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Vol, 104. No. 108.
Tap Bennett Is
Elected to Edit
1937 “Pandora’
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By CAPERS HOLMES
At a meeting of the Electorial
Board at the University this
week, Tap Bennett was elected to
edit the “Pandora”, Georgia's year
book, for next year. Bennett will
succeed Harry Baxter ag editor.
Others elected to positions on
the publication are Tom Dickey
St. Simons, business . manager:
and Richard Joel, Athens, manag
ing editor- Misg Mary Gordy, Co
lumbug, was appointed Woman’'s
editor by the new editor. Three
men eléected as junior editors are:
Edward Baxter, Ashburn, William
Benton, Cornelia, and William
Hammack, Cuthbert, Named as
junior business managers are
Harry Davis, jr., Athens, Robert
Mayes, Brunswick, and Sol Singer
Unadilla.
Bennett is from Chipley and
formerly lived in Athens. He i
@ member of Sigma Chi Frater
nity and was recently elected ac
vice president of that organization
for the 1936-37 school term. He
is a junior at the University and
registered for an A. B. Degree.
At‘%o.recent Honorg Day held at
the University he was honored for
peing the upper 5. percent or hl:
class. ¢ :
““The gewly elected editor is - @
membe-r. of the “X” club, Interna
tiona] Relations club, Demosthen
jap Literary Soclety and Biftad
Club, He was elected as vice
president of the University X.
C. A. for next year at a recent
poll by Georgia students. Bennett
i« a meémber of Thalian-Blackfriar
Dramatic Club, member of the
Varsity debating team, assistant
business manager of the Univer
gity Theater, and former assoclaté
editor of the Red and Black-
Dickey 18 a freshman in the
Lumpkin Law School at the Uni
versity. He is assistant business
manager of the Pandora this year
and is & member of frgeer S CIMD .
Dickey replaces Clyde Teasley, El
berton, as business manager.
Richard Joel is g member of
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STATE NEWS BRIEFS
By The Associated Press
ATLANTA-—Fred Ward Cox, jr.,
of Atlanta, received the highest
scholastic honors of the year at the
Georgia School of Technology's
honor day exercises today.
Prof, R. 8, Howel] presented Cox
with the Phi Xappa Phi senior
scholarship cup for having the best
four-year average.
Sixty-five students were announ
ced as honor society initiates and
winners of the “Gold T,” and 250
made the “honor roll.”
MACON—O, J. Bateman of By
ron sent the season'g first carload
of Georgia peaches te northern
markets yesterday.
The peaches were the Mountain
Rose variety, The sales contract
called for a price of $1.76 per half
bushel basket.
"The 1936 geason is about ten days
ahead of last year.
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§VEST POINT—The West Point
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Portion of Roosevelt Tax Plan Is Scrapped
Proposed 15-Mill Tax
Limitation Amendment
Flayed by John Slaton
FLASHES
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, L-I-F-E
SCARED TO DEATH
NEW YORK.—The excitement
of seeing a neighbor run to the
street with her clothes aflame
proved fatal to Mrs. Jennie Gross,
65, whose fright, doctors said, led
to a heart attack. Mrs. Florence
Kurs, 40, whose clothes caught
fire after she had used a cleaning
tuel, sutrered only slight burns.
CASH AND CARRY
CHICAGO.—The Mira Lago Cor
poration sued the suburban vil
lage of Kenilworth for SIOO,OOO
on a complaint, the gist of which
was:
The corporation owned a res
taurant in a district known as
“No Man’s Land,” just outside the
village limits. The restaurant
caught fire. Village liremen ar
rived with a hose line from the
village hydrant. They demanded
to know who would pay for the
water. Receiving no satisfactory
answer, they rolled up their hose
and went home. ' The restaurant
burned.
PRIMAL URGE
CHlCAGO.—Juniors and seniors
of Armour Tech orderea 200 rip
ened eggs, one apiege for 100
members of each clase chosen for
‘a formal splashing contest. 3
s But whep the vives,. :
200 - U s, QISR
They dived for the crates and
started ad libbing. The umpire
counted splashes anyway and
awarded the juniors the decision.
FURTHER PROBE OF
OIMPSON DEATH SET
Coroner’s Jury to Be Re-
Convened for More Dis
cussion of ‘‘Suicide”
BRUNSWICK, Ga. — (#) — Ex
pressing dissatisfaction over the
verdict of a coroner’'s jury investi
gating the fatal shooting of the
Rev. Thomas W. Simpson, pastor
of the First Presbyterian church,
yesterday afternoon, Coroner J. I
Baldwin of Glynn county said to
day he will reconvene the jury for
further investigation of the pastor's
death.
The jury last night returned =a
verdict that “the deceased came to
hig death from shot gun wounds
gels inflictea while temporarily
demented.” Rev. Simpson was
found mortally wounded in his
home yesterday afternoon with a
shot gun, which had been first
fired four times, and a knife by his
side.
Coroner Baldwin declared thlnl
morning that “I do not think the
investigation was thorough.” l
“l do not understand how four
shots were fired from the a.uto-l
matic shotgun by the victim, It
also developed that a knife found
nearby probably was used in an
effort to extract a shell from the
gun, Knife marks were found on|
one of the discharged sshells.
“I have no solution o the affair
myself, but I think the jury shoula |
continue its investigation and I am
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Manufacturing company announced
today LaFayette Lanier, 111, grand
son of a pioneer Georgia cotton
textile operator, had been named
assistant superintendent of its Riv
erdale mill, Riverview, Ala.
Lanier has been production ma
nager of the Shawmut mill of the
West Point chain.
ADEL—Coroner A, D. Wiseman
gaid evidence in the death es New
ton Deloach, 56, Adel blacksmith,
killed on a highway, was studied
by a jury today.
Deloach apparently was killed in
an automobile accident. Funeral
service were held today. y
A daughter, Mrs. R. C. Crouch of
Brunswick, is among survivors.
GAINESVILLE — Attorneys dis
puted today whether death of 4w
]lpenong in a pants factory here
(Continued on Page Two)
Full Associated Press Service
Former GCeorgia Governor
Speaks at Convention of
County Commissioners
WOULD HIT SCHOOLS
Fears “Every Conceivable
Nuisance Tax” Would
Soon Be Imposed
ATLANTA — “Every conceivable i
nuisance tax” will be invited byl
adoption of the proposed 15-mill|
tax limitation amendment to the|
state constitution, Ex-Goxernor |
Yohn M. Slaton asserted today in an
address before the annual conven
tion of the Georgia Association of
County Commissioners, : i
Declaring that if the proposed |
amendment is ratified by the peo
ple at the polls next November
home rule will be destroyed, school
| terms will be shortened and teach
lers salaries cut, and that real
jestate, which advocates of thel
amendment claim ig relieved by it
will in reality be dlscrlminated'
against In favor of intangibles, the
former governor and legislator pre
dicted that “those advocating this
amendment will be the foremost to
lament their mistake, but the ans- |
lwer to them will be the fatal words‘
‘too late'.” |
l Dastroys Home Rule |
| Discussing the amendment's ef-|
| sect upon home rule, Mr. Slaton}
| sald, "“The Glory of Anglo-Saxon
government is home rule, 4 great
historian said that the difference
between English people and others
wag the seif-discipline acquired by !
each _oom‘gx;:gty directing its awn!
afial .a_revolutionary plan
i e eta PRGBS}
ty commissioners and mayors and
city councils can no longer regu
late and satisfy local needs. You
lmust go to the legislature, which
knows nothing about local prob-
Ilems. : I
“Shall it remain in session on’
salary the year round, and be div- |
tded into committees to investigate
conditiong about which they know
nothing?
“We can defeat our loecal offi
cers, but there can be no appeal |
from the action of the legislature.” |
If the proposed amendment is
adopted, Mr. Claton sald, “No one
can conjecture what necessity and
hysteria may drive the legislators
into doing,” in order to provide re
placement taxes to reinstate the
governmental income lost. “It in
vites every injurious tax that im
practical theorles can devise.” He
declared the amendment makes reai
estate “pay three times as much as
mortgages, stocks and. bonds. The
author at the beginning makes nt
certain that intangibles shall in no
event pay more than 1-3 of the tay
imposed on real] estate,
“The argument is that intangib
e e
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BRUNSWICK MAYOR
DECISION 15 UPHELD
Georgia Supreme Court
Upholds Naming of May
or Without Referendum
ATLANTA, Ga.—(P)—A legisla
tive act of 1935 naming Commis
sioner-at-Large J. L. Andrews
mayor of Brunswick for 1936
without a referendum was upheld
today by the Georgia Supreme
court.
i The general assembly last year
‘ passed a local bill amending the
i eity charter of Brunswick to
change terms of five commission
ers under the city manager form
of government. The act also made
i the commissioner-at-large the
mayor rather than have him elect
ed by the commissioners.
i It also made it mandatory that
| a person must live in Brunswick
itwo years before he could be
elected city manager.
| The commissioners called an
{ election June 4, 1935, for a vote
|on whether or not the changes
] would be made,
George S. Trunell and other
cltizens obtained an injunction
against holding the election. They
claimed it would make no mate
rial changes in the form of gov
ernment and that the act required
no referendum.
The citizens charged the com
,mlssionen were seeking by the
election ot perpetuate themselves
i in offic.
{ Jack Gardner was elected by
|the commission as mayor in 1935
and it was the contention of the
!body that he should .¢oniinue in
that position during 1986.
1 In upholding the injunction
2
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Starting life anew, Mrs. Fran ces Robinson, wife of Thomas H.
Robinson, jr., who was captured in Californta as the kidnaper of
Mrs. Berry Stoll of Louisville, Ky, is shown here in a college at
Nashville, Tenn., where she is taking a business course, Mrs. Rob
inson, her mother declared, will file a divorce action. Her husband
has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the kidnaping,
Senator Borah Threatens to Bolt
Republican Party in Newark Talk
) NEWARK, N. J.—(#P)—Senator
william E. Boran warned today
that unléss the republicans selec’
a presidential candidate who wili
“take hold of the question of mon
opoly” -he will pursue the issue
|outside the party.
| “No party shibboleths are going
to stand between me and the fight
|!or 50 million people who have
,barely enough to live,” declared
the veteran Idaho senator in a
!nampaign address last night.
'He sajd his own presidential as
pirations meant little bheside the
“real issues.”
‘ Among these he listed rejuvena
tion of the republican party, “the
}e.nd of monopoly and price-fixing
Iby the few,” aloofness from for
eign entanglements, and the need
for an independent judic’ary.
It the Republican party will
turn its face toward the dawn, if
4t will liberalize—name a candi
‘date looking toward the future—
and I am left out, thera won’t
be a single sting in my soul,
| “However, if the . . - party re.
fuses to take hold of the question
of monopoly, I promise to follow
Georgia Glee Club Will Give
Annual Performance Tonight
The Georgia Glee club, 40 young|
artists of the University of Geor- |
gia, and their director, Mike Me¢-|
Dowell, will offer the final show- |
ing of the year tonight in the|
Physical Education building on!
the University campus. The pro-t
gram will begin at 8:30 o'elock |
and an admission of 50 cents will
be charged. Students will be ad-|
mitted for 25 cents.
The Glee club has just returned
from a tour of the larger cities of
the state and a showing before
the G. E. A. meeting at Macon. |
Therr have been highly praised
thig year as during years past. -
The first act includeg Negro
lp}xitun!& traditional college songs
and a number of solos. Fred
Meadows, Dave Barrow, Luther
Bridges, and Louis Griffeth will
be l.fil" those offering solos.
the issue and no party alignment
will control me for g minute.”
-~ He was asked whether entering
the democratic ranks would be =
barrier to his course.
“It will be anywhere where the
issueg take me,” he replied. *1
can't say it will be in the demo
cratic ranks. But entering the
democratic ranks wouldn't stop
me. Nothing will stop me.”
“If the ultra-conservative, reac
tionary old guard controls the
Cleveland convention, seven mil
lion who left the party in 1932
will not only refuse to return, bul
they'll take several more with
them. ¢ «
“Why,” he asked, ‘‘arg corpor
ationg like the Du Ponts so ac
tive in this campaign? They want
to preserve the power to tax the
American people.”
Badly beaten by Robert A. Taft
favorite son candidate, inthe Ohlc
vresidential primary, Borah said
Negroeg in that state had been
persuaded to believe he favored
lynching because he did not sup
port a federal measure against it,
believing it unconstitutional.
| The second act offers a varied |
|progra.m of novelty. numbers by
’t.he Georgia Collegians, a skit en
| titled “Julius Sneezer” and other
ihum?rous numbers,
! Athens Boys .
l Athens boys will play an !mpor
itant part in the program. Nine
| Athenjans have parts, with sixof‘
‘them singing and three in the or
chestra, |
Wilfred Warren and Roberti
Foster are second tenors; Carl
| Pitman, a baritone; Dave Barrow,
§Rlchsrd Bird and John Davis,
bass; while Hugh McGarity, Bob
by Deottery and George B. Stew
jart are in the orchestra. y
| Burch O’Neal, of Bainbridge, is
| business manager of the club;
| Jack Rigdon, of Tifton, president;
| P
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Japan Lands 7,600 T'roops
In China as Reinforcement
For 2 Northern Garrisons
League. of Nations Loses!
~ Another Member Today |
As Guatemala Quits |
\
BRITAIN IN UPROAR
London Cabinet Changes
Slated: Samuel Hoare
May Get Post l
(By the Associated Press) !
Troops marched again in thet
Far East, the League of Nations lost
another member and rumors of
British cabinet c¢hanges flew in
London today.
Japan's determined army landed
7,600 troops in China, reinforcing
its Tientsin and Peiping garrisons.
The Chinese, fearful that Italy's
Ethiopian victory had spurred new
Nipponese dreams of conquest,
predicted a new campaign for the
ultimate seizure of China,
| Guatemala, which had participat
lea little in affairs at Geneva of late
|informed the League it was follow
ing the example of Germany and
Japan,
Guatemala quit the League coun
leil five years ago, for financial rea
sonNs,
Changes Slated
The British cabinet, with one of
its members now being named at a
judicial inquiry intc a budget “leak
{age,” was reported in some quart
jers to be due for ' “important”
changes,
One of these rumored shifts would
bring Sir Samuel Hoare—he of the
controverted Franco-British plan
for Ethiopian peace-—back into the
cabinet as First Lord of the Ad
miralty. PR
; Sir Samuel quit ag foreign secres
|tary in the uproar over the peace
|plan he wrote in collaboration with
| Plerre Laval, then France's pres
_*we plan, which would have
4 giEnted Premisr 4 o
the country which he subsequently
seized in Its entirety, wag given
a hasty burial by the League. |
Bank Reorganization |
Official Italy put a clamp on
speculation concerning the new
fascist empire’s “suspended colla
‘boration" with the League. The
Bank of Italy moved to reorganize
}Ethiopian finances.
i Future policy toward Italy and
IGermany was discussed by Captain
|Anthony Eden, Britian's foreign
|secretary, and Leon Blum, the soc
|ialist who probably will be the
|premier of leftist France next
{ month.
| In Austria, Prince Ernst Von
i Starhemberg, ousted from the gov=
~ernment by Chancellor Kurt Schu
(schnigs, promised “the world will
|héar from the Heimwehr,” his pri
lvate army, “in about a week.”
l TO BE INCREASED
TOKYO — (#) — A war office
|communique announced today the
|Japanese army garrisons in North
[Chma would be “increased by &
| certatn number” with the effecting
jof regular annual reliefs,
' An army sSpoKesman txphlned'
(Continued on Page Two)
1 ESCAPED CONVICTS
CAUGHT: 6 AT LARGE
Two Guards and Cowboy,
Seized as Hostages, Are
Released Alive
ANTLER, Okla. — #) — Two
of the desperate convicts who made |
a bloody dash from the Olkahoma
state penitentlary were recAptureq
near here early today, shortly aft
er three hostages were released
alive,
Six of the fugitives, who killed
C. D. Powell, a prison brick yara
foreman at the start of their gpec
tacular dash across southeastern
Oklahoma remained at large, with
manhunters of three states hot on
their trail.
Four of them, divided in palrs,
were reported surrounded in the
Antlers vicinity with a posse of 50
officers closing in, and another
pair was believed trapped in a
mountain stretch near the Arkansan
state line,
| An airplane, equipped with a two
;wa_v radio, was pressed into the
lhunt by the Oklahoma state crime
ibureau.
| A few minuteg before officers
;came upon the farm house lair of
|the fugitiveg four of the long-term
‘convicts released Tuck Cope and
| Victor Conn, prison guards, and
i\W]burn Doaks, & cowboy, who had
'heen kidnaped.
| Cope had been stabbed in the
|neck and had lost much blood. The
| other hostages joined in the chkase,
| which resulted in the capture of
| Bill Anderson, 30, and Archie Her
{ring, 23, both serving terms for
i robbery. 4
l Two other convicts, Jess Cun
(Continued cu Page Two)
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Just two years ago, June
Robles, above, of Tucson, Ariz,
was kidnaped for $15,000 rane
somi,” and imprisoned In an ug
derground coffin for 19 territy
ing days and nights. Today, as
pictured above, she in & happy,
W" 8-year-old, her borri
from ner mom'%’"m
{ ATHENS STUDENTS
NAMED TO GRIDIRON
Solicitor Henry H. West
Also Selected as Honor
ary Member by Club
Gridiron, seond ranking Univer
sity of Georgla honor society, an
nonced Its selection of six honor
ary and 20 student —members,
among whom are Governor Eu
‘gene Talmadge and his son, Her
man Talmadge.
Two Athens students are among
the undergraduates honored. They
are Richard Joel and Harry Hop
kins. Initiations will be held May
26.
Besides the governor, honorary
members are: Henry West, of
Athens, solieitor of the Western
judicial circuit; Major Albert H.
Peyton, Infantry, U. 8. A, assist
ant professor of military sclence
and tactics at the University; R.
L. Siebert, of Atlanta, secretary
of the Board of Regents; J. 8.
Whitaker, instructor in chemistry,
and C. F. Palmer, of Athens.
Cther student neohytes are:
Chnarles Harrold and Bernard
Ramsey, Macon; Robert T. An
derson, Hillsboro; John Engel,
SBavannah: Thomas Dickey, St.
Simon’s Tlsland; James Moore,
Poitoa, Eiliot* Hagan, Sylvania;
Robert Knox, Thomson; H. C.
Smith and James Cleveland, Law
renceville; Colbert Hawkins, Mon
roe; John Newton, Madison; Dean
Covington, Rome; Malcolm Peter
son, Alley; Embry Esbach, Blue
Ridge, N. C.; Herman Braddy,
(Continued on Page Seven)
Big Crowd Will Attend Legion
Barbecue on Thursday, May 21
Tickets are selling rapidly for |
the big barbecue to be given by'
the Allen R. Fleming, jr., Post of
the American Legion at the Com
munity Center on Lumpkin su'eetl
next Thursday evening at 6:30
s'clock.
Through a misunderstanding it
was announced yesterday the bar
becue would be held Tuesday,
May 19. This was an error, and
the date should have been an
nounced as Thursday, May 21.
Some 1,600 tickets have been
printed and mailed out by the
pbarbecue committee of the Legion
and the committee asks that auy-l
one who has heen overlooked, or
to whom an insufficient number
of tickets was mgiled, get in
‘touch with one of the committee
;mombtrs. who are D. Weaver
Pridges, chairman; H. L. Wheeler,
Edgar Eberhart, Bill Hodgson,
S EMITTEE
S DETEAMINED 10
KEEP PRESENT PLAN
Administration Leaders
Seek to Add Surtax on
Undistributed Profit
AGREE ON 2 THINGS
Flat Tax on Corporate
Income, Normal Tax
Rate Approved
WASHINGTON.— (#) —Admin
istration leaders in the senate
have abandoned President Roose
velt's suggestion that corporations
be taxed oniy on thelr undlstrib
uted profits and are battling now
to save what they term the phil
osophy of his revenue program.
The senate finance commiitee
was determined today to retaln
the present corporate tax struc
ture instead of abolshing it as
suggested by Mr. Roosevelt. The
President’s leutenants were seek
ing to add a surtax on undistrib=
uted profits and were facing a
stiff fight even on this compro
mise.
One member of the commlttee,
a Republican, forecast the entire
adminfstration plan would be dis
carded, but most Democrats said
its essence would be retained in
the form of a surtax above the
present flat taxes on net income
of corporations.
| Dozen Plans
! A dozen different plans for
| raising the $620,000,000 of perma-
Inem revenue asked by President
ißcosevolt were before the eom
| mittee today. R
| Committee members ed to
lagree on only two thii that a
‘flat, tax of about 15 percent on all
corporate income would \nm;
preved, pat dividends woul
Y : sTI Padome
tax rate of four percent. At pres
* ent dividends are subject to sur
| taxes, but not to normal income
taxes. .
The two virtual agreements left
| undecided the maj-r . issue—
| whether corporations should also
be taxed according to how much
of their income they tailed to dis
tribute. A
! The tax bill, as it W thy .
!passed the house, would have -
| abolished the flat corporate taxes
and levied graduated taxes up to
!42% percent on corporations, de= .
pending upon how much of their
lincome they withheld from divis
dends.
TO CONTINUE PWA
WASHINGTON .—(#P)—President
Roosevelt said today the Publie
| Works and Resettlement Adminis
| trations would be contigued on a
| somewhat smaller scale under the
| pending = $1,425,000,000 work relief
:{appl'opl‘latlon. s
‘ Responding to questions at his
| press conference, the President
| said certain mulilcipal projects
| (Continued on Page Two)
“Poppy Day” Oniy 8
Days Off; Plans Being
Made tc Honor Vets
Saturday, May 23, is “Poppy
Day.” Each poppy worn on
that day means the wearer
has thought, at least for &
moment, of the men who lie
beneath the poppies in
France. !
And the wearer is contrib
uting something to the relief
and rehabilitation of those
who are suffering as the result
of the war, the disabled vet
erans, their families, and the
families of the dead.
Harold B. Hodgson, Frank E.
Mitchell, T. J. Echols, W. J.
Haynes, Grace B. Cook, B. X
Brown, W. R. Brown, W. T. Ray,
Tony Camarata and A. W. Edge.
The barbecue is being given to
help raise funds to complete the
big swimming pool &t Community
Center. The pool is almost finish
ed but it is necessary for the Leg
jon to immediately raise some
cash to carry the weekly payroll
of S3OO for the next few weeks
until work has been completed.
Those in charge of the barbe
cue today pointed out it I 8 &
splendid opportunity for
jans who like barbecue to get
plenty of their favorite cacy
and at the same time help & real
worthwhile cause and m%
who don't care for barbecue, to
join with the crowd, have & good
time and also help in finishing the
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