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BY KATHRYN SEAGRAVES
Exchange students at the Univer- |
v of Georgia were entertained at
juncheon yesterday by the Athens
ieague of Women Voters at the
nome of Mrs, H. H, Cobb. At that
ime they gave short talks on world
peace as viewed by their various
countries, .
Herbert Sontnoff, from Germany,
declared: ‘“Armed friendship isr
Germany’s policy, which will do
much to help the understanding and'
peace in Europe.’”’ l
“Another war in Europe,” Miss
M. Ferrand of France said, “would?
e the ruin of Europe.”
“South America will never be a
threat to world peace,” E.-J. Cook,
from South America; asserted, “be
cause of hey geographical, climatie,
and financial conditions,”
‘Armed neutrality” was seen by
I'red Birchmore, soon to go to Ger
many, as the poli2y of the United
states, while Bob Stephens, (also
coing to Germany) regarded ideal
ism as the real way to world peace.
Mr. Sonthoff, in commenting on
Germany's policy, pointed out what
he considers the unfairness of the
treaty of Versailles, which, he
said, completely disarms Germany.
Ie further declared that Herr Hit
ler had offered to disarm to the last
gun if the other nations would de
likewise,
“One completely disarmed nation
among the other armed ones,” he
said, “is as great a menace to
world peace as one completely
armed and the rest disarmed.”
Miss lerrand said that, while
there is a possibility for war, there
is also a possibility for peace. Both
she and Mr. Sonthoff voiced opin
ion that there is no one in France
or Germany who really wants war,
since memory of the last one is still
there.
Mr, Cook said that all the large
business enterprises in South Am.
erica are controlled by foreign na
tions and South America does not
have the financial backing to wage
war for any length of time. He
viewed the inter-continental up-
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Ray Endersed For
fi‘ Office; |
igher Office; Is
Presented Watch
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W. T. Ray has returned from
the state Lions convention, which
was held in Columbus the early
part of this week.
As retiring district governor Mr.
Ray reported to the convention 19
new clubs had been organized dur
ing the year and that the club of
Smithville had set an international
record among Lions club by spon
soring 14 new clubs during the
yvear. Mr, Ray goes out of office
at the conventiop which will be
held in Mexico City July 23-26.
The convention unanimously en
dorsed Mr. Ray for the chairman
ship of the board of district gov
ernors, which office is ex-officio
director of Lions International, and
in appreciation of the splendid
work done and the record made by
him presented him with a hanad
‘ome’ Hamilton watch and chain.
ingraved on the watch is:
W.. 0. “BI" Bay
District Governor
District Eighteen
Georgia Lions
34-35
Athens, .Ga.
Those attending the convention
from Athens were: Mr. and Mrs.
Ray, W. A. Abercrombie, Dr. and
Mirs. J. L. Pendley, Rey. Stanley
R. Grubb, Mr. and Mrs. H. D,
Tate.
H. A, Stallings, associate editor
of the Waycross Journal-Herald
was elected to succeed Mr. Ray as
district governor and Gainesvi}le,
was selected as the convention
city for next year.
SPEAKER RIVERS HERE
SHORT TIME TUESDAY
Ed Rivers, speaker of the Georgia
house of representatives was in
\thens for a short while yesterday.
ffe delivered the commencement
address at Hartwell High school
Monday night. Speaker Rivers is
zenerally regarded as a candidate
for governor in the Democratic pri
mary next year but did not com
ment on his prospective candidacy
while here. He met several of his
close friends while here.
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Cloudy tonight and Thursday,
probably showers Thursday in
northwest and extrfeme north
portion tonight and Thursday,
slightly cooler Thursday in
nofth portion.
Fope .
TEMPERATURE
Highest.sis coils sswt 35+ 080
Lowest. .t uti et aii.i 8.0
Mean, ~ iPR e i
Lowest. ... “iy. iaiic ssuis 198
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 h0ur5........ 0.0
Total since May 1.......... 3.46
Excess gince May 1........ .16
Average May rainfall...... 3.69
Total since January 1......24.40
Excess since January 1.... 2.57
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Parentsßelieved Ready To Meet Kidnap Terms
Mi;m; P;'ice V\;ar*s C:)nt*inu*e ll*l V(’al;e 6f E)V;rti;rozv (;f fi Rfi
POLITICAL EFFECT OF
GOURT'S RULING 15
NOT YET CLARIFIED
Hundreds of People Stand
In Long Lines for
Bargains
CICARETTES ARE CUT
Politicians in Both Parties
View Effect of NRA
Abolition
JOHNSON SUMMONED
NEW YORK —(A.P.)— Hugh
S. Johnson, the first adminis
trator of NRA, returned today
to the circle of presidential ad
visors and went to work draft
ing a tentative plan to continue
the regulation of industry un
der codes of fair practices.
Johnson, the Associated Press
learned, was invited to the
White House today to talk over
the situation caused by the
ruling of the supreme court.
NEW YORK — (#) — Minor
price wars continued in New York
department stores today as a re
sult of the lifting of NRA restric
tions.
Hundreds of people stood in long
lines at the leading stores to buy
cigarets at 72 cents a carton, where
they had been paying 25 cents for
two packages.
A leading popular book series
(the Modern library) led the low
ering of book prices in crowded
book departments with a drop to
62 cents from the code price of 95
cents, £iog .
Books and cigaret prices had al
ways been the footbhall of the de
partment stores in their efforts to
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APPLICATIONS FOR
HOLC LOANS ACGAIN
ARE RECEIVED HERE
Applications for loans from the
~Tome Owners Loan Cerporation
may again be made through local
representatives, it was announced
today. Presiednt Rocsevelt has
signed the bill which increased the
capital stock of the Corporation
nearly twg billion dollars, making
available more funds to assist
owners of homes who are in dis
tress,
Boyd Sutton, a representative of
the HOLC office will be here for
the next two days to assist Judge
J. D. Bradwell, local attorney for
the HOLC and Lee Bradberry, lo
cal apprasier in handling applica
tions, The time in which applica
tions may be made is limited to
thirty days.
Mr. Sutton said today it is nec
essary that applicants be unable
to obtain funds from other sources
before applying for HOLC loans
inasmuch as no apglications wili
be considered where the applicants
has -not exhausted all other pos
sible sources for aid.
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Manslaughter Verdict Re
turned in Slaying of 17-
Year-Old Wife
NEW YORK. —(&)— Joseph L.
Steinmetz, 22-year-old divinity stu
dent, was convicted of manslaugh
ter in the first degree early today
for the hotel room slaying of his
17-year-old bride, former Holly
wood, Calif, high school girl.
He faces a maXimum sentencs
of 25 years in prison, although the
jury “strongly” recommended mer
cy.
Steinmetz was accused of shoo!-
ing his bride, the former Ruth
Armstrong, and a priest, the Rewv.
Joseph J. Leonard, when he found
the former partly unclothed in the
priest’'s room in the Knights cos
Columbus hotel last November. He
was tried only for the death of his
wife.
The jury brought in its verdict
after deliberating 14 hours and 55
minutes. Steinmetz paled but said
nothing. .
Judge Charles C. Nott, jr, set
June 14 as the date for sentence,
The penalty for manslaughter in
the first degree is a sentence of
from one to 20 years, which the
court may suspend. There is, how
ever, a mandatoryssenience of five
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the people shall not. perish | P e
from the earth.” The only ¢ T
woman now living who claims U
to have sat on the speaker’s T
platform and heard Abraham : e
Lincoln thus eomplete his im- S ] O R
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mortal Gettysburg Address is s R e
Mrs. Ameriea Viela Shoop -of B x,
Sayre, Pa., shown at right. As B R
an honored guest at the Gettys- 3 RS e ey
hurg, Pa., Memorial Day exer- « gl B e
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cises at the famed Civil War S L S
hattlefield, she will tell of her [ ; ‘,""'f‘.
experiences on that day nearly S 8 : Py R
72 vyears ago at the scene s : L :
sketched here from the famous S x
painting by Fle[(:hwr G. Ran- ® ; f'%
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Missing Georgia Aviator Said
To Have Been Seen In Jungles
Paul Redfern Lives as a
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Creat Medicine Man,”
Says Returned Traveler
COLON, Panama. — () — An
amazing account of finding Paul
Redfern, American aviator who
disappeared eight years ago, living
as a “Medicine Man” in the jungle
of Dutch Guiana was related to
day by Tom Roche.
\ The informant, a German-born
American citizen, said he lived for
three months in 1933 with Red
fern, who vanished while on a
flight from Brunswi‘ck, Ga., to Rio
De Janeiro. :
Roche previously had told his
story to James L. Park, .. 8.
consul here, and Park relayed to
the state department at Washing
ton the narrator’s offer to lead a
rescue expedition to Redfern’s rude
hut in an Indian village far from
civilization.
Roche ‘said Redfern was critical
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Claims Girl Struck
Brother With Poker;
On Trial for Murder
BRUNSWICK, Ga. —(P)— Testi
mony designed by the defense to
discredit the story of the state's
star witness was in the record of
the trial of Miss Mollie Evans. here
today as her attorneys marshalled
an array of 30 other witnesses in
her behalf. i :
Miss Evans is being tried on a
charge of murder in the death of
ker brother, Charles Evans, whose
body was found in the ruins of a
burned house.
Frank Broekington has testified
he saw Miss Evans strike her
brother with a poker and pull him
into the bathroom of the house
where he died. Three insurance
agents testified for the state be
fore it rested yesterday.
The defense immediately began
its attempt to impeach the testi
mony of Brockington. Coroner J.
D. Baldwin of Glynn county told
the jury of finding Evans’ body
in the ruine,
Four other wiinesses marched to
the'stand in an- effort to show dis
crepancies in Broekington’s story.
At the completion of vesterday’s
testimony, the defense announced
it had 30 other witnesses to offer.
—ESTABLISHED 1832
Athens, Ga., Wednesday, May 29, 1935.
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Mascachusetts Congress
man Reports 200,000
| Textbooks Shipped Here
i By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
(Associated Press Staff Woriter)
WASHINGTON — (AP) — De
claring he had received evidence
{' that at least 200,000 textbooks for
' small children have been imported
| into this country from Russia.
| Rep. McCormick (D.-Mass.) said|
today that some material contain- |
ed in them is Communist propa-‘
ganda. s
He displayed copies of the books,
written in English and neatly il
lustrated. Most contents are un
dbjectionable, {Mecformick said,
but one of the volumes contains
this:
“We are Marching Towards the
Morning,
We're Struggling Comrades All!
Our Aims Are Set On Vi¢tory,
Our Enemies Must Fall.
“With Ordered Step, Red Flag
1 Unfurled,
.~ We'll Build A New and Better
| World!
We are the Youthful Guardians
Of the Proletariat.”
The readers exhibited by McCor
mick present laudatory sketches
of Lenin and Stalin.
An American Negro boy who had
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'COPELAND FOOD, DRUG
BILL IS READY FOR FDR
i WASHINGTON — (#) - After
a two-year fight, Senator Cope
jland‘s food, drugs and cosmetics
bill today bears senatorial approval
and awaits only house action be
bore being sent to the White
Hosue,
The measure, amended to meet
recurring objections on the part of
several senators, increases the re
gulatory autherity of the secretary
of agriculture over foods and drugs,
and adds cosmetics,
HEARING DATE 15 SET
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BY SUFRENE COAT
INWET - DRY FIGHT
Hastings Suit Against Sec
retary Wilson Goes to
Higher Tribunal
ATTACKS LEGALITY
Meanwhile, Enforcement
Perplexes State and
Federal Officials
ATLANTA — P — A hearigg
on the: legality of the recent re
ferendum in which repeal of the
prohibition law was defeated has
been set by the Georgia Supreme
court for the week of June 17.
The case went to the supreme
court on a fast bill of exceptions
and for that vreason it was set
down for hearing at the next argu
ment session of the high tribunal.
A decision also will be expected in
the case under the rules governing
fast bills.
The case is that of W. G. Hast
ings, against John B. Wilson sec
retary of state, in which Mr. Hast.
ings seeks to compel the state of
ficial to ecertify the returns from
the repeal referendum without three
counties that did not send in their
returns until after the expiration
of the three days provided in the
repeal act for the filing of such
returns.
On the basis of the returns that
reached the secretary of state with
in the three day period the prohi
hition law would have heen repeal
ed by a majority of about b votes.
‘With the three tardy counties in
cluded repeal was defeated by 243
votes,
% IN A QUANDARY
'A'gLA NTA— (#) —Federal agent
wer’! in a qgsndary today as to
just™ which of, three departments
should take on the job of keeping
whiskey out of Georgia.
Liquor repeal was defeated in
Georgia in the recent referendum,
although beer was legalized and
Georgia-made wine was approved.
The alcohol tax unit, at first be
litved charged with the duty, said
‘the law protecting dry states is not
a taX measure and thus the task is
outside its jurisdiction.
In the department of justice offi
ce here, the agents said that since
the aleohol tax unit is given auth
ority to enforce all liquor tax laws,
it should proteét the state against
importations,
At the district attorney’s office it
was said the federal trade commis
sion regulates interstate commerce
and, since the commission has a
large staff of investigators, it could
keep liquor out of Georgia.
Regarding wine, Commisioner of
Agriculture Thomas M. Linder said
an industry worth several million
dollars annually would spring up in
Georgia if imported wines can be
kept out.
There is a difference of opinion
in the state as to whether the
imporation of wine ean be stopped
under the newly-enacted law. At
torney General M{ J. Yeomans of
the state said the wine act puts
a virtual embargo on winds from
other states but other authorities
asserted wine may be brought in,
ILinder commented that if wines
were allowed to reach our markets
from other states, “it will mean
money going out of Georgia.”
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Wreckage Following Ex
plosiornr May Have Buried
| 10 Others
| NEW YORK —®)— Six persons
were believed buried in the wreck
age of a three-story building in a
terrific blast at 21st street and
first avenue today. Police estimated
‘that at least 10 more persons were
| injured.
~ The explosion tore out the en
tire side of the building, and it
bust into flames shortly after. Two
fire alarms were sounded.
~ Broken glass showered the vicin
‘lty. Ten ambulances from hos
ritals in the sector were rushed te
the =cene, as were four police em
‘ergeney squads and a fire rescue
‘squad.
Four persons were take, from
the debris and placed in an am
ibulance for Bellevue hospital five
blocks away. !
i The wrecked building was ocecu
'pled on the ground floor by an au
tomobile repair shop. The cause
of the blast was not immediately
determined. The explosion was at
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Spirit Of Blue Eagle Is Surviving
In Many Sections Blow Of Court;
Constitutional Amendment Talked
Athenian Fulfills
Promise to Mother:
Honors War’s Victim
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — (# — A
promise to a Gold Star mother
that her_son, who was lost at sea
.during the World War, always
~would have .flowers on Memorial
day, will be fulfilled again tomor
row when a poppy anchor cleaves
the blue water of the Severn river,
off the naval academy.
The guchor, which has been made
annually since 1918 by Miss Moina
Mjichael, of Athens, Ga. will be
dropped overboard by Miss Alison
Stebbins Ford, University of Geor
gia junior, on behalf of the Georgia
coeds who this year are sponsoring
the tribute. I
Miss Stebbins will be the guest
of Midshipman Charles J. Ellis.
Miss Michael said the mother to
whom ‘she made the promise lost
her son when a troop-ship sank.
WAR DEAD WILL BE
HONORED THURSDAY
World War, Spanish-Am
erican, and Revolutionary
Soldiers to Be Honored
; s
Tomorrow eveuning at 6:15 Athe
enians will gather at the gate lead
ing to Oconee Hill cemetery to pay
tribute to this community’s war
dead. Abit Nix will give the main
address. o
The American Legion, the Legion
’auxiliary, Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution, and the Col. Oscar
3 Brown Post, United Spanish
War Veterans auxiliary, are spon
soring the service, which is an an
nual affair., Men who fought and
gave theéir lives in the American
Revolution, Spanish-American War
and the World War, will be paid
tribute,
A salute will' be fired by a group
of soldiers under the command of
Col. H. E, Mann, of the University
of Georgia' Military Department.
“Taps” will ‘be blown by Professor
R. T. Dottery, bringing to a 2 close
the services. Graves will be de
corated after the services,
Invocation - will be given by Rev,
Pope A Duncan, pastor of the
Prince Avenue Baptist church. A
quartet will render two selections.
Mrs. Jacob Brandt Joel, president
of the Legion auxiliary, will pre
side at t#e services. Mrs. Hassie
‘Brown, president of the Spanish
American War Veterans, will give
a brief talk.
Lists of the war dead from the
World War will be read by Harold
B. Hodgson, commander of the Al
len R. Fleming Post of the Ameri
can Legion. Fred Moon, comman
der of the Spanish-American War
Veterans will read the honor roll of
that organization, gmd Mrs. W. A.
Capps, president of the Elijah
Clarke chapter, D.A.R., will read the
honr roll of her organization.
Following is the honor roll of
Spanish- American war dead:
Colonel Oscar J. Brown, Carl
Saye, Major H. H. Carlton, John
Bartley,» L. L. Dottery, Charles N.
Hodgson, John Henry Joiner, J. XL
Beusse, James W'. Robertson, J. B.
Sims, Arthur Thornton, Joseph M.
Delay, H. L. Stewart,
E. L. Griggs, Thomas S. Dobbs,
Henry W. Beusse, Joel Means, Ben
Parr, Carlton Beusse, Fred Beusse,
James L. Frierson, J. A. Johnson,
A. E. Johnson, Will Abney, Hersch
al Carithers, Carl A. VonderLeith.
The honor roll of Revolutionary
war dead from this county is James
Barrow, James Espey, Hope Hull,
Reuben Ransome and Charles
Strong.
The honor roll of World War
dead from Clarke county is as fol
lows:
Chester P. Adair, William G. Al
len, Harvey Allgood, Edward H.
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VALCO LYLE VISITS
PARENTS IN ATHENS
~ Valco Lyle, manager of the United
Press Bureau in Memphis, Tenn.,
and former reporter and sports edi
tor of The Banner-Herald is visit
ing his parents here this week. |
Mr. Lyle has been very success
ful in newspaper work having beenl
with the United Press associatk)ni
for several years. He is an alum
nus of the Athens High chool and
,University of Georgia, a graduate
of the Henry Grady School of
Journalism.
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2¢—s¢ Sunday
Industrial Leaders Reluc
tant to Give Up Codes,
g Fearing Chaos
| APPEAL TO FDR
.Believe Price-Cutting Will
| Eventually Lower Wages
and Employment
’ BY J. A. RAWLINGS
(Copyright, 1935, Associated Press)
CHICAGO — {#) — The spirit
of the Blue Eagle still lives in many
sections of America's far-flung in
dustrial front.
Legally the Blue “Fagle may be
dead as the Dodo bird because of
the supreme court's decision, but
reports which poured into this.cross
roads of America today indicated
that many large industries .were
standing by their present standards
of hours and wages, despite the
high court’s ruling. ‘
The reports that the Blue Bagle's
Spirit is still fluttering came from
widely separated industrial centers,
They included statements to this
effect from Philip K. Wrigley,
president of the Willlam Wrigley,
jr, company, gum manufacturers;
John MkKinlay, president of Mare
shal Field and company; the Inter=
national Association of Blue Print
and Allied industries; Mark Cres
sup, president of Hart Schaffner
and Marx clothing manufacturers;
F. W. A. Vesper, president of th
National . Automobile Dealers asso
ciation; the Geéneral Foods Cotpora.-
tion of New Yoark; the National
Association of Manufacturers; the
Aluminum Company of America,;
D. F. Kelly president of the Fair,
Chicago department store opera-
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ELEGTRIC MAGNATE
- OPPOSES BANK ACT
Covernmental Credit Con
trol Provision Attacked
By Owen D. Young
WASHINGTON —(AP) —Owen
D. Young, financier and indus
trialist, today flatly opposed the
government credit control provis
ions of the omnibus banking bill,
declaring they would “retard re
covery” create a central band of
indirection, and threaten possible
‘“political domination” of the Re
serve system. A
Recognizing a need for new
banking legislation but advising
‘against haste, the chairman of
General Electric company and a
!director of the New York Reserve
bank, told the senate banking sub
committee considering the meas
- ure:
"l oppose the enactment of title
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Democratic Chief
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In Georgia Given
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Dinner in Athens
e e :
Huge Howell, chairman of the
Georgia Democratic Executive com
mittee was entertained at a dinner
at 7 o’clock last night at the Hol-"
man hotel, given by Jehn K. Dayvis.
Mr. Howell was enroute to Wat
kinsville where he delivered the
closing address at the Oconee
County High school.
A few friends of Mr. Howell and
Mr. Davis were present at the din
ner, including Dr. 8. V. Sanferd,
R. C." Campbell, * W. O. Payne,
Harry Brown, W. R. Bedgood, E.
L, Wier, W. W.. Scott, C. S. Mar
tin, H. J. Rowe, T. J. Shackel
ford, L. L. Moss, G. M. Caskey,
Glenn Florence, Dorsey Davis and
Dr. J. Weyman Davis.
Mr. Howell has called a meet
ing of the state Democratic com
mittee in Atlanta tomorrow morn
ing. After the business session,
he will entertain the committee
members at a barbecue at his
farm near Atlanta. 3
Those to attend the meeting
from Athens are Mrs, J. Y. Tal
madge, Tate Wright and H. J.
Rowe. Committeemen from the
Ten'h district, other thay the three
from Athens, are KErnest Camp
Monroe; Charles Swain, Norwood;
Billy Barrett, Augusta; R. B. Mec
‘Whorter, Greensboro; W. Truman
Curry, Augusta; Mrs. W. L.
Hodges, Hartwell; Mrs. Ira Farm
er, Thomson; J. E. Eubanks, Ap
pling; and S. €. Vandiver, La
vonia,
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Police on Fruitless Cg“"fg
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i Abandoned House
t Near Mansion .
By LELAND HANNUM =
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
(Copyright, 1935, by the Assoeia
ted Press) 5 s fl
TACOMA, Wash. —cAP) —Ta:
coma grew tense today as the eity
interpreted activity around ,thbf,‘};.}
P. Weyerhaeuser home as fndieat-
Jng the family would pay 3200,@@9
ransom for the return of 9-year
old George Weyerhaeuser hefore
tha deadline tonight. e
Retiring after midnight, the
household from which the curly
haired lumber heir was snatched
last Friday, was awake and stir
ring again by dawn. e
John Philip Weyerhaeuser,
father of the missing lad, was ne
where to De seen and was believed
to be with J. Rodman Titcomb,
uncle of the missing boy and men
tioned as ‘probable c¢ontact man
for negotiations with the Kidnap~
ers. Titcomb and a man believed
to be Weyerhaeuser, left the lum
ber family’s home last night and
did not return.
Their departure a few hours af
ter the family received a register
ed letter, recalled that the Kkid
napers said in the ransom note,
“You will be notified where to go
when the time comes.”
Mrs, Weyerhaeuser, grief stmkgg
en mother of the boy, also left her
home for an hour last night in the
Titcomb automobile. She may have
gone to Titcomb’s suburban home
at American lake to visit her other
three children. The trio—Ant yg
Philip, 10, and Elizabgth, 2— was
rushed to the seclusion .of “her
_brother’s home shortly after deliv
ery of the note. L
This unprececented activity on
the eve of the deadline set for pay
ment of the ransom was regarded
as significant. If .the $200,000 was
'not paid on time, “harm” m$
! threatened to George by wflk?
! naper “egoist’ described today by
Dr. Harry R. Hoffman, Chicago
lpsychiatrist. as ‘“‘definitely homi-
jcidal, if trapped.” 7N
Indicative of the tenseness in
rumor—filled Puget Sound -eity
was a call that sent the poliee
“flylng squadron” to an abar@on
ed house a mile south of the We
verhaeuser mansion early today.
They had received a report some
one, perhaps the kidnap vietim
was pounding on the; wa -fff’;'
‘desperate effort to escape. Elght
officers forced their wdy into the
building, followed the sound .of
| thudding blows to the third stery
attic where they found a ,]og?*
window banging in the wind. ..
It was: just one of many might
alarms, increasing as the %
payment of the ransom drew near
er. 3 Frsua
FIRST WAGE SLASH
GREENVILLE, 8. C. —(# —
The Piedmont Shirt company; of
Greenville, today made a reduction
in wages which the management
said averaged 25 per cent.and imn
«creased working hours from 36 the
maximum under the abolisbefldw,
garment code, to 40 and 44 s#fi.
—— S
UNFAVORABLE TRADE
o - G
BALANCE FOR APRIL
| FOR U. S. REPORTED
' WASHINGTON —(AP) — Un- =
favorable balance in the. nation's
foreign trade in April—for the =
first time since August, 1933—was
reported today by the Department
of Commerce. o oLk
Total foreign trade declined in
| April. Exports, which usually jre= =
| cede about six per cent f¥ om
| March, were 11 per cent smalle P
Imports, which ~ ordinarily £ ,
about three per cent, were £o v“,gg
cent lower. ] ,‘..-g_a
The excess of imports over éx- =
ports the unfavorable bdlatice,
amounted to $6,218,000. L.
Exports in April were $164;350,- =
000 compared with $125,603,000 in
March and $179,428,000 in APFIL
1934, e “fi“*
Iniports were $170,§6% ' 3},3__,
April, compared with $177,275.000
in March and $146,523,000 in Apeil,
1934. 202 ,mo‘
~ The nationd still maintdined &
’ favorable balance for the first
four months of the year. It was
- $20,853,000 ‘comps ' 1 8’
vorable helaute & O NN