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J. H. GRIFFETH
J. H. QGriffeth, senior member
of the Clarke County Board of
Commissioners yesterday was elect
ed chairman for the ensuing year.
He will succeed J. K. dDavis.
Commissioner Griffeth is a for
mer president cf the Georgia As
gociation of County Commission
ers and is at present a member of
the board of managers of that or
ganization.
The chairmen of the Clarke com
mission are elected according to
a rotatlon system. Dr., C. M.
Strahan is the third member of
the commission.
Government Loses in
Attempt to Collect
Football Game Taxes
ATLANTA .—(#)—Federal Judge
8. Marvin Underwood ruled here
today that the federal government
cannot collect taxes on admission
to footbhall games from the Uni
versity of Georgia ang the Geor
giag School of Technology.
Athletic associations of th 3
schools brought action ta‘\w
Colletor of Internal Revenue W.
E. Page'from collecting the taxes
—5895.37 from the TUniversity of
Georgia and $3,914.63 from Geor
gia. Tech.
Judge Underwood ruled that the
injunction should be granted and
ordered attorneys for the athletic
associations to prepare a decree
conforming with his decision.
Regular Legion Meeting
To Be Held on Thursday
The regular meeting of the Al
len R. Fleming Post of the Amer
i®an Legion will be helg tomorrow
night ‘at 8 .o’clock at the Legion
log cabin.
All members are urged to be
present as many important mat
ters must be decided upon at this
meeting, W. A. Hodgson, adju
tant, announced this morning.
MOSELEY IS NAMED
TO PRESIDE OVER
ESTATE HEARING
Judge Berry T. Moseley of
Danielsville has been designated
to act in the suit filed in Clarke
Superior court by some of the
heirs of the late Judge Hamilton
McWhorter who seek to discharge
the receiver of the estate and di
vide the property among the heirs,
Judge Blanton Fortson has dis-
Qualifieq hiniself on the grounds
that he at one time was connected
With the McWhorter estate and
henice felt that he should ‘not pre
side over the hearings.
Judge W. D. Tutt of. Elberton
recently was appointed by agree
ment of attorneys for all the prin
cipals in the case to act as audi
tor for certain phases of the case
and report to the court in April.
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Rivers to Go Into
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Office at Qutdoor
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Ceremonies Tuesday
ATLANTA. —(#)— Declaring it
will be “a bright day for Geor
gla even if it rains, friends of Gov
“rnor-Elect E. D. Rivers planned
today for open air ceremonies at
his inauguration next Tgesday.
Chief Justice Richard. B. Rus
sell of the Supreme Court will ad
minister the oath of office to Riv
°rs on a platform in front of the
state capitol.
The new governor will then in
tirn administer the oaths to George
B. Hamilton and William B. Har
rison, state treasurer and comp
troller general elect respectively.
Both Hamilton anq Harrisor
Were ousted from office by Gover
nor Tammadge, but were re-elect
de in the general election.
The governor-elect planned te
Wwork on his inaugural address at
his home in Lakeland today. He
attended the inauguration of Gov«
frnor Freq Cone of Florida ir
‘Tallahassee yesterday. - -
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Congress Hears President Roosevelt's Annual Message
More Strikes *L*O(; m In Automobile-Labor Fight
Sloan Joins Others
In ““High Command™
In Detroit Office
GCeneral Motors’ Leaders]
Visit Is Said to Be
Only “‘Routine” ?
| ROPER CONCERNED
Secretary of Commerce
Sees Early Settlement
Of Strike, However
GREATLY CONCERNED
WASHINGTON —(#)— Secre-
tary Roper said today the ad
ministration was “greatly con-~
cerned” over the labor situation
in the General Motors automo
bile plants but added he ex-
pected a settlement would be
reached.
“We are all greatly concern
ed,” Roper said in response to
questions at his press confer
ence, ‘“‘and would like to be
helpful in every way we can
to bring about a proper recon
ciliation, ; 3
“I have an idea that will be
done.”
He said the commerce depart
ment would not ‘“step In” the
labor controversy directly but
would “tender its services to
the department of labor.”
| DETROIT — (#) — Alfred P
{Sloan, president, joined others i 1
the “high command” of General
Motors corporation today at com
pany offices here as gpreading
strikes beset their automotive
plants,
Corporation officials described
Sloan’s visit as of a routine na
ture and insisted no conference had
| been arranged with federal labor
| concilators who are seeking a pos
sible basis for settlement of strik
es called by the United Automobile
‘Workers of America,
I Despite thig insistence, observers
considered it probable James F.
Dewey, labor department conciila
tor, who has talked with union
! heads, would try for similar meet
[mgs with the General Motors offi
lclfils.
i Sloan arrived this morning from
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4 American Flyers
l Quit Spanizh Army
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‘ PARIS —(AP) — Four disillus
joned American aviators announc
| ed today they were through with
Spain and, furthermore, they were
through with civil wars.
The quadrumvirate — Bert
Acosta, Frederick Lord, Gordon
Berry and Eddie Schneider — had
led the Spranish socialist govern
{ ment’s “Yankee Squadron” on the
Basque front in the far north .
But, they said, they were not
paid, and money was their only
, reason for joining up.
The venture, said Schneider,
f“was purely business.”
| They quit Spain after six weeks
in the mountainous war zone of
the Basques’ Pyrenees and re
turned ‘here.
Schneider told the European ed
ition of the New York Herald
Tribune “we quit because the
Spanish government owes Uus
$1,100.”
The fliers also protested they
were given nothing but unarmed
lsrorts planes with which to fight
while Russian pilots were assign
led “regular American armjy
plnaes.”
Gross Receipts Tax Bill To Be
Introduced To Georgia Solons
ATLANTA. —(®)— A $20,000.000
gross receipts tax bill to provide‘
funds for old age pensions and a
state-supported public school sys-i
tem will reach the house of repre
sentatives during the first few‘
days of the general assembly ses
sion opening here Monday. |
Representative J. M. Simmons
of Bainbridge will introduce the
fheasure along with other propo
sals for changes in the state's tax
ing system, and declared it will
encourage elimination of levies on
real estate by the state and vari
ous county school units.
~ Twenty per cent of the revenue
from the tax, Simmons said, would
g 0 to pay old age pensions while
Full Associated Press Service
MORE ACCUSATIONG
LAUNCHED TODAY BY
RUSSIA AND SPAIN
France Considers Sending
Troops to Protect Its
Spanish Border
SHIP IS SEIZED
Creat Britain Orders Mass
Movement of Warships
In Mediterannean
(By the Associated Press)
Soviet Russia and socialist Spain
launched bitter new accusations
at fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
today while France considered
pushing troops to her Spanish
border and Britain shifted 172,000
tons of fighting shipg in the Medi
terranean,
Another Soviet steamer —the
Ninth—was seized by insurgent sea
forces in the Straits of Gibraltar,
Great Britain ordered a mass
movement of 172,000 tong of war
ships in the Miediterranean today
after requesting Germany and Italy
to answer by Saturday her propos
al to ban volunteers from the
Spanish civil war.
Naval Maneuvers
Four of the British navy’s larg
est fighting ships prepared to steam
between Gibaltar and Malta in
naval maneuvers described by the
admiralty as “routine” but inter-
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KIWANIS PROGRAM
WILL A 0 FARMERS
Meeting to Be Held Here
Soon by Kiwanis State
Agricultural Group
DECATU,R Ga, —(AP)—W. Will
Hosch, whairman of the Georgia
district agricultural committee of
Kiwanis International, said herel
today, “a program to aid rural boys |
and girls in their elub work” will
be one of the committee's chief ob-i
jectives this year.
He said he felt this can be done
by “cooperating with the various
vouth movementg such as the 4-H
clubs and Boy Scouts, especially |
as their work touches on agricul
ture.”
Another objective, Hosch an
nounced, will be -the seeking of a
better understanamng in the dif
ferent towns between the farmers
and business men.”
He said he plans to call a meet
ing of the entire committee in Ath
ens within the next 10 days to out
line the ‘committee’s program.
Appoinfed by lrean Owens, of
Rome, Georgia governor of Kiwan
is, the committee includes beside
Hosch, Dewey H, Johnson, of'
Augusta; Allman Carter, of Madi
son; J, T. Wheeler, of Athens and
C. B. Ingram of Fort Valley. |
80 per cent would be distributed
Ito public school systems.
I Only counties qropping their own
}school tax levies would be eliglble
ito receive money from the fund,
iwith exception of those systems in
|cities of 40,000 population or more
Simmons’ propvusal is for a two
per cent tax on gross receipts of
lretailers, with an exemption of
!81.000. The levy on manufacturers’
|and wholesalers’ receipts would be
lone fourth of one per cent.
Farming selling directly to con
sumers would not be subject to
l’the tax, but middle-men handling
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Athens, Ga., Wednesday, January 6, 1937.
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E Invested with full power to €all a strike of 275,000 workers in 69 General Motors plants, a union
“board of strategy” was named to direct a major offensive against the mammotp corpor:}tlon, five
i of the board members being shown here as they met in Flint, Mich., to plan their campaign. Left
f to right are Leo Krzycki, vice president Amalgamated Clothing Workers; Jolm Bropl}_\u o 1 O,
| director; Adolph Germer, C. 1. O. organizer in the auto industry; Homer Martin, px'Csndemrof .tho
| United Automobile Workers, and Allan Haywood, C. 1. O. representative. Other auto union exec
| utives were included on the board, as was Glen W. McCabe, president of the Flat Glass Workers
CONGRESS HASTENG
TOHALT SHIPMENT
Another License Granted
- For Shipment of Arms to
Spanish Loyalists
WASHINGTON — (AP)— Con
gress raced today to Dblock the
shipment of more than $7,000,009
of munitions to the Spanish Loy
alist government.
Granting of a second license for
the exportation of planes and
cther equipment caused Chairman
Fittman (D-Nev.) to call the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee into session this afternoon
to consider an emergency embar
go against munitions for either
side in Spain’s ecivil war.
He spoke to get swift approval
of the resolution and put it
through the senate tomorrow, so
that the house can act by the end
of the week,
Even with this unprecendented
parliamentary haste, it looked as
if congress might win only a draw
in its race to maintain neutrality
in the Spanish crisis.
Robert Cuse, whose license io
export $2,777,000 of airplanes and
eng'nes inspired tn: legislative
drive, loaded part of his shipment
on a Spanish vessel in New York
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JULIANA TO WED
GERMAN PRINCE
| By THOMAS J. HAMILTON, Jr.
THE HAGUE —{#)— Wilhelmina
of Holland dug down in her queen
,l ly purse today to help out the Ger
man Princess - Bridesmaids of
Crown PrinCesg Juliana, who be
comeg a bride tomorrow.
| First, German resentment over
the non-singing of Nazi “lieds”
'and the non-flying of Nazi swas
| tikas caused passport difficulties
{ for the bridesmaids, who include
i the Princesses Elizabeth and Sieg
l linde Zu Lippe and Sophie of Saxe-
Weimareisenach, kinswomen of the
!flustered groom, - Prince Bernard
§Zu Lippe Biesterfeld,
That was ironed out, but the
lßelch‘s government, pursuing its
{-usual course when citizens leave
| the country on visit, permitted the
: bridesmaids to depart with but 10
| marks apiece (less than $4.)
So the queen is @efraying all
-expenditures—including those for
! the wedding dresses, fancy dress
| ball costumes and pin money for
the girls.
Dutch orchestra leader’s refusal
to conduct the Nazi “Horst Wessel”
at a royal entertainment rivalled
interest in the climax of festivities
for the wedding. 1
The incident occurred before -~ 1
guests, including the bridal (-ouple‘
and Queen Wilhelmina, at a gala
festival last night. It marked tho‘
latest set-back to the Netherlands'
hopes of keeping the wedding &
“family affair” and avoiding inter
national complications because of
the German origin of Prince Bern
ard Zu Lippe-Diesterfeld, Juliana’s
fiance, ee L T
—ESTABLISHED 1832
Have You Any Crows
You Would Like to
Sell the University?
Wanted: by the zoology de
partment of The University of
Georgia, crows—alive and dead.
For the live crows, the depart
ment will pay $1 each plus
express charges,
For the third time within a few
months, the cry goes out to Geor
gia ang surrounding states, “We
want live crows! Lots of live
crows! Please send us live crows!”
In the vicinity of Athens are
several pet crows which the de
partment is anxious to obtain. So
far, however, the owners have not
been able to reconcile themselves
to giving up their pets for the
good of science, gven though the
birds are given the mos¢ flattering
attention by the professors who
actually sit up with them at night
These nightly vigils are concerned
with blood tests, reactions, symp
toms, and the like. And a proud
bird it is that can give a couple
of caws for his country.
The purpose of the experiments
is correlation of the effects of dis
eases of -birds - and animals with
the diseases of man. Also, in
view of thg fact that in some sec
tions crows are used as human
foods, the scientists conducting
the experiments, Dr. Ronald C.
Boughton and Dr. George H. Boyd
and their associates, are particu
larly anxious to learn whether or
not . Georgia crows are infected
with certain round worms that
bother northern crows.
For the success of the experi
ments a big supply of live crows
is necessary. The department will
not pay for the dead birds, but it
is willing to pay $t for each live
one received. And so for the third
time, out goes the cry: “Send us
live crows.”
A LOT OF STILLS
ATLANTA — (#) — ¥ederal of
ticers seized 1,428 stills and made
2,546 arrestg in Georgia in 1935,
alcohol tax unit officials reported
here.
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RAINFALIL,
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Total since January 1...... 4.34
Excess since January 1.... 3.88
Average January rainfall,.. 4.83
LARGE SALARIES
PAID LAST YEAR
W. R. Hearst Cot $500,-
000, Mae West $480,-
833, n 1936
WASHINGTON — (#) — A peak
into the pay envelopes of some of
nation’s big men sn@ women, af
forded by a treasury department
report to congress, showed today
that top salaries went to movie
stars and captains of industry.
The voluminous document, made
public by the house ways and
means committee, answered at leas’
some of the questions concerning
what “the other fellow” made in
1936. Salaries of more than $15,-
000 were listed.
William Randolph Hearst, the
publisher, maintained his position
as the country’s leading wage earn
er with pay checks of $500,000.
Mae West, the throaty-voiced
siren of the secreen, ran him a
close second with earntngs of $480,-
833. She topped all film stars in
cluding Janet Gaynor, last year's
highest paid actress, whose 1935
income totaled $169,750.
Charlie Chaplin’s salary was
listed at $260,000. The late Will
Rogerg earned $258,000. Fred As
taire received $127,875; Ginger RoO
gers, frequently wco-starred with
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SIX MAY DIE IN
SING SING CHAIR
SENTENCES COMMUTED
ALBANY, N. Y. — (AP) —
Governor Lehman commuted
~ to life imprisonment today the
~ sentenc®s of three of six youths
) convicted of murdering Edwin
~ Esposito, 22-year-old Brooklyn
subway station attendant,
They were scheduled to be
executed tomorrow night,
OSSINING, N. Y. —(AP)— BSix
convicted killers sat in the death
house of Sing SBSing prison today,
nervously discussing the possibility
Governor Herhert H. Lehman
might commute the sentenceg of
three to life imprisonment before
they start the “walk out back” to
morrow night.
The six weére convicted of kill
ing Edwin Esposito, a Brooklyn
subway collector, for S2OO in nick
les and dimes in September, 1935.
Relatives, making their last visit
told them of a pavement prayer
meeting yesterday in which ap
proximately 400 women gathered in
New York in front of the Park
Avenue apartment building where
Governor Lehman srves, and prayed
that he be lenient to the condemn
ed.
The governor, however, was in
Albany, 125 miles away,
District Attorney William F. Xl
Geoghan, who prosecuted the six,
telephoned the governor last night
after a long talk with three of the
convicts. He declined to gay what
e
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A. B C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday
Enlightened Views
0f Constitution Asked
By President Today
GEORGIA GRIDDERS
10 PLAY N DAIAM
STADIUM THIS FALL
University Authorities De
cide to Play in Dedica
tion of New Stadium
DECISION TODAY
Athens Boy Will Be Mem
ber of Miami Team
Next Season
By JACK REID
University of Georgia athletis
officials this morning aprroved
plans for the Bulldog eleven to
face Miami University in a post
season engagement on December
10th, dedicating Miami's new
Orange Bowl Stadium, now under
construction.
The announcement was made
by Athletic Director H. J. Stege
man, who said he was not certain
as yet if the game in Miami
would be in the afternoon or night.
MAlthongh some reports have it
that the game will be at mnight,
Stegeman said he did not have
that definite understanding.
Miami's desire to meet Georgia
in the dedication game first leap
ed into the news during early
winter, but at that time it was
considered impossible for the team
to meet, as Georgia‘'s schedule
conflicted with the proposed
dates, both of which were during
the regular season. -
It was finally arranged, howev
er, to rlay the contest as a post-
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JARNAGIN SPEAKER
IN LINGOLN. NERR.
Agriculture Meet Hears
Athenian Discuss Soil
Erosion Problems
LINCOLN, Neb. — (# — Since
nature requireg 300 years to build
an inch of topsoil, man should eo
operate by conserving it, Dr. Mil
ton P, Jarnagin, of the University
of Georgia, said todday at the an
nual meeting of egrganized agri-
culture,
Dr. Jarnagin, head of the animal
husbandy department of the col
lege, at Athens, said grass was “the
surest means of protecting land
under cultivation from erosion.”
“Much attention ‘has been di
rected in recent years to undesir
able surpluses of rarm products,”
he said. “For one reason or ano
ther crops have been plowed un
der and livestock production cur
tailed. :
“But unless something is done
about the erosion situation nature
will take care of our surplses by
s 0 reducing cultivatable land that,
so far from producing a surplus of
foodstuffs, we will not be able to
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Kidnap Victim Thought To
Be Held In Shelton, Wash.
TACOMA, Wash. — (#) — A
visit by two southwest Washing
ton men to kidnap investigation
headquarters today revived specu
lation the abductors of 10-year
old Charles Mattson may be hiding
the boy near Sheswyon.
The pair was identified as a
Shelton business man and a resi
dent of Hoodsport, near Shelton in
a heavily timbered and sparsely
populated area southwest of Ta
coma. |
They were closeted with agents
at the Federal Bureau of Investi
gation’s special office here for
more than an hour and a half.
Neither would publicly discuss
HeE R
Urges Additions to Neu
trality Laws to Meet
Situation in Spain
REVIEWS AFFAIRS
Congressional Considera
tion of Deficiency Ap
propriation Bill Asked
WASHINGTON—(#)— President
Roosevelt summoned the courtsto
day to do their part “in making
democracy successful” within thd
framework of the Constitution at
a time when “militarism has lept
forward” abroad.
Addressing a joint session of
congress from the speaker’s dias
in the house chamber, thg Presi
dent said:
“The vital need is not alteration
of our fundamental law, but an
increasingly enlightened view with
reference to it. . . .
I “We do not ask the courts to
{call non-existent powers into be
ing, but we have a right to ex
pect that concedeq powers or
those legitimately implied shall he
made effective instrument for the
‘common good. e
| “The process of our democracy
must not be imperiled by the de
nial of essential powers of free
government.” *
i Problems Still Here g
{ Before the h%gxuw democratie
'congress, the chlef executive as
serted that “the broad objectives’
of NRA were “sound,” adding:
; “The statute of NRA has bheen
‘outlawed. The problems have not.
They are still with us.”
} The President did not mention
|the Supreme court, by name, but
Ihe said at one point: e
“Because all of us belleve thail
'our democratic form of govern
’ment can cope adequately with
modern problems as they arise, it
is patriotic as well as logical for
ius to prove that we can meet new
, nationa] needs with new laws con=
sitent with the historic constitu
| tional framework clearly intended
}to receive liberal and not narrow
i interpretation.
Mr. Roosevelt confined hig mess
‘age to a broad outline of future
| problems, saying he would have
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Tenancy Problem Is
Worry for Congress
' WASHINGTON — (AP) —On
the anniversary of AAA’s death
the administration centered its
farm interests today on spldE
the tenancy problem. e
i Senator Bankhead (D-Ala.) and
| Chairman Jones (D-Tex.) of tha
house agriculture committee of«
tfered a bill to provide $50,000,900
| annually for ten years to help
Itenants buy farms of their own.
| Afthough tenants would be
Afthough tenants would be
given 40 years to pay for their
farms, they would rot be allowed
to re-sell the land as long as they
owed anything on it. i e
A farmers’ home corporation
would buy land for least or sale,
but county committees, each coms=
posed of a farmer, a business mas
and a credit expert, would select
tenants for assistance. f
Tenant buyers would leave the
land for five years on annual pay=
ments of at least five per cent of
the purchase price, The tenant
thereafter could exercise an op=-
tion to buy, and the rentals would
be applied on the purchase price.
the reason for driving 50 miles
over icy roads through early morn
ing fog and darkness. Their only
words were: ‘al
f “We can’t talk”
G. R. Grubbe, watchman at a
'mill in Shelton at the south end
of Puget Sound, touched off a
great man hunt in that area Sun
day night by reporting one of tw«
“tough looking” men in a couple
ordered him to tell the child'd
father, Dr. W, W. Mattson of Ta
coma personally “everything
well” L e
The hunt for the men and the
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