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Newspaper Page TextLOCAL COTTON e et MIDDLING ‘.5 «am 4o 050 3 +» 130 pPREVIOUS CLOSE,, ........18 ¢ vol 103, No. 33. Back Yonder __ AND NCW - . " AN ATHENS CHRONICLE Number Eight : . unusually large crowd of vis : lot only from within the state 1 beyond its borders, at . the University Commence ‘ in August, 1828. The chapel wae too small to accomodate the wnd many were forced to ud or sit outside. Two political dors of the day, Judge Augustin ro and Senator John M. Ber on were slated to represent Phi ‘ o and Demosthenian literary wcieties at the exercises, and 26 niore were to be given dégrees hy rresident Moses Waddell of Frank { college. he visiting throng was augment -4 every day by new arrivals and «fore the graduation day rolled 1 ! the Athenian was report ¢ that “already . i 8 eour town thronged by an unusually large portion of visitors from different t« of this and 'the adjoining date=. The ladies, sweet souls, are e in beauteous clusters, decked their richest smileg and beaming i nd gladness from their lovely countenances.” 3 Circus in Town A circus had also arrived in Ath s for the commencement season 1. lavette’s Circus—which en tered the village on August 5, and pitchd tents. The high-pressure pess agent at that time apparently 11 not been developed, judging by the modesty of the language with vhich it was announced that “tha cpetors flatter themselves that itom the superior skill of Mrs. smythe (formerly Mrs. Yearman) < an equestrian performer and the qualificationg of the company, gen eal satisfaction will be given.” But more important events than graduation exercises and circuses were in the air on commencement 1. Sugust 6. The big shots in the itical world were here, ag per their custom of attending . com nencement at the University, the ter to compare notes on matters [ state, and to fix up slates for the Clark or Troup parties for state or itional contests, High politics on the agenda for this partic llay vear. The legislature was to be elected, seven congressmen were o be voted on, and presidential electors were to be chesen by the Must Name Electors In 1824 the legislature had dem ccratically permitted the people to so the electors for president and vice president., But even so the cmptation was too great, for, the up and Cark party leaders. So, the time approached for naming electors, the legislature “nomi ted” two sets of candidates for it important office (it was im tant in those days.) Two tick were “nominated,” one repre cuting the Clark'faction and the ther the Troup faction. Both fac tons were supporting the same presidential candidate, Andrew ckson, put it was good politics to bup out two sets of candidates for e place of electors. 'ln that way, tie Troup and Clark party follow rs could keep in training. Then, 100, there was the matter of federal fronage. Not so hountiful in ‘e days, but at least worth keep- I from the other crowd. (To Be Continued) W i LRSS ALTON CO. MAN SENTENCED TO JAIL Edmond Thomas of Walton vanty - was sentenced to four monthg imprﬁsonment in Clarke vounty jail by Judge Bascom S. ~ Vtaver at Macon yesterday. Tho -45 was arrested two weks ago 0" viclating the federal internal | cnue act, involving manufac e of whiskey. He was given a ‘"obation sentence at the last fed ‘il court session here for violat ¢ the revenue act, and yester “y's sentence was for breaking probationary sentence. Judge Henry Hammond Will Speak Thursday Flijah Clarke chapter, D.A.R, ! meet Thursday afternoon at 0 o’clock with the regent, Miss nnie Crawford. 'Udze Henry Hammond, of Aug 4. will \be the principal speaker 4) all members are urged to at- V e R | MISS DOLVIN GIVES PROGRAM FOR WEEK liss Ann Dolvin, Clarke county Me demonstration agent, an-! ‘tunced her program for the re-{ ‘nder of the week, this morn- Wednesday morning at 10‘ tlock, the Gaines 4-H eclub wm! ““L at the school house. The ~loject for demonstration is trap-hook Making.” Work on “lamas, started at the last meet -1%, will be continued. ~ the afternoon, the Bethaxen _’m& Demonstration club will *t with Mrs. H, ¢. Hall, at 3 “tlock, “Simple Desserts” is the “ibject for demonstration. lleth-{ s of making baked and boiled (Uftardsfi plain and fruit junkets, 4t whips and ice box cakes will be given, £ Frinceton Home Demonstration D] ; e i (Continued on Page Two) ATHENS BANNER-HERALD ¥ Full Associated Press Service Liquor Question Taken Up by House PSxl)e;'tg F:)r%s*eg I;(ogsiaifit; ;)f %&taré Iteézﬁ f}z;ttike *01; E;Jld o-10-4 DECISION BY | | ‘ ‘ | CALLED ‘GRATIFYING' Some Think Door Is Left ~ Ajar When Court Says I Action “Invalid” ! | ~ MINORITY REPORTS Senate Inflationists Start Move to Drive Value of Dollar Still Lower BY JOHN T. SUTER s (Associated Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON — (P — Amid the New Deal jubilation and world excitement over the 5 to 4 supreme court decision, under which all debtors could continue today to pay their gold clause obligations ‘with present paper money on a dollar-for-dollar basis, there arose these develpments: - 1. Some experts saw potentialities for future legal battles by holders iof government gold bonds who 'might go.into court seeking to show }thoy had suffered actual losses in purchasing power by the govern ment's abrogation of the gold clauses. This view was based on the idea that the supreme court left the door taj:u- for future litigation when it ruled that congress acted uncon 'stitutionally in wiping out the gold clause in government bonds but that John M. Perry of New York, the petitioner in the case, had not shown or sought to show that he |.°uffered damages. ' F. D. R, “Gratified” ‘ 2. 'While President Roosevelt iwas “gratified,” Secretary Morgen thau declared himself “very much [pleased" and the administration ‘tuﬂsed aside all its elaborate plans to meet an adverse decision, there |\\'as much speculation over the pos 'sihillty of a new legislative step. | Observers watched to see if the government woulq make any move to withdraw from holders of Unit if‘,d States bonds the privilege of suing in the court of claims to col lect damages. I 3. Senate inflationists, led by ‘Sonator Thomas, Democrat, Okla !homa, started a new movement to !(h‘ive the value of the dollar still ;further down. Thomas praised the }ouurt decision, declaring it shows congress has “unrestrictable power ’in handling money.” 4, Some other Democratic legis lJators thought the decliston might be vieweq as a brake on any infla tionary tendencies.. In their opin ion the government might be call ed upon to pay huge damages to holders of its gold bonds if the val- (Continued on page two.) Woman Displaced as Warden in Oklahoma OKLAHOMA ClTY.—(®)—Sher iff Fred Hunt of Tishomingo was appointed warden of the Granite State reformatory today, succeed ing Mrs. George A. Waters, the only woman warden of a prison for men in the United States. Mrs. Waters' administration has been under fire. The action of the state board of affairs, announced by Chairman L. M. Nichols,' followed quickly upon the declaration of Governor E. W. Marland that a warden’s job is no place for a woman. The board of affairs recently in vestigated charges of cruelty to prisoners at the Granite institu tion and also probed the many es capes from the prison. Only last Sunday 32 prisoners fleq after killing a tower guard. Eighteen still are ag_large. Big Military Spending Program Started Through Congress Today WIASHINGTON — (® — T h e largest military spending program in 15 years was started through congress today. The house appro priations committee wrote its okeh upon expenditure of $318,131,482 by | the army during the fiscal vear | ending -June 30, 1936. It told the | war department it might pledge anl additional $7,686,7563 for airplanes, The total recommended was S4B,- | 815.548 more than the 1935 appro priations. ‘ The committee said it stood ready to provide additional funds if President Roosevelt takes ad vantage of the authority the bill gives him to increase the army's strength from 118,760 to 165,000 men. : '\l‘a.king the navy into account, the committee's report said, the 1936 budget for national defense is ap proximately $100,000,000 in excess Members of Local Civic - Clubs Invited to Sessions i Of State Press Institute Doug Fairbanks’ Niece to Marry e G A R s RS A SRR -:-:»:-:<:-:-:-E-;:-\‘%‘-:{.;sm\, R L L S B e R PRy R BRI TR e B B R o . R 2‘m SN B R B e A R ¢ R o 9 N"’\ B ee e R e R . o ANy e N BRSO >:7s = . 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They were taken into custory while officers were investigating reports that the two were trying to find heir way to KFlorida. o i At police headquarters the girls 'said they left tneir homes "in "Greensboro, N. C., late yesterday ~afternoon with. a boy whom they knew as Bannon Hodges, to go for 'a short ride. Hodges told the girl he was 16 years old, but they say he looks to be 17 or 18. ' Hodges did not turn back after he left Grensboro, the girl said, ‘and told them that he was not going to carry them home. The three rode all night, stopping only to buy gasoline, they related, and this} morning Hodges told them that they could leave the car and hitch- ‘ hike their way back home. | He told them that the way to in quire wag to ask the way to Flori-i da, they told officers. Hodges toldl them that he was not going back' kome, the Thomas girl said. | Lorine, who did the talking, told officers she had known Hodges for only a short while, but frequently wert riding with him. She esaid that hey mother worked, and did not have any objectiong to her go ing with Hodges. : The girls said, although they had (Continued on Page Seven) of the largest regular annual ap propriations made for national de fense since the enactment of the budget law in 1921. The commit tee's action on the navy supply bill has not vet been reported, but the budget approved by President Roo sevelt for $792,000,000 for the two military branches. The committee boosted the war department’s military allowance $672,205 over budget recommenda tions. Members of congress point ed out that, once a money bill has weathered the appropriations com mittee, its battle is much more than half won. In addition to the contemplated outright appropriations for. the army and navy, they are slated ta receive $20,000,000 each from publie works funds to be bought in under (Continued on Page Seven) ‘ Athens, Ca., Tuesday, February 19, 1935. Annual Meeting of Editors Will Start Wednesday At University LASTS FOUR DAYS Nation’s Most Prominent Figures to Appear on _ Program Here Members of Athens’' civic organi zations, including the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, and Pilot clubs, have been invited by John E. Drewry, director of the Henry W. Grady School of Jour nalism, to hear the addresses of nationally known journalists whe will take part in the eighth annual session of the Georgia Press In stitute which opens here Wkdnes day. Dorcthy Dix, whose syndicated column of personal advice is read daily By thousands of Americans, will appear at the first Institute program Wednesday evening at 8:30 in the Physical Education building. The address will follow a 8 dinner given to Miss Dix by President and Mrs, S, V. Sanford in Dawson hall, at which more than two hundred Georgia editors will be present. Miss Dix will be in Athens as the guest of the Atlanta Journal. i ‘ To Welcome Editors President Sanford will welcome the visiting editors on behalf of the University, and Hugh J. Rowe, edi tor of The Banner-Herald, will ex~ tend a greeting from the Athens press. The response will be made by Milton L. Fleetwood, editor of the Cartersville Tribune-News and president of the Georgia Press association. . i Robert” L, Ripldy, “Believe It or Not” author, will address the In stitute Thursday morning at 10:30 in the University chapel, as the second speaker on the foux'-dayi program. He will be the guest ofi the Atlanta Georgian, and will be| introduced by Herbert Porter, pub-{ lisher of the Georgian. ‘ Two other nationally known fig ures will take part in the Instttute.’ Walter B. Pitkin, author of “Life Begin at Forty,” will make the; Washington Day address Friday| (Continued on Page Seven) INGOME TAX FIGHT OF MELLON BEGUN Counsel- for Defendant Shows Financier Bought Expensive Paintings . By MARBEN GRAHAM Associated Press Staff (Writer. PITTNSBURGH.—(#)—The tech nical pros and cons of Andrew W. Mellon’'s income tax case were lightened today by a touch of the artistic with the revelation he owns six of the world’s best paintings for inglusion in a nat ional gallery he expects to estab lish in Washington. Opening the fight against con tentions of the government that Mellon owes more than $3,060.000 income tax for 1931, Frank J. Hogan, the financier’s counsel, made known yesterday that in 1931 the former treasury secretary spent $3,241,250 for paintings, for which he should have been allowed some deductions. The head of the Mellon finan cial empire, Hogan disclosed, has so far spent a total of $19,000,000 for pictures and hopes _through hi sgallery to make Washington a cultural center that will outshine even London and Paris. Hogan_ said the following mas ters were purchased in 1931 from the Hemritage collection in Petro grad: Raphael’s Madonna Alba, which (Continued on Page Seven) LOCAL WEATHER " Fair tonight, possibly fight frost; Wednesday partly cloudy. TEMPERATURE HigheSt .cve scesi anse oas s DBN DONME: ciis. i vskh aseslAE B i G e s ORE . e R ee g R RAINFALIL Inches last 24 hours .. .. 00 Total since February 1 ~. 427 Excess since February 1 .. .95 Average February rainfall.. 5.13 Total since January 1 .. .. 6.38 Deficiency since January 1. 1.01 He Holds Congress’ Purse Strings SRR 52 SRR B ;.iz_,.g:az:-.v‘. R R A s : & e W)m e RRR e T BT e Bsy »W B ReR e A B SAR IR B e 7 R s SR i o B : Bgasgoo 4 %\3& e o “ S R s e RN Bo A B 3 4 ol e w%, < 'v"’:’v"?:f-@‘-{.’?:;i::.,". RS2o R o R SR e e : bR R | R TR % ; e P Y - 2 iR . % A s ? ? 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This has always been omne of the most important House jobs, held by such giants as Uncle Joe Cannon and Martin Madden. Buchanan, who has served since 1913, hails from Brenham, Tex. C’ R Plans Set In Motion For Permanent Scout Program Maintenance Campaign to Be Held Here; Dr. Marx Praises Scouting Adoption of a program to place the Boy Scout organization, here on a permanent basis featured a meeting of citizens at the Geor gian hotel yesterday afternoon, over which Abit Nix presided. The meéting decided to join with Gainesville in raising a joint fund of $3,400, for the purpose of maintaining the Scout program in their respective communities. C. A, Trussell was named chairman of a committee to conduct a main.- tenance fund campaign with T. S. Gray as associate chairman. The meeting also authorized the executive committee, comprising Dr. A. 8. Edwards, Max Michael.“ Mr. Nix and Mr. Trussell to se lect a Boy Scout Council of | twelve members. | Dr. David Mrax, noted Atlanta rabbi delivered the principa ad dress at yesterday’'s meeting em-1 phasizing the importance of Boy | Scout programs. Dr. Marx said he ‘\ (Continued on Page Seven) DANIEL W. HICKY SPEAKS TONIGHT Atlanta Poet to Make Ad dress in University Chap le at 8 O'clock Daniel Whitehead Hicky, Atlan ta poet, speaks tonight in the Uni versity chapel, under the auspices of the University Pioneer club and the American Asociation of University Women. The lecture starts promptly at 8 o'clock, Mr. Hicky's first volume, “Bright Harbor was published by Henry Holt and company in 1932, and immediately brought him into national prominence. William Rose Benet, in The Saturday Re view of Literature, said in review ing it: 5 “His is an ea rfor subtle music, a grace in spontaneity of expres sion, a desire for the exactly de scriptive word.” “His poems are sprightly and graceful, gnd at times he has a vivid color sense, which, combined with his quiet skillfulness, makes cheerful enough reading,” was the comment of the Boston Transcript; and “Daniel Whitehead Hicky is one of our young American poets whose work will not be neglected,” according to.the Commonweal. Mr. Hiqky will have copies of “Bright Harbor” with him which he will autograph for those who wish to buy them tonight. He is also author of “Thirteen Sonnets of Georgia,” ‘the first edi tion of which is completely ex hausted. He is a past president of the Atlanta Writer’s club, and has won several prizes for poetry. BRUND'S EXECUTION DELAYED 7 MONTHS Breach Between Defense Attorneys. Widened by Decision of Court BY JAMES Y. LAWRENCE (Associated Press Staff Writer) TRENTON, N, J. — (#) — Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the man con victed of the kidnap murder of the voung Lindbergh baby and con demned to die in the electric chair the week of March 18, today won a respite from death of at least seven months. The Bronx carpenter escaped speedy execution. His appeal from conviction was thrown before the state’s highest tribunal, the Courtl o 1 Errofs and Appeals. Haupt m.ann's New Jersey attorneys ap-] plied for and were denied a writ of grace by Chancellor Luther A.‘ Campbell. The denial automatical ly placed the Hauptmann case be fore the Court of Errors and Ap peals. The ‘appeal would eordinarily be held in the May term of the court, but with further appeal to the court of pardons possible, the death sen tence, even if upheld, would not bei executed until some time in Sept<‘ ember, or early- October. There was a possibility that the execution sentence would be still further deferred, for Frederick A.l Pope, associate defense counsel, asserted that the defense might require such additional time to pre pure its appeal that it might ask for a postponement of argument from the May - until the October | term of the Appellate court. The unexpectedly swift moves Pope and his defense colleague, C. Lloya Fisher, took toward launch ing Hauptmann’s appeal served to widen the growing breach between Edward J. Reilly, the chief defense counsel during the trial and the (Continued on Page Seven) GEHRIG SIGNS FOR REPORTED $30,000 ~ NEW YORK.—(P)—Lou Gehrig, the New York Yankees crown prince of swat, today signed a one yvear contract for a figure popular ly supposed to be around $30,000, a compromise between the report ed offer of $27,000 and his own demand of $35,000 for 1935. The agreement was announced after a short conference between Gehrig, Colonel Jacob Ruppert, Yankee owner, and Edward G. Barrow, Yankee business mana ger. o A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday DECISION ON GRANT OF $3,000 TO FUND IS AWAITED TODAY A decision on a petition for §3,- 000 appropration to the Community Center fund by the Clarke board of commissioners was expected as the board met this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The commzissioners were petition ed last Friday by a meeting of citi zens to appropriate $3,000 to the fund, which will be used to com plete 'the Community Center on Lumpkin street. If the commissioners appropriate $3,000, the City will be asked to appropriate a similar amount, which will assure a local fund of $12,600 ,to match a federal grant of SIB,OOO. LEGISLATIVE PROBE OF FERR ISSTARTED Started by Charges of “New Era of Carpetbag Days” in State ATLANTA —(AP) -— Stirrad by charges of a ‘“new era of carpet bag days,” a legislative investi gation of federal relief affairs in Gieorgia was under way today while ‘the state’'s delegation in congress took steps to obtain “a more just treatment” of citizens of the states under the Atlanta Regional Home Owners Loans of fice. . Speaker E. D. Rivers of the Georgia house was elected chalr-‘ man of the joint legisative com mittes inquiring into rzller affairs at its organization méeting last night. Senator Willlam M. Lester of Augusta was made secretary. . The committee session was exe cutive,, Sveaker Rivers saying va rious persons who had information wished to be protected. Among witnesses was Alderman 1.. Gloer Hailey of Atlanta, chairman of the benevolence and pensions commit tee of the city council. it Rivers said nothing would be announced by the committee until its study is complete. | The investigation resulted from the “carpetbag” charge hurled by Speaker Pro tem Rllis Arnal in the house. Arnall said he referred particularly to the Federal Emer geney Relief administration., Fed eral agencies were attacked in the house for “importing” workers from other states. Representative Brown of the Tenth Georgia district proposed an amendment to the pending Home Owners’ Loan bill. The purpose of the amendment was explained by Representative Ramspeck of the Fifth Georgia district, who sald the delegation objected “most strenuously to the transfer of per sons living outside the region and feels that in fairness and justice these positions should be filled by citizens of the states affected.” Ramspeck said his state's dele gation protested last fall the trans fer from Washington of a number of workers to fill “all of the posi tions of importance in the region al office.” Brown is 2 member of the bank inz and currency committee. His amendment follows: “No person shall be appoiglted or retained as an officer, empore, agent or attorney in any regianal and or state office of the corpora tion who has at the date of t'e establishment of such office, not a citizen of the region or state served by such office. No person shall be appointed or retained as an officer, director. or employe of any building and loan association or of any federal loan and savings association or who is a director of any federal home loan bank.” Ramspeck said the second pros (Continued on page two.) ForeicN News O THumBNAIL By The Associated Press ROME—A government spokes man gccused Ethiopia of obstruct ing prospects for a peaceful settle ment. of the Italo-Ethiopian con troversy by advancing unaecceptable conditions. ADDIS ABABA-—Ethiopia eritls cized Italy for attempting to bring pressure to bear on the Italo- Eahiopian peace negotiations by dispatching “boisterous” troops to East Africa. GENEVA-—The British delegate to the world disarmament. confer ence asserted FEuropean nations would be willing at any time to ex change their miiitary airplanes for American commercial craft because of the latter’s superiority. LONDON — General satisfaction was expressed in financial circles PIVERS TURNS HOUSE NTO COMMITTEE OF IWHI]IE FOR DEBATE Crayson-Croves Measure Given Right-of-Way ‘ Late Yesterday LOCAL OPTION BILL Each Member Limited to Ten Minutes’ Debate; 20 for Authors BY BEN F, MEYER ' (Associated Press Staff Writer) | ATLANTA — UP) — Prohibition repeal, the most controversial issue yvet to come before the general as sembly of Georgia, was calleg up for action before the state house of representatives today as a spee= ial order of business. The question formally came to the floor of the house at 11:30 a. m., Central Standard time and tha body at once plunged into consid eration of the subject. - A It was agreed to limit debate to ten minutes for an individual and. allow the authors of the bill' twenty minutes each. The house then went into comniittee of the whole for discussion and debate on the controversial measure which' looks to repealing the dry law that has been on the stdtue books since 11907, . g fr o Committee of Whole Speaker Ed Rivers sald the com mittea of the whole plan of the house was necessary because two bills were.offered as.substitutes for the Grayson-Groves k local option hill which carried a majority fav orable réport from the house tems«’ perance committee, ~ Battle Ilnes were drawn overnight \for the battle—the most heated yet ‘to present itself to the"ré‘éﬁ‘m&ﬂ The Grayson-Groves local option bill, repealing all the state's .?.. ‘old bone: drygawn, was given the right-of-way In the house late yes terday as the house acted faverably on a report of its rules committes setting the bill for action immed iately after disposal of a bill by Preston of Walton to impose a tax of 10 cents a pounq on certain types of oleomargarine. : i The bill, sponsored by Grayson of Chatham and Groves of Lineoln, would place a retail tax of 10 per, cent on liquor sales, and tax re tailers, wholesalers and manufac turers from $250 to $1,900 anmually. May Offer Substitute : Meanwhile, sponsors of g state dispensary system announcedsthey would offer their bill as a subgé;ﬁ;te while a third bill, carrying”a te il il (Continued on page two.) Supreme Court Test Of NRA Will Be Next WASHINGTON.—(®)—The next supreme court test faced by the New Deal is a direct ruling on the constitutionality cf the NRA. Eager for a decision beforg con gress shapes new NRA legislation, government attorneys took « the question to the high tribunal With out waiting for a' federal couct of appeals to act. . They asked the court to review a decision by Judge W. I .'Grubb of the United States district court in Alabama, holding that the Nat tional Industrial Recovery Aect and the code established under it for the timber and lumber products industry are illegal. s The Alabama case is expected to be argued after the nine justices end 5 two-weeks recess on March 4th. i : and reflected in market activities because of the removal of United States golg clause uncertainty, HAVANA—One man was dead and 11 injured as a result of the collapse of the roof of the Alhambra theater at the close of last night's performance, DUNEDIN, N, Z—Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd related that he had once abandoned all hope of ever leaving his solitary winter advance post alive, s VIENNA--Newspapers published an appeal to the Viennese public to respect the incognito of the Prince of Wales ang save him from a repetition of the near-mobbing hé experienced yesterday from a throng of curious, roe :’gﬁ . v o gt