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71. Reed Gives
Inspiring Talk
1 Robert E. Lee
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The University of Georgia hon-"
ored Robert BE. Lee in a special
napel session vesterday, with Reg
itrar T. W. Reed delivering an
inspiring and drarncatic address on
the man whom he called “the best
rounded character of his day or any
other day.”
Me, Reed’s speech, with slight
omissions, was as follows:
On this day, the one hundred
and twenty-ninth anniversary of
his birth, I bring you a brief mess-{
age from the life of Robert Edward
Lee, the greatest of all Americans,
the best rounded character of his
day or of any other day.
Into the period of thirty fleeting
minutes must be crowded the story
that hig latest biographer, Doug
las S, Freeman, extended into more
than two thousand five hundred!
interesting pages, To the forty|
vears of his life ag a soldier I shall
devote no more than forty lines
in this address, reserving the re
maining minuteés in which to com
ment on the virtues of Lee, the
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Scores of books, penned by bril-i
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Lage Crowd Expected forl
Chamber of Commerce|
Dinner Tomorrow ]
Tickets for the annual dinner Of:
the Athens Chamber of Commenrce|
at the Georgian hotel tomorrow‘
night at 7 o'clock are being sold at!
& rapid rate, Secretary Joel A.!
Wier said today. The: tickets for|
the dinner are SI.OO each and re-|
servations will be closed at 12|
O'clock noon tomorrow. ]
B All citizens, whether or not they|
are membery of the chamber of |
tommerce are invited to the meet-
Ing, Secretary Wieir pointed out.
Many citizens plan to take new
‘esidents of Athens to the dinner|
a 8 their guests and both men and}
“"””‘ will attend the meeting. i
Two featured subjects to be dis‘l
Cussed will bhe livestock prom_otion!
I Georgia. and the Clarke's Hill!
Power and navigation dovelopment!
On the Savannah river. E. B. Wea
therly, of Cochran, formep Athen-l
n and widely known promoter ofj
’ rei livestock industry willl
e one of the chief speakers at the |
fteling. An Augusta delegation,
itaded by Mayor R. E. Allen, jr.}
~ aitend to outline the plansi
ad purposes of the Clarke’s Hini
~he Augusta delegation will in-l
e Mayor Allen, Editors Milwee |
\, s and T. J. Hamilton of the|
wna . Heraid and Augustal
ronicle; Dewey Johnson, vice;
, “Sldent of the Augusta Citizens
2y Southern National bank; L. b!
, W Secretary Augusta Cham-r
[ Commerce, Elberton will |
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' Central Portions
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In RAIN FALL
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A'»@SS Since January 1..... 881
" January rainfall.. .30
Roosevelt Inaugurated For Second
Term Todav as 250.000 Look On
irwu KIDNAP NOTES
;A:HE DISCLOSED FOR
{FIHST _TI_M_E_ TODAY
! DEATH THREATENED
;Federal Agents Work on
. Quietly in Tacoma;
| Many Suspects
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I TACOMA, Wash. —(AP) —Two
poignant notes in the handwrit
ing of 10-year-old Charles Matt
son, written to his parents from
a kidnap lair, were disclosed today
as federal agents here apparently
faced an impasse in their search
for the boy’s slayer.
In a copywrighted story, the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer publish
e dwhat it said were the texts of
the notes, both containing threats
of death for their young writer.
Two Notes ,
I The newspaper said the two
notes as received by Dr. W. W.
Mattson, the boy’s father were
(verbatim punctuation):
(1)—"If you want the boy back
pay ransom let us know through
the papers have the money car
ready. Call police off, ransom paid
at night you will get a phone call
where to find note. You will find
5 or 6 before we tell you where
to leave the suit case, you will go
lonely roads. If cars are trailing
vou we wont contact. If our man
gets killed or has to commit sui
cide on account of police you will
Inever see the kid again. To prove
; hd is alive this is in his handwrit
ing. If you want to make sure he
is alive at the pay off ask us some
thing the kid knows and we dont
and we will answer on first note
that tells you where to go.
“Pim Tim’.
| Second Note
t > (2)—“Are ready to make con
‘nectton and want to know if you
' are getting the notes or are police
keeping them from you.
. «We mailed a wote December
i29th with kids writing. If you do
' not mention it in Ppapers stay by
phone at nites with money and
| CRYT ready.
~ “If you do not obey the connec
tions will be off for keeps and re
’member an army of police can
kill a couple of Kkidnapers but
}they will not be able to find the
kid until after he is dead. )
| “im Tim "
| Work Quietly
| With Harold Nathan, chief of
the federal. searching forces, still
'in Los Angeles on an unexplained
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4 Old Age Benetits
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Offices Announced
WASHINGTON — (AP) — Four
new field offices for the adminis
tration of federal old age benefits
will be established soon in Georgia
by the Social Security Board.
They will be at Athens (Lumpkin
and Clayton streets), Augusta
(Souhtern Finance Building), Col
umbus (12th street and Broadway)
and Macon (Bibb Building). Offices
at Atlanta and Savannah already
are in operation.
The board said staffs in the new
offices, which will be small, will be
drawn from civil service lists. |
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i’atricia Carolihue-‘illell Winner
Of Palace Wire Haired Terrier
)M——f"
~ Eight-year-old Patricia Caroline!
Mell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. |
Pat Mell, 244 Bloomfield street.‘
tonight will walk out on the stage.
of the Palace theater and be pres
' ented with a registered wire haired
iterrier, a present from Myrna Loy
‘apparing at the theater in “After
The Thin Man.”
[ A committee of three school
teachers decided that the letter
lwrltten by Patricia, telling why
'she sould be awarded the dog, was
the best of some 200 they read and
ljudged. The committee was com
|posed of Mrs. S. E. McCoy, Mrs,
L. E. Hopper and Miss Mary Les
‘ter. The dog will be presented
little Miss Patricia by A. D. Rob
erson, local representative of Lucas
and Jenkins, as a personal pres
ent from Myrna Loy.
Patricia is in the third grade at
Barrow school and is a bright as
a new penny.
Several of the letters were SO
good that Mr. Roberson added pri
zes in the form of movie tickets,
in addition to the main prize an
nounced—the puppy.
. Among the list of movie ticket
ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
Full Associated Press Service
ATHENS GIRLS ARE
, ON'LISTS OF HONOF
i Athens girls whot made the
{ Co-ordinate College dean’s list
i for the fall quarter include:
, Mary Elizabeth Allen, Virginia
| Epps, Evelyn Pollock, Una
| Rumsey, and Bobbie Stephens.
l On the freshman honor list
. were Selene Bloodworth, Fran
‘ ces Brandon, Eleanor Eckford,
Eleanor Flanigan, Gail Hutch
inson, Nell Hawkes, Ann John
son, Sara Payne, and Martha
Whitager. Cora O’'Kelley, Win
terville, also made the dean’s
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- Georgia Delegation
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- Steps Along Briskly
In Inaugural Parade
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WASHINGTON —(#)— Georgia’s
official delegation stepped briskly
in President Roosevelt’s inaugural
parade here today—proud of the
added distinction that the Presi
dent’s part time residence in their
state gave them.
Inaugural plans calleg for Gov
ernor E. D. Rivers and his staff
and the Tech High school band to
have an important place in the
procession. Hundreds sos other
Georgians, many of whom arrived
in special trains or by automo
bile, looked on proudly from the
sidelines.
Gov. and Mrs. Rivers, numer
ous state officials ang other Geop=
gians in the capitol were honor
guests at a reception and dance
given by the Georgia State So
ciety last night.
Senators and representatives from
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lKnudsen to Confer With
| Sloan; Martin Expected
To Talk With Lewis
AUTO-LABOR AT A GLANCE
Automotive strike front shifts
to the east as General Motors
' executives go to New York and
i United Automobile Workers
‘ leaders fly to Washington.
i William S. Knudsen, Gen
! eral Motors executive vice
president, and two associates
} expected to confer with Alfred
| Pp. Sloan, jr., president.
Homer Martin, U. A. W. A,
president, andq Jocain Brophy,
! director of committee for in
i dustrial organization, to confer
with John L. Lewis, C. 1. O,
; \ head.
Secretary of Labor Perkins
I says conference with Lewis
and Gov. Frank Murphy, of
‘ Michigan, not a “failure”.
i Murphy remains in Wash
! ington.
| DETROIT—(P)—RivaI leaders in
|the automotive indstry’s labor
i conflict traveled to the east today
lto confer with associites on means
lof terminating the widespread
Istrike,
i A few hours after William 8.
!Knudsen. executive vice-president
|of General Motors Corporation,
| entrained for New York, Homer
| Martin, president of the United
' Automobile Workers of America,
lsaid he would fly to Washington.
) Airplane flights were cancelled
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winners are Randall Couch, 340
Barber gtreet; Lloyd Preston David
son of Mr. and Mrs. Roswell M.
‘David, 638 Prince avenue; Paul
Chapman, jr., son o Dean and Mrs
Paul Chapman; a letter from stu
dents in the second grade at Uni
-Iversity Elementary ecnool.
} Outstanding point made by the
latter was that the puppy would
like a whole group of children to
play with better than one boy or
girl,
| Randall Couch vang the bell
‘when he wrote that he would name
the puppy “Hinges,” because a
hinge is something to adore. Lloyd
David pointed out that he had no
brothers or sisters and wished the
puppy for companionship. Paul
Chapman, jr., wanted the dog
“more than a bicycle.”
. Following is Patricla Mell's win.
ning letter: 2
Dear Sir:
I want that sweet little dog
and I think I should have her.
I love dogg very much and I
need this dog to be my play
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Athens, Ga., ' Wednesday, January 20, 1937.
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Taking for the second time the most solemn oath that an American citizen may take, Franklin Delaro
Roosevelt starts his second term as president, In the artist’s visualization of the scene at the east
front of the Capitol in Washington, Chief Justice Hughes, left, administers the oath, while President
Roosevelt swears on a Bible held by Court Clerk Charles Elmore Cropley. A wvast throng filling the
Capitol plaza breathlessiy watches the solemn ceremony.
National Forester Discuss
es Development of State
Park Systems
Charles N. Elliott, National As
sociate Forester located in At
lanta, spoke to the Forestry club
at The University of Georgia last
night, on the development of the
state park systems of the south
and of Georgia in particular,.
In discussing the purposes of a
state park, Mr. Elliott said: #lt
should be made to serve the pub
lic, to tell them the true story of
the men ang women and events
which have made history, to give
them, K g spot to which they may
retire for the annual or weekly re
charging of mind ang body and
soul, to provide a wilderness of
forest and water where they may
forget the hard task of trying to
battle for existence in an unsym
pathetic ~world. A state park
shoulq preserve these wonderful
scenic and historic wvalues in
which the average human places
so little store, but which society
should protect and preserve for
other generations. The right kind
of state park will pay its own
way. It will providé funds for the
correct kind of caretakers, rangers
and guards who will serve the
public, and enough funds to prop
erly maintain it and make it ser
viceable all during the year.”
The speaker stressed the differ
ence between state parksand state
forests. “The main purpose”, he
said, “in the program of a state or
national forest, is to place the
land on a sustained yield basis,
ang cut the forest products insuch
a way that they will pay a return
that equals the interest on the in
vestment plus the cost of opera
tion. . . . The most importani
source of revenue from the gov
ernment-owned forest is the poles
crossties, saw logs, pulp wood, and
cord wood.
“The purpose behind the estab
lishment of state parks is the aim
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| BY C. E. BUTTERFIELD
(Time is Eastern Standard)
NEW YORK —(AP)— Television
of high definition under (field test
in New York City has reached an
other objective—much clearer re
production of electrical images sent
into the air on ultra short waves.
This has been accomplished by
increasing the detail so that 441
lines per image are transmitted in-i
stead of the 343 of previous tests, i
How soon the ;improved pictures
will be ready for demonstrations,
similar to those held last summer
and fall, has not been tindicated,
but thig is not expected be!ore]
spring. 1
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Try these tonight (Wednesday):
Inauguration—WJZ+-NBC 9, Inaug
ural Concert by National Symphony
and Opera Stars. \ l‘
Talk—WABC-CBS 10:30, Louis
Brownlow on “Administratve Man
agement.” Y
WEAF-NBC—T:IS Uncle Ezm;}
8 One Man’s Family; 9 Fred Allen;
10 Hit Parade; ' 10:30 Meredith
Willson Orchestra; 12:30 Lights
Out, ‘
WABC-CBS—7:3O Gogo Delys
Song; 8 Cavalcade of America;
8:30 Burns and Allen; 9 Nino Mar
tini; 9:80 Light Opera Theater; 10
Gang Busters.
WJIZ-NBC—B Beatrice Lillie; 8:30
Ethel Barrymore Play; 10 Montreal
Chamber Music; 10:30 Tales of the
Opera; 11:30 Emil Coleman Orches
tra.
What to expect Thursday: WEAF
NBC—2 p.m, Music Guild; 4 The
Fashion Show; 6 New Series by
Bill Slater on Amateur Sports
WABC-CBS—3 Theater Matinee;
4 Story of a Song; 5 Current Ques
tions Before Congress. WJZ-NBC—
-12:30 Farm and Home Hour; §:ls
Eastman Symphony: 4:30 Metro-
TROOPER (3 SLAIN
Police Officials of Three
States Seek Joe La Rue,
Former Convict ‘
MONROE, Mich.—(#)—The Mich-‘
{igan state police reported early
itoday that the hullet-pierced bod'y
of Trooper Richard Hammond, 25.
|abdu<-ted by a gunman here last
night, had bheen found hnadcuffed
to a rural mail box on a road
gouth of Monroe.
The trooper had been missing
since shortly before midnight
when a prisoner overpowered the
officer. After a two-hour chase
‘and two gun-battles with pursu
ing ofifcers, the gunman abnadon
ed the trooper’s patrol car and
escaped into the woogds near Lulg,
Mich., 20 miles west of this city.
}Hammond‘s blood soaked uniform
‘coat was found in the car.
{ More than 200 police from Ohio
l’lndianu and Michigan combeq the
woods for the gunman, who, state
police Sergeant ILawrence Dann
isaid, was Joe La Rue, 25, of De
i
troit, a former convict,
The body was found five miles
southwest of Erie, near the Mich
igan-Ohio line, only seven miles
| from the spot where the trooper’s
| blood-stained car was abandoned.
{ The body was lumped against the
lmail box postto which Hammond’'s
iwrisus were shackled.
! Trooper Hammond, a big six
!fnut«-r, was overpowered at Mon- |
| roe as he took La Rue to the Erie
ibarravks for questioning in con-l
}nnotifln with the abduction of Fred
’Wiuiams, Detroit used car sales
man who was left tied to a tree
{in Toledo last night.
l Another state trooper, Sam Sin
‘enl. following in a second car with
{another suspect, chased the ab
{ ductor for ten miles and exchanged
Iman_\' shots before Sineni’s cat
| was wrecked.
| Then at 2 a. m. (EST) two
Monroe county deputies engaged
in a gunbattle with La Rue and
forced him to abandon the patrol
lecar. La Rue apparently escaped
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A. B C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—>s¢ Sunday
]com, 'STEADY RAIN
| FALLS ON CAPITAL
WASHINGTON — () — A
steady rain spilled over Wash
ington early today with no
prospect of a respite for in
auguration ceremonies.
The weather bureau fore
cast g continued downpour with
temperatures at slightly above
freezing.
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Official Program
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WASHINGTON —(#)-~ The pro
gram for President Roosevelt’s sec~
ond inauguration:
| 10 a. m. — President, family
iand small official group prayedat
St. John's Episcopal church.
~ 11:30 a. m.—Congressional com
lmittee arrived at White House to
escort president to capitol.
' 11:55 a. m.—President arrived
at capitol.
12 noon—lnvocation by the Rev.
rZeßarney T. Phillips, senate chap-
Jain. Vice President Garner sworn
tin by Senator Robinson (D.-Ark.)
majority leader. President Roose
velt sworn in by Chief Justice
Charles Evans Hughes and deliv
ered inaugural address. Benedic
tion by the Rt. Rev. John A,
Ryan of Catholic University.
1 p. m. — Luncheon at "~White
House.
1:80 p. m.—lnaugural parade be
‘gan at capitol.
5 p. m.—White House tea for
governors and other distinguished
visitors. "
9 p. m.—lnaugural concert at
lConstitutlon Hall.
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Hundreds of Families Are
Forced From Homes as
Levees Break in 5 States
(By the Associated Press)
l Rain-swollen streams battered
levees with unabated fury in the
middlewest today, sweeping over
lowlands and forcing hundreds of
families from flood-engulfed homes.
Anxiety for the safety of thous
ands of other persong was height
ened by forecasts of additional
rains in portions of Ohio, Indiana,
Missouri, lilinois and Arkansas.
Red Cross officials said at least
550 familles evacuated homes in
the vicinity of Kennett and Senath,
Mo, where the raging St. Francis
river pounded through at least nine
ievee breaks.
Thousands of acres of farm lands
were inundated along the Missouri-
Arkansag line.
Southern Indiana flood waters
evicted several hundred persons
from their homes, while rivers in
southern Illinois rose steadily.
The White river, climbing stead
ily an inch an hour, tore through
two levee breaks and flooded thou-’
sands of acres of farm land in the
vicinity of Hazelton, in s()uthernl‘
Indiana, Farmers had been ex
pecting the break. WPA workmen‘
and volunteerg fell back hefore the
swollen stream. {
The turbulent Ohio river reach
ed a 58.6 foot mark at Cincinnati
last midnight, 4.6 feet over flood
stage. Meteorologist W, C. Dever-‘
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Why Little mi-'wi;t_lgnd Can Pay
THE FIRST GF THREE ARTICLES
RR R O R O EEEEEEEETIEE——
(Editor's Note: There. are..
just 206 registertd unemployed
in Findland! and that's one..
reason why this little country
can afford to pay her Ameri
can war debt. This is the sec
ond of a series of three stories
by Associated Press foreign
writers.,
HELSINGFORS —(AP) Unem
ployment has been whipped to a
practical standstill in Finland.
There is a decided lack of skill
ed labor. On July 31 of last year
the unemployment board announc
ed that there were no more than
171 women and 35 men registered
as unemployed throughout the en
tire country.
It is now estimated that no more
than 3,000 persons can be ufid to
be without work, outside official
registrations, as compared with
90,000 when the depression was at
its peak in Finland. Most of this
unemploymtnt is purely seasonal
in character.
This is one rhase of an econo
mic recovery which, although
hardly without equal in any other
country, has come about quietly
H2YE|
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‘Hi VAU
i ,
%Restates His Philosophy
{ In Broad Terms, Omits
| = Specific Program
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IRECOVERY “OBVIOUS”
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|Refers to Constitution
i But Says Nothing on
| Supreme Court
|
| WASHINGOTON —() — Presi-
Edent Franklin D. Roosevelt dedi
lcated himself anew at the start of
| his second administration today to
,‘removal of ‘“cancers of injustice”
| that cause want in the midst of
plenty.
| In his inaugural address, deliv
lered beneath a storm-darkened sky
[to thousands gathered on the Capi
(tal plaza, he pictured uncounted
poor families living “under the pall
of disaster” and said:
“We are determined to make
every American citizen the subjeet
of his country’y interest and con
lcern.” :
Recovery Obvious
Progress in recovering is obvious
the president said, but the “‘new
order of things” brought about
since 1933 meang more than that,
| Restating his philosophy in bread
| terms and leaving his specific pro
| gram to the future, he spoke of us
lingmew materialg of social justice
“to erect on the old foundations a
| more enduring structure for the
(use of future generations.”
Moments before he made his ad
dress he had taken the presidential
'oath again from Chief Justice
Hughes, With justices of the Su
breme Court among his hearers, he
spoke once more of the constitution
but said nothing about the courts.
16th Anniversary i
This year, Mr. Roosevel recalled,
marks the 150th anniversary of
‘that fundamental charter. The
forefathers found it a way out of
%the chaos that followed the Re
valutionary War, he said, adding:
} ‘“They created a etrong govern
‘ment with powers of united action
!sufficient then and now to solve
problems utterly beyond individual
or local solution. A century and a
half ago they established the fed
eral government in order to pro
mote the general welfar and secure
the blessings of liberty to the Am
erican people,
“Today we invoke those same
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Athenian Named on
. .
Rivers Committee
ATLANTA.—(#)—John L. Con
ner, Atlanta insurance man has
been named by Governor Rivers
to head a special committees to
“re-prorate” insurance on state
buildings.
Assisting Conner will be W. L.
Norton of Gainesville, W. C. Banks
of Lakeland, J. B. Polhill, jr., of
Louisville, Marvin Pound of Spar= .
ta, Mrs. Helen Coxon of Ludowi
ci, Sam C. Connally of Villa Rica,
Zach Arnolg of Fort Gaines, Aaronh
Cohen of Athens and C. W. Peek
of Cedartown.
Rivers ordered cancelled policies
awarded by former Governor Tal
madge and orderedq premiums said
to amount to approximately §70,«
000 returned.
without pomp and flurry of pub«
licity and world attention. The
signs in Finland today are all
those o foptimism and prosperi
tY- ;“":i
There are a few of the littla
known facts about Finland’'s res
turn to good times: o
The national income reached
18,000,000,000 marks in wm
other words gained approximately
tre same value as in 1929; .al
though in 1931 it had slumped as
low as 13-14 millions. 5
Industrial activity has expm:éad\é
by more than 50 per cent both ‘fig:fié
volume and value. The combined
balance sheets of about 20 of the
countny’s principal industrial con
cerns indicate an increase of at
least 100 per cent in profits since
the dark depression days. L
The yield from agriculture é};
now, estimated at 6 per cent or
better as compared with 3 1-2 p
cent during the difficult wz
of 1931, : . L
Foreign trade is booming. The
first ten months of 1938 showed
an export surplus of 830,000,000
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