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Watch Grass And
Trash Fires, Is
Lester’s Advice
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CHIEF E. F. LESTER
High winds of the past several
days today brought a warning
from Fire Chief E. F. Lester urg
ing Athenians to use utmost care
in burning trash and starting
grags fires. The chief called at
tention to a city ordinance cov
ering the burning of grass and
trash.
According to records at the fire
department ‘9 of the 20 fire calls
during the month of March have
been to grass fires, Many persons
coon will be cleaning yards and
Jburning leaves and should use ev
‘ery precaution, the chief said.
Chief Lester urges citizens obey
the laws of the city and do not
build fires outside homes after
sundown.
Chief Lester also asks that per
sons who wish tg burn grass
pleage call the fire department
According to the fire chief 9 fires
were caused by grass during the
first 17 days in March and per
#ons who started the fires failed
to notify the fire department.
“Many of the people notify us be
fore they build the fire while oth
ers build the fire and then call
us after their home or some
proverty gets in danger,” the chief
said,
As warm weather nears .. and
March winds blow, practically ev
ery home in Atheng will at one
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Temperature Slated
To Take Dive Tonight
E .8. Sell, government weath
er observer here, this morning
received a telegram from the
United States Weather Bureau
warning that the weather
would continue cold tonight,
‘with the probability that the
temperature tonight wou'ld go
down to 32 degrees, the freez- .
ing point.
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LOCAL WEATHER
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'—fi:b}i“_d GEORGIA:
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h'! night; Thursday
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COOLER Temperature,
TEMPERATURE
Highesti. vee sess snns vee.56.0
BOWHBE. ..2 Seee visg snis- 0
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RAINFALL
Inches last 24 h0ur5........ 0.00
Total since January 11...... 1.40
Deficit since March 1...... 1.48
Average March rainfall.... 5.21
Total since January 1,.....20.91
Excess since January 1.... 8.14
STATE NEWS BRIEFS
By The Associated Press
WRIGHTSVILLE — Louis Kent,l
40, son of Judge J. L. Kent, of the
Dublin circuit, killed himself witb]
a pistol here yesterday in a lunch
room operated by his father-in-law
W. L. Culver.
Before ending his own life, Kent
fired at Culver and wounded him!
in the thigh. " "Culver's condition is
not serious’ 1
Kent, a dairy farmer, was re-i
ported to have been despondent}
bhecause of illness. - Coroner Newt
Howell said there would be no in-,
ques!?. ]
CGAINESVILLE — Sheriff L L.
Lawson of Hall county was defeat.
ed for renomination in yesterday’s
primary, unofficial returns show
ed. Victor in the race was Arthur
Bell, prominent business man. |
. The county approved a $75,000
bond issue for erection, with fed
_eral ald, of a $150,000 court house
R, W. Smith, elerk of court, won
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
Talmadge Refuses Request By Senators For Session
Hundreds *Margofiedthflougal;ds Homeless i;g’°E£ste;n Floods
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" Worst Flood Since Its
' 1889 Catastrophe
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HUNDREDS MAROONED
Property Damage to Run
~ Into Millions; Many
i Are Homeless
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Surging flood waters gpread death,
damage and misery through the
east today. |
| Nine deaths were counted while
Teports of . other fatalities were
checked over crippled communica
tion lines.
~ Officials feared property losse‘sl
would run into the miilions. |
Thousands of persons were home
less. Hundreds were marooned.
~ Transportation was demoralized
iln the stricken sections. |
. Snow and tornadoes caused suf
fering In other areas. |
‘ Johnatown, Pa., experienced it'sl
worst inundation since 2,235 per
song perished in the disastrous
flood of 1889. Hundreds of resi—‘
!dents were isolated az 16 feet of
‘water from the rampaging Cone~‘
:maugh river swirled through the
streets. Scores were rescued. {
Thousands took reguge in sur
}rounding hills. National guards
‘men were rushing in food and
[medicine by train. Two fatalities
' were reported in the Johnstown
‘area. A bursting dam swept four
persons to death at Rossiet. A man
was. found dead at-Pgronne, Ano
ther was reported missing at Clears
field. l
One Million Damage .
Property damage of $1,000,000
was estimated as swollen streams
poured over a wide area in western
Maryland and northern Virginta. |
A five mile section wag under
water in Cumberland, Md., with
a maximum of ten feet in the busi
ness district. Troops, police and
firemen essayed hazardous res
cues. Several homeg in suburban
iLocust Grove were washed away |
by the overflow from the Potomac
river and Wills Creek. Strong
currents swept heavy debris throu
gh the thoroughfares, stranding
workers in the upper floors of
buildings.
Governor Harry Nice of Mary
land moved to invoke a state of
emergency in the western part of
the state,
Flood waters wswirled through
Pittsburgh’s main streets for the
first time since 1907. ‘Stores were
surrounded. Many persons were!
trapped in their homea. Three,
drownings ‘were reported. Workers
strove to save stocks in mercantile
establishments. Some plants sus
}pended operation. Row boats were
used, |
| Red Cross Relief
l The National Red Cross, moved
its full disaster relief staff into
the field for the first time since the
leiasissippi lood of 1929 to aid re
sidents of the flood menaced region
Estretchlng from Maine to the Caro
linas.
Many communities spent the
night in the dark as factories,
homes, power plants and business
buildings were flooded.
Several hundred Bedford, Pa.,
residents abandoned their dwell
ings. Boats were pressed into ser
vice to bring children from schools
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lcollector over James King.
| Tax Receiver J. Tol Phillips was
\re—nominated over six opponents,
Ordinary E, C. Brewer was re
elected over two other candidates.
R. Glenn McConnell, Frank Peck
and W'. N. Lott apparently were
elected county commissioners,
, NASHVILLE — Fourteen-year-old
iTruby Giddens was back at her
farm '"home near Ray City today
laster a grand jury decided not to
indict her for the shotgun slaying
of her fatier on March 2.
The girl's mether, Mrs. Pearlie
Lee Giddens, also was released upon
returi of a “no bill” in her case.
She was accused of plotting with
her daughter to kill Ben Giddens.
The man was slain while asleep
on the porch of his home. Sheriff
O, L. Garner said at the time the
girl admitted the shooting because
“they were afrald of Giddens and
he had been mean to them.”
l Truby told authorities she had
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, George White Takes
i Punch at “New” Nose
Of “Crooner” Vallee
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NEW YORK — (# — The
Daily News said today that
George White punched Rudy
Vallee's “recently reconstructed
nose” five times on the stage
of the new Amsterdam theater
today at a meeting of the
! “Scandals” company.
| Among the stageside audience
| to the fray, the News said,
. were Bert Lahr, Willie and Eu
gene Howard, Gracie Barrie and
fifty Scandals beauties.
| White, according to the News
said Vallee called him a
“nasty name.”
| As White's fifth blow landed,
the paper said, an electrician
dashed forward and pinned the
produced’s flailing arms while
other members of the company
subdued the orchestra leader.
Request of Fletcher for
Money for Florida
Canal Refused
WASHINGTON —(#)— A senate
vote on the $611,000,000 war de
partment appropriation bill today
awaited the close of heated de
bate over compulsory military
training in colleges.
The chamber rejected yesterday
an amendment by Senator Fletch
er (D-Fla) to bproyide $12,000,000
*fia*‘gmfipasr work on the Florida
ship canal, which was started with
WPA funds. i
An amendment by Senator Neely
(D-W. Va.) to furnish $8,000,006
for the Conchas Dam in New
Mexico, Sardis Reservoir in Mis
sissippi and the Bluestone Reser
voir in West Virginia was adopt
ed.
Senator Vandenburg (R.-Mich.)
fought the canal, contending it
had been rejected by public works
engineers and other federal agen
cies. Fletcher said a special board
of engineers recommended by
President Roosevelt had favored
it. He argued the waterway would
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Eleutherios Venizelos in
Self-Imposed Exile at
Time of Death at 72
PARlS—{P)—Eleutherios Venize
lous, 72, former premier and
“father of the Greek republic”
which has now become a monar
chy, died in sgeif-imposed exile to
day after a short illness,
His wife and two sons, Sopho
cleg and Kiriadis, were at his bed
side when he succumbed at 8:50
. . m. (380 &. m.. B 8 T) tc
complications arigsing from a slight
attack of influenza early this
month,
The ¢tatesman’s health had
been generally poor since he
came to Paris after the failure of
the Greek revolution of March,
1935, resulted in restoration of the
‘momnarchy and wrecked the hopes
of the republicans.
Venizelos, generally regarded as
one of the greatest statesmen of
modern times, “passed painlessly,”
his physicians announced.
Death in exile closed Venizelos'
career just as his followers were
hoping for his return from his
second retirement.
Venizelos quit politics after an
attempt was made on his Ilise in
1933, and retired to his native
Crete.
After the collanse of the March
revolution which he headed, Ven
izelos fled from the island south
of Greece to Paris. 4
He denounced the givemher
1935, Greek plebiscite ich re
sulted in the restoration of King
George as a “bitter comedy,” as
serting only 20 percent of the
Greek people were royalists,
Former Premier Panayoti Tsal
daris’ pro-Balkan and anti-Italian
policy had aroused Venizelos tc
assume the leadership of the ab
ortive March, 1835, coup d'etat.
After the revolt wasg crushed by
the loyal army, = Venizelos, with
his wife and other republican
leaders, escaped to Paris, safe
from the death sentence which
iwa-s passed upon him during his
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Athens, Ga., Wednesday, March 18, 1936
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ATTEST: ~Presidlng Judge of the Hunterdon UCOUNtY
Court of Oyer and Terminer,
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Italy Will Not Join in Sanctions
Against Germany In Treaty Breach
By CHARLES P. NUTTER
Copyright, 1936, The Associated
Press
LONDON.~—ItaIy announced of
ficially today that she would join
in- no sanctions against Germany
based on Reichsfuehrer Hitler's
denunciation of the Locarno treaty,
This announcement wag convey
ed to a public session of the Lea-,
gue of Nations’ council by Dino
Grandi, Premier Musseclini's am
basgador .to London: v
Ambassador Grandi declared
that Italy fully recognizeg that
Germany had committed a treaty
violation, “but you cannot expect
my country, after what happened
at Geneva, to take any measures
which are incompatible with or in
contradiction to our ideas.”
He was referring specifically to
the League of Nation's sanctions
against Tltaly for her war with
Ethiopia.
Deadocked
The Italian statement of posi
tion fell upon the ears of repre
sentatives of Locarno treaty sig
natories who were deadlocked in
their attempts to straighten out
Accidertal Deaths Take Greatest Toll
In History of State During Past Year
ATLANTA — & — Accidental'
deaths took the greatest toll in
Georgia history last year, Dr. T. F‘l
Abercrombie, state health ofticer,'
reported to the annual session to- |
day of the Georgia board of health.]
“Accidental deaths showed an
upward trend, the rate 79.7 per
100,000 population being the high=
est rate for any other year,” he
said.
“Most of these deaths were from
automobile accidents which show
ed an increase of 12 per cent over
1934, and the rate of 28.8 for 1938
is the highest rate ever recorded,
in Georgia.”
Progress in combatting several
diseases was reported. The great
est decrease was in deaths from
typhoid fever, malaria, diphtheria,
measies, whooping cough, d;nen-“
tery, polimyelitis, diarrhea and en
teritis. |
Tuberculosis fatalities decreased
4 per cent, the 56.7 rate being the
lowest in state history. Cancer,
‘heart disease and nephritis show
” m‘ T g
_Diseages claiming more lives In
the tangled European crisis.
The French had flatly refused
even to consider a British pro
posal for a Frano-German demili
tarized zone along the Rhine,
Previous to the public session
of the couneil, representatives of
Great Britain, France, Belgium
ang Italy, struggled to find a new
way to restore the shattered se
curity framework of western Eur
ope. :
A delegation of German diplo
mats, assured of Great Britain's
consideration of Reichsfuehrer Hit.
{ler’'s new- peace proposals, was
flying from Berlin but was due
too late m&today% session of the
League of Nation's council-
Despite a violent storm of crit
icisyy, the British did not abandon
‘their' belief that a temporary neu
i tral zOne between the German and
French military forces would ma
terially aid the situation.
French Panic-Stricken
The French, who seemed virtu
ally panic-stricken by the British
tendency to compromise with
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cerebral hemorrhage and cirrhosis
of the liver.
“Pneumonia pontinues to increase
in importance’ as a public health
problem in Georgia,” the repore
said, “in 1935, 5,453 cases of pneu
monia were reported with 3,01¢
deaths. The case rate was 180 per
100,000 and the death rate of all
notifiable diseades and is only
third from the top of the list of
deaths for all causex in 1934 in
Georgia.”
The report showed 52,000 births
last year compared to 64,615 the
yeayr before. The rate was 20.5 per
1,000 pepulations.
Deaths also declined from 35,590
in 1934 to 34,082 last year. '
Robert F. Maddox, chalrman of
the board presided.
Members attending werc Drn
Cleveland Thumpson, Millen; Dr
C. K. Sharp, Arlington; R. C
Ellis, Americus; Dr. M. M. Head
Zebulon; Dr. A. D. Rozar, Macon;
Dr. M. M. McCord, Rome; Dr. H
W. Clements, Adel; Dr. L. C. Al
den, Hoschton; Dr. W. A. Mul
herin, Augusta; Dr. J. G. W :
W. T. Ecmonds, Augusta, -
Clarke Committee Will
Urge State Primary At
Its Meeting Tomorrow
Resolutions Are Expected
To Be Adopted Promptly ‘
By Committee ‘
MEETS AT 11 AM.
Will Be Official Expres
sion of Democrats of
Clarke County
{Pursuant to a call by its Chair
man, H. J. Rowe, the Clarke
C ounty Democratic Executive
committee meets tomorrow morn
ing at 11 o'clock to adopt reso
lutions designed to prevent the
Talmadge-controlled State Execu
tive committee from evading a
presidential preferential primary,
It was Chairman Hugh How
ell’s intimation in the state press
a few days agg that the State
Committee might not call a pref
erential primary when it meets
April 15 that led RoOgevelt sup
porters in Clarke county to re
quest a meeting of the County
Executive Committee for the pur
pose of expressing the attitude of
Clarke Democrats toward a presi
dential preferentia] primary this
year in Georgia.
Due to the fact that the Tal
madge ‘‘strategists” seem bent on
selecting a delegation to the na
tional Democratic convention at
Philadelphia next June which will
be labeled for Roosevelt but in
reality a Talmadge - dominated
group, a meeting of Clarke
Democrats was held last Monday
afternoon in the office of Frank C,
Shackelford, staunch supporter of
President Roosevelt, at which time
3 delegation representing -the
tive committeg called npon Chair
man Rowe and asked that he ecall
his committee together, Chairman
Rowe agreed to call the commit
tee together and instructed Secre
tary John L. Green to notify the
committee that a meeting would
be held in Mr. Green's office
Thursday morning at 11 o'clock.
Talmadge “Strategy”
1t is believed by political ob
servers that Chairman Howell's
call for the state committee to
meet April 15, was forced by ae
tion of Roosevelt supporiers on
the state committee who had de
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Between One or Two Bil
lion Request Expected;
Would Be for One Year
By THOMAS J. HAMILTON, JR
(Associated Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGON —(AP)— Placing
before congress its last major bus
iness of the session, President
Roosevelt prepared today to ask
between $1,000,000,000 and $2,000,-
000,000 for continuing relief after
July 1.
In a surprise move, he decided
at a conference with congression
al leaders last night to request re
lief funds for an entire 12 months
instead of only for the period up
to January, when congress meets
again. Congress expected to re
ceive his special message today.
The “$1,000,000,000 to $2,000,000-
000" figure mentioned by the lead
ers after the conference was in
sharp contrast to the $4,880,000,000
appropriated last year after a bit
ter senate fight.
At present 3,800,000 persons are
being employved with funds appro
priated last year. Strenuous ef
forts are being made to cut this
number to 3,500,000 by July 1.
The president’s message comes
at a time when c¢ritics and defend
ers of the relief program are in
tengifyjng; their fight.
Several Republicans and Senator
Holt (D.-WVA) abe seeking a na
tion-wide . investigation of the
Work Progress administration.
Holt announced yesterday his proe
posed inquiry would include a sift
ing of accusations by war veterans
organization. that Administrator
Harry L. Hopkins “whitewashed”
an investigation into deaths of ve
terans guring a =storm that hit a
camp on the Filoids &eys.
Hopkins previously had declared
“unfounde®” Holt's charges of pol
itics in West Virginia relief.
Mr. Roosevelt disclosed that his
relief message would not specify
how the money is to be spent. This
led to thé conclusion that he plan
ned to follow last year's procedure
in asking a lump sum with droad
powers in spending it. e
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tor( the Republican presidential
nomination at the national con
vention in June, Robert A. Taft,
j above, son of the late President
William Howard Taft, will op
pose Senator William E. Borah
in the bitterly contested race for
the Buckeye state’s 52 delegates.
Taft 18 a former state genator
and long has been s prominent
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‘Four Special Services Are
Scheduled: Others Hold
Regular Prayer Meetings
Four special programs are being
held at local churches tonight in
connection with weekly prayver
meeting services.
The Business Girls Circle will
meet at Firstt Methodist church
this evening for its regular ses
sion. The prayer meeting servicees
will be held at the regular hour
3and will be led by Rev. George M.
Acree, pastor of the church.
At First Christian beginning as
7 o'clock Missionary Circle No. 2
will serve the regular monthly
church supper. Good fellowship
always prevalls at these meetings
and a large attendance is expected.
To make reservations phone Mrs,
8. B. Thomas at 1839,
At Oconee Street the Young Ma
tronz circle will have charge of the
program beginning at 8 o'clock.
The 3rd chapter of “Methodism
Vitalized” will be discussed at
length.
At Central Presbyterian Dr. Cart
ledge will gpeak on the ninth ser
mon of “The Holy Spirit.” The ser
vices will begin at 8 o'clock.
At First Baptist, Dr. J, C. Wil
kinson, pastor, who recently re
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Savannah River Power Project
Approved by Engineers’ Board
AUGUSTA, Ga.—{#)— The pro
posed navigation, flood econtrol
and hydroelectric project on the
Savannah river at Clarks Hill, S.
C., today bore the approval of a
tpecial board of engineers who
recommended to President Roose
velt that construction be started
immediately,
In a report submitted to the
president in Washington yester
day, the board suggested four al
ternative plans for the project es
timated to cost approximately
$21,000,000.
Twe of the jnans contemplate
conétruction by the federal' gov
ernmeni, one DProposes coopera
tion between the government and
‘the states of South Carolina and
!Georsia, and one would set up a
special federal agency similar to
mediate construction could be un
dertaken only if the federal gov
ernment m«www
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Governor Renews Attack
On Speaker Rivers; Says
| Situation Planned :
CITES “POLITICS”
Group of Senators: Had
Promised to Consider -
Only Money Bill
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ATLANTA — (® — Governor
Eugene Talmadge, replying tm.
to a petition of 27 state senators
requesting an extra session of thp
legislature, to pass an appropria
tion bill, informed them a session
now would be “unwise” when the
state ‘“ls rife with polities”
A ghort time after Senator J.K&
.Simmons of Bainbridge, chairman
of the senate committée for an
extra session, presented’the request
to Talmadge, the governor: wrote
a lengthy reply to them and made
it publie.
The governor charged, in his
statement, that in 1933 Hamilton
McWhorter, president of the sen
ate, veceived a proposition to ab
sent himself from the state when
Talmadge also was outstide of
Georgia “so that Speaker B, D.
Rivers, in line of succession, could
come over and physically take
charge of the governor's office.”
“Be it said to the credit of Hon
orable Hamilton MéWhotter,” Tal.
‘madge said, “that he absolutely re
fused to be a party to any such
‘move of treason agaihst the state
government.” S
| Charges Rivers
. Talmadge further .¢harged ‘that .
‘during the last session of the gen
‘eral assembly, which failed to pass
ia.n appropriation hill leading to
,Talmadge‘s assuming, a finaneiar
“dictatorship,” - that he was in
formed Speaker Rivers sald 'at the
time there wag golng to be an‘ex
‘tra session of ~the legislature be
cause no appropriation bill would
be passed, :
He gaid at the last cmfip
committee on the appropriation. bill,
the night of adjournment, Repres-:
entative Roy Harris of Afigusta.’
floor leader in the house, informed
a member of the,h senate that the
house would stick by its conten
tions in the appropriation bill and
that the ‘“senate committee might
as well make up their minds to
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Man, Wife Killed as
. Sk e
Tree Falls on House
RCLANER AL i e b 0 4
KINGSLAND, Ga. — (P)"=-"Wr”
and Mrs, C. H, Monroe were
crushed to death in theit' home
near St. Marys, Ga., by & tree
blown down in a wind storm_ te
day, & 5
Eight children =sf ‘the scouple;
ranging in ages from 17 to "} years,
were sleeping in a bedroom adjoin
ing that of their parents when
the home was compiletely demolish
ed by the falling”tree.” All"of the
children escaped serious injury but
sustained slight lacerations and
bruises.
Mrs. Monroe, aged 35, ‘wdd killed
instantly and her husband, aged
62, lived long enough to direct his
children to remove the rafters
which pinned themy beneath the
wreckage, Later the children went
for assistance after futlle efforts to
release their parents,
be necestary before -either of the
states involved could contributete
the enterprise. AL
The board estimated that an in
vestmént of $21,244,000 would re
sult in the aecquision of .& preperty
“having a value of $31,655000 or
$10,411,000 in excess of _ cost,
equal to 40 per cent of the investe
ment.” <
The estimated cost of the pros
jeet was broken down as .followss
Navigation $4,660,000; Stevens
Creek project $1,042,000; fiood con
trol $100,000; -Augusta canal pro=
ject, $87,000; primary power $14.«
600,000: secondary power .sl¢B,ooo,
Saying that the work eould be
completed in three years, .8@
board recommended - that .it be
started “as : sool @S PIBEUGAME.
for the three major purposes out:
lined and also for the relief of
unemployment.’ o LS S
A delegation Qf Augusia €T
zens planned to call “., hite.
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