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FLASHES
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TOO MUCH HASTE
(LEVELAND—Patrolman Robert
\gams arrested John ‘Whitlow, jr.,
9) charging him with driving 52
miles an hour. .
Whitlow’s companion, Ralph
prumby, 19, offered to take the
car and secure a bail bond.
patrolman I'rank Gabriel arrest
ed Brumby a few minuteg later
for passing a red light in his
paste—and took Brumby to jail,
100
FINES HER BOSS
GOSHEN, Ind—Many employes
would have liked the chance Mrs.
Helen Farbaugh had to get even
with her boOSsSs.
After finding his automobile tag
ged for overtime parking, Justice of
the Peace Charleg P. Fribley ap
pointed Mrs. Farbaugh, his secre
tary, as a special court to hear his
case. i
She fined him $3.50, the custom
ary amount,
s s,
HAPPY LANDING
ROCKFORD, Ill.—Elmer Hodapr
was certain he had a lucky star.
His truck plunged 100 feet to the
pottom of the city guarry when a
ledge on which it was parked gave
way. FElmer. was in it, = The
machine landed right side up aft
er turning over twice. Tts ownel
emerged with only a slight bruige
on il.e forehead.
Services to Be Held Thurs
day Afternoon for Popu
lar Athens Man ;
Lucien B. Flatow, 71, died at his
residence, 210 Hampton Court,
Wednesday morning at 2 o'clock
after an illness of three days.
Funeral services will be held
Thursday afternoon at 4 o'clock
from the residence of Mir., and Mrs.
Paul Keller, 210 Hampton Court,
Rabbi Lawrence Block, of the Con
gregation .Children of Israel, of
ficiating,
Interment will be in Oconee Hill
cemetery, Bernstein yruneral Home
in charge of arrangements. Pall
bearers will be Max Michael, Aug
gust Keller, Frank Coile, Kenneth
Eberhart, Aaron Cohen, J. Bush,
Arthur Horne and Wi D. Beach
am, sr,
Born in Germany, Mr. Flatow
had heen a resident for forty-three
vears, He was one of the pioneer
auto repair garage operators in this
seetion, a business which he re
mained in for many years, The
Keller Motor company, with which
Mr. Flatow .was connected, for
many years was sae leading auto
'®pair and dealer concerns in Ath
5. Of late years the firm ‘has
Specialized in machinery repair
workk,
Mr. Flatow, during his long re-
Sidence in Athens, had, by his good
hature, industriousness and high
Standards of business, drawn to
bim a large circle of friends which
he held to the end, : ‘
Legionnaires Wi I
egionnaires Will
L] .
Attend Meeting in
Macon Sunday at 11
A{; dfl)zr-n Or more ‘members of
o R. Fleming Post, American!
]{]‘;"’"‘j”v are expected to attend a
mu"n;a In Macon Sunday morn
h;n]" 11‘0‘('1001( in the Dempsey
£ 2 Which has been called by
~ . O’Connor, jr., state com
m.’mdb)- of the Legion. |
p::,]‘?”‘, meeting will assemblg all‘
arman of standing committees,
S mmanders, past commanders, ad
i::nzs and gervice officers ofl
= ! DOst in the state, insofar as |
;;V'Z“m"l" and it is expected that}
I{ ral hundreq Legionnaires will
¢ In attendance,
a“Th: meeting is unique in thatl
. ,rm_ Committee chairmepn of
'r,F' (jntn'e state are being called
})f ‘:‘"UElH‘ate a statewide drive
141 Meérican Legion objectives for
i}_"n“ “"10{12 Wwhich are: American-
S ”(‘hlld Welfare, Community
How;-] Georgia Products Dinner,
So"}g al Relief, Junior Baseball,l
h,}_,‘ff.the American Legion, Re-.
ilitation ang Publicity. |
Ur‘g\i]d Y]’D'st commanders have been
meng by Ml‘ O’Connor to recom
— qualified Legionnaires for
PPointments o department com-
Mitteeg,
anh"r;m.red at the meeting will be
son, | ["¢SS by Judge J.Fred John
i °f Florence, Ala., national
'Tr"“mmander of the Legion.
a v Camarata, commander of
ey t: Fleming, jr. Post. today
nm: Chairmen of standing com-
I;mesv bast commanders, adju
s, ind service officers to at
-4 the Macon meeting g ev
a case possible hecause he re
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y Importal:te.e tmmhm
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Noted Explorer Dies Of Plane Crash Injuries
Ne*gr(; Ct)nvicte*d I*n §tein S’lkafiné,‘ Seilténged to I;ie*F:b.‘fl9
Dudley And}Sems Are Elected To
Board of National Bank of Athens
EXTREME PENALTY I 3
IMPOSED ON WILLIE
FRANK DANIEL TODAY
Jury Deliberates Only 25
Minutes; Death Date
Set by Fortson
TO DIE IN CHAIR
Negro to Be Sent at Once
To Milledgeville to
Await Penalty
A Clarke Superior court jury
took just twenty-five minutes this
morping to decide wupon a verdict
that will send Willie Frank Daniel
to the electric chair on February
19.
Daniel is scheduled to walk ‘“the
last mile” for the fatal shooting
of Patrolman Herman Stein on
November 29, in a fight between
he and the officer, who was trying
to arrest the negro on suspicion of
robbery.
The case went to the jury just
23 hours, 56 minutes after it wag
called yesterday at 12:05 u’clock.;
Judge Blanton Fortson finished his
charge at 12 o'clogk, the verdict
was brought in a 12:25,
A convicted prisoner cannot be
sentenced to die less than 20 days
after he is found gullty. Solicitor
General Henry West suggested to
Judge Fortson that ‘“the date be
set on the 21st day.”
Daniel made no statement before
sentence was passed on him. He
showed no signs of surprise, or
worry. He was Immediately car
ried out of the courtroom, and
placed in the county jail, to await
transfer to Milledgeville,
Key Hiolliday was foreman of
the jury, and the verdict read: “We
the jury find the defendant, Willie
Frank Dapiel, colored, guilty.”
Daniel taking the stand yester-
day afternon just before court ad
journed for the day, ciaimed the
shooting was accidental. He said
the gun went off in the scuffle be
tween himself and the officer.
Solicitor Generai West blasted
defense claims that policemen who
went to arrest Daniel on suspicion
of a robbery the Saturday night
| (Continued on Page Two) i
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Gold Train Arrives |
At Fort Knox Today'
Ll yi
FORT KNOX, Ky. — @ — Al
nine-car train containing the firstl
of the nation’s gold supply thatl
is to be stored in tnhe government's|
new bomb-proof depository arriv-|
ed early this morning. |
The train which carried an esti-i
mated $200,000,000 in gold left
Philadelphia yesterday. SoldierS!
secret service men, postal inspec—l
torg and mint guards kept an alert |
watch on the hoard as it moved|
across country, i
‘When the train arrived the Sev-|.
enth cavalry, which is entirely mO-l
torized joined in guarding the gold
until it could be placed in thel
vault. Machine guns were placed|
around the train and sentries sta-l
tioned alongside atl the cars!
Transfer of the gold from the|
train to the vault ig expected to
be completed during the day. l
Wilburn Quits Post On Highway
Board; Bill May Be Abandoned
ATTLANTA —— P — Moving
swiftly to write into law one of
Governor E, D. Rivers biggest
campaign promises, legislative lead
ers began a drive today to pro
vide old age pensions for Geor
gians.
‘While the legislature hurried to
carry out the new governor’'s pro
gram, Rivers, on his first full day
in office, got the news that Chair
man W. E. Wilburn, an appointee
of former Governor Eugene Tal
madge, resigned from the highway
board.
Thig gives Rivers two appoint
ments immediately to the board,
Max L. Mcßae of Mcßae having
announced also that he would re
tire as soon as his sucessor is con
firmed by the senate,
Even ag Wilburn was telephon
ing his resignation to newspaper
men, Senator David Atkinson of
Savannah introduced a bill to abol-
Full Associated Press Service
] T
| Dividend Distribution .of
'| SIO,OOO Is Authorized
| By Stockholders
% A, G. Dudley, Athens manufac
turer and former mayor. 2nd Wal
iter A. Sams, jr, secretary-treas
urer of the Athens Coca-Cola Bot
llling company were elected direc
| tors of the Nationa] Bank of Ath
fens at a stockholders meeting yes
itm'du_v at which time the regular
'snmi-annual dividend of $2.00 per
| share was voted , stockholders, it
;\vas announced today. The divi
idend distribution amounts to $lO,-
1000, 5 ]
i With the election of’ Messrs.
;Dud]Py and Sams, the directorate
of the National Bank of Athens is
!comprised now of James White
| jr., president; C. M. Snelling, I
|vid Bird, Max Michael, = Samuel
'H, Nickerson, A. G. Dudley and
W. A. Sams, jr.
l Mr. Dudley, one of the leading
manufacturers and businessmen in
| Georgia, s president of the Cli
'max Hosiery Milland Athens Man
ufacturing company, a member of
{the Athens Civil Service Commis
| sion and served as mayor for five
:terms. He is a former member of
| city council and the state legisla
i ture, and has long been connected
|with the leading business and
lcivi(- organizations in the com
| munity,
Mmr. Sams, in addition to being
secretary-treasurer of the Coca-
Cola Bottling company is recog
lnized as one of the community’s
lleading young businessmen. Heis
tan alumnus of the University of
IGeorgia. 5
i President Reports
At the stockholders meeting
James White, jr, who recently
succeeded the late John White
Morton as president of the bank
made his first report since assum
ing the duties as chief executive
loft‘icer of the institution. Mr.
'lWhite’s report showed that in
1936 net earnings of the bank
!amounted to $85,750.00 cf which
l (Continued on Page Three)
BATHTUB SLAYING
~ IF WOMAN SOLVED
fHarlem vNegro Charged
I With Death of Pretty
i Housewife in Apartment
i NEW YORK — {#) — The bath
tub slaying of pretty Mrs. Mary
| Robinson came to a swift and
lunexpected denouement today when
linvestigators seized a 33-year old
;Harlem negro and charged him
| with the crime.
Thirty-six hours after the 25-yea:
old housewife wag strangled and
peaten to death in her Jackson
Heights, Queens, apartment, Dis
trict Attorney Charles P. Sulli
van announced that Major Greene
wiry negro porter employed in the
apartment building, had Been char
ged with the woman’s murder.
Greene, who previously had been
questioned and then released, was
arrested at his home in Harlem,
and taken to. the apartment where
Frank Case, 30-year-old hotel sup
ply company employee, found the
battered body of his wife Monday.
Greene was kept there two hours
and then to the Newtown police
station. Greene's brother Henry
23, and William Henry Johnson,
(Cortinued on Page Eight)
ish the present highway board and
create a new one.
This bill may be side-tracked if
the third board member, John Heck
of Marietta, follows Wilburn and
Mcßae in resigning.
Hardly had the senate convened
before it sent tack tc Rivers a list
of appointments sent in by Tal
madge Monaay on the first day of
the legislative session. The sen
ate president, John Spivey, ruled
that the appointments could not
properly come before it during its
10-day organization session.
Assembling for the first time
since hearing the new governor
formally outline his program, mem.
pers of the two houses had bills
ready to provide exemption of
homesteads from taxes, a reorgan
jzation of the highway board, and
s —
(Continued on Page Three)
Athens, Ga., Wednesday,
As Rivers Succeeded Talmadge
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Coincident with his inauguration as governor of Ceorgia to succeed Eubono Talmadge, E. D. Rivers,
41-year-old attorney, demanded a purge of Talmadge-controlled departments in the state government.
“There is no place under Georgia’s constitution for a dictatorship,” declared Rivers in his inaugural
address on the capitol grounds in Atlanta. The new governor (above, left) is shown saying goodbye to
Talmadge whose critics have aceused him of resoriing to dictatorial methods as governor. On the ex
treme right stands John Spivey, new president of the state senate, who presided over the inauguration
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Georgia’s first inauguration parade in several years is seen passing the reviewing stand at Five
Points in Atlanta, after>moving from the state capitol where Gov. E. D. Rivers took the oath of office.
Governor Rivers (arrow) looks on as the crack Savannah High School band leads the parade. (Asso-
ciated Press Photo.)
MRS, SARAH FRANCES
Nl, BRYAN DIES HERE
Funeral Services Conduct
ed This Afternoon; In
terment at Union Point
Funeral services for Mrs, Sarah
yesterday at 2:30 o’clock at the
home of Dean and Mrs. L. L.
Hendren, were conducted from the
home on Cloverhurst Terrace this
afternoon at 3 o'clock by Dr.
James €. Wilkinson, pastor of
Ferst Baptist church, of which Mrs
Bryan was a member. :
R . eTTI T Ty Lyl ol - eRe, R
Mrs. Bryan was the mother of
Mrs. Hendren ang is survived by
the latter and two other daugh
ters, Nrs. Benjamin Wofford Wait
{of Tampa, Fla, and Mrs. Sarah
| Frances Pickett of New York City
and a son, Morris Marion Bryan
of Jefferson.
Her grandchildren include Mrs.
John Simpson, of Clarkesville;
Miss Janet Newton, Augusta; Miss
Virginia Newton, of Jackson, Miss.;
Misses Catherine and Charlotte
Newton, Athens; Charles H. New=-
ton, jr., Denver, Col.; william T-
Bryan, of Jefferson; Sibley Bryan
|Harolg Bryan and Mrs. William
i McCullock, TUnion Point; Robert
'F. Bryan, Atlanta; Wofford Wait
and Thomas Bryan Wait, Tampa;
Miss Frances Bryan Pickett, New
i York city; Morris M: Bryam, jr.
; ¥ ——— ) i
January 13, 1937.
1
. DAY —BY — DAY
~ ON THE RADIO
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{ By C. E. BUTTERFIELD
{ (Time Is Eastern Standard)
i NEW YORK —(P)— New York
'want ad readers may have spot
*ted this one in the papers:
’ “Wanted for radioc appearance
i person who as a child was taken
Ito or from 1849 gold rush:”
I Well, it's Joe Cook seeking such
|an individual. He wants the per
:son for his next Chateau pro
igram on WEAF-NBC when Cor-:
| nelia, Otis Skinner, as guest, is to
ldo a monolog on the California
gold rush. The gold rusher would
Itel! his or her experiences.
So far the response has been
rather negligible, probably be
cause the individual would be 87
or older today. . :
Try these (onight (Wednesday)
Talks: WABC-CBS 10:30 Rep.
Maury Maverick on “Let Us Meet
The Issue”; WEAF-NBC 10:45
Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney on
“National Quarters For National
Commerce.”
WEAF-NBC—B One Man's Fam-
I\Y; 9 Fred Allen; 10 Hit Parade;
10:30 Meredith Willson Orchestra;
11:30 Bob McGrew Orchestra.
WABC-CBS — 8 Cavalcdde of
America; 8:30 Burns and Allen; 9
Nino Martini; 9:30 New Jessica
Dragonette Light Opera Series,
(Continued on Page Three)
POWERS OF EUROPE
GROPE FOR SEGURITY
'Britain Turns Attention
( To Rearmament and New
I Home Defense Plans
( By The Associated Press)
Europe's powers groped for their
own security today. They watched
war in Spain rage on to yicious
heights, still safely within lits
own borders
Britain turned concentrated at
tention to her vast rearmament
and home défense plans. Officials
studied the facts” about the report
ed insurgent seizure of big Brit
ish-owned copper mines in Spain
and the forced sale of their pro
duct to Germany but took no ac
tion. v
France hoped for the success of
a new plan to stop intervention in
Spain by strict land and sea su
pervision of ::volunteer and mu
nitions movements., Britain ap
proved, but demurred at taking the
initiative in any actual blockade.
The views of Spanish. insurgent
General Francisco Franco were
awaited. :
In Berlin Reichsminister Hjal
mar Schacht, who had intended to
vigit Paris this week as an e¢on
omie ambassador, cancelled the
trip and put plans for a Franco-
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A. B C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—sc¢ Sunday
Search Widens
For Kidnaper Of
Mattson Youth
KIDNAPING AT A GLANCE
(By the Associated Press)
Hundreds of officers widen
search throughout the Pacific
i Northwest for kidnaper-killer.
I Federal and private rewards
' totaling SII,OOO offered for ar
rest of slayer, and Washington
| state legislators consider offer
ing additional $5,000 state re- 1
ward.
Floral tributes pour in for l
funeral of victim today. i
Federal and state officers I
recheck every clue of recent
days in manhunt, |
TACOMA, Wash., — (#) — Arm
ed with definite, valuable clues,‘
officers hunted widely today from
northernmost Washington to the
California-Mexican border today
for the kidnap-killer of little Char
les Mattson—urged on by President
Roosevelt's plea that the brutal
crime "be solved quickly.
A man who became frightened
and ran away from a newsstand was
sought in the vicinity of San Bern
ardino, Calif,
Federal investigators displayed
some interest in an unidentified
man, reported to have acted “queer”
while traveling on a bus ticket
issued in Kelso, Wash., and whose
frozen body wag found in central
Missouri. He was described, how
ever, as 60, older than the age
generally attributed to the kid
naper,
The search was as intense at it
was wide, federal agents checking
from house to house in the Tacoma}
area. I
Department of Justice operatives
kept secret whether they sought
one or two men for the brutal
crime, but they had definite clues‘
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WORKERS NOW [DLE
(I STRIKE 200,000
General Impasse Contin
ues Throughout Nation;
New Conferences Called
By The Associated Press
A general impasse in strike ne
gotiations held some 200,000 work
ers idle in the United States whllel
thretas ot new walkouts and ‘sit
downs"” presaged additional unem
ployment today.
Gov. Frank Murphy of Michi
gan, spurred by a riot Monday
night at Flint, called officials of
General Motors Corporation and
leaders of striking automobile
workers to a conference at Lan
sing tomorrow.
At Washington Chairman John
L. Lewis of the Committee for
Industrial Organization, with which
the striking gutomobile unionists
are affiliated, promised a ‘finish
fight” against General Motors and
declared he would ask a congres
sional investigation of the corpor
ation.
The Fleetwood division of theG.
M. in jDetroit was closed by a
“sit down” strike yesterday, bring
ing the total number of corpora
tion employes made idle to 113,-
(Contizued on Par- Three) |
Georgia News Briefs
ATLANTA —(AP) — National
guardsmen in Georgia saluted a
new commanding officer today.
John E. Stoddard, Washington,
Ga., newspaper editor, received his
commission as adjutant general
shortly after Governor E. D.
Rivers was inaugurated yesterday.
Lindley W .Camp is the outgoing
aujutant general.
McRAE, Ga, — (#) — J, Frank
Cook, well known vpanker, busi
ness man and former member of
the Georgia legislature, was found
dead in_bed at his home here yes
terday. :
Survivors include two daught
ers, Mrs. W. H. Pitt of Mcßea
and Mrs. John T. Campbell of
Bradenton, Fla.
SAVANNAH, Ga. —(APP) —
Captain Robert M. Hitch is the
new mayor of Savannah.
He led the city ticket in yester
day’s election, and will take office
HSYE]
MARTIN JORNGON 15
SECOND VIGTIM 0F
FIFTH MR DISASTER
Eleven Others Injured,
Some Critically in
California Crash
' PROBE IS STARTED
Plane Wrecked in Fog on
Mountain 15 Miles
* From Burbank
LOS ANGELES — (#) . Mar
tin Johnson, noted explorer, dled
today of injuries suffered in yes
terday’'s Western Air Expregs tran
sport crash, the. second fatality
among the 13 persons aboard. :
James A. Braden, president of
the Cleveland, Ohio, ink company,
was crushed to death between two
seats when the plane pancaked on
a fog-shrouded mountainside 15
miles from Union Air terminal, itg
destination at Burbank on a flight
from Salt Lake City.
Co-Pilot Clifford P. Owens and
A, 1. Loomis, of Omaha, Neb., a
passenger, were critically hurt, but
none of those riding in the big all
metal craft escaped without some
injury.
Wife Injured
Mrs. Oso Johnson, the explorer's
wife, suffered concussion and a
fractured right angle.
H, H. Hulge, Chicago, suffered
a fractured right elbow and right
ankle. His condition wag sald te
be fair. b
R. T. Anderson, Atlantic City,
suffered a lacerated face and neck
and possible skull fracture. His
right leg was fractured.
Miss Lita James, Log Angeles,
was reecovering ‘from - bruises and
shock.
T. E. Pillinghast, Hartford, Conn,,
suffered a fractured leg and lacera
tions, i
Misg Esther Jo Conner, of Glens
dale, Calif.,, the stewardess, suffers
ed a fractured ankle. Tis
Loomis had heas and intérnal
injuries, in addition to several
fractures,
Probe is Started
‘While snow piled up on the dam
aged wingg and fuselage of the
airliner, on a ridge 100 yards below
the Los Pinetos ranger lookout
station, two governmental inquiries
were set in motion in an attempt
to determine the cause of the dis
aster.
It was the fifth major airlin®
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Insanity Blamed for
3 Slayings, Suicide
WASHINGTON — (#) — Polic@
blamed insanity today for the kille
ing by Corbin Boarman of hi§
wife ang two grown children. The
60-year-old man committed suis
cide by stepping in front of a
freight train after the triple slay=
ing last night.
'~ The slain: &
Mrs. Frances Boarman, 66
whose body was found in the dine
ing room of their homé just across
the Maryland boundary.’
Wwilliam Francis Boarman, 26,
graduate student at the University
of Maryland, found in the kitchen.
Margaret Boarman, 26, a booke.
keeper, found in the cellar,
The only police clues to the
father’s acts were reports of neighs
bors that Boarman, known as &
family-loving man, had been “apte
ing kind of queer” recently. :
January 15 for a two-year term.
ATLANTA — (AP) — Ed M.
Cason, 44 died here yesterday of
injuries received January 2 in an
automobile accident near Gaines<
ville, Ga. y
His widow, a son and his mother,
Mrs. E.E M. Cason, of Greenville,
S. C., survive. :
MACON, Ga —(AP) — Mrs,
Georgia Zelliner Jackson, for many
vears a well-known woman of this
city died at an early hour this
morning in @ local hospital where
she was taken one week ago for
treatment of pneumonia. ! Toa
She is survived by three sisters
and two brothers, among them
Miss Loraine Zelliner of Atlanta,
Mrs. E. G. Horner of Barnes
ville, James W. Zellner of Fors
'syth and N. D. Zellner of Jack
sonville, Fla., and Mrs. Vivian
lßader, of the county farm agent's