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LIEUT. MELL STEPHELSON |
Signal honor came the pamts
week to Lieutenant Mell M. :~t(uph~!
erson, ji son’ of Mr. and Mrs. |
Mell M. Stephenson, sr., (}m«lyi
avenue, when he was assigned mI
Randolph Field San Antonio,
Texas; as instructor in the Army
Air school, the Army's “West|
Point of the Air.” |
In a recent competitive e\:\'ami-fJ
nation, held for the purpose of
determining an eligible list from
which appointments were to be
made to dll 42 vacancies, there
was a iotal or 650 officers com
peting. Of this number 475 were
determined as eligible. Of the 475
eligibles, 42 were selected, Lieu
tenant Stephenson being one of
them . >
-Lieutenant Stepfiznson was
graduated = from Athens High
sechool in 1925, with a splendid
seholastic record. While at High
sehool he played tackle on the
football team and was a captain
in the R. O. T. C. He graduated
from the University of Georgia in
1929 and was a member of the
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'‘also a graduate from the Army
Air school, the institution to
Memorial rse“r;iées
For J. T. Pittard to
Be Held August 10
WINTERVILLE, Ga.—Memorial
exercises for the late beloved J.
T. Pittard, long one of Clarke
county’s most prominent citizens,
will be held in the School Audi
torium here Saturday afternoon,
August 10, at 5 o’clock.
The entire community will pey
tribute to the memory of this out
standing citizen.
The following program will be
presented: :
Song by the assembly: “Holy,
Holy, Holy.”
Invocation: Rev, R. W. Green.
Announcements,
“His Communijty and School In
terests”: Rev. W. M. (Coile.
“His Business Life”; Abit Nix.
“His County Activities”: Tate
Wright.
Special music.
- “A Loyal Kiwanian”: Martin J.
Abney.
“His Agricultural Activities”: L.
S. Watson.
“His Church Life”: Rev. R. W.
Green,
Unveiling of picture, by his
great - grandchildren, Bebe and
Anne Weeks. ;
Presentation of picture to school,
by Marion Coile.
Acceptance of picture, by Claude
Tuck, chairman of School Board.
Benediction: Rev. W. M. Coile.
Morris Break With Talmadge Is
Political Sensation In Georgia
ATLANTA. Ga.—Judge Newt A.
Morris' break with Governor Eu
gene Talmadge over the latter's
opposition to the re-nomination
of President Franklin D. Roose
velt ecreated a sensation in politi
cal circles. !
Judge Morris, a former sup-'
porter of the governor, and mem
ber of the state Democratic execu-]
tive committee, in a radio speech
Friday night, called upon Gover
nor Talmadge either to pledge
his support to President Roosevelt
in the event of his re-nomination
for the presidency or resign as
Democratic natienal committee
man from Georgia.
The former speaker of the
Georgia house of representatives
and judge of the Blue Ridge Cir-l
cuit, has been prominent in Dem-]
ocratic circles for more than half !
a century and took part in the
Macon Democratic convention
that nominated Governor Tal
madge last vear.
The Marietta jurist opened his
address by pointing out that he
has suppotred every Democratic
nominee since he first voted for
President Cleveland in 1888, am‘l
backed Governor Talmadge in the
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Italy And Ethiopia Agree To Resume Arbitration
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» .ouse of Representatives
Is Expected to Vote on
Measure Monday
MOST BILLS DROPPED
Tax Bill Likely to Pass
Despite Warning F.D.R.
- Doesn’t Like Formi
BY D, HAROLD OLIVER
‘ (Associated Press Staff Writer)
| WASHINGTON — (Plyg— A Re
publican leader who knows con
gress looked over the 17 major bills
awaiting final action Saturday and
predicted at least seven would be
scrapped to permit an adjournment
in two weeks—or August 20 at the
| latest.
“Once the senate passes the tax
bill,” said Senator McNary of Ore
gan, minority floor leader, ‘they
won't be able to hold a quorum.
They’ll break out eof that corral
like a fighting bull.”
Friends of Vice Président Garner
said the Texan alsp felt adjourn
ment in the air. *
Robinson Still Convinced
Senator Robinson, the Democra
tic leader, was still convinced con
gress would be ‘fortunate” to get
through by August 20 although the
17th was the goal. President Roo
sevelt has a speaking engagement
at Malwaukee the 23rd and he wants
to keep it. The executive must be
in Washington to sign last minute
Billg. o T
Here are the bills McNary plac-«
ed in the “scrap or doubtful” col
umn:
Utility holding company aboli
tion; ship subsidy; Guffey-Synder
coal regulation; bus and truck re
gulation; food, drugs, and cosme
ticg control; NRA wages, hour and
child labor requirements and the
limitation on war profits.
Democratic leaders would not
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two races he has made, but is
“one of thousands of Georgians
from one end of the state to the
other who are saddened and re-|
sentful of his uncalled for, and|
in many cases abusive attacks,!
‘upon President Roosevelt.”
Roosevelt’s Work Praised
“I believe that President Roose
vit, from the very hour he took;
the oath of office, has put his
strength, heart, and soul untiring
ly into the dutiesr of the position
he occupies, and has tried honest
ly, feartessly, impartially and faith
fully to help the people of this
nation,” Judge Morris said. “When
any president does that, he has
done all that he can do; therefore,
common justice, fairness and hon
esty demand that he should have
the respect, confidence and sup
port of the voters and citizens
throughout the mnation, and cer
taitly those who belong to his, the
Democratic party, and especially
those public officials who hold
their positions by the nominationl
and vote of organized Democracy.”
After divulging who paid th
cost of his own radio addres:l
Judge Morris called upon Gover-!
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Saturday Felt Like
Hottest Day in Athens?
Well, It Really Was
A i e R S O R
Saturday not only felt like the
hottest day of the year in Athens—
it really was. |
The thermometer hit a high point
of 97 degrees here yesterday, ac
cording to E, S. Sell, Athens' vet
eran government weather obser
ver. The high mark for the year—
97—was reached once before this
summer, that being one day last
month.
The lowest point reached Friday
night was 74, not so very low when
you ‘come to think of {t. That
gave an average temperature of
85.5 for the 24 hours ending at 5
o’clock Saturday afternoon. The
normal average temperature for
this time of the year is 79.
Another “scercher” is promised
for today and Athenians .who
weren’'t able to visit the “old
swimming hole” yesterday are like
ly to make a dive for it this af
ternoon.
RUSSIAN AVIATORS
FAIL ON POLAR HOP
Qil Trouble Over Barents
Sea Causes Tric to Turn
Back Saturday
By JOHN LLOYD
Associated Press Foreign Staff
MOSCOW.— (#) —Oil trouble
over the icy Barents Sea thwart
ed Saturday night the ambitious
attempt -of three Russian tu fly
non~s§)o§p from 'M?mo%%*%o““sfi
Francisco, across the North Pole.
Disappointed, the fliers turned
about when over the southern
part of the séa and headed for
Leningrad. They landed at 10:30
p. m: (3:80 oM., R 8.. T.)
A defective oil line spoiled their
dream of setting a new world’'s
non-stop record in a 6,000-mile
hop to the Golden Gate from
Moscow .
A radio message, after eight
hours of silence, said a line from
the distributing - tank began
throwing off excessive quantities
of oil and the crew was unable
to discover the cause.
They made the first part of their
flight—an 875-mile stretch from
Moscow to the Barents Sea—at
an average of 108 miles an hour,
considerably better than had teen
expoected.
Taking off from Moscow at 6:03
Saturday morning (11:03 .p. m.,
Friday, Eastern Standard Time),
the plane had reported its pro-
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CONFESSED SLAYER
OF WOMAN IS CALM
Forty-six Year Old Cleve
land Woman Held for
“Hex’’ Murder
CLEVELAND — (#) — Mrs.
Matilda Waldman, 46, confessed
“hex” slayer of Mrs. Ida Cooper,
52, maintained her baffling calm
Saturday night as she prepared to
spend her second night in a city
jail cell.
She pleaded guilty to a first de
gree murder charge Saturday and
asserted .he enjoyed th%'undest
sleep Friday night she had exper
ienced in two years.
Judge Joseph N. Ackerman, who
bound her over to the grand jury,
listened as she related placidly her
weird story of Mrs. Cooper's slay
ing.
“Why did you kill Mrs. Cooper?”’
asked the judge.
“I don’t know. She bewitched
me,” Mrs. Whidman replied,
“How long had you known Mrs.
Cooper?”
“l never saw her until yester
day,” the woman answered.
The court asked what Mrs. Coo
per had done to her.
“What didn't she do?” Mrs.
Waldman responded. “She had me
paralyzed. I was full of aches and
pains.” 4
Asked whether ghe was sorry,
the defendant replied:
“No. I feel like a new person.
I don’t realize I did it. I feel so
relieved. I can’t explain it” ~
“At 2 p. m, I lay down on the
bed and some power told me I was
in great danger, so I got my hus
band’'s gun and went to the Coo
per store,” she said.
Mrs. Waldman said she tried un
successfully to induce Mrs. Cooper
to sign a prepared note “releasing”
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Road Fund Struggle Continues,
Editors Pleading For Counties
Openly and behind the scenes a
terrific struggle over release of
the so-cailed $19,000,000 federal
highway fund continued through
out Georgia yesterday. |
Gaining ground daily, the !
movement for turning the money
over to the counties and munici
palities has assumed such magni
tude that all efforts on the part
of congressmen in Washingten to
compromise the differences be
tween the highway board and
public bureau of roads have sub
sided. i
Latest developments included a
joint statement by three Tenth
district editors, Huber H. Dyar,
Royston Record; W. A. Shackel
ford, Oglethorpe Echo, and W. T.
Bacon, The Madisonian, urglng;
that that portion of the fund
which does not have to be match
ed with state funds, amounting
to $11,500,000, be released -at once
to the counties to give jobs in
building farm-to-market roads, I
Mayors Join In
The Georgia Municipal Associa
tion announced through its secre
\ary, Mavor Zach Arnold of Fort
Caines, that mayors of towns and
‘cities throughout the state have
been asked to bombard the Geor
gia delegation in congress for re:
lease of 25 percent of the fund to
the towns and cities for building
streets.
Vocational Ag. Teachers
To Meet Here This Week
L. M. Sheffer, state supervisor
of vocational education, yesterday
announced a six-day program to
be participated in by, nearly 150
vocational agriculture teachers
who will attend an annuai state
conference at the University of
Georgia Monday through Satur
day.
Accomplishments will be re
viewed and future plans discussed.
Sessions will be in Camp Wilkins
on the College of Agrjculture
campus.
Highspots of the announced
program foliow:
Monday afternoon: Welcome
address, Chancellor 8. V. San
ford; plan of cenference and an- |
nouncements, L. M. Sheffer; and
“A Community Program of Edu
cationfi” Dr. John T. Wheeley,
professor of rural and vocational
education.
Tuesday morning: “Work Donel
by FERA Teacher During 1934-35,
and Plans for the Coming Year,’
Paul S. Barrett, director of ewer
gency education program with the
State Department of Education;
report of F. F. A. activities, M.
D. Mobley, state supervisor;
It is also known that county
commissioners throughout the
‘state have been in touch with
Washington for several weeks,
urging that the money be released
to the counties.
The .Mayors' associotion also
said that Senators Wéalter F.
George and Richard B. Russell
and Congressmen Paul Brown,
Deen, Whelchel, Ramspeck and
Vinson have agreed to support the
move to release the money to the
cities. This, of course, implies
that they will also urge that the
counties get their share.
The board of managers of the
powerful Associatoin of County
Commissioners, which meets in
Atlanta Thursday, is expected to
take further steps in promoting’
the movement to obtain the works
relief highway fund for the coun
ties and municipalities.
The Tenth- district editors who
issued a Jjoint statement Friday
night urging releast of the fund
to the counties, declared that the
major portion of the disputed $19,-
000,000 which must be matched
with state - funds will not be avail
able until after this year, but that
about $11,500,000 is already avail
able.
It is becoming more and more
apparent that the national admin
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Georgia Association of F. F, A,
and F. F. A. alumni organization
und general = social activities,
George I. Martin, assistant super
visor of agricultural education,
Chapman, Collins
Tuesday afternoon: Addresses
by Dean Paul W. Chapman, of
the College of Agriculture, and
Dr. M. D. Collins, state superir
tendent of schools.
Wednesday morning: “Selecting
and Organizing Groups for In
struction,” O. C. Aderhold, pro
fessor of rural and vocation edu
cation. ‘
Wedgesday aftyrnoon: 'Address
by Director Harry L. Brown, Ag?
ricultural Extension service, -and
Loy E. Rast, region director, Soil
Conservation service.
Thursday morning: “Setting Up
the Supervised Practice Program,”
L. M. Sheffer.
Thursday afternoon: Addresses
by W.. G. Crandall, professor of
rural and vocational education,
Clemson college, and I. W. Dug
gan, professor of rural and voca
tional education, Mississipi Coly
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Prominent New York Editor
Will Speak At University On
Farm, Home Week Program
Wheeler McMillin, Editor
Of "“Country Home,"”
Cuest Speaker
SESSION AUG. 12-17
Associated Organizations
Will Also Meet During
Week on Campus
Wheeler Modillen, of New York
city, one of the nation’s outstand
ing farm leaders and editor of
Country Home magazine, will ba
the first guest speaker during the
University of Georgia’'s Farm and
Home week which will be held
August 12-17.
Dean Paul W. Chapman, of the
College of Agriculture, announced
yvesterday that the New York edi
tor will open the FParm and Home
general sessions Tuesday morning,
August 12, with an addrezs on
“New Markets for Farm Pro
ducts.”
In presenting the subject, Mc-
Millen will represent the National
Chemurgic council. The council is
an organization composed of lead
ing sclientists who have associated
themselves with business men
determined to promote prosperity
in the United States by creating
additional markets for farm pro
ducts.
Create New Markets
The council has announced that
it expects to reduce, i{ not elimi
nate, the importation of farm
products from other countries and
to ereate new warkets by discov
éring industrial uses for farm pro
ducts. Spokesmen have said that
already significant progress has
been made.
Dean Chapman said, “The Uni
versity of Georgia is fortunate in
‘seouring Mr. McMillen for this
‘address, as he is presenting a
program of intelligent and con
structive effort that will aid in
the solution of our most serious
farm problem.”
He added a cordial invitation
to all Georgians to attend not
only this address but also the
many other features of Annual
Farm and Home week.
Programs have been arranged
for farmers, farm women and 4-H
club members — both boys and
girls.
Waomen's Course
A farm women's- shidrt course,
always a feature of Farm and
Home week will open Monday,
August 12, on the University Co
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Alleged “Mutilation” Kil
ler of Doctor Continues
To Deny Crime
CHICAGO — (#) — A net of
circumstantial evidence was tight
ened about Mandeville Zenge Sat
urday as prosecutors prepared to
charge him with the fatel mutila
tion of Dr. Walter J. Bauer — his
successful rival for the hand of
a pretty nurse.
Axsistant State’s attorney Char
les Dougherty announced he would
formally book the adamant young
prisoner for first degree murder
after a sixth man mad connected
him with circumstances gurround
ing the crime.
“We have a perfect circumstan
tial case,” Dougherty asserted. “I
believe we have sufficient evidence
to go before a grand jury and ob
tain an indictment.”
Oren J. Guiett, who occupied a
room next to that of “E. 1. Jones”
at the Jennings hotel in Ann Arbor,
Mich., viewed the suspect. He said:
“That’'s Jones.”
Dr. Bauer had told police in a
dying statement that this “Jones”
had kidnaped him in Ann Arbor,
forced him to drive to Chicago at
pistol point, bound him in a dark
alley and there performed the bru
tal surgery.
Four other witnesses had identi
fied Zenge as the tall man who fled
the scene of the crime Wednesday
morning. A cab chauffeur pointed
him out as the passenger who left
behind a ‘“‘suicide note” and blood
stained coat when he disappeared
in the dark vicinity of navy pier
Wednesday night.
But the young suspect defiantly
declared his innocence, '
" “I'm not guilty of this crime,”
he told reporters in his first inter
view since he was captured early
Thursday,
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Wheeler McMillen, peditor of
Country Home magazine and an
eminent farm leader, who will
speak here Tuesday, August 13, on
a University Colleg® of Agriculture
Farm and Homg week program.
Bond Almand Says lllegal
To Pay Out Money With
out Appropriations Bill
ATLANTA, Ga.— (B) —A “de
mand” for an extra session of the
general asserably was made Sat- |
urday by Representative Bond Al
mand of Fulton county to enact
a gencral appropriations bhill
The last legislature, which ad
journed in March, failed to pass
the bill fixing amounts that state
agencies may spend for 1936 and
1937.
Almand said Governor Eugene
Talmadge has no authority to run
the state without a general ap
propriation bill.
The aect in question is a bill
passed every two years by the
legislature fixing the amount of
state appropriations for depart
mental operations.
The representative is counsel
for plaintiffs in an action to en
join the state from paying $333,-
338 to the Board of Regents for
new buildings in the University
System of CGeorgia as the first
installment of a special $1,000,600
appropriaiton.
Almand, associated with Jack
Savage, Atlanta city attorney,
said an appeal will be made to
the Supreme court of Georgia in
the suit which Judge E. E. Pom-
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Danielsville Merchant Has Sold
To 5 Generations Of 5 Families
BY SAM WOODS
About a year ago we had a story
in the Banner-Herald about Lonnie
E. Green, who started his business
career as a twelve year old boy in
1880,
Since May 8, 1884, Mr. Green has
been in business continuously at
his present location facing the
courthouse square in Danielsville.
In that first story Mr. Green told
ug he felt confident he had sold
goods to families for five genera
tio::'s, but that he first wanted to
check up to be sure. .
He later talked to a lady custo
mer and told her he had sold goods
to her father, her grandfather and
her great-grandfather. This lady
stepped to the store door and call
ed her son, who was sitting in an
automobile. x 4
As the boy entered the store she
told him to step up to the counter
and buy some candy from “Mr.
Lonnie,” The purchase made five
generations in that particular fam
ily Mr. Green had served.
By .referring to his ledger and
taiking to some of his old custo
mers, he has definitely established
the fact that he has sold m
not to one family for five
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Resolution Put - Through
Council and Agreed to
By Both Nations
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- WILL MEET SEPT. 4
Conciliators to Resume
Work Immediately on
Plans for Peace
‘BY JOSEPH E. SHARKEY
(Associated Press Foreign Staff)
GENEVA — (®) . The League
of Nations gained a victory in its
uphill fight to prevent a threaten
¢d war between Italy' and Ethiopia
Saturday night when both couna
tries agreed to resume arbitration.
Resolutions were rush&d ' through
the council of the League provid
ing that a conciliation commission,
whose efforts to ‘solve ‘a border
dispute recently bogged down, will
g 0 to work again; and «calling a
session of the council September 4
to discusg all angles: of the quar
rel. 5
The arbitration . resolution was
adopted by unanimous. vote,
The Italian delegate abtained °
from voting cn the resolution call
ing the council into session in
September, Y
To Meet September 4.
‘“The council decides to meet, in
any event, September 4, to under
take a general examination in its *
various aspects of relations be
’zwun Italy ;and Ethiopia,” stated
the second vesolution.
~ Adoption of this course of pro
cedure followed many hours of
private negotiations by Anthony
Eden of Great Britain, Premier
Pierre Laval of France, and Baron
Pompeo ;Aloisi, the Italian dele
gate. ’
Discussing the September meet
ing, Eden said “Creat Britain will
devote every effort to secure a
specific settlement of the dispute.
We realise the gravity of the is
sue and are mindful of our obliga
tions as a 'member of the Leagtc.
ETHIOPIA ACCEPTS
ADDIS ABABA — (#) — Ethio
pia - accepted Saturday the League
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White Man Lynched
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In California Town
YREKA, Calif—(#)—The brief
reign of lynch law here early
Saturday—when a mob ‘hung the
aceused siayer of Dunsmuir Police
Chief ¥. R. Daw-—brought quiclk
promjses of action by authorities
Saturday night against the lynch
ers.
District Attorney James Davis
and sheriff’s deputies planned im
mediate steps to identify and
prosecute the members who
seized Clyde ‘L. Johnson, 24, from
his jail cell and hanged him to a
pine tree three miles outside this
Siskiyou ‘Mountain -town.
Undersheriff W. J. Neilon said
none of the masked lynchers had
been identified.
tions, but to at least five families
or that length of time. e
Deinitely traced back are: '
_ Richard E. Fortson, Thomas Bd
Fortson, John Lacy Fortson, Plum
er Fortson and Floyd Fortsom.
James M. Dean, John B. Dean,
Mrs. Emma Dean Meadow, Mrs.
Minnie Bettie Bates and Meadow
Bates. . . ke
Thomas Whitworth, George
Whitworth, Preston Whitwmfig
married . daughter and a child of
that daughter.. et R
Another Madison county family,
and the one referred to first in
this story is that of David B.
Meadow, William Meadow. W. D.
Meadow, Mrs. Laucy Christy and
Jiwmmy Christy the last named be
ing the boy who bought the candy.
A colorful family recorded is
Oliver Webster, Baga Waebster,
Lina Newton, her daughter, Versa
Newton Griffith and her daughter,
Vivian Curry Johnson.
There may be otners that Mr.
Green hag not yet uncovered, so we
warned Mr. Green that should he
discover some six generation custo
‘mers, that Ripley’s “Believe It or
lNot" would get him yet. -
