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Atheniars Rapidly Responding to Flood Appeal; Quota Is $750
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Vol. 104. No. 61.
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355.50 Raises
.90 Raiser
By Local Chapt
p*
Of Red Cros
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A total of $355.50 has bed re- |
ceived by the Athens Chaph of |
the American ‘Red Cross t ax‘ds'
its quota, of $750 for relief .Ad re
habilitation work in the poded
areas of eleven states, Mrsjgeorge
D, Thomas, chairman of thf chap
ter announced Saturday. 4 l
The call for funds was ifued by,
Admiral Cary T. Grayson nation- |
al chairman of the Amerfan Red
Cross, im a telegram afw days!
2go to Mrs, Thomas. Afsoon asl
*he local call was issuedfubserip- |
tions began to come in. |
Speed in rasing thef quota s
necessary as ng time on be lost
in the right to prevenf epidemics |
and disease and to brifg relief to
the 40.000 homeles: farflies in the
flood-stricken states, Jt is hoped{
that the entire quotaj of which
practically half had jbeen sub
scribed Saturday, will be raised by
early this week. !
No subseription is o small and
certainly hone too large to be
gratefully appreciated! by ~those in'
dire distress. Subscpiptions «'ll‘(‘{
being received at The National:
Bank of Athens, The Citizens and |
Southern National Bank and th"i
office of the Red (ross in the
courthouse. '
The following statement was re
ceived Saturday form Mrs. George
D. Thomas. chairman of the Ath
ens Chapter, American Réd Cross:
“We ecannot think for a mo
ment of failure in any attempt
with the Athens Chapter, of
the American Red Cross. Its
record of things done in days
gone by, when at one time
with a quota of $25,000 and a
week in which to raise it, Ath
ens Chapter of the Red Cross
went over the top in three
days and raised $35,000. A
community of this kind will
not fail in a time of such dire
need for relief in the terrible
{lood situation,”
“Our quota is $750 to help
the National Red Cross care
for and rehabilitate 40,000
homeless, foodless families,
with a prospect of an increas
ing number as the waters re- .
always a ple Who wani to
‘help the other fellow’. —All
both, great and small, will.
wigh to have a part in these
efforts to help the terrible
(Continued on Page Four)
Col. Michael Will
Deliver Lavonia
Address Sunday
LAVONIA, Ga.—(Special.)—
Members of all churches in Lavo
nia are awaiting with much in
terest the visit of Colonel. M. G.
Michael to this community Sun
day merning, when he will ad
dress a npon-denominational meet
ing under auspices of the Men's
Bible class of the Lavonia Meth
odist church. His subject will be
“The Bible.”
Commenting on Colonel Mich
ael's visit to Lavonia, the Lavo
nia, Times in a front page story
says:
“Mr. M. G. Michael, mer
chant and religious worker of
Athens, will speak at the La
vonia Methodist rchurch on
next Sunday morning at 11
o'clock under the auspices of
the Men’s Bible class. Mr.
Michael's visit to Lavonia will
be one of much interest to
T.avonians. He comes to Lavo
nia as the first member of the
Jewish faith to visit Lavonia
under the auspices of this
class.
“He is a fluent speaker, a
great -worker, and one of the
fine characters of northeast
Georgia. Ne is sought in many
Protestant churches as. speaker
(Continued on Page Four)
Rabbi Lawrence Block Will Be
Installed At Public Services
On Friday evening, March 27th,
public instailation services will
be held at the Synagogue.
At that time Rabbi Lawrence
Bloek wi be officially inducted
into nfl)(}: as the Rabbi of the|
Congregaticn Children of Israel. l
A special program is being ar
ranged for this service and Dr.!
David Marx of Atlanta will give
the address of the evening.
The special music is being ar
ranged by Miss Nolee Mae Dun
away, who will preside at the
organ. An augmented choir is
rehearsing the music for this ser
vige. :
Services will begin at 8 p. m.
and the public is cordilaly in-|
vited. |
The program follows:
Organ Prelude, 2
Anthem, “Tov L'Hodos"—Choir. |
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
Big Rivers Roar Fresh Threats
'!LaG:'an;e l'feari;g C:;m;let:d gaturd:\y; Beci;ion*to fie Knno:mce*d “lI: Fe:v D;ys”
JEAING BESLLT ©
DEMURRE FILED /1
18, “TOBE Bl
'Counsel for Governor Had
| Sought Dismissal of
; Petition by Labor
BEING CONSIDERED
“‘Financial Dictatorship”
| Of Gov. Talmadge Is
I Still in Balance
BY ED BRIDGES
(Assqciatea' Prm Staff Woriter)
{ LaGRANGE, Ga. — (# — Gov
ernor Eugene Talmadge's financial
“dictatorship” of the state was at
)tacked and defended heére Satur
|day as counsel for the governor
|sought superior court dismissal or
lan injunction petition seeking to
}prevent spending of state money
iwithout »an appropriations bill.
| The hearing Saturday was on x
jdemurrer filed by J. B. (Tobe)
|Daniel of [LaGrange, acting as
{Talmadge-appointed state treasur
ler, to a petition filed by the exe
lcutive committee of the Georgla
Federation of Labor Labor lead
ers who filed the suit in their ca
pacity as taxpayers.
Judge I.ee Wyatt of Troup su
perior court took the arguments
under consideration and announced
he hoped to have a decision on the
demurrer “in g few days.” He will
open a term of court in Meriwether
county next week.
Suit Against State
r Attorneys for Daniel argued that
alsmissed WMQ
effect a suit aginst the state and
‘the state eannot be sued; that the
“judiciary cannot usurp the func
tions of the executive branch of
government,” and that the consti
tution provides that the state gov
ernment must not break down even
though the 1935 legislature failed
to enact an appropriations bill.-
The petitioners’ counsel, Bond
Almand of Atlanta, said Daniel i 3
subject to injunction proceedings
because he is acting *“under Tal
madge's proclamation, which he
had no authority to izsue,” and be
cause Talmadge is acting “beyond
official capacity.” x R
Other bevolopmont,
Meanwhile, there were develop
ments elsewhere in the state finan
cial situation.
1. The state revenue commis
sion collected more than $500,000
from oil companies in fuel oil taxes
on tax executions after the com
panies decided against paying with
out executions that $1,300,000 due
(Continued on Page Four)
Accused Prisoner
. To Get Quick Trial
GREENVILLE, Texas — () — A
speedy murder trial for Mrs. Velmy
Patterson, 34, accused poisoner of
her 11-year-old daughter, wa's3
promised Saturday night ag auth
orities hastened an investigation
into the death of another daughter.
Trial was set for March 30, only
ltwo weeks after Mrs, Patterson’s
arreat,
Specifically, she is charged with
poisoning Billie Fae McCasland, 11
who died January 7. The other
daughter, Dorothy Lon McCasland,
12, died five weeks later.
Mrs. Patterson’s second husband,
Bill Patterson, died last Septem
ber.
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With Germany and France at loggerheads over the solution of the
European peace puzzie, the Council of the League of Nations met ai
St. James’ Palace in London to discuss the Rhineland crisis. This pic
ture, radioed to America from London, shows the council members
meeting 1n opening session of the extraordinary conference.
League Officials Say Threat of
Immediate Peril in Europe Past
NOTED ARCHITECT 10
OPEAK T 0 STUDENTS
Dr. Ralph Adams Cram to
Make Address on Cam
pus Wednesday A.M,
University of Georgia students
will /hardly return frorh spring
holidayg before activities of a new
quarter get under way.
First of the spring aquarter pro
grams will be an address Wednes
day morning at 10:30 o'clock in
the chapel by Dr. Ralph Adams
Cram, one of the country's most
distinguished architects, Président
Harmon W. Caldwell szaid yester
day.
March 30, or Crawford We Long
day, * will bring Dr. Hugh P.
Young, of ZJohns Hopkins Univer
sity hospital, here for an address.
The program will mark the 94th
anniversary of the discovery of
ether anesthesia by Dr. Long, a
country doctor practicing in the
then frontier country of Jackson
county . ’ |
~ "The University will be host to
some 300 scientists, here for an|
.annual - meeting of the Georgia |
Academy of Science, April 3 and 4.|
and on April 7 the 12th annual
Religious Welfare conference i::]
scheduled. Dean Robert Russell!
Wicks, of Princeton TUniversity
chapel, will be the conference
speaker.
Wednesday's speaker, Dr. Cram.
#s kndwn as the 7leader of the
Gothic wing of architecture. One
recent writer said of him: l
“No one in our time has dong
what Cram has done to restore
Gothic to its proper perspective
and usefulness in contemporary
life. By books, by lectures, by
letters to editors, by an adroit and
ingeniously informative kind of
prapaganda, he is forever in the
liets for Gothic, making it a topie
L‘miraculously sewatched from the
past and presented with vigor in
a version of itg original beauty
adanted to the present.” ;
While DPr. Cram is a New Eng-,l
Jander, his wife is the daughter of
a Confederate States of America
army captain. She will accom
pany him to Athens.
. Dr. Cram is known as a wit-‘
D
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S i
DUST STORM MOVES
ON OKLAHOMA AREA’
GUYMON, Okla. — ® — |
Flying dust reduced visibility ’
to less than a city block in the |
Oklahoma panhandle Saturday. |
The dust began rolling in at |
Guymon thig morning, increas- {
ing in intensity wuntil streets |
were coated.
Motorists switched on their
lights by noon and proceeded
warily along the darkened high-
Ways. : N
“This is just another dust
storm,’ said County Agent Bill
Baker of Cimmaron county,
Athens, Ga., Sunday, March 22, 1936.
Next Move Up to Hitler;
‘Counter Proposal From
Germany Expected
By JOSEPH E. SHARKEY
Associated Press Foreign Staff
LONDON.—(#)—With the next
move in European developments
up to Reichsfuehrer Hitler, offi
cials of the League of Nations
said Saturday night that the
threat of immediate peril has been
removed from Europe. i
They declared the League's pos
sibilities as a new, stronger pow
er for peace had been increased
by recent developments, including
Germany’s remilitarization of the
Rhineland and the League coun
cil’'s subsequent decision that
Germany had violated both the
Versailles and Locarno treaties.
Official British quarters said it
was up to Hitler to make counter
proposals to the virtual ultimatum
(Continued on Page Four)
i i
Death of Young Athens
Matron Occurs After a
Brief lliness
Funeral services for Mrs. George
W. Munden were conducted from
the First Baptist church here
vesterday morning at 11 o'clock
by Dr. J. C. Wilkinson, the pas
tor.
The body of Mrs. Munden
was carried to. Leesburg, Fla.,
vesterday afternoon for interment
tomorrow morning in Lone Oak
cemetery. Pallbearers at the ser
vices here were Clarence Chan
dler, Jack Grubbs, Sam Woods,
Robert Wilkes, R. H. Gloyd, Jul
ian Bloodworth, Abit Nix and J.
W. Jarrell, Members of the Ath
ens Rotary club, of which Mr.
Munden was a member and the
(Continued on Page Four)
Enroll for Roosevelt and Democracy!
If you are a supporter of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt; if you are a believer in Democratic prin
ciples and if you favor a statewide presidential
preferential primary in Georgia, fill out this enroll
ment blank and return to F. C. Shackelford, Chair
man or Dan Magill; Secretary of the Clarke County
Roosevelt Club. :
SISt I & b .o e s cscssies s i
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Abe You s fßialilied Voter, . ... 0.0 .ivevsis
TWO MAJOR OFFICES
N GLARKE COUNTY
WILL BE CONTESTED
Entries Close Saturday
For County Primary
On April 21
FOUR FOR CORONER
L. Dennis Penny in Race
Against R. C. Orr
For Ordinary
With the closing of entries here
Saturday at noon, it was revealed
that -only two of the major county
offices will be contested in the
Clarke county democratic primary
to be held on April 21. Three
places on the Clarke county demo
cratic oxecutive committee will be
contested,
All of the incumbents in county
offices are unopposed except Ordi
nary R. #. Orr, who is being op
posed by L. Dennis Penny. Cor
oner J. F. Shepherd is not a can
digate for re-election and four
candidates are in the race tp suc
ceed him. Candidates for coroner
are Bert L. Beussee, D. N. Bur
ger, W. L. Munday and D. W.
‘Watson.
Candidates for membership on
the county democratic committee
from the county at large are R.l
S. Crane, Kell Fowler and H, J.
Rowe. Mr. Rowe is present chair- |
man of the committee and Mr.{
Crane is a member, My, Fowler}
qualified as a candidate Saturday.
Two potitions en . the. commitien,
“from the county at large are open
and the two candidates recejving
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COUNTY CONVACTED
Sentence to Be Passed on
Sheriff Gordon E. Davis
Monday by Judge
VALDOSTA, Ga.~—{#)—Gordon
E. Davis, 57-year-old sheriff of
Thomas county—a post He has
help 15 years—was convicted in‘
the United States court here Sat
urdgy on four of 14 counts charg- '
ing conspiracy to operate a whis
ky business illegally, pbssession
and sale of whisky on which
taxes were not paid, and operat
ing 4 wkigky Dbusiness without
paying federal taxes.
The sheriff, a powerful factor
in Thomas county politics for
many yearg, declined to commentl
on the conviction. :
Judge Bascom Deaver announ
ced sentence would be passed
Monday.
Hoyt Davis, United States dis
trict attorney, said the penalty on
the conspiracy count is from one
day to two years, and on the
other counts, one day to five years
each.
The jury, which had heard tes
timony since Monday, received
the case late Friday, retired with+
out a decision, and brought in its
verdict Saturday. The sheriff
was acquitted on 10 counts.
Government witnesses testified
they collected varying amounts
from boo:leggers and dellvered it
to the sheriff for “protection”
from prosecution.
The sheriff denied the govern
ment's charges and defense at
torneys brought out that some
government witnesses had threat
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While swollen streams were sweeping others to their~doom, this re
markable rescue scene was being enact:d in the torrential Tenadaho
Creek ne;g Mechanicsville, N. ¥. Unable to swim, Nelson Campbell,
(left), 60, clutches at brush as the flood seeks te break his grip, and
Allen Vandecar, stripped to his underwear, offers & rescuing arm.
Two Negroes Sought in Jackson
County in Killing of White Man
Posses Scour Country for
| Pair Accused by Three
[ Other Negroes
i JEFFERSON, Ga.— (Special) —
Posses compozed of Jefferson and
!Jackson county eitizeng scoured the
|country side last night in search
lof two Negroes, charged with kill
ing one white man and wounding
two others, in a shooting affray
jabout 4 o'clock Saturday after
noon.
l Joe Culpepper, 30, is dead, his
! brother, Raymond and Ernest Sor
row were reported in critical con
| dition, after being shot down about
'one mile from Jefferson on the
;Galneeville highway, reputedly by
i two Negroes, who were still at large
late last night.
i Raymond Culpepper was shot
ithrough the upper lip, and Sorrow
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| BOY SCOUT SPIRIT
i U iy
Creat Work by Athens
Scout Troops Hailed by
Local Attorney
By LOUISE VERDEL
Does Boy Scout membership de
velop higher character and better
habits of conduct in boys?
This is a question, the answer
of which isof greatest Importance,
says Abit Nix, former president of
the Northsaet Georgia Council,
Boy Scouts of America. “For the
answer shows the degree of suc
cess the Scout moOvement {s at
taining in achieving its two great
central objectives — the' personal
development -of socially useful
character traits in boys and the
training of boys for constructive
American citizenship.”
The Scout law, according to
Mr. Nix, specifiegs 12 traits of
character which it is the purpose
of - Scout activities to develop, and
which are held before all Scouts
as human ideals- These, he add
ed, are: trustworthiness; loyalty;
helpfulness; friendliness; courtesy;
{kindness; obedience; cheerfulness;
(Continued on Page Four)
SECRETARY OF NAVY
SUFFERS “SETBACK”
WASHINGTON— (#) —Sec=
retary Swanson - was resting
“comfortably” Saturday night
at the Navy hospital after
suffering a “setback” in his long
fight to recover fro man attack
of pleurisy and a rib fracture.
The secretary, ill since early
February, wag forced back to
bed Saturday morring, Cap
tain George C. Thomas, com
mandant of the hospital, said
but has “responded to rest and
treatment” and at noon ate “a
A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday
IMPORTANT BESSIN
OF FARMERS SLATED
All Interested in Getting
Land Terraced Expected
To Meet Monday
All farmers of Clarke county or
who own land in Clarke county
and who are interested in getting
that land terraced at cost are re
quested to meet at County Agen:
L. 8. Watson’s office Monday morn
ing, March 23, at 10 o'clock sharp
A temporary organization was
,begun last December. A charter
has been granted and arrange
| ments have been made whereby
{the machinery can be bought by
Ithote who wish to have terracing
done,
* We are now ready to complete
the organization of ihie <Ciarke
County Soil Conservation and Im
provement Association. Any pee
son who desires to have land ter
raced in the county is eligible te
membership in the association by
paying the membership fee of one
dollar., At the meeting Monday of
ficers for the year will be elected,
by-laws will be adopted and plana
for the terracing will be complet
ed.
It ig possible for this organiza
tion to be completed now and to
have the machinery here within a
few days with which to begin ter
racing. Therefore it is highly im
portant that every one interested
be present at this meeting.
GEO, A, HUTCHINSON,
Chairman of the committee on
organization,
Palace Theater, Banner-Herald
To Present ‘Opportunity Night’
Starting on Wednesday night,
April 1, the Palace Theater and
the Athens Banner-Herald will
present Opportunity Night at the
theater.
Under plans announced Saturday,
the theater and the newspaper
will that night present the first of
a seriegs of weekly programs of en
tertainment presenting persons of
real talent in widely varied fields
on the stage of the Palace Thea
ter,
Opportunity Night is not con
fined to Athens or Clarke county
but is open to all persons of tal
ent, regardless of age or residence.
The only requisite is that they
must have real talent.
Auditions will be given at the
theater prior to appearing on the
Opportunity Night programg in
order to assure patrons they will
hear and see only the best acts.
The program is NOT an ama-
YE
DEATH TOLL MOUNTS
T 0 169 SATURDAY I
EAST'S WORST FLODD
Thousands of Workers in
Flood Areas Battle to
Save Human Lives
MORE ALARMING
Downstream Points Are
Looking for Crests
Later in Week
BY DALE HARRISON
(Copyright, 1936, Associated Press)
The unruly rivers roared .fresh
threats at people and property last
night.
Behind them, in the 183 states
through which they course, were
169 dead — a figure that was in
creased only two during yester
day from Friday's 167. 'The enec~
getic heroism of thousands of re
lief workers had much to do with
that.
{ Behind them, too, were 221,500
| homeless men, women and chil-
Idren. Even that figure was admit
|tedly conservative,
The property damage was at least
$270,000,000. There was little
doubt but %hat it would rise much
(higher. If the loss to wage earn
erg and to retailers is conasidereq,
together with the eventual cost of
relief and rehabilitation, the money
cost may exceed a billion dollars.
| The state -which - suffered most
during the week of unprec €
'flood—Pennsylvania—appeared ‘jast
‘night' to be past the worst. T
waters of the Monongahéla and
|Allegheny which concerge at Pitta
'burgh to form the Ohio, were fall
ing. They were still above flood -
Istage, but the waters which haa
|overflowed . Pittsburgh earlier in
Ithe week were receding. Rehabili
tation was definitely begun., Y
' More Alarmed
| But downstream points becamy
| mare and more alarmed. Flood
(stage of the Ohio river at Cincin
’na.tl ig 62 feet. The river was at
51.7 feet yesterday morning, ano
irising. It is expected to reach a
crest of 59 feet Monday, e
: At Evangyille, Ind., the ' Ofio
was slightly more than one fooc
{under flood stage of 35 feet. The
waters roaring down from the
| present flood areaz are expected
{to hit 45 feet late this week-within
‘three feet of the high water mark
of the disastrous 1931 food.
| It will probably be a week be
[fore the flood is felt at Cairo. En
gineers predicted that by the time
the waters reached Cairo and the
Missiasippi they would gend the
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Another Assault Is
~ Made on ‘Dry Law’
ATLANTA — (#) — AnOthe::.%‘.
sault of the bone dry Georgla. li
quor law, recently upheld by the
state supreme court in a 3 to 3
decizion, was launched in Fulton
superior court Saturday in a eon
tention that the statute was re
pealed when Governor Talmadge
signed the beverage control act,
The suit contended the law was
'repealed because of the wording of
| the last paragraph of the act,
which specifically repealed all other.
laws in conflict. ¢ e
The suit was- filed in the nmame
of Morrig W. Dorsey, servtn(my,%
months prohibition term on the
chain gang. Z ~
teur hour is the sense the name is
usnally applied. Programs will be
carefully prepared and persons se
lected as offering the best acts
will be given professional coach
ing before making their dows to
Palace audienges. ’
Each Wednesday night several
interesting and high class features
will be presented and the audience
will cast its ballots for first and
second places. s
With each paid admission pa
trons will be given a ballot. Acts
will be numbered with corresponds
ing numbers on the ballots. At the
conclusion of the performance a
ballots will be deposited in & box,
which will immediately be %
Two prominent citizens w’fll'i@i
selected and announced afl&&
will meet at the office of the Ban
ner-Herald every Thursday at
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