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Newspaper Page Texte N 01l I | l ¢ ; 80l d l Hostery Mill Is Reported Planning to Build Plant Here T j”ml- COTTON gznmwe BB o e PREV, CLOSE. ... .... ..., 110 sk £ ® i ::v..v;"‘ . o S Almand Chai Almandhairman Ee AR i jr e ;»; oid: o ] ',- : ’<» ; L £ By 4 LS t RRR e s . PR et f S Vgt ¥ T W BE i Ao AL ?~Am e o DR oy Scout Finance | itheady Geormia Area, Doy @y ®F America. will - boegin ot R B - B (eoimoed Satur 3 - aesioy Almand, chairman Wy fewls Boy Scout finance | -~ Expressifg (ho sentiments of the o X' 10eal | { ;v‘ % :,;g‘ %&“(d -:e:ommx & »! Re i v e | oey (FNe . SPF. very well § i %ﬁg@umvmmts ob-i dained o the Athens district dur- A RTN U Y O NS ST | ;,' 2 A :’&; past year, we realize thut} we hfg “work yet to do—if | W “,{t :\f* the bene-‘ R Pl SRt Y . : “fitgeot Scouting every boy in PeE ERUnE B B *;ﬁ EEIES e and desir) cEMEIRem, - I g« N":g; be able to ac-| Cebmplish along this e will de- | ‘Lend largely upon the support we | T LGobperation of local citizens have SeSen Gpiendit., But if we are to bon_sglendid, Dot it l fncomwiiah the work we want tc o ’%i?; jopld do, we will need _even greater -support, financial REE R i vear and v _the ‘vears o come. Nevex‘theless,l “hoes el B e *w 1 _}he communi't.,\ wil gm’ yme thegugh 100 per cent. ] ; ~'mﬂﬂng upon: the _Redighoh. s.;‘__.'ﬂg in Athens, Mr,! _Almand said: & Sinee st years campaign, as- | for great effort or the part of a pumber so our citizens, the Boy l " Scout movement in Athens was | Mon & firm basis. A full-| " {Continued on Page Four) ! LCCAL WEATHER TR | GEORGIA: g Q' Bl | Parily cloudy and o . somewhat warmer ’ 4;‘ Sunday, possibly i ¢%. t‘ scattered showers ﬁ ' in north portion B \ l?' late Sunday aft ‘r’ ¢ :ﬂmo:n or nigh't; = Monday partly ) \ what cooler in SHOWERS nortﬂh portion. ‘ TEMPERATURE Fhighest .. .. so v wnixd ..68.0 BNOWORE i it ontiay Ten iy .40.0 RN e ad b s - 04,0 NOIrMAL .. ci v %is a 9 #3 +.51.0 RAINFALL Ifiches last 24 hours «« «- .00 Total since March 1 . s 50 peficit since March 1 .. .. 1.88 Average March rainfall .. 5.21 Total since January 1 .. ..2000 Excess since January 1 ... 7.76 A. P. Winston Resigns As Farm Manager At Ag. College Here A. P. Winston, for twenty-eight vears asociated with -the Uni versity of Georgia College of Agri culture as farm manager, has re signed, effective April 1, it ‘was o Jearned Saturday . ’ . Mr. Winston declined to com ment on his resignation, but made public contents of ~a letter to] Dean Paul W. Chapman, tender- ’ ing his resignation, to become ef faetive next month. The letter was written January 31, 1936, and in it Mr. Winston stated that he| cannot do his best work “uhderl ot gméﬁw’é&t now exist.” ees s i [ e T S s 4 i . 81 Y 8 , ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Full Associated Press Service Talmadge Tribunal UNCONFIRN:DREPORT SAYS HOS :RY PLANT MAY SE) .CT ATHENS POLICE MAKE STAND IN MADRID SATURDAY MADRID —{#)— Reserves of storm police were concentrated in Madrid Saturdey night to prevent a rengwal of disorders after a . day in which mon archists, defending churches against mobs of extremists, were arrested in ~wholesale lots. , Churches, con ve n t 8 and schools were heavily protect ed, and guards were thrown aroun dthe offices of rightist newspapers, but late Saturday night there had beeén no re ports of outbreaks such as thoge of Friday, when two Madrid churches and a con vent were burned. EGAD 15 LYNCHED NEAR CUSSETA. GA. Enroute to Columbus for Trial on Charge of As ~saulting 2 White Women CUSSETA, Ga. = (® — A 35- year old Negro accusdd of crim inally attacking tweo white women was lynched near here: early Sat urday by a moh which seized him from Chattahoochee county offi cers, 2 A rope about his neck, the bul let punctured ‘body of the wvietim, Philip Baker, was found on the bank of a swampland lake several hours after -he was ' taken from Sheriff J. T. Van Horn and two deputies by the armed and mask ed band. A fishing party came upon the body, bearing bullet and gunshot wounds in the head and neck, on the ground near a tree where he apparently had been hanged and shot. Sheriff Van Horn said the mob numbering between 30 and 40 seized the Negro as he was belng trans ferred late Friday night from Ma con to Columbus for trial. He said the trip was uneventful until they neared nearby Junction City when an automobile started trailing them and sounding its horn. Van Horn said he accelerated his spe>d and that about ‘two miles beyond Junction City he found the road blocked by the mob, He said the crowd quickly covered him and his aides with guns and draggea Baker from the car, The band hurriedly disappeared with the Negro, Van Horn said, after taking the officers’ ammuni tion and the keys to their ecar. Baker was arrested last Decems ber on a charge of attacking twoe white women and beating a Negre woman a day or two after he com= pleted a 12 month chaingang sen tence for carrying a pistol, Sheriff Van Horn said feeling was high following the arrest and that Baker was removed to Macon for gsafekeeping. A - to my farm April 1. | “I am leaving here with a clear - conscience, feeling that in the l twenty-eight years I have served the college 1 have always done my duty. By } “] thank you for any kindness ~you have shown me. i “Yours truly, | | : “A, P: WINSTON.® . * Mr. Winston became conmected with the College of Agriculture about two months aftér- the late lDr. Andrew M. Soule became its ’president. During Mr. Winston's association with the colleye, the farm operated by that’ inatitution, .developed its revenues to approxi mately $27.000 annually, during B 1 i | | o e - SRR B -BT s T R *}-;ca = Chamber of Commerce |s Said to Be Negotiating With Big Concern NO CONFIRMATION Reported Procutement of Property For Site Is Important Factor A full-fashioned hosgiery mill which will eveantually employ five hundred loeal people is planning to build a 4 new plant in Athens, according to an unconfirmed re ort yesterday. i Joel ‘A. Wier, who is said to have represented the Athens Cham ber of Commerce for " several weeks in negotiations with own ers of the mill and property hold ¢r's here, was not available yes terday for confirmation of the ru mor, nor was Tate Wright, presi dent of the chamber of com merce. Ve g However, according to reliable sources, The Banner-Herald learn ed .that the hosiery mill," which has a rating. of AAA-1, in Dunp and Bradstrest's and {ists a net worth of $1,500,000, is seriously congidéring building & ‘plang in JHENS O On TR L P p : ‘gjﬂelvi"eb‘mt pa w’!ﬁ u."fﬁ ons m e 4 new building, - inktall $200,000 worth of machinery. for (the first unit. which will employ about 300 people. The second unit requires installatfon of another §5200,000 worth of machinery and brings the total of persons employed by the mill to 500, all selected locally, or from this immediate territory. Persons who have bheen in touch with the negotiations regarding the location of the new mill in Athens say that final decision will probably hinge upen the chamber of commerce’s ability to procure options -on property for the site ot! the new plant. If the property can he acquired at a reasonable outlay‘ (Continued on Page Slx) STATE COMMITTEE T 0 BE CALLED SODN Allen Says Assurance Fin ally Comes From Georgia Democratic Group ATLANTA — &) — Marion H. Allen, campaign manager for Pr% ident Roosevelt in Georgia, = sal Saturday “a statement has finally come from the chairman of the state Democratic committee that the group will be called together” soon to decide upon a state-wide presidential preference primary. “With !the sentiment so over whelmingly favorable to the presi dent, it is inconeeivable that the state committee will disfranchise the people of Georgia and deny them the right to express themselves on this vital question,” he sald. “Tt is our earnmest hope that the committee will permit all the De mocrats of Georgia in a statewide presidential preferential primary to demonstrate to the people of the national that President Roosevelt ig their overwhelmingly choice for renomination and reelection to the presidency. “This was convincingly demon strated by the Democrats of Semi nole and Harris eounties in their recent county primaries.” - Allen said he was “constantly receiving” demandg for a statewide presidential primary from county executive committees and from' the people., He extended a welcome to. Mr. Roosevelt who will visit Georgila, his “other home,” later this montn. Allen announced a sub commitiee {including three members of the Roosevelt advisory committee, to work with him in the organization of women vyoterg throughout the state, iy > % 3 'On the advisory committee were Mrs, Z. V. Peterson, Atlanta; Mrs. Stewart Colley of Grantville. Y s m’d?xrt?\ﬁ‘; s avilibe gvaiiabl es i _, el ol _v_ iR PR T R Ry b e =k; LR Fap S Defies Courts After Three-Judge, Deals Blow To His “Dictatorship™ Eyed as Edward Hints Marriages; ; o S G R G L cmmne eak N B ; 2:gi Z B B 3 a 5 : T FooT R N e . - - e e e G o g oe e O R S R e 25 g S eT T B e R B SR s " e R B e : s e anae e sl | - T ‘ R IRE R O w%,( S & S o : : Be L e B e S S »%‘K"‘ kS X’ e EtsaSEEEE e SR ﬁ rar o O . & RSy S S S & ¢ 5 SOO 58 -t& ‘ X T PV O e L S e Gk & 7 R s g Ea % FEEE S, e s &3 . S R e »- s FAE 4 G B B i B g }:f’“‘ﬂ'? w R 3 pE | - EAda P “"\‘ "' o A 2 e s oof PP IEE R | When King Edward VIIE in a nessage to the House of Commons, seemed to hint that at last e might marry, del;ggg;ﬁ!,}well-‘iu tormed Britons turned eyes on eligible, charming Pringess Eu genie, above,-zu-)ear-old daughter of Princeﬁ% orge of Greece, and cousin of Princess Mariua, wife of the King of England's brother, George.. In the royal message dnentioning: ‘the caontin geney .of his marriage,” King Edward asked Commons to renew the civil list, providing the royal household and personal expensess France Offers to Soften Stand On German Remilitarization of Rhine By CHARLES P. NUTTER Associated Press Foreign Staff, . LONDON.— (#) —An embattied | France offered Saturday night to ‘sor'te&i;;&! stand on the question of Germany’s remilitarization of the Rhineland as 14 nations sat in judgment on the violator of two treaties intended to insure Europe -against war, il - “We do not want to stick blind ‘ly to our insistence on eévacuation if we can get something better,” ‘said a French spokesman attend ‘ing a meeting of the League of Nations council called te consider the Reich’s violation of the Lo carno pact and the Versailles treaty. - A The “something beiter” was left unexplained. The French pronouncement, and the council’s. invitation to Chan cellor Adolf Hitler to state his case Monday afternoon through a Jepresentative, eased the tension which has gripped Europe since Reich troops goose-stepped into the Rhineland a week ago. Market Reassured (The New York stock market, reassured that ‘“war threat” news from abroad had been. premature, Brilliant Meteor Flashes - Across Northeastern U. S. NEWARK, N. J.—{(#}—The most brilliant meteor to flash across eastern skies inrecent years, turn ed night - into noonday brightness early Saturday and roused hun dreds of sleepers from their beds with -its tremor. . "The phenomenon occurred a few minutes before three o'clock and although apparently centering oves New Jersey, was visible through out a large part of the eastern sea board. Police on patrol in shore towns said the meteor apparently hurt led into the ocean far off shore, but an airplane pilot rveported from over Virginia that it appear ed to drop to earth near Law enceville, Va. ‘ - Two reports indicated that por tions of the disintegrating meteor might. huyo*mll? into gle H;.(;:- s T - 1 " T S e B ~=ESTABLISHED 1832 Athens, Ga., Sunday, March 15, 1936. climbed swiftly, equities soaring for gains of around $1 to $7 a share. . Nevei'tm_ Foreign Minister Anthony Ed.g,g“@t Great Britain, told the grave ﬂl@i session of the council; 3 ki ' “It will not be tog much to say that the future depends upon the wisdom of ouy atticn here.” Protestants at the bar of inter national justice to which Germany was called were France and Bel gium. The buffer, demilitarized Rhineland zone where Germany has re-established her troops, was intended . for their protection. Though the council called on Germany to explain herself, her vote as a signatory of the Locarno pact could prevent any proclama tion of punishment for the -viola tions. : ASSUMES RESPONSIBILITY MUNICH, Germany.—(#)—Adolt Hitler told the world Saturday night that he made Germany what it is today and that he assumes sole responsibility for Germany's (Continued on Page Four) passed over Secaucus, according lto' Robert M. McGinn, of Lynd- H)urst, a yardmaster for the D. L ‘and W. Railroad. MaGinn believed !it come fram particles dropped into the river. " Lehigh Valley railroad police said a piece 0f the meteor feil into ‘the pbay over the Jersey City shore ‘jine in the vicinity of the famous ‘Black Tom explosion of 1916, Like all +meteors, which travel at the rate.of more than 30 miles a second. this one gave scieniists no chance to make a study of it in action. However, Dr, Charles P. Oliver, diréctor of the flower observatory and professor of astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, Phil ‘adelphia, sajd reports reaching him by telephone indicated Satur- Jilant seon in this country since March 28, 1938 when a large one ﬁ‘.‘ the southwest skies and GOURT DEALS MAJOR BLOW 7O TALMAGG; ) SWEEPING DEFEAT 3-Judge Tribunal Cites Georgia Constitution as. Blocking Governor 2 TO 1 DECISION All Money in Four Banks Is Held Up By Order Of Restraint ATLANTA, Ga.—(#)—A three judge Superior rcourt Saturday dealt a major blow to Governor Talmadge's financial “dictatorship” by holding that state funds cannot be withdrawn from depositories without an appr&:rlutions bill. J. B. Daniel, de facto treasurer appointed by the governor; George B. Hamilton, ousted treasurer, and four banks holding more than -$2,500,000 of state funds, were re strained from paying out any such funds . except by statutory aprropriations. The four banks are the TFirst National, the Fulton, and toe Cit izens and Southern —of Atlanta, ‘and the First National of Mari .etm. * » # ,ﬁ 2 af’ ¥‘: . & rivn B, DOTe . . o I BN AR I R R T After the three judges- snnoun ced their decision, two of them, Judge Humphries and Judge Moore, went to the capitol to sit temporarily on the Supreme Court Bench. By designation from Gov ernor Talmadge, the two judges were act:ag for justices wiw weve disqualified in the case of B. W, Cromer vs. C. and S. Bank, exe cutor, from Chatham Buperior‘ court. Main Items of Decision The majority decision held: 1. The state of Georgia is not a necessary party to the suit. 2. The court has jurisdiction to decide between Hamilton and Daniel who is legally entitled to act for the state. 3. The court recognizes the sep~ (Continued on Page Four) I RIVERS SWEEP ICE PACKS INTD OCEAN Cenerzl Rains and Thaw Continue to Threaten Cities With Floods (By the Associated Prese) Convulsed by railn and thaw, New England rivers swept great ice packs towards the sea Lt\lﬂhy night, threatening coastal citles with _the same flood devastation that already hag wrought havoe among their headwaters. Elsewhere in the eastern United States and Canada, floodwaters began slowly to recede after a two day rampage. . Altogether 29 deaths have been attributed to the spring floods thus far and property damage in the New England area alone wag esti mated at more than $50,000,000. . The blghél&cu’ualty,llsts were recorded in maritime privince of Canada, where 13 perished, and in New England, where ten diea. Maine's historic - Kennebec rivey swelled and heéaved in wns erfort to cast off winter's ‘icy shackles. Three spans of the $300,000 Rich mond-Dresden bridge 17 miles south of Augusta, buckled unaer the onsalught of an ice jam ten feet high. : £ e . The Androscoggin river, thi!dl ‘largest in Maine, also strained to deposit its burden of ice in theaal.i All along their paths building were flooded and families maroon- 1 ‘ed, communication lines broken andi power plants putout of commlu-( ‘sion. ‘ . More vhan 30,000 workerg were on an enforced holiday as textile ‘mills and other plants shut down. . Rain forecasts threatened to hamper relief work in the stickenm Wyoming Valley, where an estimat ed 500 families were routed from ‘their homes. . The deaths of Mr. and Mbs, Bz Boop and their two children at Kingston were blamed on the flood. New York and New Jersey re ported one death each. : 1 A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday First Anniversary Observed by Pastor AT e o A SR SRR | s e ; §¥ e o | A B\6 R AR DR A R B o B o E S e % A A B e - P e e ]PW ™ % Rt b i o SR L i A By e -~ R R R QO W S B SRR SR R Y O s o e N . Bt B bt %*, BRI B SRS R sy S e ,z:;:;-%i;:;:.a::,::»,:::»-:éa'?:zt?,::«?% e § B< N .¢3\“\‘a\ ei o e i Y e oe e A .. e b § b e iy R R ik o L e S s Z??Z?'E--;:;..-*:ﬁ‘_-‘i%, R ] TR o S 8 R e BCr e g B i 2 R e R PSR T B S TR TR e& s Ca T Rev. Pope A. Duncan, who to day wili observe his first anniver kary as pastor of the Prince Ave nue Baptist church here. Mem bers of the church and numerous other friends will join in observ ing the occasion with a special “Rally Day” service, at which the pastor will speak. SPECIAL SERVICE AT noiki 1} U iy ¥ FRIUF HEPLIST ¥ s"“‘;‘i g . T "‘si“ ; S ——————— Dr. Pope A. Duncan Ob serves First Anniversary As Loca! Pastor Mambers . and friends f Ihe lPrlnco Avenue Baptist church wiu gather today to honor Rev, Pope A. Dunean, pastor, who coyapletés his first year's work at the church. A ateady increase in all phases jot work has been gshown druing the year that Dr. Duncan has served as pastor of the church, and serv ices today honoring him will be a fitting tribute to his great work. His great enthusiasm for his work, deep spirit of devotion for God, abfity as a leader and pastor,% endeared Dr. Duncan to the heau-tsi of every member and visitor to Prince Avenue Baptist church. Rally Day will be observed in the Sunday sgchool this morning, | Superintendent R. N. Wilson ha,s‘ announced. Mr, Wilson says 600 is the goal for the Sunday school| hour. The Sunday school group| will sit together during the morn ing srevice, at which time Dr. Dun- | can will bring his anniversary mes sage on “This Fayr fHath the Lord‘ Let Us.” The male quartette of the church will furnish special music for the service. | At the evening service, Dr. Dun can will speak on “Answering The Cry.* The musical program at the evening service will feature Miss Eulalia Vaughan. Baptismal serv ices will be held following the eve ning service, Congressional Adjournment By May 1 Said Almest Impossible BY DOUGLAS B. tosmria i (Associated Press Staff Writer) | WASHINGTON — ) —~ 7 5 4! kno*ty problem of writiang a 732, 000,000 tax bill for President Roo=| sevelt virtually has scuttled cons gressional hopes for May 1 & journment, L Word to this effect circulatec ‘Capitol Hill Saturday even agifhe administration's relief progras ,«'4 the next fiscal year—anothes po ‘tential source of delay —=hßge ta| take form with the presi 'pre-l paring his scommendasions for | submission to congre@ before | heading for south@Fn ﬁshing] grounds Thursday. % Even Speaker Bymas conceded Saturday that Ja@arnment by May 1 looked lessipromising than it did before aho ways ' and | means subcommiftee ran into dif ficulties o 'ﬂﬁ ax program. But| he added tha LBl was not vet ':eady“ to_recelve the ®oal fixsd earlier. " ™Pm trying #h <nor them on,” he mid . W " l‘ - V',R' - wl}vv dﬁte wmh Rep- { H s GOVERNOR HITS AT MAJORTY OF COURT WHICH BLOCKED AM Claims He Has $10,000,- 000 And Will “Face The lssue’ LAUDS HUMPHRIES Says Court Decision Is “Amusing” For Saying What “He" Can’t Do BY GLENN RAMSEY . (Associated Press Staff Writer) | ATLANTA -~ (#) — Backed by - $10,000,00 in cash, Governor Eu géne Talmadge Saturday defied the _courts to interfere with his finan clal ‘“dictatorship” of Georgfa. “The judicial branch of the gowv ernment can not encroach on gp &ex_ecutive branch,” the governor de |clared after a three-judge superior 'court upheld its right to determine the financial status of his admin= istraticn, VR | Asked directly {f the military would be put in control R‘% state government, the governer res plied: ST “The Constitution of Georgla immtemplates that the executive department shall manage the af falrs of the statel @« & ol &8 . (Rebw b SARONIS AL T T Hy ‘of-aSiitiiar Hravclr of AN et 'government when that braneh-falls ‘to do its duty. i He took over financlal %ﬂv 'Ja.num'y 1 on that theo:g. ‘Since then he has ousted reasurér ‘George B. Hamilton and Comptroll er General Willlam B. Harrison, ‘who refused to sign treasury war rants to pay 1936 revenue without an appropriations bill ~ The 1935 general assembly failea to en%ct an appropriations mea cßATe. The thres Fulten sosaty “A+lantay judges in deciding o B Ll TRI madge's right to ruu Georgla withis out a legislative act, continued to tieup $2,600,000 of state funds in. three Atlante banks and one in Marietta, The court also is to determine later whether Hamilton or de facto Treasurer J. B. (Tobe) Daniel 1s (Continued on Page Four) Manhattan Is Hoping .s ¥ A For Peace in Strike NEW YORK —(#)— Manhattan rounded out fts second week of stair-climbing because of hamps ed elevator service Saturday mwith a vague hope that striking # i ing service emploxhe: and 25t owners at last might get tagether over a conference table and sets tle the far-flung #ég}:l ispute. .’ The police set thé number 36t buildings affected at 2464 . A five-man board eentinued, ne gotiations for the peace thalMay or F. H. LaGuardia wasssnahle to obtain in two weeks of' embit tered statements by representa tives of the Employes” union. and the real estate lords of New York's towers, = lespznterive :artin of Massachus |eita assistant houss minority lead : - eonsidered likely for winding up éongressional business. - |* Both Democrats and Republicana on the ways and means committee ‘privately expressed the thoughf hat he might be right. | Representative Knutson, Repube lican, Minnesota, commented: “I can’t see any adjournment be fore June 1, There are absolutely no grounds for saying we will get out ‘g here by May 1.” Another committeeman, Repres entative Thompson, Democrat, Illi= nois, added : “It looks to me like late in May at the earlest.” One major hurdle on the fax legislation was. behind, with tht sub-committee in tentative agrées %ment on a schedule for a mduﬁi | 'tax on undistributed corporation earnings. Gt Beset by troubles in ﬂ” courts, senate lobby investigators arramge }ed to resume their inquiry Moms day. e

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Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current, March 15, 1936, Home Edition, Image 1