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Newspaper Page Text'LOCAL COTTON MIDDLING 7-8.... ...... ....11%o¢ PREV. CLOSE.... ... ......11%e _M Vol. 104, No. 49. Colored Singers At Emmanuel Church Tonight The Rev, D. C. Wright, jr., has announced that a group of color- ed singers will present a program of Spirituals at Emmanuel church tonight at 8 p. m., to which the public is cordially invited. The Fort Valley Normal and In dus'trial School from which these student-singers come i 8 one of a group of nine such 'institutions lo cated in eight of the southern states having a combined. enroll ment of ten thousand students in their regular and special courses. These schools give academic, in dustrial and normal training and are sponsgred by the Episcopal church, through the American Church Institute for Negroes, a corpeoration of that religious body, and also partially supported by the diocesesr in which they are located. The Rev, Cyril E. Bent ley, associate director of the in stitute, will speak on 'the work of that organization and 1. R. By waters, treasuver of the Fort Val ley school, will tell something of the work of that institution. The purpose of this visit to Ath ens is tp acquaint people general ly, of the value of the Fort Valley Normal and Industrial School, so leit their suopport, and Kkindle their interest in the struggle Ne groes in Georgia are making to make a larger contribution to life through training and education, There will be no admission charge to the meeting but an of fering will be taken towards the expenses of the group. . James W. Merritt to Speak Here Tonight James W. Merrett, executive secretary of Georgia Baptist Con vention, will speak at First Bap tist church tonight at regular services as the fourth of a series of talks being given by state Bap tist executives sponsored by the Baptist Students Union, of the University of Georgia. . B. Nicholson is aiding thf‘l students in presenting the vdrious programs and Miss Carolyn Han- | cack, University of Gieorgia stu . wilk b 330 ot. the Bapti A e U eW : . program. ~The main speaker i 8 one of the state's leading Baptist | executives, He is a resident of, Gainesville, Ga., and has a num her of friends in Athens. Gilbert White Accepts Position With Gas Co. Here; To Begin Monday Gilbert White, son of Mrs. Min nie White, has accepted a posi tion with the Georgia Publie Utilities company, and will take up his duties with them Monday morning, it was announced Satur day . Mr. White has many friends in the city who will be pleased to learn .of his connection, and who wish him wmueh prosperity in his new position. For the past eight yvears, “Bert” has been employed by the Reid Drug company, as a salesman. He graduated from Athens High school in 1931, finishing with high marks in all grades. LOCAL WEATHER A\ GEORGIA: 9 ¢ 2 < 7 9 Fair, Slightly % Warmer in North 3 ¢ Portion Sunday. / f’/ Monday Mostly ‘:’(\"ﬂ ‘/ Cloudy, Probably : / Showers in the [§ % ) ior, O - Interior, l.?"‘.\ 4 WARMER TEMFERATURE BHEhOst, oo bvon sisinevss s 10.0 BBt .y sevi hine Pugas 280 BEBRR L i iaw ek as b ADD WGP i o et b evBB D RAINFALL Inches last 24 h0ur5........ 0.00 Motal since March 1........ .b 0 Deficit since March 1...... .88 Average March rainfall.... 5.21 Toti: since January 1ev....20.9 Excess since Januavy 1.... 8.77 State Republican Committee Sets Convention for May 9 By RICHARD McMURRAY | Associated Press Staff Writer MACON, Ga. — (#) — Carefully avoiding commitments for presi dential candidates, the republican state committee Saturday called their Georgia convention for May 9 in Atlanta amid talk of organ izing a 'solid bloc of southern voting strength in the national convention in Cleveland. Party leaders went into execu tive sesgion soon after convening and completed their work in an hour. County conventions were ecalled for April 11 Privately, some leaders said re publican delegations of North Car olina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida already had tentatively agreed to vote together in Cleve- ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service Labor Opens Fight on Talmadge ‘Dictatorship’ Germany Re-establishes Its “Watch on the Rhine” Saturday THOOPS 60 ACROSS FINDIS RIER 22D THKE 1P POC NS Move Accom. * ed With Typical Suddeness by Adolf Hitler CALLED PEACE MOVE Der Fuehrer Would Come Back Into League as One of Comrades i By LOUIS P. LOCHNER Copyright, 1936, The Ascsociated Press BERLlN—Germany re-establish ed the “watch on the Rhine” Sat urday. l By command of Reichsfuehrer !Hitler, troops crossed the famous | river, regiment by regiment, to | take up the posts once held by the Kaisers’ armies on the fron ]tier of France, i Hitler called the action a pre it‘aution against communism and i France's “iron ring around the lßeich." It smashed the Locarno 1 pact and the remnants of -the 'military clauses of the Versailles | treaty. I Der Fuehrer declared that Ger ‘many, rehorn as a world power, was ready to reenter the League of Nations, but as a comrade rather than as a conquered na tion, Then, In an effort to prove that his act was the will of the Ger man people, he dissolved the na t}oﬂ 'S 5.;; liam w ) & the 2 icﬁm £ 29, It is the composition of the Reichstag which determines the government of Germany. Move for Peace Hitler caled his action a move for pecae. He offered to sign a 2h.year non-aggression pact with France and Belgium, with Great Britain and Italy as guarantors. He offered friendship to Lituua nia and Czechoslovakia. He assured Poland that Ger many had no designs on Pomorze the Polish corridor to the Baltie Sea. (But the French and Belgian governments, alarmed, cancelled 411 leaves for their soldiers. The British government consulted im mediately with diplomats of Bel gium, France, and Italy, the eco signatories of the Locarno pact.) . The German government's action was delivered with the sudden ness so characteristic of Hitler. He called the members of the diplomatie corps, including William F. Dodd, United States ambassa aor, to his chanceilery and deliv ered to them a memorandum set. ting forth what he intended to do. Germany Allarmed He told the diplomats that Ger many was alarmed by the recent ly concluded treaty of military al liance between France and Soviet Russia and stated: “The obliga tions which France assumed in the new pact are not compatible with her obligations under the Rhine pact.” ; » He referred to the agreement by which both France and Ger many promised to keep their sold jers¢ out of the Rhineland—the area into which the soldiers -of the Reich marched today. o He said the German govern ment had no assurance that France would not elect a com munist government, and he de clared that, in such case, France would be governed from Moscow and not from Paris. (France re cently elected a second communist member to the senate.) He continued: “In the interest of the primitive right of a natioh (Continued on Page Four) }land June 9. They said they hoped | to extend the bloc from Texas to i Virginia. A i The four states will have 59 | votes in Cleveland. Should the }enuresoumern delegation be weld ed together, party leaders said l the South might hold the balance of power in nomating the Re ipuhllcan standard bearer. The reward they hoped might be lfour or five under-secretaries and | possibly a cabinet leader from the ! South, should the Republicans win | in November. | Accordingly strong sentiment ’ prevailed for an uninstructed dele gation from Georgia and other lmutbem states, though some lead (Continued on Page Six) Doug Fairbanks, Sr., Marries Lady Ashley PARlS—(A)—Douglis [Fairbanks and his bride, the former Lady Ashley, were honeymooning Sat urday night after a civil wedding ceremony had culminated their effortg to have the Franch marri age laws suspended. The couple planned to leave on a motor trip to Belgium and Hol land gnd then te sail for China where Fairbanks plans to produce a motion picture based gn the life of Marco Polo. - Their marriage wasu%ert‘ormed earlier in the day by Mayor Gas ton Drucker in the gold marriage salon of the Eighth Ward City hall under a celling gaily decor ated with pink cupids, ‘ FRANCE GARRISONG NORTHERN FRONTIER Full Quotas of Troops Or dered: Will Do ‘Utmost’ Under Covenant ~ By JOHN EVANS Associated Prses Foreign Staff. PARlS.—(#)—France's military authorities ordered Saturday night that all fortifications along the »northeast frontier be garri soned immediately with their full quotas of troops. The order was issued shortly after the French government de te compel Germany to take its troops out of the Rhineland. Authorites said that, despite the drastic military order, which included the cancellation of all army leaves, the .'ext military class would not be called to the colors before each time nor would any of the recently demobilized classes be recalled to duty. French officials said the word “utmost” meant everything that the League of Nations and the Locarno Treaty signatories might decide, even force if that were found necessary after all other means failed. The government asked that Germany be punished for sending troops into the area ordered de militarized by the Treaty of Ver sailles. It was announced that Premier Sarraut will go before his cabinet tomorrow and propose that the German case be presented to the League Council as a vielation of the Locarno and Versailles trea ties. ' The leaves of all members of the army were cancelled and the (Continved on page six.) HITLER MOVE WA EXPECTED INUS, Washington Government Minimizes Danger of Near European Conflict | WASHINGTON.—()—AIthough [eyeing the Gérman situation in tently, authoritative governmental quarters Saturday were . inclined to minimize the danger of any im mediate armed conflict in Europe as a result of Adolf Hitler's re militarization of the Rhineland. Instead, they forecast a period of ‘diplomati¢ maneéuvering almost certain to add new and graver yeomplications to an already dis turbed European picture. Diplomati¢ officials studied the assertion here by Dr. Hans Lu ther, German ambassador to the United States, that the Nazi chancellor desired to broaden the basis for peace in Europe. Luther, who signed the Loearno pact. for Gerimany, told newspaper !men Hitler’s denunciation of that treaty was a “constructive” move toward peace. He asserted Ger many would live up to the princi ples of Locarno when other sig natories did likewise. State department officials, obvi ously pleased that the German action does not involye the United States directly, withheld com ment. But Chairman Pittman (D.- Nev.) of the scnate foreign rela tions committee wvoiced the opin jon shared by many that the sit tation now is “exceedingly grave.” Sources close to the government quarters indicated Hitler’'s move was not entirely wnexpected. Athens, Ca., Sunday, March 8, 1936. Enough Rope Beats Elevator Tieup b T '*“.«--Pw@a},\\.-_%?w T o TR o SRR e IR R SRR \ R § . e R SN L TR T S RAU NS R e %\h R B O A L RV R e OVRUNRE SRR R A “& B S A IR N Y o TR SRR R e f. e Y TR LTN SEER AR AN T SwETT e IR RIS & i S L s 8 o - % - r=oos. TS . ; § s R # o A oo 3 by ;\?‘. : ; S B % : G B £ R S SRR \‘:‘_&:;_;:;::.3\\,. % R R } 3 S o | Piiocen ¥t S, : X BEIRE COVHERER e e ) s R S a e R RTR T S e ——————————————————————————— Passengers still have to walk up tedi_us flights of stairs tacause nt New York’'s elevator strike, but .ngenous business men have solved the problem of getting merchandise up and down without toting it. Julius Hausner (at right) reaches cagerly for the bundle iowered to him by rope from his ninth floor office. Building Strikers Hit at Gotham’s Hotel, Theatrical Centers Saturday . NEW] YORK — ¥ — Timing ;thelr drive to hit the .week-end ’translent business, building serv 'ice strikers Saturday night strove \to disrupt Gotham’s hotel and ,theatrlca.l centers, : By ordering walkouts at half a Ihundred hotels they created a ai tuation that wag caled serious, as it affected week-ena receipts, At the game time the striking elevator operators, porters and other building workers tightened their picket lines at holdout apart lment houses. A definite falling off of week-end reservations was re ported by theaters and night clubs. . While most managers discount ed the effect of the hotel walkout, one official said that the usual week-end influx of guests had changed to a general exodus. Chris Moulihan, head of the un ion's hotel division, said 45 mem bers of the United Mines Workers of America, here to negotiate u new anthracite coal contract, had shifted their guarters from the Hotel Commodore to another hot elry “approved” by the wunion. Meanwhile the realty advisory D. A. R. President General Spends Week-End In City By KATHERYN SEAGRAVES Athens has been host .to the heads of three national organiza tions within the last three days. Mrs. William A. Becker, national president-general of the D. A. R, who is the house guest of Mrs. Julius Talmadge, - was the only feminine president in the group, however, the other twoc being matioral commanders of the D. A. V.. and the American Legion. “I. think conditions existing in the New York sluma are deplor able,” said Mrs. Becker, “and 1 am so glad that they are being torn down and modern apartments built in their place.” “Here in the south,’” she con tinned, “when a number of people are forced to live in one room, the effects are not nearly so bad as in- New York, where many of the rooms have no windows. Chil dren either live or die in those rooms, without any sunlight at all. g “Although I have no children of my own,” she said, “I'am very fond of them and would like to S — ; R T R e R NN SRR S e R NS e G SR & T R R g R e R § BRI N R i S R R SRR i eST B R '*‘% ol 0 SN S 3 SRR W 3 LR = 5 RS o 0 g iy A g R e S §-¢§:_, B R 3 88, PR, § § c s L% L o K R 3 3 s b ‘% 3 TR T e B S A Y. e ency T SRS TR £ SIS B s % o 00, SN %g‘* | e e b e 8 B j-;_;;;:- | T an: 3 R R ¢ | iin N 2 9 3 . . ot ﬁf ‘ SRS § e ‘ s s N SR e 3 Ro | \:“"‘\3«3\: :;5 e g Lo R Lot L e 8 ;s Ay i = L . i e SRR B %\, % R e 55 R ; A 4 v i SR sße Shme e R Y BRSNS, BRI SRR e ~;,1;_?;:;35‘?:; RN B B SRR el W ) SR 3 .A . e R g et S e R Y S S ey el ? B e e . Y e o oo B ; o b PR St g g ; SRR o - T e } e R e i! S g Ael B RS R W ST A fordTy T T s R Hocmmaan o RN e ————— o —t——: \ board, chief opponent of the build ling service employes’ union, as -Isailed Mayor F. H, La Guardia for hig stand that the union had sub mitted a “reasonable” offer of arbitration, Warning that “danger lurks in every building on strike because government is weak,” William D. Rawlins, executive secretary of the board, said: ; “The city may well look for fur ther trouble which could have been avolded if the mayor had remain ed neutral.” “Let my actiong gpékic for them selves,” said the mayor. Rawlins declared the clozed shop principal issaue in the dispute, would “set up a power greater than government itself.~ He added that if the mayor’'s po lice force was “inadequate or worn out” he knew where he could ask for help. Asked whether that meant the realty board planned. to appeal to Governor Herbert H, Lehman for additional protection, Rawling sald: “We'll cross that bridge if we arrive at it.,” see them all properly fed, clothed, and educated. The D. A, R, is the world’'s great patriotic organ ization which tries to build public opinion and good citizenship. But it is non-partisan.” Mrs. Becker has a most distin guished record of twenty years of unselfish service to the National Society. She has served as chap ter treasurer, regent, state treas urer, state regent, organizing sec retary general, N. S, D. A. R.; national chairman of national de fense through patriotic education, vice-chairman of committee on legislation, member of Constitu tional Hall finance, program and resolution committees. She is a most charming wo man, quite versatile and a thor oughly delightful conversational ist. She has traveled rather ex tensively abroad, visiting the more important countries of Eu rope. She spent a year studying from Smith coliege. ~ Most people have one dearly & . — (Continued on Page Four) Athens Bar Association Urges Judge Bradwell to -~ Seek Appeals Court Place Athens Jurist Commended To State as Judicial Scholar NOTED LAWYER Receivea 90,000 Votes as 1932 Candidate For Appeals Court Judge J. D, Bradwell of Athens yesterday was . urged by the Ath ens Bar association to become u candidate for judge cf the atate court of appeals to succeed Justice W' Frank Jenkins, a candidate for the supreme court, ~ In resolutions unanimousiy adop ted, the Athens bar members at a meeting presided over by T. J. Shackelford, president, “commend to the citizens of this state, Judge J. D. Bradwell as a man of high moral character and courage — » lawyer of the highest legal attain ments and experience — and a scholar with judiclal temperament.” Judge Bradwell ig a former judge of the Athens city court, and s widely known for his legal abiu-! ties. He is an alumnus of the' University of Georgia. At one time his. father, 8. D, Bradwell was president of . the State Normai school here. . Judge Bradwell was a candidate for the state court of appeals in 1832, receiving 90,000 votes. Judge Jenkins is a candidate te Suecceed Judge Price Gilbert who ‘has announced his voluntary re lixremont. from ‘h;.he supreme court at the end ¢of his. nt term. “rhe’ tomotirion shopted:~ by the Athens Bar assoclation follows: “Whereas, there will be an elecs tion to fill a vacancy om the eours of appeals due to the retirement or Judge W. . Jenkins from said bench, and, "Whereas, Judge J. D. Bradwell, former Judge of the City Court of Athens and a member of this bar, possesses those high qualifications both as a man and jurist to fill a place on the court of appeals, “Be it therefore resolved: That the members of the Athens Bar asgociation request and urge Judge Bradwell to enter the Democratis primary and offer his name for nomination, ‘ “Be it further resolved: That we commend to the citizens of this state Judge J. D, Bradwell of Ath ens, Ga., a man of high moral character and courage — a lawyori of the highest iegal attainments and a scholar with judicial tem ‘perament., ' “Be it further resolved:: That a copy of these resoluttons be sent to Judge Bradwell and to the press of this state” \ A. B. Coile is secretary of the association, FALE PRESIDENT IS CUEST HERE MONDAY President Angell to Be Cuest of Institute of Public Affalps . With an air of enthusiasm, Unl versity of Georgla officials pre pared yesterday to entertain Dr. !James R. Angell, president of Yale university since 1921, who lwill be an Institute of Public !Affairs guest Monday. ‘ The visit will be one of the high points of the academic year, Dr{ R. P. Brooks, institute director, said, adding: “The TUniversity of Georgia has always looked upon Yale as its alma mater. It was Abraham Baldwin of Yale who wrote our charter and was the most active spirit in establishing the institu tion. Josiah Meigs of Yale was the first active president. “Old-timers will remember a visit of Willilam H. Taft, then president-elect, and the happy ref erences in his address to this connection of Yale and Georgia. Taft was a Yale man and a mem ber of the law faculty there. | “Long athletic rivalry has served 1(0 cement the bonds still more | closely. Yale christened the new iGeorgia stadium in 1929, the only | occasion on which the two teams ihave met in Athens.” Director Brooks said that cor | respondence leading to President | Angell’'s visit was initiated by Dr. iDr. J. H. T. McPherson, Univer | sity professor of history and Pub | lic Affairs Institute executive com mitteeman. Professor McPherson was a member of the University 2 —— “ (Continued on Page Four) A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday CANDIDACY URCED O S . 54/‘7’;‘;&’ S s R e 3 7 p ”':"itf:v:?’f"..: 1 P B B - B B o % TR gy " : ; B % 258 e i SR e B *"; SR sk L i R = R 4 sy B R B sB A Z TS g Rl B 2 % £ i e e R e sy B ke 5 - SE s < o e o 3 R B2R e B PR e 3 B Y R BT B DR : SR -:,:f:{:;’ﬁ:{'i'k:fzfﬁé}f § £ R s s Y ey § 4 Py R N i G ases l Judge J. D. Bradwell, who yes terday was urged by the Athens I'Bar Associgtion to become a can 'didate for the state court of ap !puln. . ITALY SENDS ANGWE? 10 LEASUE'S APPEAL H Duce Still Determined To Get What He Started After in Africa 'BY ANDRUE BERDING ~ (Aesociated Press Foreign Staff) - ROME — () — Flanked by an imposing array of conditions, Italy’s reply to the League of Nations' appeal for peace in Ethiopia was dispatched to Geneva Saturday in a tenor beapeaking Premier Mus solini's determination to get what he started after. The reply resolved itself down to this, after a meeting of the cabinet: ; First, Italy’s peace conversations will be conditioned on the realiza tion by both the League and Em peror Halle Selassie that Italy 1s in Bthiopla to stay, both in terri tories already conquered and in others whero&:, semi-mandatory in fluence will 'be wielded; the terri tory where Italy’s influence must be felt, it was explained, is “de fined by past treaties.” Becond, Italy does not intend to let her African armies stagnate. It Ethiopia wants peace, it must seek it with an eye on the Italian mailed fist, II Duce made it plain that “equality” as between Italy and Ethiopia does not exist in the Ital jan lexicon. Hostilities cannot ceéase, he said, until Italy’s needs and demands are satisfied. Thus did Mussolini accept “in principle” the appeal of the League of Nations for peace in East Africa. The dictator's demands included influence on sections of Ethiopia such as the Lake Tana district, and areas west, south and south east of Addis Ababa. Ethijopia had accepted the peace proposals of the League of Nations committee of 13 without reserva tion. 2 . (The League asked for consid eration of a peace formula, hold ing .in abeyance for the moment the question of imposing addition al sanctions against Italy.) Grand Exalted Ruler Hallinan To Visit Elks Lodge In Athens Athens is one of the few cities, and Lodge No. 790, B. P. O. E., one of the few subordinate lodges in the United States to be hosts to the Grand Exalted Ruler of the order, o 1 his trip through the South which is terminating this week. e Friday Athens Lodge No. 790 of which Colonel Arthur Flatau is Exalted Ruler, will entertain Grand Exalted Ruler James T. Hallinan, P. E. R., of New York, who is at present at the head of the or der, and his visit is to be the oc casion of a special public meeting in the lodge rooms, to be follow ed by a dinner in his honor at the Holman Hotel, with Colonel M, G. Michael as toastmaster. Grand Exalted Ruler Hallinan is HOXE] ol EVE NANCE FILES SUIT AT LA GRANGE QUESTIONING RIGHT 3-Judge Superior Court Opens Hearing to Find Out Who Is Treasurer YEOMANS ABSENT Four Assistant Attorneys Ceneral Appear in Court Saturday, However BY W, M. PEPPER, JR. (Associated Press Staff Wiriter) ATLANTA — (#) — Organized labor entered the fight against Governor Eugene Talmadge's fin ancial "“dictatorship” of Georgla Saturday, while a three-judge su perior court here begasn hearings to determine who is the state’s le gal treasurer. A guit filed at LaGrange by Steve Nance, president of the Geor gia Federation of Labor and cther leaders, quesationed Talmadge's right to run the government with-~ out an appropriations bill — an issue which has been eclipsed by a legal fight for the treasury of-. fice, The labor leaders phtained a rule nisi from Superior Court Judge Lee B. Wyatt at LaGrange, home of de facto Treasurer J. B, Dan iel, requiring Daniel to show cause by March 17 why he should not be “enjoined from paying out any of the public funds of the state in his possession X X except pursuant to valild appropriations” i ! The 19356 legislature failed to, pass an appropriations bill for 193¢ and 1937, and Talmadge hag been, running the state under a one-man rule, A hearing in the labor leaders’ suit wags set for March 21, ; Meanwhile, -as pleadings were read here in a group of suits in-- volving Talmadge's recent ouster of State Treasurer George B. Ham flton and the appointment of Dan.' iel to succeed him, charges of col lusion between Hamilton and three large Atlanta banks were heard. Daniel, in his answer in an in terpleader suit filed by the banks contended Hamilton, by the pro curement of bank officials, with drew their security for state de posits from the treasury vault, Hamilton, in a cross suit, ad mitted placing the security—s7,- 500,000 in bonds—in the vuults of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank. He sald he did it, however, to (Continued on Page Four) Governor Talmadge ~ Speaks Wednesday In Chapel Address The University of Georgia will conclude a series of announced public meetings for the coming week with an address by Gover nor Eugene Talmadge in the chapel Wednesday night. The governor will tell students, faculty members and the general public about “Pioneering in Poli tics.” His address, sponsored by the Pioneer and Agricultural clubs, will begin at 8 o’clock. Miss Nellle Rucker of Athens, Pioneer president, extended the invitation to the governor. The visit will be his second to the University in recent weeks. It is understood that Governor Tal madge will explain some of hig recent actions. First of the week’s programs (Continued on Page Six) a member of Queens Borough Lodge, No. 878, New York City, and before being elevated to the highest office in Elkdom had been one of the most active and influ ential members of the order for vears. He had a long and brilliant personal record in the affairs of the order in the East to his credit, and under his administra tion the order has flourished throughout the country. He Is & prominent member of the bar of the state: at present justice of the Supreme Court of New York. Officers and membars of the Athens lodge are making extens cive preparations for his visit here and a committee of which District (Continued on Page Six)

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