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MARION SMITH
Marion Smith, Atlanta gttorney,
who is slated to hecome chairman
of the Board of Regents within a
5 time has been invited to
address the annual meeting of the
r\thens Chamber of Commerce at
the Georgian hotel Thursday
night, January 21.
Mr, Smith has been etxended an
invitation to be the principal
speaker at the meeting at which
time new directors and officers
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France and Germany
-
Apparently to Adjust
Moroccan Troubles
(By The Associated Press)
France and Germany, apparent
ly aajusting their Moroccan trou
bles veered today toward efforts
o effect & “fuli and lasting settle
nent of their political gquarrels.”
French officials were cautious.
But there were indications both in
Paris and in Berlin that the forth
coming Paris visit of Dr. Hjalmar
Schacht, Nazi minister of econo
mics and finance, might lead to an
economic and then a political un
derstanding between the two na
tons,
Fuehrer Adolf Hitler and Andre
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DAY — BY — DAY
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BY C. E. BUTTERFIELD
(Time is FEastern Standard)
NEW YORK — (#) — Several
broadcasts are being arranged in
‘nnection with civil service week.
Une is the regular meeting of
América's Town Hall, WJZ-NBC
Thursday when the question is
Shall all Government Employes
be Under Civil Service?” with the
‘asers: Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. Jckes, Mrs. Bugene Mey
® wife of the publisher of the
Washington Post and Prof, Thur-
Man Stone of Buffalo,
_Tuning in tonight (Tuesday)—
WEAF-NBC—7:IS Voice of Exper
% 8 Leo Reisman Show: 9
Sldewalk Interviews; 9:30 Fred
Astaire Re vue; 10:45 Roy Camp-
Royalists. "
_WABC-CBS _—_ 7:30 Alexander
8§ Hammerstein Music
1 590 Al Jolson Show:; 9AI
“tarce Gang; 9:80 Jack Oakle's
Collec
I 10 expect Wednesday —
WEAP-NBC—2 p. m. Stephen
“oster Memorial program; 4 Henry
JUsse Orchestra: 6 Our American
8 WABC-CBS — 1:15 Art
"8 Orchestra: 3 Manhattan Mat
¢ Lurtis Musicale, WJZ-NBC
;" farm and Home Hour; 2:30
e Lulld; 5 Airbreaks. ‘
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ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Rivers Becomes Governor Today; Promises
Home Tax Exemption, Better State Roads
KIONAPER-SLAYER OF
YOUNG NATTSON BOY
OBJECT OF MANHUNT
:iOnly Slim Clues Found
| With Frozen Body of
1 Charles Mattson
| AUTOPSY STUDIED
Evidence Discloses Theory
Maniac or Degenerate
) Committed Crime
TACOMA, Wash., — (P) — An
aroused army of manhunters un
leashed a relentless hunt today
for the savage kidnaper-slayer of
10-year-old Charles Mattson.
“Get the Kkidnaper at all costs,”
was the grim ery of combined law
forces, released f{rom long re
straint by the discovery yesterday
of the boy's unclothed, broken
body in snow-covereq woodlands.
He had been killed while his
physician-father strove futilely to
meet the kidnaper’s conditions
and pay the demanded $28,000
ransom.
Autopsy Studied
From the beaten, frozen bhody,
science and the cunning of law
agents sought a clue that would
knit a noose for the country’s
most hunted man. The evidence
gathered at a guarded autopsy
here was studied in secret by phy
sicians and federal operatives.
Co-ordinated jand independent
groups of officers elsewhere pur
sued clues they had let cool at
Dr. W. W. Mattson’s request.
‘While Federal Bureau of Inves
tigation 'men under Harold Na
than, gssistant to J. Edgar Hoo
ver, Sscrutinized evidence they
gathered at the autopsy and near
where the body was found, the
police broadecast pick-up orders
for suspected fugitives, paroled
inmates of insane asylums and
sadists.
Theory of Maniac
Evidence disclosed by Coroner
Otto H. Mittelstadt of Seattle,
who examined the body before its
return, revived the theory a ma
niac or degenerate may have com
mitteg the crime.
Paul Sceva, a close friend of
the family who helped identify
the body, said “Charles has been
dead a long time, probably be
tween three days and a week™—
long before Dr. Mattson’s last
frantic efforts to pay the ransom.
Blood on the body was frozen, in
dicating the boy was dead before
he was dragged there.
“The kidnaper has acted like 2
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U. S. Offers SIO,OOO
Reward for Kidnaper
WASHINGTON — (#) — Presi-|
dent Roosevelt declared today the|
murder of ten-year old Charles
Mattson in Washington state has
“shocked the nation” and added
every means at the command of
the government must be enlisted
to capture the perpetrator of “this
ghastly crime.” {
Simultaneously, Attorney General|
Cummings offered a SIO,OOO rewqrdl
for arrest of the kidnapers of the’
bOy. 1
In an official statement, the
president said the justice depart
ment was engaged in a search
which “will not be terminated un- |
til the murderer is caught.” !
The text of the president’s state-i
ment follows:
“The murder of the little Matt-|
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Georgia News Briefs
ATLANTA — (#) — Skies were
overcast and atmosphere murky as
Georgians assembled here today
to inaugurate a new governor.
The atmosphere was unseason
ably warm with temperatures
ranging in the fifties. .
ALBANY, Ga. — (#) — County
Policeman George Drake received
word from Rome, Ga., authorities
vesterday that his 13-year-cld
daughter, missing since Sunday,
had been located in that city.
The child disappeared, her father
said, after leaving for Sunday
school. He was unable to explain
her disappearance,
WASHINGTON — (#) — Bills
introduced in the house yesterday
included one by Representative
Whelchel, democrat of Gainesville,
Ga., to prohibit an Immigration
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April for Marian Marsh, above,
blond screen actress, and Albert
P. Scott, New York broker.
Scott was divorced last year
from former Actress Colleen
Moore.
Talmadge Goes Back
To Sugar Creek Farm
In Telfair County
ATLANTA —(AP)— Gover
nor Eugene Talmadge shortly
before retiring from, office to
day granted a parole to Benja
min W. Davis, convicted in a
sensational murder case in Sa
vannah in 1921.
ATLANTA — (A — After four
news filled years as governor of
Georgia, Eugene Talmadge turned
over the office today to E. D. Riv
ers and returned to his Sygar
Creek farm in Telfair county.
It was from Telfair that he came
over 10 years ago to Atlanta to
take over the office of Commis
sioner of Agriculture, on having
defeated J, J. Brown in a strenuous
race.
He stepped up to governor in
1933 on having defeated a large
field of candidates in the 1932 elec
tions. ; :
The first legislature in his ad
ministration failed to heed hig re
quests to reduce automobile license
tagg to $3. Immediately on theirl
sine die adjournment Talmadge
suspended the law and set the priec
of tags at $3.
Thig subsequently was made law
by the 1935 legislature.
To rid the highway board of two
opponents, Talmadge invoked mar
tial law, and put his own 'appoint-i
ees in the highway department. |
The third member of the board
at that time he retained, later
transferring him to the Public
Service commigsion,
This was Jud Wilhoit, the only
Talmadge man remaining on the
commission,
The governor fired the old eom
mission, and named his own men
instructing them to reduce utility
rates which was done.
Talmadge also reduced the state
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into the United States for a period
of five years.
ATLANTA — (#) — A. L. Hen
son, director of the Georgia Veter
ans’ Service office announced here
that he would not seek reappoint
ment, but will resume practice of
jaw.
He has Leen veterans service of
ficer since March, 1933. :
ATLANTA — (#) — The Georgia
court of appealg upheld today the
contention of J. C. Tinley, Aug
usta optometrist, that he was not
subject to a SSO city license for
dealers in optical supplies.
The court said Tinley kept and
furnished these supplies “solely for
the use of his patients,” and was
therefore subject only to the pro-
(Continued on Page Five)
DAVIS PAROLED
F.OA. BECOMMENDS
SWEEPING REFORMG
NS, COVERNMENT
? Creation of 2 New Cabinet
I Posts Asked in Message
: To Congress Today
. COMMITTEE REPORT
jCivil Service Extension
| To Cover Nearly All
i Positions Asked
| WASHINGTON —(AP) — Pres-
I ident Roosevelt . recommended = to
congress foday 2 sweeping reor
,ganization of the gdvernment’s
| administrative machinery ihat
would create two new vabinet
posts—Social Welfare and public
Works—and eventually bunch 105
federal gencies in. 12 departments.
Committee Report s
Transmitting a report of a,k spe
cial committee which has studied
the question for- months, he also
proposed‘: v
1. Extension of the civil ser
vice to all non-policy determining
rositions, including all postmasters
and departméntal jobs except the
highest executives; increase cabi
net salaries from $15,000 to $20,000;
substituting a civil service admin»
istration and an unpaid citizens'
board for the Civil Service Com
mission.
2. Giving the president fix “ex
ecutive assistants” to relieve his)
of tremendous detail work.
3. Substitution of an inderend
ent auditor general for the vacant
post of comptroller general, with
the attorney general passing on
the legality of government expen
ditures. .
4. Strengthening and eipfind&lfl
of the budget bureau and the plan
ning and personnel services to
make them “effective managerial
arms” for the president. )
5. Changing the mname of the
department of the Interior to De
partment of Conservation.
Real Democracy
Although the committee predict
ed some saving in money, time and
effort, it said the proposed reor
ganization had but “one graé&.
purpose, namely, to make Deémoc
racy work todey in our natfonal
government.” -
The report was expected to
touch off warm debate in con
gress, where Senator Byrd (D-
Va.) and others have contended
large savings could be effected by
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BLODDSHED DARKENS
BUTLOOK IN STRIKE
Cov. Murphy Calls Na
tional Cuard to Flint Af
ter Police-Labor Clash
IBy the Associated Press.)
Bloodshed darkened the outlook‘
in the deadlocked automobile
workers strike today as the num- |
ber of men made idle by wa]koutst
or “sitdowns” in wvarious indus
tries neared a national total of |
170,000,
Governor Frank Murphy of
Michigan marshalled several units
of national guard at Flint after a‘
night clash between police and
strike supporters at a Fisher Bod,vl
plant endeq with 14 persons shot|
and a score otherwise injured. !
The police, aided by deputy
sheriffs, used riot guns and tear
gas in an unsuccessful attempt
to disperse a crowd at the plant
and drive out sit down strikers
inside. The strikers retaliated
with bottles and other missiles.
Homer Martin, president of the
striking Automobile Workers of
America, conferred at Washington
with John L. Lewis, chairman of
the Committee for Tndustrial Or
ganization, and John Brophy, 2
committee director. . The auto
workers are affiliated with the
Lewis group.
“We will do anything” Brophy
declared, “to protect our work
ers.”
Kenneth Cole, financia] secretary
of the Toledo, Ohio, Auto Work
ers local, said it would send
“probably about 5000”7 men to
Flint to support the strikers
there.
The General Motors Corporation,
first target of the Auto Workers
strike, said 112,000 employes
would be idle by nightfall. Sched
uled to close today were the Fish-
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Athens, Ga., Tuesday, January 12, 1937.
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Faced with many important issues, the 113th session of the Gaoneral Assembly of Georgia was con
vened in Atlanta yesterday, The picture shows the House of Representatives during the iirst roll
call, (Associaicd Press Photo.)
Northeast Georgia Boy Scouts
~ Will Meet in Athens on Friday
Large Delegations to Be
Here for Second Annual
Council Session |
Council members, district com
mitteemen and troop leaders from
the entire area will assemble at
the "Georgian hbtel, Athens, on
Friday, January 15, to take part
in the second annual meeting of
the Northeast Georgia Council of
Boy Scouts,
At this session a great amount
of important business will be
transacteq and council offcials are
hoping that each district will send
a large delegation and that each
troop will be represented, not only
by its Scoutmasters and assist
ants, but by members of the troop
committee as well.
Business scheduled includes
adoption of the budget for the
new year; election of council offi
cers: discussion of a ‘proposition
to change the name of the coun
cil, and presentation of the vari
ous awards won by the troops
1936.
A new feature of the meeting is
the change to the convention
form. Group conferences will be
held in the afternoon, beginning
with a session of troop leaders a’
2 o’clock, followed by meetings
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MILLER SLATED TO
HEAD ROAD BOARD
ATLANTA — (# — E. D,
Rivers took over the governor
ship of Georgia today amid
speculation that he would
quickly name W. Lint Miller,
a. banker, farmer and business
man of his hcme town Lake
land, to the state highway
board,
Miller, it was said, would fill
the place of Judge Max Me-
Rae, of Mcßae, present board
member who will not ask the
senate to confirm hig appoint
ment, 6
Capitol gossip haa it that W,
E. Wilburn, present chairman
of the highway board would
retire soon, and that Miller
would be named chairman,
DANIEL TRIAL I 3
BEGUN HERE TODAY
Jury Chosen This Morning
Before Court Recessed
For Lunch Until 2:30
Willie Frank Daniel, negro
charged with Kkilling City Police
man Herman Stein, went on trial
for his life in Clarke Superior
court this morning. |
Word that the Daniel case was
to come up spread through the city
| during another hearing, despite
efforts of authorities to keep it
quiet, and when the case was
]called at a few minutes past
| twelve o’clock, the juryroom was
packed. Many stood in the hallway
outside.
There was no disorder, however,
as the jury was drawn before court|
recessed for lunch. Judge Blan
ton Fortson announced the trial
would be resumed at 2:30 o'clock,‘
but a verdict was not expected un- I
til late this afternoon or tonight. |
On the jury that will decide the
fate of the negro charged with
taking the life of the only Athens
policeman ever to die while dis
charging his duty, are G. R. Ed
wards, N. G. Colquitt, W. B,
Hardy, E. M. Epps, S. P. Reeves,
E. C. Settle, Key Holliday, Henry
Smith, H. A. Doolittle, BN
Thornton, L. O. Pledger and E.
C. Oldham.
Should Daniel go to the electric
chair, he will be the second person
ever to be electrocuted from Clarke
county, The other was John Henry
Thomas, who died Ilast August
for the fatal shooting of Charles
IRice, filling station operator.
Selection of the jury required
an unusually long time as each
juror was questioned by defense
attorneys, O. J. Tolnas, Fred Gil
len, and Eugene Epting. Several
disqualifieq, themselves by admit
ting they had already formed an
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Here Are Highlights
0f Inauguration Speech
By Governor Rivers
ATLANTA — (#) — Highlights
of Governor E. D. Rivers inaugural
address:
‘What the people have willed to
be done during my administration,
we will do,
My every effort shall be that
my administration be regarded by
the leaders of the Democratic party
throughout the nation as the most
loyal amongst its loyal state ad
ministrations,
I shall respect the verdicts of
juries and the sentenceg of courts,
T shall not use the pardoning
power vested in me, as governor,
to protect those who murder, ravish
or rob the inhabitants of this
state and seek to escape the just
punishment meted out to them for
their criminal acts.
Our program is the platform of
the democratic party of Georgia
written at our state convention in
Macon, October 7, 1936, It is the
program of every democrat in Geor
gia loyal to his party.
The security of the average Geor
gia citizen and his family is a
matter of first importance toc the
state,
I expect to cooperate with Presi
dent Roosevelt and the national
administration in the economic re
building of Georgia, as well as in
every other part of his great pro
gram for helping humanity.
b EaR
The poor house method of caring
for our dependent aged must go
as must the potters’ fields,
Give us a state of homeowners,
R
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Estimated 250,000 Persons to
Witness Reosevelt Inauguration
(EDITOR'S NOCTE: Aside
from the solemnity of the oe
casion, inaugurations always
are attended by much merry
making and pageantry. This
is another of g series of
stories by the Associated
Press Washington bureau
sketching inaugural high
lights), .
WASHINGTON. —(®)—Possibly
the- greatest throng ever to Wwit
ness an inauguration, including
scores of thousands of capital res
idents and an estimateg 250,000
visitors, may see President Roose
velt start his second term next
week.
The inaugural committee pre
dicts the gay incoming crowds
will exceed by 100,000 the 150,000
visitors on hand when the presi-
HSME]
PLEDGE AL3D MADE
10 COOPERATE WITH
PROGRAM OF F.OAR.
'New Chief Executive of
! Ceorgia Reviews His
I .
I Campaign Pledges
ASSAILS OLD RECIME
Politicians Estimate 10
To 20 Millions Extra
Needed for Program
(By the Associated Press)
ATLANTA — Eurith D. (Ed)
Rivers became governor of Geor
gia today and promised homestead
tax exemption, better schools and
highways, and ‘“unqualified sup
port” of Pregident Roosevelt’s “hu
manitarian program” in this state,
Rivers' jnauguration marked the
passing from the present political
scene of Governor Eugene Tal
'madge whose stormy, four-year
rein ended in defeat of the red
gallused governor and his entire
ticket in the September 9 democr
atic primary.
Where Talmadge fought Presi
dent Roosaevelt's New Deal, Rivers
shouted his approval of it,
Reviews Promises
He reviewed his campaign prom
ises of old age pensions, free
school books, longer school terms,
better roads and health conditions
and cooperation with the social
and public works programs of the
Roosgevelt administration, ;
“What the people have willed to
be done during my administration,
we will do,” said Rivers, address
ing a colorful inaugural throng at
the state capitol.
Although he made no mention of
Talmadge, either by name or by
office, Rivers assailed the outgo-~
ing administration. &
He declared he would ‘“not use
the pardoning power X X X to pro=
tect those who murder, ravish or
rob,” said “there is no place under
Georgia’s constitution for dictator
ship,” and called on Talmadge
controlled state department offi
cialg who entered into “partisam
politics” to step out or be legislat
ed out of office.
“Saved” 10 Millions
Talmadge in his final report to
the legislature yesterday, said® he
soved $10,000,000 to Georgians in
four years by cutting taxes, paid
(Continued on Page Two)
Young Housewife Is
Slain in New York
NEW YORK — (#) — The slay
ing of a 25-year old housewife
whose beaten and strangled body
was found in an over-flowing
bathtub sent police on an inten
sive man-hunt today.
The body of the victim, Mrs.
Mary Robinson Case, clad only in
silk underwear and stockings, was
discovered by her 30-year-old hus
band, Frank, when he returned to
his Jackson Heights, Queens, apart
ment early last night,
Bloodstains in the Kkitchen gave
evidence that Mirs, Case battled
violently with her assailant and
officials suggested she possibly
was slain there and her body ecar=
ried to the bathroom, Z
A sheet covered the tub. %
The slaying was similar in eir
ciynstances to the murder last
April of Mrs. Nancy ¥. Titterton,
34-year-old writer, Mrs., Titterton
was criminally attacked and
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dent began his first term in 1933.
Other inaugural crowds have
variedq widely with the times.
About 150,000 visitors were in
townh when Herbert Hoover took
office. ]
Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration
in 1913 attracted g gala throng
estimated at 300,000, while 150,000
persons gathered to see Grover
Cleveland take office 52 years ago.
~ Barly inaugurations were hois=
terous spectacles born of lusty
tastes of a frontier couniry.
The possibilities were first real
ized with the inauguration of
rugged William Henry Harrison,
who fired the popular fancy in de
feating Martin Van Buren, whom
he nick-named ‘Gold Spoon.” The
railroads had just brought the
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