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Athens-Elberton
Methodists Meet
At First Church
Pastors of twenty-seven Metho
dist churches in the Athens-Elber
ton District met in the Education
building at the ¥irst Methodist
church this morning at 10 o'clock
after they haa been summoned by
the' Presiding Elder Charles C-.
Jarrell.
In his talk, Dr. Jarrell spoke
of the present salaries being paid
pastors and decried the small
amount of the average salary.
T h o s e assembled immediately
voted that the' Precziding Elder re
peat his address, dealing with the
salaries of 'pastors in this gdistriet
at the First Quarterly conference
meetings.
Attending the meeting was Rev.
Zach (', Hayes, Madison, secretary
of the district, who kept the min
utes of the meeting.
Pastors present were: J. W
Coffman, Apalachee; A, A. Phil
lips,. Athens Circuit; George Acree
Athens First Methodist; J. M.
Brunsfield, Young Harris Metho-~
dist; Graham Davis, Bishop; H.
L. Gurley, Canon; Y. A. Baily,
Comer; J. P. Erwin, Commerce;
D. L. Haygood, Crawford; H. L.
Byrd, Elberton; W. F. Lundsford,
Eibert Circuit; J. G. Logan,
Hartwell; 8. H. Dixon, Lavonia,
Clyde Lee, Lexington; H, 'F.
Lanhorn, Little River; - Zach C.
Hayes, jr., Madison; H. A. Me-
Neil, Middleton; Jack Nichols,
Princeton; W. T. Irvine, Royston;
M. B. Sams, Watkinsville; J. O.
Brand, Washington; W. E. Chap-
ple, Buckhead; R. A. Green, Win
terville; J. G. Lupe, Tignall; R.
Wl Allison, Carnesville; J. A
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COUNTY PRIMARY 13
SET FOR APRIL 1
Clarke County Democratic
Committee Names En
trance Fees
The Clarke county Democratic
executive committee set April 21
as the date for the primary for
county officers at a meeting held
here this morning.
This primary is for county of
ficers only, and registration closes
at 5 o'clock April 6, the committee
decided. Entries for candiadtes for
the various offices will close at 12
o'clock April 160.
Tees for candidates for the of
fices were set, and a group of
rules by which te govern the elec
tion was adopted. The ruleg will
be published Sunday.
The Clarke county Democratic
committee is composed of H. J.
Rowe, chairman; John L. Green,
secretary and treasurer,; George
James, representative from the firse
ward; K. A. Hill, second ward; Q.
S. Crane, fourth ward; L. L. Les
ter, fifth ward; Harris Thurmond,
Kinney's district; J. P. Nunnally,
Bradberry's; H. P. Waters, Prince
ton; A. O. Flanagan, Georgia Fac
tory; Dean Amis, Puryears; T. W,
Morrison, Buck Branch and L. P.
Crawford, Sandy Creek.
Entrance fees for the primary
(Continued on Page Three)
]. Rice Westbrook Is
Installed as Mayor of
I1a; Councilmen Named
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ILA, Ga. — (#) — J. Rice West
brook, " recently elected mayor or
Ila, took office this week. He suc
ceeded D. R. Freeman.
Councilmen chosen at the same
elegtion were J. L. '"Westbrook,
mayor pro-tem; J. G. Rice, clerk;
R. T. Fitzpatrick, and Horace Bird.
Committees appointed by the
new mayor follows: Sanitary com
mittee—Dr. R. J. Wiestbrook and
Sumner Lord. Street committee—
G. H. Westbrook and Dr. H. G.
Banister. Building committee—A.
8. Westbrook and M. Y. Freeman.
Reosevelt Looks to
Soil Conservation,
Production Control
WASHINGTON —(#)— President
Roosevelt, at his first farm dis
cussion since AAA's death, today
asserted his responsibility to treat
farming as a national problem and
re-emphasized his determination
for soi] conservation and control
of production as the answer to
the farming situation.
Talking offhand with newsmen
at his regular press conference, the
president turned thumbs down on
proposals to provide subsidies for
exports.
~ “We must avoid,” he said for
direct quotation, “any national
agriculture policy whieh will re
sult in the shipping of our soil
fertility to foreign nations.”
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GOLD ACT EXTENDED
WASHINGTON —{#)— President
Roosevelt today signed a procla
mation extending ‘the section of
the gold reserve act establishing
the $2.600,000000 stabilization fund
for one year, Sl A R R
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
Crushing Majority in House
- Passes Bonus by 3550 59
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If congressmen are judges of
beauty, there’ll be a rush of
callers at the office of Repre
sentative Gardner R. Withrow,
Wisconsin Progressive. The rea
son is the Badger lawmaker’s
pretty secretary, youngest in
the House, shown above. She's
Miss Dorothy Wood, 19, of
Neilsville, Wis., and she’s en
joying Washington. very much,
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JOHN GILBERT LEFT
51,000,000 ESTATE
Four Former Wives of
GCreat Screen Lover Are
Shocked By His Death
HOLLYWOOD —(#)— John Gil
bert, last of the silent screen’s
“great lovers”, left a fortune est
imated at nearly $1,000,000 when
he died.
_A heart attack yesterday ended
the career of the 38-year-old ac
tor, who climbed from extra ranks
to stardom on the sdreen, then
faded into retirement because his
voice was too high-pitched for the
“talkies.”
A large share of the fortune his
fame reaped was swept away in
the stock market debacle of 1929,
but in August of that year he‘
signed a three-year contract with'
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which re
portedly paid him $500,000 annual
ly.
The estimate of Gilbert’s estate
was made by his attorney, Judge
Peyton H. Moore, who said, “he;
could have lived to a ripe old age
in luxury on the income of his
investments.
Judge Moore declined to say
whether Gilbert left a will, and
how his estate would be distrib
uted, pending the funeral.
Private services will be con
ducted Saturday morning in a
Beverly Hills mortuary chavel,
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STATE NEWS BRIEFS
By The Associated Press
1
| JEFFERSON — Two of four
| youths arrested in connection with
‘lthe death of Lawrence Barrett were
’free today of charges that they
! murdered the H7-year-old Jackson
county farmer whose burned body
was found near the Athens-Jeffer
!son highway Christmas night.
' After a hearing yesterday a jus
| tice court dismissed the charges
lagainst the youths, named in war
irants as R. M. Samples, 17, and
| Ralph Alison, 18.
Another of the four, listed as
Raydo Dailey, had been held for
the grand jury at a previous hears
ing.
The fourth suspect, booked as
1 Ishmel Samples, 20, waived pre
liminary hearing after the court
oserruled a defense motion that it
was disqualified because it had
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Chances of German Fade
As He Has ““Nothing
New to Tell’”’
NO PRISON SESSION
Mysterious Letter That
Confirms Innocence
To Be Studied
BY SAMUEL G. BLACKMAN
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
TRENTON, N. J. — (®) __ The
last hope of Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann to make a personal appear
ance before the court of pardons
faded today when Governor Harolu‘
G. Hoffman's ofifce announced the
court would not meet at the state
prison.
The governor said the court, con
vening tomorrow at 10:30 a. m,
to consider Hauptmann’s plea for
clemency, would meet as usual at
the executive offices.
2. meeting at state prison would
have been without precedent, but
Governor Hoffman’s delay in an
nouncing where the court would
sit had been taken by some as an
indication he hoped for ‘a last
minute statement from the man
convicted of the Lindbergh kidnap
murder.
One Remote Chance
The one remote chance of Haupt
mann appearing before the court
lay in the possibility defense coun-l
sel might make allegations necessi
tating Hauptmann’'s corroboration.
In that event, the court could ada
journ to state prison, a mile and a
half away, and call the prisener. -
' ‘Hauptmann himself, howeven,
has refused to elaborate on his old
statements, and his insistence that
‘he has nothing new to tell dimmed
"his chances of escaping the electric
chair one week from tonight.
} Governor Hoffman said it was
“extremely” doubtful the Court of
Pardons tomorrow would make the
unprecedented move of sitting at
' the prison and wnearing the last
plea of the man condemned to die
a week from tonight for the kid
naping-killing of Charles A, Lind
bergh, jr.
Previously the governor had said
the court was disposed to meet at
the prison instea@ of the state
house only if Hauptmann had a
last-minute statement to make.
Would Ansewr Questions
Hauptmann in his writen request
to appear, delivered to the gover
!nor a few days ago, limited it to
an offer “to answer all questions.”
“I doubt Hauptmann will be ask
ed to appear,” Hoffman said.
“I don’t think it is the intention
of the court to call any witnesses.”
Hauptmann, in questioning by
Col. Mark O. Kimberling, prison
warden, has refused to change the
story he told at Flemington—that
he received the Lindbergh ransom
money from Isafior Fisch, his part
ner who died in Germany.
It was reported today that Hoff
man went to the state prison deatn
house secretly in October on as
surances that Hauptmann would
“talk” only to him. Hauptmanr
talked, but his gtory—it was said—
was unchanged. ’
He Won't Talk
Asked today whether the story
were true, and told that it had
been attributed to him, the gover
nor replied:
“T won’t affirm it or deny it
His preparations for the pardons
court hearing tomorrow included
the assembling of many of the
trial exhibits for inspection. Five
of the court’s eight members, who
as members of the court of errors
and appeals affirmed Hauptmann's
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. rendered a decision in Dailey's|
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| DALTON — Sammie Armstrong |
| has been sentenced for the second |
| time to die in the electric chair|
| January 24 for the Killing of ai
hunting companion.
| Armstrong was convicted of glay-‘
.| ing Herman O'Donnell in Novem- |
‘[ber, 1934. He lost his appeal to
|| the Georgia supreme court from
‘hia previous death sentence.
. Judge Claud C. Pittman set the
.| new date for his electrocution. I
SAVANNAH—J. Q. Edwards fell
| fifty feet to his death from the
.| balcony of a cottori warehouse here
| last night as his brother-in-law,
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disappeared in the kidnap scare that gen'orlzed New York's jower east
side, waits despairingly at the East River's edge watching police and
divers grapple for the body. Gussie Friedman, who was caughi
wheeling another baby toward the river, is said by police to have ad
mitted taking the Horowitz baby. 4
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PUSEY LEAVES FOR
MEXICO SATURDAY
University Professor Will
Study Public School Sys
tems There
Dr. Edwin D. Pusey, Univer
sity of Georgia professor of edu
cation and director of the Summer
quarter, will leave tomorrow for
old Mexico, where he will study
public school systems.
Usually Mexico is thought of a
backward.- One from the general
public would never guess that
Mexican schools may have some
thing valuable to give to American
educators, but Dr, Pusey says this
impression is erroneous.
“There are reports of wonderful,
almost incredible, things that are
being done in Mexico,” he told
The Banner-Herald today.
He has been planning the trip
since last April. Because of a
leave of absence for the winter
quarter he is now able to make
the trip.
Here are some of the things Dr.
Pusey hopes to learn @bout in
Mexico.
1. The extent schools are adapt
ing curiculum to local social con
ditions.
2. Progress being made toward
eliminating adult illiteracy.
3. The extent of new library fa
cilities for rural people.
To obtain information desired.
Dr. Pusey will visit cities, small
towns and rural sections. He will
be in the country approximately
one month.
After leaving Mexico he will go
to southern California, where he
will survey junior college progress.
He will be in southern California
several weeks. March will bring
him back to the University.
Dr. Pusey has charge of Uni
versity Items, monthly publication
for Georgia school people. ‘While
he is away, Dr. T. H. Whitehead.
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Attend Opening From All
- Parts.of Nation . :
The Georgian Hotel will celebrate
nearly six months work of com
plete refurnishing and redecorat
ing with a brilliant and colorful
re-opening Wednesday, January 22,
at which motable figures in the
hotel and business world will be
present, Luther W. Nelson, mana
ger, announced today.
Scores of men prominent in ho
| tel operation from all sections of
| the country have signified theirl
lacoeptance of Mr. Nelson's dnvita
'tion to be present at the opening.‘
Among the distinguished guests
present will be Julian Price, presi-l
dent of the Jefferson Standard
Life Insurance Company of Greens
boro, N. C., and Howard Holcer
ness, treasurer of the company,
i At the opening the beautiful new
ballroom on the second floor will
be dedicatedq the Julian Price
{ Ballroom in honor of Mr. Price.
The lovely ballroom, with ijts in
ldirect and soft lighting, complete
ly new fixtures, furnitnre, rugs.
Idrapes, wall murals . and domed
lceiling. would do credit to any
hotel in the country.
l Ladies Lounge
The new ladies Ilounge room,
‘opening off the right of the main
!entrance and for the convenience
| of women as a place to rest, holdl
!partie‘x. meetings, etc., will be
ldedicated to the late Charles W.
| Gold, who was vice-president and
ltrexsurer of the Jefferson Stand
ard Life Insurance Company. On
fhis frequent visits to Athens, Mr.
i ke
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Angry Dispute Mark
‘Angry Dispute Marks
- -
‘ Morgan Investigation
.
' By Senate Committee
‘ BY PRESTON L. GROVER
| (Associated Press Staff Writer)
| WASHINGTON —(#)— An angry
| dispute as to whether Morgan pres
{sure forced Woodrow Wilson to
ilet down the bars to the. flotation
!of huge allied loans in America
{ reverberated today as the senate
| munitions committee called J. P.
i Morgan to the stand once more.
I Hot words ended vyesterday's
| session ag a committee member ac
‘cused Morgan of applying “lever
jage” and the big banker, flushing
'indignantly. shouted “fallacy.”
i Today the committee was ready
l?with a new stack of documents In
iits efort to show, in the face of
| banker denials, that financial ties
;with the Allies played a major part
|in drawing the United States into
| the World War.
| Committee investigators sought
| yesterday to link 1915 activities in
{the foreign exchange market with
|a swift change in the Wilson ad
{ ministration’s neutrality policy. At
ifirst the adminstration frowned on
American loans to the belligerents.
Secretary of State Bryan, who lat
er resigned, held they endangered
neutrality.
FEvidence was introduced to show
—
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EGYPT DECIDES 10
JOIN N PROTEST 10
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
rollows Action of Sweden
And Ethiopia Protesting
Actions of Italy
BOMBINGS SUBJECT
Egyptian Ambulance Unit
Bombed by 8 Planes at
Dolally Tuesday
By ROY P. PORTER
Associated Press Staff Writer
Egypt decided to join Ethiopia
and Sweden today in protests of
Italian bombings of cities and
ambulance units on KEast African
battlefronts,
The government of King Fuad
announced at Cairo it would pro
test to Italy against bombing of
an Egyptian Red Crescent ambu
lance unit near Daggah Bur gn the
south front. :
Prince Ismail Daoud, the king's
brother-in-law, also reported an
other Egyptian ambulance detach-:
ment had been bombed and ma
chine-gunned by eight Ttalian
planes Tuesday at Dolally, in the
same territory. |
~ Prince Daoud is head of the Red
Crescent organization, similar tc
;the American Red Cross. ,
: Strong Protest 1
Ethiopia has sent a strong pro
| tet to the League of Nations, ask
ing appointment of a commission
’to survey its claims that the ras
~cist invaders have adopted a pol
icy of “merciless extermination”
“with bombs, ?
i Sweden previously, through
Red Cross, complained against an
aeria) attack on a Swedish medi
cal unit near Dolo and began a
campaign to raise funds to finance
an -inquiry into the incident. .
Unofficial sources reported 200
Italian native troops had been
killed in an Agaden province en
gagement, Six tanks, nine ma
chine gun¢ and radio equipment
have been seized by the defending
forces, it was reported.
Battle Near Dolo
(In the absence of official govr
ernment advices, these casualties
were presumed to have begn suf
tered during a reported engage
ment involving more than 100,600
troops in the Dolo region on the
southern front yesterday.
(These reports declared Ras
Desta Demtut, Emperor Haile
Selassie's son-in-law, had repul-
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DEMOGRATS MEET
IN PHILADELPHIA
Pennsylvaniz City Chosen
For Convention in June
After Stiff Fight
BY NATHAN ROBERTSON
(Associated Press Staff Wiriter)
WIASHINGTON—(#)—The Demo
cratic party was off to a flying
start today toward a well stocked
campaign chest, by virtue of se
lecting Philadelphia for #ts con
vention city and the recent series
of Jackson Day dinners.
Compleie reports on returng from
the 2,000 Jackson Day dinners will
not bhe known for several days, but
the party treasury held a cool
$200,000 in cash from the Pennsyl
vania city which won the conven
tion late yesterday after a stiff
bidding contest.
The decision of the National
commitiee carrieg the Democratic
convention into the heart of the
industrial east, home grounds of
many of the business men who
oppose the New Deal.
In some quarters the selection
was interpreted as & move indi
cating an aggressive Democratic
campaign for electoral votes of the
thickly populated eastern states.
It will be the first Democratic con
vention ever held in Philadelphia.
But Chairman Farley has dis
counted the political importance of
the convention site. It was ap
parent that in selecting Philadel
phia, the committee was moved as
such, if not more, by financial con
siderations than others.
Chicago had been reported in the
lead for the convention when the
National committee met. But the
Tllinois city offered only $150,000.
San Francisco bid $201,000 but did
not put up the money. |
Philadeuphia’s Republican may
or, S. Davis Wilson, offered $200,-
000 in cash, plus a free convonton*‘
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charge may follow the $500,000
damage suit filed by Ann Cooper
Hewitt, 21, above, against her
mother, Mrs. Manyon Bruguiere
Hewitt D’Erlanger McCarter, be
low. Miss Hewitt charges she was
sterilized in a plot by her mother
to obtain the girl’'s share of a $2,-
000,000 fortune if the heiress died
without issue.
NEW FAGTS BROUGHT
OUT INHEWITT CASE
Mother Charges Heiress
Daughter Infatuated By
“Men in Uniform”’
SAN FRANCISCO —(#)— Prose
cutors delved today into the cir
cumstances of Ann Cooper Hew
itt's sterilization, the basis of @&
$500,000 damage suit against the
21-year-old heiress’ mother, who
stated her daughter was easily in
fatuated by “men in uniform.”
“Mother felt that way about
men in uniform,” the girl retorted.
“And naturally she expected me
0.”
Puzzled authorities in the dis
triet attorney’s office called a
conference to determine if there
were grounds for ecriminal prose
cution in the operation, for which
the girl brought a $500,060 damage
suit against her mother and three
doctors.
“Startling evidence” in the biz
arre suit was promised in quota
tions attributed to WRlizabeth C.
Kelly, former nurse for the heir
ess, who claims she was dupted
into the operation so her mother,
Mrs. Maryon Hewitt MeCarter,
eventually would get her wealth.
In an affidavit filed yesgerday
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AAA Substitute Hunt Speeds
Up As Wallace Parley Convenes
WASHINGTON —{#)— An op-|
portunity to draft a new farm-aid |
plan ‘“as decisively in the farm in
terest as the AAA and which will
make an even stronger appeal to
the consumers of the nation” was
presented to assembled farm lead
ers today by Secretary Wallace.
He told approximately 100 farm !
leaders, at the New Deal's post-'
AAA conference, that the smashed
adjustment act had been “steadily
directed to the general welfare.”
Whillace gave no hint of what
new farm program he approved
Laying emphasis upon the import
ance of the meeting, the secretary
said: % 4
“The time has come for those
who believed that the balanced wel
fare of agriculture is essential to
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MEASURE 15 SENT
10 SENATE WHERE
QUICK ACTION SEEN
Bill Would Cost at Once
Estimated One to Two
Billion Dollars .
GCALLERIES PACKED
Representatives Are Not
Concerned as Vote Is
Taken on Bonus :
BY DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON —(AP.)— A
crushing house majority today
passed and sent to the senate a
bill authorizing immediate cash
payment of the bonus to nearly
3,500,000 World War vaterans. '
Its immediate cost was esti
mated variously from $1,000,-
000,000 to $2,000,000;000.
The vote on passage was an
nounced by Speaker Byrns as
355 to 59, more than the two
thirds required to pass legisla
tion over a presidential veto.
The final ballot was taken
before galleries packed with
spectators. ‘
The bill was backed by the
American Legion, Veterans of
Foreign Wars and Disabled
American Veterans.
Quick Action Seen
Prompt congideration of the eash
bonus issued by the senate finance
committee was promised by Chair
man Harrison, Democrat, Mississ
ippi.
Unless pressure for the house
bill is too great, the committee ¥ j,‘{;‘
considered likely to amend the
one of its own, realizing President™
Roosevelt is opposed to full pay
‘ment at this time.
. Democratic Leader Robinson has
‘(.‘onferred with the president and
was believed to have conveyed the
executive's aftitude to all bonus
icamps whose representatives have
| heen conferring in secret for gev
leral days.
] Robinson Hopeful
Robingson was hopeful a bill can
be passed that will meet the exe
cutive's approval. _ s
Just before final passage, the
house defeated 319 to 89 a n
by Representative Treadway, Re
publican, Massachusetts, to return
the bill to committee under -
structions to vequire payment with
unexpended relief funds, 3%
Every segt in the galleries were
occupied long before the balloting
got under way.
~ On the floor, members were so
unconcerned about the ouwéi’m'
‘that they chattered noisily. m
‘were reading newspapers. 8 2
‘Byrns, had to crack down his gavel
repeatedly so those who had ot
yet voted could hear the clerk m
their names. T gk
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Ralph Fulghum New
Editor of Extension
Ralph Fu);hum has been named
editor of the State Agricultm.’
Extension Service, here, succeeding
Charleg Summerour, resigned.
Fulghum graduated from t:’xé
College of Agriculture here in
1929, served five yeesrs as assist
ant editor in Florida, at the Florida
Agricultural Extension Service anc
Experiment Station, and spent last
yvear in the Washington office of
the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture. .
Summerour has accepted a pos!-
tion with a potash conecern ir
Montgomery, Ala. e
| the general welfare to speak plain
ily about obstructionists. I am
| sure that most business men anc
|consumers are friendly to the far
| mer, but there are certain smal
but powerful cliques which have
| steadily fought all efforts onm the
| part eof this government and pre
! ceding governments to extend even
!a modest aid to agriculture.
| “Some of these obstmctwll“tt
!the agricultural welfare, as it re.
\lates to the general welfare, hopi
sand believe the recent decision
| means the end of all effective gov
{ernmental interest in the farm
problem. T
“Others are willing to buy the
.‘zarmers off temporarily "w?ais
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