Heuor,
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD ¥
Full Associated Press Service
‘Jafsie’ Identifies Bruno Hauptmann
‘ |
} Plans Are Being Made to
Recruit New Help and
I Resume Operations
GUARDS ON DUTY
Showdown Is Expected
Tomorrow When New
| Workers Report
! BY ROBERT BUNNELLE
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
l ROSSVILLE, Ga. — (#
| Spokesmen for striking employes
|of the Richmond Hosiery mills to
day said they considered unsatis-i
factory a preposal of the operators
to arbitrate differences which ledi
to the walk out. |
' The statement was made as na- |
tional guardsmen patrolling the
lmm prepared for a showdown to
morrow when the offer of the mills
}will be withdran and new help willl
be recruited for the jobs of workers
Inot reporting for auty.
. After reading the operators’ pro
;posal to end the strike labor offi
cials said they considered it a re
fusal of their offer for_a settle
‘ment because the proposition sti
pulated that individuals suspected
of violence and other activities
‘during the strike would not be
!taken back.
| On Same Status !
~ In their four point plan for set
‘tling the strike, the labor leaders
propose that all employes be taken
back on the same status enjoyed|
before the strike. |
Other points include an eguali
zation of labor costs; that an arbi
tration board be appointed; and
that while NRA wages be observ
ed, they be made the minimum and
not the maximum scale of pay.
The arbitration board suggested’
by the workers would be composed
of one representative of the mill,
one of the workers and a third to
be selected by the two. They would
meet 10 days after the beginning
of the strike and report within 15|
days after the meeting, l
The spokesmen pointed out that
while the mill agrees to arbitrate
the strike, no time limit was set‘
and that the negotiations under
the proposal of the operators could
be dragged out indefinitely.
Strikers’ Plan l
The strikers’ plan of arbitrating|
the strike would include the mills |
of the Richmond operdtors at Daisy
and Soddy, Tenn. The Daisy plant
was operating today but the latter
dig not open as mill officials said
there was not a sufficient force of
sheriff’s deputies on hand to assure
peaceful operation. I
Officials of the mills here esti
mated that 650 workers were on
the job in the local plant which
normally employes between 1,000
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Saarbruecken Scene |
Of Outbreak Today|
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BY MELVIN K. WHITELEATHER |
(Associated Press Foreign Staff) |
SAARBRUECKEN, Saar Basin|
Territory — (#) — A battle between !
Nazis and anti-Nazis broke out at
noon today in Waterloo street bu(l
was quickly supressed by over-%
whelming forces of police and the
Landjaeger (Gendarmes,) ’
. The section where the turmoil|
reigneq is one of the city's choicer
residential districts and the Nazi |
' German front headquarters are ""l
cated on Waterloo street.
It was a Waterloo for both sides
for Major Hennessey, chief of the
‘Saar civil police, personally led the
forces of law and order into the
fray and squelched the combat be- |
;fm'o it could develop beyond {hoi
fisticuff, club and kicking stage. !
THE NEws IN A NUTSHELL
By Jack Braswell
A campaign against contagious
abortion among cattle was an
nounced today by Dr. H. B.
Hodgson, city and county health
inspector.
Jack Hutchinson, about 35, who
was serving a five year term for
automobile theft, escaped from the
county convict camp this morning
about 7 o'clock.
Athens High Dbasketeers will
meet the Greensboro quintet here
Friday night for their first game
since Christmas.
The University basketball team
will meet their most formidable
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Wabash Student Is Freed
In Chicago Today; U. S.
I Agents on Case
CHICAGO — (#) — Three kid
napers who were reported to have
abducted Allen C. Bomberger, 21-
year-old college student of Ham
mond, Ind., for $50,000, were hunt
ed by Department of Justice agents
today.
. Young Bomberger, son of Lowden
[Bomberg‘ r, a Hammond attorney,
’tuld the police that he had been
tossed out of a car near the Fed
‘eral building early today after his
father had paid $50,000 ransom to
the gang, but Harold Nathan, as
gistant to J. Edgar Hooyer, direc
‘tor of the federal bureau of investi
gation, said no money was paid, and
a similar statement was made at
the Bomberger home.
The denial from the Bomberger
home came from a brother of the
“snatch” vietim, who refused to
give his first name, and who de
clined to disturb the elder Bom
berger,
“We didn’t pay a cent” the brmJ
ther declared, adding that any
further inquiries would have to be
made to the department of justice,
whose agents were called into the‘
case after young Bomberger had
been seized last Sunday night ini
‘Crawfordsville, Ind., where he at«
tends Wabash college. |
The report of the kidnaping came
shortly after federal agents had
shot and killed Russell Gibson, a
suspect in the $200,000 kidnaping of
Edward B. Bremer, well-to-do St
Paul banker, in a gun fight on Chi
cago’s mnorthside.
Young Bomberger said there
were two men ang a woman in the
gang and that he would be able to
identify one of the men, who was
called “Ed” by the others. They
seized him he said while he was
walking on a Crawfordville street
after they had pulled their ecar
alongside and asked him i n
wanted a ride.
~ After being bounq and gagged
he said he was diiven to a bunga.
Elow which he believed was in In
dianapolis, where he said he was
lcompe]]ed to write a note to his
father demanding the ransom, he
later prepared another message
Isax'ing the kidnapers “meant busi
ness.”
The Chicago detectives who ques
tioned the boy, however, said they
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Friday nights in Woodruff hall,
the Florida Alligators, for which
they will conclude their practice
today.
The reports that Representative
Ramspeck of the fifth Georgia
district expects soon to introduce
a bill in congress to create anoth
er federal judgeship in north Geor
gia caused speculation as to who
would receive the appointment
from the president.
Postmaster General James A.
Farley predicted today that with
in the year there would be trans-
R e 4
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Athens, Ga., Wednesday, January 9, 1935.
Three Men Shot as
Police Open Fire on
300 Strikers Today
T ————— S ———— A SSRS N 8 O A
MINNEAPOLIS, — (AP) —
Three men were shot today when
police opened fire on 300 garage
machine strikers and sympathi
zers who broke a large front win
dow of the McDonald-Gilfillan
Motor Co.
Claire Hogan, 29, of St. Paul,
was brought to General hospital
with a gunshot wound in the left
leg. His wound was declared not
serious. Police were placed to
guard him.
The demcnstrations apparentls
was expected as several members
of the police department were as
signed to the property to guard
against cventualities.
Revolt Against ‘Kingfish’
~ Spreads as New Law Be
comes Effective
‘ BY ED DESOBRY
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
BATON ROUGE, La. — (# —
Huey Long’s tumultuous Louisiana
empire rumpledg menacingly today
as the fiery senator stormed in
Washington.
Revolt against the Kingfish
spread as 32 laws he had passed at
the December special session of the
legislature became effective. The
new acts gave him more power, ad
deq patronage and new weapons
with which to hamstring his ene
mies,
Blunt notice was served by the
East Baton Rouge parish police
jury that it will not permit L.ong,
under one of the new laws, to take
‘control of the parish, in which the
icapital is located, to make of.it a
“little District of Columbia” as the
seat-of his empire.
| The new law gave the state ad
ministration authority through
Governor O. K, Allen, Long's man,
te name 13 jurors, the same num
ber as are now elected.
The jury yesterday said it had
been advised the law was uncon
'stitutional and it would not sur
| render its authority to govern the
| parish.
| Informed of this uprising the
's:nator in Washington grinned.
“So the police jury has declared
'the law unconstitutional,” he said
'with a laugh. “We have those
‘things. happen ocecasionally. It's just
‘momentary.”
A mass meeting here tonight will
“hear more protests against Long
It was called by the “Square Deal
Association,” an outgrowth of a
group protesting the tax on the
refining of oil, wh:cn has demand
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LOCAL WEATHER
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Fair tonight and Thursday; |
slightly colder tonight. !
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Incheg last 24 h0ur5........ 1,31
Total since January 1...... 2.85
Excess since January 1.... 1-43'
Average January rainfall,. 4.83
‘MME DIRECTORS OF
| Meeting Held Here This
| Morning of Production
| Credit Association
[ < e
Price Harper of Oconee county
was elected to the Board of Direc~
{ tos.of the Athens Production Cred
it Association succeeding W. M.
Thomas, of Banks county, at the
| annual meeting of the stockholders
|of the association in the Clarke
county court house this morning.
All othqr directors were re-elect
ed for a second term. Officers of
the association were not named at
the meeting, which was held from
'll o'clock until 12:30. i
| * 0. M. Branch of Oconee county,
J. R. Westbrook, of Ila, Harris
Thurmond, of Oconee Heights, G,
W. Paul, Lexington and Mr. Har
per will be the directors during
'1935. Mr. Westbrook was president
during 1934, which was a most
'succe-ssful vear, the report mads
this morning, shows.
I H. L., Garner, vice-president of
}tho Production Credit Corporation
of South Carolina and in general
charge of the field operations of all
ith-: production credit associations
of North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia and Florida, discussed the
plans for making production loans
through the associations during the
coming year.
. Approximately 200 meémbers and
visitors ' were present at the meet
ing. Most of those present have
borrowed money through the local
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- CRIME WAR AGA
\
ißusseH Cibson, Bremer
~ Kidnap Suspect, Shot to
’ Death in Chicago
CHlCAGO.—(#)—Federal agents
|have struck with deadly accuracy
| again in their war on crime—this
| time to kill Russell Gibson, 32-
| year-old suspect in the $200,000
' kidnaping of Edward G. Bremer,
Iwea.lthy St. Paul banker.
f Trapped in a northside apart
' ment last night, Gibson, an ex
' convict, and reputed member of
‘the abduction gang of Alvin Kar
ix)is and Arthur Barker, attempted
;to shoot it out with a picked squad
' of sixteen agents, but his minature
Emachine gun jammed, and he fell
' mortally wounded.
f Two bullets from the quick fir
ing rifles of the federal men hit
' their mark and one of them found
a fatal spot despite the fact that
Gibson, who was zlso known as
“Slim” Gray, was wearing a ‘“bul
let proof” vest. The bullet pene
trated the vest. Gibscn died in a
hospital early today. |
Gibson attempted to flee out of
the back door of the apartment at
3920 Pine Grove avenue—not far
from the spot where John Dillin
ger was shot and killed last July
92 only to meet the withering
fire of the agents. Gibson fired
as he ran, but was able to shootl
but oue bullet before his weapon
failed him.
Meanwhile the agents had flood- !
éd the apartment with tear gas, |
forcing the surrender of a man
and a woman, who identified her
self as Mrs. Clara Gibson, widow
of the slain gangster. Identity of
the man was not disclosed.
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The 177 passengers and members
of the crew of the liner Havana
(left) abandoned the ship when
heavy seas threatened to sink the
vessel after jbeing driven on the
Mantanilla shoals 75 miles north
east of Palm Beach, Fla. The boat
in the map shows the position of
the liner, which is operated by the
Ward Lines, between New York,
Cuba and Mexico,
Woman Is Killed in
Auto Wreck Near Macon
. -
Early This Morning
NAeA B e S
S S ———
. MACON, Ga. ' — (AP) — One
woman was Killed, her escort ‘s in
icritical condition, and a second
man is suffering from serinus in
l;iuries as a result of an auto wobile
| wreck near Seven Bridges, about
)seven miles from Macon, early
this morning.
A second woman in the automo
bile was slightly hurt.
Mrs. Bonnie Josey, of this city
was killed. |
| The coroner announced that he
would conduct an inquest over her
body late this afternoon.
Charles Johnson, 32, of 136 Gray
Place, Atlanta, was believed to
}have suffered a fracture of the
skull.
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| A
Federal-State System of
- Pensions Being Talked in
Capital Circles
WASHINGTON — (#® — An at
mosphere of change surrounded
Washington today as the New Deal
found itself in its long-heralded
period of transition,
First off, there came a new tip
about the vastly-altered attack on
relief. An authoritative source said
the administration eas thinking of
urging that a federal-state system
of pensions for olg people and needy
mothers be set up almost immed
iately so payments could start
quickly.
This was described as an attempt
to take care of many of the 1,5600,-
000 “unemployables” the govern
ment is seeking to remove from its
relief rolls to the care of the states,
'Hitherto, many observers have re
garded such pensions as a plan for
the more distant future,
Large, joint contributions by the
federal government and the states
‘would be necessary if pensions were
to start quickly under this plan,
No figure is mentioned, though
Senator Robinson, Democrat, Ark.,,
majority leader, has estimated
$100,000,000 would be ne¢cessary te
operate the federal end of the soc:
jal security program — including
unemployment insurance — for the
first year. ‘
NRA came to the parting of the
ways between old and new. "I‘wo‘
hundred business men and code of- !
ficials gathered for hearings on the|
Blue KEagle’s malor probléems, withi
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MAN SHOOTS SELF
i
AFTER KILLING 7.
MT. VERNON, Ky. — (AP) -.‘
George Collett who went berserk |
during the night and shot to deathl
seven persons, killed himself t&dav!
rather than surrender to a posse.
Collett killed his wife and four
of her family, then killed two other
persons and wounded an eighth
before making a frantic effort te
escape from the Copper Cre3k
community.
A family quarrel over land was
blamed at Sheriff D. C. Clark’s
office for the slayings of Mrs
Collett's kin. Officers believed that
the other two slayers were due to
attempts to ‘block Collett from
stealing an automobile in which to
escape, o e
,A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—sc¢ Sunday
DR. JOHN F. CONDON
TELLS OF INTERVIEW
‘WITH FAMOUS ¢JOHN’
PERRY WILL VISIT
ATHENS ELKS LODGE
' Thursday evening, J. O. Perry,
jr., District Deputy Grand Exalted
'Ruler of the Northern District of
‘Georgia, will pay Athens Lodge of
Elks his first official visit for 1935.
Mr. Perry will arrive Thursday
afternoon and will be the guest of
the local lodge Thursday night at
a supper given in his honor.
The supper will be served at 7:30
o'clock and following the supper the
regular meeting of the lodge will
be held. ¢
Several candidates will be ini
tiated into the order and a large
attendance is expected.
. Mr, Perry is a resident of Atlan
ta and has about eight cities under
his jurisdiction.
The local lodge of Elks has made
great strides during the past twel
ve months, increasing its member
ship each month and as Charity is
one of the cardinal principals of
the order the increase in member
ship - will materially aid the lodge
in carrying on a greater amount of
charity . work during the current
year.
Milton Lesser, Exalted Ruler of
the local lodge reqéusts that as
many members as possible attend
the supper and meeting on Thurs
day night as a compliment to the
District Deputy.
FRANCE AND ITALY
POST AS SENTINELS
i §
Ready to Let Cermany En
ter League With Legal
Weapons Only
BY A. EDWARD STUNTZ
Associated Press Foreign Staff
ROME — (AP) — France and
Italy took posts ag sentinels on the
European armaments road today,
ready to let Germany pass on its
way back into the League of Na
tions if she carries only legal wea- |
pons. |
They did so by virtue of a se
ries of accords negotiated by For
eign Minister Pierre Laval, and
Premier Mussolini, Details were
made public last night as the
Frenchman sped toward Paris to
seek ratification from his cabinet
and parliament.
In discussing armament the Ital
ian communique did not mention
Germany by name, but it said the
two governments had agreed that
no nation could modify its obliga-l‘
tions regarding armaments “by
unilateral action.” |
At the same time, the commun- '
ique continued, the Francoaltalian
agreement was reached on a basis
of the declaration of December 11,
1932—a declaration by major Eu
ropean powers granting Germany
a gradual progression toward
equality in armaments as a meas
ure to bring her back into the
world disarmament conference.
Germany, it is felt here, has been
reéarming beyond the scope of this
declaration and therefore officials
believe the Franco-Italian stand
was necessary.
The German ambassador to Rome
oonferred cordially with Laval and
Mussolini Sunday night before the
agreement was announced. |
NEW PASTOR |
WAYCROSS, Ga.—(#)—The Rev.
Reginald T. Russell of Leesburg,
Fla., who has served pastorates at |
Quincy and Fort Lauderdale, Fla.,
and at the Baptist Tabernacle in |
Macon, Ga.. has accepted a call to{
the pastorate of the First Baptist
church of Waycross. He will come‘
here to assume thig connection on |
the first Sunday in February.
Fog Clamps Impenetrable Hand
Over Atlantic Seaboard Today
By The Associated Press
Fog clamped an impenetrable
hand over the northern Atlantic
seaboard today, holding air traffic
and ocean shipping in a state of
paralysis for the third day.
The fog which shrouded the mid
west covered the fate of an air
plane which was reported in trou
ble over Chicago, while airports
and coast guard kept a lookout.
Efforts to locate the ship were fu
tile.
Weather forecasts for colder
weather gave hope of dissipation
of the fog late today or tomorrow.
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Says Mysterious ‘‘John™
In Ransom Negotiations
Is Defendant in Case
RELATES LONG STORY
Various Ransom Notes
Read to Packed Court .
Room by Wilentz .
BY WILLIAM A. KINNEY
(Copyright, 1935, Associated Press)
FLEMINGTON, N. J. — (/&
Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon today.
identifieq Bruno Richard Haupte
mann as the “John” to whom he
paid $50,000 futile ransom for the
slain baby Charles Augustus Lind
bergh, jr. g A P
Taking the witness stand s déne
Hauptmann's trial for murdeF
shortly after the opening of the
day’s court session, Dr. Condon, de- .
clared: i
| “‘John’ is Bruno Richard Haupt
'mann!” P
He looked directly at his ques
tioner, Attorney General David T.
!Wilentz, and shook his finger as he
‘made the assertion, And his voice
was loud, consciously dramatic.
| Early in Testimony
~ The point was reached early" in
‘his testimony, Wilents - quickly
leading him up to the night of
April 2, 1932, when he drove with
Colonel Lindbergh to St. Raymond’s
cemetery with $70,000 in a wooden
box to meet the man known as
#John.”
| After he testified that $50,000
was separated from the money,
‘Wilentz asked:
“Did you give the money to a
man that night?”
“I did,” he answeréd, his voice
beginning to rise. s
- “Whom .did you give it to " ¥
- “To John,” .
“Who is John?” Wilentz' own
voice cracked. 2
“Bruno Richard Hauptmann!"”
Hauptmann blanched, turned
scarlet, and glared at the aged
witness,” Jafsie glared back. :
The gray-haired savant spoke in
precise, literal English, ek
His answers were so thorough
that his interrogator could not ask
for more.
Frequent Interruptions
The defense fréequently interrup
ted to ask for less,
Following his identification h®e
was led abruptly into the ransom
notes.
When Wilentz handed the shaggy
Jafsie ransom notes to identify, the
educator adjusted his glasses and
examined the notes with meticul
ous care for several minutes before
identifying them. .
Wilentz took the ransom notes
'to the jury box and read the four
womken and eight men the yut
(Continued on Page Five) .
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4 Convicts Fallin
Escape From Prison
BOSTON — (#) — Four convicts
who slugged two guards in an ate
tempt to escape from state prison,
and used fake guns, were captured
today before they got outside the
prison walls.
Two of the four, Joseph Leves--
que, of New Bedford, and Thaddeus
Zakewski, of Worcester, were cape
tured on a prison wall shortly af
ter the alarm sounded. The others,
Lawrence Baldway, 26, of Ware
house Point, Conn, and Willlam
Baker, 19, of Springfield, were
found, after search of the prison,
in the prison laundry. %
One of the guards slugged, Wil
liam Freeman, 35, of Concord,
suffered a probable concussion of
the brain, prison officials said.
The other, Charles Witham, 38, of
Cambridge, received a bruised
skull.
While unseasonal warmth = kept
of mist, centra] Europe was 'swept
much of the United States in a veil
by a “New England” blizzard that
cdippled traffic and communiea
tions. e
Yuegnclayia Anstria and | the
Black Sea area of Russia felt the
sting of cold and snow, with ae
companying suffering among the
poor. Belgrade reported contact
with the Dalmatian coast was vir
tually severed. Bt MR
The fog which clamped down
over New York harbor held seven
liners at anchor outside the harbor.
