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Vol. 104. No. 293.
FLASHES
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GREBNVILLE, 8. C., — Rurall
school supervisor George D. Brown |
discovered 22 rupils of Glassy
Mountain High school, up in the
mountains, had never been in a
barbershop, seen a movie, or heard
a radio.
So nine local schools have in
vited the 22 to come to town for
free haircuts, a turkey dinner, and
a movie-radio party.
; SNEAK THIEF
MIAMI.—The auto theft squad
today was on the trial of loot re
ported stolen from the Homestead
Machinery Company. The missing
item is a 10-ton steam roller.
NEW SENTENCES FOR NEW
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Benny New
started a one-year jail term in
1926 for auto theft. Today he still|
has 14 years more tw G ’
Up until yesterday New had es
caped and been brought back to
jail six times. Onys oeccasion
he stole an autm, thereby
adding a few more years to hisj
sentence, ‘
CLOTHES CALL N
OKLATIOMA ClTY.—Police res
ceived an early morning call that
a “crazy”’ man was sitting on th
curb outside the caller’s = house
rapidly divesting himself of his
clothes.
A police car speq to the scene.
There was a pile of clothes on th
curb. The owner was gone.
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VANISHING PALEFACES !
POCATELLO, Idaho, — Johnny
Balalrd, Augustlndian chief, gazed
at an audience of pretty co-eds at
the University of Idaho. Southern
branch. Through an interperter he
observed:
“In the past it was the Indian
‘who wused paint to decorate hiil
body and face. Now it is the white
woman.” 1
Atlanta Couple to
“Adopt Oll"phan Girl
An Atlanta couple will adopt the
little five year old orphan airl
about whom a story was carried in
Tuesday’s Bammer-Herald. Selec
tion of-the couple was made by re
lativeg of the child.
The couple read the story in this
paper and immediately set about
adopting the little girl, who will
also be with them during Christ
mas.
Almost a dozen families and per
sons hecame interest in adopting
the child and many, many others
wished to have her as their guest
during Christmas. |
In behalf of the child, the Ban
ner-Herald wishes to thank the
dozen of sympathetie readers who
interested themselves in the case.
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WILL RUN AGAIN |
WASHINGTON, Ga. — (B) —
Mayor Luke D. Faver, elected
two years ago on a four-word |
pletform—*T need the money"—-l
announced he will be a candidate
for re-election in January.
Despite his platform, Mayor
Faver voted to reduce his salary
during his present term. In his
re-election campaign, he is advo-l
cating a commission form of gov
ernment.
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|Georgin News Briefs |
— ATLANTA — (#) — If you will
pardon the pun, please be advised
that $3 belonging to Novelist Mar
garet Mitchell has “Gone With The
Wind.” l
The author's brother paid the
money into police court because
officery tagged her car for ijllegal
parking.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — (&) — Augus
ta mourned the death of John Lum,
32, Chinese leader and professor of
languages in a Chinese school, He
died in a hospital after an illness
of two weeks. Funeral arrange-!
mentg will be announced after ar
rival of his father, who lives in
San Francisco. Lum took an act
ive part in civic work here, and
in-affairs of the Baptist church.
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Chinese Officials See Fresh Fope for
War’s End and Release of D tator
BY: PUNITVE FORCE
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Activities Spreading in
. Wide Circle Around
Shensi Capital
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DETAILS MISSING
Negotiations® Thought to
Be Result of Drive by
Central Army
: NGHAT __ (#) — Tighting
; d Sian for th&¥elease of Dic
rator Chiang Kai-Shek was report
ed today to haye spread in a wide
cirele about the ompital of Shensi
province where the generalissimo
was.hld. captive.
« troopg of the Nanking gov
t and the rebel army of
.firshal Chang Hsueh-Liang were
reported by the official Central
News Agency to have clashed 70
miles east of Sian,
The News Agency described the
engagement as spreading from the
battle which bhegan yesterday to
the west of Sian.
The rebels, guarding the ap
proaches to their headquarters,
were said to have attacked the
central army at Hwayin, first stop
on the important Lunghai railway
in Shensi province.
Divisions Victorious
(Reports from Nankmg said the
divisions pressing to the rescue of
General Chiang were victorious in
the fighting both to the east and
west of Sian and had forced the
mutinous army to retire on their
capital.)
Negotiations opened by Marshal
Chang, as announced in Nanking,
to end the rebellion and release the
Chinese dictator, were thought in
some quarters to have resulted
from the drive of the central army.“
The Central News agency made
no claims of victory for the gnv-‘
ernment troops and after a tersel
statement of the fighting :deed;
“no further details were u\'ailahle."l
PLOTTING CHARGE !
TOKYO — (#) — Fifty-four so]f—l
styled “God-sent” army and navy|
men were held- today for trial,;
charged with plotting three vears,
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In 1893 Dr. Hermann M. Biggs urged
the notification of cases of consump
tion and also that free provision
should be made for the examination
of sputum. Because of great opposi
tion it was not until 1907 that tubercu-
Josis was finally classed as a com
municable and infectious disease and
as such was legally reportable by all
physicians. New York’s example has
been followed by other cities.
ATLANTA — (®) — (loser har
mony between cities and rural dis
tricts will be sought by the incom
ing legislature, (Governor-elect E.
D. Rivers said in an address here.
Atlanta and Fulton county of
ficials and some state officers
heard the address at a dinner given
last night by Alderman Robert
Carpenter. |
ATLANTA — (# — Homer
Haney, a legless man, was free
from a stockade sentence today and
all because he recalled when he
used to fish with Mayor Key at
Stockade Lake. @
“I remember when we used to
fish together and I hope we mays
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Full Associated Press Service
STATE WORKERS FACE
'PERIOD WITHOUT PAY
ATLANTA . —(#)—State em
ployes faced today a period of
service without pay from the
time E. D. Rivers takes of
fice as governor until the leg
islature can enact an appro
priations bill. %
Treasurer elect George B.
Hamilton, who was ousted by
Governor Talmadge for refus
ing to met vouchers without
an appropriations measure, and
Roy V. Harris of Augusta, un
opposed camdidate for the
house speakership, ~bßoth say
payday must await legislative
action,
“No monies will be spent
from the state treasury under
the next administration until
the general asesmbly passes
an appropriation measure for
1937, Harris sai@ in Augusta
yesterday.
DAY — BY — DAY
ON THE RADIO
BY C. E. BUTTERFIELD
(Time is Eastern Standard)
.Tuning in tonight (Thursday)—
Talks: WJZ-NBC 9:30 Town Meet
ing, Gen. Hugh _S. Johnson and
Clinton L, Bardo on “Can Business
Absorb our Unemployment?”
WABC-CBS 10, Frederick V. Field
on “Will China Fight?”
WEAFR-NBC—7:I6 Voice of Ex
perience; 8 Rudy Vallee; 9 Show
boat; 10 Bing Crosby and Mary
Astor; 12:08 Three T's Orchestra.
WABC-C85—7:156 Ted Husing; §
Kate Smith; 9 MaJor Bowes Ama
teurs; 10:30 March of Time; 12
Vincent Kopez Orchestra,
WJZ-NBC—T Hasy Aces; 8 Bos
ton Symphony;- 10:8& NBS Jam
boree; Al3lb Crimg¢ % Prevention
program frem Marsiard s State Pri
gon; 12:30 Bobby Hayes Orchestra.
| What to expect Friday: Inter-
American conference—WEAF-NBC
4:30 p. m., Arbitration Commission
Meeting; WEAF-NBC—6:2O Sec. of
State Hull; WABC-CBS 7:356 Har
modio Arias of Pwnama.
WEAF-NBC—2 Music Apprecia
tion (also WJZ-UBC): 4 Tea Time
Variety; 5 Ohio State Glee club.
WABC-CBS—I:IS George Hall Or
chestra; 2:45 Cincinnati Symph
ony; 5:15 Dorothy Gordon’s Cor
ner. WJZ-NBC—-12:30 Farm ‘and
Home Hour; 3:15 Concert from{
Lipsia, Germany; 4 Radio Guild,
Christmas Pageant.
3 PERSONS DIE IN
TRAIN CRASH TODAY
li'Castleberry, Ala., Scene
[" Of Head-on Collision of
~ Passenger Trains
CASTLEBERRY, Ala.—(#)—A
southbound Louisville & Nashville
passenger train plunged head-on
into a northbound passenger train
standing in the station here early
today, Kkilling the engineers of
both trains and the fireman of
one.
The impact gave passengers a
severe shock, but none was re
ported injured seriously.
Both engines virtually were de
molished.
The dead were Engineers Joe
Gorey and Philip Grizzard, and a
negro fireman named Barnes.
Officials declined to discuss the
cause of the crash, pending a
check-up.
Passenger train No. 3 apparent
ly traveling at a rapid speed,
trainmen said, crashed into train
No. 2 as it stood at a water
tank on the main line. No. 2
runs from = Mobile to Cincinnati,
and No. 3 from Cincinnati to
Mobile. The southbound train was
running approximately 3 hours
late when it left Montgomery at
2a. m,
The wreck occurred shortly
after 5 a. m.
Mayor R. J. Matthews of Cas
tleberry said there was a heavy
fog at the time of the crash and
that many believed Grizzard, driv
ing the southbound No. 3 train,
did not see the switch signais
just above Castleberry that were
reported to have been set direct
ing him to a siding.
Matthews said that engine, mail
and baggage cars of both trains
were derailed but that none of the
passenger coaches left the tracks.
He said a few of the passengers
were seen walking around the
wreckage, some limping, but that
he could not learn definitely
whether any were seriously in
jured. Apparently, he said, none
was hurt to any extent.
He said No. 2 heading north
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Ermine and top hats added an ultra-fiourgeois air to the party at the
Russian embassy in Washington, D,'C,, in celebration of the adop-~
tion of a new constitution by anti-capitalist Soviet Russia. Joseph
Davies, U. S. ambasx}dox;-ydosignate‘g the Soviets, and Mrs. Davies
are shown at top as they arrived at the embassy. Alfred Sze, lower
left, Chinese ambassador, was immaculate with top hat and muffler,
while Capt. and Mrs. Kengo Kobayashi, lower center, of Japan,
seemed to enjoy themselves despite their homeland’s avowed enmity
for Russia. Madame Saito, Japanese ambassador’s wife, is pic=
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Commons to Probe 8.8. C.; Radio
Address By Canterbury Is Target
LONDON. —(#)—The wrath of
militnat members of the house of
commons fell today on the Brit-i
ish 'Broadcasting company for the
Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent!
radio denunciation of former King‘
Edward VIII and his friends.
Members who disapproved -the
censure by the head of the church
of England prepared to explore
every detail of arrangements by
the 8.8. C., g government mono
poly, for broadcasts concerning the
now Duke of Windsor's abdica
tion. i
Their fire, however, was expect-‘
ed to center on the primate’s ad-l
dress Sunday, after Windsor had
gone into voluntary exile, which
was broadcast over 8.8. C. facili
ties. ‘' Thet whole issue was pre
pared for general debate, possibly
tonight, after inquiries into otherl
phases of the 8.8.C.’s actlvities.|
The archbishop provoked a wide
controversy by his rebuke of thei
former ruler for desiring to wedl
twice ~ divorced Walis Wartield‘
Simpson ags a ‘“violation of Christ- |
jan principles of marriage” and of |
his friends as a ‘“circle whose
standards and ways of life are|
alien to all the best instincts andi
traditions of his people.” |
M.P.’s opposed tec che archbish
op’s stand declared they would try!
to uncover the secre¢ details sur-‘
rounding Edward’'s farewell broad
cast. }
GETS 6,000 LETTERS |
ENZESFELD, Austria—(#)—The
Duke of Windsor, suffering again
from severe headaches, received
Madrid Fears Another Air |
Raid After 20 Are Killed
MADRID — (&) . Bombed Mad
rid feared today its fascist be
siegers would unleash another in-|
fantry attack following an air rakfl
in which at least 20 persons were“
killed and 100 wounded. |
About 100 government planes
took the air against the invaders
and, officials said, shot down four{
lenemy pursuit planes and one|
bomber. n
Heavy fighting continued far into]
|t.he night, centering around Boad-]
illa Del Monte and the University
lcuy section. |‘
(Insurgent field headquarters at
Salamanca announced fascist troops
had captured Boadilla Del Monte!
after heavy fighting in which 82
6,000 letters from feminine ad-‘
mirers today applauding his “ro-l
mantic gesture” in giving up the‘
British throne for Wallis Warfield
Simpson. |
Eight hundred of the writers
also asked the British prince for
jobs, most of them expressing a
preference for secretarial work.
Reliable | sources disclosed the
duke suffereq last night from an
other attack of severe head pains,
which some said might be con
nected with his ear affliction,
Attendants at the castle of Bar
on Eugene de Rothschild, where
the former ruler is & guest, em
phasized however the duke “is
not really iIL”
They said he intends to continue
his golf and may g 0 on a hunting
trip.
The presence of the abdicated
monarch brought a new bustle of
excitement to this little Austrian
village where spectators thronged
in the hope of getting a glimpse
of the man who renounced a
throne for love.
An innkeeper, whose best busi
ness day formerly had brought §8
into his till, grossed $275 yester
day.
The «duke’s dog “Slippers” re
ceived a companion when a Vien
na woman presented the prince
with a gray terrier.
He also was offered chances to
buy 220 castles, most of them be
longing to impoverished nobles.
BEdward sat up late last night
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goldiers in the defending interna
tional brigade were killed.)
(By the Associated Press)
HENDAYE, France—Uncensored
reports from war-torn Madrid
’quoted reliable sources today as
having said the Madrid govern
[ment is convinced that only with
‘ldeflnite foreign aid can it defeat
the Spanish fascists.
k Recognition of Gen. Francisco
lFranco's insurgent régime by Italy
and Germany struck a death blow
[at the Madrid cause, its leaders
felt, just as a time when the city’s
}.‘unexpected defenses seemed to bel
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Officials Fear Plane May
Not Be Found Until
‘ Next Spring |
SALT LAKE CITY — (#) — A
freshly sheared mountain tree and
possible “tracks of an airplane”
drew searchers into a gnow-drifted
wilderness today, confident the fate
of an airlinér carrying two women
and five men would be known by
nightfall,
The passengers — including @&
pretty stewardess who stepped
deftly’ in and out of a triangular
romance—were feared to have
crashed to death or to have died
of exposure, i
Mountain Slopes |
The hunt centered on the western!
slope of the Wasatch Mountains,
26 miles southwest of Salt Lake.
City, where geveral people report-l
ed hearing a sputtering airplane!
motor early Tuesday, the day the'
Los Angeles-Salt Lake City West
ern Air express transport disap-l
peared. l
At dusk yesterday a broken tree
was found atop a ridgeandon the
nearby rin of a canyon were deep
indentationg in the shale, J, I.‘
Hess, foregt service foreman, said
they “wight be tracks of an air
plane.”
A sudden snowstorm cut short
investigation last night. ‘
Grimly A. E Cahlan of Les Ve-!
gas, spokesman for Western Air
Express, admitted that officialg be
lieved ‘“‘the plane’s occupants have
perished.”
The missing seven were:
Mr. and Mrs. John F, Wolfe, of
Chicago, married only 17 days ago.
Henry W. BEdwards, Minneapolis,
a representative of Northwest Air-:
lines,
Carl Christopher, Dwight, Ili., on
his way home when informed his
wife was seriously ill.
Stewardesg Gladys Witt, who re
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OIRIKE ATTENTION
ON CAPITAL TODAY
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John L. Lewis to Meet
With Leaders of Glass
And Auto Workers
' By The Associated Press
Strike-plagued branches of the
automobile industry turneq their
attention today to a conference at
Washington between John L. Lewis,
head of the committee for Indus
trial organization, and leaders of
glass and automobile workers
unions,
Conferees included President
Glen W. McCabe of the flat glass
workers—who have 14,000 members
on strike — ang President Homer
Martin of the United Automobile
Workers. McCabe gnd Martin an
nounced last week their unions
would cooperate in labor disputes.
Somg automobile companies said
glass supplies were adeguate fora
month or so. MeCabe predicted
the strikes would affect the indus
try if continued for another three'
or four weeks. |
At Kansas City, Fisher Body
plant employes started the second
day of a “sit down” demonstra
tion protesting dismissal of an
lomploye. They claimed to be 1=
000 in number. |
' Detroit conciliators reporteq no
progress in two “sit down” strikes
iby the United Automobile Work
€lß, affecting 5900 employes of
' the Kelsey-Hayes Wheel company
and another dispute including 600
workers of the Aluminus Company
of America,
Wages remained the chief issue
unsettled’ in the 49-day maritime
'strike which tied up Pacific coast
|shipping operations. The unions
and ship-owners were callegq into
new meetings to try for accord
today.
Harry Bridges, Pacific coast
maritime leader, asked Atlantic
coast longshoremen, at a rally last
night in New . York’s Madison
Square Garden, to support the
west coast walkout.
Joseph P. Ryan, international
president of the International
Longshoremen’s Association, has
refused to sanction such a sympa
thy strike. ! J
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Regarded as part of Mussolini's
eftorts to extend Italy's control
over Austria is the reported im
pending engagement of Princess
Maria of Italy, top photo, and
Archduke Otto, lower photo,
24, pretender to the Austrian
throne. Restoration of Otto to
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Former School Teacher!
Cets 20-Year Sentence)
For Slaying of Father
WISE, Va, — (#) — A Wise'
county jury today convicted Edith
Maxwell, 22-year-old former schooli
teacher, of second degree murder"i
in the death of her father, Trigg|
Maxwell, and fixed her punishment
at 20 years. l
The jury was out an hour and
20 minutes. 1
Miss Maxwell, who stood to hear
the jury’'s verdict burst into sobs
and buried her head on the shoulder|
of her brother, Earl Maxwell,
Her punishment was the maxi
mum permissible for second degree
murder under Virginia statues. Her
first conviction brought a 25-year
sentence for first degree murder,
which was set aside by the state
supreme court.
Commonwealth's Attorney Fred
B. Greear declared Trigg Maxwelli
met his death when his school
teacher-daughter struck him overl
the head with some blunt instrument |
“probably while he slept.” }{Pi
pointed to the testimony of state’s
witnesses who had told the court!
the 22-year-old girl had threatened |
to “finish” her father. ;
Defense counsel emphasized to
the jury that four physicians had
testified Maxwell's death resulted
from “natural causes.”
M. J. Fulton, attorney for the
defense, pictured to the jury a fa
ther “dragging his daughter across[
the floor by her hair while ais hand |
sought her throat,” and thatcn “the
impulse of a moment she picked upl
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Annual Session Of Legislature
To Be Sought By New Assembly
ATLANTA.— (#) —Annual ses
sions of the state legislature, and
right of the law-makers to con
vene themselves at any time will
be sought at the next session of
the general assembly, a leglslative
leader said today. .
Constitutional amendments to
put the proposals into effect would
be necessary. .
The legislator—~who declined to
be quoted by mname—said both
proposals are designed -to prevent
a recurrence of circumstances re
sulting from failure of the 1935
assembly to’ adopt an arpropria
tion bill.
The assembly can not amend
the constitution by its own vote,
but must refer proposed amend-
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Conferences Held Today
With Representative
Of Rebel Leader
SOLUTION SOUGHT
Dictator’s Fellow Captive
Released to Bring Word
Of His Safety
NANKING, China.—(#)—Nan
king officials seized fresh hope
today for an end to China's eivil
war and relezse of Generalissimo
Chiang Kai-Shek after conferen
ces with rebellious Marshail
Chang Hsueh-Liang’s American
adviser, James Elder.
At the same time, @ spokesman
declared a messenger was bring
ing an autographed letter from
the imprisoned military overlord
which would “dispel doubts as t«
the general's safety.”
He also cited a telegram, pur
portedly from W. H. Donald,
Chiang’s Australian-born adviser,
saying he “had returned to Sian
fu and was remaining in the same
room with the generalissimo.”
Solution Sought
Elder, who arrived in the cau
tal early today, was closeted with
government officials for the great
er part of the day attempting to
work out a satisfactory solution
for the crisis.
His movements were strictiy
controlled by Nanking authorities.
Guards were posted around the
¢ntrances of the private residence
and no outsiGers permitted to tal:
with him. r
The control Yuan (council) ap
proved a motion condemning Mar
shal Chang to public execution i
a reslut of the military rebellion
in which the generalissimo was
seized last Friday.
“He (Chang) has shaken .he
nation to its foundations,” the
Yuan declared in a statement.
“So enormous is his crime it can
not be exraiated should he die
ten thousand deaths.”
(Loyal forces, organized into an
expedition to suppress the Shensi
province rebellion, were reported
engaged in intermittent clashes
with Marshal Chang’s soldiers in
the mountain passes which form
the gateway from eastern China
into the interior province situated
in the great plain area). :
Personal Message
The nations’ highest authorities
announced the rebellious marshal
had released General Chiang
Ting-Wen, trusted lieutenant and
fellow captive of the dictator, to
convey a personal message to
Minister of War Ho Ying-Chin,
(Continued on Page Five)
Mother, 2 Children
Are Burned to Death
JANESVILLE, Wis. — () — A
mother and two children were
burned to death early today in a
fire that destroyed their home.
The father saved himself and his
four months olg baby in jumping
from the second story.
The woman, Mrs. Willlam Ry
an, 40, was found dead at the top
of the stairway in the two-story
frame and brick building. The
charred bodies of Frances, 8, and
Billy, s,.were found under g bed.
In front of the kitchen stove was
the dog’s carcass,
Ryan, and the baby he held in
his arms when he leaped were
taken to a hospital. 5
An eiploslon: believed caused by
an accumulation of coal gas,
started the fire,
ments to the people in a general
eiection,
At least one of the amendments
—that for self-governing power of
the legislature—would be in keep
ing with campaign pledges of
Governor-elect E, D. Rivers to
eliminate the possibility in the
future of what he termed Gover
nor Eugene Talmadge's “one man
dictatorship” of state finaneial
affairs.
After the assembly failed to
provide a money bill for 1936 and
1937, and state officers eventually
refused to pay out state funds,
Talmadge early last year removed
the state treasurer and comptrols.
(Continued on Page Five)