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Fires In State
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Athens has the least per capita
Joss of any]dity in Georgia with
a pnpulutiud pf more than 20,000
quring 1934; tabulationswcompiled
by the committee on Statistics
and Origin bf Fires of the Nat
jonal ‘Board of Fire Underwriters
show.
chief E. T. Lester received the
tabulations |yesterday. Athens is
the tenth fanking city in the
United Statts Wwith a popylation
of more th%u 20,000, according to
the tabulatiins.
The per cpital loss here during
1934 was s2l. It is a decrease
of $.23 from 1933, when the loss
was $.44. | |
During the year insurance loss
on building§ here was $4,005, on
contents ol"E'ufldins‘s‘ S9OO, for a
total of $9.04. The average loss
from fires # the United States
per capita was $2.08, a decrease
of S.OB fromf 1933. s
This per sapita loss in cities of
Georgia wit! a population of over
20,000, dum‘rE 1934, was: Atlanta,
$.61; Auguita, $1.35; Columbus,
$.56: Lu(,;z*nge, $55; Macon,
$1.46; Rome| $1.90; and Savannah,
$.62.
Athens dil not receive the cup
awarded to(the ecity in the state
for having| the lowest fire loss
each year Ilpcause of failure tt
comply with gll the rules of the
underwrite The cup is award
ed on a pegentage basis, and not
on the lowét fire loss, alone.
During tik past year $262,848,-
122 was los{by fires in the United
States, a @cline of 3.17 percent
from the vious pear, the re
port submifed by the committee
shows, s
The loc fire department is
composed E. F. Lester, chief;
T. A, Hafi Wi Q) Thombson,
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Rushin% Waters Spread
Destruition and Death in
Part of{Colorado
COLORDO SPRINGS, Colo. —
(A)—Tweny-three persons were re
ported deal and missing Friday as
flood burdned mountain streams
lost their {hundering menace of
death and flestruction.
Hundredl were homeless and the
property lamage in Colorado
Springs, I‘feblo and two small vill
ages nort}ff here was estimated at
hundreds € thousands of dollars.
Emerginf from a night of terror
and its m¢t disastrous flood in 15
vears, thd harassed area took stock
by daylighl and saw that this east
ern slope ity was the focal point‘
of the waffrs’ attack. Homes were
swept awg, highway and railway
bridges .ghe, and communication,
power andfransportation p&ralyzedf
Pueblo, icene of the 1920 flood
disaster, gcaped with some pro
verty damge but no deaths, Den
ver's fearq that turbulent Cherry
creek wo rampage proved un
founded agthe crest of a black tor
rent roare] into the South Platte
river withqit flooding the city.
Greatest| concern Friday was
centered the still isolated com
munity of Kiowa and its neighbor,
Elbert, fron which little news had
emerged, fut which suffered the
brunt of tfo huge torrents origin
ating in ajcloudburst on the crest
of a wateshed which sent part of
the delugd down each side of the
drainage.
Efforts tere being made Friday
to reach Kiowa by airplane, by
horseback ind on foot. Bridges on
all roads ppproaching the village
were wgpeked. Communication
lines wereflown. "There is no near
by landingdfield for airplanes.
Twelve fersons, 10 of them uni
dentified, tere on the death list here.
The knows dead are Mrs. Emma
B. Clark, 8, and Lee Cimino, 35,
of Ivywool, a surburb.
Five otlr deaths were charged
to floods which ewept .northern
Colorado frlier in the week.
~ Six pergns were reported miss
mg here,
STATE NEWS _BRIEFS
By The Associated Press
ATLANFA—(#)—State Superin
tendent Banks R. E. Gormely
announceq yesterday that Georgia
banks hate loaned between $12,-
000,000 agl $15,000,000 to farmers
in the seurity program of the
Commodif Credit corporation on
the 1934 {otton crop.
MACO? ixty-one seniors have
ADplied for degrees at the annual
‘Ommencnent exercises to be held
i“ Merceg university Monday. Dr.
M. E..Dctd of Shreveport, La., is
"" dehvel the baccalaureate ad
f['fiss_ 4
FORSY'H—Mrs. Katherine Con-
Nerat of (tlanta, a grand-daughter
of Dr. 8] G. Hillyer, third presi
dent of ie Tift college, will be
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
Roosevelt Strikes Back At Supreme Court Ruling
As “New Deal” Policies Are Assailed in Georgia
NEW DEAL ATTACKED
AT BAR CONVENTION
BY LIBERTY LEAGUER
[llinois Man and Judge
Gilbert Assail Tendency
As Un-American
HIT FDR POLICIES
Judge Frank lenkins Says
War Is Just Organized
Murcer and Plunder
SEA ISLAND, Ga.— (#) —The
New Deal was again vigorously
assailed here Friday by speakers
at the annual convention of the
Georgia Bar association.
Ralph M. Shaw, Chicago attor
ney, and chairman of the Illinois
division of the American Liberty
League, said “it is the enemy of
and destroyer ot the most prec
ious heritage of the English
speaking race—the heritage of lib
erty.”
Mr. Shaw, in an address pre
pared for delivery to the conven
tion, said the New Deal “seeks by
indirect methods and miasmic in
fluence to destroy indirectly what
it would never dare to challenge
the American people to surren
der.”
Justice S. Price Gilbert of the
state supreme court, another
speaker on today’s program, chal
lenged the theory which he said
| some likerals advaneed that the
| Constitution of the United States
! “may properly be changed by
‘construction’ to meet ‘changed
conditions’ or ‘emergencies’.”
The justice emphasized, how
‘ever, that in discussing his topic,
“Have We a Chameleonic Constitu
ltion'."‘ that “no political inferen
ces of any kind or character are
involved or intended.” He said
also that his address had been
tprepared before the Supreme court
of the United States decided the
NRA and the Frazier-Lemke farm
lmortgage moratorium acts.
Judge Frank Jenkins of the
state court of appeals also was on
the program of the convention to
day. He discussed war and said
that it was “but organized murder
and premeditated plunder.” He
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TO GIVE ANOTHER
AIR SHOW SUNDAY
American Air Shows As
sociation to Stage . Sec
ond Show Here Sunday
Another air show, sponsored by
the American Air Shows associa
tion, will be given at Epps Flying
field Sunday afternoon, it was an
nounced yesterday.
The show will get under way
about 2:30, but passengers will be
hauled from 10 o'clock in the
morning until the exhibition is
over. Donnie Marshall, nationally
known parachute jumper and bat
wing flyer, will again give the
feature performances-of the show.
Marshall, who was scheduled to
do the bat wing flight last Sun
day but could not do so because
of a _slightly damaged wheel on
the plaM® in which he was sup
posed to jump from, will give the
death defying flight Sunday, be
sides one or two parachute
jumps.
Donnie was' willing to do the
bat wing flight last Sunday, but
the American Legion, sponsors of
the show, would not agree to it.
The flight is one of the most dan-
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principal speaker at the unveiling
of a tablet marking magnolia trees
planted on the campus by alumnae
June 1, Alumnae day.
THOMASVILLE — The Thomas
ville golf team holds the Georgia-
Florida league championship.
The team won the honor yester
day by defeating Valdosta 10 to 5
for a record of seven victories and
one defeat. Moultrie defeated
Tallahassee 8 to 7 in another match
here yesterday.
ATLANTA — (#) — Atlanta and
north Georgia Veterans of Foreign
Wars are planning a motorcade to
Macon Sunday to attend the na-
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What can be done to bring order out of the chads into which the U. 8. Supreme Court decision in the
Schechter case threw the NRA setup? This is the problem with which official Washington is confronted
—and here is a conference at which the great legal headache was discussed in detail by administration
laders. -Left to right are Stanley Reed, solicitor general; Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi; Attorney
General Homer S. Cummings, and Donald Richberg, NRA chief. They refused to reveal the conclusions
they had reached.
RIGHBERG-JORNGON
HOSTILITY FLARES
Conferences Still Being
Held on What to Do
About the NRA
WASHINGTON — (#) — Long
standing hostility between Donald
R. Richberg and Hugh 8. Johnson
is again in evidence as the Roose
velt administration seeks in a ser
ies of conferences to determine
what to do about NRA.
Richberg, the chief of the agency,
is known so be displeased at the
manner of Johnson’s re-entry into
the NRA picture after the supreme
court’s invalidation of the cooa
structure. The Richberg school of
thought also heard with dissatis
faction the early reports—llater dis
claimed twice by the White House
—that the former Blue Eagle chief
had been summoned to take the
leading role in preparing a new
NRA.
Johnson was but one of many
whom the president was consulting
on possible methods of retaining
aspects of NRA.
Johnson Critical
One of Johnson’s first reactions
after the supreme court decision
was a criticism of the presentation
of the case to the supreme court.
Though he did not mention Rich
berg, who argued the cause per-
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Augusta Man Elected as
President of Rural Car
riers for Next Year
MAXEYS, Ga.—(Special.)-—Two
hundred and fifty rural letter car
riers, postal employes and their
families attended the Tenth Dis
trict Rural Mail Carriers conven
tion here Thursday. The sessions
were held at the high school au
ditorium with W. D. Graham of
Danielsville presiding.
J. P. Murphy of Augusta was
elected president; Fred L. White,
Buckhead, vice-prseident; J. T.
Sisk, Lexington, secretary; M. M.
Morgan, national delegate to the
Boston convention. Thomson was
/selected as the convention city
for next year.
J. G. Faust of Greensboro de
livered the principal address at
the convention here Thursday. He
was introduced by J. C. Williams,
editor of the Greensboro Herald-
Journal. A. L. Stone, Athens,
postal inspector, was also a speak
er. T. J. Brightwell of Maxeys
delivered the welcome address to
which Carrier Fred L. White re
sponded. Mrs. J. P. H. Murphy
of Augusta responded for the wo
man’s auxiliary.
The woman’'s auxiliary elected
the following officers: Mrs. J. P.
H. Murphy, Augusta, president;
Mrs. W. M. Booth, Lexington.
vice-president; Mrs. E, 8. Sisk,
Lexington, secretary-treasurer.
A barbecue dinner was served
(the visitors by the P.-T. A. of
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—~ESTABLISHED 1832
'ATHENIAN HURT AS
' AUTO COLLIDES WITH
' DIXIE DUNBAR’S CAR
Mrs. W. E. Eppes, well known
Athenian, was painfully hurt in an
automobile collision at the corner
of Baxter sireet and Milledge ave
nue late yesterday.
‘Mrs. Eppes received a painful
cut above the eye and is at -
Mary’s hospital where it was re-|
ported today she is resting coni
fortably.
Dixie Dunbar, who as “Tootsie”
Dunbar appeared here several years
ago in the Georgia Railroad Min
strel shows was in the car which
collided with the one occupied by
Mr. and Mrs. Eppes, and was also
slightly hurt. After receiving hos
pital treatment for lacerations on
the left knee, she continued on to
Atlanta.
Miss Dunbar wae accompanied
by her mother, Mrs. Frank Dunbar
of Atlanta and C. Eddie Wells of
New York. The young Georgian
has had a part in a play: “Life
Begins At 8:40” inp New York for
some time and is regarded as a
likely aspirant for a successful ca
reer as an actress.
Police, after investigating the
wreck, reported it was unavoida
ble.
Alleged Narcotic
Peddler Is Shot to
Death This Morning
FLORENCE, 8. C. — (#) — Nick
Salesby, notorious South Carolina
underworld charac¢ter and alleged
“big time” narcotic dealer, was shot
to death today at his home here.
Florence officers recelved a tele
phone report there had been a
shooting at Salesby's and arrived
at his home to find Nick lying
mortally wounded in his back yard
with a group of, relatives crowded
around him.
He had been struck by a charge
of buckshot from a shotgun and
died shortly after being carried to
a hospital.
Johnny Asko, policeman in
charge of an investigation, said
Salesby’s relatives told officers he
shot himself. Asko said, however,
there was no gun in sight when of
ficers arrived at the Salesby home.
Salesby, who was about 45 years
old, was under $22,000 bond for his
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Ring-Leader In Kidnapping
Of August Luer, Arrested
KANSAS ClTY—(®P)—The arrest
of Walter Holland alias “Irish” O’-
Malley, named as one of the ring
leaders in the kidnaping of Augus:
Luer of Alton, 111, July 10, 1938,
was announced by the Department
of Justice today.
E. E. Conroy, Department of
Justice chief here, said O’'Malley
would be returned to Illinois for
prosecution under the state kid
naping law. Six persons already
have been sentenced for the ab
duction of the wealthy banker and
meat packer.
The capture .of three other al
leged members of the O'Malley
gang wanted for bank robbery also
was announced.
‘They are Dewey Gilmore, arrest-
Athens, Ca., Friday, May 31, 1935.
FARMERS VOTE FOR
CONTROL OF WHEAT
New Jersey Is Only State
Involved to Vote Against
- Control Program
WASHINGTON — (#) — A vote
of more than six to one for con
tinued wheat control was announc
‘ed officially Friday in “practically
complete” returns from the refer
endum the AAA held last Saturday,
The count anounced by the AAA
’gave 397,840 votes for continuation
of an adjustment program and 61,-
133 against. Unofficial figures had
been made public earlier."
In only one of the 37 states in
volved—New Jersey—did the vot
ing farmers fail to give majorities
in favor. , In New Jersey, 58 votes
were cast for the program and 72
votes against. &
The AAA reported that of the
total of 458,973 votes cast, 392,383
we}e by contract signers and 66,590
by non-contract signers. ‘The con
tract signers voting were said to
constitute 68 per cent of the total
of approximately 575,000 contract
signers on the records.
Of the contract signers voting,,
89 per cent or 349,495, favored the
program, while 42888 opposed
continuation. The tabulations said
that 48,345, or 72.5 per cent of the
non-signers voting, favored the
program. A total of 18,245 non
signers opposed continuation,
Rev. George Stone to
Preach at Bogart at
11:15 Sunday Morning
BOGART — Rev. George Stone of
Athens, who formerly served as pas
tor of Bogart Methodist church,
will preach the regular sermon
here Sunday, in place of D. L. Ha
good, regular pasior.
Rev. Hagood is attending a pas
tor's school mow being conducted
at Macon. ' Services wil] be held
at 11:15 o'clock. Re. Stone is well
known in this community, and a
large crowd is exnected for the
services,
ed at Dallas, Texas, May 22 and
now held at Oklahoma City, Dan
Heady, arrested in Kansas City,
May 26, and Floyd Hendersop at
Joplin, Mo.
Federala gents said the arrests
had solved a double bank robbery
at Okemah, 0k1a.,, December 22,
1934, in which the loot was al
most SIB,OOO. Two automobiles and
$5,000 in cash was recovered by
Department of Justice men.
“These grrests ciean up all the
major bank robberies in the mid
dle west,” Conroy said, though he
refused to name robberies in
which he believed the gang impli-
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FEDERAL AGENTS 1D
GET WEYERHAEUSER
KIONAP CASE SOON
“G-Men” to Step Into
Case as ‘‘Days of Grace”
Come to an End
REWARD OF $25,000
Huge Reward May Be Of
fered for Information
In Case as Starter
BY LELAND HANNUM
(Copyright, 1935, Associated Press)
TACOMA, Wash.—A $25,000 re
ward may be offered within a few
days if kidnapers fail to exchange
9-year-old George Weyehaeuser for
a $200,000 ransom, a trustworthy
source reported here Friday.
This angle was injected into the
case as the federal agents prepared
to take over under the Lindbergh
law which provides that after seven
days a kidnap victim is presumed
to have been slain or taken across
a state line, The curly-haired
scion of the wealthy timber and
lumber family was abducted last
Friday noon. i
Although prepared and ready for
the child stealers, the demanded
ransom has not been claimed. The
offer of a reward, it was believed,
might hasten George’s delivery
through the old adage of “money
talks,” in buying information.
% In Seclusion
The child’s young parents, Mr.
and Mrs, J. P. Weeyerhaeuser, jr.,
still were in seclusion.
It was not known whether a re
ward, if one is posted, will be an
nounced until after the federal
agents have been able to effect re
covery of the lad through their own
technique.
The reward angle immediately
caused watchers to wonder if a
conferenc¢e over such a move was
the ransom lights blazed behind
drawn shades in the big sunroom
and elsewhere throughout the
Weyerhaeuser house until 2:30 a.
m. Usually, since little George fail
ed to come home from school for
lunch a week ago today, the lights
have been turned out by 1 o’clock
except in the sickroom of his para
lyzed grandmother, Mrs. George
Walker. |
Another development was the re
velation that BEd Bentz, 40, former
Tacoma boy and onetime associate
of George (Machine Gun) Kelly and
of Albert Bates, may be the No. 1
suspect in the case. This was dis
closed when a government agent
remarked that “we would like to
talk to Bentz.” ‘
Bentz Suspect
Even before the agent dropped
the remark it was known authori
ties here have theorized over the
possible connection of Bentz with
the disappearance of the curly
haired, nine-year old scion of the
wealthy lumber and logging dyn
asty.
Some of them believe that Bentz,
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REPORTED 30,000
KILLED IN ’QUAKE
Northeast India Is Jarred
By Earthquake; Terrific
Havoc ts Wrought
By The Associated Press
An earthauake which jarred
northeast India at about 8 a. m.
Friday for less than one minute
is believed to have wreaked ter
rific havoec.
A wide range in estimates of the
loss included an official report
that 44 soldiers had been killed
at Quetta and an unofficial esti
mate of 30,000 dead.
The province of Baluchistan with
its population of 868,000, was
worst hit by the earthquake. In
one city, Mastung, with 4,000 in
habitants, 80 per cent of the peo
ple were unofficially reported to
have been killed. ¢
Land communication lines were
wrecked and fragmentary wireless
reports to Simla were virtually ‘he
sole means of communication. |
PILOTS KILLED
(Copyright, 1935, Associated Press)
QUETTA, India — (#) - Forty
four attaches of the military air
drome here," including one pilot,
were killed in an earthquake which
shook the Quetta district early
this morning.
The native city, railway station
and civil government offices were
destroyed in a series of three viol
ent shocks. The first was felt at
2:44 a. m. (4:44 p. m. yesterday,
ES.T™)
Four out of five of the popula
tion between Quetta and Kalat, 100
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President Roosevelt today de
clared the Supreme court’s historic
NRA ruling throws the nation
back to the “horse and buggy” era,
EOWARDS TO HEAD
BOY SCOUT GROUP
Elected Council Chairman.
John L. Green Made Dis
trict Commissioner
Dr. A. 8. Edwards was elected
chairmany -of the Northeast Georgia
Boy Scout Council *and John 1.
Green named district commission
er at an organization meeting held
last night at the Geoigian hotel.
Dr. Edwards has beep one of the
leaders in Boy Scout .activities in
this section for several years. A
district program was adopted last
night and personnel of committées
approved by the organization.
Scout Executive Charles N. Wil
son reported that a recent survey,
made with the assistance of the
school authorities shows that there
are 205 boys in Athens of “cub”l
age, 187 of whom have indicated a !
desire to become organized and 412
boys of Scout age including those
already registered in troops.
After a meeting & conference of
Court of Honor members was held
and plans discussed for carrying on
the work of that division of Scout
ing.
The district setup, as approved
by the meeting, follows: -
Chairman, A. S. Edwards; Dis:
trict commissioner, John Green.
Committeés: o
Finance, C. A. Trussell, chair
(Continued On Page Two)
Claud Smith Shot
To Death at Hix
By WELDON WILLIAMS
DANIELSVILLE, Ga. — Cldud
Smith of Hix, Ga. in Madison
county was fatally shot lagt night
about 8:30 with a shotgun, alleged
to have been fired by his brother
in-law, Dupree Fortson.
Fortson was arrested by Sheriff
Tom Henley, and is being held in
Danielsville jail. A coroner's jury
recommended that Fortson he held,
charged with the killing.
The shooting occurred at Smith's
home about 8:30 o’clock Practical
ly the entire load of gunshot went
in Smith's back, killing him in
stantly. The gun was fired from
a range of about 20 feet.
Smith is survived by his father
and wife. A Commerce funeral
home has charge of arrangements.
ForeieN News On T HumBNAIL
By The Associated Press
PARlS—Conflicting political in
terests obstructed the efforts of
Fernand Bouisson to form a coali
tion “save the franc” ecabinet to
succeed the government of former
Premier Pierre-Etienne Flandin,
which went down to defeat on its
finance dictatorship program.
+ QUETTA, India—A series of vio
lent earthquakes laid waste the
capital of the Quetta district with
deaths reported to exceed half the
total population of the area. a
BAKU, U. 8. 8. R—The steamer
Soviet Azerbaijan was reported to!
have burned in the Caspian sea
with a loss of 27 persons. 1
HOoME
ol GOURT RULING
TAKES NATION BACK
T 0 HORSE AND BUGGY
End of Federal Aid to Ag
riculture Implied in -
Decision ya
OUTLINES “ISSUE”
President Says People
Must Decide if Govern-.
ment Loses Control
DROPS $3 A BALE
NEW ORLEANS — (AP) —
Cotton dropped more than $3
a bale on the local exchange
today when a Washington ad
vice quoted Prgsident Roose
velt with having said that the
supreme court's NRA ruling
threatened the agricultural -ad« -
justment administration,
WASHINGTON —(P)— President
Roosevelt said today that implica
tions of the supreme court’s m
decision meant the end of the aé:-’
riculture adjustment adminitsra
tion, the securities commission and
the federal alcohol control admin
istration. o
He told his crowded press con
ference the court's interpretation
of the interstate commerce clause
of the constitution took the nation
back: to “the horse and buggy
stage.” et
The issue drawn, he said, was
that of taking away from the fed
eral government control over I%‘{
tional economic’ and social condi
tions. The President did not ap
pear to deem it exactly necessary,
however, to focus the issue througih
a constitutional amendment.
“USurrounded by Mrs. Roosevelt
and his secretaries, the President
spoke calmly and. deliberately as
he outlined the situation in part
to the note-taking audience. :
He had a eopy of the decision
in his hand and referred to it oec
casionally. o
Outlining the “issue,” Mr.
Roosevelt said in using the word
he wanted it emphasized that he.
did not consider it a “partisan is
sue.” B "1
He said it would have to ug_jgt-’ £
led by a vote of the people—not
necessarily this summer or fall of =
winter but probably in the next
four or five years. Py
Describing the ruling as perhapi
the “most important in the history
of the nation, he said it was txf
to the people to decide how‘_.wr%;;"
ther there shall be ‘4B different
state attempts to- regulate -the
economic and social life of the na
tion or whether this 'shall ‘be &
function of the federal government.
Gyavity was in his voice as h€
sat behind his desk for more tham .
ap hour and a half in conferencé -
o Rin representatives of the pref
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Total since January 1 .. ..2458
Excess since January 1 ... 20P
ROME—An official communiqué
said Italian couriers of the consuls
at? at Gondar had been M
by Ethiopian soldiers, imprmofi"’
and released only after represemta.
tions by the consular office. . .
LONDON—Hope for = conclusiof =
of a five-power western Europeas
defensive air pact brightened as
the kovernment studied Reichsfue
hrer Hitler's draft proposals for
the aecord. e
| VATICAN CITY — Pope Plus
{reached his 78th birthday, -but did
(not permit the anniversary to dis~
lturb his normal routine. ?f‘g,}