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" 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;
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LOCAL WEATHER
Cloudy tonight and Tuesday,
Probably oceasional light rain
Tuesday and in northwest
Portion late tonight, somewhat
Warmer tonight. .
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Eif.?‘- since Jan, ‘;j . 6.26
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
il Full Associated Press Service
Girl Dies in Plane Crash Here
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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
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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-
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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
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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)
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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
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Greek Government Dispatches
Full Fighting Forces Against
Rebels as Movement Spreads
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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
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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 ]
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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.
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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
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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
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