Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current, September 04, 1935, Home Edition, Image 1
Fecretary Wallace And Agricultural Aides Arrive Thursday LOCAL COTTON ' MIDUUN“‘ v i ee s 10V REVIOU‘» CLOSE ... Zis wnacs VGO e ——————— m 103. No. 202. ) hmond Count |chmo y Wi ome Agent Wins = tate Promotion ) - : ; N Y e T o, : ¢ oL o . B B R o R » MISS NELSON An increase in the staff of the bricultural extension service and he addition of several new pl‘O.l-T ts was announced today hyi arry L. Brown, director for (,‘.emu; Ja. The expansion was made pos ble through appropriation of ad itional funds by the last congress Miss Emmie Nelson, who for the hst twelve years has been home emonstration agent in Richmond unty, will become assistant 4-H Jub leader with headquarters in ther M 1 Margaret M. Brand, bme monstration agent in ownde nty has been appoint -1 district supervisor of that_ work jith headquarters at Tifton. Miss Nelson is regarded as one the outstanding members of the et ensi taff in the state and ade an exceptionally fine record Richmond county, Her home is ear Cartersville. She is a mem g of the Baptist church; Jones Purcell, former . county gent in MeDuffie county, was pmed swine specialist for the fate and will haye headquarters t Tift aind H. W. Rankin, a aduate student at Cornell Uni rsit 1 ppointed plant path ogist. Both are graduates of the niversity of Georgia. M A Drake, home agent in larke county, becomes district Ipe w of home demonstration ents and Miss Reba, Adams, Cobb B‘me agent and has been mamed me industries specialist. Head larters for both will be at Ath- Twelve new home demonstration gents are mow in training at the ollege of Agriculture for two eeks, after which they will be insferred to counties where they | serve as assistant agents, and ter recejve appointments as unty home agents. on of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Gooch Dies: Is Buricd Today at 4 P.M. ?‘ lter Gooch nineteen-moth ld son of Mr. and Mrs. B. L. . f Winterville, died at 12:30 ( t morning after an ill es ting sixteen days. ervices were 1'()'!(1\1"1— Lat 4 ock this afternon from It hapel -by Rev: W. J. Ulbers Interment was in i pel cemetery. Bern & ¢ Home in charge of € It hild is survived by b D two sisters, Lillian . e Cooch, six brothers, i ther, Grady, -C. W, | Carl Gooch; grandar i I Mrs. Barton Gooch county and Mrs. : L n of Winterville. lLEgion And Auxiliary to Install ew Officers At Banquet Thursday R S UMicers of Allen R. Fleming e ! of the American Le- | : it the League auxiliary, | e talled here Thumda_v| e H. W. Birdsong will be | - s Commander of the | e feding Dr. Harold B. | irata will be in:—:mHnd( i nder, Mayo C. Buck nt: Dr. Hodgson, fi- " ! M. & Dunlap, ? Frand E. Mitchell, ser- | t ind C.:P. Conway, | Iy rms Mrs. Jacob | . I is president of the| ucceeding herself and | i Hodgson lis first | \ g “nt. Other officers are Paschal, second vice ! Mrs. George Story, re- S Cretary; Mrs. W. W. \ 'responding - seeretary; ; k. 'V Camarta, treasury:; E ¢ Lanier, chaplain; and D. McNelley, historian. | ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service Additional Hurricane Warnings Hoisted As Storm Recurves And Death Toll Leaps; South Georgia Will Feel High Winds Tonight | , : 1 4;' I‘ HIRFOA TYU 'Secretary Wallace Has . Full Schedule of Con ference in Athens MEET AT COLLEGE INo Public Appearance s | Scheduled Due to Heavy Program Agricultural planners from twelve southeastern states as semble here tomorrow at the University College of Agriculture for the purpose of conferring with Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace on a long-time farm pro- I gram. The agricultural membor of the !Rooseve]t cabinet with twenty members of his Washington staff, ’ar)'ive here early tomorrow morn ing on the Seaboard Air Line rail }roud. Included in the staff will be :M. L. Wilson, assistant secretary | of agriculture and Cully A. Cobhy, ’ chief of the cotton division of the ; AAA. { Mr. Cobb has been a visitor to [Athens many times, having come { here for various agricultural con | ferences during *h elife of Dr. | Andrew M. Soule, for many years | president of the agricultural col !lege. He is a former editor of a | widely known farm paper. He imarried Miss Lois Dowdle, for merly of Athens. ! Secretary ‘Wallace's staly here | will not be marked by a public ap | pearance, due to the fact that the 1 meeting here is one of four or five regional conferences, scheduled | some time ago, for the purpose of { receiving reports which will be 'used as a basis for a long Irango agricultural program. The Athens conference was ar ranged several months ago at a meeting of the Assistant Secreta ry Wilson, President S. V. San- Iford of the University of Ceorgia, Dean Paul W. Chapman and Har ry L. Brown, state extension li rector. It was pointed out at that . time that due to the pressure of business on Secreary Wallace, no formal public meeting would e scheduled. The secretary will probably remain here ior thr e days—the duration of- the confer ence—but will be busy throughout | that time interviewing farm lead .ers who come here for that pur | pose. ! Extension directors, stats expe ¢ riment station heads. presidents or | deans of agricultural colleges and iagricultural economists in the twelve states embraced by the re ’gionaj conferen~e, have for some time been engagzed in a survey of !agrlculture within their borders (for the purpose of giving Secreta iry Wallace all wwailable informa | tion possibly on crops which can be grown in their sections, demand for such crops and marketng pos . sibilities. | This information will be assim %ilated and used as a basis for an | agricultural program with long ltime view. It is not exected that l\an’y information which 'may be { submitted in reports at the con | ference will be made public at this time l Secretary Wallace and his party | i | (Continied On Page Seven) Officers of the Legion will be installed by Howard Cordon, im mediate past Tenth District Com-~- mander, and Miss Helen Estes will be installing officer for the, auxiliary. Miss Estes, of Gaines ville, is state president of the aux iliary. Miss Estes will be honor guest at ,tea Thursday afternoon at 5:15 o’clock, given by Mrs. Joel, presi dent of the local anxiliary, at Mrs. Joel's residence in Milledge Park apartments. Preceeding installation services a banquet will be served at the Legion Log Cabin. D. Weaver Bridges is chairman of the com mittee in charge of the banquet, and has announced that more than 100 tickets have already been sold. Those who have not yet bought tickets are urged to get in touch with Harold Hodgson, or - {(Continued On Page Seven) Eight Georgians In Veterans Camp JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — (#) — Florida Emergency Relief admin istration headquarters here today made public a list of the names'and addresses of veterans assigned to the three work camps hit by the tropical hurricane in the Florida keys. i 7 The list is that of the men as signed to the camps and on the current payroll, Some of them may have been away at'the time of the storm. The list included the following Georgians: ; Kyte, Louis, Columbus, Ga. Barrett, Walter F., Atlanta, Ga. Bradfield, Burrell, Atlanta, Ga. Cross, Jac., Atlanta, Ga. Ford, John H., Griffin, Ga. Johnson, John L., Crandell, Ga. Maxwell Ernie, Carrollton, Ga. Rawlings, John G., Eastman, Ga, WORLD'S ATTENTION Hope Not Yet Abandoned l.,eagsue Can Solve Italo- Ethiopia Dispute By JOSEPH E, SHARKEY Associated Press Foreign Staff GENEVA —(#/)— Anthony Eden, British cabinet minister, assured the League of Nations Counci] to day that there can be no question of any political or economic conr flict between Great Britain and Italy. The British minister stated such conflict was impossible because Ital¥ had promised to respect Great Britain's interests in Ethio pia “and Great Britain is sure these interests will be respected in‘ the future.” J Premier Laval of France plead ed for conciliation on the part nfj both Ttaly and Great Britain, de= claring: “I am convinced the Italo~l Ethiopian dispute can be settled | by the League.” i As the council members assems bled, Italy had filed a protesti against Ethiopian membership im | the league. (The Italian memoran dum charged that Ethiopia by hex-I conduct “placed herself openly outside the league and renewed herself unworthy of the confidence accorded her when she was admit-l ted.”) | The memorandum said FEthiopia had rendered herself unworthy of the confidence accorded her when she wag admitted to the League. ! ; (Continued on Page Two) { PR e | i i 8 i » \ | ¢ 9 | b | L R Court Restraining Action Against Owners Pending . Hearing Saturday l —_— ; | Judge Blanton Fortson late }_vesterday temporarily re-strained | Recorder Vincent Matthews from [proceeding with a case against | Harry Epting, jr., one of the own | ors of “The Tavern” on South | Lumpkin street, affected by a | midnight closing ordinance adop | ted last month by city council. | A case charging violation of the | ordinance, was docketed against { Mr. Epting in recorder’s court | subject to trial last night, and the | injunction proceedings, directed tagainst the recorder, police chief | and mayor and council was filed !at 8 o'clock yesterday by Eugene gA. Epting, attorney, acting for | Harry Epting, Jjr., and J. P. il\’nowles' owners of “The Tavern.” i The suit seeks a permanent in ijun(-tinn against the recorder to | stop prosecution of the case | against Mr. Epting and to re | strain the city from enforcement | of the ordinance. b A hearing will be conducted be | fore Judge Fortson Saturday ! morning at 10 o'clock, at which | time the defendants must show | cause for carrying out enforce ment of the ordinance. Petition ers contend hte ordinance is dis ! criminatory, in that it affects only | his business does not apply to | other similar businesses operated ! within the jurisdiction of the ecity. | The ordinance prohibits “res taurants, lunch counters, and bar | hecue stands outside the fire !Hmits” from operating after 12 ! (Continued on Page Two) Athens, Ga., Wednesday, September 4, 1935. | PEAK OF EMERGENCY (CURTAILS AGENCIES Seven Agencies Go Under | Budget Bureau for Per sonnel Curtailment | STOPS OVERLAPPING Roosevelt Believes Peak of Emergency Has Passed | And Issues Order - HYDE PARK, N. Y. —(AP) — ‘President Roosevelt today order led all emergency tederal agencies | under control of the budget bu | reau for curtailment of personnel | with the assertion that the peak of }the emergency has passed. | By executive order Mr. Roose [ velt placed the following seven gov-. }ernment units under the budget‘ control of administrative expendi- | I tures: ' The Agricultture Adjustment Administration; the Federal Emer ’gom‘,y Relief Administration; the { National Recovery Administration; 'tho Tennesee Valley Authority; ith(- Public Works Administration; | | the Commodity Credit Corpora -Ilinn. and the Railroad Co-ordlnafl | tor. ! This move completed the plac-‘ | ing under budget control of :11” lemergency agencies outside regu-} lar executive departments. | The president in announcing the fiorder explained the action contem [plated a prevention of overlapping | and a reduction *of unnecessary iporsonnel. He said it means the | emergency work of the agencies is | over and they must budget ex-' i penditures. | Asked if he regarded the em {‘m'genc-y as over, the president re.‘ | plied that he thought the peak waal | passed. | ] He added that as fast as the va | rious credit agencies have done | their emergency said he hoped for ! consolidation, { He mentioned that the Homé | Owners Loan Corporation already; | has virtually completed its action | on loan applications, and was now | going into the management stage | of seeing that loans are paid and !supervising property. r Asked for an appraisal of the ac-| complishments of the emergency | 1 agencies, the president cited that a | million home owners had beenj | saved from foreclosures, a million farmers had saved their home lsteads and 7,000 banks had been. saved from going under. He said these were just three l examples. He also stated that the cost to [ home owners and depositors had lbeen reduced. EFFECTIVE HERE l Miss Mary Hart, district a.dmln-l istrator of the FERA here, has re ceived orders to cut her personnel in seven counties, she announced today. Thirty-one employes of the FERA have been dropped since September 1, when the order was issued by Miss Gay B. Shepperson; of Atlanta, state head. The FERA force in all counties, with the exception of Clarke and Jackson, has been reduced to the supervising aide. There is an as gistant to the supervising aide in these two counties. The force at the local office has also been reduced, Miss Hart an nounced. It is now composed of the district administrator and sten ographer, and four in the book et | (Continued on Page Three) i o b R it M LOCAL WEATHER l vl vttt _M Rain tonight, e . 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AT g : 7 i SN § g 2 - £ Fd : ¥y ¥, il i 7 - ¢ / 3 ey b« b 0 il 1< £)7 ' | - 3 it SR HALT 2\ N 5/ - 2 RO AN TG X L o A A fleet of rescue ships were standing by this afternoon, waiting for calmer seas, before trying to take off the 260 passengers and 140 members of the crew of the Steamer Dixie, shown above. The Dixie was blown on French Reef, ten miles off Miami, by the tropi cal hurricane. Underneath is sh own the Dixie's master, Captain Einar William Sundstrom. } Associated Press Writer Tells of Storm Ravages Following Plane Survey BY J. P. McKNIGHT (Associated Press Staff Writer) (Copyright, 1935, Associated Press) MIAMI, Fla. — #) — Tl've just come back from flying over the‘ stranded Morgan liner Dixie and the storm-lashed Florida Kkeys. | The ‘B,IOO ton Dixie, 3872 souls‘ aboard her, lies hard and fast on French key, headed south. F&'oml the air she looks to be all right, al tbough she lists slighlty to star- ] hoard. " Her passengers are all still aboard. A dozen other ships clus< ter fanwise, protectivély about her stern, but no lifeboats were in the water. The passengers seem cheerful, unworried. Most are dressed ln’ sport clothes. Lining the rails,| they cheered and waved as we circled about them. ’ Below Tavernier to the Vaca Keys—in the region that bore the brunt of the tropical hurricane now | sweeping along Florida's mnorth west coast—almost nothing man made stands. Nothing is whole, undamaged. < . They tell me here deaths in the area are estimated as high as sev eral hundred. It seems quite pos sible. Houses are twisted piles oti matehwood. PBoats are piled highj on dry iand, cracked, ghattered and twisted. ¢ ! Of an eleven car Florida East Coast special train sent into the keys to bring out 683 veterans in three rehabilitation camps, only the locomotive is left on the rails eight passenger and baggage coach es lie coupled together, "on theit side. Three box cars have been carried many feet from the track. The veterans camps themselves are literally flat. The lumber that went into building them is strewn askew, in - giant piles of match wood.. Nothing stands erect. No Change Is Made . In County Tax Levy . A county-wide tax levy of ten mills was authorized for 1935 by the board of Clarke county com missioners at its meeting yester day. A levy of five mills was fixed forr county school purposes. The tax rate is thg same as that levied last year. | - GUESTS AT LUNCHEON (. L. Chzmbers, Washington, D. C., agricultural _éxtension service man for Southern states, and Harry L. Brown, Georgia agricultural col lege extension director, will be thei guests of Dr. J. L. Pendley at the Athens Lions club luncheon to-z morrow at one o'clock at the Hol-i man hotel, : | A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—>s¢ Sunday ! 1 Snake Creek iS l | Horror Tale i . | | "ls Revealed ' Medical Officer at Con-f ] struction Camp Relates | Terrars. of Wind | ‘ MIAMI, Fla. — (#) — Dr. Lasser }A]exander, medical officer at Camp ;N:). 1, Snake Creek, _who . was |bmught here suffering from num { erous cuts, bruises and and abra {sinns, told a tale of horror from ithe ‘hurricane which Monday lash ed the Florida keys. | ! “The storm started in fury at {8 p. m,” Dr. Alexander said. “A| | host of people were washed awayi |and others left dead after the | storm passed. One man I talked; iwith counted 30 dead persong at this camp, and the total probablyl lwill be from 1256 to 150. Every | Ibuilding was razed and at one time the tide.rose entirely over the is- | ?land. e } ; _Hospital Collapses . “T was at. Snake Creek hotel, }whlch wag used as a hospital. This collapsed about 10 p. m., with many ‘persons .under the ruins. There were about 40 patients in this building, about halr women and children. Out of this number there were only seven men and three or four of the women and children saved.’ “When -the building toppled over, I was able to walk out through a hole in the wall into about three 'feet of water filled with floating Itimbelrs. and debris. The wind was !about 50 or 60 miles an hour and Icarrled flying timbers that caus-‘ led most of the casualties. | “With the aid of a flashlight T lmade my way in the direction of |tho railroad grade, which was the |highest point. I reached a high bank covered with grass after walking about 250 yardg and being knocked down innumerable times by flying timbers. 1 finally reach ed a rock wall about four feet high [where, with a bunch of other men, f[ huddled 20 or 30 minutes. ~ “When we found the water still (Continued on Page Three) STATE NEWS BRIEFS By The Associated Press ATLANTA —(AP) — The ques-l ‘tion of retirement regulations ap peared as a controversial subject] as the National Federation ot' Post Office Clerks gave study to legislative matters today. Short business sessions were held by the association yesterday to hear reports of officers with| the legislative questions schedul ed for later consideration. Be sides retirement, the form of con vention records and the method of selecting vice-presidents were ex pected to draw argument. Some chapters favor voluntary retirement after 30 years service regardless of age, some favor com pulsory retiremeng after 30 years“ service and some wish compulsory ‘retirement at the age of 60 res gardless of length of service. ATLANTA — (AP) — Federal agents have launched a determin- Effects of Hurricane Will Be Felt Well Up in Ceorgia Tonight HUNDREDS KILLED Storm Approaches Cedar Key; Near St. Peters burg; Swings East SAVANNAH, Ga.—With the weather bureau advising people at Savannah Beach and other exposed places on the coast to. come to the city, Savannah is preparing for a stiff wind and rain tonight as its share of the tropical disturbance tearing through Florida. ’ The forecast for Savannah is for winds of gale force from the southeast and rain. No serious danger threatens Savan nah, it is believed, but storm warnings are being displayed thene, | (Copyright, 1935, Asscciated Press) | MIAMI, Fla. — (#) - With ress | cuerg estimating the death toll at between 400 and 500, part of the extent of devastation on the hurs | ricane-swept ‘Florida keys: was | learned today’ from survivers and from expeditions of mercy and aid. ‘ All of the forces of the govel’h’r;:;;% ment were joined with the Red | Crosg in rushing supplies to the ‘,areas of death and wreckage and ‘lln evacuating ihe debris-littered ‘ keys. ,w% The heaviest loss of life, rencx‘t‘i} . lers reported, was on Upper and o Lower Matecumbe seys and in .t.ao |fris.hing villages along Plantation | Key and Key Largo. fi e { Camps Demolished 2 } Two: of the three government camps on th eMatecumbe Keys, !where war veterans are engaged ,in building a highway down. ,'té,j}‘ | keys to Key West, were reported |completely demolished, . «" | A rescue party out of Miami, led r | by Jack Combs, an undertaker as- - | signled to organize ‘identiffcation of the dead reported between 400 land 500 persons were killed in'ajfig;* | area A | Many of those who died on Mate= Icamps on the Matecumbe m,g | collapse of the Snake Creek ho“f;fiz% Ewhlch was being used as a hospit- = ial at the camp K L Among these was Dr. B. C. Main, medical director of the camp. = The word of Dr. Main’s degth | was brought to the mainland- by | Dr. Lasser Alexander, a medice § | examiner at the camp who m death in the collapse of the hotel: = ’ Suryivors crossed Snake Creek, | separating Matecumbe Key from = |Large Key, one at a time. From ° !there, they were brought to Miami |in rescue trucks. i gfi | The hurricane, after racing acro e | the keys, swerved to the flofl;xy’ffi;"’kfiE 'the Gulf of Mexico and endangered |cities on the Florida west coast. | Off Cedar Key ! - | The full intensity of the huyrlofi icane, in this drea, was looked for - |around Cedar Key, a dot of land ‘in" 'the gulf 90 miles north of St. Pef | ersburg, connected with the main |land only by a narrow causeway. ' L Many of the 1200 residents ac_;;cs‘s;% | dar Key began evacuating the Vfiiflfffi | e SeEe i (Continued on Page Pwo) & & “ed drive to halt dove shooting in Georgia until the federdl seasol opens although state laws perli!.iit‘flj hunting now. : fa ~ John S. €. Boswell, United States game management agent, announced the arrest of 18 perafi?g Tuesday in the Atlanta area and added the drive woul be continued relentlessly : ' “*s* The federal laws permit dove shooting from September 21 to January 5 while Georgia's WS permit them to be hunted in Sep tember and from November 20 to January 21. o ATLANTA —(AP) — A “mark ed improvement” in the marketing xof cotton yarns and fabrics is re ported by George A. Sloan, former | president of whe Catton Textile : — Bl (Continued on Page Two)