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Newspaper Page TextM.,.,n—"v-»‘,.—-— LOCAL COTTON P LING 7-B:e" e " OUDSE .-+ ..111592: ‘O3) NO- 308' s Woman ls Jed By Atlanta | it.Run”’ Car 2 nduct ,: e to '.H‘i . ht killed :(:’: : f \thens, P daugh- L k down g f f the 5 i son of e rossing i o ‘ t;‘ [ A rmistead - ital by E. R. il 4 he found the Toins ¢ treet at }H“f".' m He lid he did { ig ‘ 1 wa injured B . .0 and back. Her 4 ““, ¢ “fairly N | Long Me { “:._‘_‘ )€ iried in Wednesd (3 pe 18 he Hart ortuarsy relatives body ill be sent to Macon m. Tuesday ol Ui Central * Rail a I ved Ibout two ) tel 1 «truck. Her was o third tratilc ‘.l:‘L“ll‘ o this vea nd the first by ‘ Arn ‘V" { bad come to o to visit her daughter, a tat Ogletnorpe iniversity. : LIVED HERE Mat Olive :illed by a 1- river in Atlanta oht, W ster to Mrs. " Be | for some time had S i Mrs. Bell at the lat § re\ ed thi morning frs. Armiftead some time ; s struck by another auto in 4 L Al vas seriously hurt, "B almost proving fatal. j nos Mrs. Oliver, J. F. Oli \ front 0f whose home in; At the fatal ceident took i , former emplove of .the 1 .Herald king in the ad- I;ER]OR COURT SONVENES TODAY rce Cases Are First on ket: Dates for Other Is Set by Fortson. ke county Superior court ied here this morning at 10 ¢, for the regular January with divorce cases first on ocket., Judge Blanton Fort jority of the huge divorce fwas disposed of lhis} g, with first nd >u'nnd‘ ts rendered, some <i!>llxl>‘.~'cd,| few condoned. l ¢ Fortson set days for| eivil cases to be tried this| iB. The civil docket is ex- | 10 be finished by the end | Wee | § tled this morning and| diets, follow Mrs. (21':11'0; . E. M. Hall, dismissed; | M VS Victoria .\lm‘i(-! frdict; Eddie Harper wvs.| Harper, dismissed: G. .1 5. M Una Morris; dis nn Villis Ollie vs. | f A. Ollie, dismissed; Mary | ) 3 John Norman, dis 1 ; not ) Turner VS, | : ! cond verdict; | p 1 . William | A Ruby R. ‘ Ruby N Hamby sec- I ( R. Huff vs. erdict; i:n\-i rage Three) e Waters Here , [ to Discomfort . Many Athenians of : R f 1 t night and R added tg the discom [ Atl ind caused the @ et ive igher and A bee¢ filled A ¢ last week, were g L Un soaked 1 settled on P 6 inche of rain| SU night aking a total of Nches ¢ teel since Y 1. The tota) ; 2.14 inches thar tl rainfall for the Fain f lrst day of the ¢ OB the second day .94 \thens. On Jar uary 3, S d on January i 1M .07 inches fell. sl 1.8 1 hes makes a 'L 897 for * first five days "; Bisson, sup rintendent of 0N cometan. told the 5‘ F-Heralg g 'on today that 8 Tiver at thas point was " ON€ half feet deep and still . orage depth of the river, € o Mp Bisson's water f iy ¥ andone half feet. T Was riging slowly and ‘ d to be much deeper hy t “CCOrding {5 My Bisson, due SCL that the water from hEs taing are just getting Point ot the river, ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service SUPREME COURT KILLS AAA COMPLETE “BUDGET SPENDING ESTIMATE 1S WITHHELD TODAY Unprecedented Action Is Taken by President in Message Today. ONE BILLION DEFICIT Sees Debt At End of Fiscal Year $31,351,638,737; An All Time High. By FRANCIS M. STEPHENSON Associated Press Staff Writer. WASHINGTON.—(&)—A treas ury deficit exceeding one billicn dollars—without counting unesti mated new relief costs—was fore cast to congress by President Roosevelt today for the new fiscal year. inprecadentedly, he withheld a chrmplete budget estimate on how muech the government would spend in the 12 months beginning July 1. For the present he listed $6,- 752,606,370 but said later reques's for work-relief money would Le forthcoming. He gave notice that next year's deficit—and the public debt— would mount accordingly. o ",‘Au Time High Just f#ew, Mr. Roosevelt fore wa at the end of the fﬁiﬂ yd of $31,351,638,737..., This - dbe an all time high. There was not the slightest hint of readiness to meet demands fromi the opposition for an imme diately balanced budget. Pending « ;;{ iof the voluminous docu ‘withheld detailed }%‘ s, “Tg run all the regular activi ties of the government,” Mr. Roosevelt said bluntly in the mes-~ sage read from the rostrum to senate and house, “I will need a total of $5,069,000,000.” This figure, put forward as . a new standard for the govern ment's permanent operating costs as differentiated from ‘“‘emer gency” outlays, exceeded compar ative “regular” costs of recent years by around $2,000,000,000. New Policy In a new expression of ' policy, Mr. Roosevelt moved federal pub lic works, the Civilian Conservae tion Corps and agricultural bene fit payments from the category of “emergency’”’ to “regular” federal activities. “Success” justified the change, he said. Even the new high level of “reg : (Continued on Page Three) Famous Scottshoro Case Is Re-opened DECATUR, ALA.—{®)—Against a background of reported com munistic activity, the five-year-old Scottshoro case was to be reopenedf here today with arraingment f nine Negroes acused of attacking two white girls abroad a frelghti train. | The defendants were in Morgan county jail today after having been brought here secretly shortly be fore midnight. Their transfer from Birmingham attracted no attention and the impending retrial of the interna tionally disrupted case apparent ly was causing no excitemient in this little town. The Negroes, charged with at tacking Mrs. Victoria “Price and Ruby Bates aboard a train near Scottsboro in 1931, will be ar rainged befork Judge W. W. Cal lahan and are expected to enter pleag of innocent. STATE NEWS BRIEFS By The Associated Press SPARTA. " Mrs. Maggie Lee Harrison, 63, member of one of Hancock county’s most prominent families. MACON—Mrs, James H. Blount, 92, widow of former Congressman James H. Blount and prominent :n the Georgia Division of the U. D. 5 COVINGTON—Mrs. J. W. King, sr., 75, daughter of the la‘s con gressman L. F. Livingston anl aunt of Postmaster L. F. Livirg ston, of Atlanta. —e SAVANNAH — General William Harden, 91, Canfederate veteran, Chatham county disburser and ’P : ;‘7»~ ),f 4 FLA?HES o L-I-F-E (By the Associated Press) W}IN‘STON-‘SALEM, Wi unsought position of holding the bag is certainly not tops im the age-old game of passing the buck, but it may mean fried chicken galore for sheriff Guy L. Scott, Along the old Salisbury road the sheriff’s alert deputieg picked up, no fewer than 30 plump chickens neatly bagged in separate sacks, presumably for the automobile of a thieving considerate who never came. MIDWINTER MARVEL ARKANSAS CITY —When the summer crop of tomatoes was harvested, W. R. Flannigan plant ed some more ‘“just for fun.” now the Flannigans are enjoying toma toes fresh from their own garden., TOO MANY THIEVES CHICAGO—Two youths riding in a stolen car abandoned when chased by a police squad. The squad caught the boys, then rteurned to pick wup the car It was gone. Somebody had re stolen it during the chase. A PENNY SAVED ARROWSMITH, ILY, — The streets of this village were dark, but the eitizens weren’t complain ing. It was their fault, they voted against proposed tax levy for funds to continue street lighting. BONUS FAGTIONS 1N HOUSE IN HARMONY !218 Members Who Back ' ed Patman Bill Urged to . Support Vets Measure. WASHINGTON—(#)—With house bonus factions in complete har mony, 218 members who, backed the Patman inflationary cash pay ment plan were urged today to throw their “whole-hearted and enthusias¥ic support” to a - bill sponsored by leading wveterans’ or ganizations. ' Advising these members hy let lter that the steering committee behind the Patman new-money bill had ratified an agreement to { push the veterans’ measure, Rep lresentativa Patman (D.-Texas) said: “First get the authorization and next the manner or method of payment,” he said- The bill back ed by the American Legion, Veter ans of Foreign Wars and Disabled American Veterans would author jze full cash payment without specifying the method of financ ing. His message went out as the house ways and means committee assembled to consider the veter ans’ measure. Bonus leaders were predicting the committee would approve the bill by Wednesday at the latest and that the legislation ibogsibly would come before the house by the close of the week. The Patman bil] would pay the | honus in newly-issued currency. i The Texan also asked his steer {ing committee to “continue to gether” to help pass the jointly ’sponsored measure ‘“and then to i get our method of payment adopt ed instead of bonds and taxes.” ’ The Patman bill was to have re ceived a house test next Monday:. as a petition to force a vote on it and was signed by 218 members last session. local hospital Sunday from in juries sustained in an automobile accident on the Coastal highway near Riceboro Friday afternoon, in which three other persons _were silghtly injured. The body was last night forwarded to Edinboro for interment. i ATLANTA—Expenditure of $16,- 738,424 on 2,186 projects has been authorized by the Georgia Works Progress Administration to date, although only $13,262,376 of that amount has been allocated.. . Miss Gay B. 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GB R S & R e PR SRR SR S S S e oo e e 0 e RR R R e AR e L 2 BRI - e g AR e % S DO v 3 s e e AR o e s vl e)eAAR S L R g B nTameneE e Sy RSe : S % ' 3 R i . 1.1:@:'5}5}.1::?"',"-: SRR : : - »/.' o -~ g 5 3 B S SRR S R 3 ] ,? R B SRR B S SRS e e e B Biname RS e - e e e N i e S B R ' SN b NR A N i R E f & e B 8 RS : : RS 8 e U»_ . S ST e s Ry R o s 2 . 2 R A R e s S A new sensation in the famed “gift of Gol” baby case was sprung in the sworn statement of Mrs. Grace Thomasson, above, baring details of an alleged plot to obtain a baby and palm it off as the child of Mra. Nelle Muench during the latter’s trial in the Dr., Isaac Kelley kidnaping. ‘According to a copyrighted story in the St. Louis Star- Times, Mrs. Thomasson, comely blond widow of a St. Louis capitalist, said that one infant, which died, was obtained before the Anna Ware baby and that she had gone to Chicago in an effort to buy a third for SSOO after the Ware child had been restored to its mother. Many Tickets Sold Here For Big Jackson Dinner Wednesday 8 P.M. BABY 15 DROWNED ~BY INSANE WOMAN Police Question Former Inmate With Little Suc cess; Hunt Begun. NEW YORK -—(®)— Police and psychiatrists attempted to wring today from the giggling phrases of an insane woman the story of the disappearance of 10-months - old Jacob Horowitz, whom they feared had been drowned. Gussie Friedman, 45, who has spent 20 years in asylums, was held for questioning after she was apprehended pushing a child to ward the icy East river. Police sought to learn if she kidnaped the son of Mr. and Mrs. Max Horowitz from in front of his lower east side home yesterday and dumped him, with his carriage in the river. She laughed eeril” at all questions and replied ~aly “nine o’clock.” Four hundred searchers, recruit ed from the neighborhood where the baby’'s parents live, searched vacant cellars and flats for the in fant. Police launches joined the hunt on the river. Louis Schnier gave the informa tion which resulted in Miss Fried man’'s detention. While he was watching his son, out for an air ing, he said he saw a leering woman with a “sunk-in” face peering into the stolen baby’s cab. When Mrs. Horowitz came teo look for her son a few minutes later, the baby was gone. Four high school bhoys, aiding in the search, encountered M { s ¢ Friedman half an hour later wheeling Doris Maslin, 2, in her carriage toward the river. They seized the child. ; The woman laughed, backed up against a garage and was taken into custody by police. Detectives said Miss Friedman was carrying a card showing she was paroled from the Creedmore hospital for the insane three months ago. She had been sent A o~ o i ":"“”‘":“ it ‘Eq R & > e e ok R Roosevelt Speech Arouses Athens and Clarke Dem ocrats to Big Response. | Taking their cue, perhaps, from President ‘Roosevelt's fighting speech to congress and the nation last week, Athens and Clarke county Democrats today were ral lving to the support of their party ag indicated by sale of tickets to the Jackson day dinner here Wed nesday night. Sponsored by the Clarke County Roosevelt Young Voters club which has a membership of 500 persons between the ages of 21 and 35, the Jackson dinner here this week will be one of many to be held throughout the nation. Held primarily on a large scale for the purpose of receiving con tributions, small and large, for the Democratic party’s campaign funad, the Jackson dinners will also mark the real beginning of the presiden tial campaign in which President Roosevelt will be bitterly fought by the Repuplican party and in ‘terest& which are opposed to his program designed to give the peo lple a greater share of the nation's economic benefits. ; The Democratic National Com ’mittee will be sent all of the money |ra!sed by sale of Jackson dinner ! (Continued on Page Five) Joe T M_—_—_——_ LOCAL WEATHER ot it M < Cloudy and % : )) somewhat colder & 4“" 00l tonight and )‘ ’Ax ’ m Tuesday: AR q;a\ probably & ‘f? occasional rain _...,> on the coast. FAIR .‘ ifepoie | TEMPERATURE | Highest .« o« oo 00 o 0 o¢ .69 | Rt s s b ma aaBEO BEREE . o in e sauss as 810 RS .. e e R 0 RAINFALL Inches lest 24 hours .. ... 1.36 Total since January 1 ehen BT Excess since January 1 .. 5.91 INTENGE AIR RAIDS RENEWED BY [TALY'S PLANES ON 2 FRONTS Second Swedish Red Cross Worker Dies; Britain Reinforces Position. BIG CITIES SPOTTED Sharp Skirmish Reported On Southern Front; Ethiopians Suffer. (By the Associated Press) I Italian war planes, engaged in an intense bombing campaign over many sectors of Ethiopia, claimea a second Swedish life today. ‘ The British legation in Addis Ababa reported to London and Stockholm that a second Swedish Red Crosg worker had died as the result of last Monday's bombard ment of a Swedish Red Cross unit {in the south. Belated reports of hard fighting also came out of southern Ethiopla as Great Britain began reinforcing litg African military position. | Air Bombings Air bombing, in which ' several {hospitals and Red Cross units | have been struck or destroyed, 1s being resorted to on both the northern and southern fronts of the Italo-Ethiopian war in an at tempt to halt advances by the de ifenders, Ethiopian authorities said. i In the Mediterranean, where in ternational tension was relaxed for weeks incident to the advance jment of peace le» Britain, used commercial s to carry ‘troops to British posts near the areas of greatest uneasiness. At the fort, faseist aerial squad lrons were reported officially ae | Addis Ababa to ,have destroyea }Daggah Bur and an Egyptian Rea Cross unit on the southern front, ]where three columns under Ras | Desta Demtu have been moving i slowly against the Italian army of {Gen. Rudolfo Graziani. | Important Cities i On the northern sector, where | 400,000 men under War Minister ]Ras Mulugheta and four other icommanders have been waging = campaign, official Ethiopian com muniques said renewed Italian air raids were directed against im portant cities and troop concen ‘tration centers, | A sharp skirmish on the south ’ern front, in which the Ethiopians suffered more than 150 casulties {and lost an encampment on the {Ganale Dorya River, some 25 miles ‘north of Dolo, was reported in an Iltalian war communique. i Through moving to strengthen lits military position, the. British lpostponecl for the moment any de cision on proposals to extend the League of Nations sanctions against Italy to include embargoes on oil, coal, iron, and steel. | Advices received in London from ! Paris said French sourceg were tdiscussing a possibilitys of a new peace plan being @evised soon to 'to interrupt again consideration or lthe oil embargo plan. MRS, M. M. BRANCH " PASSES AT BISHOP Wife of Prominent Dent ist Dies Sunday Night; Announce Rites Later. ! Mrs. Martha Moore Branch, 60, lwife of Dr. H. B. Branch, promi inent Bishop dentist, died at her lhome in that town Sunday night at 6:30 o'clock- Services will be conducted by Dr. W. H. Wrighton, assisted by Rev. Graham Davis, Methodist minister, date and place to be an nounced later by McDorman-Brid ges,, in charge of arrangements. Surviving Mrs. Branch are her husband; two sons, J. M. Branch, Tennille, Ga., and E. P. Branch, Bishop; a daughter, Mrs. B 3 Bray, LaGrange, Ga.; gister, Mrs. +J, C. Temple, Ocala, Fla., and *three brothers, E. L. Moore, Bir mingham, Ala.y W. C, Moore, Pensacola, Fla., and J, M. Moore, Glennville, Ga. Mrs. Branch was born in Mors gan county and had resided in Bishop for thirty-three years. Her ‘marriage to _Dr, Branch united “ 'x"”‘*ﬁ“f A ‘ k"‘ % A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday Entire AAA Is Ruled As ‘Unconstitutional’ By 6 to 3 Voted Today FARM BENEFITS 10 BE SHUT OFF BY COURT RULING Today's supreme court ruling knocking out AAA also shuts off farm benefit checks to cotton farmers in the Athens area, as wel] as other parts of the cotten growing section. Business stimulation by the flow of checks 'to the farmers of this section as a result of the farm. benefit program popularly known as the AAA cannot be estimated; but observers believe that the AAA has meant millions of dollars in businegs for the Athens area, as well as other parts of the south. * The declision today means that benefit ¢hecks will be stopped un less the Roosevelt administration can enact a farm program that will not be thrown out by the supreme court. The suit of Governor Talmadge, against the Bankhead act, was not acted upon by the court, but in knocking cut the farm benefit pay ment and pmcﬁ:ng tax the basis of the entire m prograge has been destro% P It may, besthat congress will be ’aske¢9séi;"'*gmr “u eofistitutional amendment giving congres the right to enact a program which will not be destroyed by the su preme court. Judge Blanton Fortson, noted (Continued on Page Three) RITES HELD TODAY FOR MRS, JOHNSON Beloved Athens Woman Laid to Final Rest; Suc cumbed Here Saturday. Funeral services soy Mrs. Irene Upshur Johnson, 78, who died at the home of her son, 140 Barber street, Saturday afternoon at 5:45 o'clock after an illness of one year, were held Monday morning at eleven o'clock. The services were held at the graveside in Crawford cemetery, conducted by Dr. E. L. Hill, pas tor of First Presbyterian church. Pallbearers were E. M. Stokely, Joe Stokely, J. A. Roland, Pat Pace, M. Blanchard and Walter Armistead. Interment was in Crawford church cemetery. Mc- Dorman-Bridges in charge. Surviving Mrs. Johnson are two sons, Louis and Percy S. Johnson, both of Athens; and the following grandchildren: Mrs. Dozier Light foot, Percy Johnson, jr.. George Johnson, Marvin Johnson, Misses Ann and Mary Alice Johnson and Bill Johnson, all of Athens, and Mrs. G. N. Bishop and Nartin L. Johnson, both of Atlanta. ~ Born in Cassville, Ga., Mrs. ‘Johnson had spent most all of her (life in Athens., She was a mem ‘ber of the Baptist church and was one of Athens’ best beloved women. During a long life of kindness to (Continued on Page Three) Oconee, Chattahoochee, Flint Rivers Rise With Heavy Rains { By The Associated Press { The Flint, Oconee and Chatta hoochee rivers rose menacingly today as generaj heavy rains con tinued over the state. West Point, Ga., where the Chattahoochee was well up last week, reported a fall of 4.4 tenths feet, or a level of 15 feet, since Friday’s high. A rise was forecast there, however, due tg heavy rains north of West Point. No damage is expected as flood stage is 20 feet. The Chattahoochee in Atlanta was about four feet lower than Saturday but apt to rise due to a rainfall of .70 of an inch in At lanta in the 24 hours ending at 7 a. m. today, and a rain of about half an inch up to 9 a. m. e it thewe down twp feot and 289 Act Declared as “‘lnvasion Of States Rights” by Highest Tribunal. REACTION AWAITED President Roosevelt and ~ Secretary Wallace Refuse Comment. By JAMES W. DOUTHAT Associated Press /Staff Wm WASHINGTON, — () —ln & sweeping decision, the Supreme Court today ruled the entire AAA program was unconstitutional. = The decision was 6 to 3. Justices Stone, Brandels, and Cardazo dis sented. 3 In an opinion read by Justice Roberts, the original adjuﬂi@:# act was declared to be “an invas ion of states rights” and beyond federal power under the “general welfare” clause. If the farm aid legislation were valid, he said, it would be possible for congress “to regulate industry in its most meticulous forms,” Speculation how ‘the presidential campaign would be affected stir red instantly when the news reached the capitol. Legislators turned in private from the busie ness of the moment, examination of the 1936-37 New D‘ﬁl budget, to mull over the possibilities, Re@blican dW‘ on % plank alter ves ﬁhgm ! amzaiting il Supreme - . attitude. : Reaction Awaited h What the New Deal would do was awaited eagerly. Secretary Wallace reserved com ment. ] It was indicated there would not be “any comment immediately from the administration. Councils of war were called. e President Roosevelt learned df the turn but also had mothing te say. S Roberts said the farm plan was “not in essence voluntary.” “It had a compulsory purpose,” he declared. 5 “If the aect ocalled only for a voluntary plan it would be no bet ter.” . Presumably, the government will seek to find a way to pay approx imately $500,000,000 due on con- (Continued on Page Three) National Bank Call Is Announced Today WASHINGTON,—{(#)—The comp troller of the currency issued & cali today for the condition mﬁ’ national banks at the close of ‘busi 'ness Tuesday, Dec. 31. s | The comptroller is required by ilaw to issue a call for condition of ' all national banks at least three | time each year, Today's was the !fourth affecting the calendar year {1935, } It was expected, as treasury practice hag been to time one call las of the end of the year so ac lcurate comparisons with prqy%mu { periods may be made. | Simultanously, the federal re~ serve system called for statements of condition of state banks be longing to the system and the de | posit insurance corporation fo¥ statements of condition of state lbanks belonging to the system and |the deposit insurance corpors ' ..« |for its state members. This call lalso was as of the close of business Dec. 31. YR Oconee rising steadily at Milledge ville. The Oconee was reported at 24.4 feet at Milledgeville, or more than two feet above flood stage.~ Temperatures were generally higher over Georgia today. Cloudy and somewhat colder tonight and Tuesday was forecast, with rains expected on . the coast. e Macon had a low temperaturs today of 44, and & rain of .39 of an inch during the night. et Thomasville reported @ low of 56, rainfall of .12, and thundes and lightning this morning. Moul trie had & low of 45, and rain and cloudy weather, Eaih Augusta had a Jow of 43 and & steady rain all last night and this morning. : . e Atlanta, which was jee-bound & _ (Continued on Page Theea} . o S eo s RIS I i SRR

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