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Vol. 104. No. 1.
2-Headed Snake
Discovered Here;
Reporters See It
A snake with two heads!
It's true and there is no catch,
no fake about it,
The snake, a water moccasin,
was found ¥Friday in the back
wash of the lower Oconee river
in the rear of a house on Barrett
street, Barrett street crosses the
upper bridge, to the Commerce
road near the Seaboard station.
Three Banner-Herald reporters‘
were summoned to the scene by
telephone and all blieved they
were being 51)0()fed, but the story
was too good not to investigate,
because it might be true after all
But they were determined mnot
to bhe fooled, though they had
heard before of two-headed snakes.
A Barrett street resident had
the snake in a glass bottle and
it was STILL ALIVE and wig
gling, although it had almost been
drowned.
The captor, a woman, poured
the snake out on the ground and
it moved about t, show it had
plenty or life left, though a part
of it had been mashed somewhat.
The snake was about eighteen
inches long, proving it must have
been born back in the summer.
At one end it had a perfect
head about the size of a man’s
thumb, with eyes, tongue, eic.
Eighteen inches away, at the ex
treme other end, was another and
smaller head, also perfectly form
ed. Thiz head was a miniature of
the larger with eyes; mouth, ton
gue. The smaller head was about
the size of a man's little finger
from the first joint to the tip-
In moving about the smaller
head followed the larger one, just
as though it was the snake's tail.
But on oceasion it would draw
back in a wavy line as though
getting- ready to strike.
The snake was a muddy brown,
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First Meeting to Be
Held Today of Sunday
“y” Club at 3 O’clock
Morton §. Hodgson will address
the Boy's Sunday “Y” club at the
opening assembly of 1936 at the
“y" this a,gpfmbn at 3 o'clock.
All boys will be. ~chosen into
four teams for .a. }M‘Mm‘y Lop.
test that will rum for three or
four Sundays, this afternoon. At
the conclusion of the contest, the
boys will be divided into four
teams again for the regular twelve
weeks run of the Christian Ser
vice Training program.
As in years past a silver loving
cup will be awarded to the win
ning division in this contest. A
gold medal will be presented to the
boy obtaining largest number of
individuals.
“Tell Why’’ Contest to
Be Run Next Tuesday
Due to dircumstances beyond the
eontrol of the Banner-Herald it
will be necessary to postpone ouv
“Tell Why It Pays to Trade With
These Atheng Firms” contest untis
next Tuesday. This feature wams
due to run in today’s issue, but be
cause of delay of some firms In
submitting their advertising copy
it ig necessary to postpone it.
The Banner-Herald will give
$50.00 in prizes to our readers who
can write the best letters telling
why they prefer to trade with or
buy the different products advertis
ed in this section.
Every reader of the Banners
Herald is invited to enter this con
test. No matter what age or
where vou live. 'There’s no strings
attached, you don't have to buy
anything, work any puzzles or any
of the other unpleasant methods,
all you have to do is give your
best reasons for patronizing yous
favorite Athens firms.
These advertisementg will appear
on Tuesday, January 14 and Tues
day, January 21. Then on Tuesday,
January 28 we will run the prize
winners and one best letter writ
ten on each firm. Be sure to get
vour copy so rthe above dates.
Senate Committee Bloc Holds
Out for Freedom-of-the-Seas
BY RICHARD L. TURNER
(Associated Press Staff Wpiter) {
WASHINGTON —(P)— A free
dom-of-the seas bloc within the)
senate foreign relations committee
was reported holding out Saturday
night against any abandonment of
traditional American trading rightsl
under the pending neutrality legis
lation. 1
With this disclosure came a pre
diction from Chairman Nye, Re-1
publican, North Dakota, of the
munitions committee that another
week of questioning J. P. Morgan
and his associates would producei
a growing record of modiflca.tions{
in iWorld War neutrality policy,
coinciding with crises in the busi
ness of supplying war materialg to
the Allies. : |
The two committees will be
working simultaneously, one striv
ing to guage the effect to com
merce with belligerents on Ameri
ca’s entry Into the war; the other
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
Hauptmann’s Plea for Clemency Is
Deni2od by State Court of Pardons
New Rer. ‘olic Editor
Speaks Here Tuesday
At Affairs Institute
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Louisiana Rice Millers
Case May Be Decided by
Supreme Court Monday
BY JAMES W. DOUTHAT
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
. WASHINGTON —(#)— Govern
ment experts puzzling over the
vast financial problems created by
AAA’s invalidation Saturday night
looked toward the supreme court
for guidance in a ruling possible
’Monday.
~ The high tribunal’s opinion is a
case involving Louisiana rice mill
ers is generally expected to throw
light on whether $1,200,000,000 may
be open to refund to those who
have paid the outlawed processing
taxes since 1933.
~ 'This decision also may be one
of the principal factorg in deter
mining whether the Roosevelt ad
ministration will have to request
new taxes from congress in the
face of the 1936 presidential cams«
paign.
In addition, the court is looked
to for a ruling Monday on cases
involving constitutionality of the
New Deal's electric power “yard
stick” program under the Tennessee
Valley act, as well as the Bank
head cotton production control law.
Most observers beleve the Bank
head legislation was doomed by
the AAA opinion. J
The question of processing tax
repayment was presented by Loulss
iana rice miilers who contended
they were entitled to an injunction
against tax collection because they
could not meet a requirement of
the AAA amendments that theyl
must prove the levies had not been
shifted to others before they couldl
sue for recovery on the ground the
taxes were unconstitutional. |
Government attorneys say that if
this provision is held invalid, those
who paid the taxes can sue to res
cover in federal district courts or}
the court of claims.
If the provision is upheld, the
government claims processors can
not recover until proof is present
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writing a bill intended to keep the
]United States clear of present and
futureg conflicts.
| The foreign relations committes
was reported tied up for the mo.
ment at least by the insistence of
a group numbering Senators Borah,
tßepublica.n, Idaho, among its mem
bers. The bloc was described g 9
‘contendlng that the legislation in
no way surrenders the traditional
right of neutrals to do business in
time of war and carry cargoes on
the high seas.
A compromise between this point
of view and that of senators seek
ing a hermit-like status for the
! United States so far as business
|with belligerents is concerned was
seen Saturday in the latest change
made in the bill by the committee.
This alteration struck out auth
ority for the president to restrict
exports of war materials upon a
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Prominent Economist and
Author Makes Principal
Talk at Session
UNDER NEW PLAN
Lectures Now Spread Out
Through School Year;.
Is Second Speaker
l University of Georgia Institute
lof Public Affairs addresses Tues
!day are expected to be revealing
of national and international prob
; lems.
| George Soule, editor of the New
Republic, will be the speaker. Dr.
R. P. Brooks, dean of the School of
Commerce and director of the in
stitute, said yesterday that Mr.
Soule will speak in the chapel at
,11:30 a. m., and 8 p. m, Tuesday.
| Dr. Brooks urged that the gener
‘al public hear Mr. Soule’s discus
sions of “Communism, Fascism ana
Socialism” in the morning ana
“The Nation and the World” in the
‘evening.
Years of Study
Soule, who is an author, econo
mist and political and social scien
tist as well as editor, has haa
vears of study and experience in
(fields of national importance. He
lhas given much of his time to
Iteaching and lecturing.
|, “The Coming American Revolu
'ltlon,” a book recently written by
{him, was widely read, caused mucn
]comment. It is regarded ag one
of the most thorough discussions
ever advanced of revolutionary ten<
Idencles and possibilities in the
United States.
Of the possibility of revolution,
BORis SRyWE: = o e s
- YTt is clear that we-are not-new
in the critical period of a revolu
tion. What the depression of the
'3os gave us was an excellent fore
taste, however, of the aspects that
crisis will assume if it does come.
Promise of Success
“No one of the three most pro
minent organized movemenits fop
social change holds a promise of
success in the future. Soecialist or
reformist activity is not likely soon
to achieve major alterations in
capitalism. Communism {8 not
likely to abolish capitaliem uitil
after a revolutionary crisis has
begun in some other way. A Fas
cist movement may grow and gain
political supremacy but it will be
a temporary and repulsive react
ion, not a solution to anything.”
Soule continues with what could
happen in the future—possibly
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DRIVE TO CURTAIL
COURT POWER SEEN
Small Bloc of House Mem-
bers Would Limit Su
preme Court’s Power
BY DOUGLAS B. CORNELL
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON — (#) — A drive
to curtail powers of the Supreme
Court without resorting to a con
stitutional amendment was plan
ned ,Saturday in a meeting of a
small bloc of house members.
Representative Cross, Democrat,
Texas, emerged from the confer-
ence with word to reporters he
was ‘“‘sure” he could obtain a hear
ing “in the next week or two” by
the house judiciary committee on
his bill to forbid an inferior court
to pass upon the constitutionality
of an act of congress and to bar
the Supreme Court from ruling on
constitutionality in any case com
ing to it on appeal.
One Democratic chieftain said
the party leadership was canvass
ing the possibilities of such a pro-
posal. Although preferring not io
be quoted by name, he said he was
convinced personally that congress
had the power under the constitu
tion to pass such legislation.
Members sympathetic to Cross'
ideas went over the Cross bill in a
two hours session behind closed
doors. Among them weie Repres
entatives Lewis, Democrat, Mary
land;’ Sisson, Democrat, New York;
Kopplemann, Democrat, Connecti
cutt; Withrow, Republicen, Wis
consin; Luckey, Democrat, Neb
raska; Goldsborough, Democrat,
Maryland, and Ramsey, Democrat,
West Virginia.
The ‘committee met shortly after
Senator Norris, Republican, Neb
raska, suggested lower courts be
deprived of the authority to deter
mine constitutionality and that
power be placed in a single new
court from which appeals would g»
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Innocent bystanders of the Lindbergh baby kidnaping and murder
vet overwhelmed by the tidal wave of tragedy, Mrs. Anna Hauptmanp
and her son Mannfred await the uncertain grinding of the mills of
New Jersey@®justice before mapping their futures. Should Bruno
Hauptmann be executed as seheduled, she wants to take the body back
to his native Géermany &ud to Wst’:;rlfldisht'hbmo'm‘ete for berself and
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Writer Reviews Hauptmann Case;
Says Murder Never to Be Solved
By DALE HARRISON
Associated Press Staff Writer.
NEW YORK.—(#)—The riddle
of the Lindbergh baby murgder
may never be fully solved, no
matter what happens to Bruno
Richard Hauptmann in New Jer
sey's death house next week,
It is often that way with cases
in which circumstantial evidence
is employed. Always there remain
one or more elements of the crime
which are either unexplained or
are explained with contradictions.
If a mystery story-teller set it
down, it would be a story too
weird to believe. There is in all
the history of American crime no
case as studded with strange
drama as this.
There were cemetery trysts—a
rendezvous aboard a ship at sea—
airplanes that circled mysterious
ly over coves and inlets—notices
in the “agony” columns—a young
woman killed herself almost at
the feet of police officers—ransom
notes—gangsters — speeding mo
torcars, darkly curtained, dashingf
forth on strnage journeys—dead
men and dead ends—a watchdog
that failed to bark—fingerprints—
a mustache schoolmaster keeping
weird appointments — vaudeville—
a shallow grave—hoaxers—G-men
and country sleuths -— pointing
fingers — pencilled figures on a
banknote.
Most of these varied events
came to focus in the century-old
courthouse of Flemington, N, J.
with a 72-vear-old justice as the
Georgia Farmers ‘Up in the Air’;
Want Substitute for Dead AAA
| ATLANTA — (® — Agricultur
;al observers said Saturday that
|Georgl'3. farmers, surveying the
iwreckage of AAA, 9planned in
icreased planting of cash crops in
| many sectiong to overcome the loss
lor millions in rental and parity
!payments by the control program.
} Many expressed hope a substitu
'te crop control scheme could be
established, county agents report.
ed.
l Payments gince the beginning of
| AAA in 1933 have totaled $24,326,-
'424. During the first nine months
lot 1935, Georgia farmers have re
| ceived from the AAA $5,506,027 for
cotton reduction, $2,697 for wheat,
$1,024,787 for tobacco and $142,171
for corn-hog reduction — at total
of $6,675,684,
Some county agents reported
farmers were planning to fall back
on the established idea of raising
all possible supplies for the fam
arbiter. A young, Russian-born
attorney-general (prosecuting his
first murder case) as the pointing
finger, twelve men and women of
the countryside as jurors, and the
lean carpenter from Kamenz
Germany, as the prisoner-at-the
bar.
There were women in mink and
ermine, men of wide fame, as
spectators. There were state
troopers with firearms holstered at
their sides; messenger boys stand
ing in the aisles to form a human
chain along which, like beans on
a conveyor belt, the reports. of the
trial moved from the reporters’
chairs to the waiting telegraph
wires in the anterooms. Nothing
quite like it ever was seen be
fore,
Once. the voice of Hauptmann
was heard, crying out:
‘“You are lying « . . lying!”
Once the voice of his wife too
rose in protest to the testimony.
Through it all, without sign of
emotion, sat the father of the
murdered child. He did not miss
a session.
Unless Bruno Hauptmann him
self should clear it up before the
current of death throttles him,
the. complete answer to the Lind
bergh case may not be told.
What about Isador Fisch, the
consumptive German whose ghost
swayed constantly in the back
ground, almost from the moment
of Hauptmann’s arrest? What
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lily. devoting the rest of their time
and land to cash crops.
’ Speaking only of Fulton county,
{ Farm Agent 8. D Truitt said:
| “Fulton county farmers will lose
labout SIOO,OOO in rentals and pari
|ty checks. This ig a cash income
i the farmers feel they must make
!up in some way. The only alter
native in larger plantings of cash
crops.”
| At Sparta, Editor G. B. Moore of
:ithe Ishmaelite said farmers “were
pretty muych in the air” over the
lAAA ruling though there had been
Iconsidera.ble criticism. Sentiment,
{he said, was strong for some form
]ot crop control.
Randolph county farmers, meet
ing in Cuthbert, adopted a resolu
tion asking continuance of the pro
| gram, commdhiding President Roo
;sevelt and congress for their es-
X ——
i (Continued on Page Four) J‘
J-POINT PROGRAM 3
APPROVED SATURDAY
BY FARM LEADERS
Secretly Drafted Bill to
Replace AAA Reported
By New Dealers
MEETING ADJOURNS
Measure to Be Amended
To Conform to Sugges
tions by Farm Leaders
By JERRY GREENE
(Copyriéht, 1936, By The Associ
ated Press)
WASHINGTON J—(#)—A reven
point program centered upon gov
ernment-subsidized soil conserva
tion was approved unanimously
Saturday night by farm leaders
called to counsel with the admin
istration on a substitute for AAA.
Authoritative sources said a bill
secretly drafted two days ago in
New Deal quarters would be
quickly revised t, embody the
legislative recommendations of
the 100 spokesmen for the nation’s
major farm organizations.
In addition to soil conservation,
the farm group called for reten
tion of “valid” provisions of the
adjustment act whose processing
taxes and benefit payments were
outlawed Monday by the supremec
court: “Further expansion” of
foreign markets for surplus crops,
‘and new taxes on processors of
livestock and dairy products.
Much Unexplained
Many - questions went unexs
plained, including wheré the mon
ey ig coming from to finance ‘“this
£oil conservation and price ad-
Jjustment ‘pragram.”’ v
The-- farm - leaders . suggested
that congress ‘provide adequate
funds by appropriation,” but add
ed that many matters “including
the money question” were left
“for the continuing acticn and at
tention of our ever-alert farm or
ganizations.”
Told by Secretary Wallace that
they were “now building in a
much more permanent way than
was possible in March 1933,” when
the original AAA was evolved,
the farm spokesmen cheered wild
ly as they adjourned their two
day session.
Chester C. Davis, AAA admin
istrator, told newsmen as he
emerged from the meeting that “1
think the principles in this report
will do the job.”
These planks were in the seven
(Continued on Page Four)
PLANG FOR BALL 10
BE MADE TUESDAY
Committees to Meet at
Ceorgian to Plan Roose
velt Birthday Ball
Members of committees for the
Roosevelt Birthday Ball, to be
held here on the President’s birth
lda,v. January 30, will map final
| plans at a nieeting to be held in
the Georgian hotel Tuesday after
noon at 1 o'clock, Luther W. Nel
son, general chairman for the
| ball, announced yesterday.
, Tickets to the Birthday Ball
will sell for $1.50 per couple to the
‘ general public, with student tick
ets per couple selling for sl.
i Committee chairmen are:
Herman Talmadge, Men’s Pan-
Hellenic chairman; Vivian Max
well, assistant chairman; Doris
Malone, Women's Pan-Hellenic
chairman; Mary Gordy, assistant
chairman; Marion Mathis and Le-
Roy Michael, co-chairmen of dec
’oratlon committee; Charles E.
aMartin. souvenir ticket designer
in charge of distribution; Colonel
H. E. Mann, chairman military
committee; Mrs. Edward Dorsey
| directer of ticket sales and per
| sonnel; D. Weaver Bridges, chair
man reception committee.
Harry L. Brown, Dr. N. G.
,Slaughter and Miss Louise Starr,
civie clubs committee; Julian Cox.
chairman place and music com
mittee; R. R. Gunn, Abit Nix,
Cuyler Trussell, H. J. Rowe,,
steering committee; B. C. Lump
kin, Dan Magill, = co-chairmen
publicity committee, Tom Dozier,
lWynburn Rogers, Mary Myers.
CGeneral Chairman Nelson also
announced Saturday that Jack
Dale and his Georgia Bulldog
orchestra, which furnished the
!music at the Birthday Ball last
vear, and last week presented a
program of delightful music at the
| Jackson Day Dinner, will play for
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PROFESSOR J. E. GERALD,
of the Missouri School of Jour
nalism, who will lead ¢compre
hensive round table discussions
at the Georgia Press Institute
in Athens, February 19-22.—
Photo by courtesy of The At
lanta Journal.
GERALD WILL LEAD
PRESS DISCUSSIONS
Missouri Professor to Ap
pear at Press Institute in
February
Professor J. Bdward Gerala of
the school of journalism, Univer
sity of Missouri, has been select
ed to lead round table discussions
of the 1936 Georgia Press Instituts
to be held here February 19, 20,
21 and 22, it was anneunced Sat
urday.
Professor Gerald is to contrib
ute authoritative information on
such topies as national advertis
ing, mechanical cost datd, com
munity surveys and other subjects‘
of special interest to publishers of
weekly newspapers.
Arrangements for his visit were
made by the committee on ar
rangements of which John Pasch
all, associate and managing editor
of the Atlanta Journal is chair
man.
The institute will be held at the
Henry W. Grady School of Jour
nalism of the University of Geor
gia. It will open on Wednesday
evening, Feb. 19, and continue
through a luncheon Saturday. In
addition to round table meetings,
to be held daily throughout the
session, there will be addresses by
prominent journalists and educa
tors, amd severa] luncheons and
dinners.
Professor Gerald will come so
Athens as guest of the Fulton
County Daily Report and its edi
tor, Frank Kempton.
He is one of several outstanding
teachers of journalism whose re
searches have been made available
to members of the Georgia Prss
through the annual institutes.
Among those who have been in
charge of round tables at previous
institutes and Dr. Willard G.
Bleyer, author of “Newspaper Writ
ing and Editing,” and other texts
and, until his recent death, direc
tor of the University of Wisconsin
(Continued on Page Five)
Senate Bonus Bill May Provide
Baby Bonds for War Veterans
BY D. HAROLD OLIVER
(Associated Press Staff Weriter)
WASHINGTON — (® — Baby
bonds for veterans, with premiums
for those who do not cash them
immediately, were reported Satur
day night to lie at the heart of a
bonus measure which had been
drawn up secretly in the senate for
introduction Monday. 1
Drafting of the measure, repres
enting a coalition compromise, was
said to be virtually completed. De
tails were not disclosed. The cash
payment bill overwhelmingly pass
ed by the house Friday did not
specify a method of payment.
Authoritative word was, hows
ever, that it would be put forward
as a compromise for the*house bill
and would bear the names of Chalr
man Harrison, Democrat, Mississ
ippi, of the finance committee, and
Senators Byrnes, Democrat, South
Carolina, Steiwer, Republican, of
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NEXT FRIDAY MIGHT
Convicted Murderer of
Lindbergh Baby Has
Slight Chance
REMAINS “COOL”
Covernor Could Grant a
Reprieve of Not More
Than 90 Days
BY DALE HARRISON
(Copyright, 1936, Associated Press)
STATEHOUBE, 'TRENTON, N.
J.—AP)—The state court of par
dons decided Saturday night that
Bruno Richard Hauptmann must
die for the Lindbergh baby murder.
After an all day session the court
issued a terse announcement that
Hauptmann's application for cle
mency “was today denied.”
The decision ended all but the
most forlorn of hopes for the Bronx
carpenter to esScape the electric
chair next Friday night.
Hauptmann in the death house
received the news ‘‘very cooly,”
the prison warden said. He told
the warden:
“I have always told the truth.
I can tell no other story.”
The prisoner “stood up very well”
under the news, it was said by his
attorneys.
Only Hope
Hig only hope now lies either
with Governor Harold C. Hoffman,
or the courts; and both hopes are
desperate ones,
The governor might delay the
execution by a reprieve-—of not
more than 90 days—but even this
power is doubted both‘ty the gov
ernor and the attorney general.
- Governor Hoffman would make
no comment Saturday night, eith
ler concerning the possibility of a
reprieve or the action taken by
the court.
Hauptmann’s chance for further
delay through the courtg lay in
three directions: A habeas corpus
action in federal court, an appeal
for a new trial to Justice Thomaws
'W'. Trenchard the aged jurist who
sat on the bench during the Flem
ington trial at which Hauptmann
was convicted; or a new request
to the United States Supreme Court
to review the proceedings. This
was rejected once.
Starts For Prison
As soon as the court’s decision
was announced, Lloyd Fischer, of
defense counsel, started for the
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Oregon gnd Clark, Democrat, Miss
ouri.
“If that is =o0,” observed Senator
Borah, Republican Idaho, “what
ever bill they frame will be passea
and become law.”
Harrison in the past hay &ppos
ed full cash payment ir advance
of the 1945 maturity valoe. Byrnes,
Steiwer and Clark have taken wvart
ous other stands.
‘All Farrison would say about
the secret negotiations that have
been progressing for days was that
“progfess” was being made and
he would have a “statement ready
sometime Monday before his finan
ce committee met to take up the
bonus. This was taken to mean
he might have a new bill to intro
duce which he and other adminis«
tration leaders hoped would be ac-
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