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About Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1935)
COTTON MARKET s MIDDLING. .o coe soss seeers-12%0 PREV. GLOSE.... «eve «v0.12%0 Vol. 103. No. 24, South Prepares for Showers Instead of More Cold Weather (By the Associated Press) The South, warned to look out cor cold weather withstood a seige of rain today instead and prepared for more showers tomorrow. A belt of rain extended across ihe northern tier of Dixie, running rom Kentucky through Tenneéssee and on westward to Dallas. South orn temperatures held at a fairly hieh level in contrast to the cold and snow which plagued the north. The temperatures generally rang od in the forties in the South. It was 40 in Knoxville, Tenn,, Macon and Augusta. Ga.; 41 in Memphis. However, Atlanta reported 36 de- | grese<. a " Snow fell in Denver, where the mercury stood at 33, Freezing rain enveloped Chicago and it snowed in Milwaukee. Chicago had 31-de gree weather. Kansas City report- | ed 32 degrees and rain at St. Louis 27 with rain, In the east, Boston had 22 degrees and Newark 24. y o Representative Carlisle Cobb anncunced today he will introduce 2 bill in the present session of the legislature to provide for election of the judge and solicitor of :city court by the people. Under the present law the judge and solicitor are appointed by the covernor. Representative Cobb, who is at present solicitor of the city court. said ‘that he will not he a candidate for either the judgeship or solicitorship if the bill is passed. e e eA e ¢ . - High School Seniors - - Receive Class Rings The first order of senior rlngsl it Athens High school was re ceived yesterday. This order was put in some time mn January. It is an annual custom for the seniors to, meet and select a class ing, and for several years a' gquare shaped one was used. The rings this ‘year are: more of a cameo shnpe_}\flt_!l%# %z,ye_ and | crest, and are in thems s quite attractive, although somewhat lar ger than former ones, Pins, in the same design as the rings, can also be bought by the students, and like the rings came in either 10 carat gold or silver! inlay. i el iy | . Local Pilots Honor International Head Members of the Athens Pilot club will be hosts at a dinner tomorrow night at 7:30 o’clock at the Y. W. C. A. home on Hancock avenue, honoring Belle Bond, Atlanta, pres ident of Pilot Club International, Carey Singleton, president of the Atlanta Pilot club and Amy Mitch ell, also of Atlanta. Following the dinner, at which talks will be made by the honor guests, a Valentine party will be featured. The dinner and party marks the first official visit of Mrs. Bond since she was elected inter national president, Presiding Elders To Preach Sunday Presiding Elder C. C, Jarrell of the Athens-Elberton district, will deliver the night sermon at Oconee Street Methodist church Sunday atl ¥ o'clock, Rev. J. A. Langford, pas lor, announceq today. | Following the sermon, Rev. Jar- | I will condunet the first quarter-l iv conference, to which all officers id members of the church are in vited. Visitors will also be wel "“‘il',"{. e | Two Building Permits Issued to Contractors e = A Two building permits were is lued yesterday by City Engineer J. G. Beacham to .local contractors. Paul E. Hanson was granteq a per mit to build a bathroom in a house owned by M. M. Maynard, 627 Waddell, and J, F. Fields was is ued a permit to cover a house for G. C. Emerick, 767 Pulaski street, I Bridge Approaches | . . Are Being Repaired Approaches on both side of the‘ “andy Creek bridge are being re-‘ Paired by the state highway de- Partment, and it is necessary for‘ Persons going to Commerce to de tour out Barber street via Newton Bridge road, it was learned this morning from Homer Nicholson, tounty engineer. 1 The work will he completeg in a few days, it is believed, and many of the ruts near the bridge will have Yeen eliminated. S ————— Lost a Spare Tire? - See City Officers : A tire and wheel, believed to fit * Buick automobile, was turned over to city police this morning by _mest Flanagan, Flanagan said ‘hat he found the tire and wheel ~ {Continued on Page Bix) . ATHENS BANNER-HERALD ¥ Full Associated Press Service HauptmannDefenseßestsCase Dr. Jere M. Pound, Prominent Educator, Dies This Afternoon Dies Here Tod ay ————————————————————————————————— k- W i, . . % 'y l g wme | . -TN Fopdeio s s PR oA e § e 1 | BB e e L, AR | (-27:‘;‘.‘5:::‘:-:-‘“f,fi'g:;e\f‘-; g ‘%"34,{%%7@3:% '.2' ) . — - ——— DR. JERE M, POUND | 5 : | | nnee ; : \ S Y, | House Takes Things in Own Hands by Sending Group to Washington | . By E. D, BALL Associated Press Staff Writer . ATLANTA. —(#)~ The Georgia legislature which often has heard Governor Talmadge direct barbs at ilhe Roosevelt ‘administration, is casting an eye toward Washington and the pending $4,880,000,000 pack pot for work relief. '~ Running counter to-the outspok en sentiments of the governor, the house of representatives has taken ' things in its .own hands. by decid ing to send a delegation to Wash ington to inquire Into the possi bilities of putting a hand into the relief purse, Constitutional limitations pre vent Georgia . municipalities and counties from borrowing. The au thor of the committee idea, Rep-‘ resentative H. 11. Watson, said he was motivated by the prospect of the state being left out of the re lief picture altogether. ’ Some time 4ago Talmadge re ceived an offer from ‘Washington to help with legislation to permit the state to become ‘eligible for relief money. Governor Talmadge has notjmade public his reply. However, there has been no bill hefore the legisla ture bearing a likeness to the 11‘ pieces of ' legislation suggested by the national administration. ‘ Emphasizing his admonition ml the législaturé that “you can't get the state out of debt by bol‘row«{ ing money,’” ‘the governor ordered legislation that Kkilled g $2,000,000 Public Works loan and a $600,000 gift negotiated by the' Board of| Regents, goveérning body of the | state’'s University ‘System. | Although the state has not con- | tributed anything to relief work, the program carried on independ ,vntly by the FERA in Georgia L~l looked upon in high administration guarters as leading the nation. | l Talmadge’s differences with tlw‘ relief administration began ,\hort~; ly after it launched its relief pro gram. ] . The upshot of the controversy | }was an ‘erder from National Re lief Administrator Harry L. Hop- L (Continued on Page Five) | N oy | Long ‘Dictatorship | - Gets Sanction From i Court in Louisiana Isian i e T ] | BATON ROUGE, La.—(#)}-Sen ator Huey P. Long today had pa r—‘ ltia.l court sanction for his legisla tive action in taking over the xo—i Ica.l government. of East Baton Rouge parish, in which the ca.pitall | is located. The state supreme court yester day upheld the right of a state bureau to determine the fitness of| ‘de'puties sheriff in the parish and ia local court issued a temporary order preventing a minority group ‘of anti-Long police jurors from in ! terfering with the Long majority t group. In the parish’'s fight against Long’s control a group of several hundred armed men gathered in the courthouse two weeks ago, but dispersed quietly. The mext day, ; an armed ecitizens' group gathered at the parish airport, but were ]capfln‘efl or routed by Long’s state SR Funeral Services Will Be Held at First Methodist Chuch Here Saturday ILL SEVERAL MONTHS Interment Will Follow Saturday Afternoon In Barnesville | BY DAN MAGILL ; Dr. Jere M. Pound, for fifty years one of the prophets and builders of Georgia’s educational structure died 4t his home, 226 Cloverhurst avenue here at 12:15 p. m. todfy. He wag 70 years old. The beloved educator became seriously ill several.months ago, aft er taking up his new duties as presi- | dent of the Georgia State Woman’s College at Valdosta. Early last summer his health had become so impaired that he was given a leave of absence and with his faminT moved his residence back to Ath- | ens where he had spent so many‘ useful and constructive years in. behalf of his state, and where he had lived so happily with his fam ily, and so fruitfully for the com munity. | Funeral services will be held at the First Methodist church at noon Saturday, conducted by Dr. Lester Rumble, pastor, and as sisted by Dr. €. C. Jarrell and Dr. John D. Mell. Pall-bearers will be Dr. H. B. Ritchie, Prof. D. L. Earnest, Prof. B, 8.. 88l Dr. BB }Brown, Dr. J. C. Wardlaw, Dr. 'R. P. Stephens, P. L. Huggins and Dr. N. G. Slaughter. Inter ‘ment will be in- Barnesville, Ga. McDorman-Bridges is in charge of local arrangements, . , Surviving Dr. Pound are his widow; Mrs. Ada M. Pound; three daughters, Mrs. W, R. Ed wards, Fort Valley; Miss Ida Pound, and Mrs. T. K. Huggins, both of Athens; four sons, Mur phey and Aldine Pound, both of ’Co]umbus. Ga., and Prof, Merritt Pound and Stokeley Pound, both of Athens: a sister, Mrs. T. R. Arthur, Shellman, Ga., and two sisters-in-law, Mrs. E. A, Pound ‘and Mrs. Water Pound, both of Atlanta. Few men in Georgia’s education al history contributed /so much as Dr. Pound to the establishment of its structure. Since 1884, the year of his graduation from the Univer (Continued on Page Six) Chief Justice Holmes! Reads Detective Stories In Quiet Retirement l BY BESS FURMAN | (Associated Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON — (P — While markets quiver and the public ting les with suspense awaiting the su preme court decision in the gold cases, Oliver Wendell Holmes looks to detective stories for diversicn on the high hill of his retirement. The former justice, veteran of many such historical disputes, may | or may not be interested in wheth er the 59.06 cent dollar is con stitutional. He is not saying and his secretary has politely declined to speak on the subejct. But as to the living of life as one approaches 94, that is a question on which the justice has not be come reticent, His birthday comes ‘March 9. “Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it's worth living is whether you've had enough of &, he once said. . Three years ago, January 11, 1932, he handed down his last de cigion in a voice faltering with the 'emotion of ending his 29 years on the supreme bench. But he still finds life worth liv ing, in a pattern that he outlined to Rosika Schwimmer, subject of one of his famous “dissenting op inions,” when she visited him two years ago. “Now that I'm retired, T take things leisurely,” he told her, “My secretary reads to me. We take little drives. He is reading to me this book ‘Microbe Hunters,” bio graphies of Pasteur and other scientists.” “You enjoy it?" his wvisitor ask ed, and with twinkling eyes Jus. ‘tice Holmes answered: “I blush to ‘say that nowadays I don’t care to read improving matter, I'd rather iread murder stories.” His motor trips in a hired car— now often take him cut Virginia way-—to his wife’s grave in Arling ton cemetery, or exploring the se X 2 Athens, Ga., Friday, February 8, 1935. [ ° % Camera Catches Intensity of Hauptmann’s Interest s &w“ M . R . o » : ' %‘ : J"" QN"%“ ’ ;;»‘5::::/%‘% 3 '(:::-‘\’,(};-)’*:.’;:."\;bfi - X 5 o F:\\‘ g !&‘M;fl‘:« : .:s:’-' Q/« ::vj.f:':.i.. :1.1"'::‘:':’.:A:-. ‘V 4 R : 3 @GR R e TR R O : : . Ay R TR F . o 8 @ 0 el o .¢ e fi?’ o % 's-;::="f‘fi. L e GG T G e RGP b a 8 WY e, B R A . o 4& . Cwo s o W RS e o e RIS o R B Bal B e N Gl o dumE B L e R \ e e I . .. ... N . o .. L - L A e . @4@ L AN . @@ - g . O . (e = iy fx'\ P T . TR X o e s g A Intense oonc'vntratmn with which Bruno Hauptmann follows every move in his trial is Istrikingly illus trated here by his expression during a defense counsel conference im the Flemington courtroom. He listens intently as Frederick A. Pope, arms flung over the shoulders of his colleague, C. Lloyd Fisher, and the defendant, explains his point. LOANG APPROVED BY |OCAL CREDIT BODY Production Credit Associ ation Grants Applications Totaling $8,930 The executive committee of the Athens Production Credit associa tion approved loans amounting to $8,930 at a meeting yesterday aft ernoon in the courthouse. The meeting started. Wednesday, but due to the many applications to consider, the committee was un able to finish in one session. Twenty-six loans were approved by the committee. The total amount approved to date by the local association is $26,705, G. C. Pittard, secretary, announced this morning, with the amount that has been loaned totaling $2,600. Loans approved - this week in cluded two in Walton county, four in Clarke, 13 in Oglethorpe, three in Oconee, and four in Madison. The session of -the executive committee yesterday ended a busy week for the local association of ficers. A director’s meeting was held Wednesday, and Monday and Tuesday conferences of all secre taries in this-section was held. The conferences of secretaries was called to give instructions in the new system of bookkeeping to be used by all associations this year. P. K. Weaver, of the Columbia association, wmstructed the secre taries about the system, aided by George N. Burnett, state super visor accountant. Attending ths meeting were J. F. Barnes of the Hartwell asso ciation; George S. Parker, Mad ison; Paul T. Maynard, Winder, and L. H. Aderholt, Gainesville, secretaries of associations in their respective cities. Foreign News ON THUMBNAL By The Associated Press LA PLATA, Argentina — Gover nor Fredrico De Hoz was restored to office in the important province of Buenos Aires after federal mili tary aut‘.{:orit!es intervensd to put down a revolt led by police offi cials. ¥ ROME—Tosca Fiermonte, first wife of Enzo, expressed the hope after conferring with her former husband, that he would return to her. GENOA-—Authorities revealed the passport of Enzo Fiermonte was taken up because of a certification by the Italian consul in New York that he lacked the means to travel. BUENOS AIRES — Paraguayan forces of General Jose HEstigarribia appeared step by step to be tigh tening their grip on the Bolivian stronghold of Villa Montes. BERLlN—Hermann Wil helm Goering, ‘Reigh aviation minister, ~-~ESTABLISHED 1832— Ty Cobb May Enter Movies—Joe E. Brown Wants “The Peach” HOLLYWOOD, — (#) — Joe E. Brown, comedian and baseball fan, wants Ty Cobb, the “Georgia Peach” of baseball, to play in the movies — and Cobb says the idea “gsounds interesting.” Brown said he had written Cobb asking him to pray a character in the film version of “Aliki Ike,” a baseball story. Brown will star in the picture. At his Stanford home Cobb said “money talks pretty freely these days. No, I've never acted before but I think I could do pretty well as @ player in a mob gcene. May-~ be 1 would be a “‘bust’ and then imy friends would start calling me ‘Ham’ Cobb.” Slang Expressions “Qakie Doke”, Says Expert on Words NEW YORK — (#) — If you ever get the heebie jeebies, don’t let it throw you, it's oakie doke, ¥rom no less an authority than Charles Funk, who knows some thing about words and their mean ings, comes the opinion that some of America’s more fantastic slang words ang expressions deserve a place in the dictionaries—they are part of the language and as such should not be ignored. Tunk, whose business it is to publish dictionaries, was moved to make his observation on slang in a discussion with Dr. Frank Vizetelly the mnoted lexicographer, arising from the bgazen use in a Seattle court of the expression “oakie deke.” Dr. Vizetelly abpeareq greatly pained over the use of such an ex (Continued on Page Five) was forced temporarily to step out of his role as theatrical impres sario to devote himself exclusively to consideration of the proposed European air convention. BERLlN—Business men eXxpress ed hope the current negotiations over Germany’s short term obliga tions abroad would result in stabi lization of the registered mark market and establishment of new interest rates for the foreign debts, BUDAPEST — Mathias Rakosi, people’s commissar in the short lived communist regime of 1919, was sentenced to life imprison ent. TOKYO—General Senjuro Haya shi, minister of war, called atten tion to Soviet military aectivities along the Far Eastern border in urging support of the largest army appropriations in Japanes® bis- it | British Boat Strikes Phila delphia-Camden Ferry in Delaware River ' PHILADELPHIA— (&) —Nine ' persons were injured and more \than 100 rescued as the London Corporation, of the Fumeas-Wlthy\ line, collided with the Reading railroad ferryboat Cape May in the Delaware river. A heavy line, thrown immediate ly from the London Corporation, lashed the two vessels together and prevented the ferry from sinking. | The British boat struck the ferry amidship and Dburied its brow six feet into the Cape May’'s sides. The collision oceurred as ' the ' Cape May crosged the London Cor= poration’s course on its regular ferry run from Philadelphia to Camden. - The injured and rescued were taken from the ferrybpat by tugs’ which rushed to the scene of the crash, 150 yards from the Phila~ delphia side of the river. The Wilson line steamer, City of Wilmington, coming up the river behind the 3,000-ton London Corporation, came alongside the two vessels and assisted in the rescue operations. 4 . Several tugs threw aboard lines and helped tow the ferryboat to shallow water. The ferryboat was carrying about 20 automobiles and trucks in addition to the passen- A light fog hung over the river at the time. i Thousands of persons lined the wharves and other points. The sound of the crash was heard plainly on both sides of the river. Captain Edwin Savin, of the City of Wilmington, said the col lision occurred as ‘“the London Corporation was about 200 feet off the Chestnut street wharf” and “the Cape May was oomingl out of her slip immediately south of the Chestnut street wharf.” “After the colllgion I heard the signals,” he said, “and, of course saw what happened. I immediate ly brought my ship up on the starboard quarter of the Ca.pe! May. T ordered the port forward gangway of the City of Wilming (Continued on Page Five) ROOSEVELT SPEAKS ~ OVER AIR TONIGHT NEW YORK—(®#)—Today is the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Boy/ Scouts of America and in honor of the occasion President Roosevelt will address the nation from . the White House tomight. The president will be intro duced at 8:45 p. m., eastern standard time, by Walter W. l Head, president of the national organization, ®ho will speak from St. Louis where 10,000 Scouts will gather in a silver jubilee circus. : The Boy Scout movement ~ originated in Great Britaim. l A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—>s¢ Sunday Reilly Makes Effort To Show Another Man Had Kidnap Ladder FRESH DISTURBANCE SEEN AT ROSSVILLE ROSSVILLE, Ga.—(®)—Pistol fire marked a fresh disturb ance at the Richmond Hosiery Mill here late yesterday, the latest outbreak of several oc curring since workers left their places in the mill on strike against a wage reduction. No one was injured but two men were taken in custody. The trouble occured over the Tennessee line from the mill. Officers reported that, a non union worker who remained on the job told them he fired his pistol when a strike sympathi zer hurled g rock at him. Both were arrested. SHOWDOWN SOUGHT BY F.OR. FORCES Roosevelt Leaders in Sen ate and Labor Federation In Battle Array WASHINGTON — (#) — T h e Roosevelt forces in the sena.tel sought another showdown today on future Public Works wages, an ls-l sue which finds administration and the A. F. of L. leadership arrayed against each other. | Senator Byrns, Democrat, South Carolina, who is seeking to stear the $4,880,000,000 work and relief bill through the appropriations committee, said he expected to rally . enough strength to delete the “pre vailing wages” amendment the "com’mtttee tacked on to tha bill vesterday, by a 12 to 8 vote. ~ Treasury experts had contended the amendment, calling for at least “prevailing wages” for 8,500,000 “employables” the adminlistration has announced it will put to work, j would “defeat the vyery purpose ot‘ the bill itself.” They contend it would cost six or seven billion dol lars instead of $4,880.000,000, ~ The vpresident has taken the stand wages shoulq be higher than ‘ the dole, but lower than the pay in private industry so workers would | not be discouraged from taking pri- | lvate jobs. Its plan is to pay an| (Continued on Page Five) ' 1 Criticism of Labor Condi tions in Industry Carries i Open Charges \ BY J. R. BRACKETT (Associatsd Press Staff Writer) . WASHINGTON — (#) —T h e NRA report criticizing labor gcon ditions in the aut.omobile industryi dropped today into the midst of the controversy over the auto code‘ renewal, It said the speed-up had raised “production demands beyond hu man capability to produce day af ter day,” that spies keep watch on workers “day and night” and that men are virtually forced to quit work at the age of 40. ‘ “Labor unrest exists to a higher 'degree than warranted by the de pression,” the report prepared by the Blue Eagle research and plan ning division said. “The unrest flows from insecurity, low annual! earnings, inequitable hiring and re hiring methods, espionage, speed up, and displacement of workers at an extremely early age.” The investigation was made at the direction of President Roose velt. The president, in extending the automobile code until June 186, over-ruled NRA suggestions on working hours and a labor board. He approved one designed to spread work. Whether the code should be re opened in the future for possible insertion of more NRA suggestions | was a subject of discussion in of ficial circles’ today. One sgurce predicted it might be. There wasl no immediate word from the White House, 1 The long awaited report, signedi by leon Henderson, recommended a maximum 40-hour week, with a 48-hour maximum permitted for not more than eight weeks in a year, and time-and-a-half pay for all work over 40 hours. The code, as amended and ex tended by the president, provides for time and a half for all work over 48 hours, It retains the clause saying the work week shall aver age no more than 40 hours through the year. { : HSME State Begins Rebuttal bgwg Calling Three More e Witnesses vl MOVES SWIFTLY -~ i h*«;% Gasoline Operator Saylh.% He Examined Ladder = Before Kidnapping *@‘% BY WILLIAM A. KINNEY -~ (Copyright, 1935, Associated Press) FLEMINGTON, N.'J, — (Pr s & Bruno Richard Hauptmann today rested his defense against «m’i{@ charges that would send him to.the electric chair for the kidnapinx”;% murder of baby Charles A, Lind bergh, jr. p— The defense ended its cm‘t»fl% 12:10 p. m,, after sensational testi= = mony disigned to place’ the w,% bergh kidnap ladder in the posses sion of a man other than Haupte mann twenty hours before the = The defense also used two pra ‘W tical lumber meén to dispute the testimony of a state wood expert - thet part of the kidnap ladder came from Haupmann's Bronx attic. Ong of these was the last defense witness. Edward J. Reilly, chief defense counsel, waited for the poll= ing of the jury after a brief recess, § then announced loudly: S “The defense rests!” i Rebuttal Begins S The state immediately began re= buttal with Joseph J. Farber, a % New York insurance man on the stand. His testimony was sought to refute that of a defense witness who said he saw the dead Isador Fisch leap over a Bronx cemetery wall where and when the sso,f “,* Lindbergh ransom was paid. .5. The defense used, in all, 58 wits nesges, many of them alibi withess< ‘es, and required 11 court days te ‘give its answer to the state’s charges, B ‘Case in Brief L gl The defense case, in brief, was: Hauptmann was in a Bronx bak ery, more than 60 miles from the scene of the crime, when fit@ Lindbergh was stolen; the a v German furrier, Isador Fisch, and = not Hauptmann, got the $50,000 ransom money; Hauptmann inno- % cently took $14,600 of ransom mon-. ey from Fisch for safekeeping; & man resembling Fisch and ffld& resembling the deagq mld,w Sharpe, were seen Wwith a baby shortly after the kidnaping; none of Hauptmann's fingerprints were found; Hauptmann did not build the ladder used in the kidnapings money which swelled his assets ass ter the ransom payment came, un recorded, from Fisch for stock ims vestents; Hauptmann was at & | musicale in his home on thé fix of April 2, 1932, when Dr. Johm F. (Jafsie) Condon says he paid him the ransom money in a Bfi:fl graveydard; Hauptmann was at home for his own birthday party on November 26, 1933, when a thea~ = ter cashier says he spent a IM& bergh ransom bill, and w:’ other than Hauptmann were seem” | in an auto with a ladder near the Lindbergh home before the crime. The state had time before' the noon recess at 12:38 p. m., to call = three rebuttal witnesses, Farber, (Continued on Page Five) Fay Webb Valleels Accused of Romantic Phone Conversations By HOMER McCOY Associated Press Staff Writer NEW YORK—(#)—The romantic telephone conversations alleged to have occurred hetween Fay Webb Vallee and “Gary” Leon, the agile adagio dancer who tosses his stage partner about with the greatest of case, were again projected into the spot light in the supreme court today. . fxgd The alleged clandestine romemce was brought up during questioning of Clarence E. Webb, Santa Mon-_ ica, Calif, police chief and father of Mrs. Vallee, who is seeking to abrogate a separation agreement with her estranged husband, Rudy Vallee, crooning orchestra leedar. She gets SIOO 5 week under the agreement. “Did Benjamin Hartstein (attor ney for Mrs, Vallee) ever tell you of an affidavit filed by Valles im opposition to an injunction sought by vour daughter to restrain her husband from getting a diverce outside of New York state?” ask: b ed Hymen Bushel, attorney forf Vallee. e The witness replied in the negas tive. and Bushel continued® = «“Did Hartstein tell you that this affidavit told of a telephons com= versation your daughter had ). ‘Gary’ Leon in which your he Ll g (Continued on Page Five) |
