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About Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 18, 1935)
LOCAL COTTON yiDr W B MEVIOUS CL05E.........11 3-4 e i L —— l' 103. No. 267 arry Trimble Is Winner of First lace In Centest son of Major E i 3. Trimble of Athens ; ce in the statewide ¢ contest, sponsored : ir Lines, Inc, Harry will be given : ip tickets anywhere 4 n Air lines and has § ¢ his mother to New E the Thanksgiving B was anonunced at ; vesterday., ) villiams, famous flier, o del was constructed E painstaking work. i skill- and patience. modeling planes for E | has shown consid is work. H i (ttending West Point L 11 't McPherson ! to enlisted men and I were entered in the g Il parts of the state, rother of Athens Woman Commander . 0f Washington Post VAS TON, . D €4 == .The h Depue Post, No. ! 1 Legion, recognized < outstanding posts t of Columbia, has ! i il, Greer ag its Com ensuing year. Mr, lictive in the post ¢ bhecoming connect vears ago, He was b eal as two-year > this position un ted without oppo i post of Junior Vice Greer's post was sast Department receiving the follow ippointments on department: De ] iander of the Sons Memorial Day Of i ¢ Oficer, and mem city Committee. s personally award- Legion Emblem but | partment for secur st number of new is post in a mem ¢ st year, he secur g at | of thirty-three. The t } Depue Post, No. i total of thirty-four t District, has the uni -1 of securing charter ] i ons of the Legion trict of Columbia. ¢ vas formerly a mem ; No. 1 of Atlanta, also i Byrd Post of Decatur, - I a native of Newton field, Georgia, but 8 i other sections of the tically ever since the ‘ He formerly manager i I Sales Department of ' and Southern Na of Atlanta, but at the ! in executive position L ¢ sed Bank Division of i uction Finance Cor- Washington. Sister Here Al was a-recent visitor A visiting his sister, Mrs. ) 1 who resides on Ogle ken Dri rinken Drivers to (‘ H . . el Heavier Fines, Judge Tuck Asserts Irivers of automobiles vays will he given stif future in City court § C. Tuck declared this tssing sentence on E iged 21, of Gwinnett | I this morning for term with Solicitor n charge of prosecu -4 s sentenc was for pav : UO, representing costs : thg imprisonment. He mstances connected i Judge Tuck said '@ light on Tuggle but £ you ever come court for driving iile drunk I'll put haingang and all the vrgia ‘ean’t buy you ierstand me?” ‘ I 100 lenient on drunk E court”, the judge future we are going to nued on Page Six) st re— Ptain Craft Loses Keys; Asks Friends To Be on Lookout imber of keys on a lost last week by i 1€ E. Craft, of the ) department, and recovered. Captain morning he would very mach if anyone €¥s will return them b lall, for they are of ivone but him: ed by the popular po : that the keys were lost } e night last week on street, but he is not . L Un dise with Captain ) e inscribed on it is "' to the key ring, ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service Economic Sanctions Against Italy Go Into Effect Workers Lat*méh b&mfia{gn for Athens Y.W.C.A. WORKERS SHOWING EATHUISM 15 Bi CANPARN 15 BESI Supporters of Campaign Thanked at Meeting This Morning - Seventy-five enthusiastic work ers assembled at the Y. W. C. A. this morning for the opening meet ing of the annual campaign for the association. Mrs. John W. Jenkins, general chairman, pre sided. Mrs, Edwin Pusey, presi dent of the association made the opening prayer. Mrs. Jenkins gave a most cor dial vote of thanks to the mem bers of the executive committee of the cumpaign who had assisted in the preliminary work and thank ed especially Emmett Weir, chair man of the Inital Gift committee and those serving with him. She also expressed thanks to the two daily newspapers for their cooperation and to the minsters of the city who endorsed the work of the association and allowed members of the Girl Reserve clubsg to hand leaflets to members of the congregation. Mrs. Jenkins gave a resume of the work done by Ilfie association during the past year and said “Miss Crabtree has touehed seven thousand girls and women througk the various activities of the as sociation. We have a high and holy task ahead of us for the womanhood of Athens is the mosi sacred thing of Athens”. Mrs. Eugene Mallory, chairman of teams announced two new teams as follows: Mrs. Mid Wing field, captain with Mrs. W. W. Brown, Mrs. Joel A. Weir, Mrs. Monroe Dearing and Mrs. W. H Pearce. Miss Bugenia Arnold, cap tain with Mrs. Gordon Dudley, Miss Marie McHatton, Miss Mary Cobb Erwin, Miss Sarah Hill and Miss Virginia Hodgson. Mrs. J. A. Darwin served cos: fee to the workers following the meeting. She will be chairman ol the committee serving the lunch eon on Tuesday and will be assist ed by Mrs, O. H. Arnold, Mrs Ed Dorsey, Mrs. Will Erwin, Mrs Howell Erwin and Mrs. Burney Dobbs. The first report meeting will be tomorrow at one o'clock at the ¥ Wi C. A, Mrg. Mallary announces the fol- (Continued on Page Two) SII,OOO Stolen From Auburn Grid Receipt eipts | Recep AUBURN, Ala. —(®P)— Alabama Polytechnic Institute’s athletic fund was SII,OOO short today—Dbe cause robbers pried the combina tion off a gymnasium safe some time Saturday night ‘and escaped with receipts of the Auburn-o Ogle thorpe game. Mrs. BElla Joe Nickle, secretary to Coach Jack Meagher, in whose office the safe was located, dis covered the robbery vesterday. Of the loss. officials reported only $250 was in ‘cash and the remainder in postal money orders and checks. The cash reportedly was covered by insurance. STATE NEWS BRIEFS By The Associated Press #_—_ir AUGUSTA, Ga. —(AP) —A pres idential commission pnamed to study practicability of “a “Little , TVA” power and navigation development on the Savannah river will meet in Savannah early in December, Au-| gusta citizens haev been advised byl Colonel Earl I. Brown, head of the| commission. | A definite date for the meeting‘s awaits reports on porings now be-| ing made ‘at Clarks - Hill, S. Cl where the key dam of the projectl would be built. ! Eoaß { ATLANTA, Ga. —(AP)— Hump' McLemore, under a death sentence! for a statutory offense in Muscogee county is to have a new trial. A Georgia supreme court Saturday re versed his eonviction on the ground it was doubtful if the- confession &L!hich figured in his trial was ob NEGRO iS ARRESTED | IN OFFICER’S DEATHi SPARTA, Ga.—(&)—A Negro ! booked as Winton Boyer was l lodged in the Bibb county jail { at Macon early today about i two hours after he had been | captured by posse seeking | him for the slaying of M. L. ! Stafford, 25-year-old Sparta | motorcycle policeman. - | Stafford was Kkilled Sunday ‘ after he had stopped a pirty [ of six Negroes in an automo- i bile to determine if they were intoxicated. As he started to search one of them the Negro drew a revolver and shot the officer three times killing him almost instantly. g { The Negroes all fled but five i of them were captured within | a few hours and night Marshal ' Joe Bowers said all named Boyer as the Kkiller. ; FOREIGN INTERESTS N NORTH CHINA NOT T 0 BE THREATENED |New Nation, North China, ' Will Definitely Be E Born This Week l MORE ACTIVITY “apanese Spokesman at | Shanghai Gives Word ! On Non-Interference , ——————— 'l SHANGHAI. —(#)—A spokesman ‘for the Japanese embassy said to day foreign powers need have no Ifear their interests and privileges lin North China are jeopardized by the present developments in that area, ’ He said that while the embassy was not yet officially informed of the @autonomy movement, he un derstood North China would give inominal allegiance to Nanking i andwould continue paying its full share of Chipa's foreign obliga tions under the proposed program, despite financial ‘'and economic | separation. The spokesman conceded that lthe changes probably would be {followed by more intensive Japa nese commercial activity, but that {discrimmation against other na | tionalities was most improbable. He said he believed the North China autonomy movement un doubtedly was_ precipitated by the monetary program of the national Chinese government at Nanking. To Hold Conference | | The embassy spokesman an lnounced Ambassador Akira Ariy 'oshl would leave soon for Nan-‘ ping to confer with Chinese na ! tional leaders in an effort to de | termine once/for all whether the | Chinese government intends 10 ‘make a serious attempt to sup-! lpress anti-Japanese a ¢ t i Vity throughout the country or to per lmit Sino;Japanese relations to grow worse. The ambassador will draw the government officials’ attention to the recent evidence of resurgence of anti-Japanese activity and point out the gravity of the con tinuance of present conditions. The.embassy spokesman declared Japanese troops do not intend to invade ‘North China but are mass ing at Shanhaikuan as a precau tionary measure against a possible Nanking government show of force in the northern provinces which, he said, would be viewed as * (Continued- on Page Six) tained without “extraneous mduce-.l ment.” ! 1 ATLANTA, Ga. —(AF)— Funer-! al services for Jameg M. Thomason, | 69-year-old former Savannah con l(mctor, wil] be held here ioday. ‘Burial will be in West View ceme |lery. < 3 i He died at a hospital there Sunday inight after a long illness. ‘ I Thomason was a native of Atlan- Im but for many years was in thel | building business in Savannah, re iturning to Atlanta in 1930 after hiss lretiremem from business. | He is survived by his widow, a | brother and four sistersy e - BRUNSWICK, Ga. —(AP)—Three hundred and fifty acres of land suc- L % s £ . , ~ (Continued on Page Two) . it S Athens, Ca:, Monday, Happy Prelude to Slaying o 4 e . 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Y — R e R A B, R ¥ S pH R bR B ,::.“.,‘-’@"E‘*q ¥ :.i: 3 o 2% e i bosy N M R g i 7 & 2 x-”» e 3{.’, e SRR 8 AR ) 8 4 Evidence of the happy relationship bhetween his ‘office wife,” Vera Stretz, blonde university graduate, and Dr. Fritz Gebhardt, whom she has admitted killing in New York, is given by this snapshot made on the bheach before tragedy entered their:lives. Police attribute the shooting to jealousy, but whether a rival or discovery that Dr. Geb hardt was married inspired it is open to conjecture. Million Dollar Gale Sweeps Over Atlantic Coast, Roars Northward WOMAN IS KILLED AS TRAIN, AUTO CRASH AMERICUS, Ga. —(#)— Miss Alice Carter, 45, of Reynolds, Ga., died in a hospital here last night after being injured in a collision between a Sea board Railroad train and her motor car. Mrs. Nita Bland, 26, of Sea Island, Gia., niece of Miss Car ter, also was injured, but J. Q- Davidson of Columbus, her brother-in-law, said today she was expected to recover, Details of the accident were lacking, but witnesses told a railroad . worker .the motor car carrying the two women, and the rear passenger car of the train collided. ATHENIAN SERIOUGLY HURT N CAR SMASH Miss Annie Mae Bell Bad ly Injured on Princeton Road Last Night l Miss Annie Mae Bell suffered serious injuries in an automobile accident last night on the Prince ton road, ‘at the Intersection with the Cloverhurst Country club road, when an automobile in which she was riding with Miss Wadie Bell, was hit by a car driven by Clfr Fortson, Negro. Miss Wadie Bell was Dbadly ibruised and suffered from shock, { but--her believed: -to be . serious fat St Mary’'s hospital this ! morning. ? Witnesses to the accident said | the Misses Bells were coming to | ward Athens, when the Negro's car came out of the Country club lroad at a high rate of speed. Miss ' Annie Mae Bell, who was driving her car, tried to aveid the acci dent by pulling of the road, but it was impossible for the Negro to . control his auto, and he ecrashed into the side of the other car. . George Dentley, owner of the car which Fortson was driving, was an occupant of the car at the time of the accident. Witnessses reported to police that the two Negro men jumped from their car and ran away from the scene of ttl‘le accident. They were arrested | some time later by Detectives E. M. Wood and Martin Nelms. Both Negroes suffered slight cuts. They are being held in city jail for trial Miss Annie Mae Bell suffered a broken right arm and brok en left leg. 1t was rumored that Miss Whadie Bell suffered a a broken jaw, but this was denied by ‘St. Mary s hospital’ attaches this morning. x }, Misses Bell were returning from (Continueg on Page Two) —~ESTABLISHED 1832 Coast From North Carolina To Maine |s Battered By Fierce Storm (By the Associated Press) A million dollar gale roared northeastward today after bat tering the Atlantic coast from New Jersey and the southern Ne Jersey and the southern shore of Long Island suffered most as waves and flood tides de scribed as the worst in 20 years hammered the coast both south and east of New York yesterday Two 3,000-ton freighters—the Florida and = Hartwelson —were crippled and sent calls: for ald; numerous smaller craft were cast aground while one tug and its tow were unreported; pleasure boats were wrecked by the hundreds. A seaman was swept to his death from a freighter and at least eight highway fatalities were charged against slippery roads and wind shieldg covered by snow or pelting rains. Official estimaies of the damage were impaossibre before a check on whatever hovac was wrought by another high tide during the night. Newspaper estimates, however, ranged from $1,000,000 to $15,000,- 000. North Jersey shore officials appealed to the federal government for repair funds. The northeast winds swung to the northwest today, beating back the fury of the. sea. But.as a re minder the gale left the North Atlantic States their first real taste of winter. Inland areas re ported freezing weather and as much as 8 % incheg of snow. Former President Hoover, mo toring from New York city to Binghamton, N. Y., sought shelter (Continued on Page Six) LOCAL WEATHEER Fair, light frost ] in favorable lh% % places tonight; 2 L q&. Tuesday fair with et |, 4 rising temper. . ’ "‘\ atures &1 G FROST TEMFERATURE BRI it rh eseisas s O L i W s s 8,0 MUBD . b s e 80D Normal. .. (ERET B Y RAINFALL Inches last 24 h0ur5........ 0.00 Tota] since Nevember 1.... 3.38 Fxcess since November 1.... 1.66 Average November rainfall. 2.89 To*al since January 1......41.44 . Deficit since January 1..... 2.94 November 18, 1935 FUNERAL RITES FOR DR, H. M. FULLILOVE T 0 BE HELD TUESDAY Prominent Physician And State-Wide Figure Dies Here Sunday Night ILL FOR TEN DAYS \Services to Be Held at ~ First Christian Church Tuesday at 11 am. Dr. Henry Marshall Fullilove, one of the best known figures in ,medical circles of Georgia and the South, died at St. Mary's hospital Sunday nizht at 8:25 o’clock after an illness of about ten days. He was in his fifty-eighth year. Funeral services will be held at !First Christian church, of which !he was a member, Tuesday morn ing at 11 o'clock. Dr. Stanley R Grubb, pastor of the church, will conduct the services, assisted by {Dr. J. C. Wilkinson, pastor of Frirst Baptist church, Dr., B, L. Hill, pastor of First Presbyterian, Dr. Lester Rumble, pastor of First Methodist, Dr. David C. Wright, rector of Emmanuel Epis :copal church. Rev. George Stone, | life-long friend of the physician, will also assist. Pallbearers will be Abit Nix, Will Erwin, James Barrow, Shexn’ Walter E. Jackson, Dr. Chester 0. Middlebrooks, Tom Elder, Prof. . H. Davenport, Charles Elder, IGeorge Scott and 8. W, Ussery. An honorary escort will be com posed of members of the Clarke County Medical Soclety and visit 'ing physicians; alumnae of St. ‘Mary’s nursing school; members of ‘the Athens Kiwanis eclub and di irector.s of the Athens Cooperative Creamery. t Interment will be in the Oconee iHill cemetery with McDorman i Bridges in charge. l, Among alumnae of St Mary's are imany women who received their ltrgining as murses and these are | requested to meet at the church I'l‘uesxdzaty morning at 10:45 to form !a part of the honorary escort. | Surviving Dr. Fullilove are his | widow, Mrs. Juliet Carlton Fullilove, {a son, Henry Marshall Fullilove, jr. and two sisters,- Mrs. Maud Tal-. mage, Athens, and Mrs. Fred S. | Hairis, Valdosta,, Two grandchil drer, Henry Marshall IIT and wil- Jjam Spann, also survive, Dr. Fullilove was born in Oco } (Continued on Fage Two) WORK STARTED FOR “EMPTY STOCKING™ Christmas Fund to Be Rais ed by Elksand W TF I &N s . Goes on Air Tonight Sponsored by Athens Lodge No. i 790 8.P.0. Elks, and Radip Sta ‘ltion WTFI, efforts to raise an lEmpty Stocking Fund for, Athens will start tonight at 8 o'clock when !the first radio program of a series is presented over the local radio }station. ~ Announcement of the Empt y ' Stocking Fund programs, was made this morning by Henry Ros ‘enthal, co-chairman with Lynn ‘Brannen of the Elks committee for ‘that purpose. E - On the opening program tonight 'wiil be several well known citi zens and District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler J. Bush will say a few words about the Fund in behalf of the local lodge of Elks. Also featured on these nightly programs, from 8 to 9 o'clock, will ' be the funster team of Henry Ros ienthal and Morris Bush, who made |a hit last year as “Pork and ' Beans” in their nightly broadcasts |to raise the fund. Efforts are being made to secure the orches tras directed by Jack Dale and fJ immy Matthews for the programs. | The money will be raised by the Blks, the radio station and by newspaper publicity. A list of 'needy families will be compiled ‘and members of the Elks will dis tribute the food, clothes, toys, etc. on Christmas morning in their OREBy "~ L R i g A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢c Sunday Bankers’ Head Be R : B eTN . BT e : ROee Y S :‘.,‘::-,'::;:;;;5;5' i S SRS G : SR g A N 5 4 N % R 3 R ; i ey 3 R d & SN SRR ¢ T e S Bl o B W 3 5 T R . 3 L R T SR B R e R R - R 3 s PR \QL‘ R AR N i A R N @ B R R RN R X e % TR R X TN f o 035 SRR % i fa > Ge L & i R Foin ; S N &S 3 FTER Y, & o Robert V. Fleming, 45-year-old president of the Riggs National Bank of Washington, D. C., be came the new president of the American Bankers’ Association in one of the most bitter'y contested elections on record, at the con vention in New Orleans. TALMADGE SUIT ON BANKHEAD ACT OK'D Supreme Court Allows| Ceorgia Governor to File' Suit Against U. S | . WASHINGTON,—(#)—Over the H)rotest of the government, the supreme court today agreed to let Governor KEugene Talmadgk of Georgia file a suit attacking con stitutionality of the Bankhead cotton production control act. Talmadge has been a frequent critic of the administration This was the first request received by the high tribunal from a state seeking to start original action in the gupreme court against New Deal legislation, TUsually, cases are started in lower courts and brought here on appeal. The high court already had agreed to review a case brought by I.ee Moor, a Texas planter, which affected the Bankhead act. But some attorneys contended this case could be decided without passing on the validity of the act e Moor sought to compel the Texas and New Orleans railroad to trans port his cotton which had no tags attached to show he had complied with the act. His petition was dis missed by lower courts. Arguments will be heard here in December with. Government attorneys parti« cipating. Talmadge contended the legis lation was “unconstitutional” ‘and was rendering the state’s farm lands ‘“‘substantially worthless."v Georgia operates two prison tarms[ on which cotton is grown. | Georgia’s petition, which asked | that the act be declared unconsti tutional and that secretary Mor genthau and other federal official be enjoined from -collecting the tax imposed on cotton ‘produced in excess of a fixed quota, had beem oppoed by Stanley Reed, the solici citor general. He had replied on behalf of the government that the action was essentially against the United States which may not be sued without its consent, He also con tended there was no basis for the “ “(Contintied 'On Page BEight) Foreieh News ON THUMBNAIL By The Associated Press LONDON— Economic sanctions against Italy, approved by 51 league of mnations members, took effect. Italian goods will be barred from their markets and they will not export certain raw materials to Italy, ROME—Troops guarded British and other embassies as students paraded, denouncing sanctions, some shouting “down with Eng jand!” The fasaist grand couneil was to meet tonight to consider Italy’s resistunce to sanctions and perhaps discuss peace plans which came from diplomatic negotiations. Gen. De Bono reported progress of the Italian troops in the north, with the Ethiopians retreating be yond the Takkaze river, as the Ethiopian: southern army was said to be withdrawing to Harar. ADDIS ABABA—One authority HSYE H. UNDECLARED WAR IN FTHOPIAIS MET BY WORLD'S OPPOSITION Majority of 51 Nations i’ ‘Begin Applying Terms . At Midnight Sunday FEW ARE DELAYED Italian Troops Guarding British Rome Embassy Against Youths By HENRY W. BAGLEY Asociated Press Foreign Staff A Benito Mussolini's wundeclared war in Ethiopia met world oppo sition today as the league of Na tions’ economic sanctions were ap plied against Italy. At midnight, the program whereby 51 league memberg agreed to prevent importation of Italian goods and to stop exporting cers, tain raw materials to Italy went into effect. v Italy, having already made pre parations to combat the penalties for its invasion in East Africa, which the TLeague has termed “Agressive,” digplayed its “im placable resistance” to the sanc tions in a showing of banners throughout the nations. It had promised to treat other nations as they treated Italy. The fascist grand council, which on Saturday denounced the sanctions, wag to meet again tonight to study details of Italy’s fight against them and, it said in informed quarters, 4 to consider peace proposals raised in diplomatic contracts, Embassy Guarded J ’ Italian troeps guarded the Brit ish embassy in Rome and the head quarters of other sanctionist coun- = tries, as youths began demonstra- . tions’* ‘denouncing the sanctions. Some shouted “down with En gland!” i Delay in applications of the sanctions by certain countries was expected because of ~legal-difficut ties. The Spanish government had not yet published its | decrees making the economic penalties effective, while the exact time of enforcement -by France. .was. in. doubt. e The economic sanctiong were the last of the measures against Italy approved by the League. Financial sanctions, by whieh credit is not - extended to Italy and business is not done with Ttallans, and an armg embargo had already been made efective. Prepares For Siege ‘ Wihile at home Italy prepared to meet the economic siege, on the war front Italian troops continued. (Continued on Page Two)" Hoover's Speech Is oover s opeecn 1s e . - Criticized, Praised WASHINGTON—(&)— Demo&t’i‘g?‘« tic spokesmen joined todayé‘ § criticizing Herbert Hoover's NeW . York speech demanding a new fed eral fiscal policy, but Cha.lrmfaff', Henry P. Fletcher of the Repub lican National committee praised it. . S .I,magree perfectly with every - thing he said” m’g{che}“ i T porters. “It was a splendid speeu;-g." : Speaking in New York Saturs day night, Hoover advanced an 11-point program which included: a call for a balanced budget, re establishment of the gold nt.auiv;; arda and the stopping of silver purchases. et said Haile Selassie would go to the northern front within ten days, after whieh a major battle could bs expected. another report said ln would leave tonight. The govern ment anounced Italian planes had bombed Enderta, mnear Makale, yesterday, Kkilling and injuring civilians. It stated the 'residents of the area were revolting againsf Italian domination. * ASMAR — The Italian Danaki} column was reported to have ens tered Azbi, east of Makale, aftes defeating Ethiopians in a fight in which Italian losses were 37 sol ‘diers dead and four officers wound ed, ‘ » NAPLES—Marshal Pietro Bados lio announced he would sail toe night to replace Gen. De Bono & Italian commander-in-chief,
