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Newspaper Page TextLOCAL COTTON st v~ TREY r’HDDLING...... .o --....12%6 CREVIOUS CLOSE ... .. 12%e | Vol 103. No. 163. . I - L | Satterwhite Is| | r f I New Member Of Dernst Bernstem Force ———————— | | e — S ——— S ———— \ ! T | i e I P B bR B “Ig* LN E '?‘-'p-"»"‘-: R Al e e omo CUE SR g 1,"'3“ %\‘\ 2 ¢ R I Dl o 2 aRTa s SR N 070 TR e # !' = s\ ? . § e e | ] ! Y B R SR R i”v bl Lo il s —————————— I HARRY SATTERWHITE I Bernstein Furniture vom-i bheen very fortunate in | , their sales force Hurry} te of Atlanta. | terwhite has been asso- I ( the last 14 years Withl f the largest furniture es- | ent in the South, I“:-II rience and the lacilitiesi I buyer and “lilnllg“'“ former associates will I,ie; ivantage. He is cunsi(lﬂ the foremost fumiturel tate. His ability as | I decorator is \\‘elll tterwhite is a member nI‘I dist church, being HI the Grace Methodist | Atlanta. He has ulsul tive part in civic work ; nd was at one tinwl d tresurer of the Re re association of Ih-ur-I | i indeed fortunate inl [y Satterwhite and his | tir family of a wife and | iren to its eitzenship. | ngratulate the Bernsteinl company in securing \ tance of so valuable ul s | # : | H former Athenian | Hurt i | turt in Auto Wreck o In Abilene, Texas I I BILENE, Texas.—{#)—Condi ( I'. Faires, of Atlanta, ¢ ly injured in an ;Auto-| N ( h near here last Sun-l lightly improved late | ved fractures of hothl 4 suffered heavy loss of | L severed artery in | ind. He is expected to | pl icians said. I Faire less seriously in-l Iso in the hospital. She eral fractured ribs. Faires, before her mar- WO months ago, was Miss B. Walker, of Athens. She cen employed in the insur flice of lli|'.<c-nmh—Dearing- Ing here for several Betore coming here to ad been a resident of ' many years. ( auring her resi made many friends ¢ ing a speedy recovery el na Mr. Faires. l i"\‘ A - : 5 FURMER ATHENIAN | DIES IN ELBERTON | | —————y 1 LRTON - Arthur MoGinty,' oW in Elberton and this| where he has been | he Southern Railw{in tber of years, died here! 1 rning eérvices will be held fternoon, I VcGinty was born and| \thens, the son of the| nd: Mrs. M. '"B Moo ) were residents of thatl nany years. The elder t was a prominent and a leading citizen | I Ng Mr. McGinty are two I an aunt, Claud Mad ‘i B. Maddox and Miss addox, all of Athens. New O T J-;v Offices for FHA ‘ o Be Opened Monday fment was made Satur €on Taylor, chairman trke County Better Hous tee, that officegs of the N the future will be 0 the Union Bus Ter- Fast Clayton street. The ‘fuarters will be open ! the committee, a part I‘I»\ lormerly were in the témple building but a "45 made necessary due lllding being sold to Lu ! Jenking, who will put & , OVie theater in the build- ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service State Appropriation to University System For New Buildings Is Temporarily Enjoined NEGRO CONFESSES HE TOOK PART IN FATAL ATTACK UPON WOMEN Three Persons Killed In Wreck of 3 Autos Near Ridgeland, S. C. ee e A e S e ei A i e b e RIDGELAND, 8. C.— (#) —Two men and one woman were Killed and five men and one woman were seriously injured Saturday five miles south of here in a wreck among three automobiles. The dead: | Reginald Gooding, about 35, of Savannah, Ga, © Mrs. Florence Stone, of Savannah J. C. Black, manager of the Yemassee, S. C., baseball club. The injured: Woodrow Hargrove, Yemassee, back injuries. | Kenneth Register, Yamassee, fractured jaw. | Fred Black, son of the dead man, head and chest injuries, ] Leslie Harnage, Yemassee, leg and arm injuries, Mrs. Reginald Gooding, Savan nah, broken arm and lacerations. A . coroner's jury assembled by Magistrate W. N. Heyward of Ridgeland, was told that the north bound Gooding car, for undeterm ined reasens, swerved off the high way, out back and sideswiped an automobile driven by A. T. Stege man of St, Augustine, Fla.,, and then plunged head-on into the car driven by Black, 3 CATHOLIC CHURCH TG HAVE NEW ASSISTANT Father George Daly to Suc ceed Father Nicholas |. Quinlan Here Sept. 1 Revy. Father George Daly, of Sav annah, has been named assiStant pastor of the St. Joseph’'s Catholie church in Athens, and will take up his new duties on September 1. He will come here from the Cathedral in Savannah, where he has been stationed for some time. He succeeds Rev. Father Nicho las J. Quinlan, who will likewise leave on September 1 to become as sistant pastor of the St. Anthony’s church in West End, Atlanta. Father Quinlan has been assist ant pastor of the local church for the past two years, and has made many friends here who will wish him success at his new charge. While in Athens he has continu ed his studies at the University of Georgia. At the Atlanta church, Father Quinlan will succeed Rev. Father Herman Deimel, who has been appointed chaplain of the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta. Father Daly, the new Athens as sistant, is a graduate of st. Char les college at Catonsville, Md., and of St. Mary's Seminary in Balti more. He was only recently or dained to the priesthood in Sav-, annah by the Most Rev. Michael J. Keyes, D.D., bishop of the Savan- | nah diocese. | Among other transfers of Catho lic priests announced this week by Bishop Keyes at Savannah was that of Rev. Father Thomas L. Finn, of Washington, Ga, who is well known in Athens. Father Finn has been in charge of St Joseph’s church and manager of the St. Joseph'’s Male Orphanage in Washington for the past six years. He leaves September 1 to be come assistant pastor of the Bless- (Continued On Page Five) 13 Persons Perish In Crash Of Airplane In Switzerland SAN BERNARDINO, Switzerland —(AP)—Thirteen persons died Sat. urday as the third Royal Rutch Air line passenger plane to crash in 7 months fell into trees mnear the village of sSan Gircomo, three miles from here. Two of the nine passengers kill ed were Gerard and Virginia Phil lips, whose address and nationality cculd not be determined immed iately. Other passengers were Dutch, English, German and Swiss. A police investigation showed that the plane, which apparently was seeking an emergency landing field, sent out an SOS shortly be fore the crash. The ship, en route from Frank fort-on-Main to Milan, appeared out of clouds of fog, apparently ] din the narrow valic . | m‘ «(?‘ Sheriff Watkins, of Ogle thorpe Reports Gaines Admits Crime ANOTHER ARRESTED Gaines Implicates Negro By Name of Melvin Hood, Says Sheriff LEXINGTON, Ga.—(Special.)— Semmie Gaines, a Negre ex-con vict, confined in Fulton county tower in connection with the deaths of Mrs. G. C. Goolsby and her daughter, Miss Nettie Gools by, has confessed to taking part in the assault on the two women and implicated Melvin Hood, an other Negro, Sheriff T. E. Wat kins said Saturday. ! Hood was arrested Friday and is held in Fulton tower on sus picion, pending the outcome of an investigation of Gaines’ story to Sheriff Watkins. Gaines claims he attacked one of the women and Hood attacked the other. It is said robbery was the motive. The sheriff obtained Gaines' confession Thursday. He said he saw Gaines in the tower two weeks ago when the Negro told him to come back to see him, in dicating he would give a state ment about the attack on the two women which resulted in their deaths in an Athens hospital a few days after they were as saulted. Sheriff Watkins said when he went back to see Gaines, the Ne gro admitted taking part in the erime and implicated Hood. Hood denies he was in any way con nected with the crime and inves tigations so far have failed to substantiate Gaines’ claim that Hood accompanied him to the home of the two women and help ed him beat them into insensibil ity. x Gaines was arrested within 48 hours after someone had entered (Continued on Page Five) i it Doctors Give Man Slim Chance of Recovery; Wreck Near Royston L. M. Adams, 32, operator of the Green Lantern sandwich shop on Mitchell's bridge road was seriously injured in an automobile accident nkar Royston yesterday morning. He is confined at Brown’s hospital with a fractured skull with slight chance es recovery. Mr. Adams was hurt when an automobile occupied by himself, and two other companions fan into a tree at a curve near Roys ton city limits. The driver of the car, it is said, was not familiar with the road and was unaware of the sudden bend in the road. The other occu pants of the car were not serious ly hurt, it is said. RELIGIOUS DISORDERS BELFAST, Northern Ireland.— () — Two persons were wounded Saturday night in another out break of religious disorders as the death of John McKay, shot July 12 in a riot, brought the week’s toll of such disorders to eight. Giacomo. There was no suitable field, however. A Red Cross detachment from the nearby town of Bellinzoni reached the scene to find all nine passengers and the crew of four dead. R squad of gendarmes was de tailed to guard the debris. Most spectacular of the three disasters that have overtaken Royal Dutch Airline planes during recent months was the mystery crash of its giant American-built Douglas “Flying Hotel” in the Syrian de sert in December, 1934. After several days of search the burned hulk of the plane was found ten miles south of Rutha Wells, (Continued On Page Five) —~ESTABLISHED 1832~ Athens, Ca., Sunday, July 21,1935 * i Duce May Fly to African Front B Uﬁ@ pE ' ITALY'S AFRICAN POSSESSIONS I . ITAI.Y e CMEDpe A e ™ X TR et SN b I RRA Y i Ny SN m R ) R ANsE& e R ASTA I §e 2 Boypr X I mcen O Vi T, ARABIA SR ee- NN BRITISH e — \§ T\ [SOMALILAND E . & B, )\ SOMALLANDY/, R o, SR ERITREA : o ‘I ‘” 5 * \ .:.":E::::vi'.. w"::. ¢ : g Aoowx", i B | Y Py e e L N ADDIS ¥ ABABA # g . \ | N \ETHIOPIA "y g S & g N o g i 4 ( o i TTALIAN R R R" ST i SOMALILAND &R v B 2i ! : .NS PR " INDIAN [} A As a spectacular finale to months of feverish military activity, Premier Benito Mussolini may touch off Italy’s pent-up war en thusiasm by flying in the three-motored plane in which he grimly sits, above, to the Abyssinian front to inspire his Black Shirt hosts. The map shows a direct route that the dictator might follow in his venture, probably in September, at the end of the rainy season that has made meorasses of the low-lying sections of Abhyssinia and prevented any military movements, “Constitutional Issue’’ Assumes Greater Prominence In Politics By EDWARD J. DUFFY Associated Press Staff Writer. WASHINGTON.—~(#)—The pro jected “constitutional issue” as sumed formidable prominence in political calculations over t‘he week-end. 4 New Deal readiness to battle on it, if necessary to perpetuate poli cies of the past two years, be came virtually unquestioned in view of current developments. “Economic self - government” emerged as a possible slogan in 1936, should additional basic Roosevelt enactments meet the doom of NRA. Used By Wallace The' phrase was used by Secre tary Wallace, just after the AAA and the TVA had lost and won respectively in appeals courts, in a Seattle speech attesting the depth of administration determi nation. : | Many economic problems are national, he remiaded, : For the first time by so high ‘an official, Wallace showed the New Deal wants 'wide debates on “the issue being drawn” without waiting on Supreme court decis ions, that it does not hold the constitution sacrosanct, and counts on farm and labor support A BANNER-HERALD SCOOP! LNS N TS E \\mw‘ 8&2 f':ghg !‘K i ,é {: i 3 s B Al ﬂ»@ %, »@;qyi S I AP NG S 3¢ ,_’- @ - iy H S -.. ' W 8 Frazier Hunt (% e, e A Has Been 3‘»* : B ‘v/. ¢¢ \4“ jg! LISTENINGNS 4o TO AMERICA” St (‘g % P On a Reportorial Tour Across the Pt i :.* S 3 Continent .. . And Now This “’o:-ld- g - \3 . - T PR ing, Doing . . . In 12 Stellar Articles, a2y o T, 8 to Appear Exclusively in This % i 20 Newspaper, P : - B T 228 BEGINNING MONDAY N 2& @R Befe S =@ ©- W # . R LB A SRLE” T 3 & e < g L ok 0} ”;@“ i !f 60.3 e DONT M ISS THIS SERIES | ———— ‘against what he termed “economic oligarchy.” Skepticism within the Demo cratiec majorities over the govern mental and political soundness was apparent. Curtailment Advised Only this week, as related pri vately in a strategic congressional quarter, the President was ad vised to begin curtailment of fed eral authority, on grounds that the “emergency” had passed. He listened attentively, it was said, expressed thanks but added that his mind was unchanged. Previous similar counsel from the opposition had been ignored. This latest was from a Demo cratic states’ rights source. It came at a time when the ad ministration was pressing for greater powers in congress, and with fair success. The President evidenced his confidence publicly; the house voted against adjourn ment only a day after cheering a southern Oemocrat’s demand that it defer the tax bill and “go home.” Proaress Slow Progress was w~ure if slow op the social security bill, the house (Continued on Page Five) Howell Advises Talmadge To Accept Proposal Made On Roads, But He Refuses Atlanta Editor Tells of In terview With Roose velt at Capital IMPASSE CONTINUES Newspapers of State Indi cate Counties Would Welcome Money ATLANTA, Ga. — Governor Eu gene Talmadge was offered a soo - of the impasse which, if it had been accepted, would have re leased Georgia's $19,000,000 share of the federal highway funds, Clark Howell, editor of The At lanta Constitution, saidina state ment issued here Saturday, The Atlanta editor, who ar ranged a conference between Pres ident Roosevelt and Governor Tal madge last Wednesday and a sub sequent meeting between Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the bureau of public roads, declared, in his statement that he advised . the governor twice to agree to conces sions offered by McDonald and Congressman Carl Vinson, The editor pointed out that, after all, the money belongs to the federal government and it is entitled to direct how it shall be spent. Mr. Howell said@ that MacDon ald, in a compromise move, offer ed to release theallotment if Gov ernor Talmadge would agree only Ito building the foundation of ‘Ball's Ferry Bridge within the next year, the superstructure to come later. The governor, Mr. Howell said, refused this. Then Congressman Vinson, in whose Idistrict the project lies, suggested that the governor agree to starting work on the project in 1937, thus giving counties on either side opportunity for build in highways approaching the span. This, it was said, the governor also declined to agree to. A Way Out - Mr. Howell said the concessions offered would have reulted in the immediate release to Georgia of the $19,000,000 fund had the gov- (Continusd On Page Five) SENATOR ATTACKS “|OBBY METHODS™ Schwellenbach Makes Charges; Hearing to Be Resumed Tuesday BY W. M. MYLANDER (Ass;cviatreré Press Staff Vl!Sif.sr) WASHINGTON —(#)— Modern methods of bsiness drew the fire of Senator Schwellenbach, Demo crat, Washington, Saturday as two congressional committees charted long inquirieg into activities in tended to influence legislation. Hearings will be resumed Tues day in the investigation by the house rules committee. The sen ate committee headed by Chair man Black, Democrat, Alabama, may reconvene a day earlier. Schwellenback said his observa tions as a member of the senate committee have convinced him that although “business interests de cided to be clean and honorable in their lobbying, they can’'t get away from their old habits.” “The old method of lobbying,” he added “consisted of *bribery, black mail and entertainment. That was abandoned for the modern method of really trying to ascertain pub lic sentiment, and representing it to members of congress., “But this investigation already (Continued On Page. Five) Mutual Building"and Loan ¥ Becomes U. S. Institution I Shareholders of the Mutual Building and Loan Association, Ivoted unanimously to come under ‘supervislon of the United States government at a special meeting here Friday afternoon, and changed the name to Athens Federal Sav ings and Loan Association. I The association will become a Federal institution as soon as the charter is granted, which is ex pected to be August 16, when the next meeting will be held. Robert K. Bruhn, field repre sentative of the Federal Home Bank Board, Washington, D. C., attended the meeting Friday, and explained the advantages of be coming a Federal lmututton.] Heretofore the local association has been under state supervision. 1 m‘ "t ai,:"—'*‘t“f‘v ‘»’“"‘*"‘ L o A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—>s¢ Sunday His Opinion Holds AAA Tax Invalid TR e ( s: B AR R S RS BEEPREET R e R RS g o SRy BERRET e P BT L E iy e SR e 8“"\? e 9 & g : i 3 R | S Ty i S n SRR S SRR : R b SR 2 e 5 @@ ; : P 43 - 3 SRR o The far-reaching opinion that holds the AAA processing tax, chief instrument of the farm price raiging efforts of the New Deal, to be illegal, was written by Judge Scott Wilson (above) of the Fed eral Circuit Court of Appeals at Boston. * Judge George F. Morris concurred in the ruling, given in the Hoosac Mills suit to escape paying a $81,694 processing levy. HEARING 15 SET DN FREIGHT RATE FIGHT Chairman Jud Wilhoit Characterizes Suit “Fight For Existence of South’ ATLANTA — () — A “fight for existence of the South” was the way Chairman Jud P. Wilhoit Sat urday characterized his Public Service commission suit to enjoin the Interstate Commerce Commis sion from forcing up freight rates in Georgia. ‘While state attorneys studied the case, Judge E. Marvin Underwood, in United States district court, set August 7 for a hearing. ‘The petition, which seeks to prevent the federal agency from setting aside a reduction order on intrastate clasg rates in Georgia, will be heard by a three-judge fed eral court. Arguments will be made before Judge Underwood, Judge William H. Barrett of Aug usta, and Judge Samuel Sibley. The state is challenging right of the I. C. C. to regulate freight rates on class merchandise hauled between points in Géorgia. | “Lower rates to remove the exist ing discrimination that the Geor gia commission is fighting for are not intended to be for the state of Georgia alone,” Wilhoit stated. ~ “We recognize this would be contrary to best interests of other southern states. The efforts we are making are for lower rates in all the southern states and we appeal to the people and utilities commissions in these statés to join u in the fight” Meanwhile, railroads serving Alabama, North Carolina, Georgia and Nebraska in Washington ask ed the I. C. C. for permission to continue for six months, after September 30 of this year, their experimental reduction in passen ger fares by which they hope to recapture traffic lost to motor‘ transport, | ment has recognized the home owners”’, Mr. Bruhn said. “This recognition is given now as a re sult of the bank holiday and econ omic upheaval of 1932 and 1933", he said. Mr. Bruhn played a special visit to Athens to inform shareholdem’ that the local firm had been ap proved by the United States gov ernment, to come under Federal supervision. It is a tribute to the management of the association, Mr. Bruhn said. | Under Federal supervision, ine vestment up to $5,000 by share holders is insured against any loss by the government. There are four plans for shares in the as sociation under the Federal act, namely, instaliment thrift plan, URDER f 5 SIGNED: BY: JUDGE VIRLYN MOORE IN FULTON GO, COURT Plaintiffs Are Officials of Ceorgia Federation Of Labor SMITH COMMENTS Head of Regents Declares No Conflict Possible Between Schools ATLANTA—(#)—Payment. wlh’ ;:.‘ regents of one-third of the state’s $1,000,000 special appropriation for i new buildings in the Univq;qmc’}% System of Georgia was temporar ily enjoined Saturday in the su perior court of Fulton coumty. .. In signing the temporary” res straining order, Judge Virlyn B. Moore set August 3 for a. hear ing to determine if it will be made permanent, e Informed of the suit, Governor Eugene Talmadge grinned . broad ly saying: ¥ £ “That's just like throwifig a rabbit in the briar patch. Geor gia’s used to law suits. = Now I feel very much at home. Let ’em law. We've got competent judges and competent courts.” To “Protect Schools” i Petitioners in the action, who are members of the executive board of the Georgia Federation of Labor, said in a formal state ment they were endeavoring to “protect the common schools and eleemosynary institutions of the & state.” § : Chairman Marion Smith of the Board of Regents, in a statement Saturday night said that while he had no objection to the courts be ing asked to decide whether the payment can legally be made he wished it understood “there is not and can not be any conflict be tween the Regents of the Univer sity System and the friends of the common schools of the state)” “I do mnot believe,” Chairman Smith continued, “that there are any more earnest supporters of the common schools than * the members of our board,, = : “The chancellor of the Tniver sity System has recently been elected the president of the ed ucational association formed by the teachers in the common school. The idea of any :confliet between the schools and the uni versity is shocking to me beyond the power of expression.” ! Past Due Funds “ More than $1,500,000 in past due appropriations to common schooltf and Confederate veterans is still unpaid, the petition alleges, and until this debt has been ligui dated, no funds can be paid {0 the University System out of ; the special sppropriation. PO The million-dollar fund' ¥épre= sents a compromise between the Regents and Talmadge, who block= ed by legislative act a projected $2,691,000 PWA loan and grant for building purposes. e Alleging the state budgetscom= mission has cut all departmental appropriations for 1935 -by_ 20, per cent, the petition says the. gaver= nor nevertheless notified the Re gents that $333,333.33 is available to start the building prograpl.,’ The petition names as defend ants George B. Hamilton, lasgst,oi treasurer; Willlam B. Harrison, comptroller general, and the enm Board of Regents, = .tiiisiis The Plantiffs = wi Plaintiffs are A. Steve Nance, president of the Georgia Federa tion of Labor; O. E. Petry, secre= tary, and W. C. Jeffries of Colums bus, J. O. Morgan otam John P. Spires of Savant n% Heyward Rivers of Augusta, all vice presidents of the federation. v e (Continued On Page Five) ;g _________————-v———-——‘—““_“é‘_' » 'Af —____————-‘-""'q. , —I;Ii Local showers, e ’iﬁ u Sunday and Mon- . - S, o ald -..,3'4‘ ﬁ ‘ TEMPERATURE = _ % Highest. ~.i csciaviine s cnaliiis é LoweSt.cse sevn ‘cans Shasveliil 2 8 MeAN.....0 siee sisa wiesealßall 8 Normal. ... osco sa-sisesneslil ~ Inches last 24 h0ur5.,.... .9 B - Total since July 1... n..ﬂm;— | Excess since July 1.....ias 61