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* LOCAL COTTON . MIDDEING...... ", 10ssaniRBRD PREVIOUS CLOSE .... .. 12%c Vol. 103. No. 173 Auto Wreck Fatal To Mrs. Frank H. Kroner Yesterday Mrs. Frank H. Kroner of Win terville was killed in an automo bile accident yesterday afternoon near Grayling, Mich. She was en route to Black Lake, Mich.,, with her daughter, Mrs. Susie K. Shaw and grand-Ziaughter, Martha Fran ces to srend the month of August. Accrrding to an Associated Press acspatch received by The Banner- Herald this morning, seven other persons were hurt in the wreck of the car. driven by Mrs, Shaw. The car blew a tire and collided with one driven by, Mrs. George Close of Toledo, Ohio. A i 5 Mrs. Kroner was the widow of the late Frank H. Kroner, a well known merchant of this section. She is survived by three children, Mrs. R. D. Shaw, Tulsa. Okla.; wMajor Hayes Kroner, of American Embassy, Loadon, England; Mrs. Snell] Johnson Snellville, Ga., and a step-son, Frank A. Kroner of Atlanta. Two brothers also sur vive, W. M. .Hayes, Arnoldsville and Z. C. es, Elberton, besides ‘these gram]:%mdren and several nieves and nephews. Mrs. Kroner was a devoted member of the Winterville Meth odist church, taking an active part in the Woman's Missionary Soci ety and in the Sunday school. She was a member Of the Elijah Clarke Chapter, D. A. R. and was quite intevested in its activities.” Pos gecsing a keen mind and a desire for the cultural things of life, she made her personality felt where ever she was, and her friends .in Athens and Winterville will indeed miss this noble gentlewoman. Her family ties were very strong and only recently she planned and brought together a number of Hayves-Clarke relatives for a pic — (Continued on Page Six) =] ASHES mnd’ \ § .. v - L.I-F'EF (By the Associated Press) S TR L i © HEADACHE FOR: VITAk STATISTICIAN . GRAFTON, “W. Va.—William Mitter .~ stood in Pennsyivasia. Mary Annis Powell stood in West Virginia. They clasped hands; and the Rev. Jv T, Gastu pro nounted: them man and wife. ¢ LOYALTY PHILADELPHIA —DPeter Fine gan's mongrel dog stood in front of the police station and howled and howled. The only way the po lice could stop him was to put him in the cell #vith his master. MORE UNEMPLOYMENT NMEW ! YORK.—The National Di vorce Reform League has. . com menced a campaign . for legisla tion to: abolish = the “unknewn blonde” “from. divorce ‘suits, and to provide a:ssoo fine and a year in prison for the corespondent in every successful divorce a.ction.' JOB FOR HIM TOPEKA, Kas—lf Governor Alf M. Landon of Kansas ever be comes president of ‘the United States, as fond Republican {riends here hope, he has one particular job all ready-: Steve O’Royrke. Detroit Tigers “fvory huntey,” visited Landon and sought a <promise from xsh'im he would outlaw softball. . “It's- ruining too , many g&Qod prospects for the big haseball lea gues,” complained O'Rourke. MISTAKEN IDENTITY ; PORTLAND, Ore—Special Pa trolman Ha.rfreaves yvants to know flo ‘played this' trick on him, and why: ¢ N‘eedl'gg a birth certificate in connectien with a civil service ex amination he found he was regis tered om county records at birth as a gil;gl. Py He scurried around to be sure ire proper authorities learned of the matter and made the neces sary corrections’ LOCAL WEATHER o e eet i i b R 7 e T T T T e CR————— 7 i T( fl/\ S e Partly ' cloudy g tonight and Fri- N day; possibly lo i cal thundershow ers ‘Friday in " ~ {west and south i i \ {portions. ) —&ouoy TEMPERATURE Highegt . fovs oo V.o, . 9.0 LOWall. .5 s avy kiR TRO MEARN e, i it wler e Normaliios ... %isssesensl®.o RAINFALL Inches last 24 h0ur5........ 0.0% Total since August 1........ 0.00 Deficit since August 1...... .15 Average August rainfall.... 4.68 Total isinc, January 1......81.92 Excess since fianuary L. és 348 ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service Talmadge Rebukes Congréssmen Building This Year Approaches All-Time High Here MORE MONEY SPENT IN FIRST 7 MONTHG THAN AL LAST YEAR Total of $158,354.75 Is Placed in Building in' City This Year PEAK YEAR WAS 193¢ City Engineer Beacham Believes SIOO,OOO Will Come In Back in’ 1931, bhefore the full force of the late depression had struck the building trades, Athgns building permits reached an @ll time high mark of $587.000-—of which some $300,000 went into new buildings at the Universily. - Yesterday afternoon City Engi neér Jack Beacham’s office reveal ed that the first seven months of 1935 has already s“en permits is sued for $158,354.75, or almost as much as those issued on strictly private property during the entirs peak year in the history of Ath ens. : “A‘nd.,f'_.wd Mr. B&.Cham, uI be‘ lieve there will be at least another SIOO,OOO. issued in permits befors the end of this year. . Mr. .Beacham’s records also re vealed t‘hl{t the total for 1934 was $144,976 27 — meaning that in the six months of this year, ~this amount " hag already been surpass ed by $18,348.48, 178 Permits Issued A total of 178 building permits have béen. issued thus far this year, seventy oft which were for hpildingss e gthesss weere permits to repair old buildings in " Athens. “In 1932 permits amounting to 115,956 “were “issued, and in 1933, {899,436 worth of permits were | granted. Of ‘the $158,354.75 issued in per 4mlts this year, $116,900 was for | new buildings in the city. A ma jority of -this amount was to erect new buildings, but some was for additions. to homes in the city. Increased | Monthly The amount of building jactivity gradually - increased seach month, until June, which was .the best lmonth of the year. In gnqu 21 permits were issued toss ling SB.- 1917.75. In February 16 permits (Continued on Page’ Six) Doctor’s Slayer May Have Killed Himself I CHICAGO — (#) . — A note in | dicating Mandeville Zenge, sought for guestioning "in " the mutilation slaying of Dr. Walter Johm Bauer of Kirksville, Mo, may haye com mitted suicide was turned over to |police today. ; A taxi driver, identified by po lice as John Giannini, told author ities he found, the note in the ef fects of a passenger he drove to navy pier on Lake Michigan late | last night. . : Shown a photograph of Zenge, Giannini said: ““I: think" that's the man I drove to the pier.” . ¥ The note was signed “Mande ville,” and police immediately set out to determine if the handwrit ing was that of the wanted man. The discovery was reported af ter an inquest into Bauer's death had been postponed until August 25 for further investigation. The i (Continued On. Page Seven) STATE NEWS BRIEFS By The Associated Press i LAVONIA.—A. 21-year-old debt for $5.25 has been- paid to O. DJ Cannon, a Lavonia merchant. Cannon said he was approachéd by a man. he did not know, abuut ’a $5.25 bill ‘due the merchant, about which there was no record. l The strangér wanted to pay. inter est also, but Cannom. wouid not | accept it. l SWAINSBORO. — A youthful ’Georgia minister was rmarried | here yesterday. " The Rev. John F. Fulford of Macon, 17, ordained minister of the Church of Christ, took Miss Elizabeth Fulford. 19, of Summit, | Ga., for his bride. 3 ‘ The two Fulford families are ]nnt related. | e sty GRIFFIN.—Judson C. Kempson. - 78-year-old Meriwether county farmer; died in a hospital here Where™ Cave-in Trapped ‘Well ‘Digger e HEEEET N . W : AR & 3% ! 1| BRae a i ¥ hßid | G g R T oy WALLAE 9 P 3 D e Ly £L i i IR A 1% % ! & 5% 4 deueiE, R SRRt & 2R | S | B Vi 2L mER A Feria A . i BEEE Snf . A RS ; ’ B s oy LRRRR [ BRI S g %g I§§£,.- AN RN ¥ i 2oL 3 ¥ e 2 . '} i T % B s ¥ g s R U ; ;siifzi:":iz?"i' B . i, P eer ARI PP R § g 3 S e . 9 23“ i S '!% ¥ 5 Bgg g3T g ‘P TG W e X : Geamsdng o iy S« e ol Lel A ?AW &‘ A R et Sl £ 9 s )B2 ‘:&, 2 G %l S 87 v SRS e o o e : 1 L e‘s eSR e Ry el 0F ) eB ey 2 e 7:- 3 " _:;,fi_,\_’:::: o RS R ~;A%‘:; m;” o : LS o R D 250 Hamnn b % ,g,tz ; b 2 i > ; R 00l g 5 3 S S 5 e et L d TR % B ";Q ’,,,,,. . «f,’ Bi o e With the well hole in which Richard Hoinock was trapped while dig ging enlarged to mammoth size by successive cave-ins; rescueé work ers had to move his summer cottage near Matfituck, L. L., to prevent it from=tumbling into the pit. The huge’steam shovel in ‘the fore ground brought, rescue near at one time, but another eave-in piled tons of sand on the hapless victim again. He was found dead at the end of a frantie, 40-hour effort to free him. Eleven WPA Projects In Athens District Approved This Morning Approval Announced By Washington ; Ne-Word MY |ot > R vn) A nsear OGN QEfiGE i Approval of 11 WPA i)roject.s in District No. 1, Athens,” was an nounced teday from Washington, D. ~ authorities in''a story by the Associated Press. The local office has not yet received official announcement, but i§ expecting ap proval at any time. 0, S H. A. Glass, director of District 1,» was out of town today. 0 neo statement from him was available. The eleven projects will be car ried out at a cost of $103,763 ac cording to allotments for each pro ject in the Associated Press story. There are thirty-two counties in this district, but work will be done in only nine of them, according to present plans. Other projects, how eyer, have been sent to Washing ton by Mr, Glass for confirma tion. ) o _The Athens district includes five ¥ERA districts. They are districts 19,%2.(),_21, 22 and 25. There are eight districts in the state, and District No. 1 is among the larg est. Counties under Mr. Glass’ direc tion, are District No. 19—Colum bia, Glascock, Lincoln, McDuffie, Taliaferro, Warren, Wilkes; District No. 20—Clarke, Elbert, Hart, Jack son, Madison, Oconee, and Ogle thorpe; Distriet No. *2l — Banks, Franklin, Habersham, . Rabun and Stephens; District No. 22—Barrow, Gwinnétt, Newton, Rockdale and Walton; 'District No. 23—Baldwin, Green,. Hancock, Jasper, Jones, Morgan,-Putnam and Wilkinson. Included in the allotments is $9,- 120 for Soil Eresion' work in Clarke county, $15,960 in Madison county, and \517,100 in Jackson county. Loy E. Rast, regional director of the Soil. Conservation. Service, former ly Soil Erosion, said this morning he had received no official notice . L (Continued on Page Six) { yesterday, after a brief illness. Funeral = serwices were planned hepe today: with burial in Oak Hill cemetery.® - ¥ ' ! R O M E.—Thirteen-year-old . James Hartley has been indicted iby the Floyd county grand. jury ‘ou a charge of shooting his fath ’er. Robert Hartley, at _their home I'July 19. The boy' contended the | father. was wounded accidentally., | COLUMBUS—Two hundréd‘and | seventy-seven cadets of the first iclass of the United. States Mili | tary Academy went into summer { training today to study tactiecal imaneuvers at the.world's" largest { infantry school at Fort Benning. | The West Pointers arrived yes | terday from Sayapnah by motor iconvoy. The trip to Savannah . (Continued On Page Seven) Athens, Ga:, Thursday, August 1, 1935, Identity of Mob Which ‘Lynched Negro. Sought B PRI L R GS T B R R " The state Hf North — Carolina sought - today through a judi cial inguiry here to ascertain the identity of the mob of twd dozen masked men. who seized Govan Ward, a Negro - prisoner from Franklin colinty officers Tuesday and -lynched him for the axe-slaying of a white farmer. st g More than 50 witnesses were ordered to appear for the hearing at which Superior Court ~ Judge W, €. Harris was designated to preside.’ SERAVIGES THURSDAY FOR VRS, MURRELL Beloved Clarke County * Woman Dies at Murrell Crossing Wednesday Mrs. Leila Morton Wurrell, 81, | died at her residence at Murrell Crossing near Winterville, Wed nesday afternoon at 3:20 o'clock after ‘an illness of one month. Funera! services were held] Thursday ' afternoon at the resl-! dence at 5 o'clock, with Dr. Lester, Rumble, pastor of the First Metho dist church, of which she was a| member, officiating. 7 o - Pallbearers weré George Crane, | Rufus- Crane, Gus Dozier, =T. W.% ‘Morton, Jim Merton and Bob ‘Mor-} ton. " Interment will be in. Winter . ville cemetery by MecDorman-, Bridges. 1 Surviving Mrs. Murrell are four daughters, Mrs. D. Worth Williams, | Macon; Mrs. H, F. Pittard, Thom- | aston; and - Misses Elizabeth and} BErmine Murrell of Winterville; al. son, C. H. Murrell, Winterville, and | several nieces, nephews anhd grand-| children, * Mrs. Murrell was born in Clarke CGounty, cn the old Morton home_-wl place, and has been.a resident. of | ‘this .county all her life, - - She was the widow of the late George T. Murrell, one, of Clarke| county’s outstanding ce{tizen& and | before her marridge was Miss Lella' (Continued on Page Six) i et et ——— | FLAG IS STRUCK AS | GERMAN SHIP SAILS| NEW YORK.—(#)—The Ham-! burg-American_liner Deutschland sailed for Germany early today, its Nazi swastika flag streek, after poilce guarded the pier to prevent anti-Nazi disorders. 2 - Awnother German ship, the North German Lloyd liner Europa, was. scheduled to arrive in port teday.. Captain Heinrich Dau of the Deutschland weould not say if the' swastika flag was struck because: of any fear there would be repe- ’ tition of the viblence that*mar«kmjl the sailing of the Bremen FEriday | ‘inight. 3 i R rban i s b } -!l_TAII.lIHIg 1832 SETTLEMENT OF WAR QUESTION PREDICTED - IN LEAGUE CIRCLES CAN YOU PRONOUNCE ETHIOPIAN . CAPITAL? PR T LAI R i SWASHINGTON— (&) —Few, pérsong pronountce Addis Abara, capital of Ethiopia, ' ‘correctly, says the United Statés geogra phic board. "The board, ‘which officially | d_etermim‘s spelling® and pron - ‘ounciation” ‘of geoxraphical ~ nAmes, says its “Ahddis - Ahwawa,” * with’ the wccent on tfle first ‘syllable of each word. B © eeaimiais 8 I|. i 3 Widely Known Northeast Georgia Physician, Fath er of Athenian, Passes Br. William H. Reynolds, aged 74,“widely known northeast Gieor igid physician; died at his home in agton last night' at 11:30 o’click. He was ill five days. He wa #.the father of Dr. Harold I, Reynolds of Athens* <« '+ ¢ / “gnc -~ services ' - will *be _con ducked from Lexington ° 'Bfiptist3 ichu bh at 10:80 ‘o'clock tomorrow angtmog by Dr. W: A, Faust, : f."b" T mfiu ‘\“, .Be “chteehs < Atlenta, 2 “@glethorpe- -county,. m&@ Yy Rev. B. .C. McWhorter, Baptist “minister. 5 ~ Interment will be in Clarke ‘cemetery, Lexington,” Bernstein Funeral Home in charge. The pallbearers will be T. E. Wat kins,.r Géorge PBarron, Hamp Me- Whorter, Joe Booth, Grady How - ard and Judge Joel Cloud. Mem bers of the board of deacons of Lexingfon Baptist church will act as honorary pallbearers. Dr. Reynolds is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mae Wills Reynolds; three sons, Dr. Reynolds’ of Ath ens, W. H, Ra?‘no!ds,"‘j‘r.,'*%:.} ; S. Reynolds; three brothers, J. 8.- ReynolMs, C. 1. Reynolds"a&di} Earl Reynolds; and .four sisters; Mrs. Kla Dillard,, Mrs.. C. A, Duggan, Mrs. .W. .J. Wise and Mrs. Dalsey Booth, v | . A native of Newnan, Ga. Dr.- Reynolds became . a.. vesident of Lexington in 1885. Since that tlmei he has. bean regarded as one of the outstapding. citizéens of Oglethorpe county and this seetion, holding a position of eminence in the pro fessional world and in the relig jous realm. Due to his interest in wublic affairs, he was chosén by ‘the people of this, senatorial dis trict to represent them in the Georgia legislature, where he was an outstanding figure. As a member of the Baptiet! church and its board of deacons, Dr. FKeynolds was instrumental in making that organization a mostl effective influence in the lives of | the younger generation as well as (Continued on Page Two) MOTHER OF J. T. - DUDLEY PASSES Mrs. "Amelia T. Dudley Dies This Moening in South Carolina ; Mrs.. Amelia Townsend Dudiey, mother of Julius T. Dudley, of Ath ens, died at her home in Bennetts ville, 8. C, this morning at eight o'clock after an illness, of three months. {2, . Mrs. Dudley had reac?éd the ad vancefl age' of nineiy-four years and her dgth was not unexpected. She wag born December 1841 in Bennetisville and had lived there all her life. She came of an old Carolina family and was a repres entative. in the highest sense of the old-time eivilization of the South. Her life was that of an exem plary Christian womanhood and was devoted to deeds of love and charity among all the people of the: community .in whi¢h she iived. She had in past years v'sited in Ath ens -and her friends here will learn of her death with great, sorrow. Mis. Dugley isx survived by five children, Julius: T. Dudley, of Ath ens, €. T. Dudley, of Washington, D. €., Mrs. C. W. Dudley -of B::; nettsville, 8. C,, Mrs. J. D, Fu : and Mrs. Vista D. Hollis of Ben nettsville, 8. C. The funeral and interment will be in Beppettsville, =~ = Four-Power Conference at - Paris or Ventimiglia . Likely Next Week - F.D.R. VOICES HOPE Laval Talks With |l Duce Over Telephone; Latter Sounds’ Conciliatory By JOSEPH E. SHARKEY Associated Press Foreign Staff Copyright, 1935, By The As sociated Press : GENEVA«—A 'four power confer ence to discuks ‘dettlement of the Italo-Echiopian confliet may be held at Paris or Ventimiglia, Ttaly, aext week, it was reported here today aftéer Premier Beénito Musso lini demanded ' modification of the Anglo-French reace formula draft, Long distance telephone conyer sation between Premier Laval of France and Mussoiini * brought 1l Duce's demand that 'th: proposed pledge of non-resort to' arms dur ing peace negotiations he removed from the draft formula. Agreement Predicted. Nevertheless, league “circles pre dicted something : tentative in the way of =an agreement: would be worked out within -24 - hours, The _impression. grew that T Duce had proved somewhat concil fatory in his talk with Laval This ' optimism was expressed deapflg the fact that only a few hogfi,equier ‘the Tltalian delegation to ‘the special §ession of the league council, sumngoned to attempt a golution of theforisis, had declared . Smmeda, il e formulidf had heen prepared overnight by Anihony Fden of Great Britain and FPremier Laval of France. The text of the for mula was communicated at once to Premier Mussolini in Italy. A spokesman for the Italian delega tion” told the Asgociated Press: “Phe atmosphere among Italians is one of distinct pessimism.” ROOSEVELT HAS HOPE WASHINGTON .——(#P)Hope for \nadjustment of the dispute hetweeni | (Continued On Page Six) } ar d 1d N JiUUILY 1 l Senator Would Withhold Money for Ball's Ferry Project, Release Other WASHINGTON.— (&) —A pro posal by Senator George (D.-Ga.) for a truce in the Georgia high way fund controversy- through re lease of ' all but enough money to build the disputed Ball's F}érry bridge if the state strengthens its road organization drew official study today. .~ The ssenator get forth his com promise seeking to break the deadlock over his state’s $19,000,- 000,000 share of the federal road tunds in a letter to Thomas H. MacDonald, chief of the Federal Roads Bureau. a copy of which went to President Roosevelt. Saying the “solution seems sim ple.,” George wrote: : “Withhold $§300,000 or such sum as you believe adequate to take ¢are of the Ball's Ferry bridge subject to future negotiations be tween < the Federal Burean of Public Roads dnd -the Georgia highway commission; release the balance upon condition that the engineering sta®f of -the Georgia highway commission be strength ened to take care. of the unusual incresse in the funds released, or failing to meet the last named (Continued on Page Six) REGENTS TILT MAY BE DECIDED LATE TODAY ATLANTA, Ga-—{P)—With tes timony and arguments on a tem porary order against payment of | $333,833 tp“the:Board of Regents for new buildings in the stateg University - System completed, | Judge BE. E. Pomeroy said hei probably. would . render a decision | today. " ! He took the case under advise-! mept yesterday , after the state| sought dismissal of the order.on | the groumd ~that the petitioners, Ralph L. Ramsey of Falton coun ty and a group of other taxpayers, | have no interest in the ;suhjectg matter whlcga would entitle them to maintain the suit. l * B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SLAYING OF GIRL Gcral‘d ’l‘;n‘o"m;)son iy THOMPSON 5 GIVEN in SENTENCE OF DEATH Slayer of Mildred Hali mark Must Die in Chair: Plea for New Trial Made PEORIA, IL—(/)—The electric chair loomed for Gerald Thomp son, 26, today as atonement for ravishing and killing Mildred Hallmark, 19-year-old convent graduate, the night of June 16. g [ Beven: 5 after the fi%&msmnmmw was found in a cemetery diteh, Thompson was under sentence of death ordered by a circuit court jury which deliberated less than four hours last night. Only two ballots were reported taken, Tears appearved in ~the tool maker's eyes as he waited in Judige Joseph E. Daily’s cham bers for his return to jail. The trial ended with an unus ual touch when Judge Daily, un willing to wailt while Ren Thur man, Thompson’s attorney, was located, entered a motion for a new ~trial on behalf of the de fendant and set’ August 12 to hear the plea. Prominent men and women oOf the city surrounded State's Attor ney Edwin V. Champion after the verdict to congratulate him on the outcome of the trial. Thompson’s confession told of picking up Miss Hallmark as she waited for a street car, taking her t¢ a lonely section, beating her into unconsciousness as she vesisted - his advances, tearing off her clothes, and then throwing her body into a cemetery ditch. HOUSE REJECTS DEATH CLAUSE ON UTILITIES WASHINGTON — (A.P.) — Continuing its opposition to President [Roosevelt’s wishes, the house refused again today to accept the provision in the utility bill to abolish “unneces sary” holding companies. This action was taken in re jecting a motion by Chairman Rayburn of the Interstate Commerce committee to in struct ‘house conferees on the legislation to agree to the sec tion approved by the senate by a one-vote margin. Foreich News ON THUMBNAIL By The Associated Press ' ROME.—~Very Rev. Father Mat tern, 70, New Orleans, United States representative in the Jesuit headquarters, died. ROME.——ltalian savings bank i £ " dpositors and holders of a~recent' ordinary bond issue are to be paid 5 perceit instead of 4. g MOSCOW.—A trans-Polar pas senger airline may be established on' the basis of the forthcoming'| flight of Sigmind Levaneffsky to the United States. He and his companions may start tomorrow night. " TOKYO. — Yosuke Matsuoka, University of Oregon graduate, was made president of the South-| ern Manchurian railway. GENEVA.—The Italian delega tion to the League of Nations GOVERNOR ATTACKS PROCESSIG TAYES 5. A BURE VIDALIA, Ga .—(P)— Delivering / a stinging rebuke to Georgia's'cons gressional delegation for their ’ai:/: "tltude concerning Rooseveltian pol icies, Governor Bugene Talmadge. 'antagonist of the New Deal presi- * ‘dent, today led a = three-poimt broadside on the natlonav_a,d}gnc istration. By The governor criticized teWfi : processing taxes as rul.ansvto the farmers; the Federal® Bureau of Roads for delaying Gieorgia’s Q}%‘ 000,000 allotment of highway funds ’and what he termed the “forsaking of the platform of the national . government for communism.” E Tobacco Celebration = | The occasion was a public gléfi ering and speaking in this south eastern community celebrating the g opening of Georgia's tobacco aoa-lg 'son, Other assaults on federal = policies came from Hugh Howell - of Atlanta, chairman of the state democratic + executive rommittee, land Thomas M. Linder, state 7arm commissioner. . ' “Our senators and congressmen seem to he hypnotized, or in a daze, when they get to Wuhitfi ‘ton MQWMW Assailing Congressman oy son, of the sixth Georgia distrigt, - whom he referred to as “ohe yery prominent member of couflg’ instead of calling him by name, the governor added: R “Or is it that one very promi 'nent member of congress dlq a lot of trading, and taxed his fa'm-= ers to death for a certain Bal's Ferry bridge, wanted to ' - the entire $19,000,000 allotteéd to ; the state of Georgia by the federal government which rightfully be longs to it?” i Focal Point o%iv Ball's Ferry, on the O on=e river in Vingon’s distriot, s/ the focal point In ~the federal-state road dispute. Talmadee Fecently charged Vinson with ‘political trad- = ing' in the matter. Threaténing to carry the mat, ter to the polls in the 1936 nation?' (Continued On Page Six) ot Tobacco Sells as ® High as 33 Centt By The Associated Press i Bright leaf tobacco auctions ba gan today in 15 cities in sog@ Georgia, with opening prices re ported by warehouses at from §:t€ 33 eents a pound and petter. Under the crusy of heavy first day -offerings, and spirited bidding exact figures on average prices were not available, but two ware= housemen_)vredicted the first day average would be around 20 cents a pound. For the 1934 season, the average for the state was 18.78 cents. St Heavy receipts were announced from all cities making early rec ports on sales. ‘ln some cities, | opdning . prices were reported slightly above first duy's figure§ last year, -and at other point# tney were about the same. | council session declared an Anglos | French formula to avert war be ['tween Italy and Ethiopia wak ’ “entirely unacceptable.” - } N , | ADDI§ ABABA. — Hihiopian | chieftains, rallying to a wars couneil, ware reported to have exs pressed ~fear to Emperor Selassig that “it may .be too lats ito prevent wexf-,'*‘- Mass recruiting {stmad;x n o i e | BERLIN.—AdoIt Hitler's picked 'Nazi guards, the Sehutz % warned=“state enemies” that the )guardsbmust be reckoned with im 'the event of a showdown, !r* ,\7, —mee o 4: | MOSCOW.—A iSoviet communi que disclosed that the war-time ‘snubmarine B-2 sank in the Gulf of Finland during Raltic fleet maneuvers with a loss of 56 lives, : ‘:;‘;,..»
