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Many Atheni
Y.M.C.A Soci
Y.M.C.A Social
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Tomorrow night at 8 o'clock
mseveral hundred Athenians will be
guests at a social and recepton
at the Young Men’s Christian As-
Sociation.
Honor' guests will be the newly
elected Agsociate Directors and
mempbers of the Y. M. C. A. and
the families of each. Invitations
have been sent the members and
Asgsociate Directors, members of
.the Junior and Senior Hi-Y and
Young Business Men's clubs, ac
tive and life directors and the
pastor of each church.
The receiving line will form at
8 o'clock and guests will be greet
ed until. 8:30 when two short
talks will be heard, Following
will be a demonstration by mem
bers of the physical department
under direction of Physical Direc
tor I, H.. Cunningham in . the
gymnasium. The guests will then
be escorted on a tour of the up
to-date plant and will return to
the Boy's Lobby where refresh
ments will be served by a com
mittee of ladies, headed by Mrs.
will Tevin. Following this, motion
pictures taken: at the Y. M. C,
A. summer camvn near Tallulah
palls, will be shown for those in
terested, ® |
fn the receiving line will be the
Life Directors L. F. Edwards, C
M. Snelling, James W. Morton, C
A_ Rowland and John White Mor |
ton: | Associate Director A. 'G.
Dudley; executive staff of the as-/
soeiation, W. T. Forbes, L.. H.i
Cunningham and Miss Anne Fos
ter, and members of the active
board of direectorsc with ten or
more wears service. These are
M. & Hodgson, D. D. Quillian,
Abit Nix, E. R. Hodgson, E. E |
Lamkin, M. G. Nicholson, N. G. |
Slaughter and Joel A. Wier, gy,
Wives of those listed above will
he in the receiving line with their
hushands, |
. Associate Directorst to be honv;
ored with members are: :
" Howell . Erwin, C. C. Frank-'
“%in, 1,. L. Hendren, Hoyt Robert
son, =B R Bloodworth, ‘Weaver
Bridees, R. C. Campbell, A. G.o
IDudley, Mose Giordon, T. F. Green,
‘H. E. Mann, F. E. McHugh, Ar
‘thur Oldham; H. J. Stegeman, C
“ A »Trg_gfi}, Floyd Adams, H. 4.
+ Adams, Dein Amis; J. Clyde Av-
Ldeusage DL Arnola, Jopav Ar-
N;fida oDr WL Birdwong, A
1,. Brannen, Dr. W. H. Cabaniss,
Ted Crowe, Carter W. Daniel,
Garrett Deas, 8. C. Denny, Boll
ing Dußdse, Frank Dudley, Jim
Jeagle, J:. W. Firor, Frank W.
Fitch. D. L. Floyd, C. G. Gar
ner, T .A. Gibsor, R. H. Gloyd,
Pr’ J. F, Hamnett, Dr. H., B.
Harrig, Joe Hartley, Grady Hen
son, H. H. Hinton, W. I. Hop
xins, Alton Hosch, C. W. Jack
son, J. A. Johnson, T. E. John
son. ,
Dan Magill, Ed Kellogg, Lamar
Lewis, W. A. Mathis, Carlton
Mell, Toonis Morton, Luther W.
Nelson, B, L. Norris, Merritt B.
Pound, Henry Rhodes, Hampton
Rowland, Joe Shepherd, L. I.
Skinner, George Story, C. W.
Sweet, J. J. Thomals, Frank C.
Thernton, Fritz Thombnson, John
W. Thurmond, Tom Tillman, R.
1. Van Sant, George W. Wheeler,
Joe Wickliffe, A. D. Wier, Ed
Wier. Van Noy Wier, Al Wilson,
Dr. Herbert Winn and F. H. Wil
liam®.
The late Jack Rabun, prominent
yéung Athenian and a leader in
the Young Business Men's club,
“was elevted an Associate Director
last week before his death.
The informal sociai and recep
tion is a revival of a custom of
‘ gormer yesrs at the Y. M. 0o A
and is the first of a series to
pe held, The next affair of
this nature will be given in honor
of new residents of Athens and
‘another particular group within
t§c organization, and will be held
iif the next several wee Ks.
Strictly informal, the social
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\bit Nix Will Speak
At Annual Banquet of
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Business Men’s. Club
‘Abit Nix will speak to the ,\th_i
ens Young Rusiness men’s club gt
the Holman hotel tonight at 8:005
o'clock at the annual banquet in |
place of Ralph McGill, Atlaita
Constitution Sports editor, whd is |
unable to be present. E
Bd Kellogg, toastmaster, will |
give a brief history of the »(-luhi
and Tom Fortson, president pf the
elub, will make a talk Guostsl
and members will then pajf spec- |
ial tribute to the late Jéck Ra-|
bun, who was one of the mns(i
progainent members of fie club.
’:‘%‘:)‘ml selections will;rhe givon‘i
by John Tate. Profegsr R. .
Keener will give a pries talk
along with short mes pges by D.
Weaver Bridges and ‘{ T. Forbes.
*‘éfln‘l Wells will give jgeveral mu
‘sical selections.. T\}jnext event
on the program Wi fbe the ad
dress by Mr. Nix, g\o will be in
troduced by FEd Kellog: M
Mary Sue Oliver ill give sev
vocal selectiof®.
Approximately members =of
Ahe club and thof dates are ex
%’JV'”; nge pre X A number
‘of members of club who are
é@'figw _ijnfbther sections of
L state are exg@cted to be pres
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
HARRISON OUSTED BY TA:MADGE
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Joint Committee of Two
Branches Meets to Iron
Out Difficulites.
DIVISION METHOD
Efforts Made to Pass Bill
Before Spring Planting
Season |s Started:
WASHINGTON, —®P)— Racing
against time, senatorg and repreé
sentatives today planned quick
cpnferences in an attempt to
smooth out differences on the
$500,000,000 farm bill.
. Any considerable delay would
thwart the desire of administration
?fleaders to get the soil conservation
‘farm subsidy bill working before
the spring planting season gets
fully under way.
(The legislation, though passed
by senate and house in somewhat
different form, provides in general
for federal subsidies to farmers
for taking land out of commercial
crop production and devoting it to
goil-building or other ‘economic”
purposes. For the first two years
the subsidies would be passed di
rect to farmers, except that if
states cooperated they could handle
the distribution. After two years,
the subsidies would be paid only in
cooperating states.)
One bone of contention was the
method of dividing subsidy money
among the gtates in the permanene
program. Chairman Jones (D-Tex)
of the house agriculture committee
does not like the method chosen
by the senate.
The later, chamber declared the
suppidtes . shonld. e vald en.the
basig of ‘“acrdage and value of the
major soil depleting and major ex
port crops produced.”
In the house bill, the basis in
cludes ‘‘the farm population x x X
the value of agricultural commodi
ties produced x x x and the acreage
and productivity of land devoted
to agricultural production.” |
Senafor Smith (D-SC) chairman
of the senate agriculture commit- |
tee, plans to fight a house amend-i
ment declaring that consideration
be given to share-croppers and
tenany farmers when subsidies are
distributed.
Representative Tarver (D-GA)
author of thig amegdment, said
“any program that leaves out of|
consideration 50 per cent. of the
producers must necessarily. be a
failure.” Smith held, on the other
hand, that it was ‘“not fair to ask
landlords to “give 2way” what they
get for good land practices.
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} LONDON.—(#)—+A son was born
| today to Countess Barbara Hutton
q Haugwitz-Reventlow, heiress to
| the Woolwortk millions.
l The countess was married to
i Count Court Haugwitz Reventlow
May 14, 1.535, following her di
vorce from Prince Alexis Mdivani.
Mdivani vas killed a few months
later inf an auto -accident in
Spain.
The soung mother’'s father and
stepmgther, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
lyn Hutton, came to England
{¥rom/ the United States for the
i everf.
The British press recently has
pinted reports that the count and
cauntess would make their home
i¥ England, fearing that their
{shild might be kidnaped if taken
lto the United States. The count
lhowever, denied this report.
STATEB Ttl AEW% pBRIEFS
| WEST POINT, Ga. —(®)— Miss
Glover Barker, member of n
prominent West Point family.j
|died here yesterday of pneumonia,}
{ which followed an attack of in-|
fluenza. i
' Funeral services were held to-.
day.
Miss Barker was the only
daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs..
E. 2Z. Zep Barker, and was for
! many years librarian of West
‘Poim‘s first library —the Young
{Men's Library Assoclation. -
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! ABBEVILLE, Ga. — Possibility
‘s,mse today that Wilcox county’s
presidential preference primary—
hhe first on the renomination of
lPresident Roosevelt—might be de
laved.
The primary had been calleq for
Wednesday —the same day an
election is to be held for county
A petition asking that the pres-
Full Associated Press Service
Former Governor Albert C.
Ritchie of Maryland Dies of
Stroke Early This Morning
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Deal Democrat and former gover
nor of Maryland for four terms
who died suddenly of a stroke
at his Baltimore home early to
day He was an overshadowing
political figure in his state for 15
years.
FLUCUD |
AP Toll ol Lives and
" Property Damage Seen
- With General Thaw.
CHICAGO—(#P)—FIoods threa‘ten-‘
ed to take their annual toll of
lives and property damage in at
least 13 states today. . ‘
Four persons drowned in Cali
fornia where streams inundated
thousands of acres. Twg more
were missing on a government
navigation light tender’s house
‘boat disappeared from the mOuthl
of the Green river in Indiana.
They were George Pete and his
wife.
The flood-threatened states in
cluded California; Idaho, Texas,
Towa, Nebraska, South Dakota.,
Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio.
Kentucky, Michigan and Pennsyl~l
vania.
Red Cross officials, the coast!
guard and other government~a‘|
‘agencies assisted thousands of}
families in threatened lowlands to
%mm‘e livestock and personal be
longings to safer territory.
| A sharp rise in temperatures
over a wide area yesterday added
ilo the flood dangers. Forecaster
C. A. Donnel of Chicagy said‘
today would be even warmer with
a possibility that the mercury
{might reach 50 degrees here. The
highest Sunday was 45,
$ Unusually heavy snowsg and con-
Itinued sub-freezing temperaturee
rgenerally in the northern half of!
' the nation added to the flood me
gnaco-
' Many cities stored explosives to
break ice jams, but Captain H.
‘P.. Loper, U. S. army enginegr
in the Nebraska district saida it
:;\vas impossible to break up hug¢
| floes with dynamite.
i A 70-mile gorge in the Ohilo
river began to break gradually
llast night near Uniontown, N. Y.
A pgiant gorge in the upper
[Ohio valley near Beaver, Pa., held
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| idential balloting be delayed, os
ftensibly to avoid possibility of in
ijecting national and state issues
“"‘0 a county election, was in cir
i culation here.
i The county democratic commit
}tec-, without waiting for the state
| democratic committee to act, re
lcently arranged for the president
ial primary in this country.
The names of Roosevelt and of
Fugene Talmadge, anti-new Deal
governor, were ordered placed on
ballots. >
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l WAYCROSS, Ga. —(#— S. E-
Porter, general foreman of the At
3la.'ntlc Coast Line Railroad shops
'\ died suddenly ‘There yesterday, a
lfew minutes after he suffered a
heart attack on a golf course.
| - SOPBERTON, Ga.—The death of
',iu-year-old Birdie May Darley
, (Continued on page two.)
Athens, Ga., Monday, February 24, 1936,
Anti-New Deal Democrat
Had Planned to Fight
Roosevelt This Year.
BALTIMORE — (#) — F¥Former
Gov. Albert C. Ritchie, vigorous
advocate of states’ rights and a
‘}pioneer in the movement that led
to prohibition repeal, died sudden
1y at his apartment here early to
day. He was in hig 60th year.
A stroke apparently caused the
death of the noted Marylander, a
contender for the democratic pre
'sidential nomination A&t the 1932
convention in Chicago. The end
came about 1:45 a. m., less than
‘two hours after he was stricken,
} Death ended speculation over the
;possibility of his taking a leading
role in opposition to renominatior
of President Roosevelt at this
vear's democratic convention in
Philadelphia. His outspoken criti
cism that Roosevelt New Deal po
licies tended to circumvent the
constitution and engulf states’
rights stamped him as an outstand
ing figure among’ intra-party foes
of the administration.
Looking to Fight
He was looking forward to mak
ing a fight “within the party”
in his own words, to force the na
tional administration to “go back
to the platform of 1932” ¥e¢ had
planned, intimate friends disclosed,
to make this fight at the convention
and considered a speaking tour to
urge a return to the platform of
four years ago, which he helped to
write,
His last public utterance was on
the constitution. Addressing a
church meeting across the satreet
from his home a few hours before
his death, he had sharpely ecriti
cized centralization of government
at Whshington oposed to consti
tutional tents... . itk alh
Ritchie, overshadowing ' political
figure in Maryland for 15 years—
until hig defeat in 1934 for a fifth
term as governor—was alone in
lhls apartment when he became
fatally ill.
| Summons Secretary
~ Sensing the seriousness of his
condition, he hurriedly summoned
‘hig personal secretary, Mrs. Eliza
beth WL Smith, from her home
about midnight. Mrs. Smith found
‘him seated, helpless and in a semi
conscious condition in a chair, near
the telephone.
‘ News of his death spread rapid
ly and expressions of grief an tri
.bute were widespread, coming
from national leaders in all sec
tions of the country.
i Ritchie, always a strong person
i (Continued on page two.)
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Former U. S. Army Colo
" nel Slain: Chief of Police
Is Also Killed.
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' SAN JUAN, Puerto Rics>—(P)—
Puert, Rican nationalist agitation,
which resulted in the slayings of
¥;. Francis Riggs, chief of the in
sular police, and a district police
chief drew today a vigorous of
ficial investigation.
Riggs, 48-year-old former Unit
ed States army colonel, was shot
to death here at noon vesterday
by two nationalists, both of whom
were killed later by police.
Two hours later, district Police
Chief Francisco Velez Ortiz at
temped to put down a nationalist
riot at a case in the central town
of Utuado, and was killed.
Governor Blanton Winship an
nounced a full inquiry into the
incidents would be pushed. He
asserted a revival of capital pun
jshment here and 2a ban against
ecarrying of firearms, being urged
upon the legislature, would pre
vent such crimes.
A sudden burst of fire struck
Riggs. member of a prominent
Washington and Maryland family
and chief of the fnsuler police
since late 1933, while he was re
turning by automobile vesterday
from a mass. .
Unarmed and carrying a praye!
book, he died almost instantly-
His chauffeur, Policeman Juan
Alvarez, turned the car in pursuit
of the slayers and continued to
drive, although he Was himself
shot through the shoulder.
Other police joined in the chase
and seized two youths who sai
they were Eliag Beauchamp ar
Hiram Rosado, both under 21
years old.
«f gshot him,” police quoted
Beauchamp, who said Riggs was
killed to avenge the Rlo Piedras
“massacre” in which police killed
four nationalists last November
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Another stage romance will end
in Reno in the nean future”
Mary Elis, above, opera singer
and, film actress, announcing
that she soon will take up resi
dence in the divorce capital to
seek freedom from Basil Syd
ney, English actor-producer.
The couple married in 1929 in
New Milford, ‘Conn,, and sepa
rated three years later.t
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Commander of Bth Corps
in San Antonio Told to
“Await Orders.”
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WASHINGTON, — (#) — Major
General Johnson Hagood was
summarily relieved from his com- |
mand of the Bth corps area at
San Antonio, Tex. today and or
dered by President Roosevelt's ar-!
rection to his home to “await or-'
ders,” [
Hagood in recent testimony be-|
fore a house appropriations sub-i
committe suggested that congress
take advantage of what he termed
“WPA stage money”’ and use it to
improve housing at army posts,
. The order relieving him of
command at Fort Sam Houston,
Tex., headquarters of the eight!
corps area, wasg issued on February
21 but not made public until to- |
day.
No explanation of hiz removal
wag forthcoming immefiately in
war department quarters.
The order, which appeared in
the regular war department orders
issued daily, said:
“By direction of the president
Major General Johnson Hagood,
U. 8. Army, is relieved from as
signment to the command of the
eighth corps area and further duty
at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, Ma
jor General Hagood will proceed
to his home and await orders. The
travel directed is necessary in the
military service.”
. The order was signed by Gen
eral Malin Craig, army chief of
staff, by order of the secretary of
war.
' When asked the reason for the
ynexpected order, Craig said he
‘had “no comment” on what he de
scribed as a routine administrative
procedure, The chief of staff said
| (Continued on Page Eight)
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Inches last 24 hours .. ... .00
Total since February 1 ... 6.36
Excess since February 1 ... 198
Average January rainfall .. 5.3
Total since January 1 .. ..19.37
Excess since January 1 ...10.44
University Student 1s Killed
*And Four Others Injured in
Crash on Watkinsville Road
Eugene Barnes of Decatur,
Dies Several Hours After
Wreck Yesterday,
Eugene Barnes, twenty-one year
old University of Georgia senior,
died at a local hoapital last night
as a result of injuries received
when an automobile which he was
driving over-turned on the Ath
ens-Watkinsville highway,
Four companions of Barnes’ were
slightly injured but none serious
ly. Misg Louise McAllister, Pied
mont, S. C., suffered a broken
shoulder; Mack Tucker, Sanders
ville, had a broken ankle; A. B.
Reynolds, Cairo, received a
sprained back and several cuts and
bruises;; and G. H. Roberts, of
Milledgeville, suffered slight
bruises, but was dismissed from
St. Mary's hoapital last night,
Returning to Athens
It was reported the young people
were returning from Milledgeville
where they had been to carry a
student at G. 8. C. W,
A witness to the acident told
the Banner-Herald this morning
the automobile Was traveling at a
high rate of speed, and every oc-l
cupant of the car was thrown out
as the car turned end over end
several times, He said he was a
few yards in front of the automo
bile when it skidded, and started
turning over. He witnessed the ac
cident through a mirror over the
windshield of his car,
So close was the death car to the
other automobile, when it turned
over the third time, dirt wan
‘thrown on the other car.
~ The accident occured at the in
lterseetlon of the Athens-Watkina
ville road and the Hog Mountain
‘road. Occupants of the automobile
‘which turned over said Barnes was
'blinded by the headlights of a car
'which he was meeting.
. Barnes had taken the whel only
a few hundred yards from where
‘the acident occured. His chest was
erushed, and he - suffered other
injuries, Popular among students,
Barnes would - have received his
degree in Commerce in June from
the. University. He was a graduate
of Decatur High school, finishing
in 1932, He was a member of the
football team at Decatur,
The body of the dead youth was'
carried to Atlanta this morning,
where H, M. Patterson and Sons
is handling thé funeral arrange
ments,
The automobile was completely
demolizhed.
Funeral servideg for Mr. Barnes'
will be held at Spring Hill, At-l
(Continued on page two.) !
UPTONSINCLAIR TO
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His Delegates Would Vote
- for Roosevelt on Second
; Ballot; Opposes McAdoo
- By LEONARD B. SHUBERT
i (Associated Press Staff Wiriter)
. WASHINGTON, — (AP)— The
Fpolitical wars today produced
'sharp cleavage in the democratic
;columns in California—and also
'a new move in the Borah camp
ithat intrigued political observers.
; An ally of Senator Borah's, Ray
McKaig, of Boiae, anonunced he
‘would seek the mnoted Idahoan’s
senate seat, This led to specula
tion as to whether Borah was
burning hig bridges in his drive for
the republican presidential nomi
nation. J
. The sudden death of former Gov.
’Albert C. Ritchie in Baltimore
early today—only a few hours af
ter he had reiterated’ his criticism
of the New Deal—removed one of
the men to whom anti-administra
tion democrats had looked for lead
ership.
l On the California ' front, Upton
Sinclair, in a dramatic reentry in
;rm the political areana, agreed to
|become the nominal presidential
;choice of the End Proverty
L.eaguers, now apparently ready for
Ia finish struggle for supremacy
with the forces of Senator Mc
| Adoo.
| Sinclair, former socialist, in ac
cepting the bid of the EPIC con
lventiom emphasized the anti-Mc~
| Adoo but pro-Roosevelt nature of
his forthcoming activity,
l He insisted that the delegation,
if elected over the McAdoo slats
at the May 5 primary, vote for
t!’resident Roosevelt on the second
ballot at the Philadelphia conven
tion.
. He bitierly denounced the Call
'fomia senator, declaring, “the Mc-
Adoos of the party have made it
impossible to work with them.”
McAdoo was assailed in the con
vention as an opponent of the
—
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keep alleged promises to pay her
$100,0600 for world rights to her
autobiography and to make
good losses she says she sus
tained on lilnvestments which,
she declares, he recommended,
Florence Walton, above, war
time Broadway star, is suing
hm for SIOO.OOO. She is a
former 'wife and partner of
Mauriee, noted dancer, who died
in 1927,
OFFICERS ELEGTED
BYSONS OF LEGION
Uly S. Gunn Named Cap
tain; Installation to Be
‘Next Sunday, March 1.
By DAN MAGILL, JR.
The first €egsion of Squadron
20, Sons of the American Legion,
was 'held at the Region's Log Cab
in Sunday afternoon.
Almost forty boys attended the
initial meeting and the following
officers were elected for one year:
Captain: Uly S, Gunn,
First Lieutenant: Almon Cook.
Second Lieutenant: James Cook.
Adjutant: Dan Magill, jr.
Finance Officer: Calvin Whee
ler.
Chaplain: Edgar Eberhart,
Higtorian: John Driftmier.
Sergeant-at-Arms: James Kel-\
ley.
Thursday afternoon at the Log
Cabin another session will begin
at & o'clock. The charter, with
all charter members namek en—‘i
graved on it, will be presented at
the third assembly, next Sunday
afternoon, at 4:30 o'clock. ;
All sons of Legionnaires are
urged to join the very worthy or
ganization as soon as possible.
Charter members will be accepted
no later than Monday, February
. .
The Legion committee, which
hag been responsible for the local
squadron, is composed of Frank
H. Mitchell, D. L. Floyd and J.
M. Kelley. |
l A program will be given Sun
day afternoon when the officers
are installed, and everyone inter
ested in the squadron is invited toj
attend. |
Charter -members received ot‘flc,f |
(Continued on page eight.)
THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
ITS ISSUES A?\J—lS—-I;ERSONALITIES
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is
the sixth and last of a series
on the 1938 Presidential cam
paign, its issues and its per
sonalities.)
By RICHARD HIPPELHEUSER
Associated Press Staff Writer
NEW YORK—(#)—The very na
ture of the New Deal and its op
position brought the Supreme
Court and the question of consti
tutional revision into extraordi
nary prominence.
Thus far, there is no definite
assurance the question of revision
will be directly at issue in the
coming presidential campaign. But
the possibility impends.
It was expected from the first
that certain New Deal measures,
such as NRA and AAA, would
reach the United States Supreme
oourt. ‘
When the Supreme court de
'H OVE !
CARREKER ASSUMES
TALVADGE WARRANT
State Treasurer Hamilton
Refuses to Pay Money
On Signed Order.
IT’S TALMADGE MOVE
Comptroller General Is
“Suspended’’; Ushered
Out By Lindley Camp.
ATLANTA, Ga—(#)—Governor
Eugene Talmadge teday suspend
ed Comptroller General William
B. Harrison from office for Har
rison’s refusal to countersign
warrants under the Talmadge
“dictatorship” set up in the ab
sence of a 1936 appropriations
act.
Adjutent General Lindley W,
Camp, wearing civilian clothes,
served tha order on Harrison and
esscorted him from the office.
G. B. Carreker, who served
‘under Talmadge when the latter
was commissioner of agriculture,
was named to the vacancy by the
governor.
Carreker took over the office
immediately and at once moved
for a showdown from State
Treasurer Ceorge B. Hamilton by
“enine a SIOO,OOO warrant on
1936 revenue and transmitting it
.0 tiamilton. This was the war
'rant which Harrison had prev
| iously to countersign.
Hamilton Refuses
On receipt of the warrant from
Carreker, Hamilton said he wasé
taking it under advisement, but
| shortly afterwards announced that
| he would refuse to homor it, be
cause there was no appropriation
bill. He also declined to recognize
i Carreker as comptroller genw..
!‘ In a letter to the governor, nho=*
| tifying the chief executive of his
#refusal‘ Hamilton said:
“I cannot without violating my
| oath of office issue a check on the
state funds for the payment of
hkhis warrant for two reasons:
“First, there is no valid appro
priation against which it can be
drawn, in that by the terms of
each of the appropriation bills
'covering the years in question,
unpaid balancés of such appro
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League of Voters
To Hear Address
By T. P. Saffold
T. P. BSaffold, first vice-presi:
dent of the Georgia Taxpayens As
| sociation, will address the Feébru
{ ary meeting of the Athens League
| of Women Voters at a luncheon
| Tuesday at one o'clock at the
| home of Mrs. H, H. Cobb, W 75
{ Miiledge avenue. asns
Mr. Saffold, a forceful and
interesting speaker, will discuss
the 15 mill tax limitation amend-
Iment, speaking in favor of the
amendment, The January meeting
heard Rush Burton, editor of The
Lavonia Timsas, discuss the:. same
subject, Mr. Burton taking the op
|posing view. 5y panm
Il The League of Voters, a nom
|partisan organization, is endeav
}bring to make a fair study and
l'present both sides of the amend
ment and what speakers believe
may be the probable results of its
ratification.
| The meeting will -be informal
";:wd those interested and wishing
[to attend may make reservations
Ly calling Mrs, William J. Rus-
Lell at 1092-J,
clared the National Industrial Re
covery Act unconstiutional, Presi
dent Roosevelt declared the de
cision represented a ‘“horse and
buggy days” conception of the
constitution, « ;
Proponents of the New Deal fre
quently compared the NRA ruling
with the Dred Scott decision, and
talked of the necessity for decis
jon. But the President has made
no public suggestion that the con
stitution be amended to give the
federal government more DOWer.
To continue the labor provisions
of, section TA of NIRA, the ad
ministration put through the Wag
ner labor disputes act, which n¢
is undergoing the test of stl
tutionality in the courts. . .=
When the court threw out the
Agricultural Adjustment Act, the
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