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LOCAL COTTON e wooLiNE B, .. A sse PREV. OLOBE .. .. .. .. 11%c Vol. 103. No. 303 L. W. Nelson Is Named Chairman 0f Roosevelt Ball RN A ; bt e O RS 7 SRR v o oG R So e | o e e R RLR G 2 sy e L %A’h‘g; % i R e A Aly . oo 5 S 7 wg > 3% e g IR AR X A.._-’,:y,-&;;:.; B ABRS G NS 8%. A | R BR S B eS b B b ; e e s e "fx 2 e G ? B b B . SR <? e R R s B SR R R o 5 g e S S e P saci S s SR B N A R A o VR e i ey O SR R i B‘: 2 o S T 5% TR e TN RIReZ p { ‘3l\§'v' L R 3 R—— e ———— L ¢ LUTHER W. NELSON Henry L. Doherty, national chairman of the Birthday Ball for the President, today appointed Luther W. Nelson as Athens and Clarke eounty general chairman for the local ball which will be held heré on the night of Janu ary aO, X The ball, which was inaugurat ed last year, is an annual event and funds raised through the sale of tickets are used to combat in fantile paralysis. A large part of the money secured is spent in the community where each ball s Leld, with a smaller portion be ing sent’ Warm Springs, Ga., to +the foundation there which is fighting the dread malady. Last year, under the general chairmanship of R. R. Gunn, as sisted by a large corps of able workers, the ball raised over sl,- oy and was a huge success. | Myr. Nelson, manager of the| Gieorgian hotel and among the| leading figures in the civic life of | Athens, today said he had not{ formulated plans for the ball or] named various committee chair men but would do so in the nextl lay or two. He said as soon as| (fi%"‘é‘onfimiti?é’é “dre selected, work will be immediately started on plang for the ball. i o RO PR e Pl ' y | \ Will Be Available Withir 48 Hours. Much Interest In Occasion Tickets for the Jakson day din ner here January 8, will go on sale within the next forty-eight hours and, judging by the interest in the event, they will be disposed of rapidly, Ticket committees, supervised by Mrs., H. A. Birchmore, John L. Green and L. E. Sullivan will have ‘harge of the sale. Each ticket will cost $1.50, in view of the fact that outside the cost of dinner ar rangements, the money paid for the tickets will be sent to the Demo cratic National committee head quarters in Washingron and will represent a eontribution to the 1936 caw.paign fund of the Demo ratic party. An attraetive souvenir ticket has been designed by James Hayes, of the McGregor company, chairman of the ticket printing commitiee. The ticket will also be retained by the purchaser as an acknowledges ient of receipt of a contribution to the Democratic campaign fund. Plans for the entertainment pro sram at the dinner are progressing. lhe time and place for the dinner will Be announced later.- Only one speech will be delivered, that of President Rooseveli whicn will be idcast at 10 oclock Athens time. Prier to the Roogevelt ad lress, the diners will be entertaln *d with orchestra musie, vaude ille acts and other enjoyable sea- LOCAL WEATHER r BR 2 Fa—. > y GEORGIA: SRS probably Rain R !‘ @ in South 3"‘:‘ SaE \ Snow in Nort '"\\ 5 \ Portion This i ' TN\® Afternoon, To & I\§ night and Wed ! . ? thesday; Not Quite - (ad® So Cold in East i . Portion. COLD TEMPERATURE HIZHOEES i fwh s asnes o- - 36.0 LoWwest. . St 0 ... .20.0 Vet s bl L ol . - 28,0 Noprhille s & L iy, . .48.0 : ~ RAINFALL Inches last 24 h0ur5........ 0.00 Total since December 1.... 3.57 Deficit since December 1,... :51 Average December rainfall.. 4.38 Total since January 1......46.82 ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service Talmadge Promises “Plenty of Money” On Eve of His “Financial chtatorshlp | ¥ N ! ke ! . . ‘Much Speculation Going ' On in Washington as ‘ Machinery |ls Oiled } BOTH SIDES BUSY | Name of Al Smith Bobs Ug | As Constant Threat to | New Deal in 1936 1 WASHINGTON —(#)— The na-j tion’s legislative machinery — idle' llittle more than four n‘mnths——was} igeared today for a new start with !evnry evidence that pre-election campaigning will compete with lawmaking for the public’'s atten tion. ; | I ‘While Democratic leaders wers | | busy framing a program for thei session opening Friday, the New Deal strategists were at work with | an eye on next fall Opponentsl were not idle. Postmaster General Farley broad‘ cast a statement last night that “the constantly rising iide of pros-‘ perity is the answer to ail the at tacks on the Roosevelt :nlminis-I tration.” e _‘l Al Smith Conrsidered ! l At the same time political ob-'! i servers wondered whether a re imark by former Governor Joseph . jB. Ely of Massachusettg indicated ,tha.t Alfred ¥. Smith would lead |an anti-New Deal movement in 1936. Ely made known that he Iwou]d support Smitn ror the De fmocratic presidential nomination if [Smith ran for it | l Representative Hamilton Fish, | jr., Republican, New York, planal !to speak at Canton, Ohio, January ‘|2§ and will advocate Senator Boran % | of Idaho as the Republican stand-l ard bearer. Borah has authorized ‘that his name go into the Ohio primaries in May. | The Democratic leaders in con gress today were studying methods iot defeating proposats from a 35,- 1 000,000,000 money expansion. l Bonus Talk | There was talk of divorcing m-l | flatation from the two-billion dol ‘lar soldiers’ bonug question andl passing some bonus bill designea to meet White House approvar. They also sought to thwart the {drive for the Frazier-Lemke mea sure to refinance farm mortgages through inflation up to three bil-’ lion dollars. Representative Patman, Demo-‘ lcrat, Texas, autho‘* of the currency l (Continued on Page Eight) l Mother of Mrs. I T. Kilpatrick Succumbs S Mrs. Martin L. Richter, 85, mother of Mrs. I. T. Kilpatrick of Athens, died at her residence in Madison Monday night at 7, o’clock after an illness of ten months. Funeral services will be held, Wednesday morning at the homel in Madison at 11 o’clock, conduct- | ed by Father James E. King, of | St. Joseph’s Catholic church of Athens. ' Interment will be in Madison with Hemperly Undertaking com pany in charge of arrangements. Two daughters, Mrs. Kilpatrick and Mrs. H. H. Waters of Madi son, and nine grandchildren sur vive Mrs. Richter. ! Mrs. Richter was born ini South Carolina but had lived ini Madison for = many years. She | was well known in Athens where | she had frequently visited heri daughter and a large circle of | friends is deeply grieved to learn | of her passing. ‘Chamber Of Commerce Will Push Trade At Home Campaign '\ A “trade at home” campaign !will be one of the maln projects iOf the Athens Chamber of Com-~ ;merce «during 1936, it was announc ’ed this morning by Joel A. Wier, secretary. ,[ Mr. Wier said he planned to can vasg every merchant in Athens early in January, and find out how | many of them woul& cooperate with | him in putting on the “trade at | home” campaign, and with their cooperation plans to impress every citizen of the harm that he or she 'is doing Athens by trading in larger cities. } Large show eards, to be placed ' in every merchant’'s window who ' cooperates in the campaign, will !be printed. There js a geries of ' these cards, each of which carries 'a very good reasom why people should trade in the wown in which they live. 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(Associated Press Photo) : )1 = 1 . i . s dn'dft without light or heat when power wires snapp dreds of homes were le Funeral Services for Well Known Athens Woman To Be Held Wednesday Mrs. Harry Erwin Died Monday night at a local hospital after an illne: s of three weeks. She was 71 vears old. Mrs. Erwin, who was a native of Tennessee, has made her home in Athens with her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Y. Talmadge, for the past few years. Before her marirage she was Miss Mary Mills. She was born February 28, 1859, in Cleve land, Tenn., the daughter of Colo nel Charles H. Mills and his wife, Sallie Waterhouse Mills. lln her early girlhood the family moved to Chattanooga, where she spent lmust of the rest of her life. lln iIRSI she was married to Harry J. lErwin, member of another promi lnent pioneer east Tennesse fam ily. | Throughout their married life Mr. and Mrs. Erwin were identi fied with every social and civic enterprise of importance in the growth of Chattanooga. Possessed of beauty and charm and endowed with a disposition naturaly gay and friendly, Mrs. Erwin was al ways conspicuously popular wherever she went, and her strength of character and breadth of sympathy made her an influ ence for good in the lives of those about her. She was a member of the First Presbyterian church of Athens. After the marriage of her daugh ter to Julius Young Talmadge of this city in 1905, she spent a part of every year in Athens, and since the death of her husband five years ago she has made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Talmadge, On December 5 she suffered a fall which resulted in complica tions that preved fatal. She met her final illness with the fame smiling courage which had been characteristic of her attitude to wards trouble and SOITOW (Continued on Page Eight) |and thousands of dollars each year, { without knowning just how much | ithey really are losing,’”” Mr. - Wier! jsaid‘ “They are loging a large por-I [tion due to the thoughtlessness of ! | Athens citizens who ~ are taking | | their business to large places.” ‘ i “The chamber of commerce esti mates that the amount of business | lost unnecessarily is larger than| the amount of business that would |be obtained trgm a new industry { employing upward to 300 people | One of the main objectives of the; | chamber of commerce for 1936 is | |to increase business in Athens, l | «an effort will be made to in-| | crease payrolls with new industr- | | ies, but in addition we wish to stare i |a special campaign to make Ath | ens citizens spend their money in | Athens. This, by helping the mer ;chants present their appeal to the —— 4 1 (Continued on Page Eight) 1 North Georgia Shivers in Freezing Weather as More Snow Predicted ATLANTA, Ga.—(&)—Still crip pled by its worst ice storm in 30 vears, Atlanta shivered at 23-de gree weather today, and a pre diction ' for smow thig afternoon, ionizht and tomorrow. Harrassed by slect since Satur day night, the prediction affords a discouraging New Year’s day out look to 2 city still struggling to . vercome breaks in vital street car, electric, telephone and tele graph service, While snow was predicted for Atlanta, warmer weather was forecast for east Georgia, and rain for the southern part of the state. Temperatures in the thirties and under were general over the state this morning. Athens experienced 20-degree weather early today. ‘ Valdosta reported an unofficial low of 33, a slight sleet during the early morning hours, and a light rain later in the day. Thomasville had a low of 30.5 and a drzizling rain. Cloudy, dreary weather, and a low of 30, was reported by Moul trie. Albany had a low of 31, but no rain. : Father north, in central Geor gia, Macon had a low of 27, and cloudy skies. . Except for damage to timber agriculture in the northern part of the state is mnot expected to suffer greatly, said . P. Stuckey, director of the State Experiment Station at Griffin. Atlanta hospitals treated @2 ICE-LADEN TREES CRUSH HOMES : SRS e soe 32 " PR AT g A o e P 4W-" S :::;;:.;v» s Se g -.":v'y;v\:*;,. 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Dama i it ,000,000. (A as s it s (Associated Press Photo) A ias Athens, Ga., Tuesday, December 31, 1935, dozen or more persons for injuries sustained in falls on slippery streets, or in other accidents duc directly to the cold. With the mercury remaining geveral degrees below the freezing point, weary public utilities em lpluyes forged slowly ahead at the wtask of restoring vital services. ! Many of the linemen who had been on_the job 36 hours were {being replaced by fresh crews hastily recruited from other parts of QGeorgia and adjoining states. Large sections of the city still ‘were without lights or other electrical facilities today. Many of the outlying streets had not been cleared of ice-laden tree i branches and tangled wires. I A skeleton street car service | was restored late vyesterday but ( more than half of the lines op erated by the Georgia Power com pany remained idle. Telephone service, both local and long distance, was crippled. Telegraph companies, however reported considerbale improve ment in their communication sys tems. Train schedules had returned almest to normal today and bus operators saw prospects of re suming travel to the north. With few exceptions, other cities caught in the ice cap were raaxing rapid recovery. Grifin and Athens, virtually isloated over the week-end, count ed heavy property damage. Marietta, Hapeville and Law- (Continued on Page Eight) ATHENS PLANG FOR NEW YEOR' EW YEAR'S FROLLC Younger Sets to Gather At Two Dances Tonight; Others Celebrate ‘Whisties will blow and bells will ring at midnight tonight as Athens rings out °‘the old year and rings in the new. 'Danceés will be held by the Athens Coun try eclub and the local DeMola: chapter tonight, the first at the‘ club and the last at the Legion Cabin. ! Jimmie Matthews and his “Georgia Collegians” will play for' the dance at the Country cluh.‘ Only members of the club and| their families will take part in! this program. The dance will bel held from 9 to 1. A DeMolay dance will be held at the American legion center on Lumpkin street. The dance will. be held for members of the chapter * and their friends who have been attending the previous dances. If you have been to the DeMolay dances before you are welcome to attend this celebra tion. Music for the affair will be furnished by the “Dixie Cotton Piekers,” a local colored orches tra. The program will begin ut .9:30 tonight and will end in the vear 1936, | Post office employes will work the regular holiday hours, with all windows being open only from noon until 1 o'clock and with one carrier delivery being made. Spe cial delivery letters and packs ages will be delivered as usual. All three Athens banks wlil be closed for the New Year holiday . throughout the day. Today Athenians were planning their usual round of New Year parties and many gatherings hacd been arranged to watch the old vear nut and the new one in. New Local City Administration Will Be Ushered In Tomorrow A new city administration will be ushered into power here tu morrow when T. 8. Mell is inaugu rated mayor and two new council men are sworn into office. Mr. Mell will succeed Mayor A, G. Dudley, who has served five 2- yvear terms as head of the city government, Two members of council will retire tomorrow, Boll ing S. Dußose of the Third ward, who will be succeeded by George C. Armstrong and W. R. Phillips of the Fourth ward, who will be succeeded by T. L, Elder. The old council will meet at 10 o'clock and reeeive reports from the city engineer, waterworks de partment, city marshal's office, the bond commission and transact oth er businesg in order to complete its records for the year. The new council will meet at 12 o’clock when Mr. Mell will be sworn into office. One of the matters to come before the new council, it is said, is that of salary increases. A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday . New York City Plans Gala New Year’s Eve Celebration Tonight NEW YORK — (#) — New Year’'s Eve festivitles tonight } promise to be the gayest since the depression. Mayor LaGuardia called off his anti-noise campaign and gave the horn-tooters until 6 a. m., tomorrow, More than 1,000 licensed bars held special all-night per mits, l The curvew on restaurants was postponed until 5 a. m. Shopkeepers put up guard rails in front of Times Square stores and police anticipated large crowds of merrymakers, A mid-town movie theater (Paramount) billed an all-night show, the first in its history. WEST 15 RECALLED BY GRAND JURY IN THELMA TODD PRORE Mother of Slain Actress Is Also Questioned in Investigation LOS ANGELES — (#) . Roland West, former maker of mystery movies, was ¢alled today by the grand jury to help solve the riddle of Thelma Todd’s death, He maintained the blonde act ress died accidentally of carbon monoxide poisoning and denied they had ever quarreled or that he had ever struck her. The 49-year old film director, turned restauranteur, divulged new details of his ynusual business re lationship with the 20-. year old actress, found dead in their garaye December 18, ~ Disirict attorneyg deputies said ‘West denied he and the film bheauty ever had quarreled althougn he said they had argue occasion ally concerning her Investments, all 6f which he had handled so: the last two years. To the question “did you ever strike Thelma Todd?” he gave an indignant “No!” Mrs. Todd Testifies Mrs. Alice Todd, the comedienne's mother, preceded West before the grand jury, and, in tears, declared she believed her daughter’s death was accidental. It was repocted West also told the jury the following details of hig association with the actress, They met five years ago on a picture location at Catalina Island. (Continued On Page Three) Attempted Kentucky Prison Break Foiled FRANKFORT, Ky.—{#)—An at tempted break from the Frank fort state reformatory early to-! day failed when two younsg pris oners were frightened from a lad- 1 der by the shots of guards, The men who tried to break out‘ are Allen Geans alias James, 26, and Tennessee Wooten. They | were bedmates in one of the pris ion's crowded dormitories. ' Guards W. H. Gregory and T. | i"[‘. Dean shot at the prisoners as | they ‘were climbing a ladder to scale the back wall, Neither was wounded. Some undisclosed source ‘“tip ped” the prison office that a break would be attempted, and the guards were ready. The attempt too place shorty after 1:30 a. m. Warden Elmer Deatherage, Imlled fromm his home nearby | when the prison alarm sounded, ! said a preliminary check-up re vealed no prisoners missing. It is reported that the question of raising the salaries of all city em ployes, including that of the may or’s office, will be brought up for action. What course this matter will take is mot known, however. At the present time the salary of the mayor is S4OO per wvear and there are some memberg of council, it is said, who feel that the chlet executive of the city should be paid a larger salary and that sal aries of city employes should also be increased. At tomorrow’s meeting of the new council, Counci!lman W. R. Bedgood is slatcd for election as mayor pro-tem, succeeding Coun cilman D. D. Quillian. The new council will consist of the follow ing members: H. L. Seagrawes and W. H. Paul, First ward; E. L. Wier and C. 8. Martin, Second ward; W. R. Bedgood and G. C. Arm strong, Third ward; C. F. Crymes and T. L. Elder, Ml% {n. Center and D. D. Quillian, Fifth ward, f g UAL e | on 16 GOVERNDR 15 SILENT ? UILLIRY ! 5. DRIt Use of National Guard “I§= Still Considered As == Probable Choice & MUCH SPECULATION = Reported Withdrawa?l’]* 7 Millions By Road Dept. = May Be Used ! ATLANTA,—(AP) —On the " of assuming financial dictatorship. ‘of Geofgia’ Fugene Talmadge ahs) nounced today “there’ll be plex : of money to run the state nexts year.” i . The 1935 Jegislature failed 'pass an appropriations bill & for 11936-37 Talmadge refused " #6ed call an extra session and ‘said the state would run on as usualki’™ ! The chief executive, who has at= ‘tracted national attention by his attacks on the new deal, has re= ’fused to_make public his plans for ' running the state in 1936. === An attorn.y who declined to pers mit use of hi¢ name was quoted yesterday by the Macon telegraph | as saying the governor mut‘;,,» to operate a financial “dictator shin” of Georgia by impounding $8,000,000 under the protection of the National guard. Lk This plan, the paper said, would mean guspension of all state taxes for next year and the fixing by counties of levies for county purs poses under an old law asserted ly authoriing the governor and the comptroller general to set the state levy without an appropriations aet. From another source came a de- = mand for action by the state legis® lature independent of the Govers nor's plans, L e Asserting that Talmadge Wwés threatening “unsurpation of legis lative prerogatives,” representative Olin Hammock of Randolph county urged his fellow lawmakers to call themselves into * meet the emergency. He said thi would be possible under the. state constitution. - e Asked directly if planned to fu voke martial law tc beat dOWR | position to his program, as 3 (Continued on : : pra———— [INDBERGHS SHIP 4 b HHBHE l|m % vl Protective Ring of Police Thrown Around Doc Private Plane Awaits GUESTS OF MORGANS CARDIFF, WALES.—(AP)— A member of the family of Aubrey Nei Morgan, brothers. in-law of Mrs. Charii? LAdbergh, said today the Lindberghs would be guests in the Morgan home. e L rvE sz L g R : By LLCYD LEHRBAS. = (Copyright 1935 by the -.:.4 o Press.) . iol LIVERPOOL.—(#)—The . 8. 8 American Importer, bringing Gok onel and Mrs. Charles A. Tifids bergh and three-year-old son Jom & from the 'United States to Enge land, arrived today off the Glads stone dock. e . Liverpool police officials, J’ 2 ing a protective ring around the" dock, said there was no doubf ‘the i}Lindhm‘;:h family, seeking ‘43%55 ' ion in England, was aboard 1 vessel. S " It reached here at T:25 &. ¥ (2:25 a. m. Bastern standasd time) . . Chief Immigration spec Blagg was here to expedite ¢l entry of the Lindberghs into England. G d A personal friend of the | berghs, whose name was not dis: closed, had an automobile ready at the dock. o It was understood the i (Continued on Page Eight) = e Ai e i i Money for Boys = And Girls— = = On the insids of todays Banner-Herald are Qwo§ tures, tocetner with in k_; tions, on how boys and girle of school age in Athens ' have a charce to win hm in cash in a contest .‘“«i by Michael's, Athens. K { for the instructions and get into this interesting and prof itable contest, i £l o
