Georgia Historic Newspapers

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Vol. 103. No. 71.
Ag. College Here
The 1935 Baby Chick and Egg
show, held annually at the Poul
try Science building on the Col
lege of Agriculture campus, got
away to a good start this morn
ing when several hundred per
sons filed through the doors into
the exhibit rooms. The show will
continue through Saturday morn
ing, closing when City Court So
licitor Carlisle Cobb auctions off
the chicks and eggs at 10 o'clock.
The show is annually sponsored
by the Poultry Science club of the
College of Agriculture, the Geor
gia Baby Chick Association, Inc.,
and the Atnens Banner-Herald,
and each year Hhundreds attend
the exhibits. The show is held
under the direction of Frank K.
Vitchell, head of the Poultry de
pariment of the college.*
Over forty entries of chicks
will be on display and more than
19 entries will be competing for
the egg prizes. In addition there
are exhibits of giant New Zeal
and white rabbits by Monroe But
ler: wild mallard ducks by Dr.
Billups of Watkinsville; Jake,
the famous tame goose of \Vat-l
kineville, owned and' trained by
Archie Camp of that city. Also onl
display will be baby ducks, tur
keys, ete. Incidentally, the mother
white New Zealand rabbit would
make Mrs. Dionne blush, as the
ten little baby rabbits are on dis
play.
Handsome Prizes
All prizes, and they are a hand
some lot, well worth-while win
ning, are exhibited. America’s
pillion dollar industry, not all
chickens and eggs, will be inter
esting to the visitors.
Another star of the show is No.
1912, a white leghorn hen, one of
te most valuable chickens in the
entire country and one of the
high layers in the whole world.
Slips are furnished visitors and
they are asked to name the hen.
The name selected by a commit
tee will bring the person writing
it a prize of 25 chicks.
The exhibit that will probably
attract the most attention, how
ever, are the Kaster Egg chicl'.e.l
These tiny little balls of fluff have
been dyed all the colors of the
rainbow and they are strikingly
beautiful. There is also a large
exhibit of Easter Eggs.
The doors are open from 9 a..i
m. to 9 p. m. today and Friday
and there is no admission charge. ‘
T. W. REED APPEALS
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FOR RETENTION OF
STATE LIQUOR LAW
T. W. Reed, veteran prohibition
ist, last night appealed to citizens
of Athens and Clarke county to
keep the state’'s liquor laws on the
statute books in the election to be
held May 15.
Mr. Reed spoke over radio sta
tion WTFI, as part -of Carlisle
Cobb’s open forum. Other speak
ers, representing both sides of the
prohibition question, will give thelr
views at the same hour on Wed
nesday nights hetween now a;ndl
the date of the peferendum, it is
announced. g
Mr. Reed declared he believes
the state prohibition law is the
next best to natiomal prohibition
as a means of controlling the sale
of whiskey. No one, he said, be
lieves thatdwhiskey can be entirely
eliminated by law, but one must
have lived in the days of local op
tion, or the open sale of whiskey,
to realize fully that prohibition
was a long step forward in man
aging the whiskey traffic.
“T hold it to be a self-evident
fact”, Mr. Reed asserted, “that the
more difficult it is made to get
liquor, the more it costs to get it;
the more one has to conceal his ef
forts to get it, the less he is going
to get”, : ‘
S
M. N. Tutwiler Promoted
To Captain in R. 0. T. C.
M. N. Tutwiler has been promot
ed from a First Lieutenant’s rank
10 4 captain in the Reserve Offi
cers Training Corp, and assigned
0 the Three Hundredth and: Twen
v-sixth infantry, it was learned
lml:l\"
Mr. Tutwiler is well-known here,
and his friends will be glad to learn
oL his promeotion.
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LOCAL WEATHER
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Partly cloudy, probably rain
On the coast early tonight;
Friday fair, slightly colder in
€xtreme north portion tonight.
TEMPERATURE ‘
Highest ... el N e 1 POO
Lowest, ... . iatue sio £B.B
Mean ofio el i auly
Normal |.,. & o aiD igey
RAINFALL
nches last 24 hougs s .. 269
Total since Aprfl'l .. ... 2.62
Excess since April 1 .. .. 2.14
Average April rainfall,..... 3.58
Total since January 1 .. ..15.67
Excess since January 1 ... .14
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Winterville Delegation Wins Attendance Prize at Cooking School
FAGHION SHOW WILL
BE FEATURE FRIDAY
AT AFTERNOON (L ASS
Crowds Grow Larger as
School Convenes for
Third Day
SESSWON FOR MEN
Greatest Food Show Will
Close Friday Evening;
Husbands to Attend
With only one more day for the
Cooking School and Food show,
sponsored by the Athens Woman's
club, to run the session today got
underway at 3 o'clock, ending a
little after five.
The feature tomorrow afternoon
will be the fashion show, present
ing styles for the debutante and
the matron. Tomorrow night a
special program will be presented
at which time the men will be
given a chance to view the dis
plays of the various booths.
With an increased attendanceat
the school, Winterville Wednesday
was awarded the green refrigera
tor dishes given by Hardy Hard
ware for the largest out-of-town
delegation.
Mrs. H. B. Ritchie discussed
the various booths and their dis
plays, while Mrs. Ethel Pierce-
Lewis, brought here by the Geor
gia Power Company, directed the
school.
Prizes And Winners
Other prizes and winners were
twenty-four pounds of Omega flour
and sifter, Talmadge Brothers,
won by Mrs. R. H. Powell; one
quart of Gulf oil, Prince Avenue
Station, Mrs. T. G. Lovern; as
sorted sugar, Dixie (Crystal, by
Mrs. J. R. Jarrett, Center; tea
pot, H. T. Huggins and Son, by
Mrs. John Kemp; box of candy,
Reid Drug Co., Mrs. J. B. Bryant;
one pound Canova coffee, Cooper
Grocery company, by Mrs. C. R.
Griffin;. rose scissors, Norris Hard
ward, by Mrs. J. E. Skelton; ta
ble lamp, Sterchi, by Mrs. Carl
Gibson; one pair silk hose, Ath
ens Shoe Co., by Mrs. J. S. Gunn;
one pint barbecue, Green Lantern,
by Mrs. E. T. Eberhart; one tic
ket to Palace, by Mrs. J. L. Clot
felter; one pair hose, J. C. Pen
ney, by Mrs. R. L. Scott; may
onnaise mixed and pint of wesson
oil, Wesson Oil company, Miss
Velma Patrick; surprise package,
Canova Coffee Co., Mrs. Louis
Singleton; coffee perculator, Geor
gia Power Co., Mrs. Ben Juhan.
Bagskets were won by Mrs. Roy
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100,000 Ethiopian
Soldiers on March
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia.—(®P)—
A modernly - equipped KEthiopina
army of 100,000 men is swarming
to the Eritrean and Italian Som
aliland borders, authoritative
sources said today.
Concurrent with this disclosure
of the size of the army Emperor
Haile Selassie has mustered, the
government reasserted its conten
tion that the military movements
are merely ‘“precautionary.” .
The latest types of rifles have
been placed in the hands of the
warriors in contrast with the
spears and sabers formerly car
ried.
STATE NEWS BRIEFS
By The Associated Press
SPARTA —C. C. Walker has
been re-elected superintendent of
the schools here. He has held the
office for the past 12 years.
WASHINGTON — Five tons of
Stoneville No. 2 cotton seed to be
planted by Wilkes county farmers
in the community one-variety cot
ton progrargd has been received
from the experiment sfation at
Griffin.
VALDOSTA . The annual con
vention of the rural mail carriers
of the eighth district has been set
for May 30 here. J. W. Timmer
man, of Stockton, is district presi
dent.
SAVANNAH — Persons familiar
with the folk lore of the Carolina
and Georgia coasts are to Jjudge
the city’s second annual contest in
street crying by hucksters. .
Samuel Gaillard Stoney, of Char
leston, writer of Negro dialeet stor-
Full Associated Press Service
Scheduled Meeting of
Proposed Pro League
Here Today Called Off
A scheduled meeting of the pro
posed Class D professional base
ball league was called off this
morning when only one represen
tative, Bob Hanna of Athens, ap
peared.
It was the second time that a
meeting of the proposed loop ‘has
been called off for this reason.
Bill White, who is working to or
ganize the league, said he had not
given up hope and would contact
other towns in an™>&fort to secure
six teams to enter the loop. D.
Walter Morris, promotional direc
tor of professional baseball lea
gues, left here this aftrenoon.
REGULATION OF GABG
(RDERED BY COUNCIL
Taxi Drivers Required to
Obtain Licenses; Insur
ance for Passengers
Regulation of taxicab operation
in Athens, including liability insur
ance for passengers and licenses
for drivers is ordered by city coun-
cil in an ordinance adopted last
night,
-~ The ordinance was presented by
Councilman Bolling S. Dußose and
its adoption was unanimous upon
a motion by Councilman W, R.
Bedgood.
‘The regulations require that each
driver be not less than 21 years
of age and photographs of the
drivers will be placed in the cab
they operate with a duplicate in
the office of the chief of police. A
fee of $2.00 will be charged for
permits issued to drivers, and the
ordinance provides for revocation
of permits for violation of city
laws.
Councilman Dußose said he has
heard many complaints of “care
less driving” of taxicabs here, and
Councilman E. L. Wier also de
clared that the taxicabs should be
strictly regulated. “A few days ago
I missed being hit by a careless
taxicab driver going into Broad
street from Dearing,” he said.
Council last night also granted
permits for construction of gasoline
filling stations by George W.
Wheeler, corner of Hull and Han
sock and 12, H. Haygood, corner W\
Broad and Newton streets. ‘The
stations must be built according to
city regulations, under supervision
of the city engineer.
It was decided that the city ad
vertise for bids on the $750,000
waterworks bonds, subject to open
ing on May 1, at 12 o'clock at the
city hall. The city engineer was
authorized to employ an engineer
to supervise construction of the
plant, under direction of the for
mer. Mayor A. G. Dudley was au
thorized to make a contract with
a firm of waterworks engineers for
plans.
Upon motion of Councilman Wier,
the mayor was authorized to ap
point a committee to investigate
the desirability and possibility of
obtairing group insurance for city
employes.
W. A. Abercrombie, manager of
the Dixie hotel, was permitted to
erect a sign over the main entrance
of his hotel on Washington street.
ies; Julia Peterkin, author of plan
tation life stories, Mayor Gamble,
himself a writer, and Mrs, T. P.
Whring and Miss Caroline Huger,
of Savannah, will judge and also
award the prizes in the contest.
VALDOSTA — The 25th session
of the south Georgia Methodist
missionary conference will be held
in Dublin, Ga., neXt year.
The conference accepted Dublin’s
invitation yesterday. A pageant,
“In God's World Garden,” closed
the program last night. It was
written by Mrs. J. M. Glenn of Mec-
Rae,
WAYCROSS — Miss Mary Alice
Taylor, superintendent of the At
lantic Coast Line relief hospital
here, has been elected president of
the Eighth District Nurses asso
ciation. Other officers chosen
were Miss Alma Kennedy, of
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TABERNACLE HOME
IN MAGON BURNED
Rev. A. C. Baker, Church
Pastor, Saves Lives of
Cirl Inmates
MACON, Ga.—(®)—Rev. A. O,
Baker, pastor of the Baptist Hab
ernacle, who risked his life in a
fire late yesterday to save person
al property of girl inmates on ithe
Tabernacle rescue home, said to
day that the property will be re
built. ,
He said that he will call on the
Tabernacle 'board, at a special
meeting tonight, to carry on this
work and replace the structure im
mediately.
The building and equipment
were valued at $5,000. There was
only $1,500 insurance.
Friends of the pastor credited
him today with saving the five
young women and three babies and
the rescue home staff from the
blaze.
At his home Rev. Baker received
a phone call from a resident near
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UNCLE SAM WONT
ENTER NAVAL RACE
Secretary Swanson Says U.
S. Will Not Start Big
Building Program
BY THOMAS J. HAMILTON
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON . (P — “If a
naval building race is started,” says
the 73-year-old boss of Uncle Sam’s
floating defenses. “it will be start
ed by other nations, not by us.”
This emphatic expression of Am
erican intention not to start the
thing which observers have feared
might result if a new naval treaty
is not reached to replace the one
Japan has denounced effective
December 31, 1936 comes from Sec
retary Claude A. Swanson.
Only yvesterday the secretary
made what may interpreted as a
double gesture of friendliness to
ward Japan. He said American
“naval craft” would pay a goodwill
visit to Japanese ports in May. He
also emphasized that the fleet
maneuvers, which have drawn
criticism, would be held in the north
Pacific 2,000 miles away from any
Japanese point.
He made known, too, that offi
cials of the American favy see
little objection to Germany's pro
posal for a 450,000.¢0n fleet.
Swanson, a Virginian who traces
his long interest in naval affairs
to his Viking ancestry, says:
“My chief satisfaction is over the
assistance I have given toward the
creaton of an adequate and treaty
navy, and a building program that
will reach this in 1942—if con
gress appropriates the money.”
Just what the navy would rec
ommend if Japan or Great Britain
began extensive mnavy building af
ter the Wiashington and London
treaties expire Swanson did not say.
But he emphasized that the navy
this year would not go beyond bes
ginning construction of 24 addi
tional vessels, first stage in the 72
authorized under the Vinson act.
Athens, Ga., Thursday, April 4, 1935.
“The Lass of Limerick
Town’’ to Be in Mell
Auditorium at 8:15
The first of two performances of
“The Lass of Limerick Town,”
operretta sponsored by the Jama
clo Young Peoples Union, will be
presented tonight in Mell auditor
ium at 8:15 o’clock, with the second
performance following tomorrow
night at the same time and place.
"ffhe show has been in rehearsal
Ifor several wéeks and some of the
[.best voices in Athens and this sec
;tion will be heard. Tickets are 25
‘cents each, for children and adults
alike and it is expected that a ca
pacity house will be present at
both performances, since the show
will draw from many surrounding
towns where advance sales of tick
ets have been held.
In addition to the vocal music,
a large orchestra, und:r the lead
ership of Prof. R. T. Dottery, will
be an outstanding feature. A
|list of the cast includes a majority
of the outstanding local talent and
Ima,ny of the city's best vocal art
| ists.
The cast is a large one, over six
ty being included in it. Among the
leading vocal roles will be found
Prof. R. H. Snyder, Fielding Dil
lard, Marisue Oliver, Mary Mitch
um, Ruth Dillard, David Powell,
Virginia Dillard, Maleolm Tippett,
John Tate and Fred Birchmore and
others:.
‘Those who witnessed the dress
rehearsal predict that the show will
bhe the best musical offening of
the year here and assert that those
who fail to attend will miss a real
treat.
The curtain will rise promptly at
8:15 o'clock and the admission is
25 cents, both tonight and tomor
row night at the same hour in Mell
auditorium. .
FOUR PERSONS ARE
DROWNED LAST NIGHT
NEAR FLORENCE, S. C.
FLORENCE, 8. C. — (# — A
crew of workmen early today
sought to extricate the bodies of
four persons drowned when their
automobile plunged into Lynch’s
river near here late last night.
The car crashed through a bridge
guard rail. Four of its occupants
were imprisoned in the car, a se
dan, but two others, Leston Pow
ell and Alford Jones, escaped.
\ Those drowned were Mrs. Janie
Jones, 60-year-old widow, her two
daughters, Verline and Rosa Jones
and J. R. Hannah, a former Wlor
ence county deputy sheriff. All
were residents of this county.
Coroner Thomas W. Wallace said
he would probably conduct an in
quest today.
The cause of the accident was
not immediately determined.
Twenty-seven Building
Permits Are Issued in
City During Past Month
G. M. Caskey was given a build
ing permit yesterday afternoon to
repair a house for Mrs. R. T. Du-
Bose, by J. G. Beacham, ‘city en
gineer.
During March, a report made out
by Mr. Beacham this morning
shows, there were 27 building per
mits issued, including five to build
new homes and 22 for repair and
addition work.
Estimated amount of the five
new houses built was given by the
contractors as $9,400, and the esti
mated value of repair work was
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TRIAL OF PARKER
NEARS COMPLETION
Defense for Former Sa
vannah Policeman Puts
Payne's Uncle on Stand
DAYTON, Ohio—{#P)—Testimony
Baker, pastor of the Baptist Tab
slaying here lasy cCnristmas Eve
Louis E. Parker, former Savan
nah, Ga. policeman, is on trial,
and Parker's wife lived together
as man and wife at his home was
given by Payne’s uncle soon after
the defense began presenting wit
nesses yesterday. |
The witness, William Pike, also
a beer gardep proprietor, said
Payne and Parker's wife roomed
together shortly before Payne was
killed. He said Mrs. Parker and
f’alne visited his -establishment
wice and Mrs. Parker worked a
week for him. It was during this
week the couple stayed with him.
He said Mrs. Parker still is in
his employ on Saturdays and Sun
days.
Parker is charged with accosting
Payne in company of Mrs, Parker
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REILLY 15 “FIRED"
BY MRS, HAUPTMANN
Wife of Condemned Man
Campaigning in Midwest
To Raise Money
NEW YORK — (#) — Edward J.
Reilly’s dismissal as chief of coun
cil for Bruno Hauptmann was in
the mails today.
Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, wife of
the man condemned for the Lind
bergh baby’s kidnap-killing, an
nounced she had dispatched the
letter of dismissal. She is cam
paigning in the middlewest for
funds to wage Hauptmann's appeal
from the death sentence.
As the successor to Reilly, veter
an of 2,000 Metropolitan homicide
cases, Mrs. Hauptmann designated
C. Lloyd Fisher of Flemington, N.
J., Mr. Reilly’s associate in the
vain effort to free Hauptmann.
Fisher and Reilly said they had
received no word of the change.
The New Yorker expressed sur;
prise.
It was Reilly’s bill for $25,000
which climaxed months of discord
between counsel and defendant,
Mrs., Hauptmann said. She called
it “exorbitant” and premature.
“That bill is for .13 weeks,” said
Reilly, “and 1 think it is reason
able.”
Hauptmann had leaned toward
Fisher for some time, but his wife
had insisted Reilly was all right,
she said just before she left on her
tour. The prisoner expressed plea
sure when she changed her mind
vesterday, she added.
They conferred in the death
house before she mailed the ouster
letter, *
5 Mrs. Hauptmann said the defense
' fund had reached from $12,000 to
1815.000, and she had turned over
$5,000 of this money to Reilly.
| The lawyer asserted he had re
ceived only a mortgage which he
sold for $2,900, giving SSOO to Figh
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A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—sc Sunday
Former Athens Woman
Painfully Hurt as Car
Overturns Near Macon
MACON, Ga.—(#)—Five promi
nent Macon women were receiving
treatment here today for injuries
suffered when their automobile
skidded and and turned over
while enroute to the annual South
Georgia Women's Missionary so
ciety conference at Valdosta, Ga.
One of the five, Mrs. C. Byrd
Harbour, former Athens woman
and wife of the pastor of the First
Street Methodist church here, was
taken to the Macon hospital yes
terday for treatment of severe
bruises.
fAN SLAYS MATE;
CHIRGES TORTURE
Husband, 77 Years Old,
Says He Was Being “Kill
ed by Inches” by Wife
KANSAS CITY. — (#) — Mrs.
Nellie A. Hurd, 64, died early to
day from bullet wounds inflicted
by her 77-year-old husband, Her
bert, who said he had been tor
tured by his wife in an effort to
make him disclose the hiding
place of hidden wealth.
Mrs. Hur ddied at General hos
pital after an operation had been
performed to remove four bullets
from her body. In another ward
of the hospital lay her husband,
a railroad crossing watchman,
crazed by knife and flame wounds,
which he said had been inflicted
by his wife “because spirits told
her I had a hidden fortune I was
giving to the woman next door.”
Detectives gasped last night
when Hurd, stripping off his
clothing, disclosed the evidence of
Mrs. Hurd’s alleged inquisition.
His story, City Detectives Fred
Greene and John Costello said,
probably was true.
Miss Nellie A. Hurd, adopted
daughter of the Hurds, denied her
step-father had been tortutred and
insisted that he signed of his free
will a “confession” of infidelity
with a neighbor woman and of
his giving her $15,000.
The purported “confession,”
found by police in the Hurd home,;
was repudiated by the 77-year-old
husband. He charged it had been
obtained “while she was standing
with a gun at my head.” ¢
“We've had trouble ever since
we married 12 years ago,” Hurd
said at police headquarters last
night. “Then she got the idea
that spirits had told her I was
having relations with this other
woman, and that I had given the
woman $15,000. All I own is two
little houses,
“My wife was Kkilling me by
inches,” he cried as he began re
moving his clothes. “Sometimes
she beat me all night. She chain
ed me to the bed and I was too
ill to fight back. She tied my feet
with wire. Leok at this arm
where she beat me with a strand
of wire.”
“Look there,” he continued,
pointing at one leg. “She had a
double-edged dagger and plunged
it into the muscle by the shin
bone every time I refused to sign
that confession.”
Near the shin bone of the right
leg was a cluster of wounds near
ly an inch deep. On the calf of
the leg was’' a gash about four
(Continued On Page Six)
Foreich News ON THUMBNAIL
By The Associated Press
PARIS — France was said to
hope for a united front with Great
Britain and Italy which would
“frighten” Germany although at the
same time desiring a Pan-Euro
pean security system which Ger
many would enter. 3
PRAHA — Capt. Anthony Eden,
British lord privy seal, came here
to learn Czechoslovakia’s attitude
in Pan-European refations.
ADDIS ABABA .. Authoritative
sources said an Ethiopian army of
100,000 men with modern equipment
was advancing in a “precaution
ary” movement toward the Italian
Somaliland and Eritrean border.
VIENNA — Austria gave notice
that she no longer would be con
tent with her treaty army of only
30,000 men.
BERLIN — Anti-Lithuanian sen
timent was increased by reports
HOYE]
MY GENERAL PEAGE
PLANWON'T ATTRACT
OFFICIALS OF REICH
“Pan-European” Security:
Project Commanding *
Attention
SHORT AGREEMENTS
Hitler to Offer Bilateral
Pacts as Counter-Plan
At Stresa Meeting
BY MELVIN K. WHITELEATHERY
(Associated Press Foreign Staff)
BERLIN — (#) — Germany will
remain aloof from any compflm .
general peace pacts, a high
office official said today as a pro-'
Ject for a “Pan-European” securf=" =
ty system commanded attentioll
in the other capitals of Eurofl%fi
The foreign office spokesman said
several conferences would be neec~
essary before Reichsfuehrer Hitler =
could be persuaded to join “a vas
gue collective system.” Cav A e
Counter Proposed
Short, crisp, bilateral agreements
with precige obligations for limis
ted periods are the Nazi counter- .
proposal to efforts to round .:
former allies into a broad security.
plan at Stresa. e
Confident of their strength since
they cast off the military shackles.
of the Versailles: treaty, Reich offis
cials betray no signs of sldepless
nights over talk of an “iron ring*
around Germany. sy
“Wait and see what Stresa
does,” said one official, expressing
the hope the conference would
the last in which “Germany is q
object, but not subject” . = ¢
(By The Associated Press) .
Conflicting views on the be 3
methods of guaranteeing Europeam
peace were apparent in the capi
tals of Europe today as statesmen
made ready for the forthedi %‘E’%
conference of the powers at Stresa
April li. -i)
High French sources @ ’g
Foreign Minister Pierre Laval will
seek a double-barreled agreement
designated to “frighten” Germany
by creation of a formidable ,_fl" »««’
front among France, Great Britain
and Italy, at the same time laying
the basis for:a general seeurity .
pact to which the Reich could d
here, -
German participation in a “Pans
European” scheme, however, wds
described as unlikely by a' Rel ;‘*?
foreign office spokesman. Thig
source asserted Reichsfuehrer Hity
ler's preference is for crisp bi-lats
(Continued On Page Six) = &
Rumor Says Barbara
Is Expecting an Heir
RENO, Nev. — (#) — Clos¢ ass
sociates of Princess Mdivani deps
ied today that she is to becoms ';;;;
mother. The former Barbara Hiits
ton is the house guest of Attorneg
George B. Thatcher during her stag
to divorce Prince Alexis Mdivani.
NEW YORK — (@) — A Reno
dispatch to the New York Da
News says that a half dozen meme
bers of the divorce colony are
ready to tell they have it straighf
from the household of George B.
Thatcher that Princess Mdivani i 8
expecting an heir. i
that Lithuania planned a coup ::
absorb Memel, now sup ""; “l;j}f'
practically atutonomous under trea y
ty provisions. S e
y v«-fngg
DANZIG — The German pro :;
ganda ministry is sending speaker§
here to assist Nazi candid: ”
next Sunday's parliamertary e %‘5
tions. o
BERNE — Switzerland, incensed
by the alleged kidnaping fi
anti-Nazi German F
ed to stamp out all Nazi activities =
within her borders. “*jg« :
——— e
BERLIN — Germay -intends’ to
remain aloof from é 0 *‘
general peace pacts, ac -iwr ng to'&
high official. His remark was'|
terpreted as a slap at ;v
European security system®” a
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