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Vol. 104, No. 26.
FLASHES
of
~ L-I-F-E
~ ALWAYS OPEN SEASON
CHARLOTPTE, N. C.—Pity the
poor moonshiners in weather like
this. Sub-freezinzg temperatures
for the last two months has frozen
their mash so they can't operate.
But federal agents go right
ahead. They waded through snow
and dce to take 100 =tills in
North Carolina last month.
HIGH STANDARDS
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Mempers of
Pegasus, honorary literary society
at San Jose State College, listen
e% intently while President Ray
mond Wallace read what he rep
resented to be a manuscript from
ap aspjrant to the ranks of the
organization,
They voted against accepting the
author.
The manuscript was a part of
King Solomon’'s immortal “Song
of Solomon.”
TONGUE TIED
KANSAS CITY, Kas. — Four
year-old Jobita Pisena ran away
from “her parents and hid behind
a. steel light pole. While hiding
she decided to taste the glittering
frost on the standard.
It took two policemen, advice
from a dozen bystanders and sev
eral cups of water to release her
tongue from the pole.
TOO TAME
CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Rarl
Montgemery of Indianapolis will
dive into salt water next time he
tries to ride a shark.
Not only that, the former foot
ball player wants a bigger fish
than the six-foot, 200 pound spec
jmen he conguered without trou
ble before a large crowd here yes
terday.
He laid the shark's lack of ag
gressiveness to the fresh water in
the pool.
What Is Your ldea of
Living Standards Here
For $125 Per Month
AR Bt AT €4 S ST vit
Attention Athenijans,
Here is something that affords
you an opportunity to be of aid to
your g¢ity once more.
Several days ago Joel A. Wier,
secretary of the Athens Chamber
of Comtmerce, received a letter
from a woman in Glenn Ridge,
N. J., asking about the standard
of living of a widow with two
children of school age in Athens,
on $1256 per month.
Mr. Wier says he has already
answered the letter, but he would
appreciate it very much If any
Athenians would take time out to
write the iChamber of Commerce
their ideas of how the living
standard in Athens for the above
qualifications, are. The letters will
be forwarded to New Jersey.
The Chamber of Commerce sec
retary requests the letters be writ
ten as soon as possible, so he can
gend them off right away.
Moving Pictures to Be
Shown Ag Engincers At
Meeting Here Tonight
A representative of the Cater
pillar Tractor company will show
pictures to the Agricultural] Engi
neering club of the University of
Georgia tonight at 7 ¢clock in
Conner hall,
Joel Wier, jr., Athens, president
of theclub,and members of
the faculty will give talks on the
program. The movie will explain
every detail of the construction
and work done by this tractor.
Caterpillar tractors are used by
the University agriculture depart
ments as well as the Soil Erosion
service.
Engineers are requested to be
present and have a special invita
tion from the club. The public i#
invited.
STATE NEWS BRIEFS
By The Associated Press
TATLANTA.—Miss Ruth Braw
ner, ‘l7-year-old daughter of Dr.
and -Mps. James N. Brawner, sr.,
died today of effects of a Dpoison
taken five days ago in mistake
for medicine.
She was a student of fashion
able Washington Seminary. Coro
ner Paul Donehoo said he did not
plan an inquest. Her parents, a
grandfather and two sisters sur
vive,
COVINGTON, Ga.—Cold weath
er was blamed today for death of
a man named by a coroner’s jury
as Gude Smith, 40, of Porterdale.
A passenger on a train saw his
body lying near the railroad tracks
not far from the highway. The
coroner’s jury reported it found
no marks of violence, and attrib
uted his death to exposure.
ATLANTA.—Two policemen and
a convicted hootlegger were in
jured severely early today when
their cars crashed on a main
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
Supreme Court Again Defers Dec'<ion on TVA
Se\;en* céé YOJth; fia;oongd *or; Ic*e Regcrlea b'\slr%to;st*Gaa;d
GROUP OF 7 BOYS
MAROONED 0N ICt
FOR OVER 22 HOURS
Rescue Accomplished By
Use of Small Boat
Pushed Over Ice.
Others Are Apparently in
Good Health Despite
Lack of Food.
BOSTON, — #) — Seven CCC
enoughto make Jtheir men scream
vouths, marooned on floating ice
in Cape Cod Bay, were rescued by
coast guardmen today, 2 1-2 hours
after they had been cast adrift
when ice broke from the main
lJand at Brewster.
The rescue, was accomplished
by use of a small boat which coast
guardsmen pushed over the rough,
floating ice after the patrol boat
Harriet Lane failed in efforts to
buck through.
The youths were in the two
groups a mile apart. The quarter
mile stretch of ice that carried them
seaward while they were out walk
ing, split during the night and the
youths were seperated into groups
of five and two. <
One Suffering
One of the youths according to
reports reaching army headquar
ters here, was suffering from fozen
feet.
Reports to coastguard headquar
ters from Captain C. M. Fedderson
of the Hariet Lane said the youth
with the frozen feet was John
Fitzsimmong of Portsmouth, RB. 1
An army ambuance waited at
Brewster to pick up the youths in
the event the patrol Boat put in
there.
The youths were all from Rhode
Island and all memebrs of a CCC
camp at East Brewster.
They were last seen yesterday
when three of four mies off shore,
Two of them stood at one end of
the low, watchers said, and flvei
stood in a huddle at the opposite
end. |
Onlookers estimated the original
floe on which the youths stood at
a quarter mile long and about 200
yvards wide when last sighted.
Tne marooned youths were on
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LOCAL WEATHER
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Fair tonight
and Tuesday,
colder tonight
with hard
freeze to
the coast.
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MERN b we e we ok s weand
MO il . s 80
RAINFALL
Inches last 24 hours .., .. .00
Total since February 1 ... 4.53
Excess since February 1 .. 2.73
Average February rainfall. 5.13
Total since January 1 .. ..17.80
Excess since January 1 ~.11.17
thoroughfare.
The officers were W. F. Suth
erland and B. M. Haley. Both
sustained brain concussions.
The other injured person was
Ralph Owens, center of a recent
investigation of the police de
partment on charges of laxity and
inefßeiency. He suffered a possi
ble fractured kneecap.
Owens is a familiar character
around police headquarters. Last
week, city council after grand
jury prodding, started an inquiry
into the return of three automo
biles to him. Chief T. O. Sturdi
vant and two other officers face
possible trials before council as a
result.
Owens was booked on a reck
less driving charge.
WEST POINT, Ga.—First Meth
odist church of West Point is free
of debt.
At a ceremmony yesterday, Fi
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GEORGIA EDUCATOR
pASeEe (N ELORDA
N. H. Ballard, Former
State School Head, Dies
in Jacksonville.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—(#)~~Na
thaniel Harrison Ballard, 70, who
devoted most of his career to the
cause of education in his native
state of Georgia, died here yester
day after a severe illness.
He was superintendent of Geor
gia schools from 1923 to 1925 and
was a past grand master of the
state's Masonic lodge. He had
written numerous Masonic works.
Graduated from the University
of Georgia as a civil engineer in
1886, he turned to the field of ed
ucation and taught school for
some time in Georgia and Alaba
ma..
Later he served in various ca
pacities as an educator, holding
the post of Glynn county school
commissioner for 18 years. At the
end of his term as state school
superintendent of Georgia he re
tired.
Mrs. Ballard at present ig ill
in an Atlanta hospital. Three
sons and two daughters alsg sur
vive.
Funeral services will be held in
Atlanta tomorrow afternoon. :
| Mr. Ballard received his early
education in the Campbell county
schools - and the Palmetto High
school. Upon attending the Uni
versity of Georgia he joined the
Delta Tau Delta fraternity.
Immediately upon his . gradua
tion from the University, Mr. Bal
lard returned to Campbell county
and began teaching school. TLater
he became principal of the Wedo
wee, Ala., High school and they
president of an educational insti
tution /at Lineville, Ala.
A brief interruption in his edu
cational career came when he
mioved to Anniston, Ala., and be
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.
Funeral of Curtis
Is Set For Tuesday
TOPEKA, Kas. —(/)— The body
of former Vice-President Charles
Curtis sped westward today for
final hoOnors in the city of his
birth and scene of his progress
from jockey to high office.
An impressive funeral in the
state capitol’ awaited arrival Tues
day of /the body from Washing
ton, whiere the 76-year-old states
man of Indian descent died unex
pected Saturday after a heart
at
Athens, Ga., Monday, February 10, 1936,
Morris Sends Howell Resolution
Demanding Primary Be Called
ATLANTA, —(#)— As members
of the Roosevelt Advisory board
met here today to organize a
drive for the president’s renomi
nation, .Chairman Hugh Howell of
the State Democratic committee
received a letter from Judge Newt
Morris of Marietta which in
cluded a resolution calling on the
committee to meet at once and call
a primary. 3
It was learned the State Demo
cratic comitte wold meet in
March ana deécide what action to
take.
In his letter, Morris said a re
solution, a copy of which he in
closed, was to be read at a meet
ing of the ‘“advisory committee
appointed by Hon, James A. Far
ley, chairman of the democratic
national committee, following the
recommendation of senators and
congressmen of Georgia held at the
Henry Grady Hotel” in Atlanta,
Morris said he was elected se
cretary of that group.
The advisory committee, called
by Judge A. B. Lovett of Savannah
and Marton H. Allen, Georgia
campaign manager was expected to
demana a preferetial primary. 4
Morris, who is a member of the
Oil Embargo Against Italy
- Now Reported as Unlikely
- By CHARLES E. HARNER
Associated Press Foreign Staff
The probability that the League
of Nation will nst, after all, impose
an: oil embargo .against Italy was
see ntoday in. diplomatic discus
sions in Geneva.
The oil embargo-is under study
as a supplement -to other league
sanctions against the Mussolini
governmeat for its campaign in
Ethiopia.
Recent developments in the
Mgditerranean area, notably the
nationalist riots in Egypt and Sy
ria, have demonstrated adequately
what the British have feared
throughout the Italo-Ethiopian
struggle. A continuation on the
war between whites and blacks is
likely to have repercussions under
other flags.
' Such League sanctions as have
already been put into effect—eon
cerned with economic and finan
ctal matters—have failed to halt
Italy’s military activities, say
that they are not too certain the
supply of oil could be shut off
Ttaly has warned that she would
gonsider the appHeation of more
sanctions an unfriendly act and
consequently, many diplomats at
-~ESTABLISHED 1832—
State Democartic committee, asked
Howell “when is it your purpose
to call a meeting the committee
to pass upon the question of
whether or not it will call a pre
sidential preferential primary in
Georgia?”
In his letter replying to Morris,
chairman Howell said, in reference
to the resolution, he had received
“‘what purports to be a request
itmm somebody to the committee to
meet at once and call a primary.”
~ Howell said the resolution was
'on a seperate sheet of paper, un
ldn.ted and unsigned and “evidently
ihu beenx in cold storage some
time:”
~ Howell said any member of the
state democratic committee has a
right to any information the
chailrman might have and told
Morris the committee would be
called in plenty of time to pass
on a primary,
When asked about the letter
From Morris, Howell said ‘it
looks like we are about to smoke
out these boys after all.”
The campaign committee was to
meet at 2 p. m. the program in
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Geneva fear that more League
gctiong. directed against Italy
would do nothing but cause more
unfriendliness.
At, the same time, Italy’s posi
tion as a balante of power in
Europe makes France fearful of
losing the Rome government's
friendship. Germany already is
outside the League, having resign
ed from Geneva on the grounds
that other members discriminated
against her .
The French argue that, should
Jtaly quit with the same com
plaint, Germany and Italy can
scarcely help but feel aligned in
spirit, at least.
_ France has become {increasingly
nervous over reports, denied cate.
gorically by the German govern
ment, that Germany is moOving
pgamouflaged soldiers "into the de
militarized Rhineland. <
As for actual fighting there ap
parently was mnone, the Ttalian
government reporinig “nothing
new."”
Italian '+ newspapers publigshed
Italy’'s casualty list for thirteen
'months of army operators in Rast
‘Africa. According to this list,
i (Continued on Page Five)
ROBERT B. HARR3
DIES IN OCONEE GO,
Father and Grandfather
of Athenians One of
County’s Oldest Citizens
Robert B. Harris, 91, one of the
oldest citizens in Oconee county
father of Mrs .Mell M. Stephen
son, and grandfather of Dr.
Herschel B, Harris of Athens, died
at his home near Watkinsville
Sunday afternoon at 5 o'clock
after an illness of six days. He
was also the father-in-law of Mrs.
Grace D. Harris of tris city.
Funeral services will be held
Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at
the residence, conducted by Rev.
W. M. Coile, pastor of Winter
ville Baptist church, assisted by
Rev. Dan Joiner, pastor of Wat
kinsville Christian church. 1
Pallbearers will be grandsons‘
and interment will be in the Wat
kinsville cemetery, McDorman-l
Bridges in charge of arrange
ments, ]
~ Mr. Harvis is survived by his
wife, < Mrs. Susie Harris; two
daughters, Mrs. Mell M. Stephen
son, Athens, and Mrs. H. G.
Downer, Valdosta, Ga.; one son
Henry Harris, Watkinsville; three
daughters-in-law, Mrs. Leila
Harris, Texarkana, Texas; Mrs.
Eva Harris, Elberton, and Mrs.
Grace D. Harris, Athens. Fifteen
grandchildren and five gtut-'
grandchildren also survive.
A life-long resident of Oconee
county, Mr. Harris was born Aug
ust 13, 1845, on the farm which
had been his home since thea.
He was one of the few remains
ing Confederate veterans, having
enlisted in the army of the south
when he was 18 years old and
serving during the remainder of
the war,
His favorite hobbies were horse
back riding and fishing. Not a
fday passed but what he was seen
riding over the roads, and in the
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1
Mrs. Huey Long Takes
-
Seat in Senate Today
WASHINGTON . —(®)—Rosge Me-
Connell Long, widow of the slain
Senator Long (D.-La.), came to)
the capitol today to take her hus
band’'s seat in. the chamber. |
The swearing-in ceremony wu}
set for noon, eastern standard
time,
Mrs. Long will sit just behind
Senator Hattie Caraway (R.-Ark.)
who enjoyed Senator Huey Leong’s
support in her campaign for elec-i
non.
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday
DEATHS FROM COLD
NUMBER OVER 500
CHICAGO — (#) — Worse and
more of it was the weather fore
cast today as the frigid wave con
tinued in the second month of an
apparent assault to pound the
mercury as far down in the ther
mometers as possible.
The total deaths for the year
went well past the half thousand
mark. Suffering continued apace.
Threats of floods and danger from
the expected breakup of ice jams
hung over many sections. Short
ages of fuel, food, and water in
other places were reported as seri
ous.
The railroads in the corn belt
continued to hold trains at ter
minals. Many through-trains ar
rived hours late and others re
mained stalled in deep snow
banks over night. Schools In
many states remained closed.
Public buildings were turned intc
temporary shetlers for the home
less. Lt
Zero temperatures extended as
far south as Missouri and east
ward across lower Michigan.
The general forecasts for the
(Continued on Page Three)
4 ATLANTA NEGROES
KILLED IN COLLISION
Three Others Injured in
Auto-Truck Crash Near
Winder Sunday.
By HINTON BRADBURY {
WINDER, GA. —Four Atanta
Negroes were killed instantly, and
three others injured seriously, 4
miles east of here on the Bankhead
highway in an automobile-truck
collision at 3:30 o'clock Sunday
Ten all in one car were
on their way to Whashington, Ga.,
to attend a funeral when their
automobile side-swiped a truck
driven by Jesse Cole, Winder white
man on a curve near <Chapel
church. |
The dead, Alonzo Jones, driver
of the car, and Sara Jones, and
two girls about 13 years old who
were not immediately identified,
were all brought to Atheng by a
Peoples Undertaking company am
bulance. Three were seriously in
injured. They were James Jones
and Otis Zellers bott of 267 North
Avenue, and Evangeline Walton,
4001 Juniper street, were brought
to General hospital Negro
ward by a Peoples ambulance be
fore the dead were removed from
the scene of the wreckage.
General hospital reported this
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.
New Golf Feature Begins
On Sports Page Today
————————— ——————
Today the Banner-Herald
sports department introduced a
new weekly feature—a column
of Interesting golf charter
and some valuable instruction |
tips—written by Pat O'Hara, ‘
professional at the Athens coun- |
try Club. {
Golf fans will find the col
umn something <Qifferent from |
the usual cut-and-dried ar- }
ticles, ag Pat draws on his rich |
store of incidents and puts them ‘
on paper in hig interest com
pelling maner, l
Turn to page 2 of this issue
for the first article under the
heading:
“The Shortest Route I
PFrom Tes To Cup”
Trial of Four Men Started in
Jefferson; Allen Case Delayed
By A. S. ROBERTS
Associated Press Staff Writer
JEFFERSON, Ga. — (#) — The
murder trial of Dr., M. B. Allen,
Hoschton physician charged with
slaying his wife, was delayed to
day as the state called the trial
of four men charged with the
“torch death” of Lawrence Barrett
57, a farmer.
The defense in the Barrett case
was granted a severance and Ish
mel Sample, 20, was called to trial
first.
Three cothers, Raydo Dailey, R.
M. Sample and Ralph Allison were
indicted last week charged with
the death of Barrett, who was
found burned to death in a field
not far from the highway on
Christmas Day.
Two of the defendants, R. M.
Sampie and Allison, had been dis
missed at a preliminary hearing in
Justice court Jan. 9, but they
were indicteq with the other tweo
last week.
At the hearing last month, of-
HOME
LW OF LATE HUEY
LONG TAXING A 5 1
DECLARED NOT VALID
Louisiana Measure Killed
In Unanimous Decision
Of Court Today.
TVA RULING DELAYED
Flow of Benefit Checks to
Farmers May Be Resumed
Again This Week..
" WASHINGTON. —(#)— The
Supreme Court today deferred
its TVA decision until at
least next Monday. .
Disappinting another throng
of notables and lawyers who
had expected the long-awaited
ruling, the court concluded the
handing down of ruling with
out any mention of the con
testeq New Dea]l law. Febru
ary 17 is the next decision day.
The court had been in ses
sion only 40 minutes, deliver
ing five opinions when Chief
Justice Hughes announced
there were ng more decisions
today.
WASHINGTON .—(#)—A Louisi
ana law passed at the behest of
the late Senator Huey P. Long
taxing newspaper and other ad
vertising, was killed by the Su-.
preme Court today as an uncon
stitutional restraint upon the free-
Jdom of the press, Ao
“This seems to be a ‘device to
limit a free press,” declared Jus
tice Sutherland in the court’s un
animous decision. “Supprestion or
abridgement of a freq press c;ux
nat he. viewed except. with eon
cern:
He said an “informed and en
lightened opinion” has been at
stake throughout history and that
restraints on newspapers plainly
were prohibited by the 14th
amendment to the constitution.
| Passed in 1934
~ The Louisiana law, passed in
1934 when Long dominated the
state’s politicg, tuxed newspaper,
magazine and motion picture ad
vertisements. It imposed a two
per cent gross receipts tax ‘on
advertisements in publications with
a weekly circulation of 20,000 or
‘more,
| A three-judge federal district
. court in Louisiana had held the
|legislation unconstitutional and
| enjoined the state from enfore
ing it.
Thirteen newspapers challenging
the legislation claimed it violated
“freedom of the press” and was
intended to punish themy for. op
posing the Long political forces
~ Counsel for the state lfed
the “country weekly lis NM
as a civic inst!tution, whereas the
large dailles -are huge ecOmmercial
enterprises,” They contended the
liherty of the press was not in
volved. o
Fine of SSOO e
The law provided that any pers
sons violating any provision of it
was guilty of a misdemeanor and
subject to a fine of SSOO, six
months imprisonment or both.
Corporations could have ° been
fined SSOO for each violation.
The unanimous decision was de
lived by Justice Sutherland.
Sutherland said the act curtail
ed revenue and restricted circula
tion. =
Th e constitution pro?ected
(Continued on Page Three)
U e
ficers testified Barrett apparently
had been dragged 150 yards from
the spot where he was burned to
a point near the Athens-Jefferson
highway.
Solicitor General Clifford Pratt
at that time submitted Barrett’s
shoes, with mud on the toe-tips
showing, he said, Barrett had been
dragged face down. A physician
testified that Barrett's body was
burned but that his hands were
not, indicating, the state said, ?i’
Barrett had been attacked and his
clothing set on fire after he was
dead or unconscious.
A jury was selected in a short
time to try Ishmel Sample today-
Solicitor Pratt said the Allen
case would be reached this week-
He said he had been told two wit
nesses were ill today. He said
they were not the witnesses who
were absent at a preliminary
hearing for th; physician, M.:
wife in their Hoschton home.