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No. 35 Back Yonder _-AND - MO 5 - AN ATHENS CHRONICLE Number Ten * in submitting its report to the targe crowd of Georgians, assem pled at the TUniversity of Geor gin chapel on August 7, 1828 to condemn the tariff, the resplutions committee eschewed inflammatory language, but proceeded to de nounce the tariff in no’ unecertain rerms. “No act of congress”, the cesolutions declared, ‘“since the adoption of the federal constitu tion has caused more excitement— nor irritated the, feelings of so jarge a portien of -the American peo~ ple into discontent with. our Union, nor created so much doubt of its prospective bemefit? | = T .1 7 5T The tariff was attacked on con ytivutional grounds, . .“It. is un constitutional in spirit and intent”, the resolutions asserted, -“a per version of the power ‘granted for he purposes of revenue.” The people were enjoined to proceed bv peaceable means to destroy this legislation which had aroused ihe feelings of the South to such intense animosity toward the North that many sober-nrinded cif izens were apprehensive of dis-« union, or worse, a war. The South on states were urged to boycott ariff-protected goods, adopt tariff laws of their -OoWn+ WpOR « articles. introduced into their borders by the North gnd, wherever possible, begin manufacturing théir own articles. Before the summer was over, anti-tariff meetings were held throughout this section, and grand uries were taking mnotice of the act in thelr presentments, In Aug ust, the Clarke county grand jury condemned the tariff legislation nd urged a boycott ‘of northern made goods. Wm. B Bartett was foreman of jury, which comprised W. (. Dokbins, .E.. L, .Newton, Joseph Billups, Wm. M. Morton, Joseph Maddox, James Jennings, Aquilla Greet, Wm. Dicken; James gansom, Wm., B. Taylor, John Gordon, Daniel Ramey, John Jack son, Wm. Manley, Wm. Appling, M. Scoggin, B. L. Thomas, As if the tapiff averne.not enough to destroy the peace of mind of the South, “a small fly”, brown in color, and SomewHat ° larger than the house-fly was reported to have appeared In Loulsiana, Mississippl and Alabama. This fly heean its attack by laying its eggs in exposed cuts or scratches on the bodies of its intended victims. The eggs produced tiny worms that killed their.vietims.. Two men were reported to have been killed in Alabama by these deadly para sites and much *livesteck - was. re ported to have been destroyed. (The serew worm of today ma¥‘ be 4 descendant .of this fly, W ich first was reported in the South one hundred and seven years 8go). In the same year, it was hegin ning to dawn upon a few people that women were capable of being educated. An observer of the «stu dents at the Athens Female Aca demy, conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Stanley, wroter the Ath enian expressing gratification that, contrary to popular argument, the examinations of women students at the Academy “furnishéd very posi tive evidence of the capacity of the female sex to acquire. excellent and substantially useful information.” A traveling dentist—a Dr, Amb ler—in a notice in the local paper, thanked the public for the patron age given him on a recent trip and announces that he will make re gular visits to the willage to in spect work he has already done, free of charge, and give his atten tion to any other patients whose suffering might be alleviated, if not terminated, by his ministrations. (To be Continued) * . e . Review of ROTC Unit to Be Held Friday, 3 P.M. A review of the R.O.T.C. of the TUniversity =of Geor gia will be held Friday at 3p. m. or the presentation of the unit to Dr. 8. V. Sanford and a formal introduction of the sponsors to ':n‘h troop and company and the cadet staff which they will repre (‘;m at the last formal parade I the year when .the graduate military students will receive their «(:.mmissions to the Army Reserve orps, _ The members of the Press In stitute and the public are cordial- IV invited to be present. Small Purse, Moncg Is Found After Dix Speech A small white purse, containing " f[‘ money, was found last night o or Dorottiy Disks.4fdres by W. o utlive of Savannah. Mr. Sut ¢ who afttended. the lecture, is fanaging editor of the Savannah A.\”t;m-e; Press. . M. Sutlive would like to" return ¢ purse and the money to its UWuer, and will do*so if the owner ol call for it.. He is staying at n;\fi{’j?:é'hn hetel during the press Former Athenian Heads National Organization o | ——— % i % “{2,"“\‘?’l‘o& Ga—R. 0. Arnold R i AT e ATHENS BANNER-HERALD % Full Associated Press Service Large Crowd Hears Ripley Address Aan;s *l\/fee:in; tfo:tigh; f“o*l)*et;mj;ir:e l; at*e b]: éor:m:u;it; E:’etttgr . Bridges Will Preside at ¢ . Opening of Meeting ~ln City Hall HODGCSON CHAIRMAN Legion Faced With Possi bility of Abandoning Completion of Project ~ Faced with the possibility of be ing forced to abandon plans -for completing its Community Center on Lumpkin street, the American Legion here today was expecting a large crowd of citizens to at tend tonight’s meeting at the city hall at 8 o'clock. D. Weaver Bridges, chairman of the board of directors of the Le gion, Inc, will preside at the meeting, after which Harry Hodg son, sr., chairman of a citizens committee which has been assisting the Legionnaires in obtaining funds to complete the construction work at the Community Center, will take charge of the proceedings. Mr. Bridges said today that the Legion is hoping that a large number of citizens will attend the meeting, particularly those whao have been assisting in obtaining funds to match federal aid to com plete the work at the Center, Plan Adopted A meeting of citizens last week resulted in adoption of a plan whereby $6,500 was to be raised by private subscriptions contingent upon ‘the county and city appro priating $3,000 each. With $12,500 in hand, or guaranteed, the Le gion would then be in position to assure the FERA in Atlanta that its grant of SIB,OOO would be forth coming and work on completing the swimming pool and other im provements gt the playground cen ter wolud begin. The county commissioners, after studying the citizens’ petition for 4n appropriation, declined the re quest Tuesday afternoon. Under the terms whereby more than $5,- 060 has already been underwritten by a group of citizens, payment of their subscriptions is not obli« gatory. Therefore, the meeting to night is designed to map out other plans for raising the $12,500. The Legionnaires, who have spent more than SB,OOO of their own money on the playground cen ter, in addition to expenditures of geveral thousand dollars by the (Continued on Page Six) e iy New York Man Dies ew York Man D From Auto Accident rom Auto Accid S it SWAINSBORO, Ga. -— ) - Seyvmour G. Camp, of Oneonta, N. Y., died here early today of injuries guffered inthe automobile accident Tuesday night which cost the life of his wife. The Camps were re turning to New York after a visit with relatives in Daytona Beach, Fla. Three men riding in an automo-~ bile which collided with the Camp automobile were injured also. One of them, W. A. Cook of Augusta, has been dismissed from the Swainsboro Mospital, but the other two. C. W, Dixon of Jacksonville, Fla.. and W. K. Hagler of Augusta, Ga., are recovering in the hospital. Dixon this morning was reported <till in a ‘serious condition but im proving. He suffered three broken ribs and bruises. Mayor of Jefferson Proclaims Crawford W. Long Memorial Day JEFFERSON, Ga.—Mayor George W. Westmoreland today issued a proclamation designating Saturday, March 30, as Crawford W. Long ‘Memorial Day here and urging. that in observing the 93rd anniversary of the giscovery of ether-anesthetic here in 1842 the school children of the entire county take part. A large delegation of Jefferson and Jackson county citizens is ex pected to attend the Crawford W. song Memorial program at the University of .Georgia on March 30, at which time Dr. Max Cutler, noted cancer specialist and himself a na tive of Georgia will deliver the principal address, Mayor Westmoreland’s procla matation follows: «Whereas, on March 30, 1842, Dr. Crawford W. 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Left to right, they are: Representatives Spence Grayson of Chatham county; Grady Head, Catoosa county; Marvin Griffin, Decatur county; J. M. C. Townsend, Dade county; and L. C. Groves, Lincoln county. : (Associated Press Photo.) ‘} e e Is Re-elected Chairman of Board of Directors at Meeting Today H. M. Heckman was elected for a second term, as chairman of the Board of ‘Directers -of the -Athens chapter of the American Red Cross, at a meeting held in the court house this morning. "~ "~ * ' Mrs. George D. 'Thomas suc ceeds Mrs. W. P. Warren .as sec ‘retary of the directors. All other officers were re-¢lected. They are ' Mrs. H. B. Ritchie, vice-presi 'dent; and John White Morton, treasurer. ) 4 Mrs, Will Erwin was designated delegate from the local chapter te ! the national convention _of Red Crgss, to be held in Washington, D! ¢4, in April. The following were named chair men of committees for 1935: Fritz Thompson, chairman of |First AIQ ‘corpmftthe, " " G T 2t | Mrs. John Jenkins, chairman of iHome Hygienme and care of the ' sick committee. L. B. Raisty, chairman of the disaster committee, Miss V. Coppinger, secretary of ‘servic-o workers committee. b | Miss V. Coppinger, secretary of the Red Cross chapter, read the | January report to the directors. ' The report included showed that there were forty-one ex-service cases at the beginning of the month. Thirty-one néw cases came in during January. Work was finished on 20 cases, leaving fifty two to start February with. Two cases were reported for men now in the army. : | One hundred and forty-four civ ilian cases existed at the begin ning of January, with 226 coming in during the month. Of this num ber 108 were finished, leaving 262 to start February with. - I Financial assistance was given l (Continued on page two.) sulphuric ether as an anesthetic; and “Whereas, the discovery of ether anesthetic marked one of the great mile-posts in the history of medi cine and the alleviatiol of” hurhan suffering; and, “Whereas,” the eminerft contribu ¢ion of Dr. Long has not only been a boon -to mankind, but has re boundeq to the everlasting ecredit of Jeffersoy, the Uniyersjty of Georgia, and the State of Georgia; and, “Whereas, Dr. Long’s great servs jce to humanity and his contribu tion to medieine wcience have been recognized by the placing of his state in the.Nationgl Hall of Fame among the other immortals of our countty, and by monument on the campus of the University of Geor gia, an oil painting which hangs in thp halls of the State Capitol of L e— (Continued on Page Six) Athens, Ca., Thursday, February 21, 1935, Clarke’s Representatives Taking Prominent Part In Legislature 18-YEAR-OLD BOY IS SENTENCED TO CHAIR ATLANTA—(P)—S. W. Sisk, 18 years old, today was under sentence to die in the electric chair April 12 for his part in the robbery-slaying of David A, Lord in a filling station here shortly before Christmas. : Sisk was convicted by a jury which deliberated three hours and 20 minutes. * The jury did not recommend mercy, making the death sentence mandatory. Sam Danijel is under life gentence and Marvin Hones has been sentenced to death in the holdup-slaying., R DeKalb County Officers Recover Much of Jewel ry, Bonds and Money ILA, Ga.—A large part of the loot ®taken by bandits who robbed the Bank of Ila recently was re covered by DeKalbh county officers and returned to the bank here Wednesday afternoon. DeKalb officers, carefully search ing the vicinity where three gun men who engaged in a machine gun battle with them were cap tured, ‘ound a fruit jar containing much of the loot, In the jar was jewelry belonging to G. H. Westbrook, Ila; R. L. Cauthern, jr. Cincinnati, Ohio and Mrs. R. L. Cauthen, Athens. Prac tically all of the jewelry taken from the bank vault, where it had been placed for safe-keeping, has been recovered. Only one diamond ring, belonging to Mrs. G. H. Westbrook, has not been recovered. All the bonds taken from the bank have been found and return ed and also about S6OO dollars in money. Robbers cut into the bank wvault with oxygen and acetylene torches several weeks ago at mnight and made a clean getaway. The loot was placed by bank officials at $2,023 in cash; two diamond rings valued at $1,500, other jewelry and about S6OO in non-negotiable bonds. Two men, Fred MecCarty and Rual Nash, were arrested in con ' nection with the robbery but have ‘been released by Sheriff T. L. Henley 'as they had no connection 'with the crime. » i ——— LOCAL WEATHER xePukiing dou AR IRIRS Fair tonight and Friday; rising temperature. TEMPERATURE Highest: .... +seia enee <o TR R L Ll e 300 B oo e viAY WY, o i E S a 8 RAINFALL . Incheg last 24 h0ur5........ o.of Total since February 1.... 4.21 Excess since February 1 .. 61 Average February rainfall.. 5.17 Tota] since January 1...... 6.38 Deficiency since January 1.. 1.87‘ Cobb, Joel Enter Debate .On Liquor Issue; Rucker . s Busy in Senate By PERRY MULLEN ‘Associated Press Staff Writer ATLANTA—(#)—Clarke county’s representatives took a prominent part in debate in the house on the various liquor bills with Rep | resentative Carlisle Cobb raising !objections to provisions which he ! said would prevent citizens from lvotmg on the question of repeal. i One of the bills specified elec ]tlons should be held on a popu l!ar vote basis with only those vot ling in the last general election be ing qualified to vote in liquor ref !erendums. Cobb said this would i prevent more than 500 people in his county from voting. Before the house began voting las 5 committee of the whole on | the liquor bills yesterday Cobb said he intended to offer an amend ! ment to any liquor bill approved ]in that branch which would pro vide for county monopolies on lig+ }uor stores, cutting out “middle. fmen" and putting the revenues in i the county gnd city treasuries. I His amendment, he said, would { provide that any county voting wet | would have the right to run ite 3own liquor store. Such a system jwas used in Clarke county 30 lyears ago, he said, adding that the last year before prohibition “it lbrought in $76,000 to the city treas i (Continued on Page Six) 'ROOSEVELT PLANS g ED ! % 'President’s Suggestion for ! NRA Extension to Cause | Controversy l WASHINGTON — (#) — Presi dent Roosevelt’'s recommendation for a two-year extension of NRA [hoaded today straight into a leg | islative situation bearing all the { signs of bitter controversy. Ob ‘servm’s wondered whether the fights would be over much before June, when the present recovery} { act expires. “ | Arrayed for the skirmishing were | the forces of industry, union labor !and those who accuse NRA of fos ;tering “monopoly.” They were all ready to press their demands. s There was no doubt at all in the minds of legislators that one of | the fiercest struggles probably | would rage uround section 7-A— lthe collective bargaining provision. They noted that President Roose | velt simply called for protection of { “the rights of employees freely to { organize for the purpose of coilec | tive bargaining” and did not dis iclose whether he desires the sec i tion changed or continued as it is | Donald Richberg, director of the national emergency council, said revision of section 7-A was a mat ter entirely for congress to decide, but he expressed tt,e personal opin ion that the section was adequate. .. Another labor union drive has important bearing of the NRA problem of Maximum hours. The American Federation of Labor and ~ (Continued on Page Two) ;-j 1 U : 1 ‘Mystery Surrounds Fall | Of Pair From Plane of ‘ Passenger Airline NO REASON GIVEN ’Pllot Fails to Miss Only | Passengers, Flies on | For Another Hour | e —— | ENGAGED TO MARRY : NAPLES — (#) —- Jane Du Bois, who plungeq to death from an airplane today in England, . was reported to have been en . gaded to marry Flying Officer l John A, C. Forbes, who was killed last week in the crash of the British flying-boat “Ace of Diamonds.” | Her sister, Elizabeth, also kill ed, was likewise reported en= l gaged {o Flight Lieutenant Henry Longfield Beatty, the commander of the “Ace of / Diamohds.” UPMINSTER, Essex, England.— I(/P)—Jane and Elizabeth Dußois, the daughters of the American ! consul general at Naples, were killed today in a mysterious fall from an airplane bound for Paris. The two girls, both less than 24 years old, plunged into a fleld just outside the town. A witness said they were ‘clasped hand-in hand in a last embrace” as they hurtled through the air, The girls were at first believed to be French because of their clothing, but later authorities sald they had . established their iden tity “without a doubt” as the Misses Dußois. Their father is Coert Bußois, 54, a native ot Hudson, N. Y. but now with his legal ~2sidence at San Francisco. His wife was the former Miss Margaret Mendel of 80-~ton. They were married Aug ust 1, 1910. The two daughters were their only children. Not Missed By Pilot ‘ The plane they dropped from belonged to the Hillman Air Ser lvice. The pilot apparently flew on for an hour after the girls fell to i (Continued on page two.) -~ PLANG ANNOUNCED i C. S. Taylor Named Per-] ~ manent Chairman; Com-| mittees Selected Plans to place exhibits from various electrical supply dealers, plumbers, building supply dealers, and paint supply dealers, in some vacant store in Athens were dis closed this morning by C. 8. Tayvlor, who * Wednesday wasl \’uluvt.ed permanent chairman of the Federal housing campaign in Lhel city. l ; Mr. Taylor said that the ex hibits would be put on display as{ !sm)n as possible, and it is hoped that all dealers in articles of the lkind listed above will cooperate. | The display is being held in con nnection with the housing cam- | lxmign in Athens. ‘ | Taylor was elected chairman of| !tho campaign succeeding D. Wea 'ver Bridges, who resigned be cause business conflicted with the housing work., A mass meeting will be held in a few days, to further acquaint the public with the better housing program, Mr. Taylor said. W. A. Sirmon, associate director of the! Federal Housing Administration in Georgia, will speak at the mass meeting. Another meeting of the commit-; ttes will be held very soon, preb—l ably Monday or Tuesday of next! | (Continued on Page Six) l 1 e e Kooy i GIRL SAFE FROM } ! THIRD KIDNAPING| i FREDERICKISBURG, Va.—(}P)—! | Back from her third “kidnaping” | !adventure in as many years, Caro-‘ line Mustante, 15-year-oid Staf-l ford county girl, was at the home] [ot‘ her parents today appanently' unharmed and suffering no ill ef 'tects from her experience which !ended this morning when her father sdid he found her “tied, in the woods™ about a mile from her home. Leo Mustante, the girl's father, told newspapermen this morning ‘that “me and the dog Queenié found Caroline,. bound hand and foot but not gagged”, ; A. B! C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday “BELIEVE-IT-OR-NOT” CARTOONIST TELLS OF UNUSUALEXPERIENCE Teoday’s Speaker T . ee e B R R R o e g F -:’,:-Z:f:»t’?,._.:u‘r,i':l:>~.u-.l:r-»,~i:1' g S R B e R S B b b SR e Sey 358 R O i R S :_:5.2‘!4‘4:-:}:?{3&;:‘)_’ v SRR e : ,:;;'.zz-v_;.v\-* R S G § f’% i W S e ‘.; AT RN r, S T R boeann ne g R A R R i L v W ! ORII e ¥e e ] B el e ¢ g L s g P s B PR 2 .4:‘}*" iy 1 2 e 2 "_:: / {4 o) % e A ; b . PR P i i eS B $ 5 5 2 ROBERT L. RIPLEY House Adjourns Wednes day Until Monday With ~ Confusion Prevailing BY BEN F. MEYER (Associated Press Staff Writer) ATLANTA — (# — Repeal of the prohibition laws in Georgia re+ mained a doubtful matter today although the house of representa tives, sitting as a committee, put its OK on a plan for a state dis pernsary system, subject to approv al in a pouplar vote referendum April 16, | Strife between supporters of var fcus bilis broke out however just before adjournment until Monday and during the melee it appeared for a time that the drys were driv ing toward victory, : A motion to adjourn prevented any vote. Some repeal a.dvoca.tes said that prohibitionists voted in committ ee for approval of the state store bill or Representative Griffin of Decatur and Townsend of Dade, as a means of blocking the Grovess Grayson local option bill. These same legislators said the drys would try to kill the state store bill when the issue came to a vo*e on actual passage. Meanwhile, repealists insisted vhey were in the majority, and that some kind of liquor bill. would be passed by the house and sent so the senate, where ome senator an nounced that a private canvass in—‘; dicateq an easy maljority for some| from of liquor legislation. The sen- | ator declined to permit use of his name, 1 Lanier of Richmond summed up (Contihued on Page Six) g ] KENNAMER CASE TO JURY l PAWNEE, Okla.~~(AP)—The case of Phil Kennamer, 19-year ‘ old federal judae's son charged with the murder of John F. Gorrell, was given to the jury shortly before noon today. THE NEws IN A NUTSHELL By Jack Braswell A review of the ROTC of the University will be held on the polo field Friday 3:00 p, m. for a for mal presentation of the sponsors to the cadets. The public is in vited to be present. Georgia and Florida , boxing teams will meet tonight in Wood ruff hall at 8 o'cloek. Admission prices will be 25 and 50 cents, The annual Military Ball given by the advanced ROTC cadets of the University will be held Friday 9 to 1 in Woodruff hall. Ten loans were approved by the Athens Production Credit associa tion at a meeting of the executive committee Wednesday. €. S. Taylor, elected head, of the Better Housing campaign in Athens Wednesday, plans & mass meeting at an early date to show Athenians what can be done by a H2YE| EDITION % Georgia Press Institute Enters Second Day With Interest High ~ i COULTER TO SPEAK ' Several Thousand People % Entertained by Dorothy . Dix Last Night I N l Dr. Walter B, Pitkin will be | unable to daliver the Washing- Sie | ton day address at the Univer sity of Georgia tomorrow, and Dr. E. M. Coulter. professor of i history at the University, will ! give this feature of the Georgia I Press Institute, it was learned | today. Dr. Couiter will speak | in the Chapel at 10:30 a. m. ‘ Georgla newspapermen today plunged into round table discus sions of practically every phase of journalism after hearing Dorothy Dix last night and Robert L. (Be lieve It Or Not) Ripley this morn= ing deliver addresses to crowds | that overflowed the large auditor ium of the physical education build= ing at the University of Georgia. Believe it or not, if al! the Chin= ese in the world were to march past. ‘a. given point they would never { finish passing though they march | ed forever, Ripley told his audience. Tells of Ambition e The" artist and author told of how in his ambition to visit every country on the face of the earth we .went to the Garden of Eden— "‘but found no apple trees there” although they figure prominently i the Biblical story. . He said: -4 “Believe it- or not, apple trees will mot grow in the Gardem of | Eden. Neither were there any fig trees, and of course no fig leaves. 'The only trees that will gréw i that hot sandy soil are serawny palm trees.” ¥ Ripley said Hell is a mucm : ter place, and he has been thera too, he added. Hell is a tiny vills age in Norway, where the cartoons ist spent the “three happiest days of my life.” T ke More than 2,000 persons sat in ‘ windows, stuck heads through doors and crowded the stage wings of the 'audltorium where Ripley spoke om the seconq day of the Press In= stitute being held at the Uni‘xgrsiq: of Georgia. He was introduced by Herbert Porter, Atlanta Georgians } (Continued on Page Five.) ' . . " Legislative Group. - 5 . Leaves for Capital ATLANTA — @ — A législas tive committee, refusing to divulge its plans, left here last night for | Wiashington to investigate relief 'matters affecting this state. 3 Speaker of the House Ed Rivers headeq the group. Despite the | secrecy around the plans, it was ileamed the group expected first to | confer with Harry L. Hopkins, fed | eral emergency relief administras !tm-, Efforts were being made also ' to arrange an interview with Presi | dent Roosevelt. ; House Floor Leader Roy Harris ’of Augusta; Representative Here man H. Watson of Paulding county, ’Senator William M. Lester of Augusta and Senator W. Fred Scott of Thomasville, the senate floor leader. make up the committs ee with Rivers. H. M. Heckman was elected to fill the position of chairman ofié the board of directors of the Athe ens Red Cross for a second term. R. O. Arnold, formerly of Athens, was elected president afi, the Solid Braided Cord Association of the United States at a meet ing of this organization last Mon- | day in Washington, D, £ Losd R Some Democratic leaders inter= pert President Roosevelt's aection on a $60,000,000 seed loan as & new attempt ic prevent con ;f sional restlessness from expr M; ftself so as to wreck the FPresi= dent’s budget. : Soviet Russia has lined up with Great Britain and m&@ effort to abtain from Germa y ad herence without reservation to th i e e B EER
