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Will Deliver 2
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GAETANO SALVEMINI
The Institute of Public Affairs
at The University of Georgia will
mresent Gactano ‘Salvemini, Italian
professor, lecturer, and author, in
two addresses at the University
Chape!, Jan, 15 anrd 16, - Profes
sor Salvemini will iecture on “Po
litical Democracy and Diectator
ship” and “Political Democracy
and Fconomic Democracy.”
Profegsor Salvemini has now
taken up his permanent residence
in the Uniteq States, living in
Cambridge where he conducts
conrses in the History of Italian
Civilization at Harvard during
the second semester of each year.
When he is not occupied at Har
vard and with his lecture tours,
Salvemini is connected with the
New School for Social Research
in New York City.
Salvemini was formerly profes
sor of history at the TUniversities
of Mesgina, Pisa, and Florence.
Later I became a lecturer at
London University and at Har
vard, From 1911-1921 he was ed
itor of 1) Unita., From 1919-1921
he was a member of the Tltalian
Parliament, 1 :
Professor Salvemini is also the
author of the “The French Reve—
Jution, 1789-92,” - “A.. Sketch of
Mazzini”, “The Question of the
Adviatic”, “From the Treaty of
London to the Peace of Paris”,
“Phe Taseist Dictatorship”, and
the recently pulflished study of
Fascism, “Under the Axe of Fas
cism,” iR
Of this latest work published by
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FOR RELIEF “HIKE™
Representatives From Six
Western States Say FDR
Budget Too Low
WASHINGTON — (#) — Mem
berg of congress from six western
states organized Saturday to fight
for an increase of at least $200,-
00,000 in President Roosevelt’s re
lief estimates for the next five
months,
Senator Bone, Demoecrat, Wash
ington, who served as chairman at
L conference of the group, warned
that “serious trouble may break
ut In the northwest” if Works
Progress administration funds are
“ld 1o the president's recommen
\ steady flow of penniless fami-|
8 Irom drought. stricken areaSl
0 the northwest hag aggravated
€ relief problem, he said, so that]
Ay drastic trimming of WPA
Ylls is out of the question.” ]
The conference named a commit
¢ 0f seven, headed by Senator
0 Democrat, Idaho, to appeal,
"¢ appropriations committees
0L both houses,
Members ape Senators Schwe]-l
. Democrat, Washington and |
Lty Democrat, Mbntana and,
feDresentatives O'Conner, Demb- :
‘L Montana; Pierce, Demoecrat, |
"e80n; Voorhis, Democrat, Calif-'
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Dariel Tr
aniel Trial Will
Open Second Week
Of Court Monday
A
Dol county Superior court
. Pen its second week tomor
¥ morning at 10 o'clock, with
m. 191 cases firse on the docket.
¢ 'ral of Wilile Frank Daniel,
5 ‘ccused of killing Patrol
frman Stein is*slated for the
"lel is said to have admitted
. DZ Stein, but claimed self
“¢. Officers who arrested him
‘* two-day hunt in Lula.
e @ the negro as saying “it was
, " him or mg and T shot him.”
¢ "other murder trial is slated
Reiy IS week. That of Mary
b °ETess, charged with stab
bing Roberta Colquitt, a negro
Yoman, to dedth
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Georgia Legislature Will Convene Tomorrow
Briti;h :mc,i Frend: F{eetg A:ter:lpt*to Keep \K;orl:l O*ut of Sp(:in;; “’;ar
MOVEMENT OF SHIPS
DIRECT ANSWER 10
GEAMAN CHALIENGE
More Than 100 Warships
Steam Toward Spain;
Danger Seen
CHARGES DENIED
France Says Cermans Are
Assembling Opposite
British Cibraltar
BY JOHN EVANS
(Associated Press Chief of Foreign
Service.)
Two great British and French
fleets are speading into ‘long thin
lines of warshins to keep the world
from mixing in Spain’s civil war,
They answer a German chal
llenge.
More than a hundred warships
steamed toward Spain as the world
learned of French allegations that
Germang were assembling oppo
site Britain’s Gibraltar, fourteen
miles across the narrow entrance
to the Mediterranean.
France charged Germans were
there by thousands, fortifying Ceu
ta and building barracks for oth
erg to come. Germans there might
menace French colonies and cut off
her great reserve of troops in the
next war.
Danger Seen
Britain saw the danger of a gen
eral war but saw particular
danger to her “road to India”
through the Mediterranean.
““In Spain the war goes on. For
nearly six months dead have crum
pled there by thousands while
Europe argued.
Britain and France, tired of
seeking unanimity among 27 na
tions, parade their navies to com
pel peace. ‘
Steadily the war in Spain has
widened until a dozen nations are
involved. Tens of thousands sos
#Volunteers” have joined in Kkhe
fighting. There are French, Rus
sians, British, Germans, Italians,
Poles, Americans, Portuguese, Bel
gians and others on either side.
Deny Charges
France, Russia, Germany, Italy
and Portugal officially denied each
others’ charges they helped the
Madrid socialists or the insurgent
fascists, :
Today, none makes a secret of
the fact their citizeng have gone
into the war. Some of the coun
tries acknowledge guns and plan
es have been sent, but “privately.”
Even supplies from the United
States are on the way to the war.
The once gay Madrid is beseiged.
It ig what is called the world
wide line up between fascism and
communism. Neither term fits ex
actly, but thore are the labels gen
erally used.
British and French warships are
steaming along Spanish coasts in
a final effort to let the Spaniards
fight it out.
DCONEE INJUNGTION
SUIT 1S DISMISSED
i'Commlssion Agrees Not
- To Abolish County Chain
~ Gang; Wardens Changed
Hearing on a petition to per
manently enjoin the chairman of
the Oconee County Board of Com
missioners from abolishing thd
county chaingang was not conduct
ed by Judge Blanton Fortson yes-
terda{y. thev éuit having been drop
ped.
The jurist hag signed an ordex"
dismissing a temporary injunction
against Chairman Dave Weather
ford, of the commission due to the
fact that the board of commission
ers decided at a meeting last week
not to abolish the chaingang.
The temporary restraining order
was granted by Judge Fortson sev
eral days ago and was based upon
the contention that the chairman
had no right to abolish the chain
gang against the wishes of a ma
jority of the commissioners.
All members of the 1936 come
mission went out of office before
January 1, except Chairman Wea
therford. The new board met last
week and adopted resolutions not
to abolish the commision which
leq attorneys for both sides to
agree on dismissing the suit brought
against the chairman by a group
of citizens.
During the controversy County
Warden R. J. McGuire of Oconee
county resigned and was replaced
by Roy Griffeth, formerly of Madi
son county,
Full Associated Press Service
Christian Church
Toße Host to One
0f 250 Sessions
The First Christian church, of
which Rev. Claude E. Cummins is
pastor, will be host to one of two
hundred and firty district ‘“Through
Loyalist to Victory Conventions”
being held by the Disciples of
Christ this year.
The Northeast Ges#zia conven
tion will be held at Athens on
January 21. Sessiong will start at
10 a. m. and close at 4.
During the day the total world
wide task of the Brotherhood of
Disciples of Christ will be present
ed. Discussiong helpful to the
local church will be carried on.
The national leaders for the con
vention here are, Miss Genevieve
Brown of the United Christian
Missionary society of Indianapolis
and Mr. Herbert .Bmith, mission
ary to the Belgian Congo, Africa
Other members of the convention
team are, Rev. Bruce Nay, state
secretary for the Disciples of
Christ in Georgia ana Mrs, L. O.
Turner state secretary of Wom
en’'s work in Georgia. Both Rev.
Nay and Mrs, Turner live in At
lanta.
The local church ig making large
preparations to entertain the many
delegates from nearby counties.
Plans for this convention was the
chief subject of the businegs meet
ing of the Woman’'s Auxiliary on
Monday. The women of the Ath
eng church will entertain visiting
delegates for lunch.
CHRISTIAN MINISTERS MEET
The annual Retreat of ministers
of the Disciples of Christ in Geor
gia is being held this year at Ma
con, The. meeting opens on Tues
day night apd closeg on Thursday
night. The guest snstructor and
leader of discussion this year is the
Rev. Lind D. Cartwright, pastor of
the First Christian church of Chat
tanooga, Mr, Cartwright is the
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CONTINED EFFORTS
FAIL IN STRIKE WAR
Wide Breach Still Appar
ent in Automobile Strike
Lewis lgnored
STRIKE AT A GLANCE
(By the Associated Press)’
Conciliation effortg in General
Mbotors strike controversy con
tinue; breach apparently still
wide.
United Automobile Workers
outlines its pre-negotiation
demands, asserting determina
. tion to ‘“continue this struggle.”
Corporatlon reiterates “stay
in” strikes must evacuate plants
before start of negotiations,
General Motors émployes out
of work in 15 citieg total 93,849.
Anti- strije eorganizations
formed at Flint, Mich.,, and
Anderson, Ind.
Governor Frank Murphy says
strike settlement "“can be and
should be” worked out.
(By the Associated Press)’
DETROIT — Statements of sti
pulations by the United Automo
bile Workerg of America and Gen
eral Motors Corporation served to
emphasize Saturday night the
breach in their positions in the
automotive strike deadlock which
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Industry, Sex-Appeal, Dime Stores, and Crooning Earned Them Biggest Salaries of 1935
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of 1935, For that was the sum of their salaries, bonuses, and commissions for the year, Congress disclosed, when it made public 1935 individual incomes exceeding $15,000
and net including income from investments. William Randolph Hearst drew his half-million from management of his vast publishing interests; Mae West from her cellu
joid siren-ry to top Hollywood salaries for the year: Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., as president of General Motors, now involved in a labor crisis; Marlene Dietrich, of
pencil-line eyebrows and justiy famed legs, for her screen performances; W. R. Sheehan, as president of Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation; William F. Knudsen,
as executive vice president of General Motois; Bing Crosby for His film and radio crooning; B. D. Miller, as president of F. W. Woolworth Co.; and Thomas J. Watson, as
president of the International Business Mechines Corporation. “Not pictured is Charles W. Guttzeit, president of the Latrobe Electric Steel Company, who ranked third
: s 7 among 1935’s “biggest ten,” with a paycheck total of $398.808. - R s L iel G i
Athens DeMolays Will Install New
Officers at Session This Afternoon
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BALMY WEATHER 10
END OVER WEEK-ENG
Weatherman Says Mei
cury Will Drop in South
By Tonight
ATLANTA.— (£) —Working in
his shirt sleeves in the dead ofl
winter, the weatherman said Sa.'.-I
urday prevailing balmy tempera-I
tures will end in the south over|
the week-end. |
The mercury hit its lowest at!
55 degrees early Saturday, theni
climbed into the high 60's by noon,
The sun shone early in the affer
noon here for the first time in
days, lifting a heavy fog.
Forecaster Ceorge Mindling said
the thermometer would dip em‘lyl
Sunday with a low of 40 antici
pated, v :
CHICAGO.— (&) —The wintry
weary west cheered a forecast of
rising temperatures Saturday.
Federal meterologists promised
relief over the week-end in the
states beset by snow and sub
zero cold.
Frigid weather handicapped
Hlow crews but they cleared most
of the major highways in th.
storm belt zlthough many second
ary roads were still buried under
snow. Communications to citics
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CLARKE SOLONS ARE
I LEAVING TODAY FOR
| LEGISLATURE MEET
I Clarke’s three legislators, Sena
tor Preston M. Almand and Rep
resentatives Jake B. Joel and Kent
A. Hill leave today for Atlanta to
take part in the ©opening of the
legislature. |
Senator Almand and Represen-
Itative Hill are making their de
buts as members of the legislature.
'Both have been assured of :lh-I
pointments to outstanding m»m-‘
mitteeg in the senate and house
of representatives, however, i
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Memorial Services Also
To Be Held for Late
Howard Celdert
Officers will be installed and me-
~morial services for the late How
arq Geldert, member of the Grand
t(?ounci], will be held -this after
noon in the Masoniz Temple by
the Frank Hardeman chapter, Or
der of DeMolay.
Services will begin at 4 o’clock,
with installation of officers first
on the program and memorial ser
vices following.
Boyce Wilder will be installed
Master Councillor, succeeding Ralph
Bell. Julian Stephenson will be
the new Senior Councillor and
Billy Daniel the new Junior Coun
cillor. f
Wilder, the son of Mrs. W. S,
Wilder, is a junior at the Univer
sity of Georgia, ang an outstand
ing DeMolay worker. He has been
a leader ever since becoming a
member, and holds the distinction
of being the only boy ever elected
Yocational Teachers
Will Hold Conference
Here Jan. 14, 15, 16
. The State Conference of Voca
‘tional Homemaking Teachers of
‘northeast Georgia will meet here
Jan. 14, 15, 16, for group discus
sions and talks by prominent
state educators.
L. M. Sheffer, state supervisor
of vocational agriculture, will speak
on, “Definite Cooperative Progress
Between Home Economics and Ag
riculture Departments.”
The theme of the meetings will
be Home Economics in the new
curriculum.
Mr. Sheffer, assisted by Voca
ttonal Agviculture instructors, will
lead discussions of plans for an
expansion program in developing:
1. Children in elementary schools
2. Out-of-school youth.
3. Adults
Miss Elizabeth Mayes, state su
pervisor of Home FEconomics, will
preside at the meetings
Similar meetings are being held
this month at Cartersville, Albany
and Swainsboro.
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Federal Agents Again Re
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curs in Ransom Payment
(By the Associated Press)
TACOMA, Wash. — (#) — Snow
apparently stalled operations Sat
urday in the Charles -Mattson kid
naping and chanceg for immediate
release of the 9%P-year old boy:
seemingly lessened with continua-l
tion of the storm.
Dr. W. W. Mattson, Charles’
father, waited at his home for ad
ditional word from the kidnaper
which would make payment of the
$28,000 ransom possible, Some un
disclosed “hiteh” in negotiations
was believed to have preventea
this payment at a scheduled time
Thursday.
Federal burean of investigation
agents, though they were know to
have snowshoes and other equip
ment suitable for heavy weather,
remained in their offices, reverting
to the policy of “non-inferference”
which they temporarily abandoned
early Friday.
Disinterested observers predict
ed a delay in the climax of the
case when the 3-inch snow fall
started shortly before dawn Sat
urday,
They pointed out the weather
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CEDARTOWN MAN |
NAMED TO ENGLISH I
FACULTY BY PARK
"~ Dr. R. E. Park, head of the de
partment of English, University of
Georgia, announced Saturday the
appointment of John L. Tison, jr.,
as instructor in Engrish,
Tison is a native of Cedartown.
He is a graduate of the University
of the South and a member of Phi
Beta Kappa, national honorary
scholastic fraternity.
He has been a member of the
English faculty at Columbia, S. C.
High school since September
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)y “If they were under the jurisdic
tion of a city they would be con
demned,” Smith said, voicing the
same opinion expressed by many
of the 100 legislators who visited
the hospital with Governor E, D.
Rivers yesterday.
Smith referred ¢o some of the
buildings as being ‘“dilapidated
and about to fall in,” while one of
the chief concerns of many of the
assembly members was over pre
cautions against fire,
J. E. D. Shinp of Americus,
meémber of the board of control,
szid only two of the many build
ings op the hospital grounds were
recognized as fire-proof. These, he
explained, were the hospital unit
erected some three years ago, and a
unit used for negro patients,
Others ilap:dated
. Other large buildings, including
the main unit for white males and
‘tho large quarters for white fe
‘males. generally are of brick ex
terior construction, with wood in
‘terors, including floors.
When a group of the legislators
passed through the building for
women under leadership of staff
Dr. Reese Bradford and Repres
entative Joseph A. Moore of Bald
win county, the wuideg pointed to
numerous large spotgy where plas
ter had fallen from walls or ceil
dings. Floors, unpainted and ta
rough, sre in such condition, at
taches said, that leakage fmm|
cleaning water weakens ceiling
plaster on the floors bepeath, |
Moore also pointed out several‘
places in the exterior walls wherei
bricks had fallen from around win
dow openings, where there werel
LAYMEN WILL HOLD
MEETING TUESDAY
Around 200 Expected to
Attend Session at First
Methodist Church Here
A Jayman's meeting of the Ath
ens-Elberton district will be held
here Tuesday night beginning at 6
o'clock at the First Methodist
church.
An interesting program has been
planned, and between 150 and 200
people are expected to attend.
Several speeches will be made,
bu¢ the keynote address will be by
Rev. H. L. Byrd, recently appoint
ed presiding-elder of the Athens-
Elberton district.
Dr. N. G. Slaughter will pre
side over a supper to be given at
6:30 o’clock.
The program follows:
6:00-6:30—Organ Recital: Mrs.
Katie Griffeth. :
6:Bo—Supper: N. G. Slaughter,
presiding.
Musie: (songs.)
Devotional: Rev. George Acree.
Welcome: P. L. Huggins. |
Keynote: Rev. H. L. Byrd. ‘
Subject; Church Attendance,
Talks: l
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MILLER
$309,880
CROSBY
$318,909
Solons Deplore
Conditions At
State Hospital
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — (&) —/
Representative H. Dixon Smith of
Muscogee, member of a legislative
party inspecting the state hospi
tal for the insane here, declared tha
institution did not have “any real!
buildings.” g
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IMPORTANT SESGION
OF LAWNAKING BODY
10 GET UNDER Way
Spivey and Harris to Have
No Opposition as Head®
Of Two Houses
BETTER SECURITY
Revision of Tax System
And Other Changes
Are Expected
By JOSH SKINNER
ATLANTA.—(#)—A momentous
session of the Georgla legislature
will begin here Monday. i
Convening of the two general
assembly houses at 10 a. m. (C.B.
T.) will mark the beginning of a
change in administration person
nel and policies and a revamping
of state functions and govern=-
mental agencies.
The administratior leader, Gov=~
ernor-Elect E. D. Rivers, expects
the legislators, almost unanimous
ly democrats, to lay the ground
work of a “great economic recon
struction” of Georgia by enacting
the state Democratic party plat
form into law. s
Better Security
Foremost on the Rivers ptosrufig
will come extension of statg fi’
sponsibility for bettering the indis
vidual economic security of re
gians. o
This he wants to do through
giving better schools to the state's
youth, better public health facili
ties to the citizenry, better elees
mosynary. institutions to the af
flicted, and pensions to "fl%
pendent aged. g e
Adoption of these new or ex
panded state funciions probably
will push the budget needs from
the approximately $28,000,000 level
of last year to nearly $40,000,000,
legislative ieaders said.
Some Reorganization %
The program also will
about several problems of state
department reorganization and re=
vision of the state’s taxation m‘g
up. g T
’ Indications of pre-session’ dis=
cussion in the capital are that tax
ation and possible repeal of the
state prohibition statutes will fur=
nish the most floor debate during
the legislative term. o
Tax proposals already made by
legislators here for the session in=
clude an alteration of Ilevies on
income, a gross receipts tax. a
special assessment against chain
stores, and a tax on iiquor, nflfi
banned from =ale by state law.
Repeal Methods
Several methods of prohibition
repeal have been suggested, oneis
for the state to own and operate
distilleries and retail liquor stores,
taking the profit derived in lieu of
taxing free sale,
Another is for a local option plan,
under which citizens of each
(Continued on Page Four)
Covernor-elect Returns to
Atlanta and Works on
Speech for Tuesday
| ATLANTA—(®)—Governor-Elect
E. D. Rivers returned to the cap=
ital Saturday, completed plans for
his inauguration Tuesday, ang re
tired into seclusion to finish draft=
ing his address to the legislators
and citizens of Georgip s
Recovering from an iiflness which
kept him at his Lakeland home
during most of the past two
weeks, Rivers limited his acti
Saturday to conferences with Sen=
ator John B. Spivey, president=
designate of the upper house, and
Representative Roy V. Harris, un=
opposed candidate for speaker s
the house. ¢ A
Tnaugural plans and sSteps for
organizing the house and senate
Monday were chief subjects of the
conferences. L
Ap innovation in the ceremony
will be administration of oaths ¢
office by Rivers to several consi
tutional officers, including Stat
Treasurer-Elect George B. Hami
ton, Comptroller Generll
William B. Hartison, Secretary
State John Wilson, Attorney Ge
eral M. J. Yeomans, Superintes
ent of Schools M. D. Collin 1““
Adjutant General-Designate .
E. (Jack) Stoddard of ‘Wash
so induct new co ’
He o X e