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LOCAL COTTON Wiy MIDDLING ..... .. ey 1000 PREVIOUS CLOSE .... .. 12%¢ I. 103, No. 44. - Back Yonder - - AND - NE " AN ATHENS CHRONICLE Number Seventeen Athens once made a strong bid for a Preshyterian seminary. It was back in 1829, when the Synod of South Carolina and Georgla de cided to establish an institution to prepare students for the ministry. The Athenian, (which -later on necame the Southeérn Banner) ureed that the proposed seminary pe established in Athens “in a cection where the bounties of na wure are plentiful and cheap;—in a region of perennial health—in' the widst of a pious community noted jor its benevolent kindness, land in the vicinity of a flourishing lit erary university with an extensive liprary and apparatus.” In such wrroundings the seminary ‘“‘would enjoy advantages unequalled any vhere else in‘the state'’. The editor of the Athenian was a busy man in the early part of 1829. The State was having irouble with the Cherokee Indians, who had established a government of their own; the tariff act of 1828 was aggravating Georgia. to the point of nullification; George R. Gilmer of Oglethorpe county, was encaged in a hot controversy with Governor Johm. Forsyth because the latter declared Gilmer’s seat in congress vacant When Gilmer failed to notify the governor of his acceptance of the election. ' This row continued until Gilmer resign-‘ ~1 his seat and ran for governor againgt Thomas *G. Crawford, nand-picked by Forgyth as his successor. The Ath»e'nian. support ed Gilmer in that campaign. He carried 'Clarke county overwhelm ingly and was elected governor. ( Despite these national questions, however, Oliver P, Shaw editor of the Athenian, found time to ' com ment on the condition of the village streets and enjoyed the newly elected board of city com migsioners, of whieh Stevens Thomas was chairman, to do some thing to improve their ‘“discred itable condition”, even if it became necesgary to levy higher taxes. While he was urging the Presby terians to build their proposed seminary here because of the ‘piety’ of the community, ' the Clarke County Grand Jury, with William B, Barnett as foreman, came out with untimely present ments calling on the authorities to put an end to the gambling that was going on in Watkinsville, then the county seat, and in Athens. The Athenian disagreed with the grand jury, and criticized it for making assertions without produc ing definite proof. One of the chief interests of the editor was diversified farming. He was obsessed with the belief that this could be made a sugar-pro ducing section and published scores of articles on the cultiva tion of sugar cane. About this time (1829) Wm. Matthewson re turned to Clarke county from Louisiana, where he made inquir i< into the production of cane. Mr. Shaw published a. long article from Mr., Matthewgon's pen, tell ing how to grow sugag cane and in the same issue urged the farm ers of this gection to make , try at cane production. “From the pre vailing disposition to diversify our agricultural pursuits”, the editor wrote, “we look forward to the period as not far distant when the profits of its cultivation will form i important item in the revenue of the stateX (To Be Continued) @ Income Tax Payers to Get Advice This Week Income tax payers in Athens will be given assistance in pre paring and filing 1934 income tax “tuirns Wednesday and Thursday, When a representative from the in- Wrnal Revenue department will be re. 'W. H. Page, Collector of In mal Revenue, plans to have rep- Tesentatives at various towns and cities in Georgia during the mext Week for this purpose. ~The representative will be here fom 8:30 in the morning until 5 I the afternoon each day, it has U“ea nnnounced. Many ‘changes Were effected by the 1934 Revenue Act, and it is believed that many X payers will be unable to file teir tax™ returns without aid. _ A representative will be in Hartwell, March 4; in ‘Washing ton, March 4; in Elberton, March n Thomson; Mareh 6 Way- Nesboro; March 7, - Louisville; (Continued on Page Seven) LOCAL WEATHER Cloudy tonight and Tuesday, Probably oceasional light rain Tuesday and in northwest Portion late tonight, somewhat Warmer tonight. . TEMPERATURE Highegt ..0, Lol i 08 Lowest * {OO vy RAR R Mian L 0 s L ' Normay _Lc i e g RAINFALL - Cches last 24 NOURE & v .00 lotal since March 1 .. ~ .00 ]h-!:liehcx sinde’ m B e .88 \Verage “March vainfall .. 5.21 Eif.?‘- since Jan, ‘;j . 6.26 | Detcincy e Tanuary i, 248 Ky Lo ee = RA Hi ST B ATHENS BANNER-HERALD il Full Associated Press Service Girl Dies in Plane Crash Here Gafla’;v;; I\7lifis En*Tilr;é éit;eg fie—épén*\i;itfi Ifin;it*ecf I; o;t:e:s LABOR LEADERS SAY ONLY 20% NORMAL NUMBER ~ WORKING Mill Officials Say Over Half of Employes Are Still on Job. FORM PICKET LINES Textile Strike Leader Is Found Along Roadside, Badly Beaten. TEXTILE STRIKE IN GEORGIA AT GLANCE By The Associated Press MANCHESTER, Ga, — Tex tile strike leader reported he was abducted and beatengby maskea men. Police Chief T. C. Moore said he was investi gating, and while he saw no marks of -violence on man’s face or hands, he was under care of physician. LAGRANGE, Ga.—Labor lead ers said 15 to 20 per cent of normal force of 3,000 opera tives went to work at seven lo cal plants on Callaway chain of mils. A statement from the mill office said 655.6 per cent of the operatives were at work. S. A. Hollihan, organizer for Georgia Federation of Labor, said “it looks like the. fight is won", : MILSTEAD, Ga.—Local mill of Callaway group operating, but number on walk-out un determined. Some workers here at LaGrange and Manchester resumed strike after walk-out last week in protest against wage -cut- and initiation of speed-up . system of work, Pickets on duty at all three cities Picket lines booed and jeered workers entering Calla way plants at LaGrange. MANCHESTER, Ga. — (&) —A textile strike leader was found beaten on a roadside near here to day and told police he had been kidnaped from his home and at tacked by ‘“four or five’ masked men. Police Chief T. iC. Moore said the man was J. W. Stroup, chairman of a union committee di recting 5 strike in a local plant of the Callaway group of mills, where a strike is in progress Chief Moore said Stroup’s ,face and hands bore no marks of vio lence, but that Stroup was under care of a physician at his resi dence in the mill village. “Stroup told me a group of four or five masked men took him from his home about 3 o’clock this morning, carried him in an auto mohile across Pine Mountain into nearby Talbot county, and struck him,” Moore asid. Gives Version “He gaid some one kicked him and that soon afterwards he was hit in the back. He said he could (Continued on Page Three) ; B Tornado Rips Through Texas Today; 1 Dead FORNEY, Texas—(®)—A tornado ripped through this farming com munity just before dawn today and roared away to the morth, leaving one reported death, several injured and property damage amounting intohundreds of thous ands of dollars. ; Communication lines were dis rupted in the rural section through which the storm slashed its way but from the damage incurred here it was considered probable heavy losses had been inflicted elsewhere along its course. A Negro farmer was killed. In Forney omly one injured person was found, Mrs. B. G. Edwards. She was not believed to be hurt badly . THE NEws IN A NUTSHELL Miss Sylvia Raskin, Savannah, was killed Sunday afternoon in the airplane crash in which Bernard Freeman, student, suffered a brok en ankle and heel and*® Ben T. Epps a broken hip. Two day campaign for the pur pose of raising $3,400 to put the Boy Scout organization on a per manent basis here wlil be launch ed Tuesday at 8:15 a. m. with twao hundred Athenians = participating in the canvassing " Graham Btachelor will meet Ace Grogory in the Athens arena Tues day night., Shiek Mahamed Ali, claimant to the championship of Arabia, will meet “Gentleman John” ‘Damron in a one hour limit wrest- R R S R t University in Debates = ; UETRSRORER CAN I R A Sy T R L iy bt N 51.5Eg;j§§535' SR ki I TR S Fs 5 L . L. F B R S RRS S R R g coni R R e ™ e s Nl 0 ame : B R o e %,\Q " E> _'.j-;g;;:"‘ s T :-e;-,,.E:E:;j::f_;553:::2::.:?55.: A ».;;fl::;v‘_“’v}‘.jfizzig?;;;&;};gg;»;,__ e bg e jAR EE e g i - . o B ‘ B 2% s B R e - & T A et o : g W L.. = %e- B g G\ : j el E . EERN i o 8 o Eomee . R S e REER PRSI . 3 b Po S T S , Herman Talmadge (left), son of Governor Eugene Talmadge, and Aubrey Evans (right) of Rebecca, will represent the University of Georgia in a series of debates at New Orleans this week. They will meet Loyola, March 5; Tulane, March 6, and Sophie Newcomb, March 7. Young Talmadge has shown some of the flair for public speaking that twice has swept his father into the governor's office.~(Associated Press Photos). Boy Scout Campaign Will Be Launched Here Tuesday a.m. NO ACTION AGAINST MOHAWK OFFICERS NEW YORK—(#)—-The local steamboat inspectors t o d a y made public their findings in the Mohawk disaster of last January 24, attributing the disaster to a misunderstanding in signals and concluding with this statement: | “After considering all the testimony taken, the Dboard finds no cause for action against any of the surviving officers of the Mohawk.” U. S. Judge in Birming ham Halts Sale of Prop erties to TVA. BIRMINGHAM, ALA, \—(#)—A contract for the sale of certain properties by the Alabama Power company to the Tennessee valley suthority today was annulled by Judge W. I. Grubb in U. S. District court. In the same decree Judge Grubb annulled a contract - between the -tility and the Electric. Farm and Home Authority Inc, and re straineq the .ilabama Power com pany from acting as agent for the EHFA in selling electric appli ances, The judge held the contract of January 4, 1934 Wetween TVA and the Alabama Power company for the sale of the latter’s transmission lines ““to be a furtherance of illlegal proprietary operations by the Ten nessee Valley authority.” While the contract for the sale of certain of the utility’s proper ties was annuled, Judge Grubb held that construction of Joe Wheeler, Dam was legal and the utility which sold .the site to the TVA should not interfere with the con tinuation of the work, Preferred shareholders of the Alabama Power company brought (Continued on Page Five.) By Jack Braswell ling match. E. E. Lindsey, chairman of the state board of control, today said that he considered the governor's statement requesting the legisla ture to stick a budget commission recommendations was entirely fair. A $30,000,000 cut in annual in. terest, government officials esti mated today,, will result from (.zo refunding operations antounced by the treasury last night, : Donald R. Rickberg, executive director of the national] emergency’ council, says that he can “guaran tee” that there will be no inflation in this country while F. D, Roose (Continued on Page Seven) Athens, Ca., Monday, March 4, 1935. One Hundred Workers Meet Tomorrow At Georgian Hotel. : Athenians tomorrow morning at 8:16 o’clock will launch a two-day campaign for the purpose of raising sufficient funds to put the Boy Scout organization here upon a permanent basis. The meeting will be held at the Georgian hotel and C. A. Trussell, chairman of the campaign committee will preside, One hundred men and women will take part in the campaign whose goal is to raise $3400 for the Scout organization. The communi ty has been divided into ten zones, with ten teams for canvassing purposes. It is believed that the campaign can be completed with in two qays. . Much enthusiasm has been shown here in the Boy Scout plans for re organizing on a permanent basis, and Chairman Trussell is confident the entire community will join in making the maintenance fund cam paign a success. In a statement issued today the general Scout committee, of which Abit Nix is chairman, pointed out the advantages that can be de rived, from Scouting: “Scouting offers significant and basic edueational values over and above the useful occupation of the free time of boys with meaning ful activity. ‘As the white House Conference studies revealed, there is a dearth of ‘activities in the mddern home where so preponderant a share of things are “done for” the home, the e (Continued on Phge Eight) - How Does Your Garden Grow? i OoOw UVoes Tour Uaragen row: | You'll be proud to answer that question this summer, if you { follow the advice of the six government experts whom NEA Ser | vice has had prepare a series of twelve daily articles on home ; gardening. § These men, pictured below, are on the staff of the New Jersey | College of Agriculture and Experiment Station at Rutgers Univer | sity. Each is an outstanding specialist in a particular field, and ‘ each writes on his subject alone. ‘ Three articles on vegetable gardening, articles on garden plan ‘ ning, on rock gardens and pools, on treating the soil for lawn and ; garden, on flowers from bulbs, on annuals and perenmals,’ and i finally on plant diseases and pests—all twelve, lavishly illus ‘ trated, will help you plant a garden of which you will be proud. See the First of This Prize Series on Page 5 Today lncl [ Wl f . % a Ag O 4 B . e BT ‘ %%’ % g %-& *3« : ?w“ e e e - ) : & kT ‘ ‘[ :‘:NW"J i_»Con-on » IMcLean i Cox '~ ' White " llnmflton-"‘ MEETS TODAY WITH Beer and Whiskey Bills Likely to Be Taken Up This Week. FACED WITH APPEAL |Governor Talmadge Asks | Solons to Stay Within | Estimated Revenue. | ATlLLANTA,—(#)—Legislators re- Ilurned to the capitol today faced with an appeal from Governor Tal- | madge to stay within the budget in fixing appropriations for the no.\'t‘ two years, ‘ The 'governor expressed disap rroval of the house money bill for! 1936-7, which exceeds anticipated {revenue, in a statement issued dur ing the week-end recess of the seneral assembly. Passed by the house and em'mlte‘ to the senate, the general appro vriations bill oversteps the budget recommendations by $740,000 for next year ang by $480,000 for 1937. It provides $10,115,500 for 1936 andl $9.784,000 for 1937. In his message on this bill, which says how much state (epartments will have to spend the governor estimated the revenue ot $9,250,000 [to $9,i00,0000 anually, provided | ]thex'e were no changes in the tax law. o Could Pay Debts If the bill were passed as sub mitted, the governor said he could “pay the state out of debt with in the next two years, and without ;'kho necessary-of ‘additional ‘tax tevy of one dime.” The appropriations bill, when it left the house by a 109-to-1 vote, guaranteed a fixed amount of $4,- 250,000 to the common schools for each of the next two years. Opposition to this feature was also expressed by the chief execu | tive, who said: “Tu wncrease their l’amounts would encourage extra ' (Continued on Page Seven) { [ — Million Dollars Worth of | Road Work Will Be . Done in Near Future. g ATLANTA, — (#) — The state highway board today annouceé bids on a million dollars worth of highway work, including 10 miles of paving in Bulloch and Jenkins i counties, will be received here ;March 8. | Among the larger projects is the [paving of a four mile section of the | Columbus-Fort Benning highway in | Muscogee county. ! At the same time the list was an ! nounced members of the highway board said they were conferring (Continued on Page Three) Greek Government Dispatches Full Fighting Forces Against Rebels as Movement Spreads Justice Hol ustice rioimes, Nearing 94, Il earing 94, E . T e & e i SR o i ;o ’_'jjijig"' T : o R ‘; TRI Afigz" R ‘3__::s;_‘;, & X CUETER Ay B T fig-,i . ‘ P ; o s 3 B Nearing his 94th birthday Marc 8, Oliver Wendell Holmes, ven erated figure of the American bar and formerly a member of the U. S. Supreme Court for 29 years, is seriously ill at his home in Washington, D. C, Biggest Gold Strike Of 1934 in Trinket Boxes of Americans /AWASHINGTON, —(#)—The big gest gold strike of 1934, the gov ernment disclosed today, was in the old trinket boxes where Ameri cans keep the family valuables. Since the Government - revalued gold at $35 an ounce on January 31, 1934, the mint revealed, so many old rings and wateh chains and watches have poured in that traffic in scrap gold has risen from re lative obscurity to a big business, Last year it passed the SIOO,OOO - mark, : Old watches lead the list, follow ed closely by wedding rings, said Miss Mary M, O'Reilly, assistant director of the mint, in describing the valuables people turned in for cash. “We even received a cup which is symbolic of winning the Ken tucky derby,” she said. In New York, one dealer in old gold reported he had received the gold badge of a former police com missioner of New York city and 'a solid gold engraved pass, good for a box in any Shubert theater in America at any time. The pass was jssued to a friend of the Shuberts and to his heirs forever. The heir who sold it was said to have been an elderly woman whose dellca.te‘ (Continued on Page Flve.) ‘ A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday Home of Rebel Leader, Aged Venizelos, Is Bombed Last Night. Copyright, 1935, By The Associated Press ATHENS,—(®P)—Harassed on two | fronts like a nation at war, the "(:reek government today dispatched infantry, artillery warships and 'airplanes into Macedonia, Crete, and the Aegean Sea against rebels [who had thus lar swept all before ; them. Twenty-two bombing planes, flown by loyal pilots, wook off from Athens to bomb warships which put to sea under the command of rebel officers. ' Loyal government troops in east. ern .acedonia marched on Drama, the village of ancient Saloniki near the plain ot Philippi. It is one of the oldest battlefields in the world, It was, there that Brutus and Casius were defeated in 42 B. C. Heavy Fighting (Across the Yugoslav border, heavy fighting was reported heard, the Yugceslavs saying that both the Greek government forces and .the rebels were using artillery and that the engagement had taken on the characteristics of a major battle). ‘ Government air pilots reported that they had wrecked the home ot‘ the leader of the rebellion, former Premier Eleutheroius Venizelos. They flew over his estate at Canea, Crete, * and droppeu a series of bombs. ~ (Another alleged rebel .leader, General Nicholas Plastiras, who ran a Greek revolution in 1922, was reported missing from his hotel in Cannes and it was rumored he might have sailed for Crete.) | ’ Gen. George Kondylis, mmum[ of war, took personal command of ‘the government campaign in an et-' fort to force a sudden end to the hostilities which broke out Satur day. Home !s Bombed Government planes last night bombed the home of the 70-year -old Ebutherios Venizelos at Canea, Crete. Whether the veteran of Greek | (Continued on Page Seven) Ten-Year-Old Girl With Inverted Stomach Goes Under Knife Today. By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE (Copyright, 1935, by Associated Press.) FALL RIVER, Mass.— (#) —A !song on her lips, 10-year-old Alyce ‘Jane McHenry went on the oper ating table today for correction of an inverted stomach. Just be fére anaesthetics closed her eyes she was singing “The Flying' Trapeze.” The operation began shortlyl after 10 o'clock at the Truesdale hospital, the work ' done by four surgeons headed by Philemon E. Truesdale, M. D. who has prev iously operated upon several sim ilar cases. Alyce’s case Is_the most serious | in this list because she is weaker than the others. But if strengthl was what she needed most, her moments before going under tha[ anaesthetic sleep were favorable signs. She slept well and so late that her nurses at lasi had to awaken her. When her surgeons came in to talk to her to be sure of her spirit she greeted them with a smile and a song. Later, wheeled to the operating o o (Continued on Page Seven) ForeicN News ON Thumenan By The Associated Press ATHENS—The Greek navy pre pared to put to sea to wage a fight to the finish with the insurrec tionists who have taken entire pos session of the island of Crete. LONDON.—The largest military expenditures in recent years, an increase of nearly $2,000,000 , over last year, were provided for in the army estimates submitted to the house of commons. BUDAPEST-—The entire cabinet of Premier Julius Goemboes sub mitted its resignations to Admiral Nicholas Horthy, the prince-re gent. e ] | ‘ ‘ AND STUDE \ Miss Sylvia Raskin, of Savannah, Is Killed; Others to Recover. ' Bernard Freeman, of New l York City, Seriously I Injured in Wreck. ‘ Miss Sylvia Raskin, 20-year old | daughter of Robert Raskin, Sav lannah. was instantly killed and her companion, Bernard Freeman, University of Georgia sophomore firom New York city, received a broken leg and broken heel late vesterday afternoon when a plane piloted by Ben T. Epps, veteran aviator, crashed in the backyard of the residence of Burke Betts, on Lumpkin street. Mr. Epps sustained a broken hip. Mr. Freeman’'s leg was broken Just above the right ankle. At General hospital this morning at taches said Free man had a “fair” night but was unable to see anyone. BBt Mary's hospital ‘eported Mr, Epps had a satisfaetory night but like Mr. Freeman, w a s suffering from . shock and sould have no callers. There W é.r e many who S&aw the plane go into its fatal spin but few wha saw the actual crack-up. S ,:;.,3.;5;55:%_; ' 'gv‘,f‘(‘?)v;{ R L % ;'1 A »- Ben T. Epps The Banner-Herald made an €x tensive search of the neighbor hood and was able to find two }actuul eye-witnesses, whose sto | ries appear below. Virtually all who saw the plane as it got into “difl‘lculty said that Pilot Epps, }who began flying some thirty years ago, was desperately striv ing to pull the plane out of dan ger and “keep its nose up.” He seemed to succeed in pulling the plane’s nose up twice but was un able to do so the third time and the death plunge followed imme~ diately. Known as Georgia’s pioneer laviator. Mr. Epps began flying in ' the earliest days of aviation. His first plane was a flimsy looking affair, a picture of which accom panies this story. The Epps fam ily is known to aviation as *‘The Flying Family,” since all members ; of it, including the very youngest (Continued on Page Eight;" ee e L - . ’ Fight For Soldiers’ Bonus Starts Teday WASHINGTON—(/P)—The soldi ers’ bonus fight started today as the house ways and means com mittee gathered to hold hearings on the proposal to pay the $2,100,- 000,000, Two bills were in the vain. One by Rep. Patman (D.-Texas) would pay off the adjusted service cer tificatés immediately by issuing new currency. Patman was ready to tell the committee that the treasury could ecall in other ecur rency, if the two billions in new money threatened too great an ex pansion. A 3 The word has passed that after the committee gets through, hovuse leaders will bring both bills to the floor and let the members decide between the two. > $a SR CRANLEIGH, England.—Former King Prajadhipok of Siam, his ab dication announced, turned te thé peaceful life of a country gentle~ man with the title Prince Sukho daya. seas DOVER, Englana.—l.eopélaf%fi King of the Beigians, returned to Brussels after undergoing a mml: . nor operation on his jaw at Felk- . estone to rectify a dental disol j‘;. HAVANA—Motor freight t * part throughout Cuba was tied ’«%‘h by a strike of 7,000 employss of truck | el
