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Praises George
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GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY, |
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The following news item and tl'i-i
bute, taken from the front page of|
the Saratoga Springs, N. Y., Sara-|
togian of July- 26, will be of inter-|
et to the many friends here of |
George Foster Peabody.
Mr. Peabody hag visited in Ath-|
ens 0 often on trips here in the in-‘
serest of . the . University, whose
great friend he has long been, that |
he is almost considered an Athen- |
lal |
News that he has entered his
fth year. in, good. health ‘and |
cheer, will be read with pleasure |
by all who knew him, |
The itémd Tollows: i
George Foster Peabody, distin-{
guished for hjs philanthropie, edu- |
cational and civie services, tomor—[
row will celebrate his birthday at |
Yaddc He will enter his 84th !
year Sunday. 1
His natal day will be particularlyi
happy tomorrow, because today he |
has seen the fulfillment of the]
Saratoga: Spa,. the great goal for|
which ag member of ‘the first com- |
| mission for the preservation of the |
| springs, he ~ has been constuntlyi
working !
Although he hag devoted muCh;
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Was Father of Claude:
Kidd, Clarke County Po-!
liceman; Well Known ‘
W. Wi “Buad” .Kidd, 79, father
of Claude Kidd, Clarke county po
liceman, died this morning at 2:20
O'clock, after .an. .illness, of four‘
Death. came to the well knownl
Athenian at the home of al\Oth(’l‘(
;;!\ Clyde ' Kidd, in Carlton, Ga. |
e had been in ill health for some;
ime, although he was not forced |
l bed until -a few .days. ago. |
Kidd was born in Ogl(‘-;
thorpe county, but for-the past 12|
1d been living in Athens.
¢ has many friends here, and in
ther parts. of this section, who
W egret-to learn- of.his death.
I ral services will be held in
ert Methodist church, Sat- |
August 17, at 4 o'clock, with |
Rev. E. L. Hill, pastor of the
First Présbyterian’ ¢hurch, |
of ting. . The deceased was 3|
i r of Colbert Methodist i
Church 1
ment will be held in Kidd's |
temetery, near Colbert, with Bern- |
siin’s funeral home in (:harge.i
rers will be Bill McKinnon,
S W. Nash, R. F.. Thomas,
familton, Joe Hardman and
‘ Milton Thomas. |
Kidd is survived by his two
§ brother, John E. Kidd, two
8 Mrs, W. J. Meadow, and
M W. A. Bryant; five grand
n, and several nieces and
Regional Director of *
Federal Housing Is a
Visitor Here Thursday
n W. Millsaps, regional di
of the Better Housing Di
i of the Federal Emergency
I, was in Athens yesterday,
icting Jocal banks concerning
L ng the better housing pro
y n this section.
[ Millsaps has charge of Bet-
Housing work in five states.
tid he was very pleased with
the rk being done in this county
forecast that the Better. Hous
-2 program was on the eve of a
boom in the country.
\ H. Howell, field representa
¢ of Better Housing, with of
.Ces in Atlanta, wvisited local of
“te Wednesday.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
Ggor*gi;—F edérctl‘ fio;d Fund R:)w* s Not *Y_elgett*leci
OFFIGINS WAITING
FOR MORE ADEQUATE
“BOAD PERSONNEL™
Roosevelt Writes Letter
To Cox and |ls Ready
To Compromise
GEORGE PROPOSAL
Will Release Money Soon
As ‘“‘Adequacy’’ Subject
Is Cleared Up
WASHINGTON.—(P)—A letter
received today by Representative
Cox of Camilla, Ga., from Presi
dent Roosevelt said that as soon
| as the “adequacy” of the Georgia
| highway department was cleared
up the state’s federal road aid
could be released.
{ “Any very small amount neces
]sary to cover a few projects on
‘\Vhich agreement may not be
reached,” the President {wrote,
“can properly be reserved for la
ter discussion. The great bulk of
the funds can be srent.”
This provision would call a
truce on the disputed Ball's Ferry
‘bridge, and in this instance would
adopt a proposal of Senator
Ceorge (D.-Ga.) to compromise
differences between Governor
Talmadge's highway board and
the Federal Roads Bureau which
resulted in the impounding of $19,-
000,000 of federal highway money
allotted to Georgia.
Letter to Cox .
| The President's letter to Cox
follows: ' ".° kst
“] have the letter of July 22nd
signed by vourself and seven of
your colleagues. .
“The highway issue in Georgia
is a very simple one. The sole
question. is. .the.adequacy of the
state highway organization to
jpmv!de plans and to supervise
lthe expenditure of some $19,000,-
| 000. The money is available. The
Ingretary 'of Agricultute must
| under the law be satisfied as to
the adequacy of the highway de
partment. As soon'as this matter
| is cleared ‘up in accordance with
| the responsibility ~vested in him,
the work ecan begin.
“Any very small amount neces
sary to cover a few projects on
iwhich agreement may not be
reached, can probably be reserved
"tor later discussion. The great
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LOCAL WEATHER
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showers Saturday} ‘
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Total since August 1....... .16 [
Deficit since August 1...... 2.25 .
Average 'August rainfall.... 4.86]
To'al since January 1.....‘32.05§
Deficit sincg January 1.... 1.831
" Foreich News ON THUMBNAIL
| By The Eiated Press -
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z BERLlN—Sterner restrictions on
| Jews and - other ‘state enemies”
I‘were foreshadowed by two speech
| es of denunciation by Julius Strei
| cher,. who brought this month-old
{anti-semitic crusade to the Ger-.
| man capital. i |
| ——
| PEIPING — Reports came from
!Calgan, Chahar Province, inner
{ Mongolia, that Gareth Jones, Brit
-lish journalist kidnaped by bandits
i July 29, had been killed by his cap
} tors.
{ PARlS.—Demands of Mussolini
{ for Ttaly’s occupation of Ethiopia
led powers at Paris Tripartite con
ference to fear that war was ine
vitable, . : |
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Miss Mary Mims Featured
Speaker Today AsProgram
At University Nears Close
Social Life Specialist of
L.S.U. Gives Pointers
To Aid Community
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The modern frontier is the local
community, where selfishness, greed
and graft must be conquered, Miss
Mary Mims, of Baton Rouge, Lou
isiana State university extension
social life specialist, said at Farm
and Home week today. ‘
While pioneers of old went into
unknown “regions and were forced
to fight vicious animals and new
diseases, modern Americans have
even bigger job at home, she said.
“Every frontier that has eyer
been established has stimulated
democracy,” Miss Mims added.
«But there are no frontiers out
there now. They have come to
us. The local community must now
be improved to sustain the democ
ragy.”
“Phe nation is the product of
local communities,” she said, and
we ‘must grow from the center of
the circumference.”
Describes Task
Miss Mims said the task includes
huilding the land, impressions of
good citizenship from the mother’s
lap, cooperative production of farm
crops, a live-at-home program,
public health, civic activities, rec
reation and “God in the commuf
ity life.”
Urging soil = improvement, she
hmid “Show me where the land
has gone down- and I wil show
you where the man has gone
down.” WP
She declared .. that. we Dave
thought too muech of training for
citizenship, rather than having
young people given impressions of
good citizenship from infancy, and
training for “political rights.”
“Unless there are 21 years of
good citizenship, political rights
are in jeopardy,” she nodded.
Miss Mims said the child’s im
pression should be that it is =a
privilege to obey the law, adding
that “Crimesis not a parasite. It
does not attack itself to the per-
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Britain Also Asks Japan,
France, and ltaly to Meet
In October
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LONDON.— (&) — The British
government announced today it
has invited the United States, Ja
pan, France, and Italy to a pre
liminary mnaval conference “about
October.”
The conference would follow
bilateral discussions which Great
Britain has scheduled with
France, Italy anad Russia. These
bilateral discussions are expected
to begin in September.
The purpose of the preliminary
conference would be to discuss a
possible agreement in naval limi
tation, the whole to be consum
ated at a formal conference,. as
provided in the Washington treaty
of 1¢22, at some future date.,
It was stated here that the date
for the formal conference which.
under the treaty, is supposed to
be held sometime in 1935, is still
“indefinite as ever.” Consequent-
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ADDIS ABABA — Troop mt.we-1
ments to/ frontiers were speeded up'
upon words from Paris_ that the
peace conversations were unlikely |
! to prevent war. ‘
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| TIETSIN, China—Japanese mili
| tary authorities began investiga
| tion as serious violation of North
s‘ China agreement, Killing of« three
| Japanese by alleged Chinese ban
| dits in train holdup. .
| LONDON—Ethiopian minister to
.| London, upon orders from Emperor
l Haile Selassie, began recruiting of
{army ex-officers for service with
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| Minimum < Demands of
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| Acceptable to Ethiopia
ETHIOPIAN SITUATION
\ AT A GLANCE
By The Associated Press
PARlS—Powers at conference
fear conflict inevitable because
of 11 Duce’s minimum of arm
ed occupation of Ethiopia.
ADDIS ABABA—Troops and
~.munitlons moved toward fron
tiers.
LONDON — Former officers
of foreign army sought for
service by agents of Ethiopia.
ROME—lnformed circles say
Italy hopes to win approval by
conference powers of its east
African policy.
ATHENS — Greek press de
mands government protest to
Italy for militarization of
Dodecanese Islands in the
Aegean.
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By RICHARD G. MASSOCK
Associated Press Foreign Staff
PARlS—(#)—Premier Mussolini’s
demand for Italian occupation of
Ethiopia to enforce any concessi
ons given Italy aroused fear today
among the tripartite conference
representatives that they would be
unable to prevent war in East Af
rica.
Armed occupation was Mussoli
ni’'s minimum demand as present
ed to three representatives of
France, Great Britain and Italy in
their conversations for the settle
ment of the Italo-Ethiopian dis
pute.
Premier Pierre Laval of France
wae expected to seize on Musso
lini’s terms as a starting point for
negotiations which he hoped would
close the gap between the British
and Italian viewpoint.
Emperor Haile Selassie, not rep
resented at the parleys, remained
an uncertain factor since the three
powers’ problem is to find a way
of making Italian control of Ethio
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Regents Case on Way
L
| To High State Court
| ATLANTA —(® — The suit to
I block the use of $1,000,000 of state
{ funds for new buildings in the
University System of Georgia was
en route to the supreme court to
day.
Judge E. E. Pomeroy, in Fulton
I(Atlanta) superior court, certified
|a bill of exceptions presented by
lB(md Almand, of Atlanta, counsel
|for plaintiffs. Almand said the
petition ghould reach the supreme€
court within a week, as soon as
the trial court clerk completes the
records in the case. :
Ahtens, Ga., Friday, August 16, 1935
TAX BILL REAGHES
JOSE-SEMTE 800
TOBE “IRONED OUT”
iSeveral Controversies on
' Measure Seen as Group
Begins Its Work
DEBATED TWO DAYS
ARfeßeea i
{Measure Streaks Through
Senate in Record Time
Of Two Days |
WASHINGTON — (#) — After!
streaking through the senate in
record time, the tax-" bill ‘designed
to raise $250,000,000 from new lev
ies on million-dollar incomes, large
corporations, '.‘estates *and- gifts
dropped today into a senate-house
conference in which several con
trovernies threaten.
The Democratic leaders hoped
these disputes could be settled in
time to adjourn ‘' congress next
week.
| One controversy gtarted even
Hefore the senate, by a 57 to 22
vote, passed its finance committee's
bill late yesterday at the end of
only two days of) debate.
It centered around an amend
ment, which the senate approved
at the urging. of -Senator Borah,
Republican, Idaho, to prohibit the
federal government from issuing
any more tax exempt securities in
the future. The treasury was fight
ing this, and there wag oppositicn
|in the house. e
' Mows Trouble
Another stumbling block facing
!senate-house conferees: who will
| seek to reconcile the senate bill
|with a markedly different measure
already passed by the house was
the question of taxes on estates
land inheritances. The senate sub
sstituted increases in the present
| estate taxes for the brand-new in
!heritance levies approved by the
| house.
. A comparison of some major
I[)oints of the two bills follows:
| Individual Income Surtaxes |
| Senate bill: 60 per cent on tax
able income between $1,000,000 and
$1,500,000, rising to 75 per cent on
’that portion over $10,000,000. Pres
| ent law stops graduating at $1,000,-
000, providing flat maximum of 59
per cent on all over that. Present
law rates below $1,000,006 unchang- i
ed in senate bill. -
House bill; Starts higher levlesl
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ROOSEVELT AT HYDE
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President Hopes Congress
Will Complete Utility
Bill at This Session |
HYDE PARK, N. Y. — (& —|
Hope that congress will complete |
work at this session on the utility |
holding company regulation bill was
expressed by President Roosevelt|
as he arrived at his home here to- |
day for a two-day stay. 5
The president declined, ht)wever,?
to answer questions on details of |
either this measure or the tax bill |
both of which are in conference be- |
tween house and senate.
He arrived from Washington at|
7:28 a. m. E.S.T., to be greeted by
a crowd of home folks with appl-|
ause. His holiday on the banks of|
the Hudson river began in brilliant
sunshine, but he wag favored withi
cool weather. !
He said he expected to confer
Sunday upon his return to the
Whlte House with various groups,
checking the status of legislation
to be sure where things stood.
L With congress apparently head
ed speedily for adjorunment, it ap
‘pears Mr. Roosevelt is going to
make sure that the administration
IprOgram receives complete atten
|tion before the gong sounds some
| time next week.
| The president emphasized he wag
| sesing no official visitors during
Ithe brief visit here occasioned by
! the twenty-first birthday tomorrow
|of Frankiin, jr., his third son.
5 John, hig youngest son, met Mr
ißoosevelt upon his arrival here
|and rode to the family home with
| him. There the president was
| joined by Mrs. Roosevelt and his
mother, Mrs. James Roosevelt, sr.
Mr. Roosevelt said he hoped to
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Plane Crash Is Fatal
To Famous Humorist
And Aviator in Alaska
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One of thg worst tragedies of the year was [~ :
recorded this morning when Will Rogers and i x‘&"’m\w
Wiley Post were instantly killed in a p!a_ne W
crash between Fairbanks and Point Barrow, |¥ ~
Alaska. Rogers is shown above. In the .:-;um
center is'a photo of the death plane, the new 51 i r
Lockheed Orion, single-motored monoplane,
the successor to the famed Winnie Mae
which twice carried Post safely around the ’
world. . Below is*a late photo of the one- z_-
eyed Post. who was considered one. of the i ‘:.:.E‘
country’s best pilots. i( *_-- et
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Entire World Shocked at News.
Of Death of Rogers and Post
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ROOSEVELT SHOCKED |
HYDE. PARK, N. Y. — (® —|
President - Roosevelt expressed the |
shock of the nation today upond
learning of the death of Will Rog-!
ers and Wiley Post who he said |
were “outstanding Americans andi
will be greatly missed.” . :
GARNER GRIEVED l
WASHINGTON — P - T hel
capital, where Win Rogers wasi
loved as few others of his time,
grieved today to hear of his death,
“Oh, that is awful bad-" exclaim- |
ed Vice President Garner, raising
his hands on learning that his hum
orist friend and Wiley Post had
crashed, ol e e h
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—sc Sunday
DAUGHTER REHEARSING
SKOWHEGAN, Me, — #) —
Mary. Rogers, 19, only daughter of
-Will Rogers, famous comedian
killed in a plane crash in Alaska
today, was in rehearsal with the
Lakewood Summer Theatre play=
ers when word of her father’s death
reached hére.
Mrs. Rogers, widow of the man
whose humor had made him fam
ous in American life, also was
here. She. arrived Tuesday after
noon from California with Miss
Theba Blake, her sister. P
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[ MRS. POST PROSTRATED
~ PONCA CITY, Okla. — «2 —
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)Accudent Occurs in Wild
Arctic Area of Alaska ;fi
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Early Last Night *%fi
KILLED INSTANTLY
Ao
Reports Say Plane Fell
Only 50 Feet; Bodies =
Recovered in Water =
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(Copyright 1935 by the Associated
- Press.) ;‘é“g
SEATTLE.— (&) —Death ‘efidp&‘,‘fi%&%
the aerial vacation of Will Rogers,
famed author-humorist, and -Wi
ley ‘Post, noted round-the-world
flier, when Post’s plane crashed,
15 miles south of Barrow in Arecitc
Alaska last night. v g
Word of the tragedy was receiv
ed here today by the United
States signal corps from Sergeant.
Stanley R. Morgan, operator. at
Barrow. G
Sergeant Morgan said the acci
dent ovccurred at 5 p. m., Alaska
time (11 p. m, E. 8. 'T.) dast 8
night. g
“Post and Morgan crashed 15
miles south of here at 5 o'clock.
last night,” Morgan reported to
the signal corps. <
“Have recovered bodies and
- placed them in care Dr. GreM.gx’
IStanding by on anchorage hourm‘i‘
iv.”
l No details of the crash were
received in first reports.
| Await Better Weather
Post and Rogers left Fairbanks,
in ‘the interior of Alaska, yester
day in their pontoon. equtppaggg';
monoplane, but sat down on Hard
ing Lake, 50 miles away, to await
better weather. o
Dense fog, low ciouds and rain
were reported at Barrow at the: =
time. No word had been received ..
here today of weather conditions |
at Barrow, but fogs are frequent .
at this season when the warm sun'
has melted year around snow and
ice to their lowest point. .. =8
The coast guard headquarters *
at Washington, D. C., £§
the cutter Northland, u_‘:‘é
touched at Barrow yesterday in
its annual visit, to return to bring =
the bodies back to Seattle. e
/In Fairbanks a“plane was avail
able to fly to Barrow for
same purpose.
Word of the tragic end of the
jaunt which was to take Post nfig
possibly Rogers to Siberia, vwh";-;,g
Post said "he was going to hwmf;
Tigers, was telegraphed to the
Post and Rogers families by tnggi
signal corps. : s
Devoid of Water e 8
The tundra land south of Bar
row is generally devoid of bodies =
of water Jarge enough for a plane =
‘of this type to make a safe land
ing, and while no detailg otth%_%%
crash wére received. it was as
sumed the plane came down on
the frozen ground. i i
Barrow, northernmost white set
tlement in America,-has a popula
tion of several hundred natives
and about a dozen whites, lg?‘%j;
ing the signal corps oerator, his
wife and child, Dr. Greist, his
family, and, the nurses in the
Presbyterian hospital. . .
The accident occurred at the
height of the brief Arctic summer
when it is daylight almost aro ;
the clock. "y
The Unite] States coast guard
cutter Northland was waiting in
the ice pack only a few miles 8
away from Barrow on its annu i,,f”
visit to the settlement. L
Entertained e
Post and Rogers had been en
tertained in Falrbamks for sev
eral days. while their plane was
being serviced. They flew in.a
regular transport plane in Anchor
age Wednesday and visited the =
Matanuska colony near here. (&
The .pair left Fairbanks. lasés
night but set their plane down on. -
Harding Lake, 50 miles away, to
awalt lfting- of -dense fog im the
Barrow region. e
Rogers. said he wanted to go to
Barrow to visit Charles Brower,
knewn throughout Alaska as the
“King* of ‘the "Arctic” beecause of
his 51 years of residenece. . .
Brower. operates a trading post
and whaling station in the settle- =
ment, which is 11 mites fron
where Point Barrow juts out inte .
the Arctic ocean. e g
This was Post's second cr
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