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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Spanish Loyalist Troops Open Fierce Assault on Fasgists
Throngs Fill City For Homecoming
Dange; I:l 15-I\2i].ir '{;;mendri;nefint"r Cited* B*y *Speak;rg iflere
PUBLIG F 5 INFORMED
SCHEME WILL HURT
PEOPLES SERVICES
Dr. E. L. Hill Cites Injury
To School System That
Will Result
DEFEAT IS SEEN
Mayor Mell, Mayor Hun
ter and Commissioner
Matthews Speak
Defeat of the proposed 15-mill
tax limitation amendment at the
polls next Tuesday was predicted
here last night as Mayor T. S.
Mel! and Dr. E. L. Hill joined
with two visiting speakers in cit
ing dangers to the public services,
and probable adoption of nuisance
taxes, if the proposal is adopted.
Dr. Hill, vice-president of the
Athens Board of Education, told
how “the amendment's adoption
will ‘affect the city’s public schools
and Mayor Mell expressed orposi
tion to the amendment because of
its effest upon necessary public
services.
C. A. Matthews, DeKalb countyl
commissioner and chairman of a
joint committee of statewide or
ganizations opposigg the amend
ment predieted its’ defegt in the
general ‘glgetion mext ‘Tuesday,
and Major H. P. Hunter, -mayor
of Elberton, discussing how the
amendment will afféect Elberton
and Elbert county, voiced an ap
peal to all public-spirited citizens
to vote against it.
The four speakers were heard
over WTFI from '7:50 to 8:30
o'clock last night. Tatg Wright
prseided.
Listing reasons why he will
vote agianst the amendment, Dr.
Hill said he is not concrened “in
any way with any political issue
involved in this matter, but I am
thinking only of the matter from
the standpoint of the best inter
ests of this state and this city.”
He said she lots suffered by the
city wschools, if the amendment
cucceeds, will range from $61,000
to $71,000 annually, involving cur
tailment of the . present school
program, reduction of teachers’
salaries and employment of in
ferior teachers for less money, as
well as a reduction of the school
term. ’
No Light Matter
“To amend ' the state constitu
tion is not a light matter.” Dr.
Hill declared, “and our fathers
made it difficult so as to ward off
all efforts to put in this document
matters which have not been thor
oughly = thought through and
proven to be for the best interests
of the state. I am not sure that
this amendment before us has
been thoroughly proven to b, ‘Tor
th, best interests of this state
and if it i§ put in the Constitu
tion and proven ot be undesirable
and unworkable, then we will have
2 long time before we can elimi
nate it and ir the meantime our
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the ‘trees as soon as. cold weather
drives away the. foliage.
PEMBROKE, . Ga.—City _council
named Albert S. Bacon, twice city
councilman, acting mayor pending
an election to fill the vacancy
caused by ' the death of Julius
Morgan.
The municipal body probably
will fix the date of @ gpecial elec~
tien at its November session.
~ AUGUSTA, Ga. — Allen Ware
‘Hershey, 34, head of the Hersey
‘Wholesale Sea Food Company.
died suddenly at his home here
‘yvesterday. g
His survivors include a prother,
Charles C. Hersey, of Fitzgerald,
Ga.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Directors of
the Chamber of Commerce assem
thled ‘here today to discuss the
proposal of the Pennsylvania Silk
Manufacturing Company to locate
in the city. :
~ Conditions under which the com
‘pany would consolidate two plants
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This striking airview shows the colorful scere on Bedloe’s island at the entrance to New York Har
bor, during the 50th anniversary celebration of the Statue of Liberty’s faithful guard at the gate of the
jand of promise and of liberty. In the oreground can be seen the crowds that heard President Roose
velt call for a rededication of the United States as a land of liberty.
NEGRO iS LODGED
- IN COLUMBUS JAIL
COLUMBUS, Ga. — (#) —
Assistant Jailor Jeff Cummings
said today that Charlie Davis,
35-year-old negro, was brought
to the Muscogee county jail
from Buena Vista late last night
for safe keeping, after he had
been sentenced to death in the
electric chair in Marion super
jor court-for criminal assault
upon a 12-year old white girl.
Judge C. ¥. McLaughlin sen
tenced Davis to die at the state
farm in Milledgeville on Dec
ember 4, after the jury return
ed a verdict of guilty. The
jurors deliberated ° for about
three hours.
THREE STUDENT
NAMED T 0 SPHINX
Seniors to Be Initiated
This Week-end by Na
tional Honor Group
Three University of Georgia stu
dents wer€ announced today as
initiates of Sphinx, ranking honor
society. .
They are: Colbert Hawkins, of
Monroee, campus leader; Tap Ben
nett, jr., Athens, editor of the 1937
Pandora, student annual, and Wal
ter Wise, Fayetteville, president’ of
the Y. M- C. A.
The three were wearing large
“grg” on their backs today. ' They
will stage @ political * stunt -be
tween the halves of the Tennes
see-Georgia foothall game hére to
motrow, and be introduced at a
homecoming ~d & n ¢ ¢ tomorrow
night. T
Campus jeader Hawkins is al
member of ‘Gridiron, Omicron Delta
Kappa, Seabbard and _Blade, In
ternational Relations Club and de
bate council. He is past president
of Demosthenian TMerary Society.
Editor Bennett is & member of
0. :D. K., Demosthenian, debat
ing team. Thalian-BlackfriarsDra
matic Club. International Relationsl
Club and the 00 Club. He is
business manager of the Univer-1
gity Theater, president of the Stu-
Ident Christian . Council and made
the highest grade on the freshman
linte]ligenco sest. RBennett has a
{hree-year scholastic averase of
93.01.
{ president Wise a member of
Fhi Beta Kanpa, O. D. K., debat
ing team and the homor court of
the Lumpkin Law School. He is
president of the International Re
: lations ‘glub and the State Bap
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Pacific Coast Waterfronts Are
Paralyzed by Maritime Strike
SAN FRANCISCO — (@) — A
general maritime strike paralyzed
Pacific coast waterfronts today
after being held off for 24 hours
by federal mediators.
Seven federated unions, repres
enting 37,000 dock and ship work
ers, called the walkout at midnight
after failing to reach agreements
on mew contracts governing wages
and hiring.
In the east, Joeph Curran, chair
man of the seaman’'s defence com
‘mittee, announced a sympathetic
sitdown strike was ordered on all
American shipps in New York har
bor, effective at mnoon.
‘ln New Orleans, T. J. Darcy,
presidént of the International Long
shoremen’s Association local, said
500 men who are employed Dby
companies operating to the West
Coast were ready to strike. He
added that about 1,400 others, non
union men, were not affected.
The action on the West Coast
brought a virtual blockade of all
ports, recalling conditiong of the
bitter 1934 strike which lasted 83
days and culminated in a three-day
mass walkout of union labor in San
Francisco bay cities.
Some 200 ships were caught by
the strike call in major ports,
Social Security Charges Fly;
Senate to Probe “Propaganda”
" WASHINGTON — ®) — While]
the Republican national committee|
issued a statement assailing the
social security act, a senate com
mittee prepared today to investi
gate alleged pay-envelopes attacks
on the program. g ]
Senator La Follette, Progressive,t
[Wisconsin, head of a special com
mittee studying alleged violations
of civil ‘liberties and labor rights, |
announced an inguiry would startl
immediately into atvempts to n
fringe upon the civil and politicall
rights of the working man through'
pay roll pressure.” 1
The republican committee state
ment said the administration’s pro
gram is “not even as fair as a lot
tery,” and that “women who work
a few years and then marry are
especially hit.”
} “In & lottery, there are some
prizes,” the committee’g statement
lsaid. “In the Roosevelt New Deal
pay docking security plan it's just
a question whether the worker gets
nothing at all or just a fraction of
what any insurance company would
gladly agree to pay him on a policy
involving the same payments.”
The social security program in
—ESTABLISHED 1832—
Athens, Ga., Friday, October 30, 1936.
about 40 of them in San .Fran-i
cisco Bay. |
The blackade abruptly halted the
flow of cargo, estimated by the
San Francisco marine ‘exchange at
300,000 tons daily for all West
Coast ports,
McGrady Confers
First announcement of the gtrike
was made here by Assgistant Sec
retary of Labor Edward F. Mec-
Grady, after day long conference
with employers and unions in
last-minute efforts to avert the
tieup,
MeGrady said he would continue
peace efforts. . . .
He termed the strike “sheer
madness” and declared “we will
leave no stone unturned in efforts
to reach a speedy settlement.”
. F. M. Kelly, secretary of the
joint union negotiating commit
}tee, said the strike vote wag unani
'mous and was ordered against all
shippers, :
As in the 1934 strike, control of
hiring was the major issue. Long
shoremen won control of their hir
ing as a result of the 1934 arbi
tration award, but employers want
to replace it with joint control
cludes an old age pension tax on
workers’ pay starting January -1,
and rising from one to three per
cent over a 12-year period, with a
similar sum collected from the
employer. The act also embraces
taxes on employers to finance un
employment insurznce and has oth
e‘Dfea,tutes.
emocrats say the plan has been
assailed by slips mserted in work-,
ers’ pay envelopes and by posters
in industrial plants. |
The republican statement said
that, while “every employee, man,
woman and child, except on the
farm and in domestic service,” will
be hit by the tax, *the young wom
an who works less than five years
before becoming a Yousewife -will
have her pay docked” and “will
;never get a nickel kack even if the
government has any money left
‘when she becomes 65 years of
age.”
. The social security board issued
[a statement to workers in which
it declared that, under the law,
“from ihe time you are 65 years
!old, or more, you will get a govern-
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FRESH TROOPS ARE
RUSHED TOO AID IN
DEFENSE OF MADRIL
Officers Rally Men With |
Shouts of ‘'Save City"" |
In Opening Drive [
LAUNCHED THURSDAY
Statement From Lisbon
Says 300 Russians
Captured
TORREJON DE LA CALZADA,|
Spain—(#)—Government command- |
ers rushed fresh troops to the.
front today while Madrid defense
forces reopened their fierce as
saulty on the Fascists in the sec- !
ond day of one of the war’'s blood-,
iest battles. 4
Revitalized by the capture of
three insurgent-held towns glmost
on the outskirts of the capital
the Socialist army battled in the
hollow ofs the Fascists’ v-shaped
line in an effort to force it bhack
or break through it
Torrejon de Velasco, 15 miles
sonth of Madrid eon the Arterial
highway to Toledo, was the next
nhjective.
Join In Charge
Airplanes, tanks and anti-ajr
craft artillery joined the charge
of troops as officers rallied their
men with shouts to “save Madrid
and drive the scist hirelings
back mpmmfim e s
Gunners lay. down a barrage of
steel shrapnel, with the first light
of morning, from cannon brought
forward in pace with the govern
ment advance.
The counter-offénsive was launch
ed yesterday simultaneously with
a proclamation in Madrid by
Premier Francisco Largo Caballero
that the government now had a
powerful force of tanks and air
planes strong enough to break the
siege of Madrid.
Heavy Losses
Gen. Franciseco Franco's insup
gent army of Moors and Foreign
Legionnaires were reported tohave
suffered heavy losses.
(Authoritative Spanish Socialist
sources in Paris said the Madrid
government had concentrated a
'secret army in southern Spain, to
‘attack the unguarded rear of Gen
Franco’s army on the Madrid
‘Aranjuez and Madrid-Toledo roads
‘south of the capital.
~ (More than 110 modern tanks
and many new warplanes, both
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ELECTION WORKERS
ANNOUNCED TODAY
Polls to Open Here Tues
day at 7:30, Closes at
6:30, Orr Says
Managers and clerks for the
General Election next Tuesday,
were announced today for the four
boxes in Athens by Ordinary 2.
O O,
Polls will open at 7:30 in the
morning and close gt 6:30 Tuesday
afternoon. Eyveryone who has
reached the ageé of 21, and paid
their poll tax this year, is eligible
to vote in the General Election.
Votes will be cast for President
of the United States, all state
amendments, including the 15-mill
tax limitation, a 4-year term for
governor, creation of the office of
lieutenant governor, providing of
a state school superintendent in
lieu of a state school commission
er, and providing for the electlon
of the president of thesenate, who,
if the amendment is passed, will
be the lieutenant governor.
Voters will also ratify nomina
tions in the September Primary of
Senator Richard B. Russell, Con
gressman . Paul Brown, Governor
E. D. Rivers, and other state of
ficials. )
Following are managers and
clerks to work on election day:
~ Box No. I—W. Milton Thomas,
‘Mrs. Thad Hawkins and Allen
Wier, managers, and Mrs. Peter
"Brown, Miss Agnes Bray and Mrs.
TLeon Southerland, clerks.
| Box No. 2—George T. Burpee,
Mrs. W. C. Noel and Thad Haw
kins, managers; Mrs. J. W. Wes
ter, Mrs. J. B. Farr, and Mrs. C.
8. Denny, clerks.
Box. No. 38—L. Dennis Penny
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The last stand defensive line of
the Spanish loyalists before
Madrid is shown in the above
map—the Masquelet line, built
by General Masquelet, which
includes broad belts of barbed
wire, cement machine gun pill
boxes, and strong trench posi
tions. It forms a half circle,
lsmsg:hin froms mounltain vil
g thegnort to Illescas, 20
. .. ,Toledo highway." . :
FOR. AND LANDON
CHEERED BY CROWDS
Both Major Candidates
Are Heartily Received
By Audiences in East
(By the Associated Press)
On a wave of emotion and argu
mentation rarely equalled, the long
campaign of 1936 entered its final
phase today.
Both bidding for the votes of the
populous east, President Roosevell
and Governor Alf M. Landon spoke
last night to madly cheéring
throngs, The former appealed to
the sayings of Abraham Lincoln to
ghow the New Deal is right, and
the latter challengea the president
to “tell ue where you stand” oni
such questiong as NRA, AAA and
exeoutive powers. g
Leaving Washington late today,
Mr. Roosevelt planned to speak
tonight in Brooklyn and tomorrow
night at Madison Sguare Garden,
his last major utterance of the
campaign.
Late yesterday, he received from
a crowd at Wilmington, Del, a
reception he called “marvelous.”
Abraham Lincoln, he told the Dela
ware citizens, once said that when
the shepherd drives the wolf from
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2.2 eiTION
BEORGIA-TENNESSEE
GAME 15 FEATURE OF
816 WEEK-END HERE
Four Dances, Other Social
Affairs Will Attract
Many Visitors =
18,000 EXPECTED
Erratic Bulldog Team Is
Doped to Fall Before -
Creat Vol Eleven .
BY JACK REID
Spurred .on by excellent weather
conditions, the University of Geor
gia today completed preparations
for its greatest Homecoming pgd-fl ;
gram in rectent years, » The cele~
bration will be launched tonight
with the first of a series of four
Pan-Hellenic dances from 9 until 1
in Woodruff hall, and will be top
ped when the university’s gridiron
representativeg face Tennessee's
powerful Vol eleven Saturday aft
ernoon in Sanford stadium.
Georgia’'s Bulldogs, hopeful of
turning back the challenging Ten
nessee Volunteers before a home
coming day crowd of close to 18,000
fans Saturday, completed prepara
tions today with the usual passging,
| punting and signal drill. =
Erratic Team ;
| The Bulldogs, atternately great
and erratic in previous games, w
'4- Jnto (fi M% ;
“ul with & chance., Q?ach Harry.
‘ M‘{d&k told the'squad “You ean win
but you'll have to play hax:d,'mifl s‘. 2
up football.” v,
| Harold Stern and his 13-piece
‘orchestra arrived in Athens last
night to play for the dance ser
ies. The Stern band, it became
known, has just signed a year's
contract with the NBC and willegz
to the broadcasting system immed»
iately after filling their engages
ment here. o
| Wade Hoyt, of Rome, president
of the Pan-Hellenic council, last
night said that a large advance
| sale of block tickets indicates that
lthe dances will attract unusually
| large crowds. He said that block
I tickets would be available at Cog
ta’s, Gunn’s, and the Georgia Co-Op
' lunch room through 5 o'clock this
afternoon, and would not'be—-sold
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Dalton Mill Foreman
Abducted by 2 Men
| DALTON Ga. — ) — Two
white men abducted a cotton.mill
foreman and sped away with him
.in his automobile near here today..
A posse, aided by an airplane,
{went out to search for the foreman
,and his abductors.
+ Frank Bryant, brother of the
i sheriff, said the abducted man is
lSam Watters, foremen of the Crown
yCotton mills here. ey
| Bryant gaid Watters was abduct
ed afrer the men had menaced a
‘taxicab driver an@ wrecked his
jcab. Watters, he said, happened
along and they took his car, with
thim in it. s
CROYDON, England — #®
Shattering all speed recordg for
an eastward crossing of the- At
lantic, Captain James A. Mollison
landed there today eonly 13 hours
and 17 minutes after hopping off
from wintry Newfoundland.
Roaring across the stormy At
lantic in hig Bellanca monoplane,
the lone pilot averaged approxi
mately 160 miles an hour to reach
his goal at 9:57 a, m, (4:57 a. m,
E.S.T.) 5
It was the first time a flight
with L.ondon as the eastern goal
had been successfully completed
without a forced landing en route.
Counting the six hours and 41
minuteg he took to reach Harber
Grace, N. F., from New York;’;fi
had made the entire flight in 19
nours and 59 minutes.
Only a dozen speerators wera on
hand to cheer the veteran flier's
brilliant success. y
| Captain Mollison appeared ex
‘hausted when lifted from his plane.
Hig first remark was: :
“I am so damned tired. lam
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