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NVEW YORK — Richard Adami,
.ed @ ride by three men in an
omobile, was held up by them
[r.:} point of a gun,
It wa dark. Adami quickly
jpped his money into his shoe,
pe robers, finding his pockets
apty threw him out.
He saved 60 cents.
IT ISN'T A GAG
(HARLESTON, 8. C.—The births
¢ pete and Repeat Jones, Negro
vins, have been duly recorded
ere
VICE VERSA
SHARPEVILLE, Pa—Steve Eph
am, 15, didn’t run away from
bme to join & carnival. He ran
way to get away from the Carni
il his parents own, and to see the
orld. Police found him two miles
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EARLY BIRDS
LINCOLN, Neb. — Lincoln’s
oungsters apparently go for slog
hs in a big way. *“Only 134 days
Il Christmas’’—yet the post office
ere vesterday received two letters
sdressed to Santa Claus,
WINDY CITY ALSO THIRSTY
(HICAGO—The largest number
liguor licenses in the city’s his
vy 8,402, was sold for the last
alf of 1935. The city collected $5,-
01000 in license fees. The prev
us peak vear before prohibition
as 1905, when 8,097 licenses were
bld in the first six months.
embers of Western
Bar Association to
Meet Here Thursday
The Western Bar association will
eet at the Legion Log <Cabin
hursday afternodon at 6 o'clock,
was announced yesterday after
ooh by W. T. Ray, secretary of
1e ‘association.
The regular business gession will
held, preceeded by a delightful
rbecue to be served in the gar
pn at the east end of the cabin.
The Western Bar -association is
mpared of attorneys in Clarke,
alton - and Oconee counties which
mpose the Western™ judicial cir
it.. Thomas 8. Mell of Athens is
esident of. the group. : -
thenians Attend
Chandler Reunion
Descendants of .-the Thomas C.
handler family. held. their annual
union at the .Clarence Chandler
me, north of Commerce, Sunday,
ith over 400 attending.
Basket lunch was served, and
'éryone had an enjoyable time.
Mr. Chandler is one of the best
10Wn men in Banks county, hav
g served for many years in the
ate legislature, and also being
unty school commissioner for a
Imber of years.
Among those attending there
on were Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
2y, R. C. Ray and S. G. Ray and
mily of Athens.
egion to Meet Here
Friday Night at 8:00
A called meeting of the Allen R.
leming Post No. 20 of the Amer
bin Legion, will be held Friday
izht at 8 o’clock’ at the Legion
0g Cabin, located on Lumpkin
'eet, it was announced today by
arold B, Hodgson, commander,
id Mayo C. Buckley, adjutant.
Many things of interest to all
€gionnaires will be discussed at
1€ meeting, and all members are
ged to be present. The Legion
vention, and plans for the Sep
ber meeting, when new officers
I be installed, will be discussed.
. .
32,356.17 in Retain
Title Contracts Are
Recorded During Week
Forty-five retain title contracts
Ere re led at the courthouse
I'ng the past week, ranging all
© way from a $15,000 conditional
OCX sale agreement to a s2l con-
Total amount of .45 contracts
“S $32356.17, of which the great
4ority represented automobile
Fichases. Forty of the 45 econ
‘lS recorded werk for automo-
S, though the $17,356.17 listed
- 4Ulos, represents in most cases,
"V the down payments, leaving
Usands of dollars to be paid in
‘1 addition to the stock sale
listed were one con
¢ each for a cedar chest, a
410, hed room furniture, and
't for itomobile tires.
i |
ortgage and Deed
Transfers Recorded
Last Week $10,502
“fal estate motgage and deed
recorded at the court
iring ‘the last week total:d
SMounting to $10,502, with two
. 13 carrying no amount.
3. ,ce of the Peace court rec
' Isled one dispossessory war
mortgage foreclosure fi.
© 'O $47.25. one account of S2O.
'ii""‘—)l"!‘as‘ and judgments iisted
o‘“'- ¢l nine for a total of $604.73
Ros thery = iaxes, i
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
Roosevelt Trying to “Bluff” States, Talmadge Says
INCOME TAX ON “LITTLE FELLOW” REMOVED BY COMMITTEE
MEMBERS OF GROUP
QUDDENLY REVERSE
AGTION ON MEASHRE
Tax Experts Say Roughly
Bill in Present Form .to
Raise $250,000,000
READY FOR DEBATE
Measure More in Line
With F. R.’s Wishes
Offered to Senate
By D. HAROLD OLIVER
Associated Press Staff Writer.
WASHINGTON.— (&) —Hastily
plucking out of the new tax bill
all vestiges of new and higher in
come ‘taxes on the ‘“little fellow,”
the senate finance committee of
fered to the senate today a meas
ure more in line with President
Rcosevelt’s wishes.
In brief, the oft-rewritten bill
row provides: higher income sur
taxes on incomes over $1,000,000,
leaving all other income rates un
‘touched; higher taxes on gifts
and estates; corporation income
taxes applied on a graduated scale
wider than one approved -by the
house but not so wide as describ
ed by President Roosevelt; a tax
on dividends received by one cor
poration from another; and an in
crease in the existing capital stock
levy.
Tax experts said that, roughly,
the bill would raise about $250,-
000,000, approximately the same
figure mentioned for a widely dif
ferent bill passed by the house.
The- bill as originally drafted by
the senate finance committee last
week had been estimated so raise
$450,000,000.
Debate Tomorrow
Democratic leaders, moving to
begin debate in the senate tomor
row, said prospects for quick ad
journment now. were better—and
Senator Robinson ©f Arkansas,
Democratic leader, even asserted
that it might be possible to quit
next week. Some other legislators
mentioned September 1.
The senate committee suddenly
reversed itself yesterday after lis
tening to a bi-partisan storm of
criticism, voiced among others by
Senator Borah (R.-Idaho), and
Senator Harrison (D.-Miss.),
chairman of the committee. In
the house, where all seats will be
at stake in next year's election,
members were particularly upset
by the finance committee’s action
Saturday in approving the LaFol
lette ‘scl‘l)iule to bring 1,500,000
new income taxpayers into the
treasury fold by reducing exempt
ions to SBOO for single persons and
$2,000 for married people.
Vote Is Close
The committee vote to elimi
nate the LaFollette plan was nar
row, 8 to 7.
In brief, the senate committee
bill provides:
Individual income surtaxes: a
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Sir William Watson,
English Poet, Passes
BRIGHTON, England.—(®)—Sir
William Watson, eminent English
poet, died today in Ditchling, Sus
sex, after a fortnight’s illness. He
was 77.
Sir William Watson was born
August 2, 1858, in Burley-in-
Wharfedale, Yorkshire.
His first’ work, ‘“The Princes
Quest,” appeared when he was 22,
but he did not win recognitien un
til 1890, when his “Wordsworth’s
Grave” appeared.
STATE NEWS BRIEFS
By The Associated Press
‘ SAVANNAH — Representatives
of the Junior order of United
American Mechanics and the
Daughters of American assembled
'(here today for their state conven
tions. !
The junior order was headed by
tVV. C. Munch of Macon as state!
councillor while Miss Annie |
lHughes of Atlanta headed the
Daughters of America in the same
capacity.
WILMINGTON, N. C. — Four
Georgia youths who represented
the state Rotary clubs on a visit
{to England arrived here yester
day aboard the American «Freigh
ter Shickshinny.
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’ship’s log as Edward Cole, jr., of
lnome of the child placed under
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Three Georgia farmers, who have excelled in a different phase of
farming endeavor. will be awarded certificates in recognition of
their service to agricultural deveiopment of the state August 15 dur
ing the annual Farmm and Home Week at the College of Agriculture
_at Athens. Certificates will be given to J. B. Wight (left), of Cairo.
who has contributed to Georgia’s leadership of the pecan industry;
John J. Cummings (top right) of Donaldsonville, one of the out
standing cattle men in the United States, and S. L. Thornton (low
er right) of Hartwell, one of the leaders in developing a system of
soil building and erosion control. (Assocated Press Photos.)
Three Prominent Georgia Farmers
To Be Honored by University Here
HOPSON CHALLENGES
1(1BBY BODY'S PROBE
Utility Head Thinks Per
sonal Income Should ‘‘Be
Private Affair”
By CLARENCE M. WRIGHT
WASHINGTON.— (&) — House
lobby investigators were told to
day by H. C. Hopson, boss of the
Associated Gas and Electric sys
tem, that he thought it improper
for “these committees to go pry
ing into private affairs” like his
personal income,
After a lengthy, detailed story
of how Hopson became one of the
ruling heads. of the Associated
system, Chairman O’Connor of the
rules committee asked from what
source he derived his income.
From management fees, Hopson
replied.
“What was your income for the
past two years, or ~for ‘the last
year, for example?” O'Connor
asked.
“I can’'t tell you,” the witness
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nah and William Lee Wood, jr., of
Macon. .
! The Shickshinny, listing Sa
{ vanah as its home port, sailed
‘from Antwerp July 27.
MACON — A case of infantilel
paralysis has been reported to
| health authorities here and the
home of the cild placed under
| efrict quarantine. Auwuthorities said
§the case was mild and the first
| one noted here in two years. A
»I'playmate of the child also was plac
i,ed under a close observation.
| VILLA RICA — Ovrcome by gas
| while at work in .a well _about
eight miles from here, Ed Black,
.| farmer, died in a hospital yester
| day. Osie Cook ’ot’mn’qfl)‘ig-;,
- ¥ — ot 5
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oy T S R g S S T TIR U T T A
—ESTABLISHED 18388
Athens, Ga., Tuesday, August 13, 1935.
Each of Men Excels in a
Different Phase of
Farming Activity
Names of three men who will
receive certificates in recognition
of their service to agricultural de
velopment of the state were an
nounced today by Dean Paul W.
Chapman of the College of Agri
culture.
Recipients of the recognition
awards, which will be made Thurs
day at special exercises as a fea
ture of Farm and Home week,
will be John J. Cummings of Don
aldsonville; S. L. Thornton of
Hartwell, and@d J. B. Wight of
Cairo. -
Each of the three men selected
has excelled in a different phase
of farming endeavor, Dean Chap
man pointed out. Cummings is one
of the “outstanding cattle men of
the United States”; Thornton “is
recognized as one of the leaders in
developing a system of soil build
ing and erosion control which au
thorities say is the soundest ever
advanced for ithis section of the
state”; and Wight “perhaps more
than any other one man has con
tributed to Georgia’s leadership
in development of the pecan in
dustry,” Dean Chapran said.
“Cummings own 750 head of
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LOCAL WEATHER
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 h0ur5........ 0.00
Total since August 1....5... .09
Deficit since August 1...... 1.87
Average August rainfall.... 4.86
Total since January }......31.99
Deficit since January 1.... 1.44
WHEELER MMILLEN
SPEAS HEXE TODY
T 0 1500 FIRMERS
Noted New ‘ork Editor
Advocates ‘‘Trading
Among. Ourselves’
KEEP MONEY AT HOME
Country Home Editor Is
Featured Speaker at
Farm, Home Session
Wheeler McMillen. editor of the
Country Home, - sald here today
that if the millions who live on
the soil have prosperity “no one
needs to worry about prosperity
for all the people of our country.”
In a Farm and Home week ad
dress to 1,500 persons at the Uni
versity of Georgia, rthe New York
editor also said:
“Let’s grow on the farms of the
United States every raw material
We ean that our factories require.
Let’s grow on the farms of the
United States every , single pro
duct needed by the American peo
ple that our soils will produce.”
“The dollars we send abroad are
helpful—to foreign countries. The
dollars we keep at home will cir
culate many times, creating pur
chasing power on the farms, em
ployment for labor, and business
for everybody.
“Let’s insist that science be per
mitted to exert her extraordinary
powers in behalf of releasing ag
flcgture for full employment of
all the energies, human and na'tu
ral, that are latent upon the land.
“We shall then have prosperity
for agriculture.”
Most Difficult Period
There are none to deny that the
last 16 years have been most dif
ficult of our agricultural lives, Mc-
Millen said, adding that “We have
been the victims of much 'that in
many instances has been far be
yond our individual powers of
control.”
“Some of the changes that have
made 'these years difficult,” the
speaker said, “could have been
foreseen but were not. Some of
them were foreseen but we did
not listen. Some of the changes
were recognized but we failed to
accommodalte ourselves to them in
good time. !
“There is one change going on
in the world today that makes it
all the more important ‘for ‘the
future of farming that we join the
energies of agriculture, of indus
try, and of seience, and 'that we
make full use of our scientific
attainments for protecting our in
terests in ‘the future.
Tide of Nationalism
“I refer to the rising tide of nat
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FINAL RITES TODAY
FOR FRANK GAINES
Well Known Athens Auto
Salesman Killed in Elber
ton Crash Monday
Services were to be held this
afternoon at 5:00 o'clock at First
Baptist church for Frank Gaines,
well known A'thens automobile
salesman, who died yesterday aft
ernoon of injuries sustained in an
automobile accident in Elberton.
The services were to be coduct
ed by Rev. Pope A. Duncan, pas
tor of the Prince Avenue Baptist
church, assisted. by Rev. D, B.
Nicholson. h
Pallbearers were B. L. Brooks,
W. J. Haynes, J. R. White, Nor
man Keller, George Champion,
Jack Reeves, Joe Shepherd and M.
L. Waggoner. An honorary escort
consisted .of J. H. Brunson, C.
Grady Henson, Monroe Butler, Dr.
Chester O. Middlebrooks, Darwin
Vaughtt 8. W. Phmaon, L. L.
Moss, 8. E. Patat and members
of the Forum class of First Bap
tist church. Interment will b in
Oconee HIlIl cemetery, McDorman-
Bridges in charge.
Surviving Mr. Gaines are his
wife, Mrs. Nannie Lee Fulton
Gaines; parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.
A. Gaines, Winterville; sisters,
Mrs. Harold <Chambers, Winter
ville; Misses Mary Lizzie and
George Gaines. both of Winter
ville; brothers, J. P., C. A. and
E. 8. Gaines, all of Winterville,
and B. W. Gaines of Atlanta. One
nephew and several aunts and un
cles also survive.
Mr. Gaines was a native of Ell
i e
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Huey Long Definitely
Decides to Make Race
For Presidentin 1936
Louisiana Kingfish Tells
Other Senators of Plans
To Oppose F. D. R.
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
(Copyright, 1935, Associated Press)
WASHINGTON — Senator Huey
Long, Democrat, Louisiana, has told
colleagues in the senate that he
has decided definitely to run for
the Democratic . presidential nomi
nation in 1936. j
He told them, furthermore, that
if President Roosevelt was renomi
nated, he would run as an indepen
dent, unless the Republicans nomi
mated someone he could support.
Long’s plans were reported to;
the Associated Press today by sev
eral senators with whom he talked.
The Louisianan, however, refused
to discuss them, saying he had no
comment. He did say, though, that
if he ran, it would not be to “beat
Roosevelt,”” but to elect himself,
Republican senators in whom
Long confined were elated. They
felt his decision was a *“big break”™
for the G.O.P, and might swing the
election their way. For a long time
many Republicang have felt they
could win if Long would run to take
“radical” votes away from the De-‘
mocrats. |
One western Republican senator,
whose state has gone Democratic
in the past two elections, said
there was no doube 1t would go Re
publican today, if Long should run
He said the Louisianan would easi
ly take enough votes frora the De
mocrats to deliver the state's elec
toral ballotg to the Republicans, as
LaFollette did in 1924. ?
Long told his senatorial collea
gues that he would enter many of
the state primarieg and give Presi
dent Roosevelt as much of a battle
at the convention as possible. He
said if the president was renomi
nated he would then decide whether
to run independently or join forces
with the Republicns.
If the president should be op
posed by former President Hoover,
or someone of the type, Long said
Italy Not Likely to Compromise
At Forthcoming Tri-Power Meet
Mussolini Drives on For
Force of Million Men
By September
ETHIOPIAN SITUATION
AT A GLANCE
ROME — Informed circles
report Mussolini's policy to be
‘“no compromise” at tri-power
conference on Ethiopian eri
sis.
LONDON — Lord Robert
Cecil urges Britain to show
Italy it will uphold League of
Nations by force if necessary.
PARIS — Hope for settle
ment seen in persuasiveness
of premeir Laval.
ADDIS ABABA—Women take
over jobs of men recruited to
army.
By CHARLES H. GUPTILL
Associated Press Foreign Staff
ROME —(AP) — Informed cir
cles described Italy’s policy today
in the forthcoming Tri-Power
conference on the Ethiopian sit
uation as one of “no compromise.”
These sources said Premier
Mussolini outlined this policy yes-l
terday in discussions with aides
and officials who will attend the
Paris conversations, beginning
Thursday, with representatives of
Great Britain and France.
It was said that Italy will neither
abase her demands for a definite
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EXPLOSION SHAKES
CITY OF VALDOSTA
VALDOSTA, Ga. — #) — The
explosion of a heavy cache of dyna
mite, apparently as the result of
the impact of a bullet fired in tar
get practice, injured two young
men and shook virtually the entire
city, breaking the windows of near
by homes yesterday.
The injured were listed as Fred
Davis and Roy Newham, who told
hospital attendents they had set up
a target near the pit where the
dynamite was cached close to a Ne
gro cemetery in the northern sec
tion of the city and were firing at
it with a rifle when the blast oc
cured,
Attendants said the condition of
the two was serious. No other cas
ualties were repcrted as a result of
the explosion.
It was said that the explosion
shook windows in houses at Quit
man, °9 miles away. i
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SENATOR HUEY LONG
he would run independently. Hei
predicted he would take such stateg
as Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas,
Mississippi, Georgia and Florida
away from the Democrats.
But Long added, his colleagues
said, that if the Republicans should
nominate Borah or some one of
that kind, he would jump party
lines and throw his support to the|
liberal Republican candidate. '
Though Long's plans excited Re-l
publicans to high hopeg for 1936,
they were no. counting chickens
ahead of time. They realized it
was possible for him to change his
mind. And some wondered whe
ther his strategy was not entirely
designed to influence the Republi
can nomination. |
Some Democrats feel that Long’s
candidacy might not prove danger
ous. They contend that if Senator
LaFollette, Progressive, Wisconsin,
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METHODISTS MEET
TOCEMENT BREACH
Unity of Three Branches
Sought After 100-Year-
Old Split in Ranks
CHICAGO.~—(#)—A church mer
ger even larger in scope than a
United Methodism, their primary
goal, confronted three groups of
Methodists who met today to find
a path to unity afer 100 years of
separation.
A Methodist union with Presby
terianism will be the next step if
the conferees realize their hope of‘
cementing the century old three
way split in their own denomina
tion.
The Methodist - Presbyterian
combine has been ' considered for
several years, said Dean James A.
James, of Northwestern univer
sity, a member of the Methodist
unity commission for 17 years.
A conference was held on the
subject, and ft was agreed both
denominations should heal
breaches opened in their own
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ForeicN News ON THUMBNAIL
By The Associated Press
LONDON—Great Britain is ex
pected to seek a solution of the
Italo-Ethiopian crisis along econo
mic rather than political lines in
the fortheoming tri-power con
ference at Paris.
BERLIN—The Nazi storm troop
ers are returning to power as ‘“‘de
fense units” against German “state
enemies.” .
ROME—ltaly was regarded as
opposed to compromise on the eve
of the tri-power conversations in
Paris,
COPENHAGEN — Countess Bar
bara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow
escaped injury in a slight motor
accident as she ‘and her husband
started a journey to Paria ; :
HOoME
RECENT ~ ASSERTION
BY F.D.R BRINGS
GOVERNOR'S CHARGE
Talmadge Writes Letter to
Deen Denying Charges
Of President
“FOLLOWS PLATFORM”
Relief Money for Schools
Not Diverted, Ceorgia
Executive Declares
ATLANTA — (#) — President
Roosevelt’'s recent assertion that
Georgia diverted common school
funds to pay state debts drew from
Governor Eugene Talmadge a den
ial and a charge that the federal
administiation was using school
relics money to “induce or bluff
states into raising their taxes.”
Answering a written protest by
Representative Braswell Deen,:De
mocrat, Georgia, that Georgia was
being discriminated against in re
lief for schools, the president wrote
back that ahalf milllon dollars in
revenues intended for the state’s
schools was used .to “pay back
debts.” 4
Talmadge, answering the presi
dent's statement, wrote Deen that
this was ‘“incorrect.” He also
branded as “incorrect” a state
ment by the president that Geor
‘gia’s chief executive had never
nade official application for a
special grant for teacher relief dur=
ing the 1934-35 term. ;
The governor’s letter follows:
My Dear Mr. Congressman:
A news item appeared-inthe presy
of the state Sunday, making public
a letter from President Roosevelt
to you, dated August 6, 1935,
In that letter, in paragraph one,
President Roosevelt makes this
statement: §
“It ig reported that when the
federal government stepped in and
paid the teachers’ salaries in this
amount, approximately half a mil
lion, dollars of state revenues which
should have gone to the support of
the schools were diverted and used
to pay off back debts of the state.”
This statement is incorrect. There
hag never been any atversion of any
of the school funds of the state of
Georgla since I have been governor
of Georgia. :
Roosevelt Statement
President Roosevelt in paragraph
5 makeg’ the followlpg statement:
“Governor Talmadge has never
make an official application for a
special grant for teacher relief.for
the school year 1931-35.” .
This statement of Presigfit
Roosevelt is also incorrect. Lo
An application wag presented to
me by M., D. Collins, superintends«
ent of schools of the state of Geors
gia for §52,562,869.75, on February 8,
1935. This application I signed, on
that date. iy
The reason I signed the applicas
tion wag that I knew that the peos
ple of Georgia would pay their pros
portionate part of tax money t¢
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