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Vol. 104. No. 40.
Saffold Defends
Limitation Plan
For State Taxes
By KATHRYN SEAGRAVES
“Sixty per cent of the un
employed people of Georgia
are out of work because
there is no building going on”
said T. P. Saffold yesterday be
fore the Athens League of Wo
men Voters, “and building activi
ty will not increase until real es
tate is permitted to become an as
set rather than a liability.” Mr.
Saffold, first vice-resident of the
Georgia Taxpayers Association,
was speaking in favor of the 15
mill tax limitation amendment to
the state constitution which will
be submitted to the voters for rat
ification in the general election in
November.
Mr. Saffold believes that this
limitation will relieve the burden
irypneed by the ad valoren sys
tem upon real estate. “In no in
stance has any state which has
adooted this limitation had any
idea, of going back to the old
system,” he said. He said that he
does not believe any system of
sales tax will be necessary in
Georgia.
““The 15 mill limitation is not an
end in itself but a means to an
end,” he said. In reply to ques
tions raised as to the suorce of
revenue to take care of the deficit
which is, or would, be incurred by
this limitation, Mr. Safford said
that therewis enough wealth in
Georgia to replace any decrease in
tax revenue brought about by the
ratification of this amendment.
“It is the receivers of rather than
th payers of taxes who want to
see some definite tax reform be
fore dropping the present sys
tem,” he said. He did not name
any specific form of taxation to
replace the present one.
Prof. Malcolm H. Bryan said
that the bill strikes out Para
graph one, Section 2, Article 7 but
does not affect = Paragraph one,
Section 4, Article 8 of the State
Constitution,
Myr. Safford’s reply to this was
that the bill deals with only one
subject, tax limitation,
The bill has been submitted and
passed in the General Assembly
and Mr, Saffold said that Gov
ernor Tugene Talmadge has, said
that he will call a ‘sszfum of the
General Assembly to take up the
question of replacement taxes
within two weeks after it is rati
fied.
Intangibles Mr. Saffold told the
League of Women Voters, cannot
stand the rate of the ad valorem
tax system. The classified limita
tion of 5 mills takes care of in
tangibles, Teeth will be put into
the law by the General Assembly
which will make intangibles pay
their part of the tax burden.
The General Assembly, he said,
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STATE NEWS BRIEFS
fißy The Associated Press
BRUNSWICK, Ga.—Only about
1,000 of the 4,000 registered Glynn
county voters are qualified for the
April primary, Tax Collector W.
L. Harwell said today.
Harwell, also ecounty registra
tion officer, said taXes are now so
much against some time that it is
doubtful if they will ever vote
again,
TIFTON, Ga.—Nobody wants to
be surveyor of Tift county,
That was revealed today after
candidates lists closed for the
March 25 primary with no one of
fering for the job. Four officers
are unopposed and four are con
tested.
County Commissioners H. F.
Gibbs and J. Wiley Taylor, Tax
Commissioner W. Jelks Warren
and Coroner M. S., Patten, jr.,
are unopposed.
Ordinary J. J. Baker is run
ning against J. B. Hollingsworth
and James H. Jones, guperior
covrt cierk H. D- Webb was OD
posea by T, V. Barkulee while
Sheriff J. M. Walker ran against
Sid ‘Thrasher. County Superin
tendent Charles G. Harman had
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
YEOMANS TURNS AGAINST “DICTAT2BSHIP”
Farm Bill May Be Sent to White House Late Today
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BUCKINGHAM TALKS
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Crand Orator of DeMolay
Is Speaker at High School
This Morning
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Frank I. Buckingham, grand
orator, Order of DeMolay, recent
ly returned from a tour of Eng
land, tonight will address DeMo
lays and Masons in the Masonic
Temple at 8 o’clock, being intro
duced by Abit Nix, Athens attor
ney.
| Tonight's talk will be the third
given here today by Mr. Bucking
ham. He addressed the Rotary
club at 1:30 this afternoon, and
.spoke before the high school stu
dent body in the morning.
In his' high school speech, the
‘DeMolay leader spoke on various
impressions gained while on his
lrecent trip in England, especially
emphasizing the way the English
|interprete and obey their laws.
| “The English people consider
law a sacred thing,” the speaker
brought out, “and try in every
way to make England the most
law-abiding nation on earth.
Law is a thing given to us for our
'iuidance and protection and the
English try in every way to make
lproper use of it.”
Mr. Buyckingham pointed out
|that while on the highways of
England for five weeks he saw
'only two minor aeccidents, both of
{ which were caused by bicycles,
while on our American roads se
rious casualties occur every day.
many of which are due to the un
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lan opponent in A. D. Dean. 1
| ATLANTA '— Miss Jewell Mael
Reneau, siter of Russell Renau, of
Thomasville, Ga., died here yester-l
day in a private hogpital. She had
been an employe of the city hall
lfor many years. ]
Three other brothers and two!
sisters alzo are among the sur
vivors, !
UNION CITY, Ga. — Sam W.
Smith, 63, father of Mrs, L. T.
McCampbell of Savannah, died at
his home here yesterday after an
illness of two months. |
Mr. Smith for many years was
manager of the Vehicle Depart
ment of the Railway Express
Agency at Atlanta,
Besides Mrs. McCampbell, heis
survived by his widow, five other
daughters, two sons, four brothers
and six sisters. Funeral services
were set for today.
! ATLANTA-Ice damaged street
pavements have made. it necessary
mittee to allocate SIO,OOO for im-
Full Associated Press Service
Only One Session of Joint
Committee Last Night
Is Necessary
ROOSEVELT MEASURE
Bill in Final Form Is Now
Nearer Like That
Passed by House
WASHINGTON — (#) — A quick
agreement that smoothed out dif
ferences between senate and house
sent the administration’s soil con
servation-farm subsidy bill on the
last lap of its journey to the gtatute
books today.
The house moved today to place
its final “0.K.” on the bill design
ed as a substitute for the dead
AAA, Similar action in the senate
will send the measure to the White
Houase.
Already Secretary Wallace and
‘AAA Administrator Chester C.
Davis were preparing to start the
program. Farmers are expected to
be called to regional meetings next
week to discuss gubsidy rates,
Senate and house had passed the
bill in somewhat differnt form, but
conferees from the two chambers
required only one gession to iron
out differences. The result, made
public last night, leaned largely
toward the original house version,
| House Group Wins
“¢Briefly, the “sofl’ conservation
and domestic allotment act” pro
vides for subsidies to farmers, not
exceeding $600,000,000 a year, for
taking land out eorf commercial
crops and devoting it to soil-build
ing growths or other ‘“economic”
purposes. The secretary of agri
culture thug is given wide powers
to control production,
(Before December 31, 1937, the
government would pay the grant
direct to farmers, or indirectly
through cooperating astates. After
that date, payments would be made
only in cooperating states. The
grants would then be given, not
only for soil conservation, but on
the basis of stabilization of agri
cultural supplies and maintenance
of farm purchasing power,)
Results of Session
The congress’ 3sesszion resulted
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WORK 15 RUSHED ON
TOBACCD COMPACTS
Special Committee Works
Against Time to Push
Proposed State Program
WASHINGTON— (#) —Admit
tedly working againat time, a spec.!
ial committee bhegan preparation
today of proposed atate tobacco
compacts to supplement tedem‘
farm plans, l
Time elements complicating the@
picture included: |
The early planting season in |
Georgla. ‘
A statement by Representativel
Graham A. Barden of New Bern,,
N. C. that at least 60 days would
be required for necessary tederali
ratification. |
The committee, named yesterday
at a tobacco meeting attended by
representatives from seven states,
went ahead with plans, hopeful
that something could be recom
mended in time to benefit this
year’s crop.
Other complications also mirea
the compact proposal, including
the fear of Governor J. C. B. Eh
ringhaus of North Carolina, that
non-compact states might over
produce and prevent success of the
plan.
Ehringhaus referred particularly
to Georgia, expressing the opinion
Governor Eugene Talmadge might
not approve the compact proposal.
He asserted heavy Georgia produc
tion in 1935, when the AAA was
operative, hurt North Carolina
prices.
The constitutionality of federal
legislation to protect compact stat
es also was raised. :
~ Under the compact plan, each
istate cooperating would enact uni
form control legislation. The com
‘pact would be ratified by congress.
The tobacco meeting was called
by Governor George C. Perry of
Virginia,
Representativeg of seven tobacco
growing states — Virginia, North
leroum, South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Tennessee and Kentucky—
lwcro preaent, * 3
~—ESTABLISHED 1832
Georgians Must Choose
Their conception of due regard for law and order
grossly offended and their sense of fair-play complete
ly outraged, right thinking men and women over the
state are up in arms over the disgraceful spectacle of
one man forcibly removing from office two public of
ficials, elected by the people, whose sole offense was
their decision to abide by the constitution of the state,
which they swore to uphold, rather than bow to the
dictates of the state’s chief executive.
Georgians as a whole are law-abiding citizens, On
the statute books they have written laws to govern the
conduct of the state’s affairs—laws which, in the past,
have been found adaptable to any situation, and Georg
ians will not submit to the substitution of force for law
ful processes, :
This is not the first time Governor Talmadge has re
sorted to force in the removal of public officials. In the
previous instances, his conduct was severely scored by
the conservative element, including the Banner-Herald,
but, to resort to modern parlance, “he got away with
it” largely because the state highway board at that
time was unpopular with the people. We declared at
the time, and still maintain, that if members of the
highway board merited removal from office, there was
adequate legal machinery to effect that end.
In the removal of State Treasurer Hamilton and
Comptroller General A Harrison, Governor Talmadge
has flagrantly disregarded the will of the peo
ple whose vote elected these officials, and whose vote
should rempve them in case of a dereliction of duty—
a question in the present controversy, however, which
is not an issue. These gentlemen, undoubtedly, will
bring legal action against the state and recover their
s‘izlaries for the duration of the term to which they were
elected.
. The political repercussions of the governor’s-ruthless
action, unquestionably, will be far-reaching. In repub
lican states, where his advocacy of a so-called ““back to
the Constitution” movement has won praise from Anti-
Rooseveltians—in those states his sincerity is already
being questioned in view of his utter disregard for con
stitutional processes in Georgia. Only last night, Drew
Pearspn, speaking over NBC, excoriated the governor
for his inconsistency. The governor will evidently
learn that he cannot play the dual role of “tracking”
the Constitution in federal matters and disregarding a
gimilar instrument in state affairs, ‘“Let not your left
hand know what your right hand doeth” may be all
right in dispensing charity, but in this day of rapid
communications, it wont work in politics.
However, the effect on Governor Talmadge’s per
sonal or political fortunes is not the big issue in the
present controversy. The paramount question—the is
sue which concerns the fundamentals of our govern
mental structure—is whether Georgians want to be
governed by orderly, lawful processes or by the whim
of the indiridual who happens to occupy the office of
governor.
If we want the latter, then we should enact laws
vouchsafing dictatorial powers to the office of gover
nor. X . -
If we want the formerf,wv\}e should eleet men in future
who will not arrogate to themselves authority that Is
not expressly conferred by the laws of the state.
Angry Dispute Continues to
Rage Over Hagood’s Remowal
BY FRANK I. WELLER
Associated Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON — (AP) — The
angry dispute over Major General
Johnson Hagood, who was removed
from active command after criti
cizing New Deal work relief, led
today to a call for an investigation
and a move to place the issue be
fore Fresident Roosevelt,
With one side charging govern
mental “terrorism” and the other
warning army officers to keep out
of “politics,” congressional friends
of Hagood urged that a military
court of inquiry be set up to delve
into the whole incident.
Representative Blanton (D-Tex)
who has praised Hagood and sug
gested the impeachment of Secre
tary Dern and others, prepared to
lead a delegation to the White
House to protest the order sending
Hagood home from his command at
Fort Sam Houston, Texas, to
“await orders.”
But Representaitve Faddis (D-
Pa,, like Blanton a member of the
house military affairs committee,
criticized the way Hagood slashed
at WPA policy in giving testimony
before a house sub-committee.
Faddis declared military men
“should be subordinated to the civil
authority”” Hagood had ecalled
WPA funds ‘“stage money,” saying
“you can pass it around but you
cannot get anything out of it.”
In another seetor, it was indicat
ed the war Department would
launch ap immediate inquiry as a
result of criticism hurled by Sen
~agor Robinson q(D-prk) aghinst
Athens, Ga., Wednesday, February 26, 1936.
'Major General C. Bolles, comman
der of the 7th corps area at Oma
ha.
Tangling with Senator Hastings
(R-Del) yesterday in a hot dispute
over Hagood, Majority Leader Rob
inson had said Bolles was ‘“‘actively
engaged in pelitics, with a candi
date for the presidency.”
} Quick denial came from Bolles.
He said he was “not in politics,”
'and had voted only once in his life.
. Representative McSwain (D-SC)
chairman of the military affairs
committee, advanced the court of
inquiry idea, which at once was
ihken up by some other members
iot the committee regardless of
‘thelr attitude toward the general's
treatment.
‘ Describing Hagood as a “Jeffer
sonian Democrat,” McSwain said:
‘ ,'Ceneral Hagood expressed an
ihonest conviction that something
| permanent should result from gov
(ernment spending. . . . I believe he
has a just cause for inquiry.”
Representative Faddis said:
“This government was founded
on the idea that the military power
| should be swupordinated to the
civil authority but we always have
had to restrain army and navy of
ficers from trying to appoint them
selves as ambassadors at large”
Blanton produced photostatic
copleg of a letter he said was writ
ten by General Malin Craig, army
'chiet of staff, giving Hagood and
oiher officers permission to speak
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Three High Japanese
Government Officials
Assassinated Today
Young Army Officers Are
Responsible for Revolt
In Japan Today
TO PROTECT POLICY
Is Not Directed Against
Emperor Hirohito; 2
Fleets Called In
BY GLENN BABB
(Copyright, 1936, Associated Press)
TOKYO—Young officers of the
army, who said they wishea ‘to
remove corrupt influenceg from
around the throne,” asassinated
Premier Okada and two other cab
inet ministers today. ;
The government declared a state
of emergency and ordered two fleetfl
from the high seas to police duty
at the great cities of Tokyo and
Osaka,
Emperor Hirohito wag stated by
a government source to have com
manded the strong nationalist,
Fumio Goto, to form a new govern-‘
‘ment, ;
| The insurgent officers who deci
mated the cabinet said their pur
pose ‘was to protect the national
‘policy.
| Others Killed
In addition to Premier Okada
they killed Admiral Viscount Mak
oto Saito, lord keeper of the privy
seal and former premtier, and Gen
eral Jotaro Watanabe, chief of
military education,
They. also -shot Korekiyo Taka
‘hashi, minister of finance, and
Admiral Kantaro Suzuki, lord cham
berlain of the imperial court.
(Reports by the Japanese foreign
office to embassies abroad stated
‘that Takahashi died of his wounds.)
- According to the war office, the
insurgent officers sald thely be
lieved the government was being
torn by financial factions and bur
eaucrats at a juncture in which
the nation was confronted with
various diffioulties. l
The Premier-Designate, Goto, wags
minister of home affairs—the office
which carries with it control of the
police,
The sudden militarist uprising
broke out about dawn, and Premier
official residence. The other vic-
Okada was killed in the premler’s‘
tims were attacked in private re
sidenceas. |
The home office issued a com
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HAUCK AND WILENTZ
WILL CONFER TODAY
Special Prosecutor and At
torney General Decide on
Action to Take
TRENTON, N. J. — (#) — Proaze
cutor Anthony M. Hauck, jr., of
Hunterdon county, one of the men
who helped convict Bruno Richard
Hauptmann, said today he had
“heard” he might be superseded if
he did not bring a perjury action
against Millard Whited, state wit
ness at the Flemington trial.
Hauck wag expected to confer
with Attorney General David T,
Wilentz, chief of prosecution, who
returned from Florida last night
with the Whited phase of the caase
and Hauck’s own procedure in the
matter to be prime matters for
discussion,
After the session, it was expect«
ed, Wilentz would make a formal
statement anawering Governor Har
old G. Hoffman's charges that
Whited lied, that Amandus Hoch
muth, another identification wit
ness, gave testimony which would
bear closer gtudy, and that the
prosecution officials have suppress
ed important jnformation in the
case.
Hauck apparently was not dis
turbed by fears he would be re
placed,
“] understand I am going to be
superseded and a special prosecu
tor wil| prosecute perjury proceed
ings against Whited,” he said.
C. Lloyd Fisher, councel for the
convicted kidnap-slayer, vesterday
demanded the prosecutor act against
Whited. 1 .
The governor meanwhile, marked
time, waiting for the state to make
its replies to nls ¢harges. One of
them was that Whited :zzy have
beexzhi:flu’oneed to testify he did
by promise of compensation.
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newspaperman to hold in confi
dence the source of any news
he may gather will be asked of
Congress in a bill sponsored by
Representative Edward W. Cur
ley (Democrat, N. Y.), shown
in a new plcture. He declares
the freedom of the press is
menaced by lack of a law giving
this protectiom to reporters,
* editors, and publishers.
ICKES 3AY3 HODVER
VICTIM OF “JITTERS
Cabinet Member Declares
Liberty League Alias for
Big Business
CHICAGO — (#) — Secretary of
the Interior Harold L. Ickes, in an_
address hefore the Union League
club, said today that former Presi
dent Herbert' Hoover has "a con
firmed state of jitters.'
“Some men tremble occasionally
for the aafety of our institutions,
but he has developed a chronic
ague about thim,” said the cabinet
member.
“Three years ago, Mr. Hoover's
refrain was that ‘prosperity was
just around the corner.
“Now he iz just as certain that
‘collapse is just around the cor
ner’.”
He sald the former president,
who in recent weeks has criticized
his successor publicly, was “lab
oring with all his might to re
agtablish, in the mindg of the Am
erican people, that state of fear in
which he left them.”
“The dukes and earls of big
business,” which he identified as
the American Liberty League, Al
fred P. Sloan, jr., and the DuPonts,
famous Delaware industrialists,
shared Secretary Ickes' five.
He called the Liberty League
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Seven Addresses Scheduledat
University in Next Few Days
Seven promising addresses are
scheuled at the University ofl
Georgia during the next few days,
the public being invited to all of
them.
Literary societies, sponsors ofa
thousand “bloodless battles of the
imagination,” tomorrow morning
will celebrate their anniversa.riesi
with addresses by twp Lumpkin!
Law school students, 3
Edgar L, Lane of Millen will
represent 135-year old Demosthen
jan. society, Jack J. Flynt of
Griffin 116-year old Phi Kappa
Society. The anniversarian exer
ciges wili be in the chapel at 9:30.
Richard Winston of Athens will
introduce Flynt, Harry Baxter of
Aghburn, Lane.
Friday evening Mrs. D. E.
Murphy and V. P. Sydenstricker,
of the University School of Med
icine (Augusta) faculty, will dis
cuss dread ' pellagra before the
University Science club. The talks
will be in War Memorial hall at
8 o’'clock. ;
‘lnstitute Speakers
Dr. li-.w'l;.“firt;o'h. director of
the Institute .of Public Affairs,
said the institute will bring two
ATTORNEY - GENERAL
CALS FOR SPEGAL
LECISLATIVE SESSION
Wants to Re-open Postal
And Banking Channels
To Fiscal Offices
RELIEVE TENSION
Governor’s Only Comment
Is “Ain’t Conna Be No
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Extra Session
ATTORNEY GENERAL .. «. ..
ATLANTA — (AP.) — At
torney General M. J. Yeomans
turned against the financially
harassed “dictatorship” of Gov
ernor Eugene Talmadge today
and suggested calling a special
session of the legislature to re
open postal and banking chan
nels to the fiscal offices of
Georgia. .
His statement came soon aft
er the Fulton National Bank,
a state depository, refused to
cash a SIOO,OOO check presented
by J. B. “Tobe” Daniel, de facto
treasurer.
Governor Talmadge's only com
ment on Yeoman's statement was:
“There aint gonna be no extra
session of the legislature.,” He de-~
clined to 'elaborate. .
“I have mnever advised anyone*
the attorney general said, “that the
financial affairs of the 'state can
be operated legally without an ap
bropriations aet, X X X
| “A session of the general assem
lhty now would relieve the tenston,
‘doubt and uncertainty and the
state would function . normally.”
| Had Yeoman'’s Support
- Talmadge announced Monday, the
day he suspeneded Treasurer
George B, Hamilton and Comptroll
er General Willlam B. Harrison
for refusal to honor a $139,00v
warrant on 1936 funds, that he was
acting on the opinion of the atto.-
ney general, :
In an opinion appended to the
governor's proclamation last week
to establish executive control |of
state funds, Yeomans said f&e
governor, comptroller general an 3
Only Brother of
Dr. H. W. Caldwell
Dies in Griffin
GRIFFIN, Ga.—(P)=~L. Alvin
Caldwell, jr., only brother of
Dr. Harmon W. Caldwell;
president of the University of
Georgia, died today in Alva
ton, Ga. at the home of his
aunts, Mrs, H. L. Camp ahd
Miss Achoa Caldwell. .
Mr. Caldwell had been ill for
several days with pneumonia,
but death wag attributed to a
heart ailment, f
He waz born in Meriwether
county but moved to Atlanta
as a child. He graduated
from Tech High school in At
lanta, and attended Georgia.
Tech. He was a member of
Second Ponce De Leon Baptist
church in Atlanta. ¢ "% °-
Survivors include the par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. ‘Alvin
Caldwell of Atlanta. B EaAts
speakers here Monday and Tues
day. g
Sir Arthur Willert, British dip
lomat and publicist, will discuss
“England and the World Crisis”
at 11:30 Monday. Raymond Les
lie ‘Buell, president of the Foreign :
Policy association, will speak on
“The World Adrift” Tuesday at
11:30. PBoth programs will be in
the chapel.
Buell will make a second ap
pearance Tuesday afternoom, at
4:30, in the Commerce-Journalism
building. At that time he will
lead a round fable on the ques- é
tion, “Is the [Peace Machinery ;;;
Dead?" o a‘fi
Dr. Brooks said Sir Arthur has
been in. intimate toueh with Am=
erican gnd Furopean vy so |
the past 25 years, that ] s
an internatim'mo.lf reputation.
On the first of the programs, the
anniversarian exercises, w hle¢h
come tomorrow morning, Demoss -
thenian’s Lane will discuss, “The
Government Must Show the W P
to Real Progress” Fiynt Wil