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HARMON W. CALDWELL
MACON, Ga., ==(AF) — Dr.
spright Dowell, president of Mer
cer university, announced this
morning that the Board of Trus
tees at its meeting yesterday after
noon voted to confer the LIZ. D de
gree on Harmon White Caldwell,
president-elect of the University
of Georgia,
The degree will be conferred at
the summer commencement, August
19, Dr. Dowell announced.
Dr. Caldwell will be here fto
deliver the bacecalaurate address
it that time, Dr. Dowell stated.
In making the suggestion to the
Board of Trustees at their meet
ing vesterday, Dr. Dowell said
that it “would be a fine spirit on
the part of Mercer to recognize
the ability of the new president of
he University of Georgia and in
ddition would be a -gesture of
cordiality which has ‘“existed for
vears betwen the two institutions,”
I'he board unanimously author
ized the conferring of the degree at
the next convoecation, at the close
of the summer session.
Rucker and Matthews
Named for 4-Year Terms
At Election Yesterday
In one of the most spirited city
elections in the history of Athens,
Vincent Matthews was named city
recorder and Lamar C. Rucker city
attorney, at an election held yes
terday at city hall. It was the first
time that these two offices have§
been filiea by public voting, city!
council having named the officers
in the past, ‘
Mr. Matthews won from J. T.
Mliddlebrooks and 8. P. Reaves,
while Mr. Rucker defeated John L.
Green Matthews reeeived 936
votes, Middlebrooks 833, and Reaves
3 in the recorder’'s election. Mr.
Rucker polled 1,081 to Mr. Green’s
791 in the attorney’s election.
A toal of 1,872 people voted in
the election. 'The polls opened at
J oclock yesterday morning, and
closed at 4 in the afterpoon. Many
People, who arrived late, were kept
rom voting when the doors to the
ity hall chamber were closed at
exactly 4 o'clock. i
Mr. Rucker and Mr. Matthews
begin theic new four year terms on
July 1,
LOCAL WEATHER
Partly cloudy tonight; Wed
nesday fair; not much change
in temperature. Y
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TEMPERATURE
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Lowest. ... evil 680
1ei1]1,... o .-;. ........75%0
Normaly,,, i %00 e =kg
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 h0ur5........ .50
Total since June 1.7 /... 187
Excess since June 1..:.:... .81
Average June rainfall...... 4.10
Total since January 1......25.89
le.:ess since January 1.... 2.92
STATE NEWS BRIEFS
By The Associated Press
FORT BENNING~—Major Wil
Jam Horne, instructor in the in
fantry training school, has been
°rdered to Camden, N. J., for duty
Mt the 309th Infantry, organized
Teserves, :
AUGUSTA.—A youth identified
Y his companions @& Walter
Lewis, 22, of Biue Eagle ranch,
"ar Fort Worth, Texas, was
‘Towned while in swimming In
the Savannah river near here yes
t&]‘day. S :
ADlSON.—Richard Bryant, 26-
T aariae T SEERS SY
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD ¥
Full Associated Press Service
Roosevelt Will Bare New NRA Plan Late Today
Deatl;k T:)ll *F r(;m i*‘lo*odg M:)unts*to 500 ag H;av*y I{aifis f*‘all
360 DIE IN MEXICD
A 5 WALL OF WATER
OWEEPS INTO VM LEY
One Hundred and Forty
Estimated to Be Dead
In Mid-West Flood
RAINS CONTINUE
Throng of Worshippers
Are Trapped While at
Prayer in Church )
(By the Associated Press.)
Death estimates in three mid
western states and in Mexico
mounted to the 500* mark today as
rampaging floods continued their
widespread destruction.
More ‘than 350 pérsons were of
ficially estimated to have lost their
lives when a wall of water swept
down on the fertile valley of Mex
ico. Only seven of the throng of
worshippers in a San Pedro
church escaped.
Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas
still were lashed by raging
streams. An estimate based on re
ports from relief workers placed
the number of dead in Nebraska
at 140. An unofficial list com
piied by the Associated Press in
cluded 94 persons.
. Kansas had eight deaths and
Missouri three.
Property damage in the three
states was estimated at $17,000,000
with the greatest loss in Nebras
ka. -
By CLARK G. LEE
«(Copyright 1936 by the: Assoeiated
b o g
MEXI€O, D. F—(#—More than
360 |per;r§ns were officially estimat
ed today to have perished in floods
which swept down upon the fertile
valley of Mexico, trapping a throng
of worshippers at their prayers in
the church at San Pedro.
Most of the victims were mem
bers of the group gathered in the
church yesterGay to celebrate the
festival of San Pedro’s patron
saint. Only seven persons escaped
from the church.
The neighboring communities’ of
Xochimilco, 12 miles from here;
Milpa Alta, San Gregorio and San
Pablo also suffered numerous cas
ualties.
Heavy Rains
Torrential rains, starting at 2:30
p. m. yesterday, sent niountain
streams roaring out of their
courses into the villages below.
Within two hours roads were im
passable and fields became vast,
surging lakes.
Those who escaped from tha
San Pedro church said the swiftly
rising water burst the walls of the
structure and poured in on the
worshippers before they were
aware of the threat to their lives.
Tater the = building collapsed,
burying the dead and dying be
neath its debris.
Villagers interferred with the ef
forts of federal troops to extricale
bodies from the ruins, threatening
to attack the soldiers because they
believed the disaster to be an aci
of vengeance sent from heaven.
Earlier in the day authorities
had entered the church, halted the
services and arrested the priest.
The superstitious Indians insisted
the floods were retribution for this
interference with their worship.
Only three bodies had been re
covered early today from the
wreckage in Sap Pedro. The oth
ers were buried beneath the ruins
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MRS. MOODY WINS
WEYBRIDGE, Eng.— (#) —Helen
Wills Moody, former American
tennis champion, continued her
comeback campaign here today by
defeating Miss P. N. Morrison,
English player, 6-1, 6-0 in the third
round of the St. George’s Hill tour:
nament.
was found shot to death at a road
side near heres today with a pistol
by his side. Coroner E. H. Wise
returned a verdict of suicide.
ROME.—C. M. Guest and Sons of
Anderson, S. C., have been award
ed contract for a five-room brick
school building at the Anchor
Duck mill here, on a bid of $13,-
929. :
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WARRENTON.—A special elec
tion was held here today to name
a successor to the late T.‘ S.
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Five Honor Students to Be Speakers
At Athens High Graduation Tonight
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HOWELL ERWIN, JR.
Final Exercises on Campus
Of Ag. College Will.
Begin atß:3o-7 =2
Graduation exercises will\be held
~onight for 144 Athens High‘seh«ol
senicrs at the Plysical Education
buiiding on the . University of
Georgia campus. ’l‘h?e.‘ program
will begin at 8:3), " C-«
Five studenis, whc during their
four-yenr career at Athensg High
have ifen outstanding in camprus,
scholastic obnd- socal “life, “baze
been named as Senior Speakers.
They are Dan Hughes DuPree, jr,
who will speak on “Scientists .as
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Jane Burkhart, whose subject will
be “Whe’s Afraid”; Howell Cobb
Erwin, jr., who will talk en-“The
Preservation of Amétté;i;fg;mgc
racy”; Xatheryn Henly . Sigrh#gs,
whose talk will be on “Youth Liv
ing Creatively”; and David Cren
shaw Barrow, who will speak on
“The Real Man.”
Music By Orchestra
Music will be furnished by an
orchestra composed of B, T.
Dottery, director; Minnie Cutler,
violin; Louis McGarity, violin; H
A. Birchmore, violin; Richard
Morris, violin; Dixie Nicholson,
viclin; Grady Callahan, jr., violin;
Jack Stewart, Clarinet; Vernon
Boatner, clarinet; Charles Joel,
saxophone; Richard Martin, trom
bene; George Stewart, bass; Bob
by Dottery, drums; and Hugh Mc-
Carity, piano. Every member of
the orchestra, with the exception
of director Dottery, is either a
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bAY SPEAKER FOR
CLOSING EXERCISES
Thirty - one Opportunity
School Graduates Hear
Talk by Athens Attorney
+ Thirty-one boys ana girls last
night were awarded certificates
at the graduation exercises of
the Athens Opportunity schéol in
the College avenue building. -
Speaking in place of Abit Nix,
who was unable to attend at_the
last moment, Thomas Gray, an
other prominent Athens .lawyer,
made the main address of the
evenbng, speaking ‘on “Demoec
racy.” . e Y
Starting from the very begin
ning of the history of our coun
try, the speaker cited (examples
of the spirit and justness of Am
erica. Mr. Gray pointed out .that
the Revolutionary war was not
fought against the Epglisl} peo
ple, but against a cruel tyrant
who refused the American colo
nies reprewentgjtian and foérced
upon them harsh and . unjust
taxes. ZoE 2
The program was opened with
an Invocation by Rev. - Jack
Nichols, which was followed by
a song by Elmer "Kirk. Next
Mary Short gave a record of the
year's work, and, Virginia -Dillard
gave a wery interesting and hu
morous reading. e ‘
Grier Speaks :
Mr. Kirk then favored the au
dience with amfother =olo. = Fol
lowing the song, Mr. Gray gave
his {address. Next, (Supgerintend
ent B. M. Grier awarded the cer
tificates, and said a few words
praising the work done by ‘the
school. Mr. QGrier pointed out the
school has a total enrollment of
141, of which the 40 boys are em
ployed. He also stated that of
the 31 members of the graduating
class, 12 are employed. Eo
Mr. Grier concluded his speech
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Austin Westberry Captured While
Attending Ball Game in Moultrie
MOULTRIE, Ga. — (#) — Austin
Westbérry's love of baseball today
had led to his recapture, after es
caping last Thursday from the
Cathoun county convict camp,
where he was serving a life term
for the slaying of Mr. and Mrs. W,
H: Browning' of Valdosta.
“Sure, 1 like baseball,” West
berry commented today at the Col
quitt county prison farm, where
he is awaiting transfer back to Cal
houn county. !
The prisoner, convicted after pro
longed trials, was captured here
yesterday afternoon as he sat non
chalantly on a wooden box, watch
ing a group of Moutrie boys en
gaged in a heated sandlot game.
The site of the game was a lot just
north of the A. . and C. railroad in
the northeastern section of Moul
trie.
He explained that it had been
quite a time since he had seen a
ball game. (Westberry was receiv
ed in the prison system September
8, 1933.)
No Attempt to Flee
. Westberry .did not attempt to run
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.. Paul Harrison tellg all about this and about
other matters of world-shaking importance in his
bright and breezy column called “A New Yorker in
Europe,” on page 5 today . . . For Harrison, whose
“in New York” column is a popular daily feature of
The Banner-Herald and of hundreds of other news
papers throughout America, has been temporarily
transplanted from Manhattan to Europe, and you'll *
enjoy his gay and human observations of peocpie and
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when three guards from the (Col
quitt county conviet camp ap
proached him. The guards, J. C.
Bass, E. H. Bass and A. Matthews,
walked up the railroad bank and
confronted him.
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hig seat, grinned, and shook hands
with his captors.
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65-mile walk I took from the time
that I jumped off the hay truck
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toughn.”
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up the railroad tracks, south ot
Moultrie, earlier in the afternoon
by a Negro who was picking ber
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up the embankment and approach
ed Westberry from the rear as he
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Southern Mutual Insurance
Company Enters 88th Year;
Declares 50 Pct. Dividend
For Seventh Consecutive
Year 50% Dividend
- Paid Policyholders
OFFICERS RENAMED
Unusual Record Enjoyed
By Institution With
$56,000,000 Business
An Atheng institution—Southern
Mutual Insurance company—
which was only fourteen years old
when the Ciwil war broke out, to
day had entered its eighty-eighth
vear with a $56,000,000 business in
thirty-two agencies in Georgia.
Since 1856, the Southern Mu
tual, incorporated in Athens in
1847, has paid more than $10,000,-
000 in dividends to policy-holders,
in addition to $9,000,000 in losses
and today holds a reserve of more
than $1,700,000.
For the seventh consecutive
vear, the company today declared
an annual dividend of 50 percent
on premjums received during the
fiscal year ending April 30, 1935.
Throughout the period of the de
pression, the Southern Mutual has
continued to pay handsome divi
dends. to. its polieyholders, indicat
ing its wise, conservative and suc
cessful business management.
Arthur E. Griffith was re-elect
ed president and treasurer, and
Andrew C. Erwin was again elect
ed secretary. The following were
renamed to the board of directors
by the policyholders: Arthur E.
Griffith, Andrew C. Erwin, How
ell C. Erwin, Blanton Fortson,
Jacob B. Joel, Steadman V. San
ford, George E. Deadwyler, Ed
ward D. Sledge, Thomas S. Mell,
and Madison @. Nicholson, Ath
ens; John W. Grant, Atlanta;
Lansing B. Lee, Augusta; William
C. Bradley, Columbus; Robert J
Taylor, Macon; and Henry Blun,
Savannah.
The. following junior officers
were re-elected: E. E. Lamkin,
auditor; R. T. Scoggins, book
keeper; Arthur E. Griffith, jr,
special agent and adjustor; Mrs.
Fredonia H. Davis, stenographer;
Upson Harper, building superin
tfi:l‘dent.
Steady Growth
Surviving the business changes
and uncertainties caused by wars,
depressions and conflagrations, the
Southern Mutual continues into
its eighty-eighth year a record
for steady grewth and impregna
bility which is perhaps unsur
passed by anmy other institution of
its kind in the mnation.
The confidence placed in the
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MEDALS PRESENTED
BY 0. A R CHAPTER
Garnett Paul and Gladys
Rooks Are Given Citizen
ship Awards Today
Citizenship medals were preseft
ed Garnett Paul and Gladys Rooks
by Elijah Clarke chapter, Daugh
ters of the American Revolution,
this morning at 9 o’clock at Junior
High school.
The medals were presented by
Mrs. Joel Wier, chairman of Nat
ional Defense, who gave th=
qualifications for winning them.
Preceding the preseptation and
remarks by Mrs. Wier, was the
Lord’s Prayer and some remarks
on National Defense Through Pa
triotic Education by Miss Annie
Crawford, past regent of the Elijah
Clarke chapter.
| “Never in the “history of our
}country," Miss Crawford said, “has
| this phase of the work of the
daughters of the American Revo
glution been of greater importanc2
Ithan it is today.
‘ “Historians tell us that one of
tthe chief causes of the American
| Revoution was ‘taxation without
! representation.’
] “The right of self-government
| was bought with the blood of our
lforefathers, and guaranteed ‘o
| their posterity by the Constitution
| of the United States.
‘! “Prepare to Resist”
| “Be prepared to resist bo’h open
\'and subtle war upop oOur govern
| ment, our institutions and all we
| hold dear today. Many false ‘doc
| trines and many ‘isms' abound;
lawlessness and crimes are ram
pant; destructive forces through
out the ianc¢ t¢ undermine our
country.
“What can be done?
“Education is the answer!
“Fiducation is the principle of
American Citizenship, American
ideals, government, homes and
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—sc¢ Sunday
Snake Exhibit at
YMCA Building Here
Drawing Interest
In the spaciaus boys’ lobby at
the. Y. M. €. 'A: bullding on
Lumpkin street are six cages of
violent death.
In the largest cage, rattles buz
zing furiously at intervals, is a
six-foot diamond-back sattlesnake
with inch-long fangs. In other
cages are cotton-mouth moccasing,
timber rattlers, copperheads and
the beautiful but deadly roral
snake of Florida and the tropics.
In a special place by itself is a
jar of bottled death—the dreaded
Black Widow spider, that has been
so prominent in the news of re
cent months.
Ranged around the walls are va
rious naturs exhibits, ranging all
the way from various types of
wood to bones of pre-histori¢c mon
sters which roamed the earth
thousands and thousands of years
ago. Cl
Wonderful exhibits of taxidermy
line the walls of this most inter
esting and educational display.
In all there must be at least five
hundred or more individual dis-
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COURT 15 CLOSED
BY DEAVER TODAY
Approximately 40 Cases
Are Tried During Federal
Court Term Here
Federal court was brought to u
close this morning. Six cases were
tried with Judge Bascom S. Dea
ver of Macon on the bench. Dur
ing the June term, which started
yvesterday morning, approximately
forty cases were tried.
«Charley Crutchfied,. Negro, was
sentenced to serve six months in
the penitentiary for violating the
Federal Internal Revenue act, and
Silas Shepherd, Negro, was given
four months for the same offense.
Andrew White was sentenced to
serve a year and a day at Chila
cothe, .Ohin, and Albert Shepherd
was given the same sentence, both
for viclating the Internal Revenue
act. Pierce” Jackson was senten
ced to serve a year and a day at
Atlanta for violation of the Inter
nal Revenue act.
,Ray McCali was given a two
year sentenced and fined S3OO on a
five year probation.
Jurors who served during the
term of court were: William O.
Hardigree, Watkinsville; Clarence
V. Malcolm, Bogart; Azel M. Ray,
Royston; Thomas B. Whitworth
Lavonia; Marvin L. Sewell, Lavo
nia; George L. O'Kelley, Athens;
R. C. D. Bryan, Philomath; Wil
lie F. Brewer, Watkinsville; Ar
thur P. Green, Hutchins; John H.
Pendergrass, Hull; J. Lucien Cobb,
Hartwell; George V. Deadwyler,
Elberton; R. L. Moss, 111, Ath
ens, ’
James J. Conner, Monroe; R.
Mat Freeman, Martin; James A.
Brooks, Elberton; Willlam B. Me-
Mullan, Hartwell; Newell V. Ste
phens, Crawford; Ernest R.
Vaughn, Bogart; Paul H. Ponder,
Rutledge; Walter D. Crawford
Athens: Howard B. Higginboth
am, Athens; Toombs H. Kay,
Royston; J. B. Graham, Daniels
ville; James: G. Cowan, Logans
ville; Frank C. Gaines, Athens;
(Continued on Page Three)
Foreich News ON ThumanaiL
By The Associated Press
MEXICO—More than 350 persons
were estimated to have died in
floods which swept the Valley of
Mexico, trapping a throng of wor
shippers in the church at San Ped
ro. l
PARlS—Premier Fernand Bouis
son expected the chamber of depu
ers to combat devaluation which it
ties to provide him with the pow
had denied former Premier Pierre-
Ttienne Flandin.
ROME—Official dispatches said
Ethiopians had killed 30 Italians in
an attack on Italian native troops
PAESS CONFERENGE
CALLED FOR 6 P, M
10 DISCLOSE PLANS
Cabinet Called in Special
Session This Morning
For Discussion = .
HAS NEW PROGRAM
Congressional Leaders Are
Summoned for Parley
At 3:00 Oclock -+
CASH BONUS ABANDONED
WASHINGTON — (AP —
Bonus forces in-congress decid
ed today to abandon their bat
tle for cash payment at this.
session of congress and to con
centrate on a campaign with
the people for enactment of the
Patman inflationary bili next
session.
BY CLARENCE M. WRIGHT
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON — (#) — Presi
dent Roosevelt appeared ready to
day to propose to congress the re
storation of fundamental NRA
principles limited to interstate com
merce, $
Emergency congressional action
to revive the structure of NRA de
molished by the supreme court
seemed imminent. e
‘As President Roosevelt started a
series of conferences with cabinet
members and congresional leaders,
it was said by some of his sympa
thizer at the capitol that he had
added the Wagner labor dispute
bill and the Guffey-Snyder coal bill
to his program for congress.
Conference Called
A conference of congressional
leaders was called by the president
for late in the afternoon following
a special cabinet session this morn
ing. It was expected details of the
plan would be divulged at a press
conference at 5 p. m,, E.ST. - .
Mr. Roosevelt has a legislative
program to propose as a Stop-gap
pending results of his campaign for
broadening of constitutional auth
ority for the federal govemmafi’“tg
deal with national economic and
social problems. e
Pending conclusion of the day’s
conference, the White House de
clined any hint of the nature of the
president’s move. L A
Emphasis was laid on the fact,
however, that the president ac
told Donald Richberg, NRA head,
last night not to arrange for dis
missal of all of the 5400 NRA &m
--ployves on June 16, when tun&-» <
pire. g
After calling the cabinet® int
special session at 11:30 a. mfi.
Mr. Roosevelt summoned congres
sional leaders to meet with him'and
cabinet officials at 3 p. m. = %
Taken by Surprise =~ =
The president’s action in calling
for the three sessions apparentl
— £
(Continued On Page Thréey
Agents Hope to Solve
e ® @ 5
Kidnaping This Week
BY LELAND HANNUM
Associated Press Staff Wpriter
(Copyright, 1935, by the Associated
Press) g
TACOMA — (AF) — Incréasing
their Tacoma field force to. about
30 by the arrival of a dozen new
men, federal Department of Jjustice
agents were unusually active again
today, hoping to «clear up @ the
George Weyerhaeuser kidnaping
within the week. .
Otherwise they face the possibil
ity of a long wait until the abduc
tors, who extorted $200,000 from
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Weyerhasuser,
jr., for the return of their ‘nine
year-old son, come out of hiding
and attempt to flee,
on the Eritrean border last Friday.
LONDON — Anglo-German eon
versations which may lead to a new
world conference for limitation of
sea armaments were begunfi
' LONDON-—Lord Ashley's diverte
from the former Sylvia E &:m
musical comedy actress and friend
of Douglas Fairbanks, sr., was made
absolute. G R
ROME—Benito Mussolini had &
black eye which he said he had res
ceived in a mishap while Borse
back ridlag. . e R
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